Baby Steps Chap. 5

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: Baby Steps

Pairing: Chanbaek

Genre: Romance, Fluff, Smut

Length: Series

Summary: Don’t call Baekhyun as a stalker, because he is not. You can call him a puppy, but he is sure this is not a puppy love. He is just too much in love with Park Chanyeol from the next class.
















Chapter 5



Baekhyun stifles a laugh as Chanyeol continues doodling on the sheet of paper and pushes it close to him.

As they are studying together because final exams are in less than five days. They are really amazing to be able to go for a date when their exams are nearing. But well, Baekhyun has everything memorized in his head. He is the rank one after all.

When he is writing down everything he has memorized onto the stack of papers, Chanyeol steals a sheet and begins to doodle weird things at it. He says that they have studied enough and it is time for them to rest for at least fifteen minutes.

“Chanyeol, I don’t understand what it is.” Baekhyun whispers as he laughs over the weird character of monster-alike drawn on the paper.

The tall boy huffs. No one tells him he can’t draw.

“It’s puppy! Baekhyun, have your eyes gone worse?” He leans close, pulling the glasses away from the other and ignoring the yelp from him.

Baekhyun mutters a continuous series of “give them back” but Chanyeol is having too much fun of teasing him. He has long found out that a pouting Baekhyun is so adorable.

“No way. I’m going to borrow this for a while.” Then he sticks his tongue out.

The shorter boy pouts even wider, “How do I study now?”

“You should stop. You have been boring holes into those papers for two hours, Baekhyun. It’s not good... for the papers.”

Silly Chanyeol. Should he tease the other again and again just to see his pout?

Baekhyun throws his hands in the air, giving up at the silly giant and slumping down onto the table, chin on top of the papers. He sighs, suddenly feeling so tired for studying over and over again. He can’t help it though, this will be the last time he studies this hard because after the final exams are done, he won’t be a high school student anymore. University life is waiting for him.

“Baekhyun, you write with pencil just now.” Chanyeol says, starting a new topic all of the sudden.

“Yes? What is wrong with that?”

Chanyeol snorts in amusement, pulling him up then tipping his head up. Baekhyun lets out a sound of confusion because why would Chanyeol make him stare up to the ceiling?

“You have chemistry formulas plastered to your chin, silly.” The taller boy laughs softly while rubbing the other’s chin to wipe it.

“Oh.” Baekhyun mutters, feeling shy for getting such care and attention.

“There.” Chanyeol ruffles his hair after he finishes.

Baekhyun grunt, feeling his locks sticking here and there from the ruffling. Chanyeol really enjoys ruffling his hair just because he is so tall.

“Let’s get out, Baekhyun.”

“What? No! I need to study more.”

Chanyeol has this disbelief look on his face.

“Just one more hour,” Baekhyun begs, one finger sticking out as he pleads, “please?”

Then again, who is Chanyeol to deny such adorable request?

“Alright. Just for another hour. No more.”

Baekhyun throws a cute little fist up in celebration before he grabs his pencil back. Chanyeol grins at him, before putting the glasses back on top of his nose even though he still wants to play with them.

He gets a cute thankful smile from Baekhyun though so it’s fine.











As exams will start in no less than three days, they get a break to study at home.

Chanyeol sighs while leaning back onto his computer chair, spinning it around in boredom. He hears a snicker coming from his friend.

“I bet he is thinking about his lover boy again,” Sehun’s voice mutters not so discreetly.

Kyungsoo giggles, “Of course! There is no way Chan will be able to not think about such cutie!”

“Hey, Chan. Why don’t you call Minhyun-”

“It’s Baekhyun.” Chanyeol cuts in.

“-and ask him to come to your house? We can study together.” Sehun ignores him.

Chanyeol sighs, again.

“I don’t want to disturb him. He needs his own time to study.”

Kyungsoo lets out a not so manly squeal, sounding a lot like girls in the cartoon with “kya” voice. Sehun snorts.

“Being a gentleman, are you?”

Chanyeol feels his face burns. “S-Shut up!”

“You guys spend so much time together in the library. What are you doing?” Sehun asks, putting down his pencil.

“What else are you doing in a library, Hun? Of course studying.” Chanyeol mutters.

Kyungsoo shakes his head, “No way! You must be cuddling or flirting or maybe kissi-”

“No!” Chanyeol cuts with a red face, because damn it, he doesn’t need his friends to discuss what he has dreamt a night ago.

Sehun laughs, throwing his head back.

“You are clearly imagining it, Chan! Don’t ever try to deny it!”

“I... I am not!”

Both of his friends are laughing at him and Chanyeol slumps back onto his chair. Damn it, they won’t stop for a while.

