Chapter 1: 1.
Chapter Text
"Hyunnie, do you think they would understand if we tell them now?" the raven haired tilt her head to meet her boyfriend eyes. She was asking with a sad voice while her lips were pouting and mumbling words.
"Ofcourse Kyungie.. Our parents love you so much. I'm sure they will be happy after we tell them the good news." Baekhyun swinging their intertwine hands and gave Kyungsoo an reassurance look.
"They will?" Kyungsoo pause her steps and pulled Baekhyun hand to stop his steps together with her. She believes her boyfriend words, but she just want the elder to give her some soothing words, so she will no longer doubted if their parents wouldn't agree with the both of them.
The feeling of being the main character who have to stand in the center while everyone looking at her with a disapproving face makes her want to cry in sadness.
"Yes, my Baby Soo" Baekhyun ruffling Kyungsoo's hair and gave her a sparkling smiles. He wants Kyungsoo to be happy, she was a bright girl with a manners and so lovely. "I love you so much."
Kyungsoo giggles because her boyfriend was so cute. "I love you so much too, my Hyunnie."
~~*~~
Baekhyun jolt awaked what felt like minutes later with a loud gasp. He panicked for a moment, still dreaming that his lover, Kyungsoo, smiling lovingly at him, soft hands wrapped around him, hugging him closely. Baekhyun smiled for a moment, remembering how happy they are in his dream, how he still felt Kyungsoo's hands holding him, how Kyungsoo smiling up at him lovingly, and how it says how much she loves him. Baekhyun smile broken after the reality come down crashing into him like a cold water mocking him and reminding him that he wouldn't never feel that person's hug or its presents, he wouldn't never even have the chance to see that person ever again.
Baekhyun took a few deep breaths to calm his raging heart beat down before he close his eyes to will his tears to not rolled down his face. After making sure that he calmed down a little, he turn to his bed side nightstand to check what time it is, Baekhyun heaves a deep sigh after he see the red light in the clock blinking back at him and it's says '4:30am', he still have three hours before the time he should be awake to go to his company. He frowned while staring at the ceiling of his room and leaning at the bed frame, Baekhyun know that he can't go back to sleep anymore, not after he have a dream about his fiance again.
He groaned in defeat before he hop out of his bed to go downstair, Baekhyun walks to the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee and when his done he walks out of the house and into the garden at the back of the house, Baekhyun take a seat into one of the round table that scatter around the garden, he take a sip into his coffee while looking absentmindedly at the garden's beautiful roses.
After a while of just staring at nothing and thinking, Baekhyun put his cup down into the table and push it away slightly from him, Baekhyun pop his both elbow over the round table top then he put his head into his hands to stare at the table and see his reflection. Baekhyun can see himself staring back at his pitiful self, his eyes are red because of the unshed tears and under his eyes he can see clearly the dark circle that resulted from his everyday dreams about his fiance and sometime its because of the nightmare. And his whole face is so pale, he look like shit. Baekhyun chuckled at his wretched self and closed his eyes harshly, letting a single angry tear to roll down his cheeks.
After the accident happened everything go down to hills for Baekhyun, at that tragic accident he lost his fiance and when he lost his lover back then he lost his life to with her, Baekhyun felt like he lost his purpose from breathing anymore when he lost his fiance back then. It's been seven years when that tragic accident happen but Baekhyun still remember everything like it just happened just yesterday, everything is still fresh in Baekhyun's mind and until now his still blaming himself to what happen, if he just listen to his fiance explanation she would still be with him, if he just didn't yell at her and told her to leave she could be still with him alive and safe, if he just didn't let his jealousy get into him they could still be happily living together and married now. They could even have a family now if the accident didn't happen. If his just not a plain stupid back then, all of this won't happen, nothing like this won't ever happen.
"It's all my fault.."
Baekhyun bite down into his lips hashly making it bleed, even after tasting the metallic taste of the blood from his lips, Baekhyun didn't even give a mind to it and instead he just keep gazing back at his pathetic reflection at the glass table. Baekhyun let his tears to finally roll down his cheeks freely while whispering how pathetic he was and how he won't never ever see or touch his lover again, he keep whispering to himself how it his fault and that he should be the one who died and not her.
He kept crying until he got tired of it and he fall asleep at the table from exhaustion and grief.
~~*~~
Baekhyun was currently standing infront of the floor to ceiling windows of his office, his staring down at the streets below mindlessly without a care around his surrounding at the moment.
Byun Baekhyun was the owner of the big famous company named ElyXiOn Entertainment, his company is currently the top one entertainment at the whole world, every famous idol groups and soloist, even the top models, actress and actor were all label under his company. Even the famous fashion designers, producer and composer were all came from his company. And the said company have it's branches around the world, but the main company of the ElyXiOn Entertainment will be found only at Seoul, South Korea.
His father give him the authority to take over the company when he graduated in his college. Mr. Byun give his company to his only son and to the heir of his company at it's young ages trusting his son to take care of it and to never neglect it. His father know that his son would never let anything happened to their company, he know that whatever happened Baekhyun would take good care of the company and so Mr. Byun step down from his company and leave it behind to the hands of his beloved only son.
Baekhyun was lost in his own world and thoughts that he didn't even heard someone was knocking at the door and so he didn't heard to when the door opened and closed when someone walk inside without him knowing. The person let out a sigh after it see the CEO's state, the latter walks closer and it stop just infront of the table to place the folder she was holding at the desk above the other files that already in there before she cleared her throat to get the CEO's attention. Baekhyun closed his eyes for a while before he heaves a sigh and turn around to face the person who interfere his alone time. There standing infront of the table is a beautiful woman, she has a long pretty blonde hair and she have a small face with a big pair of doll-eyes, beautifuly carved nose and a small red lips.
"Are you alright, Mr. Byun?"
She spoke softly while gazing at the latter depressed features, she know something is wrong and that there is something bothering the latter mind by just looking a him.
"Yes. Do you need something, Lu?"
Baekhyun said without batting an eye.
"Oh, yes, I just want to remind you that you have a meeting with Mr.Choi at 4'oclock and after that your schedule would be free until tomorrow.."
"Alright, thanks. You can go now."
"As you wish,"
She looks at the latter one more time before she turn around and walks out of the office leaving the CEO alone again, Baekhyun let out another deep depressed sighs before he walks back at his desk and he sit back down at his chair. Baekhyun picks up one of the many folder infront of him and then he opened it, he heaves another one last time sighs, before he started working again, concentrating at the files in his hand.
~~*~~
Baekhyun plopped himself down into the bed instantly the moment he laid his eyes on it, to exhausted from work and meeting he didn't even bother to change his cloth or take a shower. Baekhyun stared at the ceiling for a moment thinking how miserable his feeling this past seven years, he felt depressed everytime he was alone, he feel like his loneliness is eating him little by little each time his mind would go back to the memory of his lover or when his mind have the time to think and to reminiscence about the past his trying to avoid remembering again.
He still can't believe that something tragedy has happened to his life seven years ago, Baekhyun still remember everything, he still remember waking up to see his parents crying and thanking him from waking up after him being in a coma for a week. He can't believe and he was shocked after he learn and heard from his parents that he was in coma, last time he remember before he loss consciousness is the sound of the siren and there is blood trailing down his face and it's raining heavily around them.
Baekhyun still remember that tragic day clearly like it just happened yesterday and it still so painful to remember. He hated himself so much that time when he woke up and when he find out that they didn't find his fiance when the rescued come and after being told that they already seached everywhere possible just to find her but there still no sight of her. They even told him that there is apossibility that his fiance didn't make it and she died when the accident happened. He can't accept it, he can't just accept that his fiance died because of his stupid self back then, if he just didn't ack stupid and believe her the accident wouldn't never happened in the first place. If he just believe her that time, she would be still with him right now. If he can just turn the time back he will do everything he could to save his fiance even if it kills him on the way. His life don't have any meaning on it anymore after she leave him behind. He feel like he died with her back then and now he don't feel anything, his just like a rag doll waking around without a life and doing what everyone told him without a care.
He have so many regrets until this moment, if he just do something other than being stupid believing what the other has told him than to believe his own lover, his sure he could save or even the accident won't never happened in the first place. Ever after knowing that his fiance died seven years ago, Baekhyun still holding on to the possibility that his fiance was still alive, his still praying and hoping that she's alive. He wont give up on that possibility not until there is a solid proof that she really died that day and until then he will still hope for the possibility that he can still see and hold her in his embrace.
Baekhyun closes his eyes willing the single tears to roll down his cheeks, he let out a heavy sighs before he let himself be lulled by his sorrow and miserable tired mind, letting his physical and emotional exhaustion to drifted him off to sleep.
~~*~~
"I swear Baekhyun, I didn't do it.. You know I wouldn't never even think about cheating on you..."
A girl with raven hair and dark beautiful doe-eyes said sadly, she looks at the brown haired guy infront of her who is silently staring down at its feet. The doe-eyed girl then reach her both hands into the latter right hand to softly hold it into her own, she smile softly at the latter, forcing her tears back so the latter won't see it.
"If you don't believe me then I'm sorry, I'm so sorry... just, please f-forgive me.."
The brown haired looks up to gaze back at the girl dark eyes, there is so many emotion floating in his pair of brown eyes that she don't know what to do to lessen it.
"..But my friend told me everything Kyungsoo, she have props, she have a photo of you and that guy. How could you! You still have the nerve to denied it into my face just like it's not true and it didn't happen!! You cheated on me!! Now stop blubbering and leave! I don't want to see you anymore!!"
Kyungsoo's soft smile fall off of her face after she heard the latter words, her doe-eyes get blurry because of the tears that threatening to fall from her beautiful eyes and face. She brush it off and didn't think about her blurry vision and instead she force a sweet fluttering smile into her lips for the latter.
"Silly oppa.. You k-know me well and y-you know that I wouldn't never do that to you, just let me explain everything to you and p-please believe m-me... Hyunnie.."
He looks down at his and the girl joined hand to ignore the watery eyes of the latter and to hide his own lifeless eyes and face. His face is void of any emotion at the moment, his face is blank but his voice is the opposite of his emotionless face, because his tone of voice is laced with deep sorrow and anger, full of emotion that he don't want to show on his face.
"You don't have to explain anymore, I made up my mind already. You should go now, I don't need you in my life anymore."
Gazing at the lifeless eyes of the latter, her heart beats paintfuly for the other. She love to stare at the latter warm brown small eyes, she loves to stare at it longer and watch the emotion float beautifully in it, she can even stare at it the whole day without doing anything if she like because the latter will be happy and fine with that idea as long as he have her all by himself, but now Kyungsoo was not so sure about it anymore. She knew that someday someone would do the same to him, someone new would gaze back at him after she was gone.
It makes her sad and miserable inside, her heart beating painfully inside of her ribcage. The thought of not being able to gaze back at it and be the one who will recieve that loving gaze is more painful that anything, the thought of him pushing her away because he don't want her anymore and because he don't love her anymore is so painful to think, it leaves a grief inside of her heart cracking it little by little with his every words and her painful thoughts.
He will find someone to love again, someone who is more good for him, someone who he deserve more than anything. Someone that won't make him sad or depress, someone who will love him more than he love her, and that someone is not her.
How painful it is, isn't it? The thought of him finding someone more better than her, someone who will replace her position in the latter's life. It hurts to think and imagine, but she know it is happening now and she have to be prepair for it. It's now or never. His about to let her go, pushing her away from his life forever. It's hurts but she need to be strong for the both of them.
"Hyunnie, p-please believe m-me... I-I didn't cheat on you.."
"Stop lying already Kyungsoo... Just stop.. I don't believe you anymore..."
The brown haired whispered bitting his lower lips hard enough to drawn blood into it and she saw how the latter keep on fighting his frustration to shown into his face.
"Don't say that oppa... It's h-hurts me more to hear it coming from y-you.."
She lowered her gaze to her hands that still holding the brown haired right hand in her, she softly run her fingers at the latters hand and whisper so to hope that she can hide the surrow in her voice.
"I'm so sorry, but e-everything she told you its not real she's l-lying to you.."
Shaking his head at the girl in disbelieve, he snort angrily then looks back with his teary eyes at the younger, his voice turning more angry and sad at the same time.
"No, your wrong. Everything she told me, its real, your the one who's telling lies here Kyungsoo... I never thought that you would lie to me like this.. I.."
"Hyunnie..."
She stared at the latter teary eyes with her own watery one, she can hear her heart shattering into pieces inside of her chest by the surrow that lingering into the latter eyes. She hurt him so much without her meaning to. Even if what his blaming her is not true it still hurt to know that she hurt him because of the false information he hear. It still her fault, she should explain it to the latter before the other told it to him and misunderstand everything. It is all her fault.
"Stop...I beg you..just stop it, Kyungsoo.."
The brown haired whisper weakly while looking away from the girl infront of him.
"B-But I-"
"I SAID STOP IT!!"
He yelled cutting the girl from what she was about to say, he then looks back at the girl and then he gaze straight back at her teary doe-eyes.
"I hate you so much, Do Kyungsoo.."
He shake his hand and pulled it out of the girl's hands harshly while letting his tears go to fall down his face slowly and freely. Kyungsoo gasp at the latter harsh words and she reach her small hand to the latter's damp cheeks when she saw how the first tear drop by slowly until it trail down his face uncontrollably, she then softly wipe it dry using her fingertips and then she let her right hand stay to the latter cheeks while staring straight at him.
"Don't cry Hyunnnie, I hate to see you cry or become sad becasue of me..."
"Stop calling me that, I hate to hear it now..."
"Of course.."
Smiling bitterly, she gaze softly at the latter and will her eyes and face to not show how hurt and sad she was.
"I want you to remember this one before I go... I love you so much, Byun Baekhyun..only you."
She pull her hands away from the latter cheeks and she let her tears to trail down her soft cheeks freely. Willing herself to show the older how weak she was and how much this is so hard for her to do. She give her best one last smile at the latter before she decided to walks away, before she hop inside of her car, Kyungsoo looks back at the broken latter one last time before she get in and drive away from her lover, forever.
~~*~~
"Wait...N-No..Soo..NO!!"
Baekhyun jolt awake again with a loud gasp when suddenl the loud ringtone of his phone woke him up from his dream or more like, nightmare, he panicked for a moment after he woke up from his dream looking around frantically with unfocused eyes and frantic heart beat. Baekhyun took a few deep breaths before he gets out of bed and looks at the huge windows to see if it's morning already but the slight gap in his windows curtain showing no sight of the morning sun and instead in place of it is the moonlight shining down at the window and into the gap between the heavy looking curtains, he knitten his brow while looking at the nightstand to read the time blinking back at him in bold angry red color, the clock reads '03:30am' in the morning.
With a heavy sighs, Baekhyun rubs his sleepy eyes while forcing himself to go and take a shower. After his quick shower he walks out of his room and down to the kitchen to get himself something to drink.
After drinking some water, Baekhyun go outside and sit at one of the chair at the garden again just like how he do the night before. He though that after he took a shower and drink some water he can forget about his dream and finally go back to sleep again but no, he was wrong, so damn wrong, because even if he does it already here he was still wide awake, he can't go back to sleep anymore not after his nightmare. It because it keeps on repeating inside of his mind, what happened in his dream is still circling inside of his mind like a broken record, everything that happen in his dream was real. It happened before the accident, Baekhyun didn't believe or listen to what Kyungsoo was telling him. Kyungsoo was right, she would never cheat on him or she won't never lie to him, it's all his fault not her. If he just believe her and listen to her all of this would never happened.
He can feel his sight becoming blurry because of the tears that building at the back of his eyes. Baekhyun felt his tears were threatening to fall in any moment now but even so he take a deep breath and stared up into the starry night sky feeling lost and lonely at the same time, wishing that he can return the time over again so he can take back what he told Kyungsoo, all the hurtful words he let out of his mouth and tell the younger, he want to take it all back, if he does then there is a chance that the accident wouldn't happen either.
If only he could turn the time and take it all back, if only he could, he would.
Baekhyun closed his eyes and let his tears to trail down nonstop until he can't cry anymore. He sobs softly so that no one other than the sky would see him cry pathetically and miserable.
After crying so much, Baekhyun go back upstair into his room and straight to his bathroom. Inside he go straight to the corner beside the sink and he sit on the bathroom floor, he cried again in frustration for a countless hours until he don't felt like he can cry anymore. When Baekhyun calmed slightly after a few minutes of silent, he reach for the small kitchen knife at his side that he picked up with him from the kitchen earlier. He take a deep breath before he stretch his right arm and he rolled the long sleeve of his silk night botton up shirt.
'I'm so sorry, Kyungsoo..'
He whisper under his heavy breath, then he placed the small knife in his wrist and slowly he tried to make a small cut, drawing blood into his soft pale skin.
'Forgive me..'
He made another cut but this time it's deeper and longer. He saw a red stripe falling from the cut, flowing continuously from the fresh cut in his wrist. Baekhyun made a numerous cut until he hit the vein and his blood is streaming more continuously, trailing down at his arms and into his clothed lap and at the bathroom tiles, covering everything with his blood.
'I love you so much, my Kyungsoo'
He stretch his another arm then he rolled his long sleeve and started to make a deep cut in his wrist again and agian. His still not contended with just least cuts he decided to cut more until he die. His really pale that time and he become so weak like his body is giving up on him soon. But even after knowing it and feeling it, Baekhyun don't care, beside he wants to die now so he can be with Kyungsoo again. The thought of his fiance makes him smile and wish to be with her again.
"Kyungsoo..."
He whisper weakly one last time before his vision becomes black.
To be continue...
Chapter 2: 2.
Chapter Text
Park Kyungsoo a beautiful young woman, she has a beautiful pair of big like doe-eyes and she has cute curved nose, she also has a beautiful heart shaped lips and round cute cheeks. And she is the mother of a twin precious child, Park Minhyun and Park Minsoo who is currently seven years old. Minsoo is a beautiful girl like her mother, in fact Minsoo is what everyone tell her is her photo copy because Minsoo is like little Kyungsoo, they were look a like. But Minhyun is the opposite, Kyungsoo don't know why but Minhyun didn't have any of her feature nor Chanyeol's. While Minsoo is the little Kyungsoo, Minhyun is...she don't know.
Sometimes Kyungsoo felt like his husband is not the father of her child when she don't see anything that connected to Chanyeol and the kids, but everytime does thought would corrupt Kyungsoo's mind she would brush it off immediately after watching Chanyeol playing with the twins happily and taking care of them like a good father he is.
At times it felt like Kyungsoo had 3 kids instead of 2, mostly because every time Chanyeol and Kyungsoo slept in the same bed they would always be spooning. Chanyeol firmly gripping her by the waist and breathing softly on her neck. Kyungsoo rather enjoyed the position, it said more than words how much Chanyeol loved Kyungsoo. However when Kyungsoo had to sleep with one of the kids she would find Chanyeol spooning her but with either Minhyun hugging her face or Minsoo nestled between Chanyeol and her. She preferred Minsoo's way of sleeping. Rather she preferred Minsoo in a lot of ways because she was so energetic and friendly. While Minhyun is the exact opposite of Minsoo, because he was so delicate and quiet. He could be a exact copy of Kyungsoo's personality when she was a child like Minhyun she also rarely talked when she was younger.
Today Kyungsoo awoke with Chanyeol holding on to her waist while Minsoo nestled in Chanyeol's chest and Minhyun's little hands hugging her face. Kyungsoo sat up carefully untangling Chanyeol's arms from her waist and took Minhyun into her arms and laid him down next to Minsoo as she slipped out of the bed. Minhyun and Minsoo was sound asleep so that was her cue to get up and make breakfast. It was roughly around 6:00 in the morning so she woke up at she usual time to make breakfast and wake the kids and her husband up. Since Chanyeol need to go to his office to see how things were doing and make sure everything is alright in his company. Kyungsoo slowly creeped out of her and Chanyeol's room and left the 3 sleeping baby alone.
Kyungsoo started by cracking some eggs making sure to extract the yolk, first she put spinach and tomatoes to cook before adding the sliced ham into the pan. After everything was cooked Kyungsoo proceeded to put the egg into the pan. Today she was making little omelets for the kids and a regular omelet for herself and Chanyeol. The rice cooker beeped signaling that it had finished cooking, Kyungsoo got 4 bowls out and put enough rice for the kids. After everything was set Kyungsoo went ahead to wake Minsoo first since she was the hardest to wake up. As Kyungsoo entered her room she noticed that Minhyun was not on the bed and his no where inside her room anymore, while Minsoo was about to fall of the bed. Kyungsoo quickly run to where the girl was hanging from and lifted her up.
"Oh, my baby girl's getting heavy."
Kyungsoo huffed. Between Minhyun and Minsoo, Minhyun was heavier but Minsoo was certainly getting there. Minhyun was still a child and had a little more chub in his face than Minsoo but regardless it was what made him adorable.
"Come princess time to get up for school."
Minsoo yawned a response.
"I dun wanna!"
Kyungsoo sighed. It was the same each morning but what can she do?
"Come on Minnie. Mommy made a yummy breakfast! I packed your lunch with sausage that look like squirrels and rice with flowers!"
Minsoo had a fascination for squirrel and flowers and everything cute and beautiful, each of the kids had their own interests so she tried to make their lunch boxes as fun as possible. Minsoo snapped at the mention of her lunch.
"You promise it has squirrel sausages and flower rice?" Kyungsoo nodded happily.
"Does mommy ever lie?"
Minsoo shook her head and Kyungsoo chuckled.
"Now time to go brush your teeth okay? I'm going to go wake up you brother, alright?"
Minsoo nodded. Kyungsoo then walks out of the room and into the door infront of her and Chanyeol's room. Kyungsoo put Minsoo down and lightly patted her butt urging her to hurry up. Kyungsoo turned away heading to the door that joined Minhyun's room to Minsoo's. To her surprise Minhyun was already done taking a shower and now his struggling to put on his uniform. Kyungsoo smiled warmly.
"Does my little prince need help?"
Kyungsoo ran up to Minhyun and scooped him into her arms. Minhyun let out a series of giggles enjoying being lifted up by his mommy.
"Yes mommy! I need help pulling my undershirt on and tucking it in my pants!"
Kyungsoo ran a hand through Minhyun's black hair.
"Okay baby boy."
Kyungsoo put Minhyun down proceeding in helping him pull his arm through his button up shirt and then tucking in the bottom of the shirt into his pants.
"There! My little prince is looking handsome! Come on let's brush your hair and style it to the side."
Minhyun nodded excitedly running ahead and heading to the step stool in his bathroom. Minhyun always seemed to enjoy the morning because Kyungsoo would take longer to prepare him and pamper him. Kyungsoo grabbed the brush on the middle shelf and started brushing out the hair that stuck out on Minhyun's head. Once Kyungsoo finished with that he proceeded to rub some gel onto her fingers and lightly brush her fingers into Minhyun's hair.
"Alright my prince! Go on and eat! We only have 30 minutes before we have to go to the car! I'm going to go check on your sister."
Minhyun jumped off the stool and ran downstair to the kitchen arms in the air as if he was an airplane.
"No running, Minhyunnie!"
Kyungsoo knew how slippery the kitchen was not to mention the kids had fallen various times while running in the kitchen. Kyungsoo went back to Minsoo's room to find that she was all dressed and ready for Kyungsoo.
"Minnie! I'm proud you, you did everything by yourself!"
Minsoo nodded her stare blank, Kyungsoo recognized that stare.
"What's wrong Minsoo-ah?"
Minsoo just continue staring at Kyungsoo her body rigid. Kyungsoo wrapped her arms around Minsoo.
"Tell mommy what's wrong Minsooie."
Minsoo's big beautiful eyes started watering. The next thing Kyungsoo knew Minsoo hot tears streaming down her eyes and she's sobbing. This was very rare becauase Minsoo rarely cried.
"MOMMY DOESN'T LOVE ME ANYMORE."
Minsoo wailed. Kyungsoo's eyes started watering seeing her little princess crying like this.
"Shh. Shh princess. That's not true! What makes you think that way?"
Kyungsoo picked Minsoo up and started rocking her back and forth like she was an infant. Minsoo sniffled.
"Y-You, You always scoop Minhyun up, swing him around and cuddle with him. It just means that you love him more than me!"
Kyungsoo reached for a tissue and cleaned up Minsoo's snot.
"Baby you know that isn't true! I love both of you equally."
Minsoo stopped crying.
"Rweally?" Minsoo asked.
"Really my little princess."
Kyungsoo planted a big kiss on her forehead following suit a shower of kisses all over Minsoo's face. Minsoo giggled loudly.
"That tickles mommy!" Minsoo continued giggling. "Mommy were gonna be late and im hungry!"
Kyungsoo gave Minsoo one final kiss and put her down.
"Alright. Let's go join your brother."
Kyungsoo grabbed on to Minsoo's small hand and Minsoo tightly gripped Kyungsoo's hand.
~~*~~
Park Chanyeol is the owner of the LOEY after his father gave him the company they have at Japan seven years ago. And now his preparing to take over the whole Park Corporation after he proven to his father that he can run the company on his own now like what he done to the LOEY.
But apparently his father want to test him further if he truly can take over the company on his own without his and his mother help. And to do that, Chanyeol need to take care and rebuild their falling company at Korea. But the problem is, Chanyeol don't want to go back to Korea. He refused his father's request to go back and build up the company.
"No father, I'm sorry but I can't do it."
Chanyeol huff and look away from his father.
"Why not Chanyeol? I thought you told me and you mom that you can take over the company now? So why not?"
Chanyeol father frowned. He can't understand why his son would back out all of the sudden when he requested for him to go to korea.
"Yes I know, I told you and mom that I could take care of the company now and I'm ready. But, I just can't go back to Korea." Chanyeol look down at his hands refusing to make any eye contact with his father. "I'm so sorry dad. But I just can't.."
Chanyeol father silently observe his son. He know that something is wrong and that just prove him right when Chanyeol won't look at him, avoiding his eyes.
"Is this something to do with your wife?"
"W-What?" Chanyeol's eyes widen in shock then he looks up at his father. "No, it's nothing to do with Kyungsoo, dad!"
Chanyeol father clicked his tongue in annoyance, he know his son was lying to him. Chanyeol has a habbit of bitting his lower lips when his lying and his doing it infront of his father right now.
"I know it's because of her, stop lying Chanyeol, it won't work on me. I know you son, I know if your lying or not and right now, you are lying."
"I am not dad."
"Yes you are, your bitting down on your lower lips to stop it from quivering and your only doing that when your lying."
Chanyeol father rolled it eyes after he saw his son look at him in surprise and guilt.
"I knew that you don't want to go back to korea anymore because of what happened to your wife there, if thats your problem then you can just leave you wife and kids with me and your mom, we will take good care of them for you."
"No, I won't leave them behind dad! I can't be away from them!"
Chanyeol glared at his father. He don't want to be away from his family and he want his father to know that. Chanyeol father lifted one of his eyebrow in question to his son's glare.
"It's just for 6 months Chanyeol, after you rebuild the company you can go back here again."
"Still, 6 months is long dad! I can't be away from my family that long!" Chanyeol shake his head indicating that he disagree with everything his father was saying. "And why do we have to rebuild our company at korea? If its falling then we should just let it go, we have so much many other successful company out there, we don't need that falling company dad!"
"Silence!"
Chanyeol father turn serious after his son stop his blabbering mess.
"Our company at korea is very important to me and your mom. Its our legacy, its where everything started. Its your grandfathers first company and thats why we can't just let it go. So, It's either you go back to korea on your own or take your family with you there."
Chanyeol father authoritative voice successfully shut Chanyeol up. Chanyeol know that his father rarely use that voice and when the time he use it, it means final and can never be turn down anymore. Chanyeol want to disagree further and push the idea of not going back at korea but he know well enought not to push it or his father would surely do something he won't like.
"Remember Chanyeol, we have a deal seven years ago. I hope you still remember it and never forget."
Chanyeol father give him an eye like saying 'you know well'.
"Alright," Chanyeol let out a sigh in defeat. "I will talk to Kyungsoo about this father."
"Very well."
Chanyeol's father get up from his chair and then he patted his son's head softly, to comfort him after pushing the idea into him harshly.
"We will visit you and your family tommorrow, tell Kyungsoo and the kids that we miss them so much. See you my son."
Chanyeol father wave at him before it walks out of the door of his office. After his father's gone from sight, Chanyeol let out a tired sigh then he bang his head at his desk infront of him and groan in frustration.
"Fuck this!"
To be continue...
Chapter 3: 3.
Chapter Text
After her call go directly at voice mail again for so many times already, Daehyun pocked her phone before she decided to unlock the front door of the mansion infront of her. Daehyun has been keep calling the owner of the said mansion for so many times now, but even after calling him nonstop the latter won't answer her call and it just keep going directly at voice mail.
Daehyun was wooried at the latter after she woke up because of the terrible dream she have, after having the dream and waking up, she called her cousin immediately to know if his alright but the problem is, her cousin won't answer any of her call. And since he won't answered it, Daehyun decided to drive to her cousin's house with her husband and to see if his okay. But after ringing the door bell nonstop and calling him for the last time and still no one answered, she decided to come inside on her own. After using the key her cousin gives her, she unlock the front door immediately and then they walks inside before her husband close the door behind him while Daehyun keep calling her cousin's name.
"Baekhyun? Where are you? Are you alright?"
When Daehyun didn't receive any replie from her cousin, she turn to the staircase and then she keep calling her cousin name while her feet move upstairs. When she reach the second floor, Daehyun hurry to walk to the end of the hallway to where a giant wooden double door standing tall infront of her, the door infront of her is the biggest room inside of the mansion and it is also her cousin room. She knocked for three times and when she don't heard anything inside, Daehyun called her cousin name while knocking nonstop this time.
"Baekhyun? Are you inside? It's me, Daehyun."
Silence.
"Baek please open the door!"
Still no one asnwer.
"Baekhyun!!"
Daehyun yelled this time but even after yelling so loudly, she still didn't heard anything inside, it just all silent at the room and it so quiet that make Daehyun more anxious and scared for her cousin's well being. After thinking deeply and making a decision, Daehyun stopped knocking and instead she take a hold of the door knobs and then she twisted the gold door knobs and push it open to know if it's locked inside or not, and to her relief the door opened. Daehyun walks inside of the room after and then she looks around the room hoping to spot her cousin, it's dark inside of the room but even if it's dark she can still see that there is no one inside the room. And because of the moonlight that peeking slightly at the small gap of the havy curtain in the floor to ceiling's windows, she can still see clearly that there is no one sleeping at the king size bed.
Daehyun turn on the light of the room before she call her cousin's name again and she was dismay after not recieving any answer again. With a heavy heart and trouble mind, Daehyun take a sit at the edge of the bed and then she let out a deep frustrated sigh. Daehyun then silently looks down at her join hands in her lap thinking deeply. She was so worried at her cousin that see can't think straight anymore, Daehyun was afraid that her cousin do something stuped again. Daehyun have a feeling that Baekhyun has been hiding something from her and Baekhyun parents and Daehyun just know that something was wrong. After Baekhyun secretary called her earlier to tell her that Baekhyun looks so stressed and it looks like his not having a good night sleep for weeks now, she know already that something is wrong to her cousin and that feeling hunts her even to her dream.
After the room was envelope by the silent again, Daehyun can now heard the sound of running water hitting the sink inside of the bathroom. She listen carefully to make sure that she's hearing right before she turn to the direction of the bathroom and then she headed straight to it and knock.
"Baekhyun? Are you inside?"
She asked but again there's no reply from the latter. She twisted the golden door knobs and pushed the door open and surprisingly, it was unlocked. Daehyun push the door a little and examined the bathroom from the small gap but then she saw something that aroused her doubt and make her heart to beat loudly in her ears.
A red stained was everywhere on the floor and she smelled blood inside and she didn't like it because it makes her scared and nervous more and more.
She stepped in hesitant.
Daehyun saw a figure sitting just at the side of the bathroom sink with it's head hanging low and his uncounscious, his skin were so pale, he look like a ghost, and there is a lots of blood around him and his cloth. Also a small kitchen knife were resting just besides his bloody fingers.
"Oh my god, what have you done, Baekhyun?!"
Daehyun runs in panic to Baekhyun's side and then she put a cloth she got at her cousin's cuts, then she cupped Baekhyun's small faces and lifts it slowly just to not frighten or hurt that fragile figure.
"Baekhyun, can you hear me? Please, wake up!"
Daehyun asked with her hands still in her cousin's faces, she pat her cousin cheeks a little to wake him up but nothing work and then she look at the latter lifeless and cold face.
"Baekhyun please!"
Daehyun bite her lower lips to stop her tears from falling down her face and to calm herself a little, Daehyun then take off her coat and she cover Baekhyun's body with it so the latter can feel a few heat. And after she recover a bit from shock because of what she saw, Daehyun pulls out her phone out of her coat pocket and then she dialed her husband number immediately to tell him what hapeen and to come at the latter room. When Yongguk arrive at the bathroom they bring the unconscious Baekhyun to the hospital in a hurry.
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When Baekhyun regain consciousness again the first thing he see when he opened his eyes is the white ceiling and the white walls around him then the next thing is the white room of the hospital he was in. Baekhyun closed his eyes again for a while and when he blinked open his eyes, his cousin was staring back at him with her red-teary-eyes.
"How are you feeling, Baekhyun?"
Daehyun asked with her hand wiped Baekhyun's face from a remains tears that rolled down his cheeks after he saw his cousin worried face and bloodshot eyes because of to much crying. Baekhyun know that his cousin cry to much because of him. He know, but even after knowing it he just feel sad and sorry for making his cousin scared and worry because of him. Baekhyun can't feel guilty to what he do, he just can't. It's because he don't feel like what he do is wrong, all he feel is that what have he done is alright. Because it's true, he deserve to die and never to leave anymore. He wants to die anyway and so he don't feel guilty for what he have done.
Baekhyun just wanted to be free again and to be with his lover . To be with Kyungsoo again. Is it bad to wish to be with someone he love so much again? Is it bad that he want to end his own life so he can be with her again? The only thing he know to end everything immediately is to kill himself and so all the pain and sorrow would go away. And if that happen he would be happy and free again. That's the only thing he have in mind when he tried to kill himself. To be with Kyungsoo again.
"I don't feel anything other than sorrow and pain."
Baekhyun whisper while staring at nothing. Daehyun looks at Baekhyun eyes, she saw an expressionless soul and she assumed that the latter has a dull-brown-eyes and the dullness didn't fades as the years passed him by and the season had change from cold to warmth, but he is still the same broken guy back seven years ago; his still the broken Byun Baekhyun.
"I'm so sorry, Baek..."
She whisper back. Baekhyun said nothing, he just stared to Daehyun's dark orbs and stay motionless even after someone walk inside of the room without them knowing.
"Oh good, your awake now Mr. Byun"
A man wearing a white doctors coat smile at Baekhyun showing his deep perfect dimple. He looks young to be a doctor. It because of his handsome curved face, his anime droopy-like-eyes, straight curved nose and his killer dimple smiles. His tall and he has a pale skin and he has a silky black hair.
"Yes, he just woke up Dr. Zhang." Daehyun looks away from her cousin and into the doctor to address him politely. "Thank you for saving my cousin's life."
"It's my work to make sure your cousin will survived from the danger he cost himself, so no worries Mrs. Bang"
Dr. Zhang shoved both of his hand inside of his pockets and look at the two cousins, his face turning serious.
"By the way, it's still a miracle that you survive from all the deep cuts you do to yourself, Mr. Byun. It's thanks to your cousin here that she found you immediately before anything worse has happened and that she volunteer for her blood when where just about to do the searching, because yours is a rare blood type one. And you lost to much blood due to your suicide attempt that we need to do a blood transfusion immediately or you'd be in a more critical state if not given the right amount of blood to replace the one you lost because of your injury."
"You shouldn't bother..."
Baekhyun frowned and cast a sideway gaze at the doctor without any emotion and reaction showing in his face.
"You should just let me die and that would be much more better.."
"Baekhyun..."
Daehyun grab a hold on her cousin right hand trying to calm him down but when she looked at Baekhyun eyes, she lost her words and suddenly she felt empty. They stared into each others eyes with a different kind of gaze. She gave him a soothing glance, while her cousin just gave her a plain glare.
"Mrs.Bang, I recommend you to bring your cousin to a psychiatrists to make sure this accident won't happened again. If you like, I can recommend you to one of our best psychiatrists doctor here at the hospital."
Dr.Zhang knitted his brows together and take a quick glance to both of them, his calculating the tense situation around the room.
"Ohh.. ahhh. About that..." Daehyun shifter her gaze to Dr.Zhang then back to her silent cousin and talk softly. "Baekhyun, should I call oppa to asks him to come over and check on you?"
But all she got back was another cold stare and it's perhaps pierced into her eyes and it goes straight to her heart.
"Dr.Zhang, thank you so much again for everything and we will consider about your offer.."
"Alright, I should get going now then. If you need anything just call a nurse okay?"
"Yes, thank you again doctor."
"No worries."
Dr.Zhang glance at the both of them one last time before he walks out of the room without another word.
Daehyun take a sit at the chair beside the bed and then she caressed his cousin pale cheek softly. While doing it, Daehyun gathered her mind back to what things had occur early on that day. She leaned over the bed and looks at Baekhyun with her sad eyes. Now, she remember what happened again and what the latter looks like when she find her.
"Baekhyun, why did you do this? Why did you try to kill yourself again?" Daehyun asks, her tone of voices trembled and her eyes became watery. "...Sometimes you should open up your hearts to anyone else and tell them about how you feel. It's not healthy to be like this Baek."
Daehyun soft sobs turned to be massive sniffles.
She didn't know why, whenever she stared into those empty-brown eyes, she could feel the sorrow and grief coming from it. She always try to shooed that uncomfortable feeling but then it keep hunting and torturing her and when it happened, her eyes always threaten to drops the droplets. She hated that. She always play a strong character infront of Baekhyun, she hated to looks like she's weak and hopeless but she couldn't help to feel sorry and cry.
"Baekhyun...please, please.. stop doing this."
She said with her sorrow honey voice. She stared at the emotionless Baekhyun who is staring back at her without saying anything back.
"Stop hurting yourself..please"
Daehyun buried her face on the bed line and sobbed her heart out in such a painful way. She was too tired with all of this, it's been seven years but still nothing change. Her cousin was still the broken guy back then. For her, Baekhyun was too fragile, too soft to hold, too difficult to handle. His just like a snow flakes, it you hold to much it would melt and be gone in just a blink on an eye.
"Daehyun."
Daehyun lift up her chin when a soft melodic voice called out her name. She met a tough man feature standing before her with a basket of fruits in his hand.
"Taekwoon oppa."
