Chapter 3- Chen/Xiumin - Xiuchen
Xiumin snickered to himself as he made his way back to his room. He passed his best friend's room and could hear the shower running against the bathrooms shower walls.
"Luhan must be washing his hair dye out. Our laughing probably got to him." He mused. Xiumin admitted to himself that it probably wasn't the nicest thing to laugh at Luhan's hair.
Luhan, like their maknae Sehun, had a knack for unique hair styles and randomly coloring his hair during each of their promotion cycles.
He had been supportive of Luhan's changes up until to this point.
Xiumin can't say that he never thought about the idea of one his members dying their hair that sickening shade, but he had always thought it would be their youngest. Luhan was known more for pastels so his new color had been quite the shock.
It was weird. Xiumin sighed and pushed away from the door. 'I'll apologize to Luhan later." He mumbled and continued to his room.
Xiumin glanced at his watch and sat down on his bed." It's still so early." He whined, flopping back against his pillow. "Ah, I don't know what I want to do today." He stated, pouting.
The brown haired boy sat up on his bed and pulled out this cell phone, flicking the home button to turn it on. The screen light up as it came to life and Xiumin smiled at his screensaver.
It was a picture of his dongsaengs at the park. They were all lookng at him, bright smiles on their young faces.
'I miss our times like this.' Xiumin thought and he sighed. He placed his phone on the bed and slumped into the mattress, keeping his arms behind his head as a make shift pillow as he stared at the ceiling.
The twenty-five year old could not remember the last time he and his friends had hung out together as friends instead of idols. He missed it. It was a time when they weren't as popular nor were they constantly checking over their shoulders for the presence of cameras.
"Knock, Knock." Came a call from the hallway accompanied by a knock on the door. Xiumin sat up.
"Who is it?" He wondered, curiously. It hadn't been very long since had last seen his members and he doubted they could stay awake for much longer. They were more 'eat breakfast and go back to sleep' type of guys.
"It's Chen."
Xiumin walked over to the door to open it and stepped aside to allow the main vocalist and troll of the group inside. Chen grinned at the sight of his hyung and opened his arms in his typical 'hug me' fashion.
"Hyung, do you want to go out to the park with me? I know its still early, but the park is empty right now and I-" The younger male's voice trailed off as he caught Xiumin's bemused look.
Xiumin merely blinked at him." You want to go to the park?"
"Yes, the new exercise park that was just built across from dorms. I need to leave the dorm for a bit."
"I don't mind; just let me grab my jacket."
Xiumin walked over to his walk in closet and stepped inside. Multiple shoe racks filled to the brim with his favorite designer and low brand sneakers, a single coat rack for his designer coats and jackets sat against his left wall, and four other racks for his hats and other items greeted him as he looked around for something to keep him warm.
"I'll meet you downstairs." He said to him.
"Ok hyung." Chen replied and shut the door behind him as he left.
Xiumin walked out of his room and to the elevator.
As he stepped inside, he pressed the first button quickly, hoping to make the steel machine move faster. The doors started started to close when the brown haired boy heard a shout from the hallway.
"Wait! Hold the elevator." A blur faster than he had seen jumped between the heavily, plated doors and collided with him. Xiumin yelled out in surprise as he was thrown to the back of the elevator, his back and head slammed against the hard metal railing.
"Ow! " He clutched his head from the pain of smacking it against the wall. Xiumin peered through his watery eyes at his surrounding.
"What hit me?" He tried to stand up, but his vision swam about in circles once he did and he slumped against the elevator to get his barring.
Once his eye sight returned, he looked around the elevator wondering what had hit him when he saw a body lying on the ground. And it wasn't just any body, it was Luhan. He was dressed differently than before and his hair was pulled into an apple bun.
"Luhan-ah, are you okay?" He heard the other boy groan in response and Xiumin helped pull him to his feet. Xiumin kept his arms outstretched as Luhan swayed on his feet looking like he was about to collapse again.
"I'm fine, where are you going in such a hurry?" He said, before he noticed something." Where did Chanyeol go? Did he go back to bed? What a Lazy Virus!"
