Baby Steps Chap. 6

[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 6



Baekhyun stops the water from running down as he finishes washing the dishes. His mother is out with the group of moms, going shopping for God knows how longs. Everyone knows how powerful women when they have started to shop. No one can stop them.

The house is empty, save for the soft whining from Mongmongie who is being a lazy pup again. The pup rolls onto its back, his tummy spread out and it makes Baekhyun laughs fondly.

He crouches down and scratches the pup, earning a long whine from it.

“You are being such a fat pup, huh? Eating and lying down.”

Mongmongie answers him with a soft bark, before it goes onto its legs and climbs up onto his lap. Baekhyun laughs as the brown puppy makes a move to play with him.

“Mongmongie, I’m not playing with you.” He says as he rubs the puppy behind its ear.

The pup continues pawing at his shirt and Baekhyun has no choice other than to cradle the puppy up into his arms and smother it with cuddle.

The bell rings as the sign of a guest coming and Baekhyun stands up with a puppy in his arms.

“Yes?” He calls out in question as he opens the door.

“Hey, puppies.”

Baekhyun feels his eyes pop out of their socket.

“Chanyeol?”

“The one and only.” The tall boy grins widely, stepping forward to kiss his temple.

Baekhyun gapes in surprise because Chanyeol is standing here in front of him, in the middle of this warm afternoon and wearing a very nice but comfortable hoodie and dark blue jeans along with a backpack hanging on his shoulder.

“What are you doing here?” He manages to whisper after he regains himself back from that simple kiss of greetings.

Chanyeol has started to show more of his move of initiating any skin ship with him. But still, he might have shown that side, but he can’t hide his clumsy and dorky self of him. Just like now, as he steps inside of the house and bumps his elbow against the door.

Baekhyun winces and clutches onto Mongmongie and the puppy whines.

Chanyeol grins, “Can I hang out with you today?” He asks as he rubs onto his pained elbow.

“Here? In my house?” The shorter boy asks in surprise.

“Nowhere else.” Chanyeol chuckles at his surprised face.

It takes Baekhyun a few seconds before he finally realizes that he is gaping like an idiot and the taller boy is staring at him in amusement. He clears his throat and walks towards the living room, motioning Chanyeol to follow him.

The other boy sits down beside him and Baekhyun sinks onto the couch, still with Mongmongie in his lap.

Chanyeol grins and leans close, “What’s its name?”

Baekhyun smiles as he smoothens the pup’s fur, “He is Mongmongie. Say hi to Chanyeol.”

Chanyeol takes the pup’s paw and shakes it as if he was having a handshake.

“Hello, Mongmongie. I’m Chanyeolie. Nice to meet you, pup.”

The puppy barks in response as he climbs into Chanyeol’s lap and gets comfortable with him. Baekhyun sends a look of utter disappointment and sighs with an amused smile.

“You better not steal my puppy, Chanyeol.”

The taller boy looks up from the act of watching the puppy on his lap, “I have my own puppy, so you don’t need to worry about that.”

“What’s his name?”

Chanyeol leans closer to him and grins teasingly, “My puppy’s name is Baekhyunnie.”Then he pokes Baekhyun on his nose.

Baekhyun lets out a yelp and then he huffs.

“You are treating me as your dog?” He asks.

“You admit that you are mine?” The taller boy asks teasingly, despite the redness of his ears.

It makes Baekhyun squeaks as he realizes what he means with that last sentence. With a panicking self, he scrambles away from the living room with an excuse of bringing some juice or what.

Chanyeol watches as the shorter boy struggles to compose himself and it’s really cute. He puts the puppy down just as Baekhyun joins him back and it pads away to sleep near the window.

“I don’t know what you will prefer so I bring out orange juice and soda. And water.”

“It’s okay, water is fine. I bring snack, anyway.” He rummages into his backpack and after a short consideration, he pours out the whole contain onto the coffee table.

Baekhyun yelps as he watches potato chips, candies, chocolate bars, and other things pouring out.

“Chanyeol, how do we finish them?”

The tall boy grabs him by his wrist and drags him to sit back beside him.

“We start with the chips, of course.”

Baekhyun smiles amusedly as Chanyeol rips the first potato bag open. The snack is offered to him and he shyly grabs a piece. Chanyeol stares at him nibbling on the chip with a gaze full of affection.

“What did you do today?” He asks.

“Other than doing some cleaning, nothing.” Baekhyun answers, pushing the chip into his mouth.

Chanyeol offers another one, pushing it against his mouth. Baekhyun makes a move to take it from his hand but Chanyeol refuses to let it go.