Daehyun whisper between her soft sob before she gets a slight nod as an answer from the calm man.
~~*~~
"It's been a while since the last time I saw you here right, Baekhyun?"
Baekhyun paid his attention to the doctor's action without paying too much interest on the thing that he had said. He observed on how he put the basket of a fruits into the table before he took a seat that Daehyun sat before.
"How are you feeling?"
He ask as he receive nothing but a blank stare from Baekhyun.
He shrugged.
The doctor wonders how Baekhyun grew out there, carrying a heavy life's obstacles by his shoulder since the accident. He adore how Baekhyun could act like if he was strong enough to handle all of them by himself without even showing his weakness even a single one. But, he knew his cousin way better than other's close relatives of them.
He was the one who spent a lot of time with Baekhyun on his most sorrowful day. He had looked at how Baekhyun manage to be strong infront of his friends and parents, but he cried whenever he was alone with him; who's his personal psychiatric. And on that time, his the one who always comforting him whenever he was down and feeling weak.
He will never forget the promised that Baekhyun said to him on the day he was discharged from the hospital after the tragedy.
'I won't give up on the hope that she's still alive.'
"Are you giving up on her?"
He asked and this time Baekhyun turned his head to meet the calm doctor eyes beside him. He shrugged again as he leaned over his bed with heavy sighed.
"I think everything just out of control, even our happy memories look like a bad one now. Every night, the memory of her keep attacking me nonstop. Sometimes, I felt like I want to just end everything and it got to me this time..I tried to kill myself but without success..I'm useless"
He whisped under his breath and that's what makes the doctor heaves out a sigh.
"Do you still remember your promises back when you got discharged after the accident?"
Baekhyun said nothing. He pin his sight to his bandage joined hands without even blinking. His mind just out from his body at the moment.
"You said that you won't give up to the hopes that she's still alive, remember?"
The doctor paused, he chuckled a little when he remember that day and continued when Baekhyun focus back at him with his sorrow eyes, listening.
"...I thought that I had bought that in a first place but somehow, you make me feel so wrong today"
Taekwoon smile sadly while reminiscing does faithful day.
"...I always hope that someday you will forget her and move on. And I wish that this day won't happened again. But I was so wrong, after seven years you still remember her and love her without any condition and without any second thoughts..your strong Baekhyun, so please, don't give up your life just like this. She won't be happy if she find out that you tried to kill yourself numerous times already and leave her behind."
Baekhyun felt a lump in his throat. He chocked out his breath and he felt hard to swallow. The tears that already dried come back uninvited. A drop after a drop, a soft sniffled start to play its roles and Baekhyun gave in. He cupped his face and let the tears fall like a raindrops into his cheeks. Taekwoon snakes his arms around Baekhyun shoulder and bring him into his soothing embrace.
Baekhyun didn't resist. He snuggle his face on his cousin's shoulder and cry harder. He really needs the warmth of a family, he really miss his parent and his fiance. He really wanted to reunite with his lover. He just couldn't handle the world anymore without her. It was just too heavy to carry.
"Don't worry, Baekhyun. God have mercy. Just keep your faith up and you will see the future. Just don't give up. Sometimes, world never goes as you wish but trust me, sooner or later they'll be by your side again."
Baekhyun keep sobbing and nods a little into each thing that his cousin said.
He feels grateful. Whenever he was down, there's always a hand that will bring him up and that's what make him gain his faith back.
'I have to be strong, I can't give up just yet.'
To be continue...
Chapter 4: 4.
Chapter Text
Chanyeol has so many reasons why he don't wish to go back to korea anymore. And one of that reasons is that, Chanyeol has been running away from someone he know, he don't want to meet that someone again and his afraid that if he go back with his family he will surely meet that person again, and he don't wish that to happen.
And so, Chanyeol has been trying his best to do everything he could just so he won't have a reason to go back anymore. But Chanyeol's father has other plans for him and that is to solve the problem in there company back at korea. Chanyeol want to disagree with his father decision but he knew, if he do so his father will surely do what he just told him.
His father is the best he could ever wish to be his dad, but Chanyeol know that if his father turn serious then all of his words will be final and no one can change it no matter what. Not even his mother.
That is why, when his father stare at him seriously and his voice filled with finality, he just know that he have to do everything what his father told him or else he will be forced to do it in other way he don't want to imagine.
Mr. Park is the best father and husband anyone could wish for, he was energetic and playful like his only son. His nice to everyone to and he likes to held everybody who need his help if he could. But if the subject turn out to be his company and his family, any treats to it will be unforgivable to him. He will turn into a different person if there is any harm that will cost him his company or his family life. He wont think twice to harm someone or even kill someone if it means he can protect his family and company.
He surely the ideal father everyone could wish for, but he is the one everyone don't want to wish to be an enemy too.
Chanyeol take a deep breath before he opened the door of his car and then he step out before he close it and lock the door. Chanyeol was tired after he finished his work and then the stress of his father words is weighting him down. The whole day, he keep repeating his father words inside of his head, he have to make a decision sooner than later. That surely was clear when his father told him that he and his mother will visit his family tomorrow. It means that when they visit, then he will expect the answer to his request or else he will be forced to agree to it no matter what and infront of his wife.
He frowned deeply while his hand take a hold of the door knobs and pushed it open after he unlock it. Chanyeol still don't know what to do until now, but one thing for sure is that he have to tell his wife about his plan to go to korea with her and the kids. Even if Chanyeol don't like the idea of his family going back to korea, he don't have the choice but to do it. Like what he said to his father, Chanyeol can't leave without his family away from him.
Beside, Chanyeol's father is right. It's just for six months and then after that he and his family can go back to there normal life again, back to Japan and away from that someone Chanyeol keep trying to run away and hide.
It is late at night when Chanyeol got home, he didn't expect anyone to be awake anymore. Chanyeol know that when he come home, his wife and kids will surely be asleep. When Chanyeol walk inside of the house it's already dark as exepected, the only light that guided Chanyeol to see while his walking upstairs is the moonlight peeking at the gap of the curtains at the big windows.
When he got upstairs without any troubles, Chanyeol walk into the hallway and stop infront of the door. He then carefully open it and then he peek inside of the dark room and there he saw one of the twins sleeping peacefully at its bed. He walk inside and he stop just beside the bed and then he caress it's cheeks softly. Chanyeol loves the twins so much and he will do anything just to protect them and to make sure no one will take them away from him. And that apply to his wife to, he won't let anyone to take her away from him nor hurt her.
Chanyeol leans down to places a kiss into the kids forehead softly so he won't wake her up and then he wished her goodnight.
"Have a sweet dreams my princess. Daddy love you so much.."
After fixing her cover so she won't catch a cold, Chanyeol turn away and he go directly at the opposite door that connected to Minsoo and Minhyun's room. When Chanyeol open the door and look inside, he was shocked slightly when one of the twins were awake. Minhyun stare at Chanyeol with his sleepy eyes before it called his father.
"Daddy? Is that chu?"
He tilt his head at the side cutely, then he asked with a sleepy voice while his lips were pouting and mumbling words.
"Yes, it's daddy." Chanyeol smiled while moving next to the kid and he take a sit next to Minhyun who is still laying down in his bed. "Why are you still awake, Myunie? Can't sleep?"
"No, I have a dream daddy..." Minhyun said sadly.
"Hmm, what kind of dream baby? Is it a nightmare?"
Chanyeol brushed Minhyun's silky black hair away from its beautiful brown eyes. Minhyun eyes remind Chanyeol of someone he know, Minhyun eyes has the same eyes with that certain someone, they have the same color of the eyes and even there face has a similarity, it's like Minhyun is the carbon copy of that someone.
"I'm scared daddy. At my dream there is someone who look like me but his much bigger than me and then he told me that his my and Minsoo's daddy not you. Why would he say that daddy?"
Minhyun looks at Chanyeol with his teary eyes waiting for his dad answer.
Chanyeol looks back at his son and his eyes widen, before he take a deep nervous breath and he close his eyes to calm his nerves. After a few seconds he open his eyes again and he smile at his son while patting it's head.
"Don't think about it to much baby, it's only a dream okay? I'm your one and only daddy and no one else. Now why don't you go back to sleep hmm?"
"Okay daddy, I love you and mommy so much."
Minhyun yawned before he hugged his dad and kiss him on his cheeks.
"Daddy love you so much too, Myunie."
Chanyeol leans down and dropped a kiss into Minhyun's forehead like what he do to Minsoo.
"Good night, have a sweet dream~"
"Good night daddy."
Minhyun yawns again and then he close his eyes ready to sleep again, Chanyeol smile one last time before he turn away and then he walks out of the room and into the door just opposite to the twins room.
Inside, Chanyeol saw the woman he love the most sleeping peacefully in their king size bed. The moonlight illuminating her cute beautiful sleeping face, her cheeks squished by the soft pillow and the cover was hiding almost half of her white beautiful face. She look so cute sleeping like that.
Chanyeol automatically smiled after he saw her and almost all his problem and stress go away because of her. His wife is like his best medicine, just looking at her all his stress and anxiety would go away same to his problem, just seeing her and the kids everything would be washed away like its nothing. He will feel okay again and feel refresh like he don't any problems anymore. And it help clearing his mind away from the stress and problem, it help to stop his mind to overthink everything.
After changing into his sleeping clothes, Chanyeol walk closer to the bed then he pick up the cover before he slides carefully to his wife's side. Chanyeol lay quietly while staring at his wife beautiful face, he study her face closely. Chanyeol cupped her right cheeks carefully so not to wake her up then he caress her cheeks softly.
"I love you."
He whisper softly before he leans down and kiss her cheeks.
"Yeol?"
Chanyeol leans away to looks at his wife and when he do, she's already looking back at him. She tilted her head to look at him in the eyes and when they have eye contact, Kyungsoo smile sweetly up at him.
"Welcome home. So, how's work?"
"Tiring..."
Chanyeol mumble then he pout at her.
"Aww~ My poor baby.." Kyungsoo giggles when Chanyeol hugs her waist firmly before he pulled her closer to him. "Something happen at work?"
"Nah~ Just my dad visit me at work today.." Chanyeol let out a sigh when he remember what him and his father talk about again. "We talk about business.."
"Your dad's here at Japan? Since when? I though it will be long before they can go back here?"
Kyungsoo looks wide eyed at her husband. She was shocked to what she heard, Kyungsoo didn't know that Chanyeol father's at Japan at the moment.
"I though so too, I was really suprised when dad showed up at my office earlier.."
"Hmm, okay, then what did you talk with your dad?"
"Business."
Chanyeol frowned still deciding if he should agree to his father or not.
"Yes, you just say that. So what about business?" Kyungsoo looks confused when she saw her husband reaction, Chanyeol looks conflicted and he looks like his stressed about something. "Yeollie, is everything alright?"
Chanyeol blinked his eyes in surprise after he felt Kyungsoo move slightly in his hold.
"Yup, everythings alright. No need to worry about it Soo, it's nothing serious."
"Are you sure?" Kyungsoo still looks concern at him even after him reassuring her. "You do know that you can tell me everything right? I'm here for you, Yeol."
"I know Soo, I know."
Chanyeol take a deep breath then he averted his gaze away from Kyungsoo and into the close windows, Chanyeol felt a lump stuck on his throat. He don't know how to tell Kyungsoo about his father plan and his decision without freaking her out. But still, Chanyeol need to tell her now or never.
"I have to tell you something Kyungsoo."
"What is it?"
Kyungsoo shoot him with a soft gaze encouraging him to continue.
"It's about dad's plan.." Chanyeol breath out a sigh. "Dad want us to go and stay at Korea for six months. He wants me to fix our company there that's about to go down."
"So that's what you mean when you said that it's about business?"
"Yes and I try to decline, but dad keep insisting for me to consider it. You see, it's dad and mom's first company. I mean it's my grandfathers first of the first company and that's why dad don't want to let it go like that.."
Chanyeol look stressed while explaining, he truly don't want to go but at the same time he need to for the sake of his parents.
"Dad would go there if he can but the problem is, he and mom have to take care of their new company at state and then dad have an upcoming projects to do at the company and he will be busy for the whole year. He don't have the time to go back at korea anymore. In other words, dad's schedule were busy and now I don't have a choice but to take it instead.. I'm sorry Soo.."
Chanyeol continue while still looking anywhere other that Kyungsoo. He don't want to see her disappointed and sad because of his sudden decision.
"Why are you apologizing? It's alright Yeol, I understand your decision. Beside, it's your dad who is your helping so I will be gladly to go with you whenever it is. And I'm sure the kids would be thrilled to know that we will go to korea."
Kyungsoo cupped his face with her soft small hands before she guide Chanyeol to look at her, then she gave him a soothing eyes smile.
"Everything will work out all just fine. So stop worrying to much about it Yeollie."
Chanyeol stared at Kyungsoo's alluring eyes, he loves to stare at it, if he could he won't do anything for the whole day but to stare at it and get lost to it. He won't mind doing just like that.
All of his worries wash away after Kyungsoo reassure him that everything was alright and she will go with him at Korea. Chanyeol smile finally comes back and then he leaned down to place a kiss at Kyungsoo's nose. She giggles after her husband lean away.
"Thank you Soo, for everything.."
"No need to thank me, of course I will go with you whenever it is because I'm your wife and we are family. And we can't be away from you that long."
"This is why I love you so much, Kyungsoo." Chanyeol embrace her and pull her close to him, then he smile down at her. "Good night my Kyungsoo~"
"Good night Chanyeol~"
Kyungsoo beams along with her giggles and yawns.
~~*~~
When morning comes, Chanyeol's parents come to visit them like promised. When Kyungsoo arrive home, she was greated by the sight of his husband parents and Chanyeol at the living room. Kyungsoo just comes back after sending her childs to school and she already know that the latter parents will come and visit them but she didn't knew that they will come early in the morning.
Kyungsoo greeted the Park couple with a smile before she walk and take a sit next to her husband and opposite to Mrs. Park. The Park couple smile warmly back at her and Mrs. Park beams at her.
"Hello dear! How are you? I miss you and the kids so much."
"I'm fine and we miss you so much too, Mrs. Park."
Kyungsoo smile shyly at the woman opposite to her.
"Oh dear," Mrs. Park pouted while waving her hands around. "My dear Kyungsoo, I told you to stop calling me that and feel free to call me mom and beside your part of our family and I feel like your my daughter and I'm your mother. I feel sad everytime you addressed me so politely, it's like you don't want me to be your mother or something thats why you keep calling me so politely."
Kyungsoo's eyes widen after hearing what Chanyeol's mother said with a sad tone.
"No, no, your mistaken. I don't think like that Mrs. Park, no, I mean Mom. I'm sorry, I didn't mean for you to feel like that... I'm so sorry..."
Kyungsoo bow her head looking down at her joined hands with teary eyes, Kyungsoo didn't mean for the latter to feel like that she's just shy to call her mom and she thought its impolite to call her mom when she's not even supposed to do so because it's not her mother and she just feel awkward to call her that when they don't talk nor see each other often. The truth is she's not comfortable enough to call her mom. It's not pair she know, but Kyungsoo just don't feel comfortable to do so and she's scared to be impolite infront of Chanyeol's parents.
Kyungsoo was scared to many things after she woke up seven years ago.
She was scared when she woke up from her coma and finds out that she lost all her memories and she can't remember anything anymore. She was so scared when she learn that she's pregnant. She was scared when she was informed by the guy she don't remember that he is her fiance and they were supposed to get married before the accident happened. Kyungsoo was scared when she find out that she's expecting a twins.
She got scared again when she get birth to a healthy baby girl and boy without knowing what to do after. She was scared again when she get married to Chanyeol. And then it scared her again when she was told that she don't have any family left that still alive. And what scared Kyungsoo more is that she's married with the guy she don't know and remember.
Kyungsoo was scared from many things and she's overthinking everything, she don't know were to go or to talk with when she was overwhelmed by her feelings and thoughts.
Sometimes, Kyungsoo wished that her parents were still alive to guide and take care of her. Telling her that everthing will be alright and that she don't have to think of anything other than being happy. Kyungsoo wished that she still remember everything and she never forget anything. Kyungsoo has so many worries that sometime she just want to hide herself into some place no one knew so she can be alone.
"Aigoo~ Don't be sorry Soo baby. I'm just kidding so please don't be upset anymore, I'm sorry." Mrs. Park reached forward and grab a hold of Kyungsoo's hand in her. "I know that your not comfortable to call me mom just yet and I'm really sorry for forcing you to do it."
"No, I should be the one who should be sorry. You'd been waiting patiently for me to call you mom and I know you mean well and I'm sorry you have to wait for so long for me to be comfortable enough to do so..."
Kyungsoo takes a deep breath before she look up and stare at the woman's eyes infront of her, her doe-eyes full of sincerity and gratitude for the older.
"Thank you so much for being patient and for taking care of me and my kids."
"Oh dear, you don't have to thank me for that. Beside, your child is my grandchildren and I love you and the kids so much to ignore you. I care about you all and so if you need anything or if you need me just call me and I'll be there for you alright?"
Mrs. Park smile softly at her giving her a motherly comfort Kyungsoo missed and craving so much, she smile back a little bit shyly.
"Thank you...Mom."
"Your welcome my dear Kyungsoo."
After the two woman talk things out, the father and son look at each other with a warm smile on their face.
~~*~~
After eating breakfast and washing the dishes. They decided to move back at the living room again and discussed about the Korea plan.
When they comfortable sitting back at the sofa with the tea Kyungsoo prepared infront of them. Mr. Park cleared his throat will looking at the young couple infront of him with his serious face on.
"Did Chanyeol inform you about the korean thing, Kyungsoo?"
"Yes."
Kyungsoo nodded at Chanyeol's father direction. Mr. Park nod back he then glare at his wife, when Mrs. Park saw her husband stare she smile at him, urging him to continue and telling him that everything would be fine. Mr. Park smile slightly back at her before he turn his attention back at the young couple.
"Then I assumed that Chanyeol explain everything to you. To why he and your family need to go there?"
"Yes."
"Ok, then I get direct to the point now." Mr. Park sighs "I already told Chanyeol the plants and I'm not sure if he explain it to you any further but I go to details and explaination so you can caught up Kyungsoo."
Mr. Park look at Kyungsoo and then back at Chanyeol, after seeing his only son bitting down his lower lips again he continue explaining.
"You and the kids will stay at our house at korea for six months until Chanyeol's done fixing the company. The kids will be enrolled to one of the great school in there immediately and so they wont felt left behind. Everything in there is already prepair and ready for your family. So, if Chanyeol agreed to it then you can go and move at korea tomorrow morning without thinking about anything else."
"Your not giving me any choice after you just told me that everythings back at korea is already prepaired dad."
Chanyeol rolled his eyes while looking away from his father.
"Well, your right Son." Mr. Park nodded, "We already talk about this thing back at your office anyway, I'm just here to remind you about it again. And beside, after our talk I already go on my way out and prepair everything for you so when you and your family move, you don't have to worry about anything at all."
Chanyeol frowned after hearing what his father said and when he look back at the older Park he see his father staring at him like his saying something like 'Don't make this harder for you Chanyeol, we talk about this.' look. Chanyeol sighs and then he look down at his hand and nods.
"Of course dad."
"Hmm, so are you doing it or not?"
Chanyeol shake his head in annoyance before he look back up to stair at his father.
"Yea, I'll take the job dad. Me and Kyungsoo talk this over already and we agree to go for it for you."
"Great. I'm proud of you Yeol and thank you for taking it in your hand to fix."
"As if I have another choice Dad."
Chanyeol rolled his eyes but he grinned back at his father after seeing how happy he is after he agreed to fix the company.
To be continue...
Chapter 5: 5.
Chapter Text
After a whole week of being monitored by his cousin, Beakhyun's finally back at his office what feels like forever.
Baekhyun's currently busy reviewing some important files that needed to be read carefully and signed. After being away from work for a week, all the folders in his table filed up in double the files when he last saw it. And it frustrated him more and more he reads all the details and some proposal and request regardless of the collaboration with the other companys.
His to absorbed with his work that he didn't heard the knock on his office door and when it open and close.
"Excuse me sir," a sudden voice cuts through his thoughts, and Baekhyun glances up from his folder to his secretary and the woman beside her. "Mrs. Do wish to talk to you, she said she already have appointment with you sir."
Baekhyun lips close tightly forcing himself not to frown in front of the woman.
"Yes, you can leave now Luhan."
Luhan excused herself after nodding at her boss before leaving them alone to talk. Baekhyun let out a silent sigh before forcing a small smile on his lips focusing his sight at the woman.
"I didn't know that your back at Korea, Mrs. Do, I-"
"Of cours you won't." Mrs. Do cuts over him, firm. "I didn't come back here for you anyway."
'Yeah, of course she won't' Baekhyun thought bitterly while watching Mrs. Do walks around his office and looking at his things with a frown.
Mrs. Do is his fiancé mother, she's a sweet and caring woman, always smiling at everyone even if she don't know them and helping does who need. She take good care of Baekhyun too just like his her own child, the first time he met her is when Kyungsoo invite him for a dinner at her house and told him she will introduce him at her parents, because they wanted to met him personally. At first Baekhyun was so scared to be rejected by her parents but before he can even introduce himself that time Kyungsoo's mother smile brightly at him and told him he know him already by Kyungsoo, always talking about him to them and that he don't have to be nervous anymore because they agree with him to be there daughter's lover.
At first he can't believe that Kyungsoo's parents accept him immediately just like that, but later on after talking to them, he learn that the Do couple trusted their daughter judgment and that they were to nice to accept a stranger like him to their life and intrust their daughter to him. He smile and laugh the whole time his with them and everytimes he comes over to visit Kyungsoo, her mother always make sure that he feels at home and always taking care of him and pampering him so much like his one of her own child already. It's make him warm and welcomed, and happy. He feel belong already.
But all of that change after what happened seven years ago, after the accident Mrs. Do blamed him for eveything, she blamed him to what happened to her daughter and she push him away from her family after that. She also turn cold at everyone and talk less, she lost her bright personality and her smile too, because of the accident. And everytime she saw him, she would glare dagger at him and spat hurtful words at him for causing her daughter life for something like ugly jealousy. And Mrs. Do always make time to visit him and criticism and remind him to what happened seven years ago, he know it's unfair of her to blame him with everything, but he know why she keeps doing it, he know better than anyone why.
Baekhyun knows that when she come to see him she is feeling depressed and suffocated that she need to bend all her angry and frustration at someone and that someone is him. The cause of her daughter's life.
His not complaining though, he deserve it, even if it hurts everytime it happened he don't care. Because Baekhyun know he deserve it.
Like today, she come to visit him and the frowns on her face just prove him right. Baekhyun didn't said anything and just wait for her next words, letting the heavy silent lull around them. Mrs. Do stop infront of his office floor to ceiling windows that line up and over looking the whole city below, she looks down at it without saying anything for a while, staring quietly, thinking.
Baekhyun knew and he ready himself for the hateful words that will come from the woman's lips anytime soon. He know it's coming and he take a deep breath to calm himself and to make sure that his tears won't fall down his cheeks after she's done, Baekhyun don't want her to see how weak and pitiful he is. He don't want her to see how a mess and vulnerable he is this past seven years. He won't let her know it nor see it, he won't let himself do it. And just like that, the woman broke the heavy silent with her harsh tone of voice and words.
"How's life Baekhyun, " she says without meeting his eyes. "I bet you have move on now and happy with your life after you get ride of my daughter."
Baekhyun eyes widen in panic when he heard what she said.
"N-No, I-"
"Don't."
Her tone is hushed but sharp and that had Baekhyun quiet, bitting his lower lips more harshly this time drawing blood from biting down to much, and Mrs. Do glared over her shoulder coldly to see Baekhyun biting down at his lower lips harshly to stop the tears that threatening to roll down his cheeks.
"I don't want to hear anymore lies coming from you."
Mrs. Do walks over and stop infront of his desk, then she glared down at him. She's watching and criticizing him, Baekhyun know it but even after knowing it he didn't dare to look back at her nor look up to make eye contact, because he know if he do it he will surely cry pathetically and she would judge him more for it and call him out. And Baekhyun will beat himself for it, if that would ever happened, Baekhyun want to be strong infront of the woman, he don't want her to see him broke down like what he do a week ago. He don't want her to see how he lost his fate and how he almost give up on his fiancé, he don't want her to see that and hate him more for being pathetic and weak. And so, he didn't dare to look up or met her eyes, he stay in his hunched position avoiding her judging eyes.
After a moment of staring down at him, Mrs. Do scowl breaking the heavy silent around the office again.
"I can't believe I let you near my daughter," Mrs. Do is seething. She has to grip the table infront of her or else she will surely hit the younger infront of her in anger and frustration.
This kid insolence dared to look hurt and sad of her even after knowing that this is all his fault that she lost her daughter.
She was watching the younger closely and it anger her more and more each passing time that she can see that hurt and sadness settled into the younger tired feature.
'How dare he look hurt and sad when all of this is his own damn fucking fault!!!'
Mrs. Do scream at her mind, she's mad, so, so mad, not just to Baekhyun but she's mad at herself to, if she only know that this would happen she won't let her daughter near Byun Baekhyun. She could prevent this from happening, if only she knew, her daughter will still be with them. She's so useless of a mother and that whats anger her more.
"If only I know that all of this would happened I would push you away from my daughter's life immediately after the first time you come to our house,"
She spat coldly and she saw how Baekhyun cowered and fliched from her words.
"I should have know that your not good enough for her. I should have know that your a good for nothing stupid of a guy!! I can't believe I trusted you with my daughter! You disappointed me so much, Byun Baekhyun!"
She know this is wrong, she know that she should'nt have come here just to yell at the kid and blame him with everything. But even if she want to stop she can't, she just can't, not yet.
Because everytime she was reminded about what happened seven years ago, all she see and remember is how the younger let his ugly jealousy and stupidly get in his head. All she can remember is that, if the younger didn't do it and calmly talk things out then all of this would never happened in the first place, but the younger didn't and now she loss her daughter. It cost her daughter's life, that is why even if she want to stop and not hurt the kid feeling, she can't. She can't just stop, not yet.
"I'm so sorry..."
Baekhyun whispered lowly while gazing up at her behind the hair covering his eyes.
"You useless jerk! How dare you let my daughter died after we trusted you to take good care of her and making sure she will be safe all the time!" she snap with gritted teeth. "I hate you so much and I would never ever forgive you, Baekhyun. I want you to suffered forever for what you done to my Kyungsoo!"
Mrs. Do glared at him one last time, "Don't you dare to forget that it's all your fault that Kyungsoo died, it's all your fault and no one else to blam than you and you alone!"
She spat sharply before she walked back to the door and slammed it close leaving Baekhyun alone.
She's sorry for every words she said, she is sorry for all the blame she keep pushing at him, she is so sorry for everything. She want to stop, but she's still hurt and she can't just still forget and move on. She is sorry, but she can't promise to forget, not just yet. Not now. She don't know when, but it will not be this soon. She is so sorry, that's true, but she can't stop either.
'She's right, always been. It's my fault that Kyungsoo's not here anymore, it's all my fault and no one else to blame but me alone.'
Baekhyun's tears that he keep trying to hold in flow out one after another until it falls like a waterfall, continuously trailing down his cheeks, he lets out a silent sobs and let his feelings out freely that his fiancé mother's now out of sight.
"I'm so pathetic without you, Kyungsoo. Please, please, come back to me..."
~~*~~
Baekhyun shook his head and smiled weakly to cheer himself, just like what he did that earlier at the office when he was about to go home and Luhan stare at him worriedly. Baekhyun sigh and he fell down into the bed and his eyes were gazing at the ceiling above. It helped to stop his tears from flowing out of his eyes again after he remember his talk with his fiancé mother this afternoon.
It is unfair that Mrs. Do keep coming to visit him just to slap him in the face with the truth. The truth that his the reason his fiancé died. It still hurt him to hear it everytime she come by to remind him of what happened seven years ago. But it's true, even if it hurt him so much and frustrate him, it help him and to be honest he needs it time to time. If Mrs. Do won't remind it to him, who would? No one of course.
Baekhyun let her to come by and remind him about it for that reason.
He needs her to remind him so he won't forget about it and it gives him strength to move forward and be strong again. She's giving him hope without the older woman knowing it and his content with it. Yes, everytime Mrs. Do come by to his office is just to keep slapping him with the truth no one would dare to do but her alone. Baekhyun know better, he know that even if the only reason Mrs. Do keep visiting him is to bend her frustration and anger to him. Baekhyun also know that Mrs. Do still looking after him even if her words is so hateful, he know and he feel it everytime the woman come by to see him. She still care and worried about his well being even if she wont said nor show it directly and Baekhyun was happy to know that even if her words hurt him always. His happy because he know she still care even if she's mad at him, his alright with it, he can handle all her hateful words toward him, he can bear with it as long as she give him hope that his so desperately holding on for seven years now.
The hope that his still holding on and the hope his fiancé family still holding on.
The hope that she still alive, the hope that she will come back to them, the hope they all desperately holding on tightly.
That one day, she will show up smiling at them and whisper to them that she's back and that she would never leave them again. The hope they all refused to let go. And that hope is the only one they been keep holding on from falling apart completely.
~~*~~
When morning comes, Baekhyun's already sitting at one of the stall inside of the kitchen with a plate of foods infront of him. His eating slowly while his eyes keep following the brown haired girl who is moving around his kitchen making coffee silently. She put the cup of hot coffee infront of him before she stare at Baekhyun, taking a sip from her cup of coffee silently waiting for him to talk. Baekhyun picked up his coffee too and take a sip at it and sigh.
"I told you Dae, I'm fine."
Baekhyun's eyes hurt from crying so much late at night, his head hurt to and it's pounding like crazy, it feels like it will split in haft any moment now. His whole body hurts to, he felt tired just sitting and he just want to lay down and sleep again, but he can't do that, not now that his cousin keep on pestering him about what happen at his office yesterday. As if something really happened.
"You do?" Daehyun frowned at her cousin, pouting her lips in the process. "But, Luhan unnie told me that Mrs. Do came to the company yesterday and visit you at your office to have a private talk and she also said that when Mrs. Do came out of your office she looks really furious slamming the door behind her and then go without saying anything nor looking at her. You and I know that it means her talk with you is not a pleasant one that she came out mad."
Baekhyun let out a heavy breath after he saw her cousin giving him a concerned look.
"I'm fine really and yes, our talk is not pleasant at all but you know I need it. What she told me yesterday is what I needed the most after my episode last week, you knew it's the only way that help me out to go back on my feet again."
"And I don't understand your reason at all, Baekhyun," she says, "I don't know why you're letting her do all of this to you every time she has the time or every time she feel like bending her frustration and anger at you. Baek, your reason of her giving you hope is pointless. How is she giving you hope when all she do is yell at your face that what happened to her daughter is all your fault. Where is the hope in there?"
Baekhyun look down at the half eaten breakfast infront of him, she has a point, she's right he know it but still, even if he explain it to her she won't understand it, she will only feel more disappointed to what he will tell her and then agrue again that its not right and it's pointless, she just won't understand it whatever he do to explain it, so why tell her, smiling sadly he started playing at his food.
"You don't understand, Daehyun,"
"Then tell me, make me understand why, Baekhyun,"
"No, you won't understand.."
"I will if you would tell me."
She keep insisting for the latter to tell her but Baekhyun shakes his head in disapproval.
"It's complicated."
"Seriously Baekhyun," she groaned, "if your just keeping up with her antics because she is your fiancé mother then just tell me. You don't have to do anything and I will be the one who will ban her for coming back inside of the company and even coming near you."
"What? No!"
"Then tell me why! Why should'nt I?!"
Daehyun's voice is suddenly louder, angrier, and Baekhyun flinches.
"I can't keep quiet anymore about this matter, Baekhyun. It's been seven years since she keep doing this and I'm tired from keep lying to your parents that your alright and everything is fine. I want to understand and help you Baek, so please, please, tell me why.."
Baekhyun heaves out a slow deep breath, closes his eyes. The tears that had gathered there slide down his cheeks, but he isn't crying, not just yet.
"I'm sorry.."
"I'm just so worried about you Baek. What happened a week ago, I don't want that to happened again just because of what Kyungsoo's mother tell you. I'm scared and I feel like we will loss you too if this keep happening."
Daehyun whispered sadly and sofly, casting a worried gaze at the latter.
"I know." Baekhyun bites down his lip. "I just feel reassure whenever she comes by, even if it just to yell at me and slap me in the face with her hateful words."
Daehyun open his mouth to speak but she stop when she saw her cousin hands are shaking to where he hide it immediately under the counter and away from her sight.
"I know it's wrong to feel relief very time I saw her coming inside of my office, but that is what I feel everytime she comes by. I feel alive again after she walk out and leave me with my thoughts and her hateful words, I feel happy even after she remind me of what happen and blaming me of the tragedy seven years ago."
He know he sound like crazy telling his cousin what he feels after his talk with his fiancé mother, but he don't care, his cousin want to know and she want to understand and help. She is right, he need to talk to someone and let them help him for once. If he want to be worthy to his fiancé again when she comes back, Baekhyun need to be strong and by doing that he need to build himself again, he need to bring his faith and be positive again, he need to bring back the Byun Baekhyun his fiancé fall in love with.
But to do that he need to fix himself first, he need to heal, he need to stop blaming himself and beating to it. He need to be strong and be back on his feet and so when Kyungsoo comes back, she would be proud of him by waiting and having faith for her that she will come back. She will be proud because he stay strong and not just for himself but for the both of them.
And so with that resolve in mind, Baekhyun looks up to stare at his cousin and smile a little and open up to her even for a little.
"She gives me the hope that slowly slipping away from me when I get so overwhelmed by Kyungsoo's memories and my mistake. She bring up my faith when I was about to give up on it and let go. She's the one who reminding me of everything and telling me to not forget. She was helping me and bringing me up on my feet when I was about to fall and never wanting to go back up again. She's the reason why I'm still here standing and the reason why I'm not broken yet. She's the reason why I still have faith and hope that one day Kyungsoo will come back for us."
Baekhyun blink away the tears that threatening to roll down his cheeks.
"There's a reason why she keep coming back even if it's already seven years, she's making time just to check up on me and when she know that I'm about to give up, she's the one who always coming by to help me and rescue me, to bring me back up again. Kyungsoo's mom, she's doing so much for me that it hurt sometimes, even after knowing and learning that the reason her daughter died is because of my stupidly, she still coming back to make sure that I'm alright and fixing me when I'm cracking and about to broke down. She's mad at me thats true and even knowing that she still take care of me and all the hurtful words she keep yelling at me is to keep me steady on my feet again and to remind me not to loss faith for her daughter, like how they still holding into that same faith. To hold on still at the hope that one day, Kyungsoo will come back and kiss our sadness away. That's the soul reason why I still letting her come by, because she's the one giving me hope and faith when I was about to loss it."
"Baekhyunnie..." Daehyun trails off voice is soft. She can feel the tears pricking at his eyes, she then walk around and take the seat next to her cousin and grasps Baekhyun's shirt. "I'm so sorry and thank you for opening up to me."
"And thank you for looking after me, Daehyun."
And Yongguk finds them like that, holding each other, crying. Without another word he leave the two alone to comfort each other.
To be continue...
Chapter 6: 6.
Chapter Text
After tucking the twins into bed, Chanyeol walks back at his and Kyungsoo's room to help his wife to pack. Like his father told them, everything is already prepair and so is their ticket for tomorrow morning flight. Chanyeol still can't believe that his going back to Seoul with his family and it will be sooner than he wish it to be.
Chanyeol's still worried about meeting the person his been avoiding since the accident, but he also remember that one of his friend back at Seoul told him back then that the person he keep avoiding is not at Korea anymore.
So, after reassuring himself that he won't met that person anymore, his worries lessen a little and with a little fear still inside of him, Chanyeol push every possibility aside that they met that person again.
When he walks back inside of his room with his wife, he walks straight to where his wife is, who is still busy packing their cloths, and help her.
"Are they asleep?"
Kyungsoo ask without looking up at her husband, folding a shirt and putting it inside of the bag infront of her.
"Yup, they sleeping like a baby."
Chanyeol grins when his wife giggles a little at what he said.
"I know you don't want to go back to Korea for some reason and I also know that this is a hard decision for you to make Yeol." Kyungsoo looks up from what she's doing to stare at her husband, "And I want you to know that whatever decision you make, I'll be here with you no matter what."
"I-I..."
Chanyeol stammer when he heard his wife's words. He didn't know that Kyungsoo know that his overthinking his decision to go back to Korea, he didn't even know that Kyungsoo would know about it because his being extra carefull about it so his wife won't know and worry, but here she is. She know about it without him telling even if his carefull enough to hide it, she knew him to well indeed.
Kyungsoo broke the silent that surround them after she saw her husband void expression.
"You don't have to tell me the reason why you don't want to go back, Chanyeol, and you don't have to explain why you keep hiding it from me. I understand your decision and I won't push you to tell me anything, I just want you to know that I trust you whatever happen."
Chanyeol open his mouth to speak but there's nothing coming out from his mind to tell the younger and so he shut his lips tight and look down without saying anything back. He start folding cloths again while avoiding looking at his wife. Kyungsoo didn't said anything and just let the silent surround them again, they work in silent this time making sure to pack everything they need and double checking everything.
After hours of packing and securing everything, the couple changed into there sleeping wear and lay down at bed getting ready to sleep.
"Good night, Yeol."
Kyungsoo whisper and without waiting for her husband reply she close her eyes and let her exhaustion lull her to sleep.
Chanyeol wait for a while until he heard Kyungsoo's breathing steady into soft breath indicating that she's already asleep. Chanyeol slowly move to face her wife, he stare at her for a moment before he softly caress her cheek.
"Sometimes the truth hurts more than lies," smiling sadly he whisper in silent before he leans down and kiss her forehead. "Good night Soo."
~~*~~
"Mommy, are we at Korea now?"
Minsoo asks while jumping around in excitement.
"Yes we are princess."
Chanyeol says with a laughs before Kyungsoo can even open her mouth to asnwer her daughter.
"Yay!"
Minsoo yell happily, grinning at her parents. Kyungsoo smile at her daughter while patting her head.
"Your excited to see the place sweetie?"
"Yes mommy! And I'm excited to meet new friends~" Minsoo beamed at her mother brightly.
"That's great sweetie, make many friends as you like okay?"
"I will!"
Kyungsoo laughs, "But remember to talk to them in Korea and not Japanese, yes?"
Minsoo nods her head understanding what her mother told her.
"Good girl~"
"Choosing a school that teaching Korean language pay off now eh?" Chanyeol whisper at her wife while laughing quietly when the younger nods. "Now it will help the kids to adjust more here because they won't feel left out, no language barrier."