"Luhan, you know that it's still really early, right."
"Exactly."
Xiumin sighed." I'm going to meet Chen, we're going out."
"Oh." Luhan replied, trying to look nonchalant and failing."-and Where are you going?"
"To the park. I'll see you later, Luhan." Xiumin said.
The elevator dinged as it reached his floor and the metal doors opened. Xiumin stepped into the hall and he spotted Chen walking ahead of him and he called out to the other male.
Chen stopped to wait for him and together they left the dorm.
"So, why did you want to come here, Chen?"
"To be honest, I feel confined in the dorm." He said. Chen took a seat on the swing.
Seeing Xiumin staring, he laughed and gestured for him to sit down. "What do you mean you feel confined?" Chen sighed, pushing himself slowly on the swing."I mean, I spend all my time as EXO's golden vocals Chen that I-"
"Golden vocals?" Xiumin interrupted, and he raised an eyebrow at Chen causing him to blush. Chen shoved his hyung's shoulder lightly in embarrassment. "That is quite the compliment."
"But its true isn't it?" Xiumin merely smiled at the question not wanting to answer and Chen frowned at him." Fine, don't answer.
What I meant earlier was that I spend so much of my time as Chen that I feel like I lost Jongdae. No one even calls me Jongdae anymore aside for you and Kris, hyung."
"Ah I understand. Chen, if you ever feel the need to separate yourself from Chen and become Jongdae again, I'll do whatever I can as your hyung to help you." Jongdae stared at the older boy in awe." You really mean that?"
"Of course, I love you all and I want you to be happy." Xiumin smiled at him, reaching across the swing to pat his shoulder. Chen returned his smile. He was happy that he was able to finally get his feelings off of his chest and felt relieved having someone to talk too who wouldn't judge him for not loving every second of his idol life.
"Oh and Chen, if you want the other members to start calling you Jongdae again, they'll do it. Now come on, let's see if you can out exercise me."
Xiumin said he jumped off his swing and ran to the first piece of childlike exercise equipment he could find and the one he chose resembled a stair climber.
"Oh, you are so on Xiumin-hyung." Chen ran to the equipment opposite of his hyung and sat on the bench.
He grabbed hold of the handles." Before we start, I should warn you hyung that I've been exercising a lot with super junior sunbaes so I won't lose easily."
"Good to know, the first one to reach 10 minutes without quitting wins. Are you ready?"
"On your mark, get set, go!"
On the upper floor of SM Entertainment's dorms, Luhan watched the two Korean members of EXO - M play.
Who did Chen think he was monopolizing all of Xiumin's time. Luhan had barely said five words to the boy other than asking where he was going and it annoyed him.
He knew that agreeing to that stupid proposition of Chanyeol's was a bad idea, but the reward, the prospect of having his Xiumin to himself for a whole day without the other members butting in was too good of a deal to pass up.
That didn't mean he couldn't still be annoyed though. Luhan glanced back at the two boys noticing that they were no longer on the exercise equipment and had moved over to the swings.
Chen sat on one of the swings and patted his lap with both hands smiling brightly at his hyung.
Luhan felt his eyebrow give a twitch when Xiumin moved in front of Chen and sat on his lap letting Chen wrap one arm around his waist. He used the other to keep a grip on the rope and began pushing himself so they could swing.
It's on Chen
Chen looked around cautiously having a weird feeling that they were being watched by someone. Looking around he saw no one and he turned to look up at their dorms. Smack dab in the window was Luhan with his hands pressed against the glass.
"Hyung, look up sat the dorm." He whispered into his ear. Xiumin did as he was told and a bright smiled cross his face when spotted Luhan and he waved cheerfully and Chen did the same smiling when Luhan waved back.
Luhan closed the curtain to his room and moved to his bed as a plan came to him and he smirked.
Luhan hurried to Chen's room that he shared with Baekhyun and noticed a large white bag sitting near the bed. There was only one bed since the managers and the company knew of their relationships and to reduce costs they allowed some of them to share beds. Luhan opened the bag and peered inside and he smiled. Bingo. Laundry bag full of Baekhyun's clothes.
