Wow, we're on chapter twenty now...

Really really really short update because I've had zero time all this week.

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Ping!

Baekhyun looks up. "Chanyeol?"

The giant shakes his head. "It's yours." He goes back to scrutinizing his phone screen.

"Hm." The brunet retrieves his (tiny) phone from the kitchen counter and returns to the living room, going to sit next to his boyfriend—it was still a little strange to call Chanyeol that. Chanyeol automatically wraps an arm around the brunet and pulls him closer.

"What is it?"

Baekhyun turns his phone on. "It's from Kyungsoo. 'Wonder what he wants." He fumbles with his phone slightly, smiling at the text. "He wants me to paint Jongin's portrait for his birthday."

"That'll be cool." Chanyeol looks over at Baekhyun's phone screen, taking to chance to peck his lips softly. The gesture had the brunet gnawing on his lips slightly, wanting more than half a second of contact. Baekhyun tugs on Chanyeol's arm, disappointed.

"Hm?" Chanyeol looks over, shutting his phone off and setting it on the coffee table in the center of the room. He's surprised when Baekhyun presses a lingering kiss to his lips. "What's gotten into you?" He laughs, holding Baekhyun by the waist and letting his small boyfriend lean on his chest.

"Nothing. I just wanted your attention," Baekhyun murmurs, playing with his fingers.

"Really?"

"Yes, really."

"Then I'm more than happy to give it to you." The giant grins, hugging Baekhyun tightly. "This the best."

Click!

"What was that?" Chanyeol turns his attention to Baekhyun's phone, which was up in the air, camera app open and shutter closing.

"Me!" Baekhyun laughs. "Smile!"

But instead of smiling, Chanyeol presses a firm kiss to Baekhyun cheek. The brunet's eyebrows shoot up in pleasant surprise, his smile stretching from ear to ear and mocha brown eyes molding into two beautiful crescents. Baekhyun retracts his arm and examines the photo, his giant laughing and cooing over Baekhyun's looks.

"I want to post it on Instagram, but my account is for art."

"This is art," Chanyeol smiles, "you are art."

"Shush." Baekhyun hits Chanyeol softly in the arm. "I can't handle direct praise."

"I know you can't. That makes it ten times better." Chanyeol grabs his phone off the coffee table. (The perks of being ridiculously tall and having really long limbs!) "Send it to me. I'll post it."

"Mm-hmm," Baekhyun hums as he sends the first photo. Chanyeol frowns.

"Not that one. The other one."

"The one where you're kissing my cheek?"

"Yeah, that one."

"But aren't you posting this?"

"And?"

"So isn't it a little..." the brunet trails off.

"What are you worried about? I'm going to tell everyone you're now my boyfriend anyways. Might as well have more proof."

"Oh alright. Fine." Baekhyun laughs and sends the selfie (not really a 'self'ie, but whatever.)

"Thanks Baek." Chanyeol makes quick work of posting the photo with the caption of:

'We're dating! This cute brunet is officially mine! <3 @/ani_kkaebsong'

"Was the 'cute little brunet' part really necessary?" Baekhyun goes to Instagram and likes the post.

"Yes."

"Really?" Baekhyun comments '<3 <3 <3 you (adorably) dumb elf.' the bursts out in laughter.

"What's the matter now?" Chanyeol blinks, confused.

"We're not even following each other!"

"Wow Baekhyun." Chanyeol ruffles Baekhyun's hair with one hand and follows him with the other. The brunet does the same, minus the hair ruffling part. Chanyeol examines his boyfriend's account for a second, then speaks. "You should change your profile picture."

"You should too. You look really annoyed in your current one."

"I think you mispronounced 'cool'," Chanyeol jokes.

"I did no such thing." Baekhyun laughs, "and you know that I'll always think you're cool, regardless. Unless you're being a total jerk. No offense, but you can be a pretty big jerk at times." Chanyeol shakes his head, still stroking Baekhyun's hair.

"I'll change it." I was planning to re-dye my hair back to black soon anyways. The red will be outdated. The giant scrolls through his camera roll. "How about this one?" He shows Baekhyun a really handsome (Baekhyun's totally not biased or anything) selfie of himself.

"It's good." The brunet steals a kiss. He looks at his own phone, picking out an older photo, slightly edited with a circular border because he got bored one day. He was at an airport when it was taken, so there was a sea of people in the background. "This?"

"Your facial expression's interesting,"

"Yeol!"

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I like it. You're cute."

"Thank you."

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"Jongin, Jongin! Have you seen Chanyeol's latest post!?"

"No, why? What's wrong?"

"Him and Baekhyun are together! They're so cute! And you know what this means..."

"I owe you another ten dollars," Jongin groans.

"Yep!"

"I have to stop making bets with you."

"Please don't. You benefit my bank account immensely."

"That sounds like something Baekhyun would say."

"He's rubbing off on me."

"I can see that. So," Jongin claps his hands, "What am I getting as a birthday gift?"

"Nice try Nini. But it's going to take more than that to get me to tell you."

"Drat. Come on, a little hint?"

"Nope."

"Please?"

"No. Why do you want to know? It's supposed to be a surprise." Kyungsoo flicks the sun kissed boy's forehead.

"But still!" Jongin whines.

"No." Kyungsoo goes back to texting Baekhyun the details of his gift. He glares when Jongin tries to peek. "Nope! You can't see this!"

"Who are you texting?"

"It's a surprise."

"Do they have something to do with my gift?"

"Maybe..."

"Alright, then I won't peek."

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It's been a crazy busy week. I've had zero writing time.

I promise I will update SYA. It's been over a week, I know. Don't yell. The chapter's half written. No yelling. :)

...idk. Maybe I'll end this sooner than I thought... it's dragging... (which one of my stories don't, honestly?)

Check out my new book Of Thunderclouds and Rainbows. It will be updated pretty frequently, since the chapters are extremely short and quick to write. (I'm going to have to eat my words in a week or so, watch it happen.) -_-;

How is everyone? <3

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