IV (1/1)

"Mr. Byun's not here today, huh..." Kim observes as a tall man, who is definitely not Mr. Byun, walks into your Mythology class. You hum as the teacher introduces himself. "I'm Mr. Park and I'll be taking over Mr. Byun's class for today since he is out of town.""He's kinda hot," Kim whispers to you, eyeing the relief teacher like she wants to do things to him. And you don't doubt that she really is thinking of them. Not so very clean things at that, too. "Even his voice is hot. Mmm...""You're disgusting!" you scoff, pushing her slightly away while laughing. Kim laughs and rolls her eyes at you. Mr. Park actually does a good job at teaching though he isn't a teacher in your school. He knows his facts and is very different from Mr. Byun. He actually tells jokes and makes the class laugh a lot. Almost too quick, the two-hour lesson is over. Everyone thanks Mr. Park loudly, having enjoyed his class immensely. He is flocked with students when he lets your class go and it's the first time seeing your classmates so interested in Mythology that they have questions for the teacher. You're dragging Kim out of the room when you hear your name being called. You and Kim halt. Turning around slowly, you see the group of students and Mr. Park staring at you. "Yes...?" you blink blankly. You're sure you've done nothing wrong, so why is he looking for you?"Mr. Byun asked me to talk to you after class," Mr. Park says. "It's the end of the day for you, isn't it?" You nod unsurely and he beams. "Great. Could you wait while I finish up with the questions?"You glance at Kim who gives you a pitiful look. You sigh and bow your head, "Yes...""I'll see you on Monday," Kim whispers and pats your back. As she leaves for home, you re-enter the classroom and settle down on your seat. Mr. Park is answering everyone's questions diligently. Seeing how there are so many of them and the answers to the questions are always lengthy, you lay your head on your folded arms and decide to take a nap. By the time Mr. Park's done, the classroom is finally empty of other students and you're already asleep. "Hey, buttercup." You wake up and look around the room. There's no one left except for the teacher. "Oh, Chanyeol oppa...""Are you that tired?" The tall male laughs and squats next to you. "Should we forego training today?""No, no," you shake your head, sitting up slowly.Chanyeol brushes your hair from your face and is about to tuck your hair behind your ear when someone knocks on the door. Chanyeol quickly keeps his hand and the both of you turn to the entrance of the classroom. A teacher is staring at the both of you. Chanyeol stands up straight, smiling politely at her. "What can I do for you, miss?" "Ah..." The teacher clears her throat, blinking rapidly. "I... uh... I heard Mr. Byun was sick, so I wondered who took over his class..." She regains composure and smiles, "You're not a teacher here, are you?""No," Chanyeol shakes his head. "That's a relief," she murmurs softly to herself as she nods. Then she bows her head and greets, "I'll take my leave, then. Thank you for covering up for Mr. Byun.""No worries," Chanyeol smiles and bows as she leaves. Then he turns to you, raising an eyebrow. You shrug and he sighs. "How do you and Baekhyun hyung never get caught in school?"  "Not like that!" you groan in frustration and snatch the iPad from Chen's hands."I'd like to see you succeed, then!" he scoffs, leaning towards you as he watches you take over the game. He presses down on Lay's head. "Yah, lie down somewhere else. I can't see anything because of your big head."Lay ignores him and continues to lay his head on your stomach. Everyone is over for dinner, except for one person. He is off doing business elsewhere, leaving you with five other guys. Not to mention, touchy guys who long for affection. Suho passes by behind and ruffles Chen's hair. The younger boy whines, glaring at Suho. The house is never quiet whenever the boys are here. "Dinner's ready in five!" Kyungsoo shouts from the kitchen. "Who wants to set up the table?"You're too engrossed in the game, so you're preoccupied with that. Lay and Chen have no excuses though, since they're doing nothing. Yet they still pretend as if they hadn't heard anything. Suho laughs and offers to help instead. As expected, the one who leads always is a good example. When the food is done and spread out on the table, everyone runs over to eat. Chanyeol has to lock the iPad while you were in the middle of the game and drag you to your seat. "I wonder how Baekhyun's doing." Suho wonders. "Where'd he go, anyway?" you mutter. "He just up and went yesterday. Didn't even tell me anything.""He didn't say anything to me either," Chen scoffs, chewing savagely on his meat. You catch Suho suspiciously glancing at Chanyeol so you narrow your eyes on them. You accuse, "You guys knew something and you didn't even tell us.""A vampire's work is always kept hush hush."  