But, really. He has dreamt about going on a trip with Baekhyun a night ago and they have fun. Then they have kissed just like in the drama, where there is sun set as the background and their fingers have gotten tangled together.

Shit. He really needs to stop staring at Baekhyun’s mouth when he talks.

It is as if Baekhyun had known that he is thinking about him, because suddenly Chanyeol hears his phone rings and the caller is no other than Baekhyun.

With movement so quick, Chanyeol has his phone pressed onto his ear as he breathes out, “Baekhyun?”

“Hey, Chanyeol. I’m sorry for disturbing but I want to ask whether you have my chemistry paper or not.” He hears Baekhyun’s soft voice whispers into the phone.

“Chemistry paper?” Chanyeol mutters under his breath and starts to shuffle his papers and books around.

In between his scrawny and messy writing, there is one paper written with pretty and cursive writing and Chanyeol grins.

“Yeah. It gets stuck in between my Biology.”

Baekhyun heaves a sigh, “Ah, I thought I lost it somewhere...”

“Do you need me to bring it to you?”

“No, no! Just keep it, I don’t want to bother you anymore. I don’t need it until Wednesday anyway.” Baekhyun mutters into the phone softly, making Chanyeol smiles like an idiot.

“Okay. But you tell me when you need it. I will bring it to you, okay?”

Baekhyun laughs softly, “Okay, Chanyeol.”

The sound of his laugh sends weird butterflies to Chanyeol’s stomach. What has he eaten this morning?

“Hey, Baekhyun?” He calls.

“Yes?”

“Take a break, will you? I bet you haven’t rest ever since you wake up.”

The silence coming from Baekhyun is enough of an answer and Chanyeol feels proud to be able to know his habit but also annoyed because Baekhyun has been forcing himself too hard again.

“I... I will rest after I finish this chapter.” Baekhyun’s soft voice says.

It brings a smile on Chanyeol’s face, “Promise?”

“Yes, I promise.”

“You better rest for real! I will call to check on you later!” Chanyeol huffs and he gets a soft laugh as the response.

“Alright. I will not disturb you anymore-”

“You are not disturbing me, Baekhyun.” Chanyeol cuts with a frown.

Baekhyun hums softly, “But still. I need to hang up because I need to finish the chapter review and because I promise to rest after this.”

“Okay,” Chanyeol breathes out, already feels like missing the other boy, “see you, Baekhyun.”

“Thank you, Chanyeol-ah.”

Then the call ends. Chanyeol sighs.

As he drops his phone back onto the desk, he hears muffled giggles and snorts and what the hell is that voic-

“Shit!” He curses, spinning around to see Sehun and Kyungsoo smiling from ear to ear. He has forgotten that he has his two friends here with him.

“So much of falling for him.” Sehun snorts, furrowing an eyebrow at him.

Kyungsoo keeps giggling, “The both of you are so cute, Chan! You should have heard yourself!”

Chanyeol grunts in embarrassment, ears getting red and face warming up. He is so screwed. He won’t hear the end of this anytime soon.

“Go home, you two.” He grumbles childishly, but his two friends keep laughing at him.











When the exam day comes, Chanyeol has the whole Biology words memorized in his brain but everything feels like flying away when he sees Baekhyun standing in front of his locker. With a happy skip, he comes towards the other boy and taps him on his shoulder.

“Baekhyun!”

“Hello, Chanyeol. Do you sleep well? Are you ready for the first exam?” Baekhyun greets him with a soft smile hanging on his face and gives him questions.

Chanyeol grins widely.

“I’m ready... I think.”

Baekhyun lets out that soft laugh again and Chanyeol feels his heart soars up to the sky. His day is going to be amazing after he listens to that laugh. He is sure of it.

“You will do well. I trust you.” Baekhyun says with a reassuring smile.

Chanyeol sighs fondly, “I’m sure you will do better. Let’s finish this war week and go for another date.” He proposes.

A slight tint of pink creeps onto Baekhyun’s face and the shorter boy immediately glances down to his shoes.

“O-Okay.”

Funny that he can be so shy with a few magic words. Chanyeol feels the urge to squish the boy into his arms but he holds back because this is school and they will have their exam started in no less than fifteen minutes.

“Do your best, Baekhyun.” He says, patting the boy on his head gently.

Baekhyun grants him a cute smile.

Ah, Chanyeol knows he will do well now.











When the last paper is taken away by the teacher, Chanyeol and almost everyone in his class are throwing their pencil down onto the table.

Finally.

The war week has ended and it means they are free for long until their university life will start. Chanyeol can’t help but to shiver in excitement because just imagining waking up without the need to go to school is like a dream. He can just laze around, watch movies, sleep late at night, and most importantly... go to numerous dates with Baekhyun.

Speaking of Baekhyun...