"Your right, we don't have to worry about the kids struggling to adjust."
They just arrive at Incheon airport and now they currenly waiting for their baggage to be release so they can go and met Chanyeol's cousin who's now waiting for them outside. After picking and checking that all there things are complete, they walk to go outside. Chanyeol is pushing the cart with there belongings while Kyungsoo's holding the sleeping Minhyun close to her with her left arm while holding Minsoo's hand in her right.
Once outside, Chanyeol looks for his cousin for a while and because of his gifted height he saw him immediately leaning at the side of his car with a bored expression in his face. Chanyeol grins before he told his wife to follow him before they walk closer to where he see his cousin. Not long, his cousin who is leaning at his car while looking around lazily at the passing people coming in and out of the airport, see them coming to where he is and so he leans away from the car and walks to them to help.
"Did you wait that long hyung?" Chanyeol grins again when his cousin rolled his eyes playfully.
"I didn't, just got here." his cousin says before he turns to greet Kyungsoo. "Welcome to Seoul, I'm Kwon Jiyong, Chanyeol's cousin. It's pleasure to meet you finally."
"Thanks, I'm Kyungsoo and this is Minhyun and Minsoo," Kyungsoo gesture to the still sleeping boy in her arms and the girl at her side, then she look down at her daughter and smile softly. "sweetie go on and greet your uncle Jiyong."
The little girl do what her mother told her and she step forward to great her uncle politely with a bow like how her mom teach her.
"Hello uncle, I'm Park Minsoo."
"Hi, so, Minsoo, are you excited to go and see your new house?"
Jiyong chuckled when the little girl face brighten up and beam 'yes' at him and excitedly bouncing a little at her little feet.
"Alright, then lets move to uncle's car so we can drive little Minsoo to her new house."
Minsoo grins brightly up at Jiyong before she take his uncle waiting hand and then they walk to where the car is parked, while Chanyeol and Kyungsoo walks closely behind them. Jiyong open the door at the back telling the little girl to get in and sit before he fix her seat belt around her little body and then after securing the girl at her seat, Jiyong leans out and told Kyungsoo to get in too and he close the door after Kyungsoo, making sure that she settled in comfortably with Minhyun still in her arms.
Jiyong then go to open the compartment and help his cousin loading all their belongings inside. When there done, the two cousin walks around to get in the car and now they driving away from the airport and into the road.
After 2 hours of driving, they reach there destination and now there infront of the big house with a big wide garden. They all get out of the car and the two cousin get their luggage out of the compartment while Kyungsoo and the kids wait infront of the door because the keys still at Chanyeol. After taking out all their belongings, Chanyeol unlock the door and let his wife and kids in first before he pick up and move their baggage inside of the house with the help of his cousin.
Jiyong bid goodbye to the couple with the promise of visiting them tomorrow with his own family after making sure that they settled in comfortably. Chanyeol thanked his cousin for helping and picking them up before it drive away to leave them alone to settle in.
Kyungsoo leave the over excited girl with her father before she walks upstair to the second floor to check the rooms and to lay down the still sleeping boy in her arms. After securing the kid in bed, Kyungsoo kiss its forehead before she walk downstair to see and check the whole place. The setting of the whole house is just like there house back home, but the only different is that its more bigger and more beautiful than back at Japan. The garden at front is really beautiful and wide with various of colorful flowers and big trees and there is a big fountain in the middle too.
The house is really big with second floor where the rooms are located and there is a total of eight rooms and every room has its own bathroom in it. And downstair, the living room is big to with big tv and a line up of movies just below it and there is a big windows line up at the other sides with big heavy navy blue silk curtain hanging on it blocking the sun rays outside. And just infront of the tv is the coffee table and the big u-shaped navy blue couch with royal blue fillows on it, theres a soft big navy blue carpet just under the couch and theres a chandelier hanging just above.
And the kitchen is like the rest of the house, big and beautiful. The counters are made in marbles and the top is colered in navy blue while the rest is colored in gold, and the appliances is complete and perfect, the fridge is so big, bigger than the one at there previous house. Everything Kyungsoo may need is already in there except the ingredients she will need to cook, she need to asks Chanyeol to go and buy some.
After checking and appreciating the kitchen, Kyungsoo walks to the back door of the house to where she heard some giggles and laugter coming from, to ask her husband if they can go to the store to buy some foods to cook. Outside, Kyungsoo saw Chanyeol sitting at the couch in the side of the pool while her daughter is at the pool swimming happily while trying to get her dad wet by splashing water at his dad's direction but failed making his dad laugh more when she pouts. Kyungsoo walks closer at the two, smiling when Chanyeol looks up and grins at her.
"Hey babe, do you like the house?"
"Yes."
Kyungsoo says when she joins them, sitting beside Chanyeol, she leans her head at her husband shoulder still watching her daughter play on her own at the pool.
"Can we go to the supermarket to buy some things and food, Yeol?"
"Now?"
Chanyeol asks peering down at his wife.
"No, Minhyun's still asleep and we need to wait for him to wake up on his own before we can go." Kyungsoo pouts, looking up at Chanyeol. "You know him, if we woke him up he will surely won't talk to one of us for the rest of the day."
Chanyeol laughs, he know what she's talking about, it happened so many times already and the result is always the same. The kid get so grumpy after being woken up without his consent and it won't talk to the one who wake him up for a day or two. So they learn to just let the boy sleep longer than he wants. But at school days the kid learn to wake up on its own or some times when Kyungsoo need to wake him up his not that grumpy any more knowing that he needs to prepair before going to school. And thats why when its weekends, they let the kid sleep longer until he woke up on his own, well rested.
"Ok babe, let's go later when he woke up. So for now let's just order something, I'm hungry and I know that energetic girl is hungry too~" Chanyeol laughs more when the girl at the pool cheers at him. "What do you want to eat princess?"
"Chicken!" Minsoo yelled excitedly.
"Chicken it is then!" Chanyeol says with a grin.
"Stop spoiling her so much." Kyungsoo rolled her eyes at his husband, but laughs at the end when the latter pouts at her in return.
~~*~~
The next day, like promised, Jiyong and his family come over to visit and to meet the Park family. Chanyeol didn't expect them to come so early in the morning thought.
"Hi Chanyeol oppa, good morning! I hope we're not bothering you this early in the morning," Jieun says when they arrive, but Chanyeol shakes his head.
"Not at all," he says. "Kyungsoo's just making breakfast and you just got in time to taste it and you guys are more than welcome to stay for lunch later if you want."
"We will surely stay not just until lunch but dinner too." Jiyong says with a nod and Jieun glare at her husband before she smile to apologise for his husband.
"I'm sorry oppa, you know Jiyong, he don't have manners to begin with."
Chanyeol laugh at it.
"I know, so no worries and beside we would be happy to have you guys until dinner."
"Thank you oppa." Jieun smile.
"Welcome." he smile before he step aside and away from the door, "Come on in."
Kyungsoo walks out into the living room at the same time the visitor get in, she just finished making breakfast and was about to go upstair and wake up the twins when she saw the visitor walks in. Chanyeol saw her first and he walk closer at his suprised wife side, smiling before he introduce her to the visitor.
"Jieun this is my wife, Kyungsoo. Babe she's Jiyong hyung's wife and their kids." Chanyeol gesture to the beautiful woman and to the kids in her arms and Jiyong's.
"Hi, I'm Kwon Jieun and this is my son, Yoongi," she moves her son in her arms a little to Kyungsoo's direction so she can see the kid sleeping face a little and then she gesture to the kid in his husband arms. "and that's Hwitaek, it's nice to meet you Kyungsoo."
"Oh, it's my pleasure to meet you," Kyungsoo smile at the visitor. "um, excuse me, I should go and wake the twins up so you can meet them too."
"Oh no, no, I mean if there still asleep it's alright. Let them sleep for a while longer," Jieun says smiling at Kyungsoo. "Beside my kids still asleep as well so~"
"Yea. Let the kids be for now Soo," Chanyeol laugh, dropping his hands around Kyungsoo's waist and squeezing. "Come let's go and take a seat and talk."
Jieun laugh while dragging her husband who rolled his eyes after hearing his cousin said talk, she know how her husband hate it because she know to that Chanyeol intended to talk more and more.
"Let's~"
It's already past 9 in the morning when the twins walks down from the second floor to join them on the living room, the twins just woke up and when they saw Kyungsoo they walks straight to their mother and curl up to her side like a kitten. Still half asleep they didn't see the couple and the two kids staring at them curiously.
The kid in Jiyong laps looks up at his mother and asks shyly, "Who are they mom?"
"They are your cousins, Hwitaek baby." Jieun smile sweetly at her son. "Go on and introduce yourself to them."
Hwitaek nod at her mother obediently before he hop down from his father's lap and walks closer to where the twins are, peering up at Kyungsoo, who smiles at him. Kyungsoo poke Minsoo's cheeks lightly to wake her up and coos at the yawning girl.
"Minnie~ wake up and meet your cousins,"
Minsoo pouts at her sleep while mumbling something she don't understand, Kyungsoo laugh at it before she try again.
"Minnie, wakey wakey, your cousin wants to play with you."
The girl yawned again and then she blinked her eyes at her mother before she looks at the boy infront of them, who smile brightly after he saw the girl woke up and looks at him, he wave happily while greeting her.
"Hi, I'm Kwon Hwitaek and that is my older brother Kwon Yoongi~" he then point at his brother who is now curled at his father's side after he hop out to greet his cousin.
Minsoo brighten up and smile back at Hwitaek, excited to see another kid in the house.
"Hello, I'm Park Minsoo and this is my brother Minhyun, and we're twins~" she beamed after introducing herself and her brother.
"Let's go play Minsoo!"
"Yes!"
Minsoo jump down of the couch and then Hwitaek hold her hand into his and the two of them disappear at the end of the hallway and into the playroom down the hall, to the room Chanyeol and Kyungsoo just install yesterday for the twins.
"Well, that was quick." Jiyong stare for a while at the hallway to where the cousins disappear before he looks down at his older son at his side taking a nap again, "I just wish this other one is like him too."
Jieun giggle when she hear her husband remark.
"Don't be surprise anymore, he got it from you anyway."
"Yah!"
Jiyong look at his wife in disbelief, Jieun laugh at her husband reaction more.
"It's true though."
"Don't worry hyung, your not alone," Chanyeol laugh and take a sit beside his wife again after checking Minsoo and Hwitaek at the playroom. "Myunie here is the same, but you are severe than them in combine."
Kyungsoo and Jieun laugh too when Jiyong groaned while glaring at his cousin.
To be continue...
Chapter 7: 7.
Chapter Text
After there heartfelt talk, the two cousin talk more freely and they feel more closer than they ever be after the accident happen. It's already afternoon and they just done eating lunch, and now they are currently relaxing at the pool area enjoying the day while the two kids, Taehyun and Jeno, at the pool playing with their father under the soft array of the afternoon sun.
It is a peaceful afternoon with the backround sound of the kids giggles at the water with their dad, Baekhyun's currently laying down at the lounge chair just at the side of the pool with Daehyun doing the same thing at the other chair. Baekhyun was about to fall asleep from the soft lull of the whole place and the distance giggles of the kids when Daehyun poke his side to get his attention.
Baekhyun crack one eye to look at his cousin and smile when Daehyun pouts at him.
"Yes?"
"You know that my family and I are going for a vacation right?"
Baekhyun nods, "Yes. Busan right?"
"Yup," Daehyun says, playing with her fingers in her lap nervously. "I'm just wondering if you want to go with us? Have a vacation with us..."
"What?" Baekhyun's eyes widen. "I don't know Dae, I mean if I go, who would take care of the company when the both of us is gone."
"That's what our secretary's are for." Daehyun roll her eyes and chuckles, "Beside, I know Luhan unnie would be happy to hear you having a vacation. She can handle the ElyXiOn while we're gone, don't worry about it to much Baekhyun."
"I'm still not sure about it..." Baekhyun says, thinking. "I'll think about it."
"Oh, come on~" Daehyun whined loudly catching Yongguk attention, she grinned at her husband before she looks back at her cousin again. "Just come with us and stop thinking, and beside it will be tomorrow."
"Tomorrow already?"
Daehyun nods.
"Yes, now stop thinking and just come please? And the kids will be happy if you come with us, same as to mom and dad."
"Yeah right, you just want me to so I can babysit your childen and you can go lovey dovey with your husband." Baekhyun roll his eyes but laugh after his cousin scoff at him and pouts more. "Well, I don't know... I miss untie and uncle, and Busan, and the beach..."
"So it's final! No more thinking, your coming with us~" she grins, then she turns to yell at her kids. "Boys, uncle Baek will come with us to Busan~"
The kids cheers loudly after hearing the good news from their mother, blabbering to their father excitedly about there change of plans when they got there while Yongguk groan and nods to every words the kids keep suggesting nonstop. Daehyun and Baekhyun laugh at the older misery.
~~*~~
The next day, Baekhyun pack the things he will need for the whole week vacation at Busan. He busy himself at packing the whole morning and when afternoon comes he ride the car and asked his driver to drive him to the airport. When he got into the airport and message his cousin that he arrive, his cousin called him and told him they were at the waiting lounge and he should go there to because they only have 30 minutes before the flight take off.
After hanging up, Baekhyun pocket his phone and hurry inside to where his cousin and her family. Not long he spot them immediately at the almost crowded lounge, Baekhyun greeted the family and then they chat for a while and not long after that they boarded the plane.
~~*~~
It's already evening when Baekhyun woke up from his nap, they were at Busan now. They arrive not long ago and when they got into his cousin family house, his uncle and untie welcome them in and told them where there room will be and asked them to settle in first and rest if they want so they can talk and enjoy later.
When Baekhyun find his room he settle in immeadiately, he pulls out his cloths out of his baggage and bring them inside of the closet before he settle in to the bed and decided to take a nap after checking in from Luhan about some update about the company and to ask if everythings okay. After reasuring him, he put his phone at the nightstand and lay down into bed to take a nap.
And now here he is sitting, beside him is his cousin while his uncle sitting opposite him, they currently eating dinner while chating along and laughing. The kids was really excited because the they keep on blabbering at their grandparents about anything and everything. The dinner is fun and comforting, its the first time Baekhyun eat this comfortable and happy again after seven years. His grateful from his cousin for keep pushing him to come and his glad he accept it because now, after seven years he can finally said that he can breath and he could finally relax even if it just for a while.
His alright with this, just for a while, just now. He want to stop over thinking and enjoy his vacation after everything that happened to him, for now he will forget that his broken and lonely, just for this whole week. He will try to enjoy and fix himself and so when he come back to the reality he will be ready for it.
He will use this vacation to heal himself and be strong not just for him or his family and friends, he will do it for Kyungsoo. He know his fiancé won't be happy to know that his being pathetic and blaming himself over and over again because of his stupid mistake. He know Kyungsoo would be mad at him if she heard about it and he don't want her to be mad at him and so he have to fix himself and heal his broken self so he can stand on his own again.
With that in mind, Baekhyun close his eyes that night and drifted to sleep with a small smile on his lips. He will enjoy his stay here at Busan and heal.
For Kyungsoo.
To be continue...
Chapter 8: 8.
Chapter Text
It's been a week since they come to korea and in that whole week the twins and Kyungsoo settle down nicely at their new house and surrounding. The family get used to the new place quickly that she thought it won't be. Kyungsoo thought that the twins would throw a tantrum the whole week before they settle down and get used to the new surrounding but she was wrong, because after meeting the Kwon family and their childs everything settle down nicely and the twins stopped sulking and throwing tantrum everytime they missed there house and friends back at Japan.
She's happy that now everything go back to normal like they didn't just go to the other country to settle down for six months. Kyungsoo know that its because of the Kwon kids that her own childs stop pestering her every minutes they feel lonely, because now they have someone to play with and talk to, it's not like there parents is not doing that already, but the twins want someone to play with at the same age like them. And they were so happy to have there cousins to play with.
Like today, its sunday in the afternoon when they visited the Kwon family house again. The twins whined, well more like Minsoo because Minhyun just nods at every whined his sister throwing at their mother, that they want to go and see the Kwon brother again. That's why here they are again at Chanyeol cousin's house.
They we're currently at the garden of the Kwon house and Kyungsoo was watching after the four kids that were playing at the other side of the garden to where the small playground is set. Minsoo and Hwitaek are playing at the slide, Minsoo currently at the top of the slide readying to slide down, while Hwitaek at the other end of the slide waiting to caught his cousin and they both giggling, happy to play together. Minsoo and Hwitaek, after meeting the first time clicked together and they were inseparable now like a bestfriend or brother and sister.
While Minsoo and Hwitaek are playing at the slide energetic as ever, Minhyun and Yoongi is the opposite. The two cousins currently sitting under the tree not far away from where Kyungsoo is sitting at the round table inside of the garden. Minhyun is holding a book reading quietly while Yoongi is holding a pen writting something down at the paper in his lap, the two cousin's sitting side by side while leaning at the tree.
It is a comfortable quiet afternoon for them, its so relaxing and fresh. Kyungsoo's reading a book while watching over the kids at the same time, its only Kyungsoo and the four kids at the house at the moment. She's looking after the two kids with her own kids while the parents of the two was away, the father of the two kids, Jiyong, is with Chanyeol helping his cousin to its company, while Jieun, the mother of the kids, is at her work. Jieun is with them just 30 minutes ago but there is a sudden call to her and said that she needed to go to work for something important. She leave in a hurry while apologizing at Kyungsoo for leaving her kids all of the sudden, Kyungsoo brushed her worries with a smile and tell her that its okay and that see will look after the kids for her before Jieun run to her car and drive to her work after thanking her.
It's really a calming slow day for them all. Kyungsoo need this calming day, because starting tomorrow, its her childs first day of school and the stress will come with it. It is the twins first time to go to school and both of them is excited, Minsoo is being vocal about his excitement while Minhyun's grinning at his new school uniforms when he saw it. Kyungsoo was so thankful that Chanyeol's father arranged everything before they come, she's thankful because she don't have to think about the twins skipping school for the year, because of them being late to enroll. She still can't believe that Mr. Park manage to enroll the twins even it for the late notice, well the school started one month ago now and the twins is a late transfer from Japan.
But even if there a late transfer she hope that the twins can pull it of and make friends and catch up with the class without any problem. She's not worried about the kids academic because she know the twins is smart enough to catch up with every thing, and beside the twins learn some korean back at japan anyway because of Chanyeol mother keep insisting for the twins to learn it. What she's worried more is them making friends, well not really because Minsoo is a energetic and friendly girl, she's more worried for her son, Minhyun is quiet and a down to earth kid, his the total opposite of his twin and it is what worried her more.
Minhyun won't talk not unless his being talk to, while Minsoo would talk nonstop even if its for the silly things. Minhyun would prepare to just sit down to the corner to read some books or draw, while Minsoo prepare to bounce around and play energetically with everyone. Minhyun won't make small talk or make friends on his own accord not unless its the other way around, while Minsoo would talk to everyone in sight and make friends with everyone.
And it is a good news to her after Jieun told her earlier that her own kids attending the same school the twins will be going too. It is a relief to her, knowing that there someone that will be with them. And now all the worries in Kyungsoo disappear after watching her kids playing and being comfortable with each other, even Minhyun. He looks happy just sitting there with his cousin and they look close enough to convince her that she don't have to worry about Minhyun because he have his twin and now his two cousin, Yoongi and Hwitaek.
It comfort her and brush away her worries with a smile, watching the four kids before she go back to reading her book with a sigh and a calming mind.
~~*~~
At the other part of the world, specifically in london, there is a young looking man staring out of the window of the big tall building named DKS. His mind is away thinking deeply while his eyes is unfocused from where his looking down at the busy street of london.
A pitch-black haired walk inside of the office already looking at the distracted man infront of the window. He headed in the man's direction without a second though and he stand still beside the man and look down like what the older are doing. The whole room fall silent for a bit before the man broke it after he noticed the latter besided him. He watched the latter look down at the street , his pitch-black hair falling over his eyes as he watch the busy people walking in a hurry.
"Boyoung, she run away again to go to korea." the two of them let out a tired sigh at the same time, "Sometimes, I don't know what to do to her anymore. Do you think I should just tie her to me so she won't run away again?"
"Let me see you that old man." the pitch-black haired chuckled when the other man scoffed. "Even if you handcuff her to you, she still have a way to get it off and do what she wants, you know her, she have her ways.."
"That's tempting," he nudged the other in the shoulder. "I mean the handcuff thing."
Both of them laugh after that, nodding at the image they see in their minds. "Yeah, that would be fun to see."
"Tempting but scary, she would surely kill us before we can even handcuff her."
"True, we will die on the spot when she see the handcuff because she know what we're planning."
"So true."
"And that's high coming from you Mr. Do Hyungsik," he smirked at the man with a shrug, "there is a big fat possibility that it would happened, because you agree to it. Your her husband and you agree with me that she would do it."
"Well, it's true anyway and everyone know that," the man scoffed, "and beside you know she will do that to, I don't need to confirm it for you to agree with me. She's your mother so you know it too."
"And she's more than I can bear."
They sighed, looking down at the street again before they enwrap into a fit of laughter. They stay like that for a while, basking into comfortable silent untill the pitch-black haired turn to look at his father, turning serious and concern at the same time.
"Do you think mom will come to visit that Byun again?"
"Probably." the man sighs, "That's the reason why she keep coming back there anyway.."
"Right." he agreed quietly. "So, are you going after her?"
"Yeah, thinking about checking the hospital and the school while I'm there."
"Aren't Myungsoo hyung there to manage the EXO'rdium?" he says, eyebrows shot up as his eyes flicked towards the window for a second before pinning back on his father again. "Isn't he?"
"He is, but there's no one doing the monitoring at the moment at EXplOration Hospital.."
"What do you mean dad? I though uncle Soohyun offer to look after the EXplOration?" he asked, somewhat confused.
"Again he is, but Soohyun hyung have his own company to take care of too and his currenly at Japan right now. So, no one is there to take care of the hospital, well Myungsoo is but his busy at EXO'rdium now that the school started a month ago." his father shrug at him, hands in his pockets. A little frown was pulling his lips back. "This is a great opportunity for me to check the EXplOration and EXO'rdium at the same time, I can go visit your friends, I miss there kids anyway."
"Yeah right, drag mom with you so she won't give you a hard time while you go check up the hospital and school."
"Planning to do that," his father look up from the window again to look at him with one raised eyebrow. "Your not coming?"
"Nah, I still have so many things to do and my schedule's still packed with meetings and all.."
His father can't do anything but sighed, "Figured."
"Sorry dad."
"It's alright, I understand. Beside this company of yours is so famous already, so I'm not really suprised to know that your busy and your schedule is so full." his father laugh, arms crossed infront of his chest. "No worries son, I'm happy that DKS entertainment is so famous because of your doing. I know your sister will be so proud of you too."
"I hope so.." he look away from his father and back at the street below them with a sad smile.
"She will."
"I dedicate this company to her anyway, this is for her.." he mumbled under his breath, earning himself a pat from his father.
To be continue...
Chapter 9: 9.
Chapter Text
After his one week of vacation with his cousin family at busan, Baekhyun is now back at being the CEO of the big company in korea. Baekhyun know that being the owner of the big company is hard, he know it but he still accept it after his father give it to him. Baekhyun do everything he could to bring the company's name up into the entertainment world and the result is great. Now ElyXiOn is know to the whole world to be the strongest and more successful entertainment company.
There is so many great and famous artist under the ElyXion and what make if more famous is that the owner of the company is one of the famous singer with it angelic like voice. Baekhyun is not only the owner and CEO of the ElyXion, his also one of the famous singer under it. It's started when he got the position of being the CEO of the company, Baekhyun mother told him to try to record a song at the studio and upload it to see if it will get popular.
At first, Baekhyun refused his mother request but her mother is keep persisting to him to do it, he only agree when his father groaned at him and force him to do it after his mother turn to pester his father to ask him to do it. And so Baekhyun record his first song and it came out just an hour after he record it, and the result of that is big. The song is a hit after an hour it got uploaded.
When Baekhyun got home that day, his fiancé shower him with kisses and a sweet I love you's after. He can't forget that day, because that is the day he sing the song he write for his fiancé and he don't only sing it to her, he sing it to the whole world to hear how much he loves his fiancé. The moment he sing it and post the song, Baekhyun know he just confessed to the world how much his inlove with her fiancé and how much he can't leave without her.
After that fateful day, Baekhyun was labeled under one of the ElyXiOn artist.
And so, his not only busy from the company but his also busy being a singer. Baekhyun's currently reviewing the upcoming project that line up for the month and will start this coming week, and he also have a line up of important meeting coming up that same week. And he also win a shot to meet the famous model and dancer from LA named Kim Jongin.
His meeting with Kim Jongin is the top priority on his list of meeting for the week. He will meet Kim Jongin tomorrow in the everyning as per request of the model himself, apparently the model have a photoshoot at morning until late at evening and the model plan to meet him straight after the photoshoot.
Kim Jongin is a famous young freelances model and dancer, and Baekhyun's job is to ask him to join his company and make him sign to be under his entertainment. If he success and the latter agree then he will be more busier than he is now. If Kim Jongin sign a contract at ElyXiOn then he have to plan an upcoming new solo idol immediately for him, and then same as to the other group and soloish that has an upcoming comeback.
There so much to do that he almost regret going on vacation for one week, but he know that all the files infront of him is lesser than the work he supposed to do. Because he know for a fact that his secretary do a good job by covering almost half of his work. His cousin is right, Luhan know what she's doing and even if he go for a whole two weeks vacation he wont feel that his gone for two weeks after he comes back at his office because Luhan would take care of it for him.
Luhan been working as his secretary since he got the position of being the CEO of the company, he meet Luhan from his close friend Sehun. Who is Luhan's husband at that time, while Sehun is one of the trainee and upcoming soloist that time. And now, Sehun is one of the famous solo artist of the ElyXiOn.
With a thankful sighs, Baekhyun continue his work reminding himself to treat Luhan later for covering his job while his gone.
~~*~~
The next day, Baekhyun busy himself to work by reading and signing some of the document needed to be signed. He forced himself to finish all the files infront of him the whole morning and afternoon until he needs to go for his evening meeting for the day.
Baekhyun just arrive at the coffee shop his supposed to meet the model. His currently seated at the more private area of the coffee shop with coffee he order infront of him, he looks down at his phone and checking for the email he still didn't read just yet and replying at some he manage to do before someone take a the seat opposite him.
He look up to see a young guy, tousled brown hair and a chiselled jaw, pretty almond shaped eyes blinking toward him when he look up, plump lips parted. His skin was tanned, a beautiful colour that was shining under the lights in the coffee shop.
He was wearing a black sweater, and black fitted jeans. He also had a great body, lean and strong complimenting his gorgeous face. The guy look just like he came out of the damn magazine.
"Hi, sorry if I'm late, been hold up at the photoshoot a little bit longer." the model says, "I'm Kim Jongin by the way,"
"Don't worry about it, I just got here myself," Baekhyun nodded, "Byun Baekhyun, CEO of ElyXiOn Ent. Nice to meet you Mr. Kim."
"Yes, nice to meet you too Mr. Byun."
After they introduce each other, Jongin excuse himself for a while to order his own coffee and when he came back the two get down to business immediately, they talk about what would happened if Jongin sign a contract at the company, Baekhyun explain to the younger what they already plan to do if ever he want to join them. After being informed that he will be a soloist idol, Jongin asked all short of question to the CEO and all the pros and cons then after considering everything, they jumped into the agreement and all the thing that allowed and not.
Jongin keep quiet for a while after there talk, his thinking deeply and absorbing all the information he got from the CEO. His weighting all the info inside of his mind and thinking if he should accept it or not. After what feels like hours but its only minutes, Jongin looks up at the older again and told him what he decided.
"Alright, I will sign up for your company Mr. Byun."
"That's great," Baekhyun smile at the younger before he pull out the document he bring with him out of his bag. "Here, read this carefully and take your time before you sign it, and here is your copy."
Jongin pulled the files Baekhyun put infront of him closer. "Okay, thanks."
His eyes were scanning every words inside of every page carefully and he do take his time to read it like what the older told him. While Baekhyun seated opposite him sipping at his coffee while watching him and waiting. After a whole 30 minutes, Jongin finally sign the paper and then he give the files back at Baekhyun who recieve it with a smile.
"Thank you and welcome to ElyXiOn," Baekhyun shake the younger hands after he packed the files back inside of his bag. "Please do report at the company tomorrow afternoon so we can brief you with everything and so you can meet your trainer and the one who will be your manager."
"Alright, I'll keep that in mind. Thank you again Mr. Byun."
They talk for a bit before the two of them decided to go back home and rest. With all of the work he done for the day and late meeting, Baekhyun exhaustion got to him and when he got home and take a quick shower, after he got dressed and his whole body lay down to the bed. He drifted to sleep immediately without overthinking like what he always do when his inside of his room.
To be continue...
Chapter 10: 10.
Chapter Text
Today is the twins first day of school at EXO'rdium, and the twins are very excited to go and see their new school. Kyungsoo was currently standing infront of the school gate watching and waving at her kids walking inside with their supposed to be home room teacher.
When she don't see them anymore, Kyungsoo turn to walk away from the school but before she can even take a few step away. She hear someone called her name, and so she stop and look to the direction she hear it. And there behind her, Kyungsoo see a young man with brown messy hair and chiselled jaw and plump lips, his waving at the two kid who run inside of the school laughing. And then after seeing the two kids of, the young man looks back at her, and Kyungsoo can see the suprised and excitement at the man's face after seeing her.
Kyungsoo wonder if the young man know her, because she surely don't know him. He call her name so she think he know her somehow, Kyungsoo's not sure about it though. So, she wait to what the young man will do. Kyungsoo is curious how did he know her name, that's why she wait.
The young man smile at her excitedly and then he walk closer to her, and he greet her like he know her since forever.
"Kyungsoo noona, it's been so long since we last see each other, how are you?"
Kyungsoo blink her eyes, not knowing what to do or says. The young man acknowledge her like they we're close friends, and the way he called her seemed familiar to her but she can't remember where did she heard it. She can't even remember meeting the young man and remember where she heard it seem impossible too. Consciously and carefully, Kyungsoo asks the young man what has been bothering her since he show up and talk to her so casually.
"Do I know you?"
The young man stare at her for a moment searching for something in her face, like if she's joking and messing with him. But the young man didn't see anything, the only thing he see is the confuse and worried expression that lingering at her face. With a confused frown, the young man gesture to himself while introducing hoping the young woman infront of him will remember.
"It's me, Kim Jongin, noona. Do you remember?"
Kyungsoo blink again, she's confused and don't know the young man. She don't even remember someone with the name Kim Jongin, and she is clueless who really the young man infront of her and so Kyungsoo shake her head to disagree.
"No, I'm sorry, but I don't remember who you are."
"Wh-what..?"
Jongin stare dumbfounded at her, lips keep on opening and closing without any words coming out of it. It's like he don't know what to say after being rejected of not knowing him. Jongin can't believe that Kyungsoo don't remember him, he know it's been so long since they last saw each other, but still it's not that long and they didn't even part ways when they were still a kid, no, they part ways when they already adult, so he can't believe that she can forget her just like that.
"It's impossible, you don't really remember me noona? Seriously?"
Jongin eyes widen when Kyungsoo denied him again with a firm 'no' as an answer. He feel dejected after being denied for the second time, her knowing him, it saddened him to learn that Kyungsoo forget about him and there friendship since they were a child. He can't believe it and he won't accept it without an explanation from her.
"Kyungsoo noona, it's me, Nini, you're friend since we we're still a kids." Jongin gesture to himself and her, "We lost connection when I go with my parents to go and study abroad, it is when we graduated in high school and I have to continue collage somewhere. That is when we part ways with the promise of meeting again in the future."
Kyungsoo look down thinking, she don't really remember anything he keep telling her. She can't remember her highschool life anyway, so she's not really suprised she can't remember who this young man, who keep persisting that he know her. And knowing that whatever this young man told her about her past, either if it's true or not, she can't really remember it, and so with a deep sad sigh, Kyungsoo stare sadly at the young man and inform him about her condition, so to not feel guilty anymore to not remembering him. It's not her fault she can't remember and it also not her fault that she has a terrible amnesia.
"I'm really sorry, Mr. Kim." Kyungsoo says, looking down at her feet, she continue in her sad tone. "I hope I can tell you that, yes, I remember you, but I can't."
Kyungsoo try everything she could think of just to remember and recover her memories, but whatever she do, nothing just can't trigger her memories to come back to her. And everytime she keep asking her husband if she can go to a doctor to ask to help her recover her memories, her husband always have a way for disagree telling her that it will comes back to her on its own. After trying so many times to ask her husband with the same answer all over again, Kyungsoo just give up on asking and just let it be. Knowing Chanyeol, she know even if she ask so many times the older won't give in to it and now she just learn to stop asking and just do everything she could to recover her memories on her own.
"You see, I got into a bad accident seven years ago."
Kyungsoo saw how Jongin eyes widen more and his whole expression twisted into shock and horrified. Kyungsoo smile sadly at the young man, thinking if she should continue explaining, she don't know him but he know her. She don't know if that be a valied reason for her to tell him what happen or not. It's weighting into her mind not knowing if she can trust the stranger with personal information, but seeing the young man's expression, his genuine concern and his persistent. Telling her that she can trust this man and what his telling him is genuine and he really know her.
"After I got into the accident and when I woke up from coma, I don't remember anything from my past anymore. Not even what happened before I got into the accident. They told me it could be just because of trauma I got from the accident and that my memory would come back to me anytime soon, that I just have to wait for a few weeks." Kyungsoo take a deep breath, "But that weeks, turn into months, and months turn into years, and now here I am. Sever years after, I still don't remember anything. Not even one bit."
Kyungsoo see that Jongin still absorbing all the information she just told him, deeply in thought and connecting all the dots of why she can't remember him the first time he told her his name or see him. Then realization crosses Jongin face after a moment of him being silent.
"I'm so sorry if I can't remember you. I want to, but I don't know how." Kyungsoo heaves out a sighs, "I did everything I can think of just to remember. But still nothing, I'm really sorry.."
Jongin blinked and shock his head to clear his head a bit, he then stare at Kyungsoo and offered a friendly smile.
"It's alright noona, I understand now."
"Thank you for understanding, Mr. Kim." Kyungsoo whisper smiling back at the latter.
"Just call me, Jongin, like you always do noona~" Jongin whined, "I feel like your talking with my dad and not me."
"Of course, okay, Jongin,"
Kyungsoo giggles a little, and Jongin grins after seeing the young woman relaxed a little.
"And if you don't remember anything about me, it's alright too. I mean, it's really not, but I can just help you remember and tell you some story about when we're still young." Jongin eyes brighten in his own idea, "That is if you only want of course, I won't force you in anything noona, I'm just really happy to finally met you again after so many years. And of course, I want to go and hang out with you and caught up to the years we didn't see each other."
Kyungsoo stare at Jongin contemplating her decision again, she don't fully trusted Jongin yet but the sincerity in the latter eyes can't be ignored. And he offered to help her to regain her memory, by going out as friends and caughing up. And beside, this is the first time someone recognize her and tell her, he is part of her past, the past she forgot and can't remember, after seven years of nothing here is Jongin offering her to help and to recover her lost memory.
"Yes, I would like you to help me, Jongin,"
"Great, let's go somewhere we can sit and talk comfortable then," Jongin beams, "I know a good coffee shop not far in here, we can go there."
"Alright, let's go then."
Kyungsoo smile and the two of them walk side by side to the coffee shop Jongin where talking about. While walking, Kyungsoo's listening to everything Jongin was telling her, and every now and then she would ask question she feels curious about. And Jongin, like he promise her, he talk nonstop and tell her storys when they we're still young, his talking animatedly, like in every story his telling her his coming back to that exact moment and time, happily telling her every moment and all the silly stuff they do when they we're young.
She learn to, to Jongin that when they we're a kids and the moment they meet each other, the two of them just clicked and then they we're inseparable. Jongin even tell her that Kyungsoo's mom almost cried when Jongin won't let her daughter go home when they visit Jongin's house. And then he tell her that Kyungsoo's mom almost ban him from seeing her again after that, but when Jongin cried for two days straight, Kyungsoo's mom can't do any about it but let Jongin met her again.
Jongin also told Kyungsoo about her brother, Jongin said that when they we're a kid, Kyungsoo's brother always glaring at him everytime he see him and then when his to close or even touch his things, he will growl at him and kick him or punch him in the face. Kyungsoo laugh after she hear that, imagining poor Jongin getting bullied by her brother. Jongin said that her brother is really scary back then, he can't even talk to him for even a second and every time he will try, he always chicken out because when Kyungsoo's brother saw him at the distance his glared double on him like he will kill him if he ever step any closer. In short, Kyungsoo's brother gaze is like a knife. Killing you on the spot if you get to close.
Kyungsoo laugh at every funny story Jongin would tell her about there childhood, and every passing time, she's getting comfortable more and more. Getting to know Jongin is easy than she thought, the younger is so cheerful and friendly, his gentle and sweet too. And the familiarity is there, in every story Jongin would tell her and share to her, Kyungsoo feels the pull like she feel every vivid memory in the air without remembering it completely.
It is really refreshing to know that someone recognize you and tell you about your past with them, after seven years of tiptoeing on nothing, now she has one. She have Jongin and she's greatful that the younger found her. To remind her about the past she can't remember, she's happy, even if she still don't remember anything. Because now with Jongin, there is a big change for her that she will recover her memories, she just have to be patient. She's been doing it for seven years now anyway, so what's with waiting for more time again, right?
Kyungsoo and Jongin talk more for hours long until Kyungsoo need to go and pick up her child, and Jongin need to go too. Jongin want to offer to walk her back to the school but someone keep calling him nonstop and when he looks to see who it is. He almost cursed out loud after seeing its from the CEO's secretary of the ElyXiOn who is calling him. He forgot that he have to go to the said entertainment company that day, and now his so late to the said meeting.
Jongin forgot that his being expected to go to the company to meet some people, he forgot everything after he saw Kyungsoo back at the school front gate, his excited to see her and he miss her to much that he forgot everything and now his doomed. But he think it alright, atleast he met Kyungsoo again after so long, it's worth it being late because of Kyungsoo.
He don't regret it and somehow, he felt happy about it even if his late.
And so, with big smile and a promise to met again and hang out. The two of them part ways, Kyungsoo going back to the school to pick up her child while Jongin rushing to call a cab while cursing out loud, after he saw Kyungsoo round the corner.
