Falling Chap. 5 : Slow but Fast

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: Falling

Pairing: Chanbaek

Genre: Romance, Fluff, Angst, Smut

Length: Series

Summary: Baekhyun is sure he is falling. Falling into the deepest pit of darkness. But there is a new source of light; one that makes him feels safe. He finds himself falling again and this time, it’s for another reason.














Chapter 5



After a heart-to-heart conversation with Chanyeol a few nights ago, Baekhyun finds himself starting to fall even faster for the taller male. It’s inevitable; Chanyeol is too charming for his own good.

He decides to pay more attention to him, like helping him with putting his coat on (which earns him a surprised look from the taller male) and also gives him a quick goodbye kiss on his cheek (which also earns him another shocked stare from the other).

He is sure Chanyeol doesn’t see it coming, so when he gets the right chance, Baekhyun grips onto the taller male’s arm and gets onto his tiptoes to plant a quick but sweet peck on his cheek.

“T-Take care.” He mutters once he steps back, eyes avoiding Chanyeol’s.

He hears a disbelief chuckle coming from Chanyeol before a more heartwarming chuckle follows soon. Baekhyun considers of running away but before he could do so, there’s a hand gripping onto the collar of his shirt and easily drags him back.

“Cha –”

“Let’s go out for a dinner date tonight.” Chanyeol speaks against his ear, giving him a swift back hug.

Baekhyun stills and blushes, nodding his head quickly before escaping out of his arm. He hears Chanyeol’s laugh when he is in the living room and a shout calling for him: “I’ll be going!”

He ends up giggling into his palms and ignores the amused looks the maids give him.







He wonders whether he should help the maids with something because he is practically doing a free living here. Chanyeol keeps on telling him not to and that he is supposed to be relaxing to his heart content in the house, but Baekhyun doesn’t think he could do that.

So he creeps into the kitchen where the maids are doing their works and when he accidentally kicks the counter with his big toe, the sound grabs the maids’ attention.

“Mr. Byun! Are you alright? Let me see your wound!” One maid comes to him and helps him sit down by the counter seat, taking a look at his toe. It’s embarrassing because a girl is inspecting his swollen toe where he is a man and he should be the one doing this to a girl.

“N-No, I’m fine. Don’t worry!” He tries to reason but the maid insists on treating the cooling gel onto his now reddening toe.

“You should have just called for us, Mr. Byun. Please don’t hurt yourself anymore. We could come to you if you happened to need anything.” Another maid says to him.

Baekhyun shakes his head. “No! I was just looking for something to do to help you guys!”

“We can’t do that, Mr. Byun. This is our job and you are our master. Let us serve you.”

“But –”

“This is a direct order from Master Park. We wouldn’t dare to disobey him.”

Sighing in surrender, Baekhyun nods with a pout over his lips.

“Fine.” He grumbles, unaware of the maids’ smile over his cute pout. They escort him back to the living room and excuses themselves to continue their work, but he stops them.

“Um, is there any of you who have cooking books? Can I borrow them for a while?”

The maids nod and rush over to their room to bring him the thing he requests. Baekhyun is surprised to find dozens of cooking books sitting on top of the coffee table and he blinks as the maids go back to the kitchen.

It’s not like he is interested on cooking. He just wants something to kill the time and he is thinking about cooking or baking something for Chanyeol someday, but he still needs to learn how to make good dishes even though he knows his skill is not that bad.

He should find something good to wear, too; for the dinner date.

It’s practically their first date ever since Chanyeol confessed to him.

Thinking about it makes Baekhyun feels giddy all over and he often giggles into the cooking book he is reading, but he manages to not think about something to make him so giggly in order to not scare the maids.

Maybe he could start with something easy… Cookies?



Baekhyun doesn’t even realize how many books he has read until he falls asleep in the couch in a flood of books.











He doesn’t know how long he has been asleep until finally Baekhyun feels his cheek tickles and he stirs, slowly opening his eyes. His sight blurs for a second before he lets out a loud shriek at the discovery of a pair of big eyes staring at him with a gap just a mere inch.

He wonders how fast his heart is beating when suddenly those eyes draw back and lean further from him.

“So it’s true.” The male owner of the eyes speaks and Baekhyun grips onto the cushion on his lap, feeling afraid all of sudden.

“E-Excuse me?” His voice comes out in a high pitched one before he swallows his saliva down his throat.

“It’s true that Chanyeolie brought back someone home.” The male speaks again with his deep voice, eyes staring straight at him without blinking.

“…e-eh?” Baekhyun gulps, not really knowing what to do because a stranger who seems to be close to Chanyeol (because he calls him Chanyeolie) is crouching down in front of him with face so straight and serious.

“W-W-Who are you?” Baekhyun tries to ask politely.

The male stares at him, unfriendly but looks teasing, before snorting.

“I’m Kyungsoo. That idiot’s cousin. Can’t you see the similarity between us?” He says.

Baekhyun glances at him before shaking his head no. Because he really doesn’t know what kind of similarity those two have.

