'' What do you mean we're staying another night? '' Baekhyun almost yelled.

His mother giggled nervously. '' Well, it seems like grandma wanted to stay another night because we'll get visitors tomorrow morning. ''

'' Mom! '' Baekhyun complained. '' It would have been nice if I knew stuff like that before driving here. I have nothing to wear. ''

'' I know, honey. I didn't know about this either. Like I mentioned before, I ain't making the rules here, you know grandma can be grumpy sometimes. ''

With nothing left to say, Baekhyun made his way to the bathroom. He wanted to finish his business before taking a good hot shower. But once he pressed the flush, he noticed that it wasn't working.

Baekhyun tried it over and over again, until he had to call his mother. How embarrassing is that? Calling your mother at the age of twenty-three, to tell her you can't flush the business you left in the toilet.

'' Yes, Baekhyun? '' His mother called in front of the bathroom door.

'' The toilet is.. broken I guess. ''

'' Oh, '' Mrs. Byun began. '' I totally forgot to tell you, but we have no water. ''

Baekhyun almost slipped on this. '' What, how do we have no water? Is something like that even possible? ''

'' Well, out here!- ''

'' Did they forget to pay the bills?? '' Baekhyun added.

His mother sighed. '' Well this is a village. When the people who live down the village use all the storage, there will be nothing left for the ones living up here. ''

'' And what am I supposed to do? '' Baekhyun hissed.

'' There must be a can filled with emergency water, '' She explained while trying to keep Baekhyun calm. '' Take the small can and pour it into the toilet. ''

Without trying to scream in anger, Baekhyun actually did what his mother told him. By now, it was worse than he expected it to be. With another small can filled with water he washed his hands and left the bathroom, walking right to the breakfast table.

'' Good morning! '' Everyone greeted the ones joining the table.

Baekhyun didn't say anything.

'' Oh, someone is in a bad mood. '' The wife of his great uncle announced, looking right at Baekhyun. '' Is everything alright? ''

'' Does it take long to get the water back up here? ''

She laughed. '' Ah, now I know. It shouldn't take that long. Maybe it's just for today, or for the following few hours. ''

Well, at least something that made Baekhyun's anger fade away for a little. The breakfast was nothing special, most of the things were the same as yesterday.

He didn't want to stay in such a bad mood, that's why he decided to take a look around the village. Baekhyun first walked around the big garden, he never saw chickens running around free like that, weird that they didn't even try to run away.

One even walked up to Baekhyun, making him smile. He kneeled in front of the chicken, he guessed dthat it was a female.

Without even realising, the chicken jumped on him, for no reason. Baekhyun jumped up, even screamed a little.

His great uncle appeared and shooed the chicken away.

'' Weird, they never do this. '' He looked after his chickens. '' Maybe they don't like foreigners. '' his uncle laughed loudly at his own crusty joke.

An annoyed sigh filled the air around the exhausted Baekhyun. '' Can I get some ice cream here? ''

'' Ice-cream? Yes, follow me. '' His great uncle made him follow to the gates. '' You just need to walk down the lane, turn left and walk down. You'll se a little shop at the left side. '' he guided him through the way with his hands, also giving him some money to buy ice-cream or more.

'' Okay, ''

With slow steps he made his way to the market. He didn't expect anything big, he even guessed that it was probably the only market around here.  '' He said left, right? '' he talked to himself. Baekhyun soon arrived, it wasn't that far, but the road made it hard to walk and exhausted him. There was so quality road, only little stones building one.

'' Hello, young man, '' The worker greeted Baekhyun.

'' Hi, '' He replied shortly. '' Do you sell ice-cream? '' Baekhyun looked around.

There was not a huge amount of ice-cream but there was something unknown to Baekhyun. The employee allowed him to taste a little of it and he literally fell in love.

'' What is that one called? ''

'' Pistachio! Do you like it? ''

Baekhyun nodded, smiling slightly. The employee laughed. '' Okay, that it'll be that one. ''

Baekhyun left the market with a smile on his face. Finally something that made him smile.

There was only one problem left. The way back to his great uncles house. '' Was it this or that way? '' He whispered to himself. Everything kind of looked the same. A few meters further he saw his uncles gate. He opened it slowly to not attract any chicken by the noise. He turned around to close the gate, as soon as he did that, he heard a weird growling.

He slowly turned towards the house, just to see a big Kangal breed. The dog was huge, he has never seen such a beast in his life. The kangal took little steps towards Baekhyun, growling. He even started barking.

That's where Baekhyun lost it, he suddenly flinched, letting the ice-cream slip through his hands, shutting his eyes.

'' Stark, '' Someone shouted. '' Stop! ''

Stark, as far as Baekhyun got the dog's Name, immediately stopped barking. Baekhyun slowly opnend his eyes, looking at the, hi him, handsome appearing male in front of him who started to pet the big dog who now looks like a fluffy cuddle buddy.

'' Hello! '' He greeted Baekhyun, walking towards him. '' I'm sorry Stark scared you. He isn't used to strangers and he is a stepherd dog. ''

'' H-Hi. . '' Baekhyun greeted back. '' It's fine, I'm sorry. I got lost on the way to my great uncles house. ''

A big smile appeared on the strangers face. '' What is your name? ''

'' Byun Baekhyun. ''

'' Oh, you're one of the Byuns! '' Suddenly strong arms were wrapped around Baekhyun, it was such a warm welcoming. The still nameless man grabbed Baekhyun's arms and looked him right into his face. '' I'm Park Chanyeol, nice to meet you. ''

Park Chanyeol, as Baekhyun now found out, let go of his arms and was now shaking Baekhyun's hand. '' Our families are good friends. I can lead you to your uncles house if you want to. ''

Baekhyun nodded. '' Um, that would be nice of you. ''

It turned out that his great uncle wasn't that far from where the boy named Chanyeol was living.

On his way to his grest uncle, Baekhyun checked Chanyeol. His clothes were ripped, but it kind of suited him, it wasn't dirty or anything. His hair was messy, but even that suited him. Baekhyun sure had to admit, that this village indeed had a lot of good looking boys.

'' Here we are, '' Chanyeol ripped Baekhyun out of his bubble. '' It was nice meeting you. Hope we can meet up some other time, don't forget to greet your family for me. '' Once again, Chanyeol pulled him into a deep hug. Was that normal over here? Hugging strangers?

'' O-Okay, see you, I guess. ''

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