“No, no. Open your mouth.”

Baekhyun blushes and shyly parts his lips. He lets Chanyeol feeds him the potato chip. The taller boy grins before ruffling Baekhyun’s hair.

“Good puppy!”

A pout forms onto Baekhyun’s mouth. “I’m not a puppy! Stop treating me like one!”

Chanyeol shivers because he can’t believe that Baekhyun could be so cute. Way too cute for him to handle.

“You are acting like one now, Baekhyun. How do you expect me to not?”

Baekhyun lets out a huff. Chanyeol makes funny faces to grab his attention back as the smaller boy is currently looking away from him, feigning annoyance.

“Baekhyunnie? You are angry? My Baekhyunnie is mad? Hmm?”

He holds back a grin when Baekhyun’s walls slowly crumble down. The boy has this pout on his mouth.

“Stop it, Chanyeol. You can’t act cute for your own good.” He says with a faintest smile on his face.

Chanyeol grins. “Of course. Being cute is your job, not mine.”

Baekhyun grumbles, stomping his foot down. The taller boy laughs at his act before he offers another chip in front of his mouth, which surprisingly is accepted by Baekhyun without much protest.

“Do you want to watch a movie or something?” Baekhyun asks while staring at him with eyes that could rival a sad puppy. Chanyeol sighs fondly as he holds onto his chest.

“I have some movies actually. You can choose it.”

Baekhyun reads each movie titles and descriptions before he lifts one up to show it to Chanyeol. He peeks from behind the cover, eyes twinkling in excitement.

“Can we watch this?”

Sweet cheeks, he is so cute. Chanyeol chokes onto his chips and nods his head in surrender. He would give anything to Baekhyun, that cute little puppy.

Baekhyun sprints out of the couch and he loads the movie into the player. With the remote in his hand, he runs to his room to grab his blanket and giraffe plushy, before he jumps back onto the couch with a bubbly laugh escaping his mouth. Chanyeol watches him with an amused smile.

“It’s starting.” The taller boy says, nudging him with his elbow.

Baekhyun panics and quickly rises the volume up before standing up again to switch the lamp off. He cuddles under the blanket and keeps his giraffe plushy close to him.

Oh my goodness. He is so adorable. Chanyeol is losing his mind.

As the movie continues to play, Chanyeol is torn in between watching the movie or watching the excited puppy. During watching the movie, Baekhyun is curling into the couch while sniffling his nose sometimes, then a soft giggle bubbles up from him when the scene is funny, but then he whimpers and hides his face with his giraffe plushy when it’s thrilling.

Chanyeol grunts and throws an arm over the boy, pulling him to his side. Baekhyun stumbles against him, looking up at him questioningly. Chanyeol gives him a grin to hide how nervous he is, as he side-hugs the boy close. Baekhyun bends his head down to hide his pink cheeks.

When the movie is almost over, Chanyeol can feel how fast his heart is beating, because Baekhyun leans his head down onto his shoulder. He can tell that Baekhyun himself is being so nervous because he doesn’t even move an inch but it’s okay though. They are being nervous together.

As the credits roll up, Chanyeol glances down onto the cute puppy.

“Do you like it?” He asks, making the boy jolts up in surprise. Baekhyun looks up at him with his trademark sad eyes but the smile on his lips is enough.

“Yes! It’s so good! I really enjoy it!” He laughs softly, making Chanyeol internally coos over hos cute his eye smile is.

“You are a weird audience.” Chanyeol says, reaching to pinch the button-like nose. Baekhyun scrunches his nose up cutely.

“Why am I weird?” He asks, pouting a bit. Poor Chanyeol and his heart.

“You make so many sounds over a movie.” Ridiculous. So ridiculous. Chanyeol is losing any idea on what to say to tease him just to see his pout. He picks the lamest idea ever.

But Baekhyun seems to fall for it though, because he pouts wider, his cheeks puffing like a kid. Chanyeol gulps.

“I’m a good audience!” He sits up straight and Chanyeol panics because he doesn’t want Baekhyun to be so far away from him.

With a swift move, he grabs Baekhyun back onto him, so much closer this time, as the boy is half sitting on his lap. Baekhyun whimpers in embarrassment as he realizes the position they are in but he makes no move to get away.

“Stay here.” Chanyeol says, congratulating himself to keep his voice steady because his heart feels like it’s about to explode!

Baekhyun nods meekly into his neck, shifting a bit to get into a better stance and he ends up sitting fully on Chanyeol’s lap.

“Is this… okay?” Chanyeol asks, the conversation about the previous movie is easily forgotten.

