— heart (not) on your sleeve;
@cvjongdae
there’s no polite knock against the wood to announce his intrusion before opening the door, just his hand immediately reaching for the handle without any care to press it down lightly, almost as if he’s entering his own room and not the one right next to his.
and it’s not locked, which is usually a good sign.
when baekhyun peeks inside, though, the small space is completely empty. his eyes scan around, still attempting to search for him but it’s easy to see that the other’s not there. did he go out? it irritates him, but mostly, because the door’s unlocked and that’s something quite unusual. especially with someone like jongdae who seems to value his privacy a lot.
baekhyun’s lips form into a pout, sulking at the door after he shuts it again.
he wonders, if he should just return back to his own room and wait for him. or, maybe, he should go and just search for someone else to spend some time with; there are probably others who would prefer spending time with him.
but baekhyun chose jongdae this time as his company.
and so, he skips down the hall, down the stairs to look for him outside around the building in hopes of catching him returning from wherever he is. baekhyun’s not quite lucky, though, not finding a trace of the other anywhere around the yard and as he returns back to the carriage house, the pout that graced his face before only more prominent now, his hands stuffed into the front pocket of his hoodie.
oh, but maybe he wasn’t that unlucky, after all;
because when he gets back into the building he spots the familiar form climbing up the stairs – he can’t believe jongdae slipped so easily past his eyes. did he do it on purpose? – and the corners of his mouth turn upwards immediately, bright grin appearing on his lips as he runs after him, taking two steps at a time to catch up.
when he does, baekhyun bites back a snicker, throwing himself at the boy.
“jongdae—“, baekhyun says, both of his arms wrapping themselves around jongdae’s shoulders in an embrace, almost as if he’s planning to jump onto his back or something, “my favorite person.” and jongdae is, he’s one of his favorite people around here or else he wouldn’t try to still befriend him – but he still makes sure to coat the words in layers of sweet sugar, just because he loves the way jongdae rolls his eyes at him every single time he does that. “i searched for you everywhere!”