~~*~~
It is lunch time, and Chanyeol have a lunch with his cousin, Jiyong, they we're done now and about to go back to the office. But his cousin need to use the bathroom at the moment, and now Chanyeol was waiting for him still sitted at there table, Chanyeol is busy reading and replying to his email that he didn't see someone walk closer to his table while staring at him, small eyes widen in suprised.
"Chanyeol?"
Chanyeol only look up from his phone after he heard the voice of the person he don't want to meet ever again nor forever. Is now standing infront of the table he is and staring at him still suprised. His platinum white hair styled up, revealing his small sharp eyes, lips thin and drawn open slightly in shock.
Chanyeol swallow his nervous down and force out a smile at the person infront of him, hoping he won't see behind his mask. On how nervous and scared he was, Chanyeol gulp down his guilt, before he acknowledge the person infront of him who is now smilling back at him, seemingly happy to met him again.
"Baekhyun."
To be continue...
Chapter 11: 11.
Chapter Text
Baekhyun was just about to leave the place he have a meeting just a while ago with some client, when Baekhyun saw someone he know. He stare for a while to make sure if the person is really the one he thought it is. When the person his staring at look up for a bit to look at his surrounding, before it go back down to his phone again, Baekhyun can now say that it's really the one he know.
Without hesitation, Baekhyun walk closely to the person's table and when his close enough, he stand infront of the person with the table in the middle separating them both, and when the person don't look up Baekhyun called him by it's name.
"Chanyeol?"
The person, Chanyeol, looks up in shock, his eyes widen like his own and then he smile after he recover.
"Baekhyun."
Baekhyun smile, he never thought that he will meet the man again. His still in shock to meet him all of the sudden.
The person infront of him is one of Baekhyun's best of friend, and his name is Park Chanyeol. Baekhyun lost contact with Chanyeol after the accident, he don't know what really happened but when he woke up from coma, and recovered, he learn from one of his bestfriend that Chanyeol's gone missing and they don't know where did he go or where he is. Chanyeol don't say anything to them about it, he didn't tell him nor there other bestfriend or friends even his own cousin, that his going somewhere. That is why, they were so clueless when he suddenly disappear.
No one know where he is in seven years, because when he go, all his connection with all his friends back in Korea is gone with him. Same goes to his two bestfriend and cousin. Chanyeol is Baekhyun bestfriend since they were a kids. He, Chanyeol and there other bestfriend, Jongdae, know each other since they were a baby. The three of them are neighbor, and so there parents are friends and when the moment they were born, there parents raised them to be with each other. And when they grown up, the three of them are inseparable, they go to the same school since they were kids. And where the one go the other two will follow, they have an unspoken rules and that rule applied to all of them.
Whenever the one go, everyone will followed.
And it is a shock for him, when his other bestfriend told him that they don't know where Chanyeol is, and that he disappear without saying anything. It's upset him so much that his bestfriend leave without saying anything and what upset him more is that, he decided to go missing when the time he lost his fiancé.
The time he needed his two bestfriend the most.
It depressed him more that time when he hear it, he got depress because he never thought that his bestfriend will leave him when he know that its the time he needed him the most. It is a hard time for him back then, losing one of his bestfriend without knowing why, and at the same time he lost his fiancé at the accident.
He didn't even know if the younger know that when the time he disappear, is the same time he lost his fiancé too.
Chanyeol know his fiancé, Kyungsoo, since Kyungsoo is studying at the same school he and his two bestfriend is going. That is where he met his fiancé anyway, at that same school they were studying. Chanyeol and Kyungsoo is close friend back then, because they share some of their classes and clicked, then they become friends after, and Baekhyun meet Kyungsoo because of Chanyeol.
Baekhyun still remember that time, it's wonderful memory to him. The most beautiful memory that he would'nt never forgot.
He remembered looking for Chanyeol that day, because the taller forgot that he have to go home early and because his parents and him was planing to go to his grandparents at China for it's birthday, and somehow that time, Baekhyun just got out of his class and heading home when he recieve a call from Chanyeol's mom asking him if he can find his son because she can't contact the taller. Chanyeol mom told him that they will be late for there flight if Chanyeol won't hurry and so Baekhyun being a good bestfriend he is, agree to look for his friend before he end the call and run around the campus to find his dumb friend.
His been running for half an hour and his about to give up looking because his so tired of running around, he was about to call the younger's mom again to tell her he didn't find him, when he remember he forgot to check the last place in mind, the garden area. It's at the back of the campus building and it's really big with beautiful flowers decorating it and big huge trees. Baekhyun rarely go there because there's nothing fun to do in there anyway, other than seeing mother nature and get sleepy because it's so calm in there, and he have a mind Chanyeol would think so too, and the younger rarely go there. And so he thought.
But it's the only part of the campus he didn't go just yet, and so with a heavy sigh, and a hopeful spirit he will find the taller there or else his going to chop his ears off for making him run to look for him even if the younger know that he hates running, Baekhyun decided to check if his friend is in there or not anyway. When he got there, he walk around for a while looking at the surrounding to find his friend immediately. When he reach the very back of the garden area, Baekhyun was about to give up looking for his friend, because really his hungry and tired of running around just to find his friend but with no luck and beside he reach the back of the garden now anyway, and he doubt someone will be there. And so he turn on his feet and ready to go back when he heard some giggles and a groan, just behind of the big wide tree.
His just about to let it be, thinking it's not his business to sneak around someone private time. But he stop when he heard his friend voice at the direction he hear the first one, Baekhyun shrug before he decided to round the big tree and there he found the one his been looking for, laughing with a very beautiful attractive girl. Her eyes is so big shining everytime she laugh at Chanyeol's joke, and her lips forming into heart. Her skin is pale under the afternoon sunlight, and her raven black hair swaying with the autumn air. She's so beautiful in Baekhyun's eyes, she is like an angel to him. So pure and so beautiful.
After that faithful day, Baekhyun and Kyungsoo always been seen everywhere with each other company, whenever Kyungsoo go there will be Byun Baekhyun on her tails and same goes to Baekhyun. The whole campus thought back then that they were dating already, but the truth is they just friends that time even if Baekhyun wished they are lovers already. After a year of knowing and being with each other company, Baekhyun decided to man up and confess to her and that is where their love story started.
There journy of being lovers for six years, until they become fiancé for two year and almost married. If only the accident didn't happened.
If it isn't for Chanyeol introducing them to each other back then, Baekhyun wouldn't meet Kyungsoo and be with her for eight years. And his thankful at his bestfriend for letting him meet Kyungsoo back then.
"How are you? It's been seven years since we last hear from you, Yeol."
"I'm good." Chanyeol says, "How about you? How's life?"
"Not good." Baekhyun heaves a deep sighs, before he take a sit opposite Chanyeol when the latter gesture for him to sit. "I don't know if you heard it before you gone missing, but, I lost Kyungsoo at the tragic accident that happen to us back seven years ago."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Baek."
Chanyeol looks down not meeting his eyes, he then lick his lower lips to moisten it and stop the guilt that crawling up his throat.
His about to lie again, as always.
"If I only know, I'll stay here with you and not go with my parents when they urgent me to come with them without saying good bye to you guys."
"It's alright, Yeol." Baekhyun smile sadly down at his hand, "You don't know, and I know that if you knew, you would fight your way to stay here and help if you could."
Chanyeol hands formed into fist under the table and into his laps. He felt guilty, but he won't let it get into his head, not now, not ever. He won't let it show and be know. He promise himself back then, before he take her away that he won't let anyone take her away from him ever again. He won't, not even his bestfriend for so long. Chanyeol swallow the vile in his throat and he let the lies he keep letting out of his mouth for seven years now.
"Of course, your my bestfriend, Baekhyun. And your like brother to me, if I'm here back then when it happened, I would help you in anything and everything I could help. That's what brother's do right?"
"It is, and I'm thankful that I have you and Jongdae as my bestfriends."
Baekhyun smile genuine this time. Like his telling the latter that his really happy he came back without him voicing it out.
"Jongdae would be really happy to know that your back, we missed you so much you dumb ass."
"Well, I miss you too guys."
The two bestfriend laugh, and then they talk about there life since they don't see each other for sever long years, they talk about everything they could talk to, caughing up from the time they didn't see each other. They talk about there work to, and about why Chanyeol is here and more, they talk and talk until they didn't notice the time and it's evening now.
"Damn, we talk to much I didn't even notice the time, it's evening now." Chanyeol chucked while looking down at his watch to check the time.
"I know right," Baekhyun laugh, "we should get going now and we should hangout. I mean, with Jongdae this time."
"That would be fun."
"Of course," Baekhyun grin, then he stand up from his seat, Chanyeol was doing the same. "I'll tell Jongdae the good news."
"Your on it."
"Uhuh, see you next time, bye Yeol."
"Yea, bye, Baek."
Chanyeol wave back at him before he go in his own car that parked at the other side of the parking lot infront of the restaurant and drive away.
"You don't have to know anything, Baekhyun. You don't have to know the truth."
Chanyeol whisper under his breath, laughing bitterly. His hand gripping the steering wheel firmly, his fingers turning into white because of how tight his holding the steering wheel. His eyes digging hole at the road infront of him, but his whole face is void from any emotion other than his glaring eyes.
"Because the truth hurts more that the lie."
To be continue...
Chapter 12: 12.
Chapter Text
It is a new day, and Kyungsoo is currently inside of the coffee shop with Jongin again. Kyungsoo meet the younger at school again and he asked if she want to hangout at the coffee shop they go to yesterday. Kyungsoo agree without a second thought, wanting to hear more story from the younger and learning more information about the younger and her own family by the younger's story alone.
Kyungsoo was happy to know and learn does information she didn't have in seven years she lost her memory, the hope that some day her memory will come back to her, heightened after she met Jongin, the chance that her memory will come back, turning into reality now that she met him. Because now, she can says that someone is reminding her about her past that no one can provided her for seven years.
So, she's happy to says that she is thankful she met the younger. And every time she have with him, Kyungsoo would treasure it with all her heart, and all the memory they shared, even if she can't remember it, she will treasure it and hope that one day she will remember it, and because of the younger she will regain her memories back, all of it, hopefully.
The two of them where sharing story again, but this time, Jongin was re-telling a story when they were in middle school and how he manage to anger her brother for real. And how his brother almost kill him if not for her stopping her own brother. Kyungsoo laugh at every story Jongin keep telling her, listening carefully everytime Jongin would start a new story to share.
Somehow, Jongin have so many story under his sleeve that he can tell to Kyungsoo animatedly, and he have so many funny story too when his still studying abroad. And the younger have so many story and compliment for her brother too that make her smile and giggles everytime Jongin would talk to much and didn't notice that his talking about her brother in affectionate way, his tone of voice would suddenly change into lovingly and his expression will soften into fondness, and his eyes would tell it all without him voicing it out. Its cute, watching him blabbering about her brother and then blushing after he caught himself blabber about it.
"Jonginnie,"
Kyungsoo called the younger attention, he stop midway to his story about her brother and him going out to buy her a gift for her birthday and Jongin having a hard time to buy her brother a gift because his with him, the younger with a smile still in his face wait for her to continue, Kyungsoo smile back before she whisper so only the younger can hear, teasing him a little about his obvious crush on her brother.
"Are you inlove with my brother?"
Jongin who is taking a sip of his coffee, choked and he cough for a while and when his coughing fit stop he started blabbering words after words in a panick state, his cheeks turning redder every second and Kyungsoo laugh at the younger whose cheeks are now bright red from embarrassment and shyness for being caught having a feelings with her brother.
"Nini's inlove~"
Seeing the younger cute reaction, Kyungsoo teased the younger one last time, she coos watching Jongin bright red face turn into deep red more. The younger whined for being play at, but he grins and laugh when the older giggles at his cute antics.
~~*~~
After their hours of time at the coffee shop, it is time for Kyungsoo and Jongin to go. And now, the two friends are waiting outside of the school for Kyungsoo's child and Jongin's nephew, the younger insisted to come with her with the reason his going to pick up his nephew in there, when the older saids her goodbye's with the younger. Kyungsoo roll her eyes at the younger reason playfully, saying the younger just want to come with her and extened their time bonding together and that he just don't want to go home yet, the younger laugh at that and didn't denied the older teasing accusation and instead he just excitedly told the older that he will finally met the Kyungsoo's twin child she keep on telling the younger. So in the end, the two walk back to the school direction side by side while still talking about things that popped into their minds.
Futhermore, Jongin and Kyungsoo is standing side by side outside of the school and infront of the gate watching the crowd of student walks by and runs to their parents excited to go home and tell their parents about their day at school. Jongin is looking out for his nephew, gazing side by side to spot his nephew immediately and Kyungsoo is doing the same, watching the passing crowd of kids and trying to spot her own child out of the many kids running around and giggling on there way to there parents. Not long after, she don't have to look any futher because there is a two bundle of joy who is running on her way and the two kids hugs there mother legs in either side immediately when they come close, happy to see there mother again. Kyungsoo squats so that her eyes would be at the level of the two kids, she pats them messing there hair and shower them with kisses in either cheeks in a affection way, happy to hear the twins giggles and squel of happiness.
"How was you're school my babies?"
"Great! I make many new friends mommy~"
Minsoo beams at her mother, jumping a little in excitement, while Minhyun only nod at his sister words.
"Wow, that's wonderful Minnie. Mommy's proud of you two~" Kyungsoo coos, showering the two child more kisses on their cheeks. "Oh, mommy want to introduce you to someone."
Kyungsoo stands up after she land the twins with final sweet kiss on their cheeks, then they goes to the younger with the twins holding her hands in either side, when they got to where the younger is, they watch how Jongin was currently laughing at what his two nephew where telling him and when the two kids saw them, they frantically run out of their uncle's hold to run and hug her daughter happily. Kyungsoo looks at the wide eyed Jongin, who is staring at his two nephew and to Kyungsoo's daughter who let go of her hand to hug the two back and giggles while being hugged by the two kids.
"Do you know this cute and handsome boys, Minnie?" Kyungsoo looks down at her daugher, who is still being pamper by the two.
"Yes! They we're my new friends, mommy~" Minsoo giggles, she then proceed to hug the boy arms in her right, the boy have a cute chubby cheeks and raven hair.
"Hmm, want to introduce mommy with them princess?"
"Yes~"
Minsoo beams, she then let go of the hug and instead she hold the boy hands and then she do the same to the brown haired kid, and then the three of them grins up at her.
"This is Chim chim, and he is a two years older than me!" Minsoo says, swaying her right hand with the chubby cheeks boy, and then she stop to do the same to her left hand, who she is holding hands with the brown haired cute kid, "and this is Nana, we're the same age and he is my classmate too. Oh, and he is Chim chim's younger brother."
"Hello," Kyungsoo squats again to be in the kids eye ladel and then she gives the two brother a motherly smile, "I'm Minsoo and Minhyun's mother, it's nice to meet you two cute boys."
"Hi, Minsoo's mom."
"Hello~"
The brothers greet her back smiling and grinning, happy to met her too. Jongin who watch the whole encounter, squats decide her and smile at the twins.
"Hey, I'm your mom's friend and this two's uncle," Jongin wave at the twins, giving them a friendly smile. "my name is Kim Jongin, but you can call me uncle Jongin."
"Hello, uncle Jongin, I'm Park Minsoo~" she cheerfully smile back at Jongin, and then she give the older a hug. "Nice to meet you!"
"It's my pleasure to meet a beautiful young lady like you, Minsoo-ah~"
Jongin coos making the little girl blush while Minhyun meekly looks at Jongin when his mother urge him forward to introduce himself like what his sister do, he looks back at his mother and then back at Jongin infront of him. He looks at Kyungsoo again and then to Jongin once more before he reluctantly bow politely and introduce himself like how his mother teach him.
"Hi, I'm Park Minhyun, nice to meet you mister." he whisper before he looks away from Jongin and walk back to his mother's hold, hiding his face at his mother neck shyly.
"Sorry about him, Jongin." Kyungsoo brush her son's hair to smoothed the shy kid, "Minhyun here is just to shy to meet new people."
"It's alright," Jongin smile at her and then gesture to the shy kid still hiding his face at his mother's neck. "I remember you're brother being like that back when we still young, and when we first met each other. Well, his worst than that, in a good way I mean."
"Oh, atleast now I know where did Minyun get this side of him," Kyungsoo laugh, then she stands with Minhyun in her arms now, because the boy don't want to let go of his mother.
"Yeah?"
Jongin do the same laughing and then he looks down at the three kids, who is now on there own world, they speaking animatedly at each other and giggles at every funny comment the other would say.
"By the way noona, that one with the chubby cheeks is Zhang Jimin, and Chim chim is his nickname his mom gives him. And that one with the small face and brown hair is Zhang Jaemin, and like Jimin, his nickname is Nana. And it is his dad who gives it to him. They we're two years apart and they we're my cute and energetic nephew."
"They're lovely," Kyungsoo smiles down at the three kids, she then looks back at the younger. "Should we bring them to the park near by or do you have to bring them back home immeaditely?"
"Bringing them to the park with your kids is a genius plan than to bring them back home right now," Jongin laugh at the confuse face the older was making infront of him, "what I mean is, my cousin, their mother, won't be home not until later at night because of some infortant meeting she need to go same as to their father who is busy at work. And that also the reason why I'm the one who is picking them up right now and not there mom, I offer to take care of them for her until she comes back from work."
Kyungsoo nods understanding what the younger means and then she looks at the three kids. "Kids, do you want to go to the park and play?"
There are twinkles on the kid's eyes after she announce that they we're going to the nearest park in the area to play. They all beams at her and excitedly jump around while repeatly saying 'Yes'
"Alright then, but first," Kyungsoo says, shushing the three excited kids into silent, "you need to listen to all uncle Jongin was saying until we got there, and second, you three need to hold each other hands so you won't get lost, understand?"
The three kids nods in unison then they hold their hands immediately while looking up at Jongin expectantly, Kyungsoo giggles while gesturing at the younger to guide the excited kids. Kyungsoo adjust her hold around her son before she follow the other, Jongin was leading the three excited kids in his side while Kyungsoo is behind them with her now sleeping son in her hold.
When they arrive at the park, Jongin offers to watch over the three kids while Kyungsoo take a sit under the line of trees in the park with the sleeping Minhyun in her lap, Kyungsoo leans her back at the tree and then she watch the other at the playground in the park while her right hand smoothing her son's hair and the other wrapped around her son body.
It is beautiful day, and Kyungsoo think back again. Kyungsoo don't know Jongin that long and he only meet him twice, but even so, she still believe what the younger was telling her, all the story and memory. And she is so thankful that the younger saw her that day, because if he didn't saw her that day and recognize her, then she won't have a glimpse of her past until now. Even if she can't still remember anything, she is still fine with it because even if she can't still remember there is the possibility that she will one day, Kyungsoo can now imagine her life back when she still can remember everything. Kyungsoo can see a glimpse of her past even without truly remembering it, and it is all thanks because of Jongin.
She's thankful for him, for giving her something to base on and for giving her a glimpse of her past that she can't remember.
Kyungsoo's mind then go bacl to her husband, she is still contemplating the idea of her husband knowing about Jongin or not. She even don't know if she should tell her husband about the younger or not.
She didn't tell her husband yet about her meeting Jongin. She still not yet inform the older about her meeting one of the person in her past and she don't know if she should tell him or not. Kyungsoo is unsure of telling her husband about the younger because of the reason the older would forbid her to met the latter ever again, she is unsure to tell him that information, scared to lost the only source of her past and memory. Because there is a possibility that he will brush it off or denied it like how he always do in the past seven years, and forbid her for digging anymore deeper.
Futhermore, she was scared that if she inform Chanyeol about it, the older would not allow him to go and met the younger again and lash out in anger for defying his wishes and words. Kyungsoo is scared to lost the only hope she has to remember again, she is scared to lost Jongin and to provoke her husband anger. Because Kyungsoo believe that the younger is the only one she have who could help her regain her momeries back. The memory Chanyeol refuse to help to regain and bring back to her ever again.
Kyungsoo let out a heavy sighs while still contemplating if she should tell Chanyeol about her meeting Jongin or not, weighting the consequence of everything whether she tells the older or not. She is to deep in her own thought that when the younger walk back to where she is and take a sit beside her with two ice cream in his hands without her knowing, Kyungsoo blink her eyes in mild surprise before she looks at the younger and smile in gratitude when the latter hands her the other icecream cone with a smile of his own.
"Thank you."
"Welcome."
Jongin grins at her then they looks back at the playground, watching the tree kids still playing energetically. Minsoo and Jaemin were running around the field laughing, while Jimin is behind them and chasing after the two giggling kids. They were so happy and energetic running around without a care around them, and it calmed the two older to see them like that.
"I feel so old while playing with them, they were so energetic that I can't keep up anymore." Jongin whined, he then leans back to rest at the tree just like what the older is doing.
Kyungsoo laugh at the younger whined, "They still so young that's why they have so many energy to play and run around, not like us who get tired when we have to much."
"I agree with that noona," Jongin grins, "were like that anyway, when were still young and don't care about the world around us. Playing, laughing and running without a care, like there is no tomorrow."
"I wish I can remember does moments too," Kyungsoo smile sadly, she looks down at her son who stir a little before going back to sleep again murmuring something she can't understand, "I bet does memories were so wonderful and fun."
"It is." Jongin looks up at the blue bright sky reminisce the past with a grins in his face, "Were so happy back then, thinking nothing about the future and doing everything we want without a care. I miss does moment, and I wish that I didn't leave back then. If I don't, I wonder if the three of us were still together and won't part ways, I guess this won't happen to you. I just wish I didn't go that time and leave you behind..."
Kyungsoo stare at the younger, contemplating if the younger really didn't leave back then. Is her life won't be like this? She bet her memories won't leave her if he did and she won't lost her family if he is there with her. And he could have save her from that accident she don't even remember what happened, that cost her with her memory lost. The is so many things she can think of that Jongin can intervene from happening that she also wish Jongin didn't leave back them.
But Kyungsoo also know that it isn't the younger faults, what happened to her is not Jongin's fault and no one else, she know even if she can't remember what happened that day it is still no one's fault, and she is not blaming anyone about it. It just her faith to be into that accident and forgot everything, Kyungsoo know that there is a reason why all of this happened to her, she believe that she will get all the answer to all of her worries some day. She believe that one day, she will remember everything and all her question will have the answer to everything. All the confusion and loneliness she have. Everything has it reason why it happened and one day, that reason would be given to her. She have so much faith in it that she will hold on until the day she got what she been wishing for.
And with that in mind, Kyungsoo leans her head in the younger shoulder and smile at him.
"Don't think about the past so sadly, Nini, and beside it's not your fault why I lost my memory. And I'm happy now that your back and you are helping me, to bring my memory back. And I'm thankful for that, so don't beat yourself just because of what happened back then. We don't have control over it anyway, and so, there is no one to blame, alright?"
"Okay noona, I won't think about it that way then."
Jongin face brighten again after he hear the oldest reassuring words, she is right. He don't really know what happened back then and why it have to be this tragic for her and even if he do, he can't do anything about it because he can't control what would happen and not. The is no one to blame to what happen, not even him or the one who is with Kyungsoo back then. Because everything has it own reason why it happened and without anyone to control or prevent it.
Eveything has happened with a reason.
With that in mind, Jongin and Kyungsoo relaxed in there position while still watching over the three kids and eating there icecream silently. Enjoying there relaxing late afternoon time at the park.
~~*~~
When night fall, Kyungsoo already tucked the twins into bed and she also done taking a bath and now she is ready for bed. Kyungsoo was currently laying down at her bed with a book in her hand, she is reading a chapter to help her to sleep when the door to her and her husband room opened, and behind it is her exhausted husband.
Kyungsoo watched her husband closed the door behind him silently and then gives her a tired smile before he go to change out from his working cloths and into comfortable one to sleep into. Kyungsoo wait patiently for her husband to do his things and while waiting, she go back to reading her book. And not long after her husband showed up, Chanyeol lay down next to her, hand wrapping around her waist immediately.
"Busy day?"
Kyungsoo whisper, she closed her book and then she put it at the nightstand beside her. She then brush the older hair away from his eyes and she drop a kiss at her husband forehead making the older sigh and smile at his wife's affection touch toward him.
"Yes, but I'm alright now that your in my arms, Soo."
Kyungsoo hum at the older, smiling when the latter hug her close to his chest and his chin at her head, cuddling her.
"I'm happy then."
"You should, because your my happy pills~"
Chanyeol grins, brushing his wife hair away from her eyes like what the younger do to him just a while ago.
"If I'm your happy pills, then you are my energy pills!"
Kyungsoo giggles at her husband, she hugs him back, wrapping her arms around the older. Chanyeol laugh at his wife antics, feeling all his stress at work go away just like that and forgeting his whole encounter with his bestfriend that same day. His happy again, and his thankful everytime he go back home and his wife is in there waiting for him, and welcoming him home with so much affection and open arms, and everytime he feel down and drinned after a busy and worst day at his work, his wife is always the one who is bringing his mode up with to much care and affection.
"Of course, I will be your one and only energy pills, my Kyungsoo."
They laugh and hold each other close, Chanyeol was content after he got his daily dose of Kyungsoo's affection. While Kyungsoo's mind go back to the thought of Jongin, she is having a debate over it again, she is still not sure and don't know if she should tell the older or not. She still can't make a decision about it but, she is curious enough to ask even if not directly. She is scared and not sure but she is also curious. Making her mind up, Kyungsoo decided to ask the older, but not directly so if he denied it he won't think that she is hiding something from him.
Taking a deep nervous breath, Kyungsoo move away slightly so she can see her husband face.
"Yeol, I want to ask you something,"
Chanyeol stare at her, he looks confused but he nods nonetheless.
"What is it?"
"I'm just curious about something..."
Kyungsoo say slowly, waithing for the oldest reaction, when she got nothing, Kyungsoo continue while bitting down at her lower lips nervously.
"I'm just wondering, if I have a friend back here at korea? Or someone who know me or something when I'm still young?"
Chanyeol didn't said anything but only stare at her with his blank face, void of any emotion. Kyungsoo nervously remove her hands around the older, just to hold her husband cheek in her hands, caressing it gently to calm the older down. Because she know it when the older is over thinking something, his expression would always turn blank everytime he feel pressured over something and he will overthing it and space out for an hour if he is so distracted. And so, to lessen the older worries, she have to make the latter feel that she is here with him and that he don't have to think of anything other than the two of them. And everytime it happen, it always worked. Kyungsoo's touch always make the older calmdown.
And not long after her gentle touch, Chanyeol blink his eyes twice then he stare back at her a bit unfocused, but he speak after a minute of just staring at each other.
"No," Chanyeol cleared his throat when he almost stutter, "that's impossible, you never been in here other than that time we have a vacation here and the accident. So no, no one know you here and you don't have a friend back here, Kyungsoo."
Kyungsoo looks away from the older for a bit and she let out a silent sigh, she want to tell him about Jongin but after the older denied it. Kyungsoo is not so sure about it anymore. She don't want to lost the opportunity to get her memory back because her husband forbid her to hangout with the younger ever again. And she don't want to lost that chance by Chanyeol telling her to stay away from Jongin because his lying to her. And with that weighting her mind, Kyungsoo make a final decision, she won't tell her husband about her meeting Jongin the other day and bonding with him today. She won't tell that to the older if it means losing the possibility for her to get her memory back. No, she would'nt sacrifice that chance.
Kyungsoo don't want to lie, but she don't have any other choice than to do it.
After taking a deep breath to calm herself, she looks back at her husband and gives him her sweet smile, to reasure him that she won't push it and that she believe him.
"I know, Yeol. Like I said, I'm just curious and nothing more, now why don't we sleep hmm? I know your tired, so let's sleep~"
"Fine."
Kyungsoo giggles, when Chanyeol groaned and hugs her more tightly but not enough to suffocate her, and then they close there eyes and let the soft whisper of the night to lull them to sleep.
With a thought still bugging Kyungsoo even in her dream. It keep running in her head and dream, if it is worth it to lie at her own husband? Is lying to him worth it? Not telling him about Jongin worth it? She don't know, but one thing she know and pray is that the result is enough to be worth it. And praying she make the right choice. She hope she did do the right thing.
To be continue...
Chapter 13: 13.
Chapter Text
After his last meeting with Chanyeol, Baekhyun has been so busy for one whole week now. His schedule is so full that when the night falls, he didn't even know if he already eat before going to bed and pass out for the day and woke up the next morning to do the same things he always do for the past few days now.
It is so packed that he almost forgot that he met his other bestfriend one week ago, he also forgot to tell Jongdae about him meeting Chanyeol, and Jongdae gives him a hard time when he told him so late about it just an hour ago, the latter gives him a piece of his mind and throw tantrum about the whole thing, but at the end they laugh at it and plans to met with there other bestfriend sooner than later. They were excited to hangout again after so long of not seeing the other, they miss there bonding time, just the three of them like before.
Baekhyun was currently lounging at his chair after his done reading the files he need to review for the day, after one week of busy days and nonstop of going in and out of the company for important meetings. He is now free from all the busy schedule and files for the day, Baekhyun don't have plans for the day anymore other than going home on time or perhaps caughing up some movies he want to check out and watch or sleeping the day out after eating some delicious food and taking a refreshing bath.
It sound promising. Baekhyun nods and relaxed more from his chair waiting for the clock to strike '4:00pm' so he can go home and do what is on his mind. He only have 3 more minutes before his time for work is done, even if his the CEO and future owner of the said company, Baekhyun like the other who is working under his company is following the company hours. Like the others, Baekhyun is following the work hours that given to him, just like the other workers of the company who has been givin with there own working hours, and so he also follow the end of his shift and that is until 4:00pm sharp. Even if he wants to go home more earlier than his work time, he wont do it and instead still follow his work schedule like a good CEO he is.
Baekhyun was about to stand and collect his belonging so he can go home immediately when his phone ring in his table, signaling that someone is calling him. Baekhyun who is clueless to who could it be that disturb his free from work time, he pick up his phone and look at the screen to see who it is. He frowned after he saw the caller name 'Daehyunnie'
He sighs inwardly after reading the name, knowing that the latter call because she will ask for some kind of favor out of him. And knowing her, he is sure that his cousin already know that his not busy anymore and that his planing on going home immediately after work. So, she know that she can disturb him and ask anything she want out of him, because well like he already said, his not busy and don't have a plan for the rest of the day.
With one last sighs, Baekhyun pick up the call and answer, preparing himself to decline the favor if he have to.
"What is it now, Dae?"
'Hello to you too, Baek.'
The person at the other line says and even if Baekhyun can't see her, he know that the latter is rolling her eyes at his lack of greetings.
"Yeah whatever, so, what do you need?"
Baekhyun not effected to the irritated girl, heaves a deep sighs while collecting and arranging his things, it's 4:00pm now and his work is done, so he can go home and relax. He can hear the loud gasp from the other line indicating that the latter will whine at his rude reply like always.
'If I call you it means that I need something from you by default, Baekhyunnie?'
"Yes, beside if you don't need anything like a favor to ask out of me. You'd only send me a message and that's it all done, but you never called if your not about to asks me for something important that I need to hear directly from you even if it's not in person."
'You meanie! It could be the reason I call is because I missed you so much my precious favorite cousin, Byun Baekhyun. And not because of some favor you always pushed on me everytime I called you!'
Baekhyun rolls his eyes at his cousin antics, he know her better that anyone and he know her since they were little and so he know when she want to get on his good side first before dropping the bomb, that also called favor.
"Hmm, whatever you say Dae. So, what do you really want?"
'WHAT?! I told you, I called because I miss you Baekhyunnie~'
Daehyun whined at the other line of the phone call, Baekhyun groaned and clicked his tongue in annoyance, then he pick up his bag from his chair and walk out of his office, nodding at Luhan who is busy chatting with her husband at her side, on his way to the elevator, phone still in his ears listening to his cousin continued whined.
"Seriously, Dae. I'm almost out of the building and about to go home, now tell me what do you really need before I hang up on you, because I need to drive with both my hands on the wheel."
'Fine.'
The latter let out a sighs and Baekhyun is sure that his cousin is pouting even if he can see it personally, he just know his cousin that well to know that.
'I just want to ask you a favor, if you could go and pick up the kids. You see, I was about to do that right now but I forgot that I still have a scheduled meeting with one of our client. And I can't cancel it, then I called Yongguk to asks him if he can pick up the kids but he also can't, because his still at Ulsan with the other crew for the MV filming for the come back of one of our artist. And now, I don't have any other choice but to ask you because I can't think of anyone to trust my kids with until I'm done with the meeting. So, please, please, pretty please Baekhyunnie, my favorite, sweet, caring, loving cousin. Can you please pick up the kids for me and entertain them until I come by to pick them up from your house?'
Baekhyun heaves a sighs again after he heard his cousin explaination, he know her to well. He know that this would happen and his right all along, she call to ask for a favor. She is so lucky that his schedule is clear for the day because if not, he will surely declined it without a second thought. Knowing that he don't have a plan to do the rest of the day, Baekhyun shugs thinking that it's not that bad to pick up his two nephew and take care of them while there mother is away. It will help him past the time to anyway. And beside, Baekhyun adorn and love his two nephew so why not right?
"Alright, I'll go pick them up for you. Just send me the address of their school so I can drive there right now."
Baekhyun says, he then hop inside of his car and started the engine after he hang up the call when his cousin agree happily and promise to send the address immediately. When he receive the address, Baekhyun drive out of the parking lot and then drive away to the company and into the right direction to where the school is. Baekhyun looks at his phone again to where the gps is on and a map in display, he read the place he needs to go again, 'EXO'rdium', he know the place to well and it's not really far from his company.
And so he got there in time when the student of the school came out of the gate, excited that they can all go home and relax after a long day at school while the other is excited to hangout with there friends before going home. Baekhyun get out of his car after parking it and then he walk to the front of the school and wait for his nephew. Looking around the sea of student to spot them immediately.
While busy looking around for his nephew. Baekhyun didn't see a laughing excited girl running in his way, and so when the girl who is not looking infront of her slam into the man's leg. Baekhyun look down at the whinning girl who is sitting at her hurting butt, after he feel someone bump into him and fall, the poor girl fell down on her butt because of the impact while Baekhyun is still in his position, he didn't budge even just slighter bit.
Baekhyun blink down at the girl who is still sitting at the ground and then he open his mouth to speak softly to not scare the little girl while squating to be at the girl eye label helping the little girl up on her feet.
"Are you alright? I'm sorry, I didn't see you coming."
"I'm sorry too mister. I'm not looking at where I'm going, it's all my fault and I'm so sorry."
The little girl pouts and she bow at him in apology manner after she was sure steady on her own feet.
"No worries, it's alright." Baekhyun pats the girl's hair and smile, feeling pleasant to met the polite cute girl. "What's you name? I'm Byun Baekhyun, but you can call me Baek oppa."
"My names Park Minsoo~" the girl beams, eyes crinkling into crescents. "It's nice to meet you, Baek oppa."
"Nice to meet you too, Minsoo-ah."
Baekhyun stare at the beaming girl infront of him, he don't know if it is just him or the little girl looks like someone he know? Baekhyun feel like he know the little girl even if he just met her just now. The little girl doe eyes is what bothering him the most, she remind him of his fiancé so much. The way the little girl smile and how her lip form into heart shaped is just like how his fiance too and how her eyes turning into crescents everytime she laugh or giggles, they were the same. It is even like the little girl is mocking him because she looks like his fiancé so much, his fiancé kid version that is. He don't even know why he feels like this, but it hurt him and make him happy at the same time. It's like his fiancé is infront of him and smiling sweetly back at him with her famous heart shaped smile and crescents like a moon eyes.
Baekhyun feels lightheaded, it feels so unreal to him and he don't know what to do. The familiarity of the little girl is in there, he can feel it even without anyone telling him. He was snapped out of his dazed thought when someone called the girl's name and the little girl beams more brightly and run excitedly to the person who called her, Baekhyun stand up straight and followed the little girl with his eyes and to where she is going, the little girl stop infront of the brown haired young man, who is already waiting for the little girl with open arms.
The brown haired hugs the giggling little girl and stand up with the girl still in his arms, while there is a little boy at his side holding at his shirt tightly. He looks at Baekhyun's direction and smile, he then decided to come close to where Baekhyun is and to greet him, still with the two kids in town.
"Mr. Byun, what are you doing here?" the brown haired grins and the little girl bounce in his arms a little while the little boy meekly looks up at Baekhyun then looks back at the brown haired without saying anything. "I didn't know you have a child already?"
"Uh no, I don't." Baekhyun stare at the little boy who is now hiding half of his face from the brown haired pants, only peeking at him shyly. "I'm here for my nephew. My cousin asked me a favor if I can go and pick them up for her."
"Oh ok," he nods at the latter then he follow his eyes and looks down at the little boy that is hiding using his pants. "I'm here to pick up my nephew and this two too."
"Hmm,"
Baekhyun know that he should look away from the shy little boy, because it is so rude of him to just stare at the poor boy, but he could'nt. The little boy, he looks like him, no, he more looks like the kid version of him to be specific. The boy's eyes its just like him, and his nose, his lips, his cheeks, heck his whole face is like the photo copy of him when he was little. And it feels like his staring back at himself, like his standing infront of the mirror and he can see his younger self. He can't explain how but that is what he saw in the little boy face infront of him. Baekhyun didn't even know how can it be possible, but here it is, infront of him is the kid version of him. He can't believe it. First, the kid version of his fiancé and now here, the kid version of himself. Just what the hell is happening?
It feels like the two kids is his own child with Kyungsoo. But how can that happened? If he remember correctly, Kyungsoo is not pregnant back before or when the accident happen. Unless, Kyungsoo didn't tell him she is indeed pregnant and hide it to him. But Kyungsoo won't do that right? She won't do things like that. She won't hide something this important to him. Well, unless she's about to tell him but they have a fight and she do the opposite of it. But the kids surename is Park and not Do, so its impossible it's him right? Damn, but the possibility is infront of him, slapping him with the reality that it is possible and there a chance its his. But how can it be? And who is Jongin to them? Is he the father of the kids? But his a Kim, not Park?
He don't know what to think anymore, he don't even know how can this possible happened anyway. The familiarity of the two kids is in there, there face, and the chance of the twins being his. It's so unreal, that he almost thought that his dreaming, he will think just like that if the brown haired didn't interrupt his line of thoughts by speaking with his excited tone of voice.
"By the way, this is Minhyun." the brown haired says, gesturing to the little boy and then back to the little girl in his arms. "and I guess you already know Minsoo."
"Yeah, she bumped into me a while ago. But it's alright and she introduce herself to me."
"Aww~ really? Minnie is a beautiful and smart princess~" Jongin coos making the little girl laugh and blush a little. "Oh, almost forgot...this two cute babies. They were twins but not identical."
