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*a/n: ignore the dude and just look at my marianita van rankin*

Just when Narda thought she was home free--noticed by her kpop crush Byun Baekhyun, and getting away with lying to him just to get his attention--Chanyeol turned off his gaming system on the television nearby and walked over to them. Narda was on one of the couches, holding a makeshift ice pack to her non-existent injury, while Baekhyun sat by her side, debating whether or not he should force her into his car and take her to the hospital.

He knelt beside his friend and placed a hand on his shoulder, startling him out of his thoughts.

"Relax, Baek." He said, rather amused. It was almost as though he was beginning to see right through the accident victim in the living room with them. 

"I ran her over." Baekhyun replied, still mortified.

Upon seeing him so upset--anyone would have been--the guilt began eating away at her. She frowned, and her free hand reached to place a hand on his shoulder just like Chanyeol had done. "Its just a little bruise. It'll heal in a few weeks."

"Speaking of bruises..." Chanyeol began casually. "Why don't you let us see it?"

Narda's color drained from her face. "What?"

"The bruise. I want to see it." Chanyeol repeated, eyeing her suspiciously again. She had been a great actress to fool Baekhyun when they were outside the dorm building. But Chanyeol hadn't been fully convinced. she still didn't seem like she had been hit by a car--in his opinion--even if it had been just a light hit. 

"Why?" She wondered, stalling.

"Because I like to stare at bruises." He told her sarcastically, but soon clarified, "So we can see if we should take you to the hospital or not." Chanyeol replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

That was when she finally thought to refuse, with a quick shake of her head. Added to her already big pile of lies was another one to get Chanyeol's suspicions at ease. "I can't do that because its on the top side of my leg. I would have to take off my pants, and I'm not going to do that for you." A little voice in the back of her mind thought, for Baekhyun maybe, and that's a big maybe.

Chanyeol shrugged, unfazed. "We're not asking you to get naked. We just want you to let us see that bruise." He was onto her, but he wouldn't say anything until he had proof. 

"You're a creep." She told him, her eyebrows furrowing as she was bothered by his very nonchalant request for her. She handed Baekhyun the ice pack and added, "Thank you for the ice pack, and for wanting to take care of me. I am leaving now." She used her arms for support and pulled herself back on her feet, holding her injured leg in the air, to keep them thinking that she was in pain and could not walk on it. 

Chanyeol only watched as she hopped away from them hurriedly, towards the door to the lounge room. She knew the way out now, as she had been very careful to observe her surroundings when they entered the building, but would need to hop her way down a countless amount of stair cases to get to the side door. On the way into the building she had the advantage that Baekhyun had carried her in. She only made it to the lounge door when Baekhyun yelled, "See what you did, Chan? She's hopping away! She's injured, we have to stop her." At that moment, he was absolutely concerned for her safety. He didn't want an injured girl leaving all on her own.

The taller boy stayed knelt down by the couch, watching in amusement now as Baekhyun leapt up and hurried to stop her from leaving.

Since Narda had to hop to the door, she paused for a moment to catch her breath and keep her balance. In that short lapse, Baekhyun had managed to get to the door and was now standing in front of it.

"Excuse me." She said to him, trying to go around him, but he kept stepping in her way.

"Wait." He told her. When he saw she was close to losing her balance on one leg, his hands shot out and gripped her arms tightly to steady her. 

Her own hands linked onto his forearms when she felt herself about to fall.

"Everything is fine. I'm fine." She assured him, trying to pull her arms away from his hold when she stabilized herself. "I'll just go back to my apartment and we can forget this even happened. I won't tell anyone." She assured him, though it was more for herself than for him. She could already imagine telling other people what happened. His fangirls would probably tear her apart for being so close to him and lying to his face just to get a speck of his attention.

By this time, Narda was surprised and quite proud of herself. It had probably been about a good hour in his presence and she had managed to contain her emotions in a tightly closed bottle. She could have almost passed off as a foreigner who didn't know who EXO was.

"At least let me take you so I can be sure you made it back safely." He offered.

Narda sighed. "Fine. Thank you for your help."

-

He helped her out of the lounge room, this time without carrying her per Narda's own request, and both walked down the hallway. Narda mostly hobbled her way down, and he took her the opposite way from the stair case where they entered. He helped her maintain her balance by holding an arm around her waist tightly and she an arm around his shoulders. 

