The Boy With Bloody Hands ↬ ChanBaek

8

"Blinded"

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Chanyeol slammed his fists on his desk, "dammit! The only piece of evidence we have and he's dead!"

Chanyeol and the other detectives groaned in frustration as their only piece of evidence got away. The team had been working on this case for a whole month already yet nothing was coming up except for the murder of the boy and his father and CEO Kim.

Chanyeol checked his watch and saw that his shift was almost over, "alright, meeting's over. Have a great evening guys, try not to stress about this too much."

The team left Chanyeol's office leaving Chanyeol alone. A ding came from Chanyeol's phone. It was Jongin inviting Chanyeol for dinner over at his place. Chanyeol decided whether or not to go but decided to go in the end to relieve some stress. The tall man texted his friend back saying that he'll meet him in a bit. Chanyeol sighed from exhaustion and rubbed his hands against his face. He got up, clocked out, and walked towards his car. He started the engine and made way to his friend's house.

Chanyeol soon arrived and rang the doorbell.

"It's uncle Chanyeol!" A girl excitingly said. The door opened as Jongin's wife answered, "ah Chanyeol please come in!"

Chanyeol smiled and bowed down to the woman, "thanks for having me here!"

The woman locked the door and led Chanyeol towards the living room, "dinner's almost ready. Jongin's upstairs in his office."

"Thank you," Chanyeol said once again and made his way upstairs. Not alone though, he was trailed by Jongin's twins, Junghee and Junghwa.

"Uncle Chanyeol, is being a detective hard?" Junghwa asked.

Chanyeol picked up both of the girls and walked up the stairs with them, "Nope!"

"Do you like it?" Junghee asked.

"Yes, I do," Chanyeol smiled, "do you wanna be a detective when you grow up?"

"No, I wanna be a princess!" Junghwa raised her hands in the air.

"What about you Junghee?" Chanyeol asked.

"Hmmm... I wanna be a Unicorn!" Junghee giggled. The three of them laughed and Chanyeol carefully set the girls on the floor. Chanyeol knocked on Jongin's office door.

"Come in!"

Chanyeol entered the door and saw Jongin sitting at his desk working away.

"What ya working on?" he said.

"Just replying to some business emails," Jongin responded, "anyways, how's work for you? I heard about the death of the little boy."

Chanyeol sat down on the chair facing Jongin's desk, "Yeah, it's pretty stressful right now."

"That's why you need to start seeing other people," Jongin laughed, "maybe if you see someone and you know stating dating, you'll be less stressed."

Chanyeol sighed, "I-I really don't know, Jongin. I mean work is really serious for me right now and I don't want the person I'm dating to feel neglected because I work too much."

"Well, that's how I felt when I was dating Kyungmi and now we're married," Jongin said. "Look you'll never know if you don't try."

The door opened, "daddy! Dinner's ready!"

The two boys walked out of the office and downstairs to eat the delicious dinner that KyungMi had made for the family. The family soon dug in.

"KyungMi," Jongin said, "don't you think it's time for Chanyeol to start dating?"

Chanyeol knew Jongin was teasing him and rolled his eyes. KyungMi giggled, "only if he wants to but I think he should most definitely try it."

Chanyeol chuckled, "I-I really don't know. I don't even know if I'll be able to date. I mean it's hard getting to know someone in that kind of way."

KyungMi clapped, "we could set you up on blind dates!"

"Yes! C'mon Chanyeol," Jongin agreed.

Chanyeol was flustered, "I... I.. eh okay fine. I'll try it out."

The parents smiled in gratitude as their friend was now finally trying new experiences.

"Does that mean I can start dating too?" Junghwa asked.

Jongin gasped, "no! No dating until your 60 years old, the both of you!"

The twins both gasped, "what?!"

The adults smile and laugh at the two shocked girls. The stress in Chanyeol leaving him alone.

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"Chanyeol! Chanyeol!" Jongin waved at his friend, "we found you a date! Hurry get inside!"

Chanyeol rushed into his friend's house and took his shoes off, "that fast already?"

Jongin and KyungMi smiled, "yes!"

A week has passed since Chanyeol had agreed for Jongin and KyungMi to take him into the new world of dating. Work was also nothing new and only same routine everyday. But Chanyeol was feeling anxious all week waiting for a blind date would be set up.

"So how'd you guys find this guy?" I asked.

KyungMi sat down next to Chanyeol, "Well, I have this friend who knows someone from her company that is single. And it's a blind date so we can't tell you who it is."

The three sat there in excitement. Chanyeol smiled, "so when's the date? And where is it?"

"It's tomorrow at the Freecs Restaurant at 7pm," Jongin explained.

Chanyeol nodded as the couple started describing the boy and giving details about him. Night crawled by as Chanyeol said his goodbyes and went home.

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The next day rolled by and Chanyeol was eager for his date. The tall boy showered and ate some breakfast. He had a long time yet until the date so he decided to sleep some of his excitement off.

Hours passed as Chanyeol was quite surprised that he had slept for so long. Being a detective can be tiring sometimes. It was about 3pm as Chanyeol decided to watch tv to kill some time.

Just thinking about the boy made Chanyeol's heart race. Every thought of him made Chanyeol blush. An alarm went off on Chanyeol's phone, it was for Chanyeol to get ready. His eager little heart jumped in nervousness. Chanyeol dressed into something nice and made sure his hair looked good too as he wanted to impress his date.

Chanyeol reached for the doorknob and suddenly stopped, "geez, i'm so shaky. When was the last time I was this nervous? I'm a detective that meets murderers all the time yet I'm nervous about a date."

Chanyeol sighed and made it out his door towards his car in the parking lot. Excited, he drove quite fast towards the restaurant and parked his car. He patted down his top and made sure he didn't look like a wreck in the mirror. He stepped out of his car and into the restaurant.

Short, with black hair, and an earring on his left ear.

Chanyeol looked around and his eyes finally laid on him. Chanyeol approached the smaller boy.

"Hi, are you Byun Baekhyun?"

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