The stranger scoffs in disbelief.

“Eyes! We have huge eyes! Can’t you see?” He questions while pointing to his own eyes.

The question feels more like a demand for him to agree and Baekhyun nods his head. The stranger, now he knows goes with Kyungsoo, smiles in satisfactory before rising up to sit beside him.

“What’s your name?” He asks, leaning closer while staring with his big eyes.

Baekhyun chews on his lip and stutters a soft whisper of his name. He sees the other male stares at him up and down and then up and down again, before nodding his head.

“Okay. I accept.”

“E-Excuse me?”

The stranger—Kyungsoo—stares at him with an eyebrow lifted up. “You are dating Chanyeolie, right?”

“U-Um, that’s,” Baekhyun mutters under his breath, face warming up at the mention of it, “that’s not it, w-we just s-started so,”

“Yeah, yeah, I get it. I begin to wonder what kind of person Baekhyun is because Chanyeolie is so hung up for eight years. That idiot.” He grumbles, sending a quick smile to Baekhyun.

Baekhyun grips onto the cushion before bringing it up to cover his cheeks, only to hear a manly squeal escaping the other’s lips.

“You are cute. Okay, you are good to go. Let’s marry you to Chanyeolie tomorrow.”

“What?!” Baekhyun shrieks in shock.

Kyungsoo laughs loudly at his reaction and pats his shoulder.

“I’m just kidding! No need to worry about it. You are so cute though, I wonder how Chanyeolie is able to hold himself back from pouncing you.” He mutters, smiling amusedly.

Baekhyun pouts, whining lowly.











Chanyeol thanks his driver while grabbing his coat and documents bag. The driver nods at him with a smile while holding onto the car door before then he drives the car back to the garage.

Smiling at the maid greeting him, Chanyeol gives his bag and things to the maid and wonders why the house is so silent.

“Where’s Baekhyun?” He asks the maid. The girl smiles and tries her best to hide her chuckle.

“Mr. Byun is in the—”



The sudden shriek which he knows as Baekhyun’s resonates through the house and Chanyeol hurriedly runs into the house to ease his worry.

“Baekhyun? Where are you?” He calls, finding the living room is empty and messy with books and cushions all over the place.

Where the hell is Baekhyun?

Another shriek comes from upstairs and Chanyeol wastes no time to run and breaks into the room where Baekhyun’s muffled voice of ‘no, no, don’t!’ is heard.

“Baek!”

He slams the door open, only to find his cousin towering over his Baekhyun on the bed; a hand trying to pull the shirt Baekhyun is wearing while the other hand is holding his Baekhyun down.

“What the hell are you doing?!” He questions his cousin, walking inside with a killing glare.

His cousin, Kyungsoo, shrugs before climbing down from his Baekhyun and grabs his Baekhyun into his arms.

“Kyungsoo!” He roars, seeing his cousin treating his lover like a ragdoll.

“Uh, stop screaming, giant. Your voice is noisy.” Kyungsoo grumbles, sharing a teasing grin with Baekhyun who just stands still in his arms.

Chanyeol grunts and steps closer to grab his lover away, but a slight push from Kyungsoo on his chest makes him stumbles back. He could never win over his cousin in the bullying department.

“Nu-uh. No coming closer before we are done with our business. Right, Baekhyunie?”

Baekhyun hesitantly nods his head.

“What the hell are you doing with Baekhyun? Get your hands away!” Chanyeol groans, stomping his foot down.

Kyungsoo pretends to think before he sends him an amused stare. “How about no.”

“Ugh.” Chanyeol throws his hands in the air in defeat. He moves to grab his Baekhyun from his evil cousin but Kyungsoo blocks him despite the difference in their size.

“You step back. We are not finished here.”

“What the hell are you doing to him? Stop harassing him, Kyungsoo!” He barks, feeling all sort of possessiveness creeping into his brain. His cousin could be evil in some random times so he just doesn’t want Baekhyun to feel that kind of torture too soon.

“Shut up!” Kyungsoo hisses at him before easily pushing him out of the room despite their height difference. Chanyeol panics when the door is locked and he couldn’t tell what Kyungsoo is doing to his puppy Baekhyun inside there.

“Kyungsoo, I swear –”

“Oh, shut the hell up, Chanyeol! I’m not doing anything to him! Baekhyun, tell him something just to shut him up. His voice drives me crazy.”

There’s a soft knock from the other side of the door and Baekhyun’s voice calls for him.

“Hey, um, you don’t have to worry, okay? We are just, uh, what are we doing again, Kyungsoo-ssi?”

Chanyeol lets a small smile curves up on his lips at the cute way Baekhyun is speaking.

“We are choosing an outfit for your dinner date! And you, Park Chanyeol, go to your own room and dress up like the handsome man and just wait downstairs. I’ll be bringing Baekhyun in his beauty glory for you!”

He hears another soft yelp from Baekhyun before the same voice laughs softly. Chanyeol breathes in relief before hesitantly trudging towards his room just across it.