Baekhyun nods at the information, still staring at the little boy then back at the little girl.
"Are they your kids, Jongin?"
"I wish," Jongin laugh then smile lovingly down at the two kids then looks back at Baekhyun, "but they aren't. They were my friends child."
"Oh,"
Why do he feel so happy after the younger denied it and told him the twins is not his?
Baekhyun gaze at the little girl then back at the little boy again, contemplating if he can ask who is the parents of the twins or not. He don't want to be creppy by asking all of a sudden because he don't know the twins and his not that close to Jongin either. But his also curious, he want to know who is the twins parents and know why the little boy looks like him and the girl looks like his fiancé. He just want answer to the many question that running around his head.
His just about to ask, making a decision on it. When four kids showed up running excitedly, the other two run straight to Jongin's left leg that is not occupied by Minhyun, while the other two run to him. It's his nephew and the other two is, Baekhyun can guess by just looking, Jongin's nephew. The quiet one with small like cat tired eyes stand beside the shy little boy after greeting his uncle and giving him a hug while the energetic one jump around Jongin, asking and yelling for the latter to put down the little girl excitedly.
While his own nephew is excitedly jumping around him too, Jeno is asking to be pick up while Taehyung is doing the same. He whined when he decided to picks Jeno up instead of him, Baekhyun told his pouting nephew that his older than Jeno and he should walk because his a big boy now and uncle Baek can't carry the both of them. Taehyun pouts deepen at that but didn't push it either.
"I'm sorry, we should all keep going now." Jongin says while checking his phone then shoving it back to his pocket after. "We're going somewhere and the mother of this cute twins is waiting for us. Again, I'm sorry Mr. Byun. But I see you at the company. Bye~"
"Yeah, bye."
Jongin walks to his car with the four kids in his side, Minsoo looks back and wave good bye at him before they disappear inside of the car. When Jongin's car drive away and out of his sight. Baekhyun hurry his nephew to his car too, after putting the two inside and making sure that they wearing the seatbelt. Baekhyun go to the driver seat and start the car, after tucking his seatbelt on, he drive away from the school and into his house. Still thinking about the twins and why they looks like him and his fiancé, Kyungsoo.
Are they Kyungsoo and his maybe?
To be continue...
Chapter 14: 14.
Chapter Text
After meeting the CEO of ElyXiOn unexpectedly at EXO'rdium and saying good byes, Jongin drive to the nearest market he dropped Kyungsoo before he offered to pick up the kids while she do the shopping for their picnic plans for the day.
Jongin planned to spend his day with Kyungsoo and her kids and his nephew before his busy schedule come, he know that he will be busy this coming days because the company send him the schedule of his upcoming preparation for his debut. And because of it, he didn't know when he can go and hang out with her again and so, he decided to spend his free time with her other than doing nothing at his own house.
And beside, his cousin is more than happy when he asked her if he can spend time with his nephew. He know that his cousin and his husband is busy to their own works that's why they were thanful when he offered to take care of the kids for them until they come home after work.
When they got into the market, Jongin can already see Kyungsoo standing infront of the market while looking down at her phone. Without wasting time, Jongin stop the car just infront of Kyungsoo. He leans out to the passenger seat and open the door for the waiting woman.
"Sorry, did you wait that long, Soo noona?"
Jongin grins, watching Kyungsoo get in and settle down beside him while greeting the four excited kids at the backseat.
"Nope. You just got here in time, Nini."
Jongin nods then he leans into Kyungsoo to fix her seatbelt for her, Kyungsoo blush a little and smile at the younger after he leans back to his own seat, whispering a gratitude.
"Thank you."
The younger smile back at the older and he drive away from the market and into the road again, going to the picnic place he know the older and the kids will like. The drive to the said place is quieter than Jongin thought, he guess it is because the kids are now sleeping in there sit and Kyungsoo is busy looking out of the window watching the passing scenery. And him focusing at the road ahead.
No one is speaking, it is because no one want to break the comportable silent or is it because they don't want to disturb the sleeping kids? Whatever is the reason, the two of them is content to the comportable silent surrounding them.
After an hour of driving, they were now at the mountain top just at the side of the city, over looking the river and the tall buildings of Seoul. After parking the car, Jongin looks at the back seat to see the four kids still asleep, he then looks back at Kyungsoo and grins.
"We're here, should we set the picnic first before we wake them up?"
Jongin says, gesturing at the sleeping kids while wiggling his eyebrows making the older to giggles quietly and nods.
The two of them get out of the car quietly to not wake the kids up, then Jongin opened the compartment of the car and bring out the things they will need for the picnic. Kyungsoo help him carry the other things and then the two of them started setting the place.
Kyungsoo pulled the blanked the younger bring with him out of the bag and then she place it at the grass, before she grab the basket of food she buy just a while ago, then she put it in the middle of the blanket she layed at the ground. When they finished setting everything, Kyungsoo and Jongin go back to the car to wake the kids up.
Kyungsoo knowing that her son while be grumpy after being woken up, she decided to wake her daughter first before Minhyun. Kyungsoo giggles when Jongin try to wake up his stubborn nephew, Jaemin, who snark at his uncle angrily for waking him up. Looking down at her own child, threading her fingers through Minsoo's hair softly, while her other hands shaking the girl lightly to wake her up.
When the little girl eyes flutter open, she looks at her mother while yawning, still sleppy she looks around before going back at her mother. Kyungsoo smiles down at the girl and told her that they were at the place and her uncle Jongin and her friends is already waiting at her outside. Minsoo's eyes brighten and then she beams at her mother asking to be let out of the car and so Kyungsoo just do what her daughter want. She pick up Minsoo out of her seat after she undone her seatbelt, before she bring her out of the car and let her down in her own feet.
Minsoo run to her friends direction after her mother let her down and she saw her friends with Jongin, she join the still grumpy Jaemin and energetic Jimin at the blanket to play. After making sure that the girl is with her friends and Jongin is with them, Kyungsoo looks back at her son who is now laying down at the back seat, snoring cutely. It make her smile more, Kyungsoo decided not to awaken the little boy and instead, she undone his seatbelt to pick up Minhyun carefully in her arms and then she close the door of the car after securing the boy in her arms.
Kyungsoo walks to where the other is with Minhyun still asleep in her arms, she sit beside Jongin who look questionably at the sleeping boy in her arms. Kyungsoo thread her fingers softly at Minhyun's hair making the boy sighs in content at his sleep.
"Minhyun is grumpier after his woken up from his nap, it's better not to wake him up than having his snarky attitube with us."
"That bad?"
Jongin eyes widen in wonder while Kyungsoo giggles at the younger reaction, she nods.
"Yes. No worries, if he woke up on his own, Minhyun is like a well rested baby with more energy to tolerate everything and not be moody."
"Can't wait to see that then."
They laugh quietly to not woke up the sleeping boy, then they watch the kids playing under the soft ray of the sun. There under the light of the sun and gentle breeze of the winds, Minsoo and Jimin were running away from the now energetic Jaemin, they were playing tag. Minsoo and Jimin was being chased by Jaemin and they laughing and shouting while running around the field happily.
"I remember us playing that game back when we're so young,"
Jongin says all of the sudden, Kyungsoo looks at the younger who is looking up into the sky reminisce the past. His eyes sparkling in happiness and his lips curled into a slight grins.
"I also remember the last time we play that under the moonlight, your brother refused to play it with us back then. Because he don't like running around and collecting sweat in his body even if it's night time."
Jongin laugh and then his expression shifted into something akin to sadness and loneliness.
"We were in our high school back then, we thought everything is fine and nothing will distroy our bond. But, that day under the moonlight, your brother dropped a news that still upset me until now. He told us that he will migrane into London and stay there, then he said that he have to go the day after tomorrow immediately."
Jongin looks down and heave a deep sighs, he play with his fingers still reminiscing that sweet but also bitter day.
"He should have told us sooner, that his been planing to do that for almost two months already, but it's not him if he do so. I understand that he don't want to complicate things and don't want us to feel down because of his sudden news, but still. It's still hurt to know that he will leave us sooner and that we won't see him again after that day."
He gazed up and stare at Kyungsoo smiling a little.
"I know you don't remember anything from that event of our life, but there is one thing I can tell you. That day is one of my treasured memories, because it brings me happiness and sadness at the same time."
Jongin gaze go back to the kids who is still playing, his eyes now sparkling brightly in excitement.
"I also can't forget the last day his still with us, I remember being mad at him and I refuse to talk to him even if I agree to hangout with the both of you. That night, under the moonlight, he gifted us his first composed song that he write for us, so we can remember him even if his away. It's beautiful and full of emotion. Here, I remember he send us a copy of that audio when his about to board the plane to London. And I save it to treasure forever."
Jongin pulled out his phone out of his pocket, he open it and looks for the song he was talking about, and when he saw it, he gives his phone and earphone at the older with the screen displaying the said song. Kyungsoo accept the device then she looks down at the screen reading the titled song, 'Walk on Memories'
The younger nods at his phone and to Kyungsoo, encouraging her to listen to it. Jongin pick up the sleeping Minhyun out of Kyungsoo's arms and then he lays the little boy in his lap while patting smoothly at the kids hair. Kyungsoo now separated with the boy, looks down at the phone in her hands again and then she takes a deep breath to calm her beating heart down.
Kyungsoo feels it again, the familiarity and recognition of it, there is a vague fragrant of that in the back of her lost memory, just by the title she can tell that it's an important song in her life. It's feels like she said that title numerous times already and even sing it on her own. The recognition of it in his tongue is so fresh and the familiarity of it in her missing memory is there.
With trembling finger she press the play button into the phone after plugging in the earphone into her ears, Kyungsoo bits down at her lower lips, listening to the soft intro of the song and then the first lyrics start with the voice of an angel, it's so beautiful like a melting hot chocolate in the winter. She decided to close her eyes while listening, feeling every bit of the emotion coming from the voice and the lyrics itself.
A voice that came to you on light some day,
unknowingly walking you up with a whisper like a kiss,
Somehow, at the back of her mind, Kyungsoo can see vague image of a person after she hear the first smoothing lyrics.
Your eyes slowly open filled with dreams
and you smile at me like you'd been waiting, yeah.
The face of the person infront of her in her memory, its unclear and she can't vague see even if it is directly infront of her. But even so, Kyungsoo know that it's a him and his smiling down at her.
I lightly sit next to you and say hi. I want to try to go back to that beautiful time
following the faded memories. I'll come take you away tonight.
She know even if the face of the person infront of her is unclear, she know that the guy infront of her is staring right back at her, his gaze full of emotion and affection just for her.
We walk along this exciting path together covered in stars shining white
before the sleeping world reflected clearly in your eyes opens its eyes.
Kyungsoo is gazing back at the guy face lovingly, reciprocating the affection the latter is sending to her, she can feel the pull of the guy infront of her, the affection, care, and love. She can feel the love on his gaze even if she can't see him clearly, his black hair falling down his forehead almost covering his vague eyes. She can feel the affection of that eyes staring back at her, even if she can't clearly see it. It's full of love just for her to see and feel.
So nobody knows, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
Walk all night long, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
The vague image of the guy's face, it frustrate her. Because she want to see the black haired face clearly not like this, not vague unclear image.
This path spreading out wherever we reach,
I want to walk along it with you on this beautiful night.
The black haired hands resting low on Kyungsoo's back and his whispering sweetly as his lips brush the soft skin of Kyungsoo's cheek. His voice is full of affection, but vague like a fading voice at the distance. Sweet and caring.
I pass through the tunnel of time I spent longing for you
and was given another chance to return to you.
She let out a sighs and lets her hand rest on the nape of the black haired's neck, enjoing the way the gentle scratch of her fingers against the warm skin makes the latter eyes flutter closed, his breathing softly and content. He loves it and it makes her happy, brushing her fingers tips at the hair just above his nape, smiling lovingly at the latter.
You're just like you are in my memories,
both your lovely voice and your eyes like down.
He tilts his head back as Kyungsoo rakes her nails through his hair. She's whisper something that make the latter happy, but she don't know what, she can't even hear or read what the latter is saying, his right hand coming up to brush her cheeks softly and gentle, his every touch is so affectionly it melt her inside. She want to cry somehow, she don't know why but she just feel so happy at the time that she want to cry.
I lightly kiss the back of your small hand.
I want to try to leave on a new journey
Kyungsoo leans into the black haired touch and she wraps her arms around the latter waist instantly instead of his nape, burying her face into the guy's neck. Wanting to stay in that moment forever.
following the melody I can hear clearly from far away.
I'll come take you away tonight.
It makes the black haired to chuckles as he thread his fingers through her hair lovingly, dropping kisses down her hair in the process.
We walk along this exciting path together
covered in start shining white
And then he leans down to press a loving kiss into her cheeks, making the latter blush at the affection touch.
before the sleeping world reflected clearly in you eyes opens its eyes
Kyungsoo's eyes flutter when the black haired leans away after dropping a kiss, Kyungsoo now can see the black haired eyes vividly. It's a warm shade of brown, beautiful and alluring. Somehow, it take her breath away after she saw it. She still can't see his whole face clearly but Kyungsoo now can see the black haired eyes, and she think it's alright, she's content to see his eyes other than nothing at all. His alluring eyes, the warm shade of it, gazing back at her full of love and affection that it hurt to just look away.
So nobody knows, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
Walk all night long, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
She unwrap her arms away from him and leans away a bit to stare at his eyes, she watch how the moonlights reflect into his brown eyes and how the twinkle of the stars make his eyes sparkling like diamonds. She loves it, and she want to see more. She even want to stare at it forever.
This path spreading out wherever we reach,
I want to walk along it with you on this beautiful night.
The black haired whines, craving Kyungsoo's touch the second it leaves him. She thinks the latter is so easily riled up, and Kyungsoo loves to tease him. She smile. Wanting and wishing to see his whole face more clearly, wishing the blurr image to wash away so she can see him clearly.
As the end of this path draws closer,
when an old prayer reaches us
He wrap his arms around her waist again, chin resting on her head. She wish and pray for this moment to last long. She pray to be with him. And she wish to be with him no matter what and to not forgot this beautiful, caring, and loving guy in her arms. She pray to be with him, forever.
the tomorrow we've dreamed of will spread out brightly in front of us.
They were gazing up at the sky, staring at the beautiful moon. The stars is twinkling down at them and the moonlights reflecting into their face. It is a beautiful night. A night to remember.
Blinding, golden sunlight spills over us, and you're so beautiful, shining brightly.
that I keep my eyes on you and take it all in before this sleeping world opens its eyes
Kyungsoo scrunched her nose cutely, then her gaze landed into the black haired at her side, Kyungsoo stare openly at the warm brown eyes. The latter stare back at her and he hums, placing a kiss at the spot where her neck meets her shoulder, knowing it's the one that always makes her toes curl and felt her happy and special at the same time.
Now open your eyes, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
Don't forget, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
Kyungsoo giggles and leans away, it makes the latter groans and pout, but he leans forward again anyway, but this time to capture Kyungsoo's lips with him. They kiss as moonlight streaks down to there face, illuminating them. He holds Kyungsoo carefully in his hands like he is holding a water lily, fragile and beautiful. When they part, they smile at each other and the black haired whisper a word she vividly remember that been said to her many times already, "I love you."
Someday I'll want to walk by your side along this path on a beautiful night.
Kyungsoo's eyes snap open at the same time the song stop and the beautiful word come out of the latter mouth, she don't know who that black haired guy, but all she know is his part of his past base from the vivid memory she see, Kyungsoo's not even sure if it is her memory or not. But the black haired feels so right, her heart clenched from the vague memory. Beating fast it feels like it will come out of her body if it won't stop after she remember the warm brown eyes staring back at her again.
She was about to see his face clearly if the song don't stop snapping her out of her daydream. It disappoint her, but she know, even if she play the song again it wont just come back to her, not just like how it just go though her mind the first time she hear the song. She just feel that is the case if she tried to do it again.
The feeling of their lips touching, even if it is just a dream. She can still feel it, the touch of their lips, the affection coming for the black haired, his loving gaze, his soft warm brown eyes staring at her and only her, the loving touch, warm words, loving whispers of I love you's, the moonlight reflecting down to lighten them, the beautiful stars shining inside of their eyes, and the night sky witnessing there love for each other. Silently, watching over them and listening to their wishes and prayers.
It's so unreal and she don't know if her mind is just making a trick on her or that vivid memory is from her past. She is not sure about it, but even so, Kyungsoo is happy that after seven years, she now remember a bit of her memory. She now have remember something from his lost memory after seven years of nothing, even if it is not true and just a trick that her desperate mind do, she can still hold on to that vivid memory and think that it's her memory that she lost after the accident and nothing more. Even if she's not so sure who is that black haired guy to her, she is still thankful that she got a bit of her memory comes back to her.
A memory, memories of the black haired guy with soft loving and affection shade of brown eyes.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when Jongin leans in brushing her hair away from her eyes and combing it behind her ear with his soft thumb. Kyungsoo blink her eyes back at the younger, seeming to come back from her deep thought, she smile at the worried younger, reaching out to take Jongin's hand into her and then lifts her chin towards the younger beside her.
"It's a beautiful song, Nini."
"Of course, it was dedicated for only you and me anyway."
Jongin whispers, moving closed so he can hug the older at his side.
"I know it's been hard for you, not knowing and remembering anything from the past. No one to tell you and help you get your memories back, but it's alright, I will help you in whatever I can. Like how I promise you, I will be here with you, to help you."
"Yes, I know. Thats why I'm so thakful for you, Nini."
"I'm glad then."
Jongin hugs the older one last time, before he go back to watching the still energetic kids, running and gigling. Kyungsoo smiles at the younger before she looks at the kids too and watch them play, while brushing Minhyun's hair in Jongin's lap.
To be continue...
Chapter 15: 15.
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It's been a busy long week for Baekhyun, but even if his busy, his mind keep coming back to the twins he met just a week ago. Baekhyun still feels the full and the connection he feel connecting him with the twins.
Even if he always push that thought away from his mind, it keeps coming back to him everytime his all alone in his room and started over thinking. Sometime, even if his busy inside of his office doing all the paper work, the thought of the twins still corrupting his mind time to time. Like right now, his currently reading some document and reviewing the project about the upcoming debut of Kim Jongin.
But instead of focusing on the files, his mind drifted to the twins again.
He just can't shake off the feeling and familiarity of the two kids out of his mind, he still can't believe that the little boy looks exactly like him. The kid version of him. And the little girl, her big doe eyes, cute button nose, round squishy cheeks, and her heart shaped lips. Without a doubt, the little girl is the exact kid version of Kyungsoo, his fiancé. And what distubing him the most is that they were twins, just what the fuck? They were twins and they have his and his fiancé excatly resemble in them.
And it feels like it's his own child to Baekhyun. Like it his and Kyungsoo's child all along. And indeed, it is really insane, his going insane maybe. But the pull and connecting he felt to the twins is hard to ignore, it is like whatever he do to ignore it and brush it off. It just keep coming back to him full force and that what makes him insane more. The reason that the twins look so familiar to him, is what bothering him. He don't want to overthink it, but how could he? When everytime he remember the twins, the kid version of him and Kyungsoo is what he always see. And the possibility of the twins being his is still at the back of his mind, showing when he less need it the most.
He don't even know if it just a coincident that the twins have his and Kyungsoo's face. And the feeling of belonging and affection toward the twins is always in his mind and heart everytime the image of the kids resurface into his mind. The feeling that he want to be with the twins, and take care of them, show them so much affection and the fatherly affection he don't even know he posses in him. He want to do so many things with the twins and give many things. Baekhyun don't know why he feels like this, he guess he just want to have a child with his fiancé so much that he wish the twins is theres.
Well they were planing to have one or two after they got married, Kyungsoo and him already talk about it, they been planing to do that. But the accident happen before they can even do that, the tragic happened before they can even make their own family. Baekhyun is thinking, if they have a child, what would they look like? He bet it is so cute, squisy and beautiful like his fiancé or maybe handsome, playfull and energetic like him. Or even they look like the twins, the kid version of him and Kyungsoo.
Just imagining it makes him smile and wish it to happen, if only the accident didn't happened he is sure that he already have a beautiful and lovely family with Kyungsoo.
And now, his more curious to know who is the twins parents. Because of his excess thought, his mind is convincing him more to get to know the parents of the twins, to know and see what they looks like. But, how can he do that? He don't even have a reason to go to the school where he met the twins anymore, he can't also go there with the excuse of wanting to visit the twins because who is he anyway? They don't know them personally and beside he is not one of their relative to just show up and say hi. He will surely scared the twins away by doing that. So, it's a no to his list.
His clueless to how to met them without being a creepy dude and go to jail because of it.
Baekhyun heaves a frustrated sighs and messing his styled bleached platinum white hair, then he looks down at the files in his table again. Willing himself to read it and stop thinking about the twins and his fiancé for the time being. It's so frustrating to think, think, think, and think. It's making his head hurt and dizzy for over using his brain so much that he just want to blackout and rest his brain for the long day.
Sometimes, when this thing is happening, he just want to shut his mind down so he could stop himself to think further than he should.
Overthinking things is making his mind go crazy, because his mind won't stop thinking of things. Even if his about to go to sleep or being busy to work, his mind still have extra space to squeeze the thought about his fiancé and now the twins too. And that is where his depression coming from, for overthinking everything. He hate it. He hate his mind sometimes but what can he do? He can't just go and grab his brain out of his skull so he can stop thinking. He can't do that of course.
Baekhyun closed his tired eyes tightly for a moment, holding his head in his hand and gripping his hair to will the pain away from his head. He stay like that for how long Baekhyun don't know and don't care anymore. His hunched in his table just like that, calming his raging mind and heart. Baekhyun take a calming breath, when his phone at the table beside his laptop buzz, signaling that he have a new message from someone.
He let it be for a while, not minding the device to calm his mind first before he can do something again. Baekhyun leans back at his chair while staring at his phone with unfocused gaze.
With a hesitate sigh and quivering hand, Baekhyun reach for his phone and pick it up. He unlock it with his slightly trembling fingers and when he see who message him, he frowned in confusion to why the person who message him even texted him. Because the last time he know, that person is out of the country doing some work. Still confused to why and curious to know, Baekhyun press the messege and read.
From: Kris hyung
Hey, I'm currently at town right now. Wanna hangout?
Baekhyun's eyebrow shot up after reading the message, he didn't even know that the older is currently at the country.
To: Byun Baek
I didn't know that your back in the city eh? And sure, where should we meet?
He type back and press sent immediately, not wanting the older to wait for to long that he already did anyway. And not long after his replied, there is another buzz in his phone telling him the older messege him back as soon as he read his reply.
From: Kris hyung
Just got here this morning. We can meet to that same place we always go.
Baekhyun was typing his reply when another messege from the older come in before he can even form a reply.
From: Kris hyung
That is if your not busy of course. I know how busy you are right now anyway :)
Baekhyun chuckles at the older messege, he didn't even change after being at state for a year now. His still the caring hyung for him. Always thinking about him first before himself, even if his also busy he still make sure to make time for him to check on him and talk. Baekhyun type a reply faster this time to not give the older the wrong idea and then he send it.
To: Byun Baek
I'll be there hyung! Same time right? ^^
He put his phone back into the table after he recieve a 'Yes' from the older.
It's been almost a year since he last saw the older, his name is Wu Yifan, and his a busy actor with the name of Kris Wu, who also need to travel around for his line of work. Yifan is one of does people who helped him up after the accident. He also know about his fiancé and their plans of getting married. Yifan is one of the many mutual friends he have with Kyungsoo.
Kyungsoo introduce him to Yifan back when they were in collage days, Kyungsoo is the lead actress of the play that time and her partner is Yifan. And somehow, they got close and become friends after so many encounter at the stage and well they were partners so there is a big possiblity that they will come closer even before the play is done. At first, Baekhyun got so jealous of him being close to his girlfriend and being friendlier than usual. And Yifan is so touchy too back then and everytime Baekhyun see them together it irritate him so much that he almost cry infront of Kyungsoo, begging him to not leave him for Yifan.
Kyungsoo laugh so much that time, showering him with affectionate kisses and loving hugs while reassuring him that Yifan and her is only friends and nothing more. She also told her that, Yifan is like her big brother, she looks up at him like a brother and so is Yifan to her.
It makes his heart at ease after hearing it. His jealousy also disappear with his insecurity that time.
And that same day also, he have a chance to get to know Yifan after Kyungsoo's rehearsal. And after that, Yifan become Kyungsoo and Baekhyun proud father, always guiding and helping them if needed.
So, Wu Yifan is one of the important people in Kyungsoo and Baekhyun's life.
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When Baekhyun reach the restuarant they always go to hangout, he already spot his tall friend sitting at the more private corner of the cafe. His holding a book, reading and his also wearing a glasses for reading. His blond hair falling plat into his head almost covering his eyes, his wearing a simple but elegant looking black suit.
Baekhyun grins, knowing that the older just got out of his work and he go straight to the place they supposed to meet up.
The place is a beautiful peaceful coffee shop named Universe Cafe, it's a pretty popular coffee shop. And there is one in every city and even at some rare province if he remember correctly, Universe Cafe is owned by a woman named Zhang Joonmyun. Baekhyun don't know the woman personally, but Kyungsoo seemed to know the owner because she is the one who introduce them to the said cafe back when they were still in university and when the shop is still simple elegant calming shop and not yet popular. Since the day she bring them there, that the same time they started hanging out at the shop and the Universe is the place they called their hangout place.
And after university, when they have time after work, they always meeting up at the Universe at 5'oclock sharp. When they have time or break and want to hangout, it's the place they always go and nowhere else. Like now, Yifan came back to Korea and he make time to met the younger and now they're back at there favorite coffee shop, Universe.
Baekhyun run-walk to where his hyung is, excited to talk and met the older again after so long. He take the seat opposite the older when his infront of the table, grinning at the older who looks up from his book and lift an eyebrow at him. Yifan roll his eyes at the younger's antics before he closed the book his reading and place it at his side. And not long that he got there, the waiter come to there table placing the two drinks down with two plate of cheesecake. Yifan thanked the waiter before it go back to its work.
"So, how are you?"
Yifan says first breaking the comfortable silent around them, he grab his cup and bring it to his lips taking a sip while watching the younger who is doing the same.
"Not good, but still hanging."
Baekhyun looks down at the plate infront of him, poking the innocent cheesecake using the fork.
"What about you hyung? How's work?"
"Good. Tiring but good."
Yifan who is still watching the younger frowned, he know that the younger is avoiding eye contact by the way his staring at the cheesecake infront of him while playing with it using the fork.
"Are you eating that or what?"
The younger blink his eyes and then he looks up at the older, smiling slightly before he push the plate away from him.
"Later. Don't feel like eating yet."
The older hummed, nodding at the younger. He take a sip from his cup again before he put it down and stare at the younger infront of him. His arms crossed at the top of the table leaning a little closer at the younger with his always serious face and blank eyes.
"Are you still beating yourself to what happened to Kyungsoo seven years ago?"
He saw how his words make the younger's brown eyes quiver in sadness and anxiety. He also see the younger bit the corner of his lips to stop the incoming whimper to come out and how his hands trembling before he can even hide it from his prying eyes under the table. Yifan know, even without the younger telling him directly, that he still and always will blame himself to what happened to his fiance.
He knew it. Without anyone informing him or telling him directly. He just know the younger long enough to know this kind of thinking, he see him do it in person anyway. He saw him that faithful heartbreaking day anyway, he see him break after he find out that his fiance is missing and considered dead already. He also see him almost killed himself at the first passing months of losing his fiance. And all the attempt of suicide the passing seven years, like what he heard that happened almost three weeks ago now.
He was informed about it by Luhan, Baekhyun's secretary. Luhan told him that the younger attempted to killed himself again and that he almost success on doing it. They were lucky that day when Daehyun got there in time and bring the younger to the hospital, because if she didn't, they all sure. They will mouring again after seven years, and this time it's not for Kyungsoo, it will be Baekhyun.
Yifan heaves a silent sighs, choosing his words carefully this time to not agitate the younger any more further than he is right now, before he decided to speak again.
"Kyungsoo won't be happy if she find out that you still blaming yourself to what happened to her. She don't want that and you know it. Kyungsoo want you to be happy. If you don't want to do it for yourself then do it for her, be happy again, take care of yourself, be stronger and have faith. Do if for her, because I know she is doing the same for you whenever she is right now. Be strong, not just for youself but for her too, do it for the both of you, Baekhyun."
There is a moment of silent after that, Baekhyun's brown eyes watered after he heard the older words. He keep it in, preventing it from falling down and to run down his cheeks. He can't cry, not now, not infront of the older. He don't want to look vulnerable infront of his hyung. He want to be strong just like the older said and he want the older to see him just like that. So, he can't cry, because if he do then it just mean that his weak and the older will pity him for being weak and vulnerable.
He take a deep calming breath and then he force a smile to put in his lips for the older.
"I will. For Kyungsoo, I will do it hyung."
Yifan nods, he pick his cup up again and take a sip.
"I heard that you guys have a new upcoming soloish? And this particular guy is already famous? Is that right?"
He change the topic to not upset the younger anymore and to not rise the younger anxiety. Baekhyun smile gratefully this time, his thankful that the older didn't push the matter futher because if he did, he don't know how will he stop and prevent his tears to come out and fall down from his eyes. So his really thankful that the older didn't.
Yifan and Baekhyun's talk change into work and then into there current life. Yifan is busy from his work that he don't have time for relationship and so his currently free at the moment same as to Baekhyun. Yifan also told the younger about his upcoming full schedule, that after his 3 days of staying at Korea his going to have to go to Japan for 2 weeks stay then next 4 weeks in Vancouver and then he will stay to London for 2 months for his shooting.
Baekhyun also inform the older that his schedule for the month is full, that he have 3 groups and 6 soloish that is having a comeback, then 4 groups and 3 soloish that having a world tour and concert and then the famous upcoming soloish, Kim Jongin.
The two laugh, saying that they were the same, busy as ever. And that they were glad they meet that day because they won't have a chance to meet again after that because of their busy schedules.
The two friends, talk and laugh the whole time. Yifan trying not to bring up the younger fiance or about anything to do with her, not after their talk about Baekhyun blaming himself and the younger almost breaking down. While Baekhyun purposely avoiding speaking about it at all cost.
It's already 7:00pm when they decided to go home after spending hours inside of the Universe Cafe. Yifan needs to rest so he can wake up for his early shooting, and Baekhyun have a morning meeting the next day too. And the two agree on going home so they can rest and have an energy to wake up early in the morning.
Yifan stand and walk out of his chair, followed with Baekhyun. The older already payed for their orders earlier so they don't have to go to the counter to pay. The two friends walk to the cafe doors with Yifan leading the way. Yifan was putting his phone in his pocket after checking if someone called or message him and when he looks up to the door infront of him. He suddenly stop on his track to stare at the girl standing just at the side of the door, the girl is looking at the distance then back down at her phone in hand. Her beautiful black silky hair is drawn back and tied in a single bond, showing the side of her beautiful face, Yifan see the girl face clearly to where he is currently standing glued to his feet, he visibly see her beautiful doe eyes, button nose and heart shaped lips.
He remember that face clearly and he swear he know that girl. Yifan know her that it make him double check it because he can't believe that he saw her again after so many years.
Yifan stand still, making the younger who's following him behind to bump his head in his back. Yifan stares wide eyed at the girl in shock, he didn't even heard the younger calling his name. His to shocked to even answer because he can't believe who is he seeing right now. He blink his eyes after the younger snap his finger infront of him snapping him out of his daze and asking him if his okay. Yifan gape at the younger still shocked before he looks back to where he see the girl to confirm that she is still in there, before he talk without taking his eyes off of the girl. Afraid she will disappear if he do so.
"Baekhyun..."
"What is it hyung? Are you alright? Do you want to take a sit?"
Baekhyun asks one after the other, he watched how the color of the older face drained and how his eyes widen in daze and surprised. He looks like he saw a ghost or something. Yifan let out a breath he didn't know his holding before he speak again, still staring at the girl. Who is now staring back at him with her doe eyes.
"I don't know if I'm just hallucinating because I'm so damn tired or my eyes is making fun of me right now, because fucking hell.."
"What do you mean, Yifan hyung?"
Baekhyun frowned, now his so confused. What is the older even talking about? And why is he like in daze? What is happening to him? Why is he cursing?
The stunned older gulp then he let out a shaky breath when the girl looks away from him breaking the eye contact, then she go back looking at her phone like she is reading something and typing a replied. Then she looks at her surrounding for a bit before going back to facing her phone to type.
"Baekhyun...isn't that...Kyungsoo or it just me going crazy right now? Because I swear, she is standing outside of the cafe."
Yifan pointed his long finger at the direction of the door and to where is the girl right now. Kyungsoo is currently tilting her head to the side while watching the passing cars seeming to be waiting for someone.
"What...?"
Baekhyun blinked in suprised, he stare at the older for a moment before he followed where the older is pointing, and there he saw who is the older been staring at.
Infront of the Universe door, is no other than Do Kyungsoo herself. She is waving at the upcoming black car and when it stop infront of her, she grins and open the car door greeting the person inside with her bright heart shaped lips, then she hop in and about to close the door. That is when Yifan and Baekhyun snapped out of there daze and the younger run to the door opening it immediately without waiting for the older in hope to caught up with her before the car drive away.
But when he manage to go out of the cafe, the black car already drive away from him. Leaving him shocked and panicked inside. Yifan put his arms around the younger when he came out to join the younger. He pat his shoulder to calm him down, they were still in daze after suddenly meeting the girl.
It's been seven years since they last saw her, and everyone knew that she is already gone. Well, everyone minus Baekhyun and Kyungsoo's family because they still believe that she is still alive. But to does who don't, like Yifan. He is in total shock to see her personally again after seven years of knowing that she is dead.
Yifan can't still believe what he saw, he thought his mind is just making fun of him not until the younger confirm it too. But what he saw its really her, the same black silky hair, doe eyes, button nose, rosy squishy cheeks and heart shaped red lips. It's her without a doubt. And everyone who know her long enough can tell that immediately without a second thought.
"I can't believe she's really alive, Kyungsoo she..."
Yifan whisper under his breath, still staring at the distance to where the car disappeared.
"And I almost have her again..."
Baekhyun was looking down at the pavement, but Yifan know that the younger have a hard time fighting the tears from falling down his cheeks this time. But he also know that in no time, even if the younger is trying so hard, his tears will roll down not matter what. And eventually, like how he predicted it. The younger tears rolled down his face without meaning of stoping anytime soon, his whole face turning red from crying.
"K-Kyungsoo...I-I almost have her a-again...she's h-here hyung..s-she-"
Yifan put his arms around the younger and hug him, he let Baekhyun to cry and sobs in his chest while whispering comporting words. He listen to the younger's cry of agony for losing his fiance again in the blink of an eye. Yifan continue telling sweet word at the younger while brushing his hair to calm him down. Yifan pull his phone out of his pocket with his free hand and then he message the younger bestfriend and cousin to inform them to what happened. Before he pocked the phone again and then he guide the younger to walk to his car still holding the crying younger.
At his car, Yifan pulled his car key out and unlock the door then he opened the passenger door to let the shocked younger in, telling him that he will drive him to Jongdae's house and that Luhan will take care of his car for him. Baekhyun didn't said anything other than to stare ahead in daze. His eyes and face now red and puffy because of to much crying, and his eyes looks more empty than it is now.
Yifan heaves a deep sighs before he drive out of the parking area and into the road, wishing that they got into Kyungsoo before she disappear again.
To be continue...
Chapter 16: 16.
Chapter Text
Kyungsoo was busy texting her husband asking him to pick her up when she felt someone's eyes on her. Kyungsoo looks away from her phone after sending her reply before she looks to the direction she though where she feel it. And there, inside of the Universe is a tall blonde haired handsome guy and a small platinum white haired guy that she can't clearly see his face because of the tall guy blocking her vision of the other guy, staring back at her with a daze shocked face.
She stare back while searching her mind if she met the guy or not. The blonde haired looks familiar to her, like the first time she met Jongin. The feeling is the same but she can't pinpoint where did she saw the guy or who he is. Before she can even think more deeply, she jolted out of her daze when she felt her phone buzz in her hands signaling a new message.
Kyungsoo blink twice at the blonde before she dismiss it and look away from the blonde haired and look back down to her phone in hand, reading her husband message and another one from Jieun.
From: Baby Yeollie~♡
Be right there, wait for me babe (^_<)~დ
To: Baby Soo~♡
Hurry~ ♡^▽^♡
Kyungsoo giggles quietly after sending her reply and receiving back a lots of heart emoji in return from her husband, she exited from her conversation with her husband and then she click the one from Jieun.
From: Jieun unnie ♥
Kyungie~ I'm so sorry again for leaving you all of the sudden (◞‸◟;)
To: Kyungie pooh
It's alright unnie and don't worry about it, Chanyeol oppa is on his way to pick me up (^▽^)
Jieun send her another apologize after she receiver her first one and Kyungsoo reply of another reassurance so she won't feel bad about her leaving her.
The thing is, Jieun treat her for a coffee to pay her for looking after her kids for her and for taking care of them when she can't pick them up yesterday. Kyungsoo already brush it of telling the older female that it's alright and she don't mind, she even enjoy taking care of her kids with her own but Jieun still feel guilty about it and so Kyungsoo agree to have a coffee with her and that's when they met at Universe Cafe.
They we're only supposed to be there in a short time but the two of them lost track of time while talking and having a nice and delicious coffee and sweets. They only got back track of the time when Jieun's phone rings and her manager is calling her, informing her that she need to retake her photoshoot for the upcoming album and that she need to do it before weekend, because it will be release to the public by next week. Jieun work is being a famous singer under the ElyXiOn entertainment, and she is also known by her famous stage name IU.
And with a heavy sighs and multiple of apologize, Jieun once again run outside and to her car to drive back to her work in a hurry.
That's what happened, and now here she is. Standing just outside of the door of Universe and waiting for her husband to come and pick her up. Her phone buzz again and she read it immediately when she see her husband name and then she grins lightly after reading it. The older inform her that his already around the corner, Kyungsoo watch every passing car until she saw the familiar black car of her husband coming closer to where she is and stop just infront of her.
Kyungsoo still felt the heavy eyes of the blonde haired guy inside of the cafe, and she also can feel another set of eyes on her other than the blonde haired, when she open the car door to get in. She was about to look back to see and check who it is this time but her husband called her and asked her to hop in because its cold outside and there is a big grin on his face when she do what latter told her. Kyungsoo laugh while greeting her husband and then she close the door behind her, forgetting about the two set of eyes directed to her and the unknown blonde haired tall guy.
