Hereâs something that will prolly make you sad.
Paring: PCY x Black non binary/ambiguous OC (Iâm telling you that cuz I donât know if there will be more chapters n itâs first person)
Words: 12905
Warnings: past abuse/abused/trauma mention, semi graphic (one detail). Pcy is NOT the antagonist/perpertrator!!!!
Rating: Loose fluff, loose hurt/comfort, building a relationship, soulmates sorta.
Heâs been doing it all day. In between bites of the expensive dinner he insisted on, while sitting idly in traffic, while walking on the street (my hand in his coat pocket of course), everywhere we went his eyes would lazily drag across the ground or table to watch me. Never did he mean malice, I donât think, as unnerving as it was Chanyeol appeared amused. The longer the night got the more sideshow I felt to the pleasant evening, from the private viewing of a quickly rising artist, to the picnic lunch complimented by an expansive garden, and especially at dinner, a (again) private room that overlooked the Yellow Sea. He claims he enjoys looking at me, I take him at face value. But nowâŚ
Itâs not a kiss that increases my pulse, but he does kiss me in the middle of me talking. It wasnât anything grand, just my favorite flower, which he asked for. I was caught off guard, wide-eyed, alarmed to say the least. Itâs not a spectacular âsoulmates meant to be'' kiss, yet I canât call it unwelcomed. As slowly as he took his time to motion The Kiss I could have backed away. Soft as Chanyeol gently cupped each check in his large palms offset the chilly January breeze, as gentle as he leaned into my lips rather than pull me closer. Everything about The Kiss was right, the timing odd, but if this were âThe One,â wouldnât the earthquake beneath me or stars shatter from the sky? No rush of blood comes when he backs away, no fireworks form in my throat, Iâm left speechless in a secluded cabin on a mountain very very very far from home. Danger doesnât bang on pots and pans, anxiety refuses to acknowledge my behavior as any type of red flag, my body acts feels quite heavy as my head crumbles into his expectant hands. Itâs so quiet in the woods.
Chanyeolâs brown eyes seemed concerned at my responseâ or rather the non response as an answer. We never break eye contact, even as my lungs impatiently pull air back into my chest. I need to think quickly, tell him whatever wouldnât discourage his feelings, reassure him I just have no idea how to process the situation. Then he says something dumbâ because they always say something dumb.
âItâs just..â the rapper is first to break eye contact, measuring his words with each drum of a finger against respective cheeks. âWhen we first spoke I thought to myself, âthis person has the prettiest lips Iâve ever seen,â Iâve been thinking that.â Iâm not immediately offended, itâs not a compliment Iâm new to, it just irritated the fuck out of me. âBut just now, when you were speaking, the way you said flower was really pretty and I interrupted you, so Iâm sorry for that.â I donât process what he said immediately, so he goes on, still refusing to look me in the eye. âAnd when I kissed you just now I thought to myself, âI canât date a person who makes me want to kiss them because they said flowerâ.â
Absurd. Near laughable. I knock his arms to the side to get his attention, head snapping back down towards me. âYou bring me millions of miles from home, make me uncomfortable all day, interrupt me while Iâm answering your question just because I have pretty lips?â Yes, the whole ordeal is hard to contain, I want to bark into fits of laughter. If it werenât for the aggravated look he threw at me moments after my abrupt movements⌠I go the direct path, keeping my tone light and even, I hope I soften my eyes enough that shock has faded, even if I was still unsure what to do now.
âYes.â I stay silent, perhaps thereâs more to the story. Maybe Iâm so funny I split his sides when weâre texting, a slight chance I make the best pork katsu heâs ever had, that my company was so enjoyable he took me to a cabin in the middle of the woods where no one can hear my screams no matter how loud they bounce off the walls. The warning bells I didnât feel before punch me in the gut and Iâm attentive to each move he makes now. Tiny ticks in his fingers, the frown, how he backed away.
When his rich baritone goes unspoken, I stay friendly. âOkay.â I look around the cabin unassuming, the fireplace surely has a stick or two, the kitchen isnât far but his legs are longer than mine. I canât drive in the snow either. Did I ever tell him that?
