This week was the worst week for Baekhyun.

He would get a pile of homework everyday, but basketball practice always awaited and so he had to play basketball before he even touched his homework.

Of course he tried finishing his work during lunches, but he'd just get tired and put it away.

Today was Friday and it was one of the only days he didn't have basketball. For once, he felt relief flood through him and he decided to just take a rest for lunch. He walked in the hallways and stopped at the door he had been through before.

He slid it open and walked inside, closing the door behind him as he entered the unused classroom.

Baekhyun moved towards the window and pulled the curtains away, watching light flood through the room like a wave of water. He pulled up the window and let the air get inside the somewhat dusty room, breathing in the now fresh air.

He sighed and stuck his head out, looking at the football field in the back.

Pyojun High had two major sports: basketball and football.

No one really cared about all the other sports, so that's why they got the gym to themselves all the time for basketball practices.

Football was already over though, so the field was empty now.

It was partially cold outside, but Baekhyun didn't bother closing the window. He liked the smell of fresh air and trees that made it's way in here so he decided to keep the door open.

Baekhyun walked over to the chair and flopped down onto it, leaning his head back so it rested against the wall.

These days because of practice, he'd stay up until at least 2AM to finish his homework and it was taking a toll on him, making him cranky, angry, and just exhausted in general.

Baekhyun closed his eyes and took in another breath, letting his body relax.

He never meant to take a nap, but evidently, it happened.

When Chanyeol walked into the room, he didn't expect to see Baekhyun sleeping on one of the chairs.

Chanyeol shivered and finally realized that the window was open. He walked over to it and tried shutting it but it jammed on him, keeping the same place.

He sighed in annoyance and decided to just leave it because Baekhyun had opened it for a reason.

Chanyeol grabbed his guitar and sat down in the chair beside Baekhyun, positioning himself to play.

He was just about to play but realized that the smaller was just wearing a T-Shirt today. Chanyeol's gaze went from the window and back to Baekhyun's face, wondering if he should even bother. Chanyeol eventually sighed again and took off his sweater, taking extra care not to drop his guitar.

He gently placed his sweater on Baekhyun and the smaller immediately snuggled into it, letting out a noise similar to a puppy's.

Chanyeol looked at Baekhyun a bit more before he began playing the guitar, performing the song that he had learnt recently by ear. "Listen to the Letter"

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Once he began playing, he began singing also, letting the words and sounds carry away all his worries for now.

Halfway through the small song, Baekhyun made a weird noise and then began moving around.

"I like your singing," he commented groggily and Chanyeol just ignored him, continuing to play the song.

"Sometimes I cry, afraid of losing you...

Sometimes I feel you falling asleep in my arms

I promise you, on the first day of snow...

I promise you, I'll be with you..."

Chanyeol kept playing the song until the end, glancing over at Baekhyun once or twice to see that the smaller was on the verge of sleeping again as his head dropped and raised again like a bobble head.

"Ah," Baekhyun spoke up and Chanyeol stopped, looking at the thing Baekhyun pointed at. "It's snowing."

"It is..." Chanyeol spoke as he saw familiar specks of white fall from the sky.

They just watched the tiny flakes of snow fly down, too mesmerized to care about anything else.

"The first snow of the year..." Chanyeol stated and Baekhyun just nodded absentmindedly.

The cold breeze flew inside and Baekhyun shivered, just then realizing that he had someone else's sweater with him. He turned to Chanyeol and saw that the giant was just in a T-Shirt like he had been previously.

"Sorry... You can have your sweater back."

Before Baekhyun could actually give it back though, Chanyeol stood up and placed his guitar back, walking over to the window.

He reached his hand out and caught some of the snowflakes, watching as it melted into water in his hands.

Baekhyun followed Chanyeol, his sweater draped on his back like some sort of cape. He stood beside Chanyeol and also looked out the window.

"Do you like snow? I like snow," Baekhyun mentioned and Chanyeol nodded.

"Snow's nice, I guess..."

"You want me to tell you a secret?"

"No."

"Two years ago, my dog died on the first day of snow. His name was Yehet."

"What kind of a name was that? And I already told you that I didn't want to know your weird secrets," Chanyeol stated and Baekhyun laughed.

"I don't hate the first day of snow though... It's pretty nice, since what happened today was nice," Baekhyun recalled  and Chanyeol nodded.

Chanyeol retracted his hand and checked his watch, seeing that it was already class time. "We need to go—"

"Can we please stay here? Classes are so long and I want to hear more of your music," Baekhyun begged and Chanyeol was about to walk away but Baekhyun grabbed his shirt, stopping him. "Please? Just this once. Maybe you can teach me too."

Chanyeol turned around and saw Baekhyun looking at him with puppy eyes, his bottom lip jutting out at the same time. Chanyeol sighed and caved in, not wanting to go to classes either.

And so under the sky of the first snow, the two basketball players joked around, talked about weird topics and made music together, surrounded in a gentle atmosphere similar to a warm blanket.

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Chanyeol had gotten a cold, but luckily the next days were weekends. He stayed in bed for almost 30 hours and rested like there was no tomorrow. By Monday, he was back and running for basketball.

