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✈EPILOGUE: Chanyeol & Baekhyun✈
Baekhyun finds out that loving Chanyeol is like riding a plane for the first time.
At first, he’s very scared. He’s ittery as Chanyeol leads him to one of the hangars outside of the city housing BRAVE 614. Chanyeol previously told him that it’s a glider aircraft. Meaning, they’ll be flying through the clouds without an engine, relying purely on science.
“Chanyeol, really, it’s okay. We don’t have to do this. We can just fly on a normal plane. I’ll even book us the flight. Really, Chanyeol!”
When his boyfriend turns to him, he has both of his long arms outstretched to his sides, his dimples present on his cheeks. Baekhyun drags himself to that embrace. He purposefully smashes himself in and Chanyeol effortlessly encages him.
“It’ll be really fun, Baekhyun. I promise.”
“You’ll throw us like a slingshot to the air!” Baekhyun whines in his chest.
Baekhyun is really cute when he’s like this. There are moments that he’s cuter than his own son and Chanyeol treasures those moments dearly. “Babe, look, I’ve done this a hundred times and I'm still alive, right?”
“How do I know you’re not a ghost?”
Chanyeol tightens his embrace and puts his lips on Baekhyun’s ear. “Would you like a replay of last night?” And then he licks the edge of his lobe.
Baekhyun squeals and squirms out of Chanyeol’s embrace with laughter in his lips.
It isn’t long before Chanyeol is already helping him in the front seat of BRAVE 614. “Chanyeol, I can’t sit here. Why don’t I sit at the back? I need to see you!”
“You’ll enjoy the view better here in front.” Chanyeol patiently says.
Baekhyun holds both of his hands and looks at his eyes directly. “I don’t need any other view, Chanyeo. I lo-view!”
It was so cheesy that Chanyeol folds over and supports himself on Baekhyun while he laughs. Leave it to Baekhyun to joke on the most opportune moments even when he’s shaking. “Babe, if you’re joking like this already, I think we’re good to go.”
“But, Chanyeol~”
“Babe, I’ll be here the entire time. I’m not going to jump off the plane without you. Don’t you trust me?”
“Of course, I do. I jump, you jump?” Baekhyun jokes again, now with a little comfort in that beautiful smile.
“I’ll make sure we don’t get to that point. But yes, Baekhyun, where you go, I’ll follow.”
Loving Chanyeol is that slow ascension from the ground up to the clouds. From fear, it transitions to fascination and excitement.
A tow plane helps BRAVE 614 to take its start until it’s able to fly by itself. Baekhyun is still doubtful that they’ll be able to clear the land but slowly, he can already see the roofs of the hangars around them.
“Breathe, baby.” Chanyeol speaks through the noise behind him and Baekhyun does so.
Loving Chanyeol is reaching the clouds. It’s flying, that steady coursing through the winds. It’s elation and bliss.
They’re kilometers above the ground, the houses looked so little, like dots in a green canvas. Baekhyun couldn’t help each expression of wonder he’s been saying. He knows he’s sounding like a voicemail on repeat but everything is truly amazing.
“Try to touch the windows, Baek.” Chanyeol directs him.
He’s hesitant at first but Chanyeol urges him on. The window is cold at first but then it turns warm.
“Look in front of you.”
Baekhyun was busy staring at his hand on the window and when he realized what Chanyeol wanted him to see. His jaw drops. It’s like touching the clouds with his hands as the plade glides towards the little heaps of condensation.
And when Baekhyun thought things couldn’t get better, it actually did.
In the horizon, they witness the first few moments of the sun kissing the edges of the earth as it sets. Their surroundings turned to shades of blue and pink, and orange in some. It is like they are chasing the sun before it could truly disappear.
Baekhyun remembers Chanyeol’s words, “You’re as beautiful as the sunset in a plane. Even more, actually.” But Baekhyun doesn’t agree. He thinks that he’s no comparison to the beauty he’s facing right now.
It’s so perfect.
If only he could hold Chanyeol’s hand right now and tell him how much he means to him.
Just then, he feels Chanyeol’s fingertips on his hair. “You okay there, Baekhyunnie?”
Baekhyun holds up an okay sign. He turns his head towards Chanyeol as much as he can. Chanyeol is able to touch his cheek because of it. “I love you, Chanyeol.”
“I love you too, Baekhyun.”
Loving Chanyeol is like flying and knowing that at some point, you have to come back down. They can’t always fly above the ground.
But that’s okay.
Because Chanyeol makes sure that their descent is not a crash. It’s a safe journey back home.
It’s okay because Chanyeol and Baekhyun are on the same flight, going in the same direction, and towards the same destination.
And when Baekhyun’s feet touches the ground again, Chanyeol is there with him to support him. He makes sure to land a kiss on his boyfriend’s lips. It was a kiss filled with words unsaid and emotions that run deep.
Chanyeol answers him with just as much.