The cute puppy nods, his head is still bent down and he tucks himself to fit under Chanyeol’s chin. The small move is sending Chanyeol into cloud nine. He curls an arm around Baekhyun to keep him still and trails his other hand to ruffle the boy’s soft fluffy hear.

“You are so cute, Baekhyun. What are you doing to me?” He questions softly.

Baekhyun says nothing but whimpers softly, gripping his giraffe plushy tight to his chest.

“Is this our… second date?” He whispers weakly, unable to look at Chanyeol in his eyes.

Chanyeol gazes down and can only see the top of Baekhyun’s head. “Do you want it to be?”

Baekhyun nods. “It’s comfortable. I like it.” He admits.

“Then this is out second date. Home date.” Chanyeol declares, giving Baekhyun soft pats on his head. The boy nods into his collarbone and breathes in his scent deeply.







No one says anything for a moment. Chanyeol relishes in the feeling of having an armful of puppy on his lap. While Baekhyun is being too shy to even lift his head up.

“I,” Baekhyun whispers softly, grabbing Chanyeol’s attention again.

“Yeah?”

“I… I like this.” He says, voice no above a whisper but Chanyeol can hear it just fine.

The taller boy shifts and finally is able to make Baekhyun lifts his head up. The boy is peeking out from behind the giraffe plushy, but the telltale of blush is visible on his neck. Chanyeol could just squeeze him for being so adorable.

“You do?” He whispers back, caressing Baekhyun on his back.

The puppy nods his head, looking up into his eyes. “I… Chanyeol, I… you…”

Chanyeol blinks questioningly. “What is it, Baekhyun? Just tell me.”

Baekhyun looks like he is about to cry but that is not the case. It seems like he wants to say something. Chanyeol pats his head softly.

“Come on. Just tell me abou—”

His breathe hitches in surprise as Baekhyun leaps forward to plant an innocent kiss on his cheek. Chanyeol stares in shock at the boy who seems to be exploding anytime soon from the redness on his face.

“T-T-T-Thank you.” Baekhyun meekly stutters, a small smile on his lips.

Chanyeol locks his eyes on the sight of red-faced Baekhyun who is smiling up to him, with two pointy teeth poking out from behind his lip, giving a cute sight of a puppy, and two small fists gripping onto his shirt.

He loses his mind, of course.

Chanyeol holds onto Baekhyun’s head and leans forward to kiss his cheek, too. Baekhyun yelps shyly, eyes squeezing close, when Chanyeol gives his other cheek with the same kiss.

It hurts. His chest hurts because his heart is beating so fast. Baekhyun is afraid that Chanyeol could hear his heartbeat.

But it doesn’t seem to be like it because Chanyeol gives him another kiss on his temple, then his cheek again.

“You are going to be the death of me one day.” Chanyeol says in defeat, pressing his lips onto the apple of Baekhyun’s chubby cheek.

Baekhyun sniffs cutely, gripping onto Chanyeol’s shirt as the taller boy goes to kiss his cheek again; this time lower and very, very close to the corner of his lips.

His breathe hitches when Chanyeol draws back, their faces too close. Baekhyun stares into the taller boy’s eyes, and Chanyeol is smiling at him. He is sporting a massive blush on him, too, and Baekhyun breaks out in a shy giggle.

Chanyeol laughs before the both of them are laughing together.

Baekhyun clutches onto his plushy and closes his eyes when Chanyeol runs his hand along his soft hair.

“Stop being so cute. It’s dangerous for me.” He says softly. Baekhyun says nothing as he smiles and keeps his eyes closed.

Seeing him being so cute and small like that, Chanyeol braves himself and dives down. He presses the softest kiss ever on the corner of Baekhyun’s lips. He barely touches his lips but he can feel the tenderness.

Baekhyun squeezes his eyes tightly, being so shy and whimpering like a puppy.

Chanyeol can’t help but to lock his eyes onto the thin lips. He really wants to kiss Baekhyun. Oh God, yes, he wants to kiss Baekhyun so much. But they have just moved so far today.

One step at one time. Their first official kiss can wait. He has a cuddly puppy in his arms now.







They end up falling asleep on the couch for being so comfortable with each other, still with Baekhyun curling in his lap and Chanyeol’s arms holding him so tight to keep him close.

Baekhyun’s mother comes back from her shopping, only to find two boys cuddling in their sleep on the couch. She laughs softly and decides to let them sleep for a while. Dinner can wait for a moment.

They are being too cute right now.









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A/N: Home date! Small kisses make me go wild! Hehe, third date coming soon (and it's going to be the turning point for them!) so please wait and swim in the lake of fluffiness for now~ heheh

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