Chanyeol drive away immediately after his wife secure the seatbelt around her body, his excited to go home and tell his wife about his suprised.
~~*~~
Now, sitting at bed with his back leaning at the headboard, his already in his panjamas and his currently waiting for his wife who go to the twins room to check if they were asleep.
Chanyeol eyed the luggage at the foot of the bed, after his two whole weeks of busy schedule in his dad's company. He now have a time to relax and he decided to treat his family at some relaxing vacation and that is to go to Jeju island. Chanyeol know that the twins and his wife will be happy after he told the good news to them and that is what really happened, after he pick up Kyungsoo and they arrived home. Chanyeol told his wife and the twins about his plan for the weekend, he inform them that they will go to Jeju for two days to enjoy and have a vacation that now his not busy, well not until the coming week that is.
The twins cheers in excitement and his wife give him a tight hug after the good news, the kids got more excited when their dad told them that the Kwon family will come with them too.
Kyungsoo already packed the things they will need and they will be ready to go tomorrow morning. And because of to much excitement, Kyungsoo have a hard time to make them sleep. Because the twins is brushing with excitement and happiness that they can't sleep just yet. Chanyeol laugh it off when Kyungsoo pouts at him when she blame him for making the kids to excited that they can't even close their eyes to sleep. But thank god, the twins energy drained out of their system and now they finally gone to sleep, Kyungsoo think it's because of there time from school and after school bonding time with Jongin and his nephew, and now it all catch up to them and it make the twins tired more than ever and make them sleepy after to much excitement from the news.
Kyungsoo walk in after a while, she's yawning when she climb in to the bed to join him and under the cover.
She looks tired and drained, but also happy, Chanyeol laugh, wrapping his two arms around his wife waist tightly. Kyungsoo whined in Chanyeol's embrace, burrowing her face in the junction between her husband's shoulder and neck so that she can hide her face from the older.
"Are they asleep?"
Chanyeol asks her lifting his hand to brush away Kyungsoo's hair away from her face, Kyungsoo hum in return, enjoying the affection coming from her husband.
"Good, you should sleep now too babe."
Kyungsoo smile and give her husband a lazy peck at his chin, before she burrow herself back at her husband neck again. Chanyeol grins and leans down to drop a kiss at his wife red cheeks.
"Good night, love."
~~*~~
She is dreaming, Kyungsoo know it because of the more younger version of herself and the familiar looking black haired sitting infront of her, his face is all foggy and unclear, only his eyes are the only visible and clear enough for her to see.
It seems, she has been diligently studying for the last hour and half. Base from the numerous notebook and books lay across the coffee table as she writes down some notes to memorize it later. But studying however, has proven her a lot harder than she thought for the last six minutes now.
The black haired infront of her decided to plop down on the floor across from her with the excuse of doing the same as her, which is studying for there upcoming finals exam. She agree to it, shuging the idea and thinking it's better to study together other than the latter not doing it at all. She appreciates the latter presents with her, but it is a bit more difficult to concentrate when she can feel a certain someone's eyes on her.
"Jagiya, are you hungry?"
She asks without looking up from her notes. Kyungsoo continue on scribbling in her paper while she waits for some sort of reply for the latter which never comes. The black haired ignore her question and don't answer, instead he carries on staring at her, she can even fell the latter soft smile while gazing at her face without her seeing it. His hands tucked under his chin while his books and notebook is left untouched infront of him.
Kyungsoo heaves a sighs and stop what she is doing when she still can feel the latter gaze at her, she drops her pen on top of her half finished notes and stares pointedly back at the brown eyes of the black haired infront of her. Taken aback a little when she is greeted with fond looks from the black haired eyes when they stare at each other. Kyungsoo feels her cheeks heat up and begin to color in light shade of red, blush starts to form at the apple of her cheeks quickly spreading through her entire face and into her ears.
It causes the black haired's mouth to slowly curve into a wide and cheeky grin, loving the dusty red color on Kyungsoo's cheeks, it makes him feel oddly proud and happy. Kyungsoo rolls her eyes at him to cover up her sudden shyness and tries to ignore the latter once more and attempts to return to her note and books.
"Jagiya~"
Kyungsoo whines after few minutes later, wanting to stop the latter from staring at her. But the black haired whines right back at her with a hint of smile in his voice.
"Jagi~"
"Please, stop it."
"Stop what baby Soo?"
The black haired laugh, feigning innocence.
"Please, stop staring at me like that," Kyungsoo mumbles still looking down to her books and hiding her red cheeks by holding the book up high infront of her face. "you're stealing my precious attention by doing that."
The latter coos at Kyungsoo's adorable face and pouts, and pushes himself up on his elbows leaning across the coffee table so that their faces are mere inches apart before he grab the book away from the girl's hold and put it down at the rest of the books at the table, grinning happily at her.
"I'm sorry, but it's just that, you're just so beautiful Jagi, did you know that? Kyungsoo, did you know that you're honestly the most beautiful girl on this planet earth."
He says softly and affection. Kyungsoo gaze back at him bashfully and happy, she smile, eyes turning into little crescents and honestly the black haired could be struck down by lightning and he will still feeling happy and giddy.
"Shut up."
Kyungsoo giggles, shoving the latter away. The black haired chuckles and moves right back up pressing a soft kiss to Kyungsoo's lips.
"But I mean it, you know," he whispers against her lips, "you're the most beautiful girl I ever met and had the pleasure of being with for the rest of my life."
"And you're the most obnoxious boy I ever laid my eyes on,"
Kyungsoo laughs heartily when the latter squawks indignantly.
"But you still love me, right?"
He asks batting his eyelashes, still in Kyungsoo's personal space. Kyungsoo response with a soft kiss is enough for him but she still voice what he want to hear.
"Of couse, you're the only one I want to be with for the rest of my life too."
"I love you, Kyungsoo."
"I love you too, Baek-"
~~*~~
Kyungsoo woke up from her dream before she can even says the black haired name and see his face clearly. Kyungsoo know that the black haired in her dream is the same guy she vivid remember while listening to the song Jongin let her hear. She know without a doubt that they were the same black haired with soft shade of brown eyes, but this time in her dream, she almost says the latter name and she almost can see his face clearly. But she woke up all of the sudden before she can even see his face clearing from the foggy image.
It disappoint her and she almost want to go back to sleep again, closing her eyes and willing herself to go back to sleep, when the reason she woke up squeal and then it shower her with kisses after they saw her open her eyes. Kyungsoo yawns, then she proceeds of wrapping her arms around the two kids at either side of her still showering her with kisses. She hugs them, making the twins to lay down beside her giggling and laughing when she return the favor by giving them pepper kisses on their whole face.
When Chanyeol comes back to there room after his phone call with his cousin, he saw his precious kids laying down beside their mother laughing happily while being pamper by his now awake wife.
"Good morning, love."
Chanyeol joined the three and he sit at the bed beside Minhyun, he pat the kid's hair messing it on the process making the boy to whine at him and pouts.
"Morning daddy!"
Minsoo beams at her father receiving a soft kiss in the forehead by his dad in return.
"Are you two ready? Uncle Jiyong call just now saying that they're on there way here to pick us up."
Chanyeol says, Minsoo beams more and then she hop down of the bed with his dad help before she run out of the room yelling that she will get ready and change her cloths. Minhyun do the same after dropping a soft kiss down at her mom and dad's cheeks, Kyungsoo giggles at her kids antics before she looks up at her husband.
"Trip to Jeju is really true, eh?"
"Of course it is, I just told you that yesterday night babe."
"Thought you're just tired enough to blabber it out without meaning to."
Kyungsoo laughs when Chanyeol pouts and whined about meaning everything he said just yesterday night.
"I know, I know. I'm just teasing you, Yeol."
"Meanie."
Chanyeol groaned, Kyungsoo giggles before she sit up and leans to drop a kiss at her husband cheeks.
"Good morning, love."
Kyungsoo hop out of bed and out of the room leaving her flustered husband behind to go on and check over the twins and help them prepair.
~~*~~
When they arrived in Jeju, it's already afternoon. And they decided to settle in first before they go to the restaurant of the resort they check in. And after eating there lunch they're now at the beach just at the back of the resort they check in. The kids keep on pestering them to go to beach after they eat and the adult can't do anything about it than to agree. And so, after they eat, they go back to there rooms to change and to pick up some things they will need before they meet up at the lobby of the resort again then go to the beach.
The four energetic kids is currently playing in pair like usual. Minsoo and Hwitaek as usual is with each other company, playing at the shore with the water and with them is the two cousin, Chanyeol and Jiyong. Then there is Yoongi and Minhyun playing at the sand opposite to what their siblings are doing, they were making castle and some object they can't understand, happily playing under the sun and away from the water. And just beside to where they were playing is the two mother, Kyungsoo and Jieun.
They were under the big umbrella they brought with them and under it is a big blanket they lay over the sands. Jieun is laying down under the umbrella with a magazine of where she model is in her hands, while Kyungsoo is sitting beside her holding a book.
They all been enjoying there sudden vacation, relaxing and resting from all the stress and the life away from the city for a while. All the possibility that something would happened is out of everyones mind. Even Chanyeol who is been so worried and paranoid after meeting his bestfriend, relaxed and forgot about it for a while. Everything is so calm and refreshing that they never know what could possible happened the next night.
~~*~~
The following morning after they eat breakfast, Chanyeol and Jiyong bring them to a trip. They visit so many place that day, visit all the famous place like Hallim Park, O'sulloc Green Tea Museum, and Cheonjeyeon Waterfall. They even decided to visit the Mount Hallsan. All of them have fun after the tiring and exciting day of going to every place they can go for there last night stay in there.
When they come back to their resort rooms it's already late at night, and the kids who is drained out of their energy is now fast asleep after there long journy of fun day. It is past midnight and everyone is already asleep when Kyungsoo decided to go out of there resort room and go to the beach to take some fresh air before they go back to the city of Seoul tomorrow morning.
Kyungsoo didn't notice how long she's been standing at the shore while gazing at the distance and into the moon. She didn't even know what time it is now and how long has she been outside. But when the cold breeze touch her cheeks and make her shiver, she decided to go back and somehow, this time she feel like she can finally sleep without thinking about her dream just few days ago.
The dream, she don't know if it's her memory or if it just a mere dream. But the thought of the black haired in her previous vivid memory, the one she saw in her mind while listening to the song, she can't shake the thought of that black haired and the same one she have dream of. And she can't also believe that she can almost see that guy face without being vague and unclear. And the thought of almost knowing the latter name by coming out of her lips is so unreal to her.
Futhermore, Kyungsoo already accept the fact that the black haired in her first memory is the same guy in her dream and the only unsettling to her is that she know the guy and not just that. This black haired with soft shade of brown eyes is her lover? Maybe? She is not sure, but that is the only thing she can pinpoint from the two memory that she regain. Because in the two different event she see and felt how that black haired guy is so sweet and affectionate toward her and she is reciprocating the same thing to him. They even called each other 'Jagiya', and they even kiss for numerious time she can't count anymore.
She is so scared at first, but she notice that this black haired guy is holding a place inside her heart without her knowing why. It is because everytime, even if she is inside of her dreams or not, she always feel how her heart keep beating uncontrollably fond for the latter, even if she can't remember the latter at all she still can feels her heart beating in affection just for him and him alone. It's strange but his every touch felt so soft and loving that after she woke up from it, she still can feels does loving touch. The feeling of her lips and the latter connecting, it still tingled and she still can feel how their lips connected. And his voice, how he said her name and says 'I love you', it's still ringing inside of her head even after two days since it happened. Kyungsoo still remember how the black haired voice sounds like, it's like a voice of an angel, whispering to her and telling her how much he loves her. It so unreal yet, she loves and want to hear it, she want to met that black haired guy, even if it just inside of her dream. Even if it just a glimpse of him, she want to met him again. She wish for it so much that she felt guilty after.
Her dream feel so real too, everytime she snap out of that event. She still can feel the love from the latter, the tingling sensation after it. It makes her giddy and confused at the same time after she regain her consciousness, her heart beating uncontrollably loud inside of her ears. She can't explain the feeling but one thing she notice after does two dreams, that the black haired and her is inrelationship back at that time. They were inlove with each other base to the way they gaze at each other eyes with a fond smile on their lips. And reason she feels so guilty is that the feeling she never felt for her husband, Kyungsoo can feel it all towards the latter.
Kyungsoo felt guilty just thinking about it, but that is really what she feel after the dreams. It so confusing but what can she do? It only poped out of her mind and dreams, like it telling her something she need to remember, something imfortant that her mind wanted to remind her, it keep on forcing her to remember by giving her does dreams. Like her mind is telling her that it's parts of her lost memories that she have to remember soon before it's to late. But who is that guy and what is he to her really? Is what keep her awake every night after the first time she saw the black haired in her dreams.
Even if she want to forgot about it in guilt of thinking another guy other than her husband, it just keep coming back at her mind circuling like it want to tell her something and wanting her to remember. But what is it? Why can't she just remember everything so she don't have to worry so much about it like this? Kyungsoo heaves a sigh continuing her walk to go back inside and into the lobby of the resort, without really look where she going.
Her eyes is cast down at the pavement of the pool area she is in now, while her mind is away, flying everywhere with her thoughts jumping around in jumble making her head a bit dizzy and her focus a little daze. She is currenly walking past the pool and almost out of it, looking distracted and unaware of the brown haired with cat-like-lips and small eyes staring at her in a moment of shock, before it move to come closer to her and then he grabs a hold of her wrist stopping her from moving and pulling her out of her deep thoughts. Kyungsoo flinch in surprise and shock before she looks at the man holding her wrist with her wide nervous eyes.
The brown haired let go of her wrist after he saw the girl reaction, already confirming his dubious mind about what he saw. He grins in apologetic manner at the girl, and inturn Kyungsoo swear the guy looks like the Cheshire cat grinning at her soul, it scared her a little but the brown haired looks harmless and so she relax a little, Kyungsoo step back a little to see the latter more clearly. The brown haired was taller than her a bit and his lips really look like a cat, and his eyes is small and it looks like it smiling even if his not. His soft looking brown hair is unstyled, falling at his head without a care and almost covering his perfect looking pair of eyebrows. And the latter have a pair of high cheek bones, highlighting his perfect handsome face.
"Kyungsoo?"
The brown haired speak calling her, still staring at her and his face is still void in disbelief but his eyes saying other wise. Kyungsoo frowed after she hear her own name came out of the latter lips, the brown haired seemed to know her by calling her with her name, but he still questioning her to be sure. Kyungsoo without a doubt don't know the young man even a slighter bit. She don't even remember meeting him anywhere, and so, How did he know her?
"Yes, but... who are you?"
Kyungsoo asks without a void of hesitation making the latter frowned in return.
"Are you kidding me, Kyungsoo? It's me, Jongdae. Kim Jongdae."
His frown deepen when Kyungsoo's expression don't change, she still don't know him even if he told her his name. Kim Jongdae? Who is Jongdae? Do I know him? There so many question popping out into Kyungsoo's head that it make her a little bit more dizzy but she still have an energy to answer the latter.
"No, sorry...but I don't really know you."
"What do you mean by 'you don't know me?' Kyungsoo, I'll been with you and your fiance since we're in collage. Are you mad at me or something? Did I do something wrong before the accident? Or are you mad at me because I'm one of your fiance's bestfriend?"
Kyungsoo blink her eyes in shock after that, so the brown haired really know her and they know each other since collage. So he is one of does who know her and her past. And he know her and her fiance? Does he mean by that, that he know her and Chanyeol? The vague image of the black haired with brown eyes flashed into her mind and Kyungsoo shake her head immediately to get ride of the sudden image and thought that popped out of nowhere into her mind. No, it is Chanyeol this Jongdae guy was taking about and not that black haired guy. But why did her heart squeeze painfully at the idea of her denying the thought of the black haired?
Kyungsoo heaves a sigh, she don't know what to think anymore or what to feel. She don't even know if she should feel happy that someone other than Jongin, recognize her or be sad because she is feel so confused and guilty at the same time. The memories, she don't even know if it is her memory or not, she don't know how to think out of it anymore. It playing with her feelings, the dream and the sudden vision of that black haired, it playing with her since she have it.
And now, here is Jongdae infront of her, telling her that he is part of her life and her lost memories. The memories she don't even know if it will come back to her or not.
"I'm so sorry, I don't remember anything about my past anymore. I have this terrible amnesia since my accident seven years ago, so even if you tell me some basic information that you know me and I know you, I can't remember it without my memories."
Kyungsoo tells the latter everything she told Jongin when they first met, not wanting to complicated the situation anymore and making her head more dizzy than it is at the moment, she tell him directly why she can't seem to remember him. She told him the exact reason why. Jongdae stare at her with his widen shocked eyes and mouth, seeming not to believe every thing she said. She can't blame it from it though, even her can't still believe that her memories leave her because of the terrible accident that happened to her that she can't even remember how it happen and why.
"That's why you didn't come back after all this years..."
Kyungsoo once again frowned, not understanding what the latter means by that. But before she can even question him, Jongdae continue seeming to sober up a little after her dropping the shocking information.
"Did you know that we all thought that your already dead? After the accident, the rescue team don't stop searching just to find you but after looking and checking everywhere they could possible find you, they come back empty handed and told us they didn't find you. Then after that they declare and inform us that your probably dead and that the body is all gone into the deep sea. Baek is so devastated after he woke up from his coma and finds out about you being gone. He even try to go find you on his own but with no luck at all. In the first month that you're gone, he falls into depression and tried to kill himself so many times that he almost succeed it and scared us all. Then after few months of trying, his parents bring him to Vancouver with them to try to help him forget. But well, he never did and would never will. After almost a year and half, he comes back here at Korea, his a bit alright but he still don't forget. His panick attack and anxiety lessen but it still there. But thank god, his suicide thought lessen and it won't elicit to him if not being provoke by someone to do it."
Jongdae heaves a deep distressed sighs after being reminded of the past again, to all the hard shift and grief his bestfriend has go on after the accident. All the blaming and beating he do to himself. The lonelyness and sadness that always hunt him everytime his all alone. The cries he lets out when no one is around to listen when he remember his fiance and there memories. The thought of killing himself just to be with his lover again and all the regret he have deep inside. His bestfriend don't deserve all of that but still, he go on and feels all of that in seven years.
"He blame himself after you're gone, he beat himself to it in seven years now. He keep telling himself that all of this is his fault, and you died because of him. We tried to make him feel more better and to move on somehow, but his the one who choice not to do so. Believing that you're still alive and will come back one day, we want to disagree and tell him not to get his hope up but we can't. It is the only hope his been holding on for seven years now anyway, if he gives up on that hope were sure know what would happen next. We don't want to think about it or imagine it. It's scary and that's why, we always tried to cheer him up without breaking his only hope. And that is to met and be with you again."
Jongdae looks up at the starry sky, remembering his bestfriend latest attempt that he almost succeed on doing so again. If not for Daehyun his bestfriend is long gone now too. Then he remember the event just two days ago, the night Yifan inform him about them seeing Kyungsoo for a moment that it feels like they see a ghost but it isn't because they also saw her get inside of the black car before it drove away from them. Jongdae gaze shifted to the girl infront of her and agree to what the older has told him, Kyungsoo is real and not a ghost, she is really alive.
"We're been looking for you this past seven years, hoping that your really alive. And I never thought that I will met you again, Kyungsoo. And it never cross at our mind that you are suffering from a terrible amnesia after the accident. But now I know why you didn't come back after all this years. How are you, Kyungsoo? What happened? And where are you staying right now? And with who?"
Kyungsoo stare at the latter who is giving her a sad smile and confused eyes, his frowning again while asking so many question at the same time. Kyungsoo have so many question to asks too, but she don't know what to asks either or where to start. She want to speak but she's not sure what to say. It's like her mind shut down on her and she can't think anymore. All the things Jongdae told her, she don't know how to feel about it, she don't even know what is the latter was talking about. She don't know if he just mistaken her to someone else or what he told her is real. And if not, she is not so sure anymore if his telling her the truth or just lying to her. Because everything she hear from him is just so unreal but at the same time she also felt so reasured about it.
And even if it is really her that Jongdae know and the one they been looking for for seven years now, then what really happened back then, before and after the accident? And why Chanyeol didn't report anything about it to anyone? And who is this Baek anyway? Who is he to her? Why would that guy be in so much grief because of her? Who is he?
She have so many question inside of her head that it make her more and more dizzy at every passing second she think about it all.
But she asks the question that keep bugging her more than the other in her head. The one question that yelling loudly inside of her mind, the one question that wanted to be asks, that question who don't want to leave her alone not after getting answer from the latter.
Kyungsoo closed her eyes for a moment and take a calming shaky breath before she open her eyes again and stare at Jongdae to asks that persistent question outloud.
"Who is Baek?"
That name sound familiar to her ears, it even felt familiar when she said it out loud. She can even taste the aftermath of it at the tip of her tongue, after it comes out of her own mouth. It's like she said that name for so many times already, that she is so familiar to it, the feeling of letting that name roll out of her lips with so much affection she can't explain why she feels like that. That name is ringing every bells in her head but she don't know why. The sound of it is so familiar and so unreal that it bother her so much why. Like she know that name even if she don't ask it outloud to the latter, it feels so right after she let it rolled out of her mouth. Her heart beating uncontrollably fond and happy inside of her rib cage, it's like her own heart unacknowledged the fact that she know this guy without her meeting him personally and remembering who it is.
It's weird but deep inside she is happy. She don't know why but she is.
"Baek? He is your-"
Jongdae words got cut off when they heard a loud bang and the both of them flinch in shock before they heard the loud fire alarm coming from the resort and then not long after the alarm went off the crowd of guest where now starting to run out of the resort in panic. Jongdae cursed under his breath when he saw a big fire coming from the 4th floor of the resort building, before he fished his phone out of his pocket to call someone, while waiting for it to connect he saw Kyungsoo run inside of the resort without looking back at him.
She hear Jongdae called after her but she ignore it and instead she don't stop and run more faster inside, she push the other who is in a hurry to go out of the resort and away from the wild fire eating the whole 4th floor without mercy.
Kyungsoo is scared, not for herself but for her own family. She leave her child and husband inside sleeping and there is a fire just above where there rooms are, she is panicking inside and her mind keep on thinking of the scary scenario that she hope won't happened. On her way to the stairs, someone grab her wrist again pulling her away from the staircase. And Kyungsoo was about to fight her way out from the stranger's hold, when the person who is holding her yelled her name again and again in the top of the noisy panicked crowd around them.
"Kyungsoo! Yah, Kyungsoo!! Look at me, Kyungsoo!! SOO! KYUNGSOO!!!"
Kyungsoo blink her tears away from her eyes to clear her hazy vision away then she stare at the person infront of her still holding her wrist.
"Chanyeol..?"
She asks still in daze, Chanyeol nod and without saying anything back he drag her with him to the front of the said resort. And there she saw her kids and the Kwon family infront of the black van. Kyungsoo runs to where her kids is after Chanyeol let go of her wrist, she hugs the two crying twins, whispering how sorry she is while brushing there hair to calm them down.
"Let go, get in Soo. Will drive to the nearest hotel to check in."
Chanyeol says, grabbing a hold of Minsoo before he picks up the still crying girl in his arms. While Kyungsoo do the same to Minhyun nodding at her husband before she hop inside of the van, Chanyeol do the same after she get in, closing the door behind him. Kyungsoo see the Kwon couple calming their own kids at the back. Seems like, all of them is shocked to what just happened.
After they settle in, Chanyeol told the driver to drive them to the hotel that is nearest to the airport because they going back to Seoul at morning.
Kyungsoo forgot her talk with Jongdae for the time being, busy on calming her child and reasurring them to even remember everything and that she don't have any way to contact Jongdae ever again, she don't even know where to find the latter after this.
Kyungsoo force all of that aside for now, giving her all attention to the twins and settling down at the hotel. Kyungsoo falls asleep after her child sleep from crying to much and exhaustion. She didn't even know that Chanyeol is still not back inside of their room with them, when she let her kids soft breath lull her to sleep.
To be continue...
Chapter 17: 17.
Chapter Text
Baekhyun's inside of his office staring at nothing and sitting at his chair infront of his desk full of files and his laptop is open to with the unaswered emails. It's been two days since the day they saw Kyungsoo at the Universe Cafe. And since then, Baekhyun's been coming back to the said cafe for two days straight now, wishing and praying to met Kyungsoo there again.
And it's been two days since his mind started to develope in frustration and depression again. It anger him to the point that he almost brush in frustration and fall into suicide attempt again, the thought that he almost have his fiance but she slipped away like a blink of an eye frustrate him the most, it's like she's not even in that place in the first place. It felt like they just hallucinate that time and see her even if she is not truly in there. She is like a ghost back then, she suddenly disappear when they almost got her.
Baekhyun even go around the place he know Kyungsoo can possible be going or staying but with no luck on his side. Every time he got to the said place, his high hope would crash down with his heart everytime he came home empty handed after his long night looking for her in two days. He even called every mutual friends he have with Kyungsoo to ask if they ever met his fiance or see a glimpse of her, but everyone just keep telling him that they don't and keep on telling him that she is dead so there is a big possibility that its not her and that they saw wrong.
He don't want to believe it, Baekhyun don't want to believe in anything they been saying and so he denied it and do everything on his own without asking anyone anymore. He keep telling himself that the one he and Yifan saw that day is really her, his Kyungsoo. So, he won't give up, not now that he confirm that she is really alive. He just need to look more and be patient like his been doing for seven years now. He just need to put his faith in it and pray that he will find his fiance sooner.
Baekhyun was thinking about to contact Kyungsoo's parents to ask if they see or met their daugher, but in two days of considering the idea he brush it off completely. Not wanting to anger Kyungsoo's mother more than she is mad at him at the past years now. And beside, he is not even sure if they will believe him if he told them what happened and that he saw their daughter. They will surely even think that his gone crazy like his friends has been saying if he told that to them.
Without any other choice, Baekhyun keep it to himself and didn't inform the Do family about it.
Baekhyun was snapped out of his frustrated thoughts when his phone rings from his desk just beside his laptop. He blinked back at the device and just wait for it to stop ringing and go directly at voice mail, not in the mood to answer it. Baekhyun heaves a tired sighs when the ringing stopped, but not long that it stop and the whole room falls into silent again. His phone started ringing again and just like the first call he just stare at it waiting for it to stop again, but it keep on ringing again and again after the first few calls indicating that the caller is very persistent and determined to reach him and talk to him.
After few more misscalls and continues ringing from the device that irk him so much, Baekhyun groaned in annoyance and frustration when it started ringing again for how many times already making his hurting head buzz and become dizzy from constant of ringing coming from the phone. He picks up the annoying device into his hand and then without really looking to see who is calling, Baekhyun answered it after letting out a deep sigh.
"Byun Baekhyun speaking."
"Yah! Byun Baekhyun. Why aren't you answering my first many, many calls!!"
He lets out a sigh again after he heard the person annoyed tone from the other line.
"I'm sorry, Jongdae. I'm just really not in the mood to talk right now..."
"Still thinking about your encounter with Kyungsoo at Universe?"
"Yes."
Baekhyun reply shortly, he heaves a sigh again before he move out of his chair and walks infront of the floor to ceiling glass windows of his office, he gaze down at the busy street of Seoul in hope that the buzzing in his head would go away somehow. He heard his bestfriend let out a shaky breath seeming to be nervous about something and hesitating about telling him about it at the other line and after a minute of silent from the both line, Jongdae speaks still a bit hesitating and his voice lower than usual.
"I hope you'd be fine and calm after hearing what I was about to tell you, Baek."
"What do you mean?"
"I...two days ago, you and Kris hyung told me about you two seeing Kyungsoo and..I"
Jongdae stop what his about to say again, his hesitating about it and Baekhyun can feel it even if the latter is not infront of him to see it. But why would he hesitate about it? And what is he talking about? Baekhyun gaze falls to the clear blue sky above and frown while thinking what is bothering his bestfriend's mind to hesitate like this.
"What about it, Jongdae?"
Baekhyun heard his bestfriend talking to someone at the other line but he can't seem to understand what they were talking about, then he hear someone yelling before it become quiet again. But not that long he heard Jongdae heaves a deep sigh before going back to talk to him. His voice full of frustration and a bit annoyed now.
"Sorry about that, my wife. I mean my ex-wife.."
"You got into an argument again?"
Jongdae hum with a sighs, seeming to be tired.
"She got really mad at me when our supposed to be happy vacation had gone into disaster instead."
"What happened?"
"The resort were currently staying at, there is an accident that happened. There's a fire that started from the four floor of the resort and then everyone panic and well my ex-wife and kids was still inside but thank god our room is just at the first floor so nothing really bad had happened but still, she's mad at me because of it and blame me that my plan of vacation is not safe and yea.. we're at the airport right now to go back to Seoul and my ex-wife is planing on going back to state with the kids immediately..."
He heard the latter heaves a sigh again, but this time he can feel his bestfriend frustration and anger. Baekhyun felt sorry for his bestfriend, because he know how much his been looking forward for his one week vacation with his ex-wife and kids but now he can't have that one week because of what happened. He know that Jongdae, his bestfriend is still inlove with his ex-wife but what happened to them in the past is what been preventing them from doing something about there feelings. And beside, Jongdae ex don't want to do anything with his bestfriend anymore and if it is not for their child, Jongdae's ex won't be coming at Korea to met him so the latter could met the kids.
"What are you planing then? Can't you just convince her to stay until weekend and bring her and the kids somewhere other than Jeju? Don't waste your one week vacation without them, if you need to bug and force your ex-wife to stay then do it."
"I already try that, but you know her."
Baekhyun chuckled after he hear his bestfriend laugh after his own words.
"As if I know her personally."
"I forgot."
Jongdae laugh more loudly but this time all the frustration and anger is gone, it sound relief to Baekhyun and it make him smile too to know that he help the latter by calming him down without him being in their physically. After a brief minutes of silent, Jongdae cleared his throat and the playfulness tone in his voice vanished and in exchange to it is his rare serious tone that scared him everytime it happened. Because it is not Jongdae if he turn serious and not playful.
"Enough of me, I have something important to tell you that's why I keep on trying calling you so many times."
"What is it?"
Baekhyun wait for what the latter was about to tell him, his heart now beating rapidly. His scared and at the same time hopeful, somehow he don't know why he feel so hopeful all of the sudden but he just feel it so strongly and it make him more nervous and giddy at every passing second that his bestfriend taking his time to collet his thought to drop the important thing his talking about.
"It's about Kyungsoo, Baek..."
Jongdae start calmly and carefully to not startled the latter, Baekhyun blink in surprised after he heard that, his heart beating more faster that normal. Anticipating the latter next words, wishing and praying for the good news and hoping for something his been wishing to hear after his encounter with Kyungsoo two days ago, hoping that his bestfriend will give him the information his been craving for this two days.
Baekhyun open his mouth and his about to speak and ask the latter but Jongdae beat him to it by continuing where he started.
"I met her, here at the resort we're staying. And I even talk to her, she told me why didn't she comes back when I asked her. Kyungsoo told me what happen to her and she said that after her accident and when she woke up, she don't remember anything about her past and anything in general. She also inform me that she have a terrible amnesia and it's been sever years since then. And until now, she still don't remember anything. That's the reason she don't comes back to us and even told anyone she's still alive. I told her who am I when she don't seem to remember me and I even tried to remind her about the past and what happened to you after the accident. She really don't remember anything, because after I told her all of that she just stare blankly at nothing and she looks confused and lost..."
Jongdae turn silent for a while and wait for Baekhyun to absorb everything he just told him before thinking of continuing. Baekhyun closed his eyes tightly and then his hands tighten around the device his holding up to his ear, he bite down to his lower lips and his breathing coming in and out slowly, he feels suffocated all of the sudden after he absorb everywords that comes from his bestfriend. The word amnesia is ringing in his ears and mind more than the other information, it makes breathing is a hard task to him now.
The reason why she didn't have a chance to come back to him, it is because she don't remember anything. She lost her memory without them knowing.
Baekhyun felt like someone is choking him, taking his breath away. He feel so lightheaded after the words sink in to him. He can't even speak to ask his bestfriend if Kyungsoo is still with him. He felt so weak and he feels like his going to pass out anytime soon. His breathing coming out slowly and weakly like his losing all the air inside of his body by just breathing.
Jongdae not knowing what the latter state at the moment continue after a moment of silent and not recieving anything inreturn from his bestfriend.
"I know that I said two days ago that it's impossible but now I believe you because I saw her and talk to her in person. And I just want to inform you about it. Hey, Baek are you alright?"
"W-where is she n-now..?"
Baekhyun stutter, breath coming out sortly then rapidly his out of breath and he think his going to hyperventilate soon. He needs to call Luhan soon and inform her that he can't breath, but he can't even move from where he is standing at the moment, can't even speak without stuttering anymore and losing more breath. His heart is like his breathing at the moment, beating rapidly like it wants to come out of his rib cage. Baekhyun vision becoming blurry and foggy at the time and there is a small black dot forming at the corner of his vision, slowly crawling it's way to block his vision entirely .
Jongdae frowed after he heard the latter stutter, worrying about his bestfriend well being.
"Are you alright, Baekhyun?"
Jongdae didn't recieve any respond from the latter other than his frantic breathing and small groan. He panic after he hear the latter from the other line whimper then he heard something dropped at the floor with a loud thud followed by a crash like something broke before everything queit down. Jongdae keep on calling his bestfriend name over the phone but no one is answering him anymore. In his panicked mind, Jongdae hangup his call with his bestfriend before rapidly dialing Luhan's number.
When the woman answer after the second rings, Jongdae told the latter to go and check Baekhyun immediately and without asking anyfurther Luhan opened the door of the CEO office with the device still in her ear and she gasp in suprised and horror after she saw Baekhyun unconscious inside of the office. Jongdae heard Luhan called for help then he heard Sehun voice after, who came in looking confused at first before he saw his wife with the unconscious Baekhyun at her lap. Jongdae heard Sehun telling his wife to calm down and that to grab the car key and they will bring Baekhyun at the hospital immediately.
Jongdae was about to ask what is happening, but Luhan told him that she will call him back later before she hangup on him in a hurry.
Jongdae looks down at his phone in worry, he guess Baekhyun have a panick attack again after he heard what he had said. It's common for his bestfriend to have panick attack and they know it already, but him passing out after his panick attack is new to them. Baekhyun never passed out after his panick attack, yes he trashed out when his panick attacked him and seem to lost himself with in it. But he never passed out after that. But today he did and it worried him more and frustrate him because his not there to help his bestfriend.
His contemplating what to do next when someone bring him out of his frustrated mind by pinching him at his side making him yelp from hurt. Jongdae frowned and glare at the woman infront of him with a little boy in her arms sleeping at her shoulder comfortably. The latter roll her eyes at him before she glare back.
"Hurry up, we have to broad soon. But it's fine with me if your not coming, I'll be more than happy if you would'nt."
The woman with a cat-like-eyes glare dagger at him and rolled her eyes in annoyance again before she walks away without waiting for him. She is mad and Jongdae can feel it without the latter voicing it out. And with one last frustrated and tired sighs, Jongdae followed his ex-wife and kid, wishing and hoping that his ex-wife would feel pity on him and won't come back to the state yet and give his one week thing with the kid.
~~*~~
His dreaming, Baekhyun know it. Because it's impossible that Kyungsoo is suddenly just within reach just like now, and beside, Baekhyun remember this moment.
His familiar with it and it is one of his treasured memories with her.
Kyungsoo was currently sitting comfortable at the chair opposite him with the table separating them. Baekhyun remember this day, it's that time and day that he finally admit to himself that yes, his feeling for Kyungsoo is not just him being her friend, but it is more than that. Baekhyun's been denying his feeling for so long for the younger and now he can't hide it, not to himself ofcourse.
They were currently at the library inside of the EXO'rdium Acadamy, they were studying for the upcoming midterm. Well, the truth is, Kyungsoo decided to go to the library to study and Baekhyun tag along with her in hope to be with the younger longer and he excuse himself that he needs to study too and they should do it together. Kyungsoo shrug it off and let him come with her. And now here they are, Kyungsoo is busy writting down at the notebook opened infront of her with many books opened in the middle, like the younger, Baekhyun have an open notebook infront of him and lots of open books, his also holding a pen in his hand. But not like the girl who is busy from studying, reading, writting and then taking note.
Baekhyun is busy from staring at the face of the beautiful girl infront of him. He already know how beautiful the younger was, he already see that the first time he met and saw her. But even after being with her for so long, Baekhyun is still mesmerize by her beauty. He still can't believe how beautiful and pure the younger is. He can't even believe that it is possible to see an angel and it is infront of him, looking so gorgeous and so pure.
He stare more, observing the beautiful girl infront of him. His gaze comes down from the girl's gorgeous doe-eyes, her attractive pair of dark black eyes. The more he stare at it the more the said eyes is pulling him in, like it's a black hole pulling him in until he can't get out anymore. He don't mind being trap inside of that though. Baekhyun smile before his gaze flicker down to the girl's beautiful unique heartshaped lips. Her oh-so-sweet looking-lips, oh how Baekhyun wished to kiss that precious lips with his own. Baekhyun gulp nervously after his thought, his heart picking up its beat, rapidly like it will come out of his rib cage and will present itself infront of the girl.
Baekhyun looks away immediately when he feels the younger will look up, he pretend to read his book then scribbling down randomly to his notebook like his truly studying like the younger. Baekhyun chew at his lower lips to try and calm his beating heart down, afraid the younger will hear it if it didn't stop beating like crazy.
Kyungsoo eyebrow shot up while looking at the nervous Baekhyun infront of her. And then after a moment of thinking and staring, Kyungsoo moves out from her seat and then she picks up her notebook and pen before she rounded the table and take a sit beside the older. Baekhyun blinked his eyes at the younger beside him in surprise and to why did she come and sit beside him.
"I been distracting you from studying by sitting opposite you, so.."
Kyungsoo smiles, her gaze falling down at his open notebook with scribble of just jumble of everything then back at his now reddening face from embarrassment of getting caught. Kyungsoo giggles after she saw the older face turn into deep red, she bring her both hands up to pinch his red cheeks cooing at him like his a baby.
"Aww~ Baekie oppa's face is turning red~ why? Is oppa being shy from me now?~"
Baekhyun whines like a kicked puppy, making the younger to laugh at his cute antics. Baekhyun removed Kyungsoo's hands away from his face and instead he hold the girl's hands in his own, grinning and feeling happy already.
"Your so cute oppa."
"And your so beautiful, Soo."
Kyungsoo pouts after hearing that and then she pull her other hand out of Baekhyun hold before she playfully hit him on the shoulder.