Chanyeol jolts and starts shoving his things into his bag before he excitedly waits for the crowd to walk faster out of the classroom. He needs to see Baekhyun. A week without any proper conversation with him makes Chanyeol almost goes crazy.

He makes it in time just as Baekhyun slowly walks out of his own classroom. Upon seeing an excited Chanyeol standing a meter away from him, Baekhyun blinks before smiling so brightly.

“Baekhyun!” He calls his name excitedly.

The shorter boy laughs at him and walks close to him.

“Hey, Chanyeol. How’s your last exam?”

“Is this the time to talk about exam? We are free now!”

Baekhyun laughs with a hand covering his mouth, making Chanyeol’s head spins around as he stares at the sight. It’s so cute, oh my gosh.

“Let’s go get that ice cream!” Chanyeol breaks out of his thought and he blurts the words out before his brain can make any sense.

Baekhyun yelps when the taller boy holds his hand and starts to drag him out of the school ground. He barely manages to say hi to both Sehun and Kyungsoo but the two wave him off with an amused smile hanging on their own respective face upon seeing such an excited giant dragging a certain midget away.

“C-Chanyeol, slow down,” Baekhyun mutters in embarrassment because this is just the second time they hold hands and Chanyeol is already doing this in public where people who know them can see and gossip about it around.

“I can’t! We need this ice cream to cool the steam in our brain.”

Baekhyun breaks out into a soft laugh and gives up trying to slow the boy because it is clear that Chanyeol is not going to stop anytime soon.

They get onto the cafe they have that ice cream in a record time and Baekhyun barely opens his mouth but Chanyeol has already recited his order to the man behind the counter.

It only takes a moment before a large bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce comes to them. Baekhyun watches like a little kid as the chocolate sauce drips onto the bottom of the bowl.

Chanyeol grins.

Baekhyun looks up at him with round eyes.

“Can I?” He whispers shyly.

The taller boy grins, scooping a spoonful of ice cream and pushing it in front of Baekhyun’s lips.

“Dig in.”











As they finish a plate of cheese cake after the bowl of ice cream is emptied, Baekhyun leans onto the chair with a satisfied smile.

“Thank you, Chanyeol.”

The said boy grins, staring in amusement.

“No. Thank you, Baekhyun-ah.”

The shorter boy blinks questioningly.

“Why me?”

“Because,” Chanyeol starts, smiling to him, “just seeing you digging the ice cream like a kid makes me feels accomplished.”

Baekhyun blushes in pink and he fiddles with his fingers.

“W-Why would you say that?”

The taller boy sighs fondly. How come someone as big as him can be so adorable like this?

“It means I make a good date.”

Baekhyun looks up with a scandalous look on his face, “Y-You are a very good date!”

Chanyeol blinks in surprise and stares at the shorter boy who is now muttering incoherent words under his breath and blushing in tomato red.

“I... I-I mean you-”

The sight of him stuttering and being so shy makes Chanyeol sighs happily.

“Thanks for telling me that.” He grins widely as slight tint of pink covers his own cheeks.

Baekhyun lets out a soft embarrassed whimper before he stands up so abruptly and rushes out of the cafe. Chanyeol can only laugh at him, he is just glad he has paid before this so he can just sprint out as well to run after the shy puppy.

“Hey,” he calls as he rushes to the speed-walking Baekhyun and embraces him from the side.

The shorter boy freezes slightly and stops walking altogether. Chanyeol bends his knees to get a better look on the red face Baekhyun is still sporting. Such a precious sight.

“Stop being so cute, can you? It makes weird things to my heart.” Chanyeol admits before he leans to him and places a soft kiss on his temple.

Baekhyun stills, being so rigid like a rock.

The taller boy grins widely despite the reddening cheeks he has and he maneuvers Baekhyun to continue walking. They still need to get back home and rest from having such a stressful week of exams.

They haven’t parted yet but Chanyeol feels like missing the shorter boy under his arm already.

“T-Then... s-stop being so perfect, my heart can’t take it.” Baekhyun mutters all of sudden, bending his head down to avoid his eyes.

Chanyeol looks at the other and it will be a lie if he said he didn’t feel his heart thump so hard.

With a giddy smile, Chanyeol tightens his arm around the other and leans to whisper into his ear, “The same goes back to you, Baekhyunnie.”

Then he pecks his cheek gently, making Baekhyun lets out a strangled noise.

Ah, so much for missing him already.









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A/N: I forgot that I have one chapter ready for update ehehe. Fluffy Baekhyun is fluffy and Chanyeol can't hold himself from ruffling and squishing the puppy. Hope you all like this as much as I like it heheh

I have some new stories, you guys should check them~ Thanks for reading! Comments will be very much appreciated and will make me very happy! Huehehe