Throwing the bag over his shoulder, he checked the hall to make sure it was clear and made his way to Sehun's room. He knocked getting no answer and opened the door. He ran to the maknae's vanity and quickly grabbed the bottle of liquid that he needed and he continued on his way to the laundry room.
Luhan dumped Baekhyun's closes into the washer and opened the bottle he got from Sehun's room. He poured a small amount of the liquid into the laundry and simply waited.
Twenty minutes later after washing and drying the clothes. Luhan grabbed each piece and placed into the bag along with the tightly sealed bottle.
He returned to Sehun's room first to replace the bottle and then to Chen's room where he folded the clothes neatly and placed them in their designated spots.
Nodding in approval at his work, He frowned as a thought came to him that he hadn't seen either Chen or Xiumin for the last twenty minutes.
Luhan raced to his room and opened the curtains to see Chen and Xiumin in the same place that he'd left them and Xiumin was still on his lap. Luhan jumped when he saw Xiumin stand up to stretch followed by. Chen and they turned to walk back to the dorm. It didn't take the two of them long to make their way to the right floor and they separated with a quick hug.
Xiumin returned to his room and Chen returned to his intent on taking a short nap. "Ahhhhhh! My clothes!" Chen jumped startled, clutching his chest at the loud scream. He looked around his room confused as to where it came when something smacked him in the face. "What the?" He mumbled confused, looking at the item in bewilderment.
"You?!" He heard a growl and saw Baekhyun clutching a familiar item.
A white button down shirt that was clearly not white anymore. "What happened?" He asked and immediately he regretted asking that question when Baekhyun simple growled further.
He threw the shirt onto the bed and stormed back to his closet, returning shortly after with an armful of his clothes that were all the same color as his other shirt. "Baekkie, did you have an accident with the washing machine ?"
"I didn't do this!" He yelled, frustrated waving his shirt about for emphasis and slammed it onto the bed.
"Then who did?" Baekhyun looked at his boyfriend incredulously. Did he really just ask him that?" You did?!" Chen eyes bulged at the accusation and he shook his head.
"Baekkie, I-" He started, backing away from the boy when he started advancing toward him. He had no idea how his boyfriend's clothing came to become all pink.
" Luhan." He muttered; dread filling his body when he remembered the way Luhan stared at the two in the park and how he had disappeared for a good while afterwards. Luhan must have done it. Oh shit! He screamed ducking out of the way as Baekhyun made to grab at him. He opened his door and fled with Baekhyun chasing him." I didn't do it! It was Luhan!"
Xiumin opened his door to his teammates yell only to backpeddle in surprise at the two members of the beagle line passed him nearly knocking him to the ground.
Inside his room, Luhan heard the yelling and laughed himself making his way to the hallway where he came across Xiumin.
"What's going on with them?" He asked Luhan and he shrugged stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"Who knows? Lovers spat." Xiumin seemed to accept that answer and returned to his room.
Later that morning when one of the EXO members returned from their breakfast, and came across Chen all they could do was stare at his new hairdo that consisted of his hair being dyed the same unfortunate color as Baekhyun's clothes.
If they were to come across Luhan, they'd ask why he looked so smug. When they came across him again later, they'd find their second half-fifty hyung staring sadly at his phone.
Of course, they had to ask why he looked so sad and why Chen suddenly looked so smug, the answer they'd receive was that all of Luhan's secret stash of sleeping Xiumin pics had mysteriously disappeared from his phone.
"Uhhhh..." D.O stuttered, his eyes as wide as they could go. He shifted his gaze over to his friends for their help, but they avoided the lead vocalist eyes.
'Thanks a lot guys.' He thought. Wincing, D.O turned back to the pitiful boy clutching his shirt.
"T-there, there Luhan-hyung. I-it will be okay." D.O patted his shoulder awkwardly and then grimaced when Luhan rubbed his face on his shirt.
'Ew.' The members all thought. The rest of the members decided they didn't want to know the rest of what happened between Luhan and Chen.
"Payback's a bitch." Chen could be heard saying as he made his way back to the bathroom to check out his new hair.