"Liar! Baekhyunie oppa is a liar~"
Kyungsoo singsonged and then she giggles when Baekhyun pouts in return.
"And your also the handsome cute puppy of mine~"
She beams at the latter then Kyungsoo leans in to drop a soft kiss at Baekhyun's cheeks before she pulled her other hand out of the older hold to continue what she was doing.
"Now, please do focus on your book and study this time oppa."
Baekhyun nodded with a big smile over his lips and this time he really do study like Kyungsoo told him. They study silently while sitting closer at each other.
~~*~~
When Baekhyun woke up, the first thing he saw is the white ceiling, then the bed his been laying wth and last the white walls of the room he is in, it looks like his at the hospital again. He don't even remember why is he in there anymore. The last time he remember is that, his talking to Jongdae and his telling him about his meeting with Kyungsoo at Jeju. Then before he can even ask or hear where his fiance is, he remember having a hard time breathing and then his vision flickering into a little bot of black. And then the next thing he knew, his about to loss consciousness and all of the sudden he blacked out.
Futhermore, after that he don't remember what happen, he don't even know who brought him at the hospital or how did they manage to know he passed out. He guess Jongdae has something to do with it. His talking to him the time it happened anyway, he will be suprised if the latter won't suspect anything when he suddenly stopped respoding to him. He should thank him later when he saw him.
Baekhyun heaves a sigh, he then stare at the white ceiling of the hospital room. Trying to remember everything his bestfriend told him about his fiance. He still can't believe that his fiance is suffering from a terrible memory lost and all this past seven years that she was gone. It's because she don't remember anything. She didn't come back not because she's mad at him, she didn't come back because she don't remember them. It eased his anxiety and worry to know that she is not really mad at him and that she don't want to be found not because she is angry and mad at him.
Now he know that it's not about that, that she just really don't remember anything that is why she don't come back even after seven years. It's not because of him, he don't have to beat himself because of it anymore. He feels at ease now that he know it's not the case. It makes his happy now that he know she don't hate him and the reason she can't be found is because she hate him, it's because of her amnesia not him.
But Baekhyun still don't know if Kyungsoo is alright and where she is. He don't even know if she is with Jongdae right now. He wish she is with Jongdae and that they're on their way back at Seoul to met him. He wish to see and be with his fiance again, he miss her so badly that it hurt sometimes.
He just wish that when Jongdae visited him, Kyungsoo is with him. He wish and pray for it.
Baekhyun heaves a sigh again, before he closed his tired eyes and let the beeping sound coming from the machine to lull him back to sleep. The medicine is making him groggy and sleepy anyway, so he just better rest for now. To recover from his two days of sleepless night and frustration days.
To be continue...
Chapter 18: 18.
Chapter Text
Chanyeol was gazing down at the rooftop of the hotel they are staying over looking the night scenery of the other building and the distance sea. It's a quiet beautiful calming night indeed, the frest sea air coming from the distance beach is calming. But Chanyeol inside is the opposite of what his face is showing, he look so calm outside like his not worrying about something or what happened back at the resort didn't even happen at all. But inside, his panicking over something.
The image of the brown haired guy earlier with his wife flashed back inside of his mind. Chanyeol closed his hands into a ball tightly and clenched his teeth in anger and irritation after he remember what he saw earliar before the fire accident.
He woke up with his wife gone beside him and he thought that the younger just go to the toilet or something, but after a while of her not coming back to bed. Chanyeol get out of the bed silently to not disturb and woke the twins up. After he arranged the twins at the middle of the bed so they won't fall why they were away. He walks to the door and go out to look for his wife after double checking if she is not really inside of the room. Outside, Chanyeol shiver a little when the cold air touch his expose cheeks, he heaves a sighs before he go to the staircase to go down and check if his wife visit the beach to take some fresh air.
But his just about to go down when he saw a two silthouette just at the side of the pool, Chanyeol walk closer to the railing to where he can over look the whole pool area and the beach. He leans a little over it to see clearly and his right, the other silthouette is his wife, he can pinpoint his wife black silky long hair, white skin and doe eyes glowing under the moonlight even if its dark and the dim light of the pool area is the only thing that lightning the whole area he still can tell that it is his wife. Just by her silthouette. And what make Chanyeol gasp in panick and distress is the other silthouette that is with his wife.
The other is a man, Chanyeol can tell that by just the latter short brown hair and his body. But what suprised him is, Chanyeol do know the guy, his familiar to him. He know him to well to know that he have to do something before the latter can tell something his wife can't know or hear. That brown haired guy who is talking with his wife and showing his famous signature smile of cheshire cat. Damn, Chanyeol know him to well and that apply to the latter too.
They know each other to well that if they accidentally met with his wife at his side he know he will be doomed for life.
Chanyeol take a deep panicked breath while looking around and making a plan inside of his head. His wife can't stay with that guy for to long or else his doomed. They just can't. He won't allowed it, not after what he have done just to hide the girl away from them. He won't let it happened, not now, not ever.
Chanyeol pulls out his phone out of his pocket before he dialed a number with his shaking fingers, he let's out a unsteady breath when the call connected.
"Do me a favor and make a scene immediately."
"Why? Something happened?"
Chanyeol heaves a angry sighs, he grind his teeth harder trying to contain his anger inside before he speak again, his tone of voice turning into deep growl.
"Your at 4th floor of the resort right?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Just do it. Make a big scene that will force everyone out of the building and ready the van right away."
"But-"
"JUST FUCKING DO IT!!!"
He cursed angrily before he hangup the call and shot one last look at the two busy silthouette talking at the pool area. Chanyeol walk away and at that same time the fire alarm when off loudly making the other sleeping guest run out of their room's in panic. Chanyeol rolled his eyes at the panicked guest before he open the door and walk in, inside the twins are already awake yawning while looking around, seeming looking for their mom.
Chanyeol walk closer to the twins before picking Minhyun who go back to sleep even after the loud panicked crowd outside, while he guided Minsoo down from the bed and hold her hand in his, asking her to hold his hand tightly no matter what. They walk out of the room and Chanyeol push their way out of the resort and into the waiting van outside.
At the parking lot, Chanyeol saw the black van immediately and a man standing infornt of the door. When the man saw Chanyeol, he opened the door of the van immediately without being told to do so. Chanyeol put down the now confused teary eyed Minhyun at the seat inside of the van and then he do the same to the crying Minsoo.
"Hey, princess please don't cry daddy's here." Chanyeol drop a kiss at the child cheek to calm her down. "Now stay beside your brother while daddy go call uncle Jiyong alright?"
Without waiting for the little girl's replies, Chanyeol stand in his full height before he pulled his phone out of his pocket again dialing his cousin number immediately.
"Look after my child and don't let anything to happened to them and take care of our belonging, I want it all out before the autority comes by to investigate."
He eyed the man and without another words coming from him or waiting for his reply, Chanyeol walk away and back inside of the resort. Jiyong answer his phone and he hear the latter cursing outloud while yelling over the phone. Chanyeol hiss, removing the phone away from his ears before he bring it back and yelled over the loud panicked crowd around him when he got into the lobby of the resort.
"Go at the parking lot and find the only black van in there, it's our ride out hyung."
Chanyeol heard a groaned at the other line before it went off. He pocket his phone again and look for his wife over the crowd of people running out of the building. The fire got more bigger, the fire from the 4th floor now extent to the 3rd floor and now running at the side of the building at the first room at the left. Chanyeol can even hear the siren coming from the fire truck getting closer.
He growled agrily when someone bumped into his side and his just about to glared back when he saw his wife at his peripheral vision. Running to the direction of the staircase, Chanyeol pushed his way to go closer at the girl and before Kyungsoo can even make a step to the staircase, Chanyeol pulled his wife by her wrist. Kyungsoo look back at him in a panic and hazy eyes, Chanyeol can tell. He called her name many times and he yelled over the noise around them until the girl focused her panicked eyes into him.
When his sure that his wife recognize him, Chanyeol pulled her with him immediately not wanting to stay there any longer and be discover by the one Kyungsoo has been talking to just a while ago. Without saying anything, he drag her to the parking lot and when they got there he let go of his wife's wrist to let her run to the crying twins and comfort them.
Chanyeol gaze move from staring at his wife and kids and into his cousin who is glaring dagger at him. He know that his cousin, Jiyong, that he have something to do about the ruckus that happen back at the resort. He heaves a deep sigh again and signal for his cousin with his eyes that he will tell him what happen later when they were alone. And with that Jiyong rolled his eyes before he go back to trying to comfort his own child and try to make them stop from crying. He then ushered his family inside of the open van and into the back, waiting for them to do the same. Chanyeol do the same to his family and then they drove out of the resort.
And that's what happened just two hours ago, Chanyeol make sure that his wife and kids were asleep before he slip out of the room quietly to met his cousin at the rooftop. He message Jiyong on his way to the elevator telling him to come up and met him at the rooftop of the building so they can talk. And here he is, standing behind the railing of the rooftop over looking the other building and the night scenery of the place at the distance, he still can see the wide sea from the beach. He inhale the air coming from the sea to calm his mind, so before his cousin arrive his already calm.
He know that Jiyong is mad to what happened, it is unexpected anyway, and everything is going so smoothly from their stay there then all of the sudden the fire came and ruined there relaxing and fun vacation.
After waiting for the older for half an hour, Jiyong walk in slamming the door behind him to indicate that he is indeed mad. He walks closer to him and stand at his side glaring dagger at him before he hissed at him, his tone of voice is full of anger toward him and his action.
"What the fuck are you thinking?! Making ruckus by creating a fucking fire!! And what worsed is that you do it even after knowing that were inside of that damn fucking building!!!"
"Hyung, I'm sor-"
"Save that fucking sorry of yours and give me a damn fucking good reason to why did you fucking do that damn shit!!"
Jiyong growled angrily and he clenched his hands at his side forcing and controlling his anger down or else he don't know what would he do to his cousin. He didn't even know why the younger do that. Making a ruckus and getting them involve and what make it all worse is, he involve there family into it, their fucking wife and child. That what makes him mad and angry, why did he have to do that even after knowing that the kids is with them.
"I know it's wrong, hyung. But please, listen to me first. I'll explain it to you, just calm down."
"Don't ask for damn something you know I can't give you the fuck right now, Chanyeol. Instead, give me the fucking reason immediately before I loss my fucking shit right now. Because I fucking swear my patient is running thinner than your fucking brain right damn now."
Jiyong glare more dangeriously at the younger, he grit his teeth angrily and his face turning into dark shade of red by controling his anger inside for to long. He looks like a mad volcano that is ready to explode anytime soon from how badly red he looks right at the moment.
Chanyeol let out a defeated breather before he looks away from his cousin then his gaze fall back to the night street below them.
"Alright,"
Chanyeol put his hands inside of his pants pocket before he looks at the night sky, staring at the twinkling stars and the moon at the distance.
"I saw Jongdae with Kyungsoo back at the resort. It seems like Jongdae find her when she's out and I panicked because it looks to me that his telling her something she should'nt have known or remember. And so, I panicked and I got scared that he will tell her everything that I been trying to hide from her and without thinking anyfurther and forgeting everything. I just do it, then the fire happened. I'm so sorry, hyung. I... I'm just so scared to loss her again if I let Jongdae tell her everything. I can't have that, she can't remember her past or she will leave me."
Chanyeol bite his lower lips to help his frustration in. He is mad and scared at the same time, he could loss her if she talk with his bestfriend continue and he can't have that. So without thinking twice and the consequences after, Chanyeol just do that without even thinking about the twins and his cousin family.
His right, what he did is so risky and dangerious, he should'nt have done that. But he already did and now he feel bad for his cousin family and his own, but if he didn't do that. Did Kyungsoo know about her past already? Did Jongdae told her about Baekhyun? Did she know that it's not him who she supposed to be with all this years? Fuck! It irk him so much that even if he knew that what he do is wrong he still thanked his panicked mind for doing that because he still have Kyungsoo and she won't leave him behind.
"And the only solution you have in mind is that?! Making ruckus and letting us all in danger?!! Fuck! Are you even thinking, Chanyeol?!!!!"
"I know, I'm the one who is wrong in here but hyung please, understand me here. I'm just so scared to loss her that my mind blanked out and that is the only thing that came out of my mind. Please, I'm so sorry hyung."
Jiyong chuckled sarcastically at his cousin seeming to be more annoyed and angry than usual.
"Do you think that reason of yours is right? Listen to yourself Chanyeol. This is not an accepted reason and you know it."
"I'm so sorry..."
Chanyeol looks down at the pavement in defeat not knowing what to say anymore. Jiyong heaves a annoyed sigh while looking away from the younger, he then stare at the distance scenery to calm his raging mind. His still furious inside, but deep inside he know why his cousin keep doing this for the past seven years. But having to be one of does who have to cover his cousin ass for what have he done is so maddening to him. He don't even want to be part of it, not after what happened seven years ago.
Jiyong even promised himself that what have he done for his cousin back then will be his first and last, that after the tragic accident he will be out of it. He won't be part of any of it. But here he is right now, being part of it again by just letting and helping the younger to prevent anyone who know Kyungsoo away from her and making sure that the poor girl won't remember anything from her past.
Jiyong hands came up to grip his hair out in frustration and stress, he huff in annoyance when his cousin send him a sad smile after his frustrated growl. Jiyong roll his eyes and heaves a deep sighs of defeat after a while of silent surrounding them.
"What could I do? It already happened anyway, just don't do that again. Because I swear if you do, I will fucking kill you! That fuck of a fire really do scared my child and wife! You idiot shit of my damn fucking cousin!"
Jiyong cursed one last time and he smack the younger at the back of his head in return to all the stress and anger he give him and the trauma he give to his family. Chanyeol hiss because it hurt but don't complain otherwise he want to hear more lecture and angry growl from his cousin. Instead he nod at the older and sigh, Jiyong clicked his tongue in annoyance before he dragged the younger to the door that lead to the rooftop and down to go at the elevator.
Inside, Jiyong press their floor before he leans back at the wall of the elevator. His still mad at the younger and to want have he done, but he cooled down a little to guide the latter infront of his room with his family and told him to rest and bid him good night after. He walks back to his own room with his family after the younger walk inside and lock the door.
His still mad and he want to be for a little bit longer, but what can he do. Chanyeol is his only cousin and the younger don't have anyone at Korea other than him, his older cousin. No one would help the younger and comfort him other than him and with that responsibility in mind. Jiyong heaves a deep tired sighs before he opened the door to his and his family room, walking inside and closing the door behind him and lock it.
He can't do anything about it than to try and help his younger cousin even if it is so wrong.
~~*~~
When morning cames, Kyungsoo helped her child to prepair and change so they can go to the airport and go back to Seoul immediately. After the kids was ready, Kyungsoo fixed and pack all of there things inside of the baggage. Kyungsoo don't know how there baggage get in there, all she know is that after they came out of the van and checked in, they don't have there belongings with them. She thought the fire eat there baggage after the accident but when she wake up that morning, Kyungsoo just see there baggage at the foot of the bed. When she asks about it to her husband, Chanyeol inform her that the resort staff deliver it to there hotel room after being told that there belonging survived the fire because of the fire fighter killing it before it got into there room.
Kyungsoo nod at the information and didn't ask anyfurther and instead she started to prepair so they can go right away.
Chanyeol walk in just in time the twins are done, Chanyeol leans down to drop a kiss at the twins head when they beam and cheer after he walk in. He then told them they will leave now and the Know family is already waiting at the lobby. Chanyeol picks up Minsoo in his arms when the little girl asked to be picked, then he picks up there luggage from the bed before he walks to the door with Kyungsoo just right behind him with Minhyun walking beside her holding at her mother's hand.
Inside of the elevator, Chanyeol chuckled while letting the little energetic girl press the botton to go down and then he look at his side watching his wife giving Minhyun a chocolate to cheer the slightly grumpy little boy. Chanyeol smile at his wife when Kyungsoo looks up and gaze into him, Kyungsoo smile back before giving her attention back at the mumbling Minhyun.
They walk out of the elevator when it opened to the ground floor and then they walk closer to where the Know family is waiting at the lobby, they greeted each other after they come close before they walk out of the lobby when Jiyong told them that the van is already outside and waiting for them. They hop inside of the van while the driver of the van taking care of their belonging and moving it inside at the back.
Then not to long they drive off and into the airport. After half an hour, they already arrive at the airport, inside they relaxed at the waiting area because they still have one hour and a half before there flight time. Chanyeol leaves the other at the waiting area to go buy them something to eat while waiting. They didn't eat breakfast yet anyway, so he better go and buy some.
Chanyeol just came out of the cafe with foods and drinks in hand when someone called him, he looks at his right and saw the person who called him. Chanyeol eyes widen comically when the person wave its hand excitedly before it come closer to him with a grin flashed on his lips.
"Hey Chan! I heard from Baek that your back, but it never crossed my mind that I will see you here at Jeju personally. Wow! I'm so lucky to met my bestfriend again after seven years of missing!"
The person beams at him seeming genuinely happy to see him again, Chanyeol faked a smile for the latter. Forcing the guilt that crawling its way up his throat before he greet the latter back forcing his voice to sound cheerful and happy like the latter.
"Yo Jongdae! I didn't thought that I will see you here too. Man, I'm just about to call Baek and ask him to tell you that we should hangout soon and so I can met you again. But, woah! Small world huh?!"
Jongdae laugh while Chanyeol do the same to cover his panicked eyes looking at the waiting area to where his wife then back at the latter infront of him. His thinking a way to get away from the latter and go back to where his family are. His also thinking of a way to make sure that Jongdae won't met Kyungsoo accidentally again.
"Yeah it is." Jongdae laugh more before he yelp when he remember something important and stare at him with his eyes brighten up like a mischievous cat he is. "Oh! Speaking of small world, you won't believe who I saw yesterday night..."
"Who...?"
Chanyeol fake innocent but deep inside, he know what the latter was about to tell him. He knew it without the latter slapping him with it information. He want to hiss at the brown haired infront of him to stop and just go away. But he didn't do it, don't even have a heart and mind to do it. Because if he suddenly snapped at the latter he know he will be discover of hiding Kyungsoo from them. And he can't have that, doing it means losing Kyungsoo for life. So, Chanyeol only smile while Jongdae grins happily and cheerfully told him what happened.
"Do Kyungsoo!" Jongdae yelled before apologizing at the old lady who glare at him because he shocked her. "I met her yesterday night. I hear from Baek that he told you what happened to Kyungsoo seven years ago right? And we all thought that she is already dead, but damn! I met her face to face, Chanyeol! She's alive and she have an amnesia thats why she didn't come back to her family or Baekhyun because she don't remember anything."
Chanyeol hands gripped around the plastic his holding, he chew at the inside of his cheeks while faking another smile at the latter.
"Really? That's great Jongdae! Baek will be happy and excited after he hear about it!"
"He will."
Jongdae beams again, grinning more brightly, but then his grin washed away from his face when he remember that he didn't manage to get any useful information out from Kyungsoo because of the fire accident at the resort.
"But sadly, I didn't get her phone number or where is she staying right now..."
Chanyeol sighs in relief inside after he hear it, atleast he can stay hold on to the news of Jongdae not knowing where to find Kyungsoo again or contact her. Feeling relief and a little bit happy, Chanyeol ask the latter even if he know the answer already.
"Why is that?"
Jongdae heaves a sad sighs, looking down and sad now opposite from his earlier cheerful and happy demure.
"Before I have a chance to ask her about it, there this terrible fire started from the 4th floor of the resort I checked in. Kyungsoo run inside before I can even stop her or run after her, beside I lost her at the sea of people inside panicking and running out of the building."
"Thats sucks."
"Tell me about it..." Jongdae roll his eyes before his happy and cheerful demure came back with his famous grin, he wiggles his eyebrow at him playfully. "By the way, what are you doing here Chan? Having a vacation? Fun time?"
"Nah~ I'm here for business with my cousin."
Chanyeol lied, he smile at the latter who groan at his lame reply.
"What about you? Are you here for vacation? What a famous singer from a famous entertainment doing here all alone without his manager?"
"I'm not a baby to need my manager with me!"
Chanyeol laugh but this time genuine and he mean it. Jongdae land a kick at the latter shin and stick his tongue out at the taller who is groaning while rubbing the part where Jongdae kick him.
"Your telling me that after you kick me and sticking your tongue out at me like a baby!"
"Whatever!"
Jongdae laugh at the taller misery and his about to ask his bestfriend about something when his phone started ringing in his pocket stoping him from speaking anyfurther. Jongdae pulled his phone out of his pocket and when he see who's calling him, he cursed outloud and looks at the taller apologizing.
"I'm sorry, I need to run back. My umm...Someone important is calling me and I really need to go, but I will met you again soon. Here, you should put you number here before I go so I can contact you again to hangout."
Jongdae pass his phone at Chanyeol after the ringing stopped, Chanyeol recieve it and put his digit immediately and saving it before he give the latter phone back when it started ringing again. Chanyeol saw the caller id even before the brown haired can grab it back. The caller id name read 'My Minseokie♡' and Chanyeol don't remember anyone with that name when his still with his bestfriends side. His just about to tease the latter about it but Jongdae bid him goodbye immediately after his phone is back in his hand, they promise to met again before Jongdae walk away to the other direction while answering his ringing phone.
Chanyeol shrug at it then he walks back to the waiting area again, feeling relaxed now that Jongdae is away from seeing Kyungsoo. And with the reasurance that Jongdae don't have any chance to meeting and contacting his wife, Chanyeol came back cheerfully and sit beside his wife, he then happily give everyone food and drink to eat. Jiyong lift an eyebrow at him in question to his change of mood, but Chanyeol just grinned at his cousin and go back to helping Minsoo open her bottle of milk.
His to happy and relief that he don't care if he looks like an idiot right at the moment.
~~*~~
There finally back at Seoul and into there house. Kyungsoo just done tucking her child to bed and she's now laying down next to her husband. But her mind is away from her body, after settling back into the house in relief. Her talk with the guy named Kim Jongdae came back inside of her mind full force like a tornado. It make her head a little dizzy when it happened, everything Jongdae told her came back to her. It messed her head the whole afternoon until evening and she felt the incoming headache tomorrow when she woke up if this don't stop sooner.
She still don't know if she should believe everything Jongdae told her and she don't even know how to digest the information either. And the unaswered question is still bugging her, now she wished Jongdae gives her the answer before the fire accident happened, if he did her head won't be like a disaster right now. Her head hurt a little from thinking to much now and she just want to close her eyes and will herself to sleep. But closing her eyes didn't help either, because the image of the black haired guy with soft brown eyes is what keep flashing in her head and at the back of her eyes.
It's frustrating and annoying, but now she can't even sleep or close her eyes just to rest it because everytime she do so, the image of that mysterious black haired would show up and won't leave her alone. His circling inside of her head now, keep popping here and there each time she felt a little relaxed or when her mind is vacant from anything at the moment. Like right now, she's lying down willing herself to sleep but she can't because of the black haired popping in her mind again and again, same to Jongdae.
The thoughts of the two is what keeping her awake and somehow she can't do anything about it than to let it run around her head. To tired to fight it off anyway, there still so many question Kyungsoo want to ask Jongdae but she don't know how when she lost him back at Jeju. Kyungsoo wished she got the latter's contact maybe so she can contact her and ask him question that is bothering her.
She is so disappointed to lost a chance to ask and to know more. But what can she do about it? It happened and she can't do anything about it. She just wish that somehow she still can met the latter. She wish for it deep down even if she want to brush it off and forget.
It still confusing, everything is still confusing to her. The whole talk is still confusing to her, but what bother her more while laying down beside her husband is why didn't the older told anyone that she is still alive after the accident? And why did he keep on telling her that no one know her back at Korea when two people already recognize her? It just so weird of him to denied everything when does people keep on telling her that they really know her.
Kyungsoo can't shake off the feeling of Chanyeol lying to her all this time.
She can't stop that feeling of her that the older is really lying to her, she can feel it everytime she asked for the truth and the older will keep on denying it. And that process keep on going everytime the topic of her past will come into subject. Chanyeol becoming more and more defensive everytime the topic keep on repeating and when he don't like it anymore he would always cut it short and he will leave it without a space to argue or to ask again or else he will get angry and would storm out of the room and the house then won't come back after two or three days.
When it happened, Kyungsoo would just apologize and promised to not ask again. Their talk always ending at them not talking about it again and just brushing it off and forgot. Chanyeol did forget about it the next day while Kyungsoo pretend she did too but deep inside and in her mind, she didn't forget and instead she just keep it in and wait for someone she could ask it for and be answer without lying to her.
Kyungsoo locked does question deep inside of her mind, but after meeting Jongin and now Jongdae, does question unlocked away from its cage and she want answer. Her other question is aswered by Jongin but there is other questions the younger can't answer because his not part of her life in that time of her life. But now, she have a chance to ask does question Jongin can't anwer by meeting Jongdae. But that hope died when they come back to Seoul and she remember she don't have any way to contact the latter.
It really sadden her and it bring her spirit down after it sink in to her. She lost one of her hope to bring her memories back.
Kyungsoo heaves a silent sighs and close her eyes again, willing herself to sleep. The image of the mysterious black haired with soft brown eyes flashed at the back of her eyes again. But this time instead of willing herself to wave the image away, Kyungsoo let that soft brown eyes lull her to sleep.
~~*~~
It's two days after when Chanyeol met Baekhyun accidentaly again.
His on his way back to his father company after his meeting to one of his dad investor when he bumped into the latter on his way out of the cafe. Baekhyun apologize and then when he look up, the two of them stare at each other in shock before they smile and greet each other. Then Baekhyun asked the taller if he want to sit down and chat with him.
Baekhyun was just about to grab a late lunch when he bumped into him and he said his free for the time being if he is too. Chanyeol agree and the two of them take a seat at the corner. When the waiter came, Chanyeol said his order while Baekhyun told the waiter his usual. Chanyeol also learn that Baekhyun is regular to that cafe since their collage days.
Baekhyun also inform him about Kyungsoo introducing him to that cafe. And it is their regular date place and study place. Chanyeol nod to all of the latter told him, willing his guilt to go away and gulping it down if it started to crawl up on his throat. Baekhyun expression then change into cheerful to hopeful. It worried him somehow but Chanyeol will himself to not do something and to just fake innocent and that he didn't saw it.
Baekhyun's gaze landed at the cup infront of him, his eyes thoughtful and sad under the bangs falling down infront of his eyes almost covering it with it. His also nipping at his lower lips and his finger above the table is shaking a little.
"You know...Jongdae called me monday morning to inform me that he met Kyungsoo at Jeju while his on vacation."
Baekhyun smile at little still staring at the cup infront of him.
"He told me that it's not my fault that she didn't came back this past years...Jongdae h-he told me that, Kyungsoo is currently suffering with a terrible amnesia and she don't remember anything that's why she don't came back or tell everyone that she is alive. And I just wish Jongdae got her contact or where we can find her before she disappear again..."
Chanyeol watched how his bestfriend lips started to quiver under the latter bite down to it to stop it but he failed. He can also see the incoming tears that threatening to roll down his cheeks. His fighting over his emotion, Chanyeol can see that. And he also know how stubborn his bestfriend can be, be don't want to show how weak he is from the topic over Kyungsoo and he also refuse to let his tears show by rolling down his cheeks.
Baekhyun is stubborn and Chanyeol know it.
But it still hurt him to see him like this, his guilt is killing him inside. But Chanyeol can't also just give Kyungsoo back to him, he just can't. Even if he wants to give her back he can't. Chanyeol have so many reason why and his not yet ready to share it nor let Kyungsoo came back to Baekhyun's arms.
He just can't.
Baekhyun is stubborn and everyone know it. But, Chanyeol is selfish and no one know about it other than himself.
To be continue...
Chapter 19: 19.
Chapter Text
It's raining heavily and they driving down to the mountain top road when it all happened, they're running away. The road is so slippery because of the rain falling down without a sign of stopping anytime soon to the whole place making the road wet.
His cover in blood, his head is bleeding. His whole body hurts and his every move make him moan in pain. He feels dizzy and light headed because of to much blood he already lost. He feels like passing out anytime soon. But he would'nt let that get to him, not yet. Not when he know that his lover is still not yet safe.
He can hear sirens coming at the distance, but he didn't mind it and instead he focus all his attention at the girl below him. They were at the cliff of the mountain and down below of the cliff is the raging wave of the sea and rocks. The car they use just a moment ago is already down the cliff, being swallowed by the raging wave and down to the deep sea washing all the evidence that something tragic happened just a moment ago.
At the edge of the cliff, his holding at the slippery rock while doing the same at the girl's hand tightly, focusing on making sure they won't fall just like the wrecked car. After the car fall down the cliff, he manage to take a hold of the girl's hand before she fall down with the wrecked car. But the big problem is, they were now hanging at the cliff with only his hand and fading strength on him holding them up by the rock he manage to hold on and preventing them to be swallowed by the angry wave down if they fall down like the wrecked car.
She's cover in blood just like him, her head is bleeding because of the impact that happened when a fast car hit them and in turn it make the car they are in to turn and roll down the road until it stop away from the road and into the edge to where the cliff is.
He felt the hot liquid that is his own blood running down his face coming from his injured head, it almost blinded him because of the blood almost covering half of his face and running down his left eye. His breathing coming on in a huff and he felt suffocated. His lossing his breath every second that passing and his strength is leaving him little by little. His hand and arms feel numb from the pain after a while of using it to hold them up, while his other hand is still tightly holding at the rock that is keeping them from falling.
They hear the sirens coming closer and closer to where they are but his tight hold from the piece of rock is slipping a little now because of the heavy rain that make the rock his holding on more wet and it become slippery every passing second that they were hanging dangeriously at the cliff.
A groan of pain slips through his lips when a hit of pain shot though his injured and beat-up body when his hand slipped a little, he huff in pain and he bit his lips to hold onto the pain when his bloody hands slipping from his hold at the only thing that keeping them from being eaten by the angry sea below them.
"B-Baek...come o-on..y-you..have to let..m-my hand g-go..s-soon.."
The girl stutter brokenly, he looks down to see her face and frown when he see that she's shivering from the cold air and rain falling down from them. She look so pale, like a ghost. All the color from her face is gone and the blood coming from her head is so alarming it scared him. She also look like she will pass out anytime soon and she's only fighting for the remain of her conscious for him. Her hand in his hold feel so damn cold and her grip from his hand is lossing it's strength.
"No! I won't let you go again, Soo. Never!"
Baekhyun yelled over the noise the raging wave is making and the heavy rain with the company of the seeming angry cold wind. He yell for help over and over again until he feel his throat hurt and burning from so much yelling and screaming for help. The girl tug at her hand that join with him slightly but firmly, telling him to let her go without saying it out loud.
"No! Please, please Kyungsoo. Don't! Please...the rescue is here, they're coming. Soo, please don't let go of my hand..don't leave me."
He tighten his hold into the girl's hand, he stare at the now crying girl. Her eyes is pleading to be let go, she want him to survive and by doing that he needs to let her go so he wont fall down with her. Baekhyun shake his head frantically disagreeing from the girl pleading, his currently crying now too just like the latter. He can't let her go, he won't accept the thought of her dying. Not when his still holding her up with him. He won't just give up on them surviving together.
"Please, Soo. Don't do this to me...We will survived this together okay? You just have to trust me on this one and don't let go of my hand. I love you, Kyungsoo. And I can't leave without you by my side."
"I love you too, Byun Baekhyun..."
He cursed when his bloody hand slipped slightly again, he almost lost his hold from the piece of rock. He groan in pain again, tightening his hand around the latter to make sure he won't lost his hold onto her.
"I'm so sorry, Baek.."
Baekhyun gaze fall into the girl again, she is smiling up at him, apologizing. Her eyes is full of love and sadness it make his inside panic more than he is. His heart beating loudly in his ears now, seems like about to explode because of anxiety and fear of lossing her forever. His eyes dilated with horror and alarm. His shaking in fear.
"N-no..please, d-don't."
He whisper pleadingly. He bit down on his lower lips and let out a groan when Kyungsoo's equally bloody hand let go of his. Baekhyun eyes widen in horror and panic when his losing his grip over her hand little by little. He tried to tighten his hold on her but without the girl grip on him and there equally bloody hands and her weight, she's slipping out of his tight hold seems like she will fall down to the raging wave any second now.
Kyungsoo smile brightly up at the latter and mouthed 'I love you' and 'I'm sorry', her tears split out of her beautiful eyes, he hear her loud sob before she forcefully pulled her hand out of Baekhyun's hold using all her strength. He watched how she fall down into the raging wave and be loss in the sea of water.
He can't feel anything, he can't move. He feel numb and empty. He felt his strength leaving his body after he lost his grip over his lover and see her be eaten and loss at the wave of the sea. He closed his heavy eyes, willing the pain and his conscious to eat him. Interrupt his moment of horror and grief, he heard the sirens more loudly and it stop not far from the cliff where he is. But he don't care about it anymore, not anymore when he lost his fiance now. And without his strength and the girl, holding his sanity together, he turn a deaf ears into the loud sirens and the resue calling and running closer to him and into the cliff.
Baekhyun let his grip from the piece of rock go. Wishing to be with Kyungsoo again even if they died together. He let go and will himself to fall down like his fiance at the raging wave.
But before he fall down completely, someone got a grip over him and pull him up and away from the dangerious cliff. He cries out in pain and sorrow, fighting his way out of the strong hold over him. He scream and yell to everyone to let him go and to go and save his fiance down the cliff. Everything is a blurr after his been pulled up from the edge of the cliff and because of his slipping consicous that is still remain to accompany him is now leaving him for the time being, the last thing he remembers is the heavy rain and angry cold wind leaving him when he was put inside of the ambulance and the loud shout of the rescue team to go down the mountain and seach for the girl who fall from the cliff to the the raging wave of the sea.
~~*~~
He woke up with a loud gasp and raging breath and heart beating like crazy because of his dream. His sweating. The dream that happened seven years ago, the day he loss his fiance forever. It still feel like it just happen like yesterday not sever years ago. The feelings of grief, emptiness, lonelyness, and sadness is still with him. Accompany him and remain with him all does years after the tragic accident.
The feelings of anger and disappointed is still with him and everyone, the news of the people who do this to him and his fiance is out there, rooming happly and without a care while here he is still in grief and emptiness after he lost his fiance even if it is already seven years ago. He still can't forget, he know he would never foget even if he wants to. He still love her, always will be. She's the only one he loves and she will be his first and last. If he can't have her back then he wish to die so he can be with her again.
His love for her is real and it won't just fade just like that. Not even after seven years of not being with each other can change his mind and heart about it.
It's still hurt, the memory of that tragic day. He still remember and feel everything clearly that he sometimes thought it just happen not long ago. The grief, disappointed, and guilt is still eating him whole everytime he dream about that day. He tried, he really did.
He tried to forget about that day and stop blamming himself over it, but everytime it comes back to his mind and visit him in his dreams. He can't stop but blame himself over and over again until he don't feel anything other than grief and self pity.
He feel empty everytime it happened. The feeling of his brain and whole body being numb after every episode of it makes him satisfied and happy somehow. Because when it happen he don't feel anything, he become numb and empty, his mind and soul is leaving him for the time being. He feel free when it happen, he don't have to worry or think of anything because his empty inside. Nothing would bother him and makes him feel down than he is.
The feeling of falling down inside of the darkness is what he felt everytime he feel empty inside. It's like his inside of a dark hole falling or running without a way out. It's scary but satisfying at the same time. It is so wrong to feel like that but he is. It comfort him everytime it happened anyway, so his alright with it and thankful for it when it happened.
He heaves a tired sighs and stared at the high ceiling of his dark room. The feeling of being eaten by the dark room is lingering in the air around him and bitting his cold pale skin. He close his eyes willing away the memory and the scene of his fiance falling down into the raging wave of the sea without success.
Baekhyun let the single tears that escape to roll down his pale cheeks, he bit his lower lips to will himself to not cry over the memory again. But he felt the patch of dampness leaving its trail behind when his tears run down his cheeks without his consent to roll down without a sign of it to stop anytime soon. He let out a pathetic sob after he let his tears to roll down freely and stop forcing it in.
His cries and sob resonate inside of his dark room, accompany the lone fragile soul inside.
~~*~~
It's been three weeks since he got confined in the hospital after his break down over the information about his fiance and it's been also been a whole week since his dream about the tragic accident.
He met his bestfriend after he got out of the hospital two days ago and confront him what exactly happened and what did he and his fiance talk about. Jongdae told him everything that happen, what they talk about and what Kyungsoo told him and her condition. He even inform him about the accident that happened to the resort and how he lost Kyungsoo over the crowd of panicked guest. He attempt of looking for her again, he check all the guest that checked in and out of the resort and looking for her around the area without a luck.
Jongdae even apologize to him numerous time already after he inform him that he didn't manage to get Kyungsoo's contact or where is she staying at the moment because of the fire that happen to the resort. Baekhyun even forgive him in return and brush if off numerous time too so the latter won't feel bad about it anymore, it is not his fault that he lost her anyway. It's not his fault that something like an accident happened when he met Kyungsoo, so he told that to the latter and reasure him that it's fine and they should try to look for her again together.
Baekhyun and Jongdae hired someone to search for Kyungsoo back at Jeju while they do the same to Seoul hoping to see and met her again. Baekhyun even go and visit the Universe Cafe every day at the same time they saw her there in hope to met her again. Jongdae even go with him sometimes to cheer him up when they go home empty handed everytime they go there and don't have a luck to met her again.
It continue for two weeks until Baekhyun got busy over his company because of the upcoming comeback that lined up and in deadlines. His been busy for over a week now because of the preparation of the comebacks of the idol under his company. His more busy when the preparation over Jongin's debut move in his schedule. The younger is schedule to debut four weeks from that day and they still have so many things to do and prepare.
He was so stressed and tired from his packed schedule that he just want to relax and take a nap when his schedule finally cleared out for the day.
Baekhyun is walking back to his office when he turn at the corner and came closer to the direction where his office is. He stop his footstep when he came face to face at the end of the hallway and into the open space room. At the far right corner is his secretary's table and opposide to it at the left side of the room is the lounge area where the couch is arranged with coffee table in the middle, it is for does who have an appoinment to met the CEO or does who want to see him. And at the middle of the room is the elegant looking big chandelier hanging, complementing the whole room with it. And at the far end of the room and at the middle is the only door that can be seen inside of the open room and that is the CEO's office.
What stop him from walking straight back at his office is the two kids sitting infront of the coffee table at the lounger area, there is a piece of paper infront of them and a pencil and colors at their hands. They look familiar in Baekhyun's eyes and mind. He remember meeting them for the first time at EXO'rdium when he agree to pick up his nephew from the school when his cousin can't do it.