Chanyeol sighs, walking away from me entirely to sit on the couch. âI thought you would like it.â He sounded upset. I stay where I am by the dining table close to the entrance of the home. âWould you have preferred the city? Or a city abroad?â I inch a little further away. Small movements. âYou said you hated busy places so I figured a cabin would be fun, we could go skiing or something, but I see I should have asked.â
Blinking back the alarm bells, I managed a small giggle. âI like it.â Which is the truth, this is my idea of a nice vacation. But I met Chanyeol a week ago. Heâs yet to make me uncomfortable like he has today, however. âI just didnât expect you to kiss me is all. Or for that to be the only reason you brought me here.â
The way his head jerks causes all the strands he so carefully tied into an incredibly messy bun to fall suspiciously around his face. Iâm not frightened, his eyes are wide and lips parting and closing like he canât believe what heâs hearing. âJust? Just? Well thatâs just stupid, Rolo.â Iâm not sure where I've offended him but I need to leave. âWe just met a week ago. Do you think this is the norm for me? That I throw money around for people I barely even know just because they have pretty lips. I told you I thought that when we met. Would you like to know what I think now?â
Iâm almost too afraid to nod, I expect him to yell, throw something, force me into submission. Itâs irrational, because I donât know this man, Iâve never spent an extensive amount of time with him alone, I know what Iâve seen and heard on television, thereâs no logical explanation to my fear, but it takes me to my knees figuratively, and Iâm almost audibly whimpering. Whatever he wants a soft, comforting voice whispers, you can get out alive if you do whatever he wants. I think he wants me to answer yes, so I answer yes. Dry and my throat is, he hears me.
Rising to his feet and placing his eyes back on me, this time with annoyance, Chanyeol puts his hand out. The gesture means nothing to me, was he calling me over or asking me to come over? Did he want my hand? There are too many wrong answers in these situations. I go to walk over but he puts his hand palm up, stopping me before I start. âIâm asking to approach you.â He does the gesture again, this time it clicks. He is gesturing towards me, asking respectfully without words if he can come over. I nod. He inspects me again before approaching, now holding out his hand for mine. âI have made you uncomfortable. All day?â Chanyeol is away from me, watching from outside his body as it attempts awkward contact with mine. âI was watching because you fascinate me.â I keep my arms rooted at my side, if I could wrap them around my person, comfort myself, or disappear into myself, I would.
As best as a tall and broad man can, Chanyeol shrinks himself before me, kneeling on his left knee before falling to the other. Itâs a display, a situation Iâve never seen or been in before. Was he apologizing? âOh, itâs okay-â
Chanyeol hangs his head gently, a chuckle on his lips. âRo, hear me when I say my intention was only to learn you. What you like. How you do things. What makes you smile most and what turns your face up in that cute scrunched up almost piggy-like pout. I canât help it, forgive me. You entrance me.â My head is spinning⌠maybe the room was spinningâ the next thing I know Iâm sitting on the bouncy and my date is kneeling by my lap, hands to himself. âMay I ask you something before I tell you my answer?â
I know what heâs going to ask. Itâs not the first time. Iâm so used to these situations I had given up on dating entirely. The pity in their eyes after you tell them about the Trauma, about the pain. Iâm no longer an individual but rather something fragile, almost childlike; someone to easily be manipulated. I canât say I am âeasyâ but Iâm swayed if convinced enough. So eager to please. Even if I was healing, this was exhausting.
âYes. All the time in fact. So often I had to get a socket reconstructed.â Chanyeol is slow to process my words. I should have waited for the question. âThatâs why Iâm nervous. I have no reason to be but I am. Itâs been a long time since Iâve been alone with a man.â
âWhyâd you come?â When I look down, shining brown eyes are looking back, âI never want you uncomfortable.â
âI assumed this is how you kpop stars do.â I canât help but wonder if he knows just how breathtaking he can be. Even just sitting before me was adorable. Shaggy brown hair touching at his shoulders, a light pink dabbed over rounded cheeks, each beauty mark (but especially the one on the bridge of his nose) are charming me off the ledge. Slowly, unknowingly at first, Iâm growing more comfortable. âBut you said you donât do this, so now I would like your answer. I came because I think youâre funny and kind. I wanted to get to know you better whatever the cost, Iâm sorry.â I donât know why Iâm apologizing, neither does Chanyeol, who is smiling so softly, pity etched in umber irises. I felt so small even if I had to look down at him. This isnât what I want. âBut earlierââ big cheeks drop, concern is all he can give me at this moment. Iâm too unpredictable. âWhen you kissed me, I felt nothing.â
That doesnât shock him, her who is standing to his full height and giggling his way to a cabinet in the kitchen. âDo you like white or red wine?â He knows the answer to this one, only does he ask to make obvious why he would go to the kitchen. Heâs not gonna kill me, a simple drink order is all. Heâs not mad we are meant to just be friends. What if he hates that idea though? âHere.â Chanyeol insists I open the bottle, another reassuring measure his brain must have cooked up. Itâs working. Iâm relaxing. Yet he is acting like I hadnât rejected him, should I make myself more clear and high tail it down the hill and back on a plane? Would he search high and low for whispers on me? Panic is settling all around my ears, alarms blaring, his thin lips move and I can read them, but I canât hear his voice at all. Curious.
