They met over a cup of coffee. Chanyeol meets a lot of people over a cup of coffee. He works night shift at the starbucks near his place for the past year. He considers himself a good barista. Mixing, blending, brewing coffee one cup a second. But one particular day, he must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. He's been mixing up orders left and right. The latest one being a caramel latte to a caramel frappe.
"Excuse me. Here's your...Baekhyun?" Chanyeol thought this day couldn't get any worse, apparently it could.
"Oh, hi...ugh I have to go." Baekhyun runs away.
Baekhyun arrived at his dorm, panting. He shoves the coffee to his roommate Jongdae and slumps in bed.
"Oh great my coffee's here." Jongdae takes a sip and chokes on it.
"This isn't a caramel latte, Baekhyun! It's frappe and it's milk based and how am I supposed to stay awake when I don't have coffee in my system." He slaps Baekhyun on the shoulder but the other isn't budging from his place in bed.
"I don't know." He mumbled against his pillows.
"You're weird. Something happened." Jongdae sipped his caffeine free drink.
"It's nothing." He looked up and gave Jongdae a fake smile.
"It's not nothing. If I didn't know any better I'd say you saw a ghost...oh wait you did didn't you?" Jongdae gasped. "It's that tall gorgeous guy you've been pining for. So what you saw him and then what?"
"He run away. Just like that?" Jongin snaps his finger and starts laughing at his friend.
"It's not funny." Chanyeol, exhasperated, put his face on his hands. "I...why does he always run away."
"You know, when someone runs away, maybe you should chase after them." Jongin advices.
"Well, obviously he doesn't want me to or he would have not run away from me for the 10th time I've seen him since that night happened." Chanyeol thinks it was the best night of his life, Baekhyun obviously wants to forget.
"Sorry bro, I can't answer that only tinkerbell can."
"Can you not call him that?"
"Why not?"
"His ears are not that big." Baekhyun protests.
"Still dumbo fits doesn't it." Jongdae playfully rolls his eyes. "Why don't you talk to him anyway? Running away here and there."
"Because...because, I don't know. Whenever I see him I remember that night and the way he run out of my room after like he was being chased by flying monkeys."
"Well, dumbo really is a dumb-o isn't he?"
"Shut up."
"You have to talk to him someday you know."
"I know."
"Hi, caramel latte please." Baekhyun is fidgeting where he stands.
"Chanyeol, one caramel latte." The cashier shouts back to the tall guy working at the back.
"That would be 5.50. Name please?"
"Baekhyun." The cashier wrote his name on the cup and handed it to Chanyeol.
"One caramel latte for..." Chanyeol looked at the cup and froze. "Baekhyun."
"Hi." Baekhyun smiles nervously at the guy he keeps on dreaming about.
Chanyeol hands over the cup slowly and when Baekhyun took the cup from him, he grabs the other's wrist.
"Please, don't run away."
"I...I wasn't."
"Kyung...5 minutes." Chanyeol, with his grip still on Baekhyun, turned to the cashier and took off his apron. Running around the counter to where Baekhyun was standing with his latte in hand, dragging him to the staff room.
"Baekhyun, was it really that awful that you had to run away everytime we see each other?" Chanyeol, suddenly nervous now that the two of them are alone, asked softly.
"What?" Baekhyun shook his head no. "No, I was going to ask you the same thing! You run away so fast after so I thought it must have been so awful for you to hate it so much."
"I didn't hate it." Chanyeol walked closer to Baekhyun. "That night was so beautiful, so perfect. I didn't run away because I hated it, I run away because I had a class at 7am and I was still staring at you sleep. I left a note, didn't you see it?"
"No, I didn't." Baekhyun looked down at his hands. He's so close to crying now that he knows Chanyeol doesn't hate it.
"So what now?"
"I don't know. I guess..." Baekhyun's words were muffled by the lips that suddenly were on his.
Chanyeol grabbed on to Baekhyun tight. His hands were roaming around under Baekhyun's shirt.
"Chanyeol." Baekhyun moaned.
"Baekhyun, I lo..."