It is the same twins that keep on bothering his mind, the same twins he longing and love to met again. The twins he want to get to know and be close to.
Baekhyun blink his dazed mind away then his gaze fall into his secretary that now standing near him.
"Your back. Sorry about the kids, they won't bother you inside so you don't have to worry about them. You can go and rest inside of your office because your schedule is clean for the day now, Baek."
"Yes. Thanks, Lu."
Luhan nods and she was about to go back and sit with the kids when Baekhyun called and stop her from walking any further.
"Wait, noona."
"What is it?"
Baekhyun gaze falls into the twins again, watching their everymove. He bit the corner of his lips, contemplating his action and words.
"What are they doing here? Do you know them?"
Luhan follow the latter gaze before she too stare at the twins and shake her head slightly.
"No, but Jongin did."
"Jongin?"
Baekhyun looks back at Luhan to see her nodding at him.
"We called Jongin in to retake his photoshoot that we will need for his teaser and album, the team lost the first one they have and need to take a new one immediately or else were doomed. But anyway, Jongin came in with the twins and inform me that he can't leave them because the mother of the twins and his friend asked him to look after them because she have to go somewhere important. And so, he asked if I can look after the twins while he do the photoshoot and I agree to it and that is why they're here. But I promise I'll make sure they won't bug you, Baek. So no worries, you can go in now and rest or take a nap."
"Well I-"
He was just about to tell the older about him meeting the twins when his words cut off because the little girl beams at them when she looks away from her paper and see him standing near the door with Luhan. The little girl lift herself from where she is sitting at the floor before she ran to where they are, he picked the girl up in his arms when she stop infront of her and asked to be lift up. She beams at him again and hug him before droping a kiss in his cheek giggling happily.
When he looks at Luhan, she is looking at him suprised. Her eyes widen and her mouth shaping into a big 'o', he smiled at the confused older while still being pampered by the sweet little girl.
"Woah~ I miss you so much, Baek oppa~"
The little girl beams again, she wrap her both hands in his neck, her eyes brighter than the last time he saw it and she's giving him her heart shaped smile. The one he missed so much from his fiance.
"Aww, really? I miss you too, Minsoo-ah~"
Baekhyun coos, pinching the little girl's cheeks softly making the latter to giggles more.
"Really! I been looking for you everyday after school but I never saw you again, Baek oppa."
Minsoo pouts cutely when she remember not meeting the oppa that looks like the bigger version of her twins.
"I'm sorry, Minnie~ Oppa is so busy at work that he don't have the time to go back at the school again."
"It's okay oppa! I forgive you already, because I met you again!"
Minsoo cheerfully bounce a little in his arms, excited and happy to see him again. It make Baekhyun heart feel so warm and loved. It makes him so happy that he grins back when the little girl started telling him about her excited day at school before coming there. He listen to everything she says, he walks to the couch and sit near the quiet little boy. Minhyun didn't look up from his paper nor give his attention to them even after he sit at the couch near him. His busy from what his doing that he don't give any attention to anything or everyone other than his paper and pencil in his hand.
The little girl hop down from his lap to go and join her brother again, saying that they're drawing something to give to their uncle Jongin later when he comes back to get them. Baekhyun smile grown bigger while watching the twins do their things. Luhan seated herself beside him not long and she give him the cup of tea she is holding with another one for her. He thanked her before he stare back at the twins.
"I didn't know that your close to the twins eh?"
"I'm not."
Baekhyun directed his smile at the latter before he go back to looking at the twins, his happy to see them again after so long of not meeting them.
"I met them at EXO'rdium when I'm out to pick up Daehyun's kids. Minsoo bumped into me and then she introduce herself to me so politely and sweet. Then I met her twins, Minhyun when Jongin showed up. Jongin introduce me to Minhyun and he also told me the two were twins."
"Oh, that's why..."
Luhan then turn in to excited and in to thoughtful. She looks at the little girl then to the little boy before her gaze fall into Baekhyun at her side. Her eyes widen comically, while staring at him then back to Minhyun then to him, then to Minhyun then to him again before she let out a gasp seeming to discover something.
"Holy...Baekhyun! that boy looks exactly like you when your at his age."
Luhan hands fly to her mouth, covering it in suprise and excitement from what she discover. Her gaze coming back to the little boy to stare more. Baekhyun do the same, he stare at the unexpected Minhyun too and observe him. Minhyun really do looks like him when his still a little boy and at his age. His mom will say the same if she saw the little boy and that apply to his dad too. Everyone who grown up or see him grown up can see the same feature he shared with the little boy. The similarity is in there, the first time he saw the little boy he knew it already. Minhyun share his feature and that is it.
They can even compare it to his old kid photos if they want to and they still will see the evidence that they look a like and he can't denied that.
"He is. And I don't know why or how it can be..."
Baekhyun whisper, his gaze following everymove the little boy does. Minhyun's eyes is focused at his paper infront of him and his nipping at his lower lips unconsciously, his eyebrows that was hiden by his almost long bangs is frowned in concentration. His hand grip the pencil in his hand firmly while drawing. Minhyun really do looks like him, but his action and everymove he make even his quiet and reseved personality don't have to do with him.
Yes, Minhyun and Baekhyun have the same feature when they were at the same age, but the little boy personality. Minhyun's reserved, shy, intelligent and quiet nature is the polar opposite of him. But the personality he have share is with the little girl, like him Minsoo is the happy go lucky girl. Minsoo's sweet, energetic, talkative, modest, clever, friendly and bright nature is just the same like him. He can even dare says that Minhyun and Minsoo is Kyungsoo, his fiance, and him mixed personality.
"Hmm, If I didn't know any better I would dare say that Minsoo and Minhyun is yours and Kyungsoo's child."
Luhan murmur giving him a side smile. Baekhyun heaves a sigh. He wish the same thing, want it to be true. It is his second time meeting the twins again. But the pull they give him the first time didn't disappear and instead it double the feelings he felt the first time it happened.
"I wish."
Luhan didn't said anything back instead she stand and told him that she will go and get the twins and him a snack before she walk away and leave the CEO with the twins.
Baekhyun nod and stare at the blank space after the older is out of sight. His over thinking again without him knowing it. He was pulled out of his dazed mind when Minsoo bounce beside him looking confused up at him. Baekhyun smiles and run his fingers into the girl's black long hair fondly.
"Are you hungry?"
"Yes!"
Minsoo giggles leaning into his touch, Baekhyun smile more and continue running his fingers into the girl's hair. He then looks at the little boy, who looks away shyly immediately when their eyes connected accidentaly, Baekhyun chuckled at the little boy shy nature before looking back at the girl at his side.
"Is your brother hungry too?"
Minsoo hums while her index finger tapping at her lips in thought cutely, then her eyes was staring at the back of her twins who refuse to look at their direction again and continue what his doing, ignoring them completely. Minsoo then beams back at him shaking her head side to side with a cute pout on her lips, then she bounce more on the couch.
"Nope! But it is Minhyunnie's nap time~ He won't eat anything not after his nap time oppa~"
"Alright, then why don't we go and move to oppa's office? I have a room that Minhyunnie can sleep on and the bed is so soft with squishy plush of many squirrels and penguins~"
Baekhyun grins when he got Minhyun's attention back because of it. Minhyun looks up at him with his bright sparking excited brown eyes.
"Do you want to come and sleep there, Minhyun?"
Minhyun didn't say anything but he moves out from his position infront of the coffee table, he then climb his way up into the couch near him and without any words, the little boy climb into his lap and sit there with his arms already wrapped around his neck. Minhyun stare up at him expectantly and a bit excited.
"Minhyun said yes! Let's go, Baek oppa~"
Minsoo hop down from the couch and pull at his right hand, asking him to get up and they should go to that heavenly room. Baekhyun laugh and do what the twins want. He gets up from the couch and walks to the direction of his office while holding Minhyun in his left hand and Minsoo holding his right hand. The little girl is bouncing in her every step while walking to his office.
Baekhyun open the door when their infront of it, letting the little girl's hand go for a moment to open it. Minsoo beams and hop inside of the office looking around the room excitedly. Baekhyun come inside after the girl and close the door behind him, he then lead the little girl to the only door at the left side of the room. After opening the door, Minsoo run in first and gasp in suprised after she saw the inside of the room, like what Baekhyun told them. The room have a king size bed inside and at the bed is a multiple various size of squirrels and penguins plushie scattered in it.
Minsoo squeal and run closer to the bed, she try to hop in and climb up but to no avail, because the bed is to high for her to climb up on her own. Minsoo pouts and looks back to the door with her glittering big doe-eyes and whine to the older to be pick her up and put into the bed. Baekhyun chuckled at the cute little girl, he walks closer to the bed and he let the boy down first before he bend down a little to pick up the girl and put her right beside her brother.
Baekhyun sit beside them at the bed, watching the now excited and happy twins playing with the plushies. Minsoo is holding a half her size squirrel in her hands, staring and laughing at the cute toy. Minhyun is doing the same but the little boy is hugging a big size penguin in his arms, the penguin his holding has the same size as his and when he stand and pick the plushy up with him, Minhyun wobble in his feet a little before he land on his butt into the soft bed with a cute startled shriek coming from his mouth.
Minhyun looks at Baekhyun immediately after his fall, his brown eyes and mouth widen in shock and both his cheeks now painted into light shade of red. His embarrased for sure base from his startled expression and blushing cheeks because of the fall and the shriek he let out. Baekhyun bit his lips to stop the incoming giggles from coming out his mouth because of the cute shy boy infront of him. And instead, he smile at the boy and pat his head to reasure him that it's okay and he don't have to worry about anything.
The little boy bow his head a little making his brown hair to fall down his eyes almost covering it, he then hug the penguin close to him more tightly and he hide his red cheeks and face into the plushy back. Baekhyun chuckle a little at the shy boy then he looks at Minsoo who is now in between the many squirrel at the head of the bed, she is giggling happily while whispering at the many plushies.
"Kids, stay here for a while and don't go anywhere not until I came back, alright? Oppa's just going to go get us snack quickly and I'll be right back immediately."
"Okay oppa~"
Minsoo cheer while Minhyun nod at his direction without looking up at his penguin, Baekhyun smile again before he get up from the bed and walks to the door and out of his office looking for Luhan. When he walks out into the open room again, he saw Luhan at her desk with a phone held in her ear talking to someone. Luhan gesture to him that it will only take a minute when she saw him walking closer. Baekhyun nod silently and let the older do her job, he looks at the older desk and see a tray full of snack and drinks at the corner of her desk beside the many files that lined up to be read and review by him.
Luhan heaves a sigh before she put her phone away, she get out of her chair and picks up the tray in her hands. Baekhyun help the older by getting the tray out of the older hands and into his own, Luhan smile up at the younger to thank him then she picks the files from her desk instead and carry it while leading the way to the CEO's office. She open the door to let them inside and close it when the younger gets in.
They stop on their track when they got closer to the door that leading to the only room in there, Luhan and Baekhyun share a look when they heard shouting and yelling coming from the room. They gasp when they heard Minsoo's wail and then followed by Minhyun's squawk when something fall down the floor. Luhan opened the door immediately after they heard something or someone fall down to the floor with a loud thud.
Inside, they saw Minhyun groaning and yelling at the floor near the bed and his caressing his head that collide with the carpeted floor when his sister push him down from the bed and into the floor.
"You idiot of a crying baby! I'm going to tell mommy that you push me down from the bed!!"
"It's your fault!! If your not being so mean to me, I would never push you out of the bed!!!"
"Why would it be my fault when your the one who pushed me out of bed!!!!"
Minhyun gets up from the floor and yelled back at his screaming sister, face turning red from yelling so much. Minsoo is the same as her brother, screaming. Minsoo picks up the nearest plushy in her side and she throw it straight at her brother direction angrily.
"STAY BACK YOU GRUMPY FACE!!!!!"
"STOP OR I'LL TELL YOU TO MOM FOR REAL!!!!"
"YOU WOULDN'T!!"
"I WILL!!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NOOOO!!!!!"
"STOP IT YOU WHINY BABY!!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHH!!! I HATE YOUUUUUU!!!!!"
Minsoo gets up from her sitting position and then she started throwing all the stuff her hand makes contact with. Minhyun howl in pain when the little girl manage to grab the book at the side table and throw it at her twin and unfortunately, the book manage to hit Minhyun straight into his head before it land on the floor with a slight thud. Minhyun once again, falls down on his butt. Minhyun glare angrily at his twin, he bit his wobbling lips and his eyes watered while his face turn more red than it is.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME AFTER THIS! I HATE YOU SO MUCH, MINSOO!!!!"
Minhyun gets up immediately from the floor again and turns to run out of the room, but when he turn that's when he saw the two adult staring in shock at them. Minhyun who is about to cry any moment now with his throbbing head and in need for a mother touch to comfort him, he run staight to Luhan's direction immediately, he cried while hugging and hiding his face into the lady's leg. Luhan leans down and pick up the sobbing boy in her arms, shushing the little boy to stop crying and to calm down.
Luhan looks at Baekhyun and gesture him to take care of the guilty little girl back at the bed. Before she walks out of the room with the still crying boy in her arms to comfort him.
Baekhyun heaves a sigh before he walks closer to the silent girl after putting the try into the side table. He sit beside the girl and started caressing the girl's raven hair softly, he run his finger into her hair in comfort. And after a whole three minutes of silent, he hear the girl's soft sob and before he known it. Minsoo is in his hold, crying her heart out into his neck. She wail pitifully in his hold, repeatedly saying sorry over and over again until her sob and cry stop and not long, he can hear the little girl soft breathing indicating that she fallen asleep after she cry for half an hour.
Baekhyun lay down the girl carefully to not wake her up, then he put a cover over her tucking her comfortably. He stare at the girl sleeping face and see her cheeks still have a remain of her tears. Baekhyun wipe the remain tears away from the little girl's cheeks with his thumb, he then leans down to drop a soft kiss into the girl's forehead and caress her hair softly after.
He don't know how to take care of a crying kids and thats why he was about to panic when Luhan walks out of the room and leave him alone with the little girl. But after they were left alone, he don't know how he do it but when he saw her expression, Baekhyun just do what his instinct have told him. And he let his mind do all the work, he comfort the little girl just like how he alway comfort his fiance when the latter is down or about to cry.
And it always work to his fiance and he think it will work at the little girl too, and again he was right. He calmed the girl and let her sleep after.
Baekhyun continue caressing the girl's hair while staring at her face until he notice Luhan at the door. He looks at the older and then down to the slepping little boy in her arms. Luhan walks closer and then she leans down to lay the boy down and under the cover beside his twin. Luhan leans away after and sit at the end of the bed watching the sleeping twins just like the younger.
Minhyun close eyes looks so puffy and his face looks swollen and red from crying to much. He look so distress even at his sleep. Baekhyun also notice the almost visible bump on the boy's head just above his forehead. Baekhyun run his hand at the boy's hair, careful not to touch the boy's bump.
"He cried so much after we walks out of the office and he keep asking to see his mom and to go home. I told him that they can go home after Jongin comes back but it only make him cry more. I never knew that he can cry that much after knowing that his a shy, quiet and reserved kid. His just like Kyungsoo when she don't want anyone to see how vulnerable she is..."
Luhan whisper and she looks at the younger to stare at his blank face. The older is right, Minhyun is just like Kyungsoo when she want everyone to think and to know that she is strong and that she's not vulnerable but inside she is. She don't like to show it to anyone, not until they were so close to her.
Somehow, Minhyun is reminding him of Kyungsoo by just the little boy action.
He don't know how long it has been since the twins have their sudden nap time. But somehow, after two and a half hours, Minsoo woke up and Baekhyun let her eat the snack Luhan prepair before they witness the twins fight and fallen asleep. Minsoo's eyes is still a big puffy from crying earlier but she seems a little fine already not like earlier when she have a fight with her brother. A little bit cheerful and energetic after her nap time, Minsoo asked Baekhyun to play with her and he agree.
Baekhyun didn't notice the time since they started playing and he didn't know anymore how long it has been since Jongin was gone to his photoshoot. And when he showed up at the middle of him helping the little girl at her homework, it startled him a little when he walks in with Luhan in town. Jongin smile apologetic at his sudden apperance before he crouch down to be in the little girl label and to welcome the beaming girl.
"Did you miss me that much princess?"
"Yes!"
Minsoo runs to Jongin embrace when she saw the latter, Jongin leans down to drop a kiss at the girl's forehead and then he ruffled her hair until the little girl enlist into a fit of giggles and laugh. Jongin chuckles at the girl before he let her go when she beg him to stop and when she's out of breath from her giggles and laughter. Minsoo runs back to the coffee table to continue what she's doing when the latter let her go from his grasp.
"What are you doing, Minnie?"
"Oh! Baek oppa is helping me do my homework, uncle Jongin~"
Minsoo grin while showing his books at the latter, Jongin nods at the little girl and watch her go back to doing her homework. Jongin gaze then land into the bed to where he saw Minhyun still sleeping in the middle of the bed snuggle under the soft looking comforter with various size plushies of squirrels and penguins around him. Jongin gaze then go back to the little girl then stop at the CEO.
Baekhyun is currently sitting at the couch and in between his legs is Minsoo sitting at the carpet floor and infront of the coffee table with her books, pencil and color scattered over the coffee table, and at the other size of the table and away from the girl's books there is a tray of snack and juice in it.
Baekhyun invite the younger to take a sit beside him while Luhan excuse herself and go back to the open space outside to where her office is.
"I'm sorry you have to take care of them for me, Mr. Byun. I just can't leave them behind, so I need to bring them with me here.. I'm really sorry and thank you."
Jongin apologize again, he bow at the older a little in embarrassment. Baekhyun laugh a little and shake his head at the younger, smiling.
"No it's alright really. I enjoy having them over and playing with them, though Minhyun is not that approachable but when I suggest that he can take a nap here I guess you could say he looks cheerful and adorable at the moment."
Jongin laugh to after he heard it.
"He is grumpy and unfriedly. But when you get to know him and have his trust, you will see his shy and adorable personality inside. And Minhyun loves to sleep and his nap time so much, so giving him his nap time and space is really a great move. You got his approval already without you knowing it, Mr. Byun."
"Or really? Wow, that's great then."
"It's is! Because you don't have to endure another time with him being void of emotion like a robbot and him ignoring you for the whole time your together. The only thing you have to endure is his grampy mood when he don't get his well deserve nap time."
"I'm happy then."
The two of them laugh while looking at the sleeping boy back at bed. And then it turn silent after that, Baekhyun now watching and helping Minsoo when the girl called for his attention while Jongin is still staring at the boy. Jongin stare more and more closely at Minhyun face until he notice something that bother him a little. He direct his gaze at the person beside him slowly, inspecting every detail of the CEO's side face without the latter knowing him staring so intently. He then bring his attention back at Minhyun after a few minutes of intently looking at the latter feature.
Jongin eyes widen in suprised after he notice something from the CEO and the sleeping boy. He chew at his lower lips nervously while stealing a glare at the older beside him then back at the boy. The color on his face drained a little when he notice the possibility.
Jongin can be wrong about it and his just seeing something that could possibly be not righ,t but he notice the similarity even if it is impossible.
Minhyun small sharp looking brown eyes looks the same as to Baekhyun's, they even have the same soft shade of brown pair of eyes. And there lips are such a beautiful, unique feature for the both of them. The way they tilt down towards the corners of there lips is so beautiful. If Jongin don't know any better, he will say that Minhyun is Baekhyun son. But that's impossible because the CEO is not the twins' father right? If Jongin remember corretly, the older don't have a wife nor a child and Kyungsoo's husband name is not Baekhyun and ofcourse his not Park his Byun, so it should be out of the question right?
But why do he feels so wrong while convincing his mind about it? Why does he feel so unsettled about it?
Jongin jump a little from his seat when his phone buzz inside of his pocket signaling that he recieve a message from someone. Jongin grin awkwardly when the older looks at him a bit confused, the younger pulled his phone out of his trouser and unlock his phone to see who message him. He bit down a smile when he saw who it is and he click it immediately to read.
From: Kyungiesoo ฅ•ω•ฅ
Nini! I'm almost done, can you go here and pick me up with the twins please? (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)
To: Nini bear ʕ*ノᴥノʔ
Of course! Anything for you noona~
From: Kyungiesoo ฅ•ω•ฅ
Thanks, Ninibear! Love you~ ( ˘ ³˘)
To: Nini bear ʕ*ノᴥノʔ
Be there soon! Love you too nonna~ (⺣◡⺣)♡* ʕ→ᴥ←ʔ
Jongin pocket his phone again after he send his last message before he looks back at the CEO who is still busy helping the little girl. Jongin gets up from where his seated and comes closer to the sleeping Minhyun, he picked up the boy carefully to not wake him up and after adjusting him in his hold and making sure that the boy is still asleep. Jongin turns around to face the confused CEO and the still busy little girl. He cleared his throat a little to get the girl's attention but he failed when Minsoo didn't look up or stop what she is doing and instead she continue writing in her book unaware of the two adult watching her.
"Are you going to take them home now, Jongin?"
Baekhyun is the one who break the silent that surrounded them when the younger turn quiet seeming to think how to get the girl's attention and seems that he forget that his still with them. Jongin flinch a little from the sudden voice that broke the silent and pulling him out of his thoughts. Jongin blink his eyes at the older before he nods.
"Um, well, their mom message me and told me she's done and I can now bring her kids back to her.."
Jongin laugh nervously while Baekhyun eyed him a little before he nod slowly in understanding.
"Oh... okay then."
Baekhyun looks back at the little girl infront of him then he run his hand into her hair in hope to caught the little girl's attention without startling her and he did got her attention back at him. Minsoo stop what she's doing and she let her pencil go to looks back at Baekhyun with her cute big confused eyes, Baekhyun chuckled at the cute girl before he gesture at Jongin's direction.
"Jongin said you guys need to go home now to see your mom and your mom also said that she missed you and your twin so much, so you have to hurry home to see her immediately and shower her with kisses and hugs, okay?"
"Oh, were going home? yay! I'm gonna see mommy again~"
Minsoo gasp then she jump on her feet in excitement to see her mother again after a long day of not to.
"Yes, now let's bring this back inside of your backpack so you can go now."
"Oops! Okay!"
Baekhyun laugh while helping the girl zip her bag close after she drop her school suplies and books inside in a hurry and a bit clumsy way. After making sure that the twins didn't leave anything behind, Baekhyun insist on walking them down to the parking lot with the excuse of Jongin already have his hand full of sleeping Minhyun and the twins bag. And so they walk out of the office and into the hallway with Jongin leading the way and Baekhyun just right behind him with a energetic and talkative Minsoo walking beside the older holding his hand to not get lost.
At the parking lot, Jongin lay the boy down to the backseat careful not to wake him up before he fix the seatbelt around his small body and then he put the kids backpack down at the floor of the car. Baekhyun then helped Minsoo in and settle her carefully in her seat, after putting her seatbelt he drop a kiss to the girl forehead and he run his hand lovingly one last time at the girl hair. Baekhyun step away from the car and close the door after saying his good bye to the little girl.
"Thank you again for taking care of them, Mr. Byun!"
Jongin called at the driver seat, smiling at the older.
"No problem and just call me hyung when it just the two of us. I feel so old already for being called like that everyday."
Baekhyun laugh and the younger do the same, Jongin smile is more friendly and relaxed after he said that.
"Okay hyung, thanks again and see yah~"
"Yeah, bye!"
Jongin wave before he drive out of the parking lot, Baekhyun wave good bye at them and he can see Minsoo is doing the same though the backseat. He watched them go until they disappear at the distance.
When he can't see them anymore, Baekhyun turn around and walks back inside of the building and into his office. He heaves a sigh on his way, disappointed on himself. He met the twins with Jongin again and like last time he don't have a courage to ask about the twins parents. Baekhyun have a mind to ask and just do it earlier when the young model showed up, but when his about to do it just like that he suddenly back out from it. He got scared all of the sudden, his scared to learn that at the end his just hoping to much for something that would never will be his.
And with that bugging him inside, he stop himself to muttered anything and be answer something that will disappoint him forever and hurt him in the end.
With another heavy sighs, Baekhyun walks back to the direction of his office when the elevator stop at the top floor.
~~*~~
A whole week passed since he met and have the twins with him at his office. And it's been another whole week of busy schedule for him since that day, everyday he have a meeting to attend to and mv site he need to check personally to know if everything is already set and nothing would destroy it for the rest of the day. His doing it repeatedly for the rest of the week until everything is finalize and ready.
It's sunday afternoon, the sun is already up high in the sky and showering everything that it reach with it's sunny ray of lights. The afternoon air is breezy and a little bit refreshing to inhale after a weeks of busy and packed schedule of work. Even if it's sunday, Baekhyun being the CEO of a big famous entertainment still have some things to do and finalize for work before he can finally breath freely again.
His on his way to his friend's house to pick up the promised demo for the album they will need for Jongin's debut for the coming two weeks. The said friend is one of the ElyXiOn's famous producer and Baekhyun's close friend, he met the producer by one of his bestfriend. Chanyeol introduce him to the producer when he started managing his dad company, the producer is apparantly the taller's cousin and he introduce them together and since then they become close and been good friends since then.
Jiyong also join his company after a year of convincing from the younger so he can show the world how amazing his songs are and be proud with it, he also met his current wife at the said company when Jieun become a trainee after his one year of working at the entertainment. Jieun is new that time and she is training to become the new solo artist that will debut the coming month after the boygroup that debut first before her, he saw her first when Jieun is inside of the music room and practicing her self compose song infront of the grand piano and she is singing with full of emotion in her beautiful voice. He fall for her smooth voice that time.
And the second he met her and the first time they met personally is the day she need to record her album. He was the one who has been assigned to work with the girl that time because the original producer who has been assign for the latter has a sudden problem to take care of that is why he can't come to work and do the work and since Jieun debut will come by the end of the week, they need to find someone to fill the position immediately and they were lucky because Jiyong is free at that moment and when they ask him to do the job he agree with it without a second thought and work with the girl.
Furthermore, that day is a blessing for the two of them. Because after that faithful day, the two of them come close because of their same interest in music and composing, after a year and a half Jiyong ask her to be his girlfriend and Jieun said yes and since that they date for almost six years and then they got engage and got married after a year of being fiance, then they have their first child after a year of their married and their second child after a year and a half since they have there first child.
The couple is greatful at the ElyXiOn and it's CEO, because if not for the company and the younger they will surely not met and be married for almost nine years now and have the beautiful family they were having for years now.
And that's why when Jieun open the gate to answer the ringing doorbell with a smile and be greated with the sight of the none other than Byun Baekhyun himself. The suprise that falls into her beautiful feature is so nerve wracking obvious. Baekhyun looks at her comically confused when her face paled after she saw him standing infront of her. Jieun tried to mask her suprised into something in between like a forced excitement and happy to have him visit them so suddenly.
Baekhyun told the girl about the reason of his sudden visit and that is to pick up the demo the older promise him. Jieun nod at him and she gaze behind her in worry before she looks back at him with a slight smile and told him to come in and follow her inside. She leads him inside and straight into the back door that leads into the pool area and garder. Jieun gesture to the direction of her husband at the corner laying down to one of the lounge chair that scatter around to the left side of the pool area, she then walks away and inside of the house after he thank her and after she rooms her eyes around the area again that seems like she's looking for someone and when she saw none, she sigh in relief and go back inside after excusing herself.
Baekhyun shrug it off and just don't mind the latter weird behavior before he walks closer to where is the older still laying down with it's eyes close. Baekhyun clears his throat and called the older name softly to not startled him, but his plan didn't go according to what he want it to be because a sudden splash is heard and a loud laugh resonate that followed it and that is what startles him and the sleeping older who is awaken in suprise and startled him out of his skin, making him fall down to the floor and out of the chair he was sleeping on.
Jiyong groan and swears under his breath, one hand on his lower back and the other one massaging his head that collided at the chair slightly after his fall. Baekhyun was just about to help the older up and into the chair again when a tiny voice scream and called his name excitedly and before he can even reach and see who it is he felt two tiny hands envelop into his right leg immediately, hugging his leg cutely.
"Baek oppa! Your here~"
Baekhyun looks down in suprised to be greeted by Minsoo beaming up at him. He looks back at Jiyong, who looks uncomfortable still at the floor while staring at him and Minsoo, then back at Minsoo. He crouch to be in the kid's eye label before he gifted the girl with his own cheerful smile and coos.
"Hey, Minsoo-ah! Oppa miss you~"
"I miss you too, Baek oppa~"
Minsoo giggles, she then proceed to wrap her little arms around Baekhyun's neck when his at her label and she land a kiss into his cheeks.
"What are you doing here? Is your twin brother with you today also?"
"I'm here to visit my friend, Hwitaek oppa! And Minhyunnie's here with me too but he go inside with mommy because he got hungry, so they go inside to grab something to the kitchen and eat~"
Baekhyun heart beat faster and faster after the little girl inform him that she came with her mother. Baekhyun swallow the sudden nervousness and anxious that creeping up his throat at the sudden news. The possibility and chance that he will met the twins parent hit him like a wave of excitement and uneasy, his excited to finally met one of the twins parent but his also scared at the negative possibility that it will give him after he met the mother of the twins. It make his inside crawl in uneasy feeling with a mixture of relief that he can't seem to understand. But even after feeling just like that at the moment, his still also eager to met the mother of the twins no matter what.
And because his curiousity get the best of him, his uneasy feeling wash away and in exchange to it is the eagerness to met the person that give birth to the beautiful twins.
"Really? Your mom is here with you?"
"Yes~"
Minsoo nod enthusiastic as ever. Baekhyun nod at the direction of the backdoor and then smile at the girl infront of him.
"I want to met her, can you introduce me to your mom?"
"Of course oppa!"
Minsoo jumps on her little feet in delight and it make his small smile grown bigger everytime the girl beaming cheerful energry got to him and showed him with it. There small bubble of exciment and happiness been popped by Jiyong's voice. Baekhyun blink twice in confusion before he looks back at the older with a small smile glazing his feature, Jiyong's now back to his original position at the lounge chair and his watching them with his unreadable sleepy eyes.
"Minsoo-ah, why don't you go and join Hwitaek back at the pool again hmm? Me and Baekhyun have to talk about something at the moment, you can talk to him again later after were done alright?"
"Okay, uncle Jiyong! See you later, Baek oppa~"
The little girl beams again and hug Baekhyun by wrapping her arms around his neck again and then she run back to where the innocent Hwitaek is crouching infront of the pool, Minsoo jumps into the unexpected kid's back and the latter yelp in suprised before they erupted into a fit of giggles. Baekhyun heard the older winced behind him but he don't know why, he don't know if it's because of the two kids cute interaction or it is because of the little girl's last sentence.
Either way, Baekhyun don't lull into it any further and just shrug it off like it don't bother him at all. He stand up from his crouch position and then he take a sit at the other chair closer to the older when the latter gesture for him to sit.
"So...what's with the sudden visit, Baekhyun?"
The older ask while watching the two kid's swimming and playing at the pool again. Baekhyun gaze at the pool too and watch the two kid's laughing and giggling, Minsoo is holding a ball and she tossed it playfully at the other direction and Hwitaek whines when the ball roll a little bit far from them, even after his whine he still go to the direction of where the ball stop rolling to pick it up and bring it back at the giggling girl.
"I'm here to collect that demo album you promised that we can use for Jongin's debut remember? You asked me to come here at sunday afternoon to pick it up, because you'd be free at sunday afternoon and your to lazy to go at the company to drop it. Dis you forget about it already, Jiyong hyung?"
"Well..."
Baekhyun chuckled at the older disbelief reaction when he heard his explaination about his visit. He knew it already while still at the road and on his way at the older house that the latter will surely be suprise to see him and that would surely because he forgot that he will visit that day and that his the one who asked him to come.
"So, this is the effect of getting older and older huh?"
Jiyong growled at the younger playful remark and he scowl at the latter when it laugh at his funny reaction.
"I'm just joking hyung! Seriously, your being to serious there's days. Anyway, I didn't know you knew does twins."
Baekhyun gesture to the pool and to Minsoo, Jiyong eyebrow shot up into his hair and he maintain his void emotion to hide his nervious and guilty feeling under it. He then speak nonchalantly while waving his hand in dismissal.
"Yea, they were Hwitaek and Yoongi's friends at school. The twins is Hwitaek's classmate and Hwitaek was so fond over Minsoo and Yoongi is the same at Minhyun, so they often go here to visit the kids and the other way around applied to my kids too. Nothing out of ordinary, it's all common to the kids their ages."
"Right..."
"Well, anyway about that album. I already have the demo ready for you to take back and actually, half of the songs in the demo is already done and it's only a matter of time before I finish it all and be ready to submit and be use for that upcoming idol. So, you can rest assured that before the recording start everything is already done and ready."
Jiyong pat the younger at it's back to reasure him that everything will be alright and nothing bad will happen. Baekhyun smile at the older in thanks and relief.
"Thanks hyung, I know I can alway count on you to help me when I need someone for this thing."
"Nah~ It's my job anyway, so you can always count of me for this thing."
"Well still, thank you Jiyong hyung."
Baekhyun grins at the older and Jiyong roll his eyes playfully at the latter and they laugh a little. After a moment of silent, Jiyong lazily stretches to relieve his thight shoulders, then he told the younger that he will go and get the demo at his room quickly, he also ask the younger to watch over the kids while his away. At his room, Jiyong sits at the edge of the bed he share with his wife and then he pulled his phone out of him pants to call his missing wife and the mother of the twins.
He heaves a frustrated sighs when the call connected after the fourth ring, the person at the other line greet him with it's sweet voice laced with anxious and guilt just like how his feeling at the moment.
"Hon..."
"Hey babe, where are you?"
"I'm with Kyungsoo and the two kids is with us. I panic when I saw him standing infront of the gate and remember that Kyungsoo and the twins is also inside. Thankfully, Minhyun and Yoongi got hungry that time and I leave them with Kyungsoo at the kitchen so I dropped Baekhyun at the pool area without them meeting face to face. Then I grab the change after I drop him with you and drag Kyungsoo out of the house with me and the two kids..."
He can hear his wife heavy sighs at the other line and the guilt in her voice is visible and even if she's not infront of him, he still can imagine her feature laced with anxious and nervousness because of the sudden almost meeting of the two fiance.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so scared and guilty right now...when the thought of them finally meeting again after so long irked me so much!"
"Why would it irk you honey?"
"Jiyong, were one of does people that preventing them to finally meeting again and it irk me so much because my guilt is eating me whole and I don't know if I can still pretend to not know anything when it ever happened again..."
Jiyong hear the silent sniffle at the other line and he know with all his heart that his wife is trying to hold onto her tears and preveting it to roll down her face with difficult. He heaves another deep sighs and he runs his hand in his hair in frustration.
"I feels so guilty hiding her to Baekhyun and not telling him that Kyungsoo is still alive...Baekhyun is the one who helped us to be together back then, he also helped us with so many things that it hurt me so much when I know I'm one of the heartless people who hide and prevent him the chance of meeting his lover again...Jiyong, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to hurt Baekhyun anymore, can we just..."
Jieun cut her own words off and she turn silent at the other line with the only small sniffle can be heard. Jiyong fisted the conforter beside him to control the sudden rush of guilt and uneasy in his system.
"I'm sorry, Jieun..."
"It just..Baekhyunnie has been a good friend to us and a great boss at that matter. All the good thing he do for us at the past years and coming just irk my guilt so much it hurt. I just want to stop this hiding thing and just come clean to him... I know your doing this for your younger cousin, but can we just not let ourselves to be involve in this trouble anymore? Can we just let ourself out of this? please?"
Jiyong closed his eyes tightly and with heavy feeling of guilt and anxious surrounding his heart, he let's out a shaky breath and relaxed his heavy voice so the latter won't worry at him to much.
"Yes, of course. This will be the last time we have to cover for Chanyeol, I promise, Jieun-ah."
"Thank you.."
He heard his wife whisper and he also heard her relief sigh from the other line after his reasurance.
"I'll message you when Baekhyun decided to go so you and Kyungsoo with the kid's can go back home safe alright? Just go somewhere nice and enjoy your time away with the kids and Kyungsoo and don't worry about Baekhyun being here. I'll handle everything back here."
"Alright, take care of Hwitaek and Minsoo for us, I love you hon. And please don't report this to Chanyeol..."
"Of course, I'm on it. Love you too honey and take care."
Jieun whisper an okay before she finally hang up the phone and Jiyong looks up at the ceiling of the room and let out a deep sighs for how many times he don't know anymore and don't care at the moment, he pocket his phone again and walks to the desk at the corner and infront of the big window over looking the pool area. He tighten his hold into the files and usb his holding while watching the two kids interaction with Baekhyun down at the pool with a grim look.
Baekhyun is currently crouching at the side of the pool and infront of the two kids, he was laughing happily while listening to the two kid's story about their time at school and their silly moment when they go outside and play at the nearest playground. The younger smile is so precious and beautiful, the kind of smile he lost when he discover that his fiance died after the accident, the kind of smile he have when Kyungsoo is still at his side, that kind of smile everyone missed so much, and that kind of smile everyone will do everything to see it again be permanent into the younger face. And it would only come back to him fully if Kyungsoo will be back at his side too.
Jiyong glare away from the window and walks to the door and takes the stairs to the first floor. The guilt is still heavy in his heart weighting it down and almost taking his breath away with it. The guilt is crawling at his every inch and it irked him so much to just erupt and explode to the younger and tell him everything he needed to know without thinking about his younger cousin reaction toward it.
But even if it irked his so much, to almost him exploding in anger and guilt, he still have a half mind to control his raging thoughts and face the younger nonchalant coloring his face. He still have the energy to talk and face the younger calmly even if his inside is the opposite of the calm his showing the younger.
Baekhyun stay at the Kwon household for almost three hours because Minsoo insist for him to stay longer and his discusion with Jiyong about the album take longer than he had expected. And so, after staying for three whole hours, he now decided to go home when he receive a message from his bestfriend Jongdae that his currently waiting inside of his house, so without any other choice, Baekhyun said good bye to the pouting Minsoo and Hwitaek and to Jiyong. He wave at the two kids before he hop in to his car and started the car to drive back to his own house.
His a little disappointed to go back home because he tried so much to stay longer to a reason of wanting to met the twins mother. But after staying for almost three hours, the said mother didn't show up the whole time his in there, even the older wife, Jieun, didn't came back anymore after he show him inside and leave him back at the pool area. He mean to ask about it to the older but he forget about it the whole time they started talking about the album, work and other things about their life and Minsoo with Hwitaek's story about their school and friends. He only remember about it when he arrive at his own house and forget about it again when he saw Jongdae at the living room sitting with Luhan and her husband Sehun.
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