You're already sleeping when someone slips under the covers stealthily. You flutter your eyes open and see those familiar gray eyes in the darkness. You feel two arms embracing you and bringing you closer to their body. "You're back?" You sound sleepy and groggy. "Mm," Baekhyun answers and kisses your forehead. "Have you been well?"You nod and snuggle closer to him. "You?"He hums and answers instead, "Yes. But we'll talk tomorrow. Go to sleep, baby."Baekhyun winds his legs with yours, tightening his arms around you. Finally, after yesterday night without Baekhyun, you have him next to you now. Your heart feels calmer and more peaceful, knowing that Baekhyun is here with you.The next morning is a noisy one. People are shouting across the house, stomping up and down the stairs, even dragging what sounds like heavy furniture. You roll on your side and you find that this side of the bed is empty. You are sure Baekhyun had come home though, you can even sense his presence in the household. With all the noise and the need to be with your boyfriend, you get up from bed. However, the moment you leave the room, you almost want to go back in again.People are shouting across the house; they're even yelling from the attic down to the ground floor. People are stomping up and down the stairs and dragging things with them. The house is messy and full of people you don't even know.Kyungsoo passes by and catches your 'I just woke up, what the hell is going on' expression. He grins, patting your head like you're a little girl, "I made breakfast. Go eat. Baekhyun hyung should be there too."You nod dumbly and go downstairs where there are boxes everywhere. You almost trip over a box if not for someone grabbing onto your arm. Your heart beats rapidly, leaving you stunned at the close call of not needing a plastic surgery. You take a look at your saviour and who else did you expect besides Baekhyun? He smiles at you and pulls you to stand upright. You mumble a thanks and he chuckles at how confused you look and sound. He brings you to the dining table, where Chanyeol is watching his house being turned into some kind of construction site. "What's all this ruckus?" you grumble when you sit next to Chanyeol and pull your breakfast plate towards you."Suho and his pack are moving in, remember?" Baekhyun tries to trigger your memory as he gives you a morning kiss."What for? This house isn't big enough for all of you.""They're getting their house renovated," Chanyeol mutters, turning back to his breakfast. He looks tired and even has bed hair, making you certain that he was awoken by the noise, too. He shoves a slice of omelette into his mouth and talks with his mouth full, "We're joining our houses together."You furrow your eyebrows, "How do you even do that?""I don't know. I'm a werewolf, not an architect." You scoff at him and Baekhyun laughs, rubbing your back. "We're gonna have to move over to Suho's once their house is done. So we can renovate our house too.""That's a lot of fuss," you huff. "I don't like this arrangement.""I don't like it too, but at least you don't live with us," Chanyeol grumbles unhappily. "Not official, that is.""You're the one who said you wanted to join the two houses!" Baekhyun laughs, pointing an accusing finger at him. Chanyeol growls and smacks Baekhyun's hand away. "I said I was okay. Besides, I didn't know it was going to be this messy." "This isn't even everything that we have!" Lay sings as he gallops down the stairs to carry more boxes up. "Maybe a quarter?""Oh my Lord..."  "Have you done any studying?" Baekhyun enquires as he plays with your hair.All of you are eating out for dinner after all of the commotion in the day. Baekhyun has his arm slung over your shoulders and his fingers are restless as he twirls them around your locks. The others are bantering, causing some noise due to the number of people on this table."I don't have anything to study for." You try to avoid Baekhyun's amused gaze on you. "There is a mid-sem test for Pharmacology, isn't there?"You stare at him with your eyes wide. The boys stop talking at your sudden movement. "How did you know? You're not even in the Science department.""Are you guys talking in your heads again?" Kyungsoo raises an eyebrow at the both of you. "I thought we made a rule!" Chen looks upset. "You broke that rule!" "No," Baekhyun says slowly, turning to look at them. "We promised on: 'Never use your weird mind talk at home'. This isn't home.""Fine. Then never use your weird mind talk anywhere in front of us."Suho merely chuckles, shaking his head at the childish behaviour of Chen. Baekhyun shrugs before answering you. "The teachers in every department likes me, so we talk often. I know a lot of things." "You know," you say as you play with the condensed water droplets on the surface of your cup. "Before we met personally, I never knew you were this kind of person." "What kind?""The affectionate, mushy, narcissist—" "That's enough, Chanyeol," Baekhyun grunts. Then he nags at