He just hopes his cousin won’t dress Baekhyun like a clown because this is going to be a high-class dinner in an expensive restaurant.











“Close your eyes, giant!”

Chanyeol follows the lead of his cousin to not spoil the surprise. He wonders how Baekhyun looks right now.

“Keep your eyes closed and no peeking! Or I won’t let you see him!”

Groaning, Chanyeol hums and taps his foot impatiently.

He hears some shuffling and also the soft voice coming from Baekhyun in a protesting tone. He couldn’t help but smiles because his Baekhyun is so cute.

“Okay, open your eyes in the count of three.”

Chanyeol stands straight in giddy as he hears Kyungsoo’s count of ‘one, two-’

“Three.”

Opening his eyes, Chanyeol feels himself gaping in surprise because those tight pants fit Baekhyun’s legs perfectly. The black cotton pants are just right for him.



Baekhyun feels self-conscious with the way Chanyeol is staring at him and he moves to hide behind the couch just to make himself comfortable.

“Hey, beautiful.” Chanyeol greets him and Baekhyun could feel his face burn in embarrassment at the flatter.

“H-Hi.”

“Ready for the dinner?” Chanyeol asks gently while coming up and holds onto his hand. Baekhyun shrieks internally at the subtle act of gentle affection from the taller male and he couldn’t help but to relax under the touch and that handsome smile.

“Y-Yes.”

“Then let’s get going. I’m going to thank you later, Kyungsoo.”

“Yeah, yeah. Move your ass right away, giant.” His short cousin says, rushing them out of the house.

Baekhyun yelps when an arm slips around his waist, holding him gently. He dares himself to look up at the taller male and all he gets is a gentle smile.

It’s uncontrollable; his heart beats.











He has never been taken to such an extravagant dinner like this. When he was still with his ex, all Baekhyun could get was around a middle class restaurant and the atmosphere was sometimes uncomfortable because his ex looked like he was afraid to be seen with him.

Yeah, now Baekhyun thinks about it, his ex boyfriend always seemed to be avoiding going out with him. When they were miraculously out, it was either a secluded hanging out place or a massive cover of their face with the reason of cold.

Now he thinks, his life really was dull before.



“You alright, love?”

Baekhyun snaps his head up from the strawberry ice cream he is having as his dessert, having heard of Chanyeol’s deep voice calling him with that nickname again.

As cheesy as it sounds, Baekhyun really enjoys being called like that. His ex had never acted so affectionate with him.



Faint blush covering the apple of his cheeks and Baekhyun bites down onto the spoon he is holding. His lips are betraying him as they form a small shy smile at the nickname.

The subtle movement doesn’t go unnoticed by the taller male though.

“You are being so quiet all of sudden. Are you alright?”

“Yeah…” Baekhyun mutters, finally putting down the spoon as he feels he has had enough of sweet for the night.

A thumb swipes the corner of his lips and Baekhyun stills, unblinking.

Chanyeol smiles at him, all wide and gentle that Baekhyun feels like flying from the gentleness. He really couldn’t keep up with this man’s pace. They should have moved in a slow pace but look where they are right now, Baekhyun couldn’t tame his heart and the urge to bury his face against that broad chest!

“Let’s get going?”

Baekhyun nods his head, keeping his gaze down.

He squeals, however, when long and warm fingers intertwine with his. A hearty chuckle leaves Chanyeol’s mouth.









The drive back is silent as the both of them are too preoccupied with their own thought.

Baekhyun locks his gaze at the colorful neon lights along the road, feeling so light and happy. Chanyeol is sitting beside him and enjoying the sight of his date smiling against the car window.

Their hands have not let go until now and honestly speaking, Baekhyun curls his fingers tighter.



The car stops when they have arrived and the driver steps down from the car since the both of them don’t seem to be getting down soon.

Chanyeol waits for his darling to speak up.



“Thank you for the dinner.” Baekhyun whispers, slowly turning to look at him, a grateful smile playing on his lips.

A similar smile breaks on Chanyeol’s mouth and he shakes his head.

“It’s nothing. I should be the one thanking you for making it enjoyable.”

Baekhyun stares into those wide expressive eyes and he finds all the honesty and love. He can’t hold it back anymore. Screw moving slow.

He leans forward and buries his face into Chanyeol’s expensive shirt, feeling his face burns in embarrassment yet he can’t deny that he likes this.

“Thank you so much.” He mutters, voice muffles against the fabric but it’s okay, because Chanyeol hears him perfectly clear.

Strong arms wrap his tiny body into a warm embrace and Baekhyun closes his eyes when he feels the shape of Chanyeol’s lips pressing against the crown of his head.

“I love you so much, I want you to remember it.” Baekhyun hears the words being whispered into his ear and he can’t help but to press his face deeper into the warmth.

They end up staying in the car for too long but Baekhyun doesn’t mind it.









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A/N: I'm not sure there's anyone reading this story..........
Anyway, I'll just post it because I want to write. lol