Chanyeol's looked truly beautiful in this light.

Well that was what Baekhyun thought anyway. Of course he realised Chanyeol looked good anywhere, in any light, but right then, right there, Baekhyun was lost in the tallers features as his cheeks and eyes reflected the golden light from the food stalls. It wasn't dark yet, but the sun was falling and added to the perfect lighting for Chanyeol. It looked as though his hair was glowing and his skin was sparkling.

They were outside somewhere along a street where stalls were set up for thousands of different fried foods, all of which looked delicious.

Chanyeol picked up two sticks out a bowl and handed one to Baekhyun. A fish cake was rolled onto the end of the stick in a mouth-watering way.

"Try it" Chanyeol chuckled.

Baekhyun wasn't really eyeing up the snack, his focus was still on Chanyeol staring down at him.

"Aren't you going to eat it?" Chanyeol said for a second time as he took a bite of his.

Baekhyun snapped out of his gaze and nodded before nibbling the end of the odeng. After he chewed and swallowed it down, the boy's eyes lit up.

"It's so tasty!" Baekhyun exclaimed and took another bite, this time bigger.
Chanyeol laughed at him and carried on with his.

Jongdae and Luhan suddenly appeared next to them, Kyungsoo trailing behind. "You like it?" Luhan asked, excited to know the boy's answer. Baekhyun nods and chews on another piece.

The other three grab a stick each from the stall and join them in eating. After that, Baekhyun eats two more, despite Chanyeol telling him to wait until he's tried others first.

While Luhan, Jongdae and Kyungsoo are still feasting on Odeng, Chanyeol slips away, pulling Baekhyun with him until they are out of sight of his friends.
They laugh the whole way down the street until they get to another stall and picked another couple of fried goods.
Jongdae is gonna hate me for making him pay, Baekhyun thought as he knew he was the only one with money out of the three.

"I like it better like this" Chanyeol says, handing Baelkhyun more food. "Eat up"

"What do you mean?" The smaller asked.

"Just the two of us. It's fun"

To his surprise, Baekhyun's cheeks flared up with heat and he tried to face the ground so that Chanyeol wouldn't noticed. "I guess it is" he laughed.

Chanyeol then payed quickly before the rest caught up with them and dragged him along once more. His hand was firmly wrapped around Baekhyun's wrist and ever so close to the palm of his hands. If Chanyeol's fingers were to slip just a fraction they would be holding hands.

Baekhyun almost wanted it to happen.

The two came to the end of the street full of food and they turned a corner leading to a national park where benches were aligned along the fence. Chanyeol gave Baekhyun a quick look before guiding him to one of the benches.

Chanyeol let go of the boy as they sat down. Baekhyun put his hands in his lap. They say back against the metal chair and gazed up to the sky.

"Thank you for paying"

The taller shook his head and waved it off. "It's no problem. My pleasure, actually."

"I didn't think to bring any money apart from change" Baekhyun carried on. "I'll pay next time"

Chanyeol glanced over to him with a surprised-but-happy kind of look. "Next time?"

"Yeah, next time" Baekhyun laughed earning a grin from the taller.

"Ok".

It dropped quiet between the two for a moment but it wasn't awkward or uncomfortable. It felt wonderful especially because where they were sitting you could see a hill of floating lights that switched on one after another.
Then Chanyeol turned back to the smaller and said:

"wait, no. No, you don't have to pay!"

---

It took a while before Kyungsoo, Jongdae and Luhan found them on the bench, silently listening to the busy streets.

"How dare you!" Was the first thing Jongdae said when he reached them.
"You ate most of the stall and then snook off so I had to pay!"

"I only had three" Baekhyun laughed.

"You still owe me"

"Dae it wasn't even that much money, I think you can handle it." Luhan rolled his eyes.

"Stay out of this young man"

"I'm older than you so shut it"

"Shouldn't we be going home now??" Said Kyungsoo before Luhan and Jongdae could say anything else. "It's getting dark"

"I guess"

"Can't we do something else?" Chanyeol asked standing up. "I don't want to go home just yet" his eyes flickered to Baekhyun, Hoping the boy would agree and they would spend a little while longer together.

Baekhyun opened his mouth to oppose to the idea, he had things the wanted to do at home and he was actually pretty tired from all this running around.
However, Luhan and Jongdae were already suggesting places to go and places to see even if it was becoming even darker. Kyungsoo agreed simply because it was easier than arguing. 

"Hey Soo, lets go to your house!" Jongdae grinned.

"What? Why mine? Go to your own house"

"You'res is big and fancy and nice"

"It's not that—"

"Yeah, lets go, please soo?" Luhan pleaded with his most angelic smile he could make.

