(My babe Mingyu up there ^)

"Hey," Baekhyun nudged Kyungsoo's side during lunch, snapping him out of his trance.

"What?" He answered as he continued to stir his soup around.

"I saw you with Jongin yesterday..." Kyungsoo's expression changed into one of surprise and he looked at Baekhyun for a second before he looked back at his soup.

"So...?"

"Your expression just told me that moment was important... You should tell me what's going on." Baekhyun urged, looking at his best friend intently.

"It's n—"

Out of nowhere, Sehun sat down in the seat in front of Baekhyun, propping his elbows up on the table and placing his chin in his hands. "Hey Baek." He greeted and Baekhyun looked at him weirdly.

Kyungsoo looked at Sehun and then back at Baekhyun, raising one of his eyebrows.

"Why are you—"

Kyungsoo was cut off a second time as Chanyeol came and grabbed Sehun's shirt, basically dragging him back to his original table. Sehun was whining the whole time, telling Chanyeol to let go of him.

"But why can't I just talk to them?" Sehun asked, pouting as he fell into his seat.

"Because you belong here," Chanyeol pointed at his spot, "at this table."

Sehun rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair, glaring at Chanyeol every once in a while. Eventually the rest of the basketball team came to the table AKA Junmyeon, Xiumin, Jongin, Yixing, and Mingyu. (Special appearance of Mr. Mingyu ❤)

Mingyu had also recently joined the basketball team, one week after Baekhyun had joined.

The boys begun chatting, talking about their weird relationships and crazy experiences.

"Hey guys..." Sehun spoke up and Chanyeol shot him a look. Sehun grinned and leaned forwards again. "We have two extra seats, and you know which two people I know?"

"Sehun stop. I am not sitting with the midget couple." Chanyeol stated stubbornly and Sehun just ignored him, keeping that same stupid grin on his face.

"Kyungsoo and Baekhyun, who we've barely ever eaten with. Baekhyun is cool and also on the basketball team. Why don't we just invite them?" Sehun asked enthusiastically and Jongin immediately agreed, followed by Xiumin and the rest.

Chanyeol huffed in annoyance and much to his dismay, the so called 'midget couple' sat down at their table after a few minutes.

"Hello Baekhyun!" Everyone said one by one.

"What is this, some therapy circle?" Chanyeol asked under his breath.

The same greetings were given to Kyungsoo and once the introductions were finished, the table settled into small chatter, others talking louder than some.

Baekhyun was sitting one seat away from Chanyeol with Sehun separating the two of them and the smaller kept stealing looks at the gloomy captain.

"Yeollie you're being awfully quiet." Baekhyun spoke up, moving so that he could look at Chanyeol. Oddly when this happened, the table suddenly quieted also.

"Why did my nickname change?" Chanyeol asked and Baekhyun grinned.

"Did you prefer Chanyeollie?" Baekhyun asked and he immediately scowled.

"Why can't you just be normal?"

"I already said... I'm Winnie the Pooh, if you think he's capable of being normal... I think you should get yourself checked." Baekhyun stated.

"Well if you haven't noticed, I was getting checked yesterday... But someone made the bus drive away without me." Chanyeol retorted, causing Baekhyun to burst into a fit of laughter with the rest of the table.

The whole time, Mingyu was looking in between the two, trying to figure out exactly what was going on with the two of them.

"Baekhyunnie, do you need any help with your studies or making your way around school?" Mingyu spoke up, looking Baekhyun right in the eyes.

'Baekhyunnie'? Who does he even think he is... Chanyeol thought sourly, crossing his arms.

"I'm doing fine with the directions and studying is great. I used to be one of the top students back in my old school." Baekhyun smiled and Mingyu returned it.

"Alright, if you ever need any help, I'm here—"

"Anyways, today is when the first three hour practice is happening." Chanyeol cut in and everyone turned to him.

"I still can't believe it's three hours..." Baekhyun muttered and Chanyeol shot him a look telling him to 'shut up'.

"After playing basketball with Chanyeol for two years, it gets believable... Trust me..." Junmyeon shook his head and Chanyeol stuck his tongue out.

"I need to drag it out because some people never improve." Chanyeol glared at Junmyeon and he scoffed. Baekhyun chuckled quietly and Chanyeol turned to look at the smaller also. "Don't think I'm not talking about you either."

Baekhyun gasped and held a hand up to his heart. "After teaching me how to shoot and telling me many strategies after school... You're saying I haven't improved?"

"After school?" Sehun raised an eyebrow and Baekhyun nodded.

"Sometimes we would—"

"Baekhyun sucks pretty bad at everything but dribbling, so I had to help him." Chanyeol interrupted and Sehun pursed his lips, nodding in response.

"Yeah..." Baekhyun trailed off and leaned towards Sehun. "You know what he did to me the other day? He picked me up and—"

"Oh look at the time, I have to go now." Chanyeol stood up abruptly and grabbed his stuff, glaring at Baekhyun one more time before he walked off.

Once Chanyeol had turned the corner, Sehun moved his chair, facing it more towards Baekhyun. "So, what's your relationship with Chanyeol?"

"He's my friend."

"Okay, do you think he hates you?" Sehun asked and Baekhyun thought about it, tapping a finger on his chin.

"Maybe..."