During lunch at the cafeteria, Chanyeol brought up the topic everyone was waiting for. "I found out which schools we're playing against for the championships." 

Everyone's attention was on Chanyeol and the giant pulled out a sheet of paper.

"So basically there's two sides. Side A and B. We are on side B... Five other teams are on side A. We play against all the teams in side B and at the ending, the winner of side A and B have a match together and that's the finals. Our first games are against The Lions who we've beaten, The Cougars are after and if we beat both of them we move on and play against whoever else won two other games. That just continues and I'm pretty sure we'll make it to the finals," Chanyeol explained and everyone broke out into talks about basketball.

"We'll have a chance to play against the new school right?" Baekhyun asked and Chanyeol nodded.

"Ooh, this is a good photo." They heard from behind them and turned around, spotting Jongdae. He was holding a camera and once everyone spotted it, they grinned.

"Wait!" Sehun called out and everyone stopped. "Chanyeol move away, I want to sit near Xiumin hyung. Let's trade."

"Uhh... Okay..."

Sehun moved out of his seat and shooed Chanyeol away, making the taller sit in his old spot.

"Okay now we're ready," Sehun stated.

"I'll take one on the left side, then on the right, and then in the middle alright?" Jobgdae asked and didn't even wait for an answer, beginning on the side where he could see Baekhyun, Chanyeol, Sehun, Xiumin and Kyungsoo clearly. "Ready? Three..."

"Hey Channie," Baekhyun whispered and Chanyeol turned to look at him.

"What do you—"

Baekhyun dipped his finger in his icecream and brushed it across Chanyeol's cheek, giggling stupidly when Chanyeol looked at him dumbfounded.

"You little—"

The camera flashed and Chanyeol gasped.

Baekhyun burst into laughter at Chanyeol's reaction, holding his stomach because of laughing too much.

"I will kill you." Chanyeol grabbed Baekhyun's collar and Baekhyun just got more icecream on his hand, rubbing it against Chanyeol's cheek.

By now Jongdae was taking the picture of Junmyeon, Mingyu, Yixing, Jongin and also Kyungsoo again because he was sitting at the edge.

He took the picture while Chanyeol was strangling Baekhyun and after, he took an extra one of just Baekhyun and Chanyeol; when the captain was rubbing icecream on Baekhyun's face.

He stood on the opposite side of Kyungsoo and took a full group photo where he saw each one of them, smiling and grinning- apart from Chanyeol and Baekhyun who were now declaring food fights.

Jongdae said goodbye and left,  planning to print the pictures in nice paper and send it out to the whole school, including the ones of just Chanyeol and Baekhyun.

"You started it!" Chanyeol stated as he continued to shove spoonful after spoonful of icecream down the smaller's shirt.

"Stop! It was just a joke!" Baekhyun said all while laughing at the feeling of icecream sliding down his back.

It was gross, yes. But Baekhyun was actually having a lot of fun. For revenge, Baekhyun struggled to grab Mingyu's mustard sandwich which was proving to be hard with Chanyeol's vice grip on his waist.

Their current position was one that was quite odd... During the war, Baekhyun  had somehow made it onto Chanyeol's lap and the captain was holding onto Baekhyun while his other hand shoved food down the midget's shirt.

Baekhyun finally got ahold of the sandwich and split it open, taking one piece in his hand and swinging his arm backwards, guessing where Chanyeol's face was.

Baekhyun had guessed correctly when he heard Chanyeol grunt in disgust and laughed at just the thought of Chanyeol's face covered in mustard.

Chanyeol's grip on Baekhyun loosened and the smaller took that chance to escape, standing up. But of course, being the idiot that he was, he tripped on Chanyeol's foot and fell forwards on the table, his face landing directly in the cake Junmyeon was eating.

Chanyeol—after wiping his eyes, saw this sight and burst out laughing, not being able to contain it as he fell off of his chair.

Everyone watched these exchanges happen and honestly, they were getting used to the idiotic things the couple would do during lunch.

One time they actually began this big debate if a pig was pink or light pink. Baekhyun had won that debate and next time, it was an argument on if height mattered in basketball—which Chanyeol had won.

It was definitely a weird view to the principal though.

Everyone at their table silenced as Baekhyun and Chanyeol just kept laughing, not noticing the presence of someone who could give them ten detentions in a row.

"Guys..." Xiumin called. Chanyeol and Baekhyun turned to look at the person who was standing there with arms crossed and fingers tapping.

Their smiles dropped immediately as Mrs. Cha ordered them to stand up.

A minute later and the two were standing at the front of the cafeteria, their heads down as the principal gave them a very loud lecture in front of more than half the school.

Once she was done, she walks away with the clicking of her heels, causing Baekhyun and Chanyeol to look at each other.

Baekhyun grinned and chuckled. "You've got a little something on your face," he pointed out and Chanyeol rolled his eyes but smiled.

"You've got something on your face too."

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Well... What a chapter... Filler because BAM guess what Chapter 7 (or 6 but I had a prologue) is? Yes it's the-

the what, you say?

Championships YEHET!

Here comes the intense stuff guys. Intense stuffff...

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