"Chanyeol?" whispered a soft voice Chanyeol's only ever heard in his dreams.

His eyes slowly opened, and it was like he was seeing the sun for the first time as he softly whispered, "It's you . . ."

Baekhyun's body was shaking with silent sobs, and he couldn't hold back anymore as he clasped onto Chanyeol's lap. He felt him. Baekhyun cried harder as he gasped, "Please! Please, let this be real!"

Chanyeol was crying too as he clutched tightly to Baekhyun's waist, and gently tucked his head into his shoulder. His breathing was unsteady as he gasped, "Holy shit! You're real!"

"You're alive!"

"You're not a dream!"

They didn't let each other go. They couldn't bare too because they feared if they did the other would disappear. So they stayed that way until their bodies became numb. They didn't know the time, and neither one of them wanted too. They didn't want to feel the pressure of the world knock them back into reality.

Eventually though, Chanyeol spoke.

He continued to kept a firm grip on Baekhyun as he whispered, "I've dreamed about you for as long as I can remember, and to be holding you now in the real world is . . . You have no idea."

Baekhyun sniffled and muttered, "Your wrong, I know perfectly well what you mean." Baekhyun slowly sat up, his hand moving up to caress Chanyeol's cheek as he whispered, "Park Chanyeol, here to rescue me, again."

"Park?" Chanyeol muttered.

"Yes, what is it?"

"It's not Park, it's Lee."

"Wh–what do you mean?"

"My name's Lee Chanyeol, not Park," Chanyeol whispered.

"Lee?" Baekhyun whispered. "H–how?"

"I was adopted."

Baekhyun gasped. "A–adopted?"

Chanyeol nodded. "Yes. Now, can you please tell me your name. All I know is it starts with a 'B'."

Tears began to fill Baekhyun's eyes once again as he weakly whispered, "You don't kn–know my name?"

Chanyeol shook his head. "No, I never learned it in the dreams . . ."

"It–it's Baekhyun. Byun Baekhyun. H–how can you not remember? Why is your last name 'Lee'? How—-how are you even alive right now?"

"I don't know, I–I was twelve when my life drastically changed. I got a new name; new parents; a new sibling; and these dreams that have nearly ripped me apart wishing to find you, wishing you to be real . . ."

"I don't understand," Baekhyun whispered. "I—-"

He began to stand up and Chanyeol quickly grabbed him as he begged, "Please, no, don't leave!"

Baekhyun slowly sunk back down, his hand reached out again and caressed Chanyeol's cheek. He studied every detail before he whispered, "You're exactly the same, only your hair is different. How?"

"Maybe we should go somewhere to talk?" Chanyeol suggested.

Baekhyun nodded. "That's a good idea. Where to?"

"The athletics building would be empty. We should go there," Chanyeol said.

Baekhyun fought back the wave of nostalgia as he softly smiled and whispered, "At least we've had practice dealing with health conscientious freaks."

* * *

Baekhyun and Chanyeol sat on the floor of the locker room like they had two years ago. Neither one of them spoke, they just sat so close they were nearly touching, their hands between them.

Another moment of silence passed before Chanyeol broke it. "My dreams . . . there memories, aren't they?"

"Yes . . ." Baekhyun whispered.

"How can you be so sure?"

"The first time we were in a locker room together, what did we do?"

"We played a game together and . . ." Chanyeol trailed off as the memory of Baekhyun's lips against his flood into his system, putting every nerve ending on high alert.

"We kissed," Baekhyun whispered.

"And you got upset and left . . ."

"Why?"

"You had a . . ." Chanyeol trailed off as he glanced up at Baekhyun. "You had a boyfriend," he whispered.

Small tears fell down Baekhyun's cheeks as he nodded and whispered, "Yes, and just like then your timing is shitty."

Chanyeol's brow furrowed with hurt as he softly asked, "What do you mean? I thought I made you hap—-"

"Don't say it!" Baekhyun cried. Then he sat up and turned until he was facing Chanyeol, he grabbed his hands as he said, "Don't ever question my happiness when I'm with you. It was unhealthy but you had become my life and now...." Tears ran down Baekhyun's cheeks and he hiccuped as he cried, "And now I don't know what to do! I've wished for this so many times, and now that you're really here I'm so scared! I can't —- I can't hurt him, again! But I also can't lose you, again!"

Chanyeol fought back his own emotion as he pulled Baekhyun close into his embrace. He kissed his temple and whispered, "And it'd be selfish of me to make you choose."

Silent tears fell down Baekhyun's cheeks and he turned his face into Chanyeol's neck as he whispered, "But what if not taking this chance to be with you is a mistake? It happened for a reason, I have to believe that. You're—-you're my first love...."

"Then what should we do?"

"I had a boyfriend before, and I cheated on him. This time I'm . . . this time I'm engaged, and we'd be having an affair."

"You're getting married . . ."

"I don't know now . . ."

"Is it Daehyun?"

"Yes, which is why I can't bear to hurt him again. What if repeating history is a mistake?" Baekhyun whispered.

"If we were such a mistake, then why am I here....?" Chanyeol whispered back.

"Maybe the universe is testing us? Maybe it wants to see us break?" Baekhyun muttered bitterly.

"Maybe it's giving us a second chance?" Chanyeol softly said.

"Then I'm going to hell," Baekhyun softly muttered as he pulled his face out of Chanyeol's neck and kissed him.

A thrill traveled up the length of their bodies when their lips meet. The taste of Chanyeol was addictive, and after two years of missing him, Baekhyun was desperate for more. As Chanyeol kissed Baekhyun back, the feeling was so much more real than his dreams, and he found himself craving more and never wanting to let go.

They had been given a second chance, and neither one of them was going to be naive enough to waste a single moment of it.

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A/N: Oh no, is there more lies and deception in their future? How long will they be able to keep it hidden? What will happen when the truth is revealed? Who will get hurt? Are they making a mistake? Or are they fated to have their happily ever after?

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