"Whatever, fine. Follow me."

---

Now the five sat in Kyungsoos living room that was basically the size of Baekhyun's whole apartment itself. Kyungsoo didn't like to show off that he had a fancy house and a classy car simply because he wasn't that kind of guy. His parents were the one who were rich apparently, Kyungsoo is just an ordinary guy but gets given large amounts of pocket money.

There were enough seats for all of them to sit one, including a sofa which Chanyeol, Kyungsoo and Luhan sat on. Baekhyun and Jongdae each took a chair opposite sides of the sofa. In front of them was a large flat screen tv attached to the wall like a cinema.

"Do you have any drinks?" Jongdae asked standing up from his seat.

"No, I'm afraid you'll have to drink from the tap"

"You're kidding right?"

"Of course I'm kidding, you idiot"

Kyungsoo stood and disappeared into the kitchen, Jongdae following closely behind. The other three reminded quiet until they returned with drinks.

"What kind of rich person doesn't have alcohol?" Jongdae scoffs as he passes a glass of lemonade to Luhan and Chanyeol. Kyungsoo passes a glass to Baekhyun and they sit back down.

"Do Kyungsoo" Chanyeol said, taking a sip. " I ain't bothered. It's been too much of a good day to drink like that."

Jongdae rolled his eyes at Chanyeol's comment. "Even if I did have some," Kyungsoo starts. "I definitely wouldn't give it to you"

"Why not?!"

"I'd rather not have a dunk you messing up my house. It's a stretch to even let you in sober."

"Wow, jeez thanks soo. You're such a kind person aren't you"

Baekhyun couldn't help but laugh at their silly conversation. Then he thought about Chanyeol's words– it had been a good day. He hoped he would have fun like this everyday.

He looked across to Luhan to see the boy was on his phone to engaged in something else to be listening to their conversation. That's when Luhan looked up and met eyes, as though he suddenly knew Baekhyun was watching him.

"Baek" his friend blurted out all of a sudden

"Yeah?" Baekhyun answers, feeling slightly worried after hearing the tone Luhan was talking in. Everyone turned to Luhan ready to hear him speak.

"Do you still like Sehuns instagram photos?"

Baekhyun felt his throat tighten as he processed the question. He attempts to clear his throat discreetly so it doesn't make him look as through he's about to lie.

But that failed of course.

Everyone's eyes were on him now, but not Chanyeol's— his were on the floor, staring hard into the carpet. Why does this make me nervous?

"Um, I don't know... do I??" He said with an uneasy tone.

"Apparently so." Luhan nods. "Do you still like him?"

Baekhyun couldn't believe he hesitated—he knew he didn't like Sehun! Yet, he still took a fraction of s moment to reply. It wasn't long... but that still made a difference.
"No" he defended. "I don't know anything about him, why would I like him?"

"Are you sureee?"

"Can we stop talking about this please?"

The room fell silent and Baekhyun felt extremely awkward. Luhan went back to his phone, Kyungsoo sipped his drink quietly, Jongdae was tapping his foot and Chanyeol was simply sitting still.

"I'm going" Chanyeol said abruptly as he suddenly stood from his seat and made his way to the door.

Baekhyun would try and get the boy to stay but instead he copied Chanyeol's actions. "Me too" Baekhyun hurried out the living room to follow the taller.

"What? Wait Baek–"

It was too late as Baekhyun had already closed the door behind him and was standing in the cold air of the early night. It felt so much more cool outside compared to Kyungsoos warm house and for a minute he wondered whether he should go back inside.
But then he saw Chanyeol's figure walking away with his hands in his pockets so that thought vanished completely out of his mind.

"Yeol!" He called and began to half walk- half jog towards the taller. Suspecting the boy didn't hear the first time, Baekhyun shouted his name again and this time Chanyeol stopped and turned around.

"You walk... very fast" Baekhyun panted.

Chanyeol gave half a smile. "What are you doing?"

"I didn't want to stay. So I'm going home aswell"

"Oh.." Chanyeol lightly chuckled before saying "I wasn't going home"

"You weren't?"

"Not quite. Not yet"

"Then where were you going?"

Chanyeol shrugged before he turned back around and resumed walking, Baekhyun along side him.

"Isn't that dangerous in the dark?"

Chanyeol shrugged again, without looking away from the path he was heading on.

"Can I come with you?" Baekhyun wonders where the sudden confidence is coming from and why he asked this, because, frankly, he wasn't that keen on wondering aimlessly in the dark. You might even say he was scared of the dark....

... just a little bit.