The room was dark when he woke up. How did Baekhyun even end back up in Chanyeol's bed? And more importantly, where was Chanyeol?

          He slowly pushed himself up and looked around. His bed was empty and the door to the room was slightly ajar.

          "..."

          Baekhyun silently got out of the bed and wandered out of the room. Where in the world had Chanyeol wandered off to? He couldn't have gotten far...

          The dorm was silent as he walked down some of the hallways. Surprisingly none of the other members were awake yet. Usually at least a couple of them are still up and reeking havoc at six in the morning. Then again, that game of laser tag probably tired them all out.

          Baekhyun eventually found the glass door to the balcony area on the second floor pushed open and standing there with his arms resting on the railing is none other than the person he was looking for. Quietly, he approached him without as much as making a single sound. The way the sun was just beginning to rise and how his silhouette just looked so perfect in that single moment, Baekhyun couldn't bring himself to ruin it.

Though Chanyeol wasn't as caring as he turned around and saw his shorter friend standing there in only his pajamas. "Oh, you're awake..?" He mumbled with a slowly growing smile.

"Yeah, how'd I even end up in your bed?" Baekhyun asked as he walked over to the giant and stood next to him while leaning against the railing.

"I brought you there."

"I never would had guessed." He responded sarcastically. "But seriously, why did you put me in your bed?"

Baekhyun wasn't upset that Chanyeol had let him sleep on his bed. If anything, he was happy. But something for the longest time has been eating away at the side of his brain and heart and now he just wants to know if there are any feelings between them other than ones that friends normally have for each other.

"Well..." Chanyeol started. "I like sleeping with you and you always cuddle up to me in your sleep and you're always so warm and you look so cute and-"

"Shut it." Baekhyun quickly cut him off as he stared off into the distance with a small pink tinted blush slowly creeping up to his cheeks. Chanyeol couldn't help but to laugh.

"You know, I always find you cutest when you blush..."

Time seemed to stand still as Chanyeol suddenly grabbed Baekhyun by the waist and pulled him away from the railing. All Baekhyun could do was place his hands on top of that giants chest while Chanyeol kept his arms wrapped firmly around his back, preventing Baekhyun from going anywhere as he stared down at him.

"I-Idiot, what are you doing?"

"Baek... I think I like you..."

In a split of a second Chanyeol had already lent down and firmly pressed his lips against Baekhyun's. The kiss was gentle but still slightly rough as the taller tried to get a reaction out of the other. Though that didn't take much effort before Baekhyun began responding to the kiss, letting his feelings take control of his actions.

He couldn't believe how soft Chanyeol's lips were and just how great they felt against his own. It was almost like with every little movement, a new wave of electricity shot right through him all the way down to his toes.

          This was perfect.

          Chanyeol was perfect.

"I think I like you to..." Baekhyun whispered under his breath once Chanyeol had set him free from the kiss.

Chanyeol couldn't stop smiling like a five year old through the rest of the day. EXO's schedule for that day and the next couple had been canceled so that all the members could have a well deserved rest before their comeback promotions began within the following week and so everyone got to stay home.

Most of the members wanted to play games, especially Jongdae and Sehun. Those two wanted nothing more than to beat everyone in games of strength like arm wrestling or plain out tackling one another. Chanyeol, Baekhyun, and a couple of the others on the other hand, well, didn't.

          A group stayed in the living room to play the random games and the rest ended up splitting up to do their own things. Chanyeol didn't give Baekhyun even a moment to think of being alone as he was dragged back to their shared room.

"What is it?" Baekhyun questioned the man sitting directly in front of him on the bed.

"You said you think you like me right? You actually mean it? It's not like a joke or something stupid Chen told you to say?"

Chanyeol began asking rapid fire questions as he stared blankly up at Baekhyun. He was worried that what the smaller had said earlier weren't his real honest thoughts. That alone made him already second guess if what his love said was indeed true.

Baekhyun slowly moved closer to Chanyeol so that he stood in between his legs. He then wrapped one arm around his head and the other to his back so that he could hold him like he did a few days ago after the concert where Chanyeol had collapsed.