Taking a steadying breath, âso if I tell you right now, I want to go home, home home, and never see you again?â I have to strain my eyes to read his words, a genuine yes, he even takes the wine bottle from my trembling hands and gathers my things. Heâs halfway to the door when I hear a suitcase click, and then the ac unit, and some low electronic rumbling. Perhaps I can hear the rustling of birds outside, or some other animal lurking by. âI want to stay. Just. May I use the bathroom?â
âItâs negative twenty out. If you want to leave let me drive you.â Itâs stern but not a command, like heâs inviting me to challenge him, like itâs a game for him.
I rise up to the occasion. âWhat makes you think I donât have an escape plan?â At first, the joke was even morbid for me, I think itâs too far, this isnât someone you just casually say to another human. Especially when they think youâre terrified of them.
Chanyeol surprises me again with a shrug. âNot practical enough your phone is in your bag by the door.â
âLucky for you I just need to pee and recollect my thoughts.â
âI do my best thinking in the bathroom, go.â
The rest of the night isnât nearly as uncomfortable. When he looks at me Iâm not on display, but rather, thereâs a look he gives me, one Iâm well acquainted with. I hadnât seen it in so long I had almost missed it. My dad used to look at me like this when I would bring him dinner after a long day at work. My mother would look at me like this after tucking me in at night. This very same look a man who was never this kind gave me. How do you differentiate between love and fiction? How do you know if the love that is there is made up of malicious intent or if you are soulmates?
Itâs very late by the time Chanyeol announces there are three rooms in the house and that I can pick from any of them. He never intended we share a bed, something that shocks me yet again. Why bring me all the way to a cabin in the middle of the woods during winter? Is that not the point of cabin vacations? Cozying up to the one you love?
âYou want to know what I think of you now?â My head had fallen prey to his strong shoulder, cheek squished on a bicep, a strong bicep. Shapely too. I wonder if he works out daily or just a few times a week. Humming for him to continue I stay in my musings, what a wonderfully sculpted man. âI think youâre weird as hell and you match me exactly.â Shifting so I can look at him incredulously, Chanyeol is carefully putting my face back in his hands. âThat first kiss was just because I liked the way your lips moved when you said flower. Nothing more nothing less.â If this was a love confession itâs the cheesiest one Iâve heard. âI will not kiss you again until you let me. I need to hear you say, âChanyeol, I want you to kiss me.â And I will no hesitation. Becauseâ while you might not feel anything, I feel everything for the both of us right now and itâs overwhelming. Tell me if or when youâre ready, for now I will shoulder the burden.â
âThatâs the stupidest thing Iâve ever heard.â Mimicking his earlier sentence, my teeth poke out from my lips, Iâm trying so hard to not laugh. âThereâs no way in hell me saying âflowerâ has any effect on you at all⌠see I just said it and youâre still there and Iâm still here.â Chanyeol just watches, pressing his palms into my cheeks, he licks at his lips while watching mine. âChanyeol⌠kiss me.â And he does, immediately pressing his lips to mine.
A star collapsing at seven solar masses doesnât begin to compare. Itâs almost criminal when he does it again to say goodnight. I lay away, heart in my throat, replaying all three kisses in my head like a giddy school aged kid with their first boyfriend. The first one: off guard and alarming. The second: spectacular and dawning. The third: nostalgic and longing.
Holding up my left hand I look at the word embedded on my ring finger; âpretty.â Plain, blockly black text mocks me. A friend of mine in high school had âyour eyes- fuck, excuse me Iâm sorry, your eyes are stunning, Iâm Melo,â appear on my thigh during swim practice at pe junior year. All I get is âprettyâ. A tried and true compliment but one I hear so often. One that is almost never accompanied by other nouns. âPrettyâ.
Chanyeol called me pretty the moment we met. Out of breath and slightly dazed, his tongue twisted loops just to force out a measly âpretty.â I laughed of course, a famous man told me I was pretty, to which I complimented him back. He asked me on a date that minute and I said yes. He could be the one. The one whose handwriting is scrawled unceremoniously on my marriage hand. God is so funny like that sometimes. Kiss one, kiss two, and kiss three⌠I wonder if âyour smile takes all the air out my lungs,â is neatly scribbled on his tanned skin somewhere, if thatâs why weâre in a secluded cabin.
Mom told me not everyone finds the owner of the words, and not everyone ends up in love with the owner of the words. Some stay friends, some become enemies, others simply live life never searching. I remember the day mamaâs words left her, she didnât leave bed for a week. I never met the person, but daddy says she was kind, and the light of my mom's life. A part of me wishes the words would just leave me, but then I remember why words suddenly disappear and feel guilty. Searching for the owner of these words has placed me in vicarious situations, ones I almost never got out of. I should just give up. Who cares if kiss one wasnât special, the other two still had me reeling. Iâm so giddy, I canât wait to see him in the morning, to speak with him all day, to kiss him goodnight again.
Soulmate or not, one thing is for sure, I am falling for Park Chanyeol.



















