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Kyungsoo turned away, guiltiness lurks in because he felt like he was the one who caused this mess.
Kyungsoo can feel a warm hand, sliding its fingers through his hairs, ruffling it before the owner sits at the swing next to him.
“D.O-yah,” he pauses,
“Kyungsoo,”
“Kyunggie,”
Kyungsoo turns to him.
“You finally turned,” Baekhyun smiles.
“So, well, uh…” Baekhyun rubs the back of his neck, there’s hints of guiltiness in the back of his eyes, Kyungsoo can see them.
It makes Kyungsoo feel even worse for causing that.
After a few moments, Baekhyun claps his hand and breaks the silence.
“Have you ever heard about the “of course” game?” Baekhyun turns excitedly and flashed a sparkling look towards Kyungsoo.
Kyungsoo just shakes his head in return.
“Ah. It’s simple, remember that one segment during our comeback showcase where we have to say something to other members and they can only answer ‘oh, I see‘ in return? The game is just using the same concept.”
Kyungsoo nods, showing that he gets what Baekhyun was explaining.
“Just this time, we have to say ‘of course‘ in return.”
Kyungsoo knows it was awkward, and he himself is not sure where this is heading them to, but he decides to just go with the flow.
Baekhyun turns his body to face Kyungsoo, then pulls both of Kyungsoo’s hands and put them on his laps. He grabs them as he stares into Kyungsoo’s eyes.
Kyungsoo can feel his cheeks burn a bit, and he hope it isn’t that obvious. He don’t know how to react, but he just let Baekhyun’s hands wraps his hands as it nesting warmly on his laps.
“Okay… I’ll start, ahem,” Baekhyun clears his throat.
“So, do you know I, Byun Baekhyun is the best vocalist in the world?”
Kyungsoo scowls. “Are you boasting-“
“Sorry mister, but you can only answer ‘of course‘.”
Kyungsoo rolls his eyes and groans.
“Of… Of course” Kyungsoo groans again for the second time. “Ugh this is nonsense.”
He stares Baekhyun and Baekhyun just smiled back in return. “Your turn.”
Kyungsoo spaced out for a while before he finds out what to say.
“Do you know you’ve been upsetting me a lot lately?”
Baekhyun eyebrows ticks upwards.
“Uhh well, of course?”
Baekhyun twists his lips to a corner as he tightens his grip on Kyungsoo’s hands.
“Do you know that I actually ate the stew you made for me last week?” Baekhyun smiles lightly, his gaze burns Kyungsoo’s cheeks slowly. “Your cook is always the best.”
Kyungsoo felt a bit shocked because he thought it was Sehun who finished the stew he left in the fridge.
“Of…course..” Kyungsoo answered, then he let out a sigh.
“Byun Baekhyun is the most annoying and idiot person I’ve ever known.”
“Of course,” Baekhyun answers in return with a chuckle. “Of course he is.”
He then stares Kyungsoo’s eyes adoringly. “And I think Kyungsoo is the cutest brat I’ve ever knew, and I really love it when he is irritated and he hit me in return.” Baekhyun grins, “At least that’s how I can get his attention.”
Kyungsoo let out an annoyed whimper. “Well of course. If I get money everytime I hit you I’d already rich by now.”
“And so does that mean Baekhyun is a masochist?” Kyungsoo smirks in return.
“Yah, why you…” Baekhyun raised a hand and slaps Kyungsoo’s laps, causing Kyungsoo to burst into laughter.
“Geez, of course,” Baekhyun answers, and his cheeks shows hints of shades of red under the dim street lamp’s light.
“And Kyungsoo is that pervert who secretly stared me when I’m changing my clothes and that creep who stared me sleeping in the practice room.”
“Hey, I didn’t do that for you! I was just waiting, okay.”
Baekhyun smirks as he shook his head.
“Ugh, fine. Of course.”
“And Baekhyun is that pervert who enters the bathroom while someone is using it. Do you really like to do that?” Kyungsoo asks in annoyance.
Baekhyun just broke into laughter before he confidently answers, “If it’s you… Of course.”
The shade on Kyungsoo’s cheeks is prominence.
“And did you know the reason why I ran to the trainee room with your shoes few weeks ago was because it was the day where we met for the first time, when our coach pairs us up together and we bickered as soon as we spoke up to each other for the first time?” Baekhyun paused and smirks.
