*

A momentary silence lingered between them. Baekhyun sent the latter a questioning look who rolled his eyes in return, "To sleep." Chanyeol replied before heading to the back of his car.

It's not like a bad idea for Baekhyun because it was the worst idea, "Here? In a forest? Are you out of your mind?" He glared at Chanyeol with his eyes under his lids, hinting that he strongly disagrees with this idea. But Chanyeol wasn't bothered and only kept doing what he ought to do.

"What's the big deal?" Chanyeol bluntly asked, somehown getting annoyed of the latter's reaction.

"What if a wild animal jumped out of nowhere and kill us?!" The midget exclaimed as if it was an obvious scenario that Chanyeol needs to be aware of.

Chanyeol could only shook his head, Baekhyun was exaggerating and it wasn't even a problem to Chanyeol in the first place. So he only continued walking the path in the middle of nowhere.

"Or what if..." Baekhyun stopped in his tracks and immediately covered himself with his arms.

"What the—- Byun Baekhyun. I'm not gonna take advantage of you." Chanyeol said in disbelief, realizing what the midget meant.

"Oh... w-well, it's b-better to be c-clear." Baekhyun said, embarassed and slowly removed his arms infront of his body.

"As if, i want to." Chanyeol whispered to himself and stopped when they reached a clear space through the packs of trees.

"Why do we need to sleep here?" Baekhyun complained, still afraid of what might happen to him in the forest and if he had to be honest, he hasn't given his full trust to Chanyeol, so there are still doubts.

"I don't have any money to book us a hotel and you said so earlier that you also don't have any money. Well, where do you think should we sleep?" Chanyeol rolled his eyes as he settled the tent that will be their temporary 'home'.

"Inside the car?" The small one dumbly asked, determined for them to not sleep inside the forest which was filled with darkness and noises of different insects and animals.

"And you think, we can comfortably sleep there?" Chanyeol's attention was divided between setting up the tent and answering Baekhyun's demands.

"Atleast, we can assure that we are safe." Baekhyun was indeed desperate to get out from the forest since a howl was heard not away from them.

Fuck. This was not the life i thought i would have when i run away from my wedding. The runaway groom thought to himself.

"You can sleep wherever you want." The giant gave up persuading the older one and dusted his hands as he finished setting up the tent.

"Okay. I'll sleep in the car." Baekhyun announced and let out his hand. "Give me the keys."

"Wait. You're not going to run away with my car right?" Chanyeol suspiciously asked, squinting his eyes. "As i said before you're my only hope, i don't have anyone to run to this time so why would i run away from you?" Baekhyun answered, leaning on his right hip and giving Chanyeol a smug look.

"Okay fine here. But you should eat and change out of your dirty suit." Chanyeol suggested as he handed the keys to Baekhyun.

Baekhyun gripped the keys inside his fist and sarcastically smiled, "No thanks." and started walking away. He heard Chanyeol 'tsk' making him roll his eyes.

The truth was he was scared of being alone but he's more scared sleeping in the forest.

His legs were trembling as he looked around his surroundings. He should've stayed there with Chanyeol since atleast he has some company.

Why do his decisions always end up with "should've" as if his decisions will only end up in regrets?

He luckily reached the car, alive and breathing, no signs of tormenting of wild animals. Ha Baekhyun and his imaginations.

"I should've stayed in that wedding then i could be sleeping on my soft bed right now." He mumbled to himself and entered the vehicle by the backseat but then when he closed the door, a picture fell from the car's compartment.

It was a picture of a family.

Chanyeol's family.

They look happy and complete but he didn't know that behind that smiling picture was a broken family full of sorrows and anger.

He brought it back to where it fell off and lied on the backseat. It was indeed uncomfortable since it has only limited space yet he didn't have time to complain as tiredness slowly pulled him to a world free from sorrows and any other pains.

*

Chanyeol was cooking his dinner when he remembered the midget who had slept inside his car.

"Aish. That spoiled brat." He muttered to himself and grabbed one hotdog in stick and new clothes.

Even though he was dead tired, he couldn't let his conscience bug him in his sleep so that's why he decided to bring the groom some dinner and clothes for him to be contented and not be guilty anyhow.

He walked through the pathway with a calm surrounding which was the reason why he love the forest. It became his little getaway, it gave him peace from the on-going war inside his house.

He saw the car and approached it, expecting Baekhyun to be awake and complaining for the uncomfortable state he was in but to his surprise, the midget was fast asleep at the backseat.

He opened the door and rolled his eyes because of Baekhyun's stupidity. He wants somewhere safe and here he was inside a car, not bothering to lock the door.

He thought of waking the snoring man but he restrained himself since Baekhyun looked so peaceful and mostly an angel (just in his sleep).

"Tsk. Why you gotta be so stubborn? Look at how uncomfortable you are." He scolded the sleeping figure who was having a hard time to completely stretch out his limbs.

He first ate the hotdog then carry the older one in his arms. "Why am i even doing this to a complete stranger?" He asked to himself but nevertheless he never had the courage to answer that so he shook the question away.

He settled the small one inside the tent which was alot more spacious than the said vehicle.

"Hmmm." The midget moved from his sleep and faced the other way around.

"You are such a trouble, you know that huh? I should be all alone right now to get my mind off from my problems but here you are adding up to the things i should worry." He couldn't stop himself from ranting since this was the only chance he could directly say these words to the groom.

Well, that was the purpose of his little getaway, to set his mind off from his household problems.

Running away might be a coward move to some people but for Chanyeol this is one way to atleast forget his problems even just for a short span of time.

And maybe running away might bring something/someone good to him.

...

Author's Note; Second chapter is here! How was it? Feel free to comment positive or negative comments bc it will highly be appreciated. By the way, i might not be able to update for two weeks since our exams and camp our coming up so i won't have the time to write. I hope you understand.

I want to read ChanBaek fanfics so if you happen to be writing/wrote ChanBaek fanfics, don't hesitate to DM or write on my message board about your story. I'll be happy to check it out. That's all! Bye!

Published: 08/06/17
Edited: 04/10/19

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