III : V

                                    

                                          
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PART THREE
"I N E E D Y O U"
III : V
                          
It came to Chanyeol one night.
                          
It could've been 11 PM or 5 AM; he couldn't tell. All he could register was the way his heart was aching, having woken up from a dream where Baekhyun was still with him.
                          
In his dream, they were cuddling on the couch watching some show on the TV, the shorter teasing him and burying his face in Chanyeol's chest when he started laughing too hard. Even in his dream he felt his heart squeeze at the adorable sight, and just as the Chanyeol in his dream was about to wrap his arms around Baekhyun and hold onto him forever, he disappeared into thin air.
                          
His dream ended there and Chanyeol woke up soundlessly, his eyes opening to his empty ceiling and dark room, the other side of his bed just as empty as it had always been. While he was laying there, thinking about Baekhyun—thinking about his everything, he realized one thing.
                          
He made a mistake.
                          
He remembered seeing it—seeing the way Baekhyun had broken down when Chanyeol told him that he wanted them to break up. Why couldn't he have seen that Baekhyun loved him there?
                          
And even before that... Just the way that Baekhyun stared at him, the way that he hugged him, the way that he talked to him, the way that he paid attention to him. Why didn't Chanyeol see it?
                          
Who cared about what other people said? Why had Chanyeol been so stupid to have acted upon other people's thoughts? Why had he only seen the bad in Baekhyun, even if the good had been shown so many times?
                          
He loved Baekhyun.
                          
He couldn't say for sure that Baekhyun loved him back, and the entire thing was dangerous. Love was always dangerous—giving your heart away was always something that should be feared. It could fall into the wrong hands. It could be completely destroyed. It could be used.
                          
But if Chanyeol truly loved Baekhyun, he should be willing to take that risk.
                          
It came to Chanyeol one night; that he made a big mistake.
                          
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Baekhyun stared at the cup in front of him, the alcoholic contents mingling with the melted ice just like he was mingling with strangers.
                          
He went two weeks straight without going to the club, but after spending at least three hours crying in his car, he figured that a few drinks wouldn't hurt. He didn't feel like partying or dancing. More like wallowing in his despair and wondering why Christmas Eve had to be as terrible as it was.
                          
But at least he wasn't alone.
                          
There seemed to be a lot of people at the club that day, even if they should've been with their family or loved ones, getting ready for the festive day that had the reputation of happiness and fun.
                          
Baekhyun's past Christmas's were always relatively lonely because Luhan had to spend it with his family and, well, Luhan was basically his only real friend. So Baekhyun usually spent that day sleeping in and doing things that he usually didn't do every day, like binge eat a ton of sweets, buy a ton of crap from the stores and go skating by himself near the river.