“‘Why are you pairing me up with this guy he’s so noisy and annoying and he dress like a kid going to his grandma’s house‘ and I was like, ‘dude, my grandma cook nice foods and why are your eyes so wide do they shoot laser‘,” Baekhyun said as he imitates how they bickered back during their trainee days.
Kyungsoo just laughed as he remembers back those days when they are even worse than fighting cats and dogs. Their eyes locks for a moment as silence fills the atmosphere.
Kyungsoo seriously didn’t see that coming.
The day when they met for the first time? Kyungsoo can’t even recall when. But he never expects Baekhyun to remember that.
“Of course,” Kyungsoo answers with a low tone.
“Do you know…” Kyungsoo clears his throat. “Do you know that since then, I can’t focus in everything I do?”
“Of course… I don’t know.”
Silence fills the atmosphere again.
“Why?” Baekhyun asks.
“Of course.”
“No, I’m serious, why?”
Kyungsoo let out a sigh. “And do you know that I have been trying to make up with you, help you and look after you because I have been starting to think about you all day and all night,”
Kyungsoo stops and inhaled some air, “and you never even realize, or even pay a bit of attention?”
Baekhyun isn’t answering. His grip on Kyungsoo’s hand is loosening and Kyungsoo slips his hands away from Baekhyun’s.
“And do you know…” Baekhyun turns away slowly.
“I have been thinking a lot about you too.”
Kyungsoo averts his eyes to Baekhyun before setting it back onto the ground underneath him.
“I have been… Confused.”
“I just don’t get why did you suddenly treat me nicely. Every morning, there’s always someone who fills my water bottle, there’s always someone who tidied my room up, and I know Chanyeol would never do that. Every night, I would smell the scent of vanilla when I was fast asleep, my minds kept on making me dream that it was you who sat there next to me every night, running your fingers through my hair and causing me to fell asleep easier. But I was confused, was it you? Was it really you?”
Kyungsoo tightens his grip to the metal bar. He is probably thinking, and his mind is seriously in a mess that he forgot to breathe.
“Or maybe, maybe I was just too oblivious. I just don’t want you to treat me just like how you treat others. I don’t want to be just a group member to you. I don’t want to be just a workmate to you.”
“I just-“
Baekhyun stops when he feels a finger pressed on his lips.
“Stop.” Kyungsoo says as he slowly move his palm onto Baekhyun’s cheeks.
“Just stop.”
“Byun Baekhyun, you’re just the most beautiful and idiot creature I’ve ever known. You’re more than just a friend to me.”
A few seconds after is like a dream.
Under the dim street lamp’s light, under the thousands of shining stars as their witness, Kyungsoo and Baekhyun locks their lips together.
It was a brave act, but Kyungsoo then reaches his hand out the pull Baekhyun closer, and his other arm wraps his waist, not wanting to let him go.
He just wants this pain to end. They’re both in pain and lost, denying their feelings toward each other, and Kyungsoo know he just have to break the walls down.
Baekhyun’s lips felt so sweet and soft. He can feel Baekhyun’s breath brushes against his face. The warmth they share, the kiss, the embrace, fingers intertwined and arms wrapping around each other.
Kyungsoo wants this warmth to last forever.
Kyungsoo cups Baekhyun’s cheeks, ignoring how prominence the shades on his cheeks at the moment. He slowly leans backwards, not breaking the locked stare between their eyes.
“You are more than a friend. And we both know that.” he then reached down Baekhyun’s hands and intertwines their fingers together.
Baekhyun gazes upon the night sky. He is speechless. He couldn’t say a word, but his eyes tells it all.
And only Kyungsoo understands them.
“So, Byun Baekhyun-“
Kyungsoo gazes up to the shining stars too, and he tries to loosen the locks between their hands but Baekhyun just wouldn’t let go.
Kyungsoo just smiled, thinking of how he could end up kissing a boy under the beautiful night sky, where it was supposed to be a girl he’s kissing.
But Kyungsoo don’t mind. He didn’t see that coming either. Nothing in life is predictable.
He never thought the person he never wants to stay with would slowly become the one he don’t want to be apart from.
And it was such a blessing that he isn’t the only one who feels that way.
“So, Baekhyun,”
“Should we just stay this way?”
“Yes,”
“Forever?”
“Forever… Of course.”
And Kyungsoo’s sure he saw a shooting star across the dark night sky above them.
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