you, "You better go back and study for that test. Okay?" You roll your eyes, "Yes, father.""You mean great-grandfather," Lay corrects, only to receive a glare from Baekhyun in return. "I'll kick you out of the house." "We'll kick you out of ours when it's your turn for renovations," Chen smirks. "By the way, you guys won't be bringing everything over to our house, are you?" you ask them. "Our house?" Baekhyun murmurs. You glance at him and roll your eyes as Suho replies, "No. Whatever that's brought over to your place today is everything that we will have with us for the period that we're staying with you.""You have awfully a lot of things, considering that you're guys," you comment. "We're werewolves, we have lots of clothes. Duh," Chen even points to his head as if telling you that you're stupid. "It's because you're werewolves so you don't have lots of clothes. Since you strip them every time you change. Duh," you reenact the same motion and Chen screws his lips in annoyance. Baekhyun uses the hand that is around you to brush his knuckles against your cheek in an attempt to make you back off. You do, only because the food is here and Chen already has his attention on Chanyeol and Kyungsoo's conversation on penguins. You're in the midst of talking to Lay when Baekhyun receives a text. Everyone is starting to dig into their food, but Baekhyun stands so suddenly that all of you stare at him like he's crazy. "Sit down, we're about to eat," you tug on his hand. The male shifts his attention from his phone to you and you see how conflicted he looks. He shows you an urgent text from Minseok and you swallow upon reading it. The others, sensing your anxiety, demand to know what is happening. Baekhyun quickly presents the text to the rest, calls for the bill, asks to pack everything in take away boxes and make all of you leave the restaurant in a hurry. When you reach the house, you see Minseok pacing on the balcony in front of the door. He looks up when he senses all of you. His eyes turn honey brown for an instant when he spots you. But the smell of your sweet blood doesn't seem to be bothering him anymore when his eyes rakes over the four other werewolves with you."You have four other werewolves with you," Minseok says when the whole lot of you stand in front of him."Thanks for saying that out loud, I wouldn't have known how to count otherwise," Chen rolls his eyes. Minseok's eye twitches and Baekhyun quickly speaks up, "Let's go inside to talk. It's dangerous out." He leaves a warm hand on your back as he guides you into the house first. While everyone comes in, you bring the bags of food to the kitchen to reheat them. Being werewolves, the boys tend to get really hungry really fast due to their unnaturally high metabolism rate. While you're transferring the food to plates, Baekhyun and Chanyeol are explaining to Minseok about Suho's pack. He doesn't seem to feel comfortable with so many werewolves around him though. "How do you even stand the smell?" Minseok blanches as he covers his nose, looking at Baekhyun for what seems like help. "It smells like a dog house in here."There are some snarls but Baekhyun merely answers, "Just turn off your sense of smell. Ever since I started living with a werewolf, I could practically have had my nose cut off and have no idea about it." You quickly bring the reheated food out when you see how close Chanyeol is to pouncing on his best friend. The wolves' attentions move to the hot dishes in front of them. Lay get up and help you with bringing the plates into the living room. "Just before I "turn off" my sense of smell though," Minseok even makes the quotation marks with his fingers. He stares at you with honey brown eyes, "Your blood has gotten a lot sweeter than before, you know that?" "Okay, turn it off now," Baekhyun grunts, slapping Minseok's chest with the back of his hand. "Yeah, that's because they had sex," Chanyeol explains dismissively as he chomps on his spaghetti. He frowns when he hears Minseok cough. "Not 'had', actually. More like 'are having'.""Enough!" Baekhyun growls at Chanyeol, who only sniggers. You're as red as a tomato when Baekhyun glances at you. While you slowly try to digest your dinner and the wolves inhale their food, Baekhyun asks the oldest male, "What's so urgent that you came all the way, hyung?" "I need a place to stay." All of you stare at him, speechless. "You made us rush back without eating a bite of our dinner just because you need a place to stay," Baekhyun narrates, his face deadpanned. "No, not just that," he shake his head rapidly and he finally looks scared for the first time since you've met him. "Then what?" Chanyeol isn't gobbling down his food now as he stares at his friend in concern. "Spit it out, hyung."He gives you and Baekhyun a meaningful glance before he announces quietly, "I found my mate."You're about to congratulate him when he swallows and directs the curious werewolves a somewhat sorry look. "She's a werewolf."