It was hard work pretending she was injured, but it paid off when she felt just how close he was to her.

Baekhyun led her to the elevators and hit the button to go down. Soon the elevator dinged and the doors opened to reveal another member of EXO. This was Do Kyungsoo whose eyes widened in shock when he saw Narda there. He knew they weren't allowed to have relationships, and there Baekhyun was, bringing a girl to the dorms. Gesturing to Narda, he asked in Korean, "Why'd you bring someone here? The managers will punish you if they find out." He finished with a warning. He remembered months back when he had been punished for a long ended relationship with Tao's sister Yena. That was for something that had ended long ago. If the managers actually saw Baekhyun with a girl, he was sure the consequences would be worse.

"Long story." Baekhyun heaved a sigh, opting to save the explanation for another time. Stepping into the elevator with Narda while Kyungsoo stepped out of it, Baekhyun added a question, "Where've you been?"

"You know where I've been." Kyungsoo replied, as though it were obvious. "At the SM Town building, solo practicing as always." Looking down the empty hallway, he asked, "Hey, have you seen Tao? I need to talk to him." Of the late, it seemed that his group mate was always trying to talk to Tao when they normally didn't spend as much time together when they had the afternoons off.

"Yeah," Baekhyun nodded as the doors started to close in their faces. "He went to get dinner for everyone with Lu Han hyung." Lu Han was another of the boys who was spending  a lot of time with Tao recently.

The elevator made it to the second floor within a few minutes. As Baekhyun stepped out and helped Narda, she pointed out, "This is the second floor."

"I know." He nodded. She didn't know that he had done that on purpose, taking her one floor above the lobby. "I can't take you to the first floor because the elevator opens up to the lobby and the security guards will probably think you broke in and try to arrest you or something."

"Just say I'm a friend." Narda reasoned.

He shook his head. "Can't. We're not supposed to have girls in our dorms unless they're family members."

Easily lifting her up in his arms for the second time that day, he hurried to the stair case on the other end of the hall. He took the one flight of stairs down to the first floor and left the building through the side exit that no one used. It was next to an alley where he placed her back on her feet and helped her cross the street to her apartment building.

-

The trek to her own apartment was just as much an odyssey as when they were leaving the SM dorm building. 

Fifteen minutes later, they finally made it to her door. He pulled his arm back from around her waist and Narda shifted to the side, leaning with her back against the wall as she tried to catch her breath. Moving around with only one leg had proven to be much more difficult than she thought it would be.

For Baekhyun it had been equally tiring. He had to support himself, as well as her own weight when he carried her up and down those stairs. 

Narda reached into her jacket pocket and drew out her keys, sifting through them to find the right one. She still had her keys from back home attached to her key chain, which was making it harder to find the right one for the apartment. Huffing tiredly, she pushed herself off the wall and turned towards the door, standing next to Baekhyun. 

"Well, thank you. This was a nice experience for my first week in Korea. I'll be sure to tell my friends back home all about it." She joked, shooting him a smile and a side glance.

"I'm really sorry." He apologized for the millionth time.

"Its fine." She assured him. "This made things more interesting."

She stuck her key in the lock and turned it until she unlocked the door. Before she could push the door open, her asked her, "Can I know the name of the person I accidentally hit with my car?"

It wasn't like he thought he would see her again--or could see her again given his restrictions put in by his career. He was just curious about the girl who didn't seem to know that he was famous. Narda replied, "Guti Lozz." She gave her two last names--the first being her nickname as well--instead of her real name for the time being. 

"Guti. I am Baekhyun." He told her with a smile. 

"Nice to meet you, Baekhyun." She said his name for the first time. In her American accent, it had turned out sounding like she said Bacon instead of his actual name. 

He chuckled at her pronunciation. 

"What?" She puffed her cheeks when she noticed he had laughed at her pronunciation.

"Nothing." He quickly shook his head. "I'll let you go then."

Narda smiled once more and disappeared into her apartment. The moment she closed the door was when he noticed the number on the door for the first time. 512. 

He knew that apartment number.

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since im very inspired with this story (and my other exo fics) at the moment, here's anew chapter for you all. so there we have narda continuing with the lie, and little innocent baekhyun believing her. i'll probably upload a new chapter within 2-3 more days from now.

thank you all for reading, voting, and supporting this and my other exo fics. it means so much. and i know i saw it alot, but i mean it.

have a wonderful week!

-clary xx