"I don't think he does—"

"Baekhyunnie I found this cool thing yesterday, do you want to come with me to see it?" Mingyu asked and beside him, Kyungsoo was muttering something about people being polite and not interrupting people for once.

"Sure why not—"

"Great!" Mingyu exclaimed and stood up, going over to Baekhyun and grabbing his arm.

Baekhyun grabbed his stuff as quickly as he could before he was dragged away from the cafeteria and now down a hallway.

Mingyu stopped and pushed open the doors to a dark unused classroom, bringing Baekhyun inside.

"Here look, I found this thing in the big cabinet thing over there." Mingyu made his way over and opened the cabinet, pulling out a case of some sorts.

Baekhyun soon realized that it was a guitar case and Mingyu set it down on one of the tables, popping it open.

"It's tuned really nicely and it's a good quality guitar... I always wonder who's it is." Mingyu stated and he took it out, strumming it once.

"Doesn't that mean we shouldn't touch it—"

"That's exactly what that means." A familiar voice said and Baekhyun turned around, seeing Chanyeol standing at the door.

"Oh, hi Chanyeol." Baekhyun greeted and Chanyeol walked inside.

"Don't 'oh hi' me. What are you guys doing with my guitar?" Chanyeol asked and shot daggers at Mingyu who still had his instrument in hand.

"I was just showing Baekhyunnie what I found—" As Mingyu was placing the guitar back in it's case, he fumbled with it and dropped it, making it hit the surface of the table before falling onto the ground.

He stood there shocked for a moment before scrambling to pick it up.

Baekhyun snuck a look at Chanyeol and his eyes widened when he could clearly see annoyance, anger, and hate in the captain's gaze.

"Don't touch it." Chanyeol ordered and Mingyu pulled his hands away before he could touch the precious guitar. "Get out." Chanyeol demanded and Mingyu straightened up.

"Sorry I—"

"I said get out." Chanyeol repeated again, his voice laced with venom.

Baekhyun bit his lip as he watched his teammate walk out of the room quickly with his head down. Mingyu closed the door behind him and Baekhyun's stare went back to Chanyeol.

The moment the door shut, Chanyeol immediately went to his guitar, picking it up and holding it as if it were the most important thing in the world. He examined it and frowned. "God fucking damnit." Chanyeol muttered and Baekhyun slowly approached him.

"Did something happen to it... Is it broken?" Baekhyun asked slowly, afraid of the anger that he saw earlier.

Chanyeol sighed. "No, just a scratch."

He went to sit in one of the chairs on the other side of the room and Baekhyun followed, sitting in one beside him. "Why do you leave it in here? Do you play it often?"

"I leave it in here because rarely anyone comes in here and yes, I play it whenever I'm stressed." Chanyeol stated and Baekhyun snorted.

"So even almighty Chanyeollie gets stressed too." Baekhyun mentioned, keeping his eyes trained on the ground.

"It's funny how you say 'all mighty' and 'Chanyeollie' in the same sentence." Chanyeol commented and Baekhyun smiled, looking over at Chanyeol.

"I think the name suits you. Not as much as Yeollie but it's cute."

"I don't think you've realized, but I don't want to be labelled as cute, Baekkie." Chanyeol snapped and Baekhyun laughed.

"Whatever you say, Captain Yeollie." Baekhyun teased and Chanyeol rolled his eyes. "Hey, you should play me a song." Baekhyun suggested and Chanyeol thought about it, wondering which song he'd play.

Baekhyun didn't receive an answer, but instead he just heard the noise of Chanyeol's magical fingers being used on the guitar.

The melody was nice, and Chanyeol played it with ease and grace, even when he was usually a rough basketball player.

Along the way, Chanyeol began muttering the lyrics, Baekhyun only managing to catch some.

Once he stopped, Baekhyun clapped his hands. "Encore encore," he said sarcastically, causing the giant to scoff. "No but really, that was nice. What song was it?"

Baekhyun thought he saw Chanyeol blush, but brushed it off, telling himself that there was no way he could see it in this dark room.

"I made the song myself... It's called 'You Are'. It's usually sung with lyrics and a bit more fast paced but I just changed the melody a bit to play it on the guitar." Chanyeol stated and Baekhyun nodded.

"I see you have hobbies other than basketball," Baekhyun mentioned and Chanyeol agreed, standing up to place his guitar back in the case. "You should put it somewhere else—you know, in case someone finds it again."

Chanyeol shrugged and closed the case, putting it back in it's original place. "I like putting it here."

"Hey, you should also teach me guitar along with basketball," Baekhyun suggested.

"Only if you can handle doing basketball, getting guitar lessons, homework and tests," Chanyeol stated and Baekhyun made a noise of disappointment.

"Right. Homework. It's going to be so hard with basketball practice," Baekhyun whined.

"Well maybe I'll put practice back to two hours."

"Really?!" Baekhyun exclaimed excitedly, looking at Chanyeol with shining eyes. The giant actually considered it from the smaller's expression, but didn't back away.

"No. In your dreams Baekkie."

"Aww... But you should call me that more."

"Again, in your dreams."

"Whatever you say Yeollie, whatever you say..."

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So here's long awaited Chapter 4! Mingyu is actually so precious ghad same with Woozi, and Jun and The8 and JUST SEVENTEEN IN GENERAL.

I hope you enjoy this chapter, sorry for any typos ~❤️

I'll C you later!