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Chanyeol was happily sipping on a cup of hot chocolate when a commotion came from outside.
“Park Chanyeol!” a voice shouted angrily, making Chanyeol almost choke on his drink.
Chanyeol looked up from the notes Junmyeon gave him earlier, unconsciously tightening his grip on them. He recognized the voice and the tone made him put on his most innocent smile, praying for his safety.
Turning to the source of the voice, he was received with a death glare coming from a very angry Do Kyungsoo.
He carefully put the chocolate down, making sure to leave some space between the drink and himself, in case he had to do a hasty escape.
“Yes?” he asked in the sweeties’ voice he could master. But the death glare didn’t waiver in the slightest and his instinct to run only intensified.
“Can you explain to me what this is?” the other showed him a tablet, it had a video of a gang fight that happened the night before.
“Ummmm… it’s a video of a gang fight??” he tentatively asked eying the open door, if he was fast enough, he could surely make it.
Unfortunately, Kyungsoo appeared to sense his thoughts and moved in front of the door effectively blocking his exit. His smile wavering, he once again directed his gaze to the furious look of the other.
“A gang fight?! Can you tell me what the heck where you doing in that place??” his voice somehow grew colder with each word and Chanyeol could feel a shiver run through him with each one.
“Baekhyun called me and told me about it, Soo!!! I couldn’t let this opportunity pass!!! They told me they would use it on the program today!! And if I do a good job maybe I can finally get that segment I have been begging for!!” by this point he couldn’t hold his gaze up and was looking at his shoes, squeezing, really destroying the papers in his hands, he would have to ask for another copy from Junmyeon.
After a moment he heard a clearly frustrated sigh from the man in front of him and felt a hand go under his chin gently lifting his face up.
“I know you really want to probe yourself Chanyeol, but you can’t just go and place yourself in danger. I really hope this is the last time you do something like this. We have rules for a reason, if something especially dangerous is happening you are supposed to follow protocol, call the station, take the necessary precautions and DO NOT get yourself to close to it without thinking about what you’re doing and how it can affect you and others.” By this point the anger in his eyes was somewhat gone, it was replaced with some kind of worry.
He could feel a blush take over his face with every word, and he REALLY hopped the other wouldn’t be able to notice. If he did maybe he could blame it on the guilt of doing something he wasn’t supposed to do.
Why did his body have to betray him like this every time?
It really was a miracle Kyungsoo hadn’t notice that he…
“So promise me you won’t do something so careless ever again.” the kind words were followed with a firm tug to his ear that made Chanyeol wince and tilt his head trying to at least reduce the pressure, knowing from past experiences that it would be worse if he tried to tug himself free.
At least now he had an alibi for his blush.
“Promise me...”
“I promise, I promise!!” he cried feeling his ear finally get released with a final tug.
“Good, now you better get yourself into makeup and change, we are starting in 15 minutes.” with a little smile he headed to the door and turned around to give him a final warning look. “And tell Baekhyun to don’t even try to hide or it will be 10 times worse.”
His body finally relaxed when he felt the dark aura leave the room, maybe he should go and tell Baekhyun of the danger….
But Kyungsoo said to get himself in makeup. Sending a quick pray for Baekhyun’s safety he hastily got up and rushed out to get to the makeup department before it was too late. He would have to send him a text when he was finished.
“Hahahaha, I can’t believe you got scolded again!” laughed Jongdae a few hours later in the break room, where they were having some snacks waiting for the next work rush.
“It’s not funny Jongdae!!!” Chanyeol put his head on the table giving the other a pitiful look, hoping to get some pampering instead of laughs.
“It kind of is.” smiled Sehun on the other side of Jongdae giving a long sip of his drink.
“You both suck,” he mumbled turning his face against the flat surface of the table. Maybe he should make this table his only friend now, at least it would give him comfort.
The other two just continued to laugh for a while not showing any mercy, and he sulked waiting for it to finally end. He usually came to them for comfort and he usually received it, but the others couldn’t help but make fun of him when things like this happened.
By his past experiences he knew he should wait for the laughter to die down.
“It’s not so bad Yeol, at least this time you didn’t get punished with a “time out”.”
He raised his face to see a still smiling Jongdae, but at least now it was more in a comforting way than hurtful.
Jongdae was right, at least Kyungsoo didn’t give him a “time out”. That’s what they called not being able to participate in the show for some time, it could last days or weeks depending on the seriousness of the infraction. He could still remember his last “time out”, and it was no walk in the park, he was sure he would go crazy watching everyone work, while he just stood in the sidelines, begging for someone to ask for his help.
“Yeah…” he mumbled still pouting.
“So… did Soo notice your blush this time?” asked a smirking Jongdae.
“Sssssh!!” he put a hand in front of him, hazily turning around to make sure they were effectively alone.
“What? Everybody but Soo knows you have a huuuuuuge cr…” he moved his hand rapidly putting it in front of Jongdae’s mouth effectively cutting his next word.
“A huge crush.” smirked Sehun on the other side. Dammit he forgot to silence the other one.
“I DO NOT.” Chanyeol’s voice surely was heard in all the station this time. “And I did not blush!”
A smirking Jongdae took the hand blocking his mouth and reached out to pat his head in a soothing way.
“Sure you don’t. And Xiumin loveeeees disasters.”
“You both suck.” He had the biggest pouting face while he said this.
“And you love us.”
Well, he couldn’t deny that, but he could still pout.
“You were lucky this time.” Sehun pushed a third drink towards him, and he noted happily that it was a milkshake with a lot sprinkles. A peace offering, at least they were considered enough to get him his favorite. Maybe he should reconsider the table friendship thing.
Extending his arm, he took the offered drink and using the straw took a big gulp, giving a little satisfactory hum when he felt the sweetness of the drink fill his mouth.
They stayed in silence for a couple of minutes, enjoying their drinks, Sehun checking his phone, surely making sure no new job had pop up while they were there. Maybe they could stay like this until it was time to get back to work, at least Chanyeol could rest from the teasing.
“So…” Sehun said breaking the silence.
Chanyeol raised his eyes from the drink he had on his hand and noted with a sinking feeling that both of them had smiles on their faces, Jongdae’s was even devilish, this could not be good.
“Did you tell Baekhyun??” asked an amused Sehun putting his phone down with a resonating tunk.
Oh… no…
He…
No…
No…
No….
“PARK CHANYEOL!!!!!” shouted an angry voice behind him.
Hazily putting his drink down and spilling it, at least he didn’t have any important papers with him this time, he got up and took his laptop bag eyeing the door on the opposite side of the room. He had long legs, if he just walked rapidly, he could make it.
“DO NOT TRY TO RUN AWAY YOU COWARD.”
Okay, screw walking, it was time to run.
Making his escape he noted how Jongdae was leaning on Sehun with unstoppable laughter while the taller couldn’t contain a small chuckle. Traitors, both of them were traitors.
Giving them the best death glare, he could master while running, he quickly made his escape feeling the murderous presence behind him.
“COME BACK HERE!!!”
Nope, nope, nope.
Opening the door, he made his escape leaving a shouting Baekhyun and a laughing Jongdae and Sehun behind.
TBC