"I said I like you so don't question me idiot." Baekhyun huffed in response. "I even let you kiss me so of course I'm being honest."

His words would normally come across hurtful with the way he spoke, but both him and Chanyeol knew that that wasn't the case. Baekhyun has never been good at expressing his feelings like the others and so even the most awkward and seemingly cruel of words actually mean the most sincere and heartfelt when they come out of his mouth.

"You don't know how long I wanted for you to like me..." Chanyeol spoke in a hushed tone.

"Well I'm here now."

"But time isn't."

"What?" Baekhyun asked confused.

Chanyeol pulled back a bit and smiled up at him. "Don't worry about it. We have each other now, that's all that matters. The now."

Something about the way Chanyeol spoke triggered an alarm in the back of Baekhyun's mind. Why was he speaking as if they didn't have time to be together? They have the rest of their lives for heavens sake so it's not like they're suddenly going to be separated.

Time is on their side, or at least that's what Baekhyun thought.

Suddenly, Chanyeol began coughing in his arms and went back to burying his face into the smallers chest. Baekhyun rubbed his back soothingly to calm him as best he could. But even though the coughing fit didn't last long, it still concerned him.

"Are you feeling worse Chanyeollie?" Baekhyun asked once he had calmed down completely and was just hugging him tightly now.

Chanyeol shook his head 'no'. "I'm fine." He reassured. "I'll be fine."

Baekhyun only smiled in response as he continued to hold Chanyeol close to him. This was a moment he didn't want to let go of. Even if it was one of worry, he was officially with the one person he had had a crush on for years now and he wasn't going to forget this day for the rest of his life.

Chanyeol felt the same way, but for different reasons that he couldn't tell his love. If he did, only tears and cries would be all he heard up until the day it all ended for him. He didn't want to see his beautiful Baekhyun cry and so he mentally decided to keep it a secret from him and the other members for as long as his body would allow him to.

"We can't tell the members about us can we?" Baekhyun suddenly asked, breaking the silence that engulfed them.

"Probably not..." Chanyeol mumbled into his chest.

Baekhyun slowly pulled away from the giant and then crawled next to him onto the bed and laid down. Chanyeol could already understand the silent message as he pushed himself further up onto the bed and laid down right next to him so that they were both lying on their sides and looking into the others eyes. They didn't want to move anymore this day. The only thing they wanted was to stay in each other's company.

It was obvious to the shorter that something wasn't right with Chanyeol. Painfully so. He wanted to ask what was wrong just like that night of that horrible concert, but even now he still can't bring himself to ask. Was it from fear of what the answer would be? Or maybe it's the fact that deep down, he can already guess just what that answer would be and he doesn't want it to be confirmed.

"What are you thinking?" Chanyeol asked as he moved one of his hands to brush the stray strands of hair out of Baekhyun's face.

"You."

"Why me?"

"Because I can."

Chanyeol chuckled a bit. "Okay then."

"What about you?" Baekhyun then asked back. "What are you thinking about?"

"That I'm lucky."

"Lucky?"

"Lucky that you feel the same way."

They went silent after that. Neither knew what else to say. Was there anything else to say?

Maybe an 'I love you' should have been uttered or a simple 'your cute' could have been said, but not one of those were spoken. Instead they ended up falling asleep in each other's arms. Baekhyun kept his head pressed up against Chanyeol's broad chest while the taller kept his arms firmly wrapped around him.

The sound of Chanyeol's soft heart beat brought reassurance to him. Baekhyun could listen to that simple 'baddump' over and over again as if it was a record stuck on repeat. He didn't want to let that sound go. Not in a million years.

Chanyeol's arms unconsciously tightened around Baekhyun's back, making it so their bodies were practically molded into one another. If this is what being together could bring the two of them for many more nights to come, neither Chanyeol nor Baekhyun cared about keeping their relationship a secret. They had each other and that's all they needed.

"I promise I won't leave you alone..."

Which one of them mumbled that under their breaths was unknown since they both ended up falling asleep directly afterwards. Their day hadn't been long and if anything was rather boring since they just sat around the majority of time. Maybe that's why they're already so drained. Nothing to do other than sleeping.

'Time isn't on their side...'