Runaway in G major
Title: Runaway in G major
Author: Anonymous until 1/30/14
For: hopeandmemory
Pairing: Baekhyun/Lay
Word Count: 6,270
Summary: Byun Baekhyun doesn’t need an orchestra.
Warnings: smut, barebacking
Rating: NC-17
One
Suits are really annoying.
So annoying.
So very annoying.
Yixing has come to really hate suits. Since he was a child his father always hugged him while in a suit, scolded him while in a suit, made him take piano lessons while in a suit.
Even now, when Yixing is twenty, he really hates suits. He hates the words his father says while wearing those sleek black suits; "I think it's time for you to learn how to take over the company."
Yixing hears those words and he doesn't even let them register but he already knows what his father said. What his father wants him to do. And Yixing really thought about it and he weighed all the pros and cons and he doesn’t want this so he says “No” and gets out of of his father's office. No. No, Yixing doesn't need to be a CEO. No, Yixing doesn't need to be cramped inside a big office, wearing a sleek black suit and meeting lots of people who just want to leech off of him.
No.
Yixing doesn't want this.
So he runs. He goes home grabs some of the most necessary items and buys the next plane ticket. He doesn't care where it takes him, he just wants away from all of this.
He meets the famous Byun Baekhyun at an after-party of one of his concertos. The concerto had been so fun and he has never seen anyone have so much fun while playing the piano; Baekhyun's fingers were soaring over the keys and when Yixing thought he saw Baekhyun smile he was sold.
Ravel's piano concerto was one of Yixing's favorites. The one which made Yixing want to really learn how to play the piano, just so that he can make people have as much fun as he has when he listens to it. But Byun Baekhyun... Byun Baekhyun just made everything better. Yixing was on the edge of his seat, wanting to hear more, wanting to be closer so he could see how fast those hands moved on the piano keys.
Yixing wanted to see more, so much more. So he paid for an after-party ticket just to meet him; Baekhyun. When he entered the restaurant he heard the rich sound of a piano. And he instantly knew who it was. The song that was played was Ravel's piano concerto in G-major again, but it was just a piano this time. And Yixing swears he has never seen a pianist that can play a piano concerto without an orchestra.
Byun Baekhyun doesn’t need that orchestra.
It seems that Byun Baekhyun just needs a piano to charm everyone. Or maybe it just works on Yixing.
Yixing goes to the bar to ask for a drink because he certainly needs it. He wants to talk to Baekhyun, see if the way he speaks is as smooth as the sound of his piano.
Baekhyun ends the piece and everyone in the restaurant starts applauding immediately, and Yixing is surprised when Baekhyun suddenly turns shy. He bows and smiles awkwardly (still charming) while waving to everyone and heading towards the bar. Yixing is left dumbfounded when Baekhyun asks for just an apple juice before he turns to Yixing and smiles.
"I saw you watching me."
Yixing tries not to lose himself in Baekhyun's smile and shiny white teeth "Doesn't everybody?"
"Yeah, but you were very insistent; I thought I would melt when I played the second movement."
"Well I'm glad that you didn't melt, it means that i have a chance to talk to you," Yixing feels the corners of his mouth pulling up and he can't stop himself from smiling. Baekhyun is just smiling back at him and Yixing feels something bubbling inside him but he decides not to think about it.
"Maybe you will make me melt later, who knows?" And the shy Baekhyun who bowed awkwardly after playing a concerto with just his piano smiles cheekily, like he knows Yixing already likes him a lot. A bit too much, if Yixing really thinks about it; a little more than he should like a person he has only just met.
"Well I think you already know my name," Baekhyun starts “So what's yours?"
A person who doesn't even know his name yet.
"Yixing."
"Nice to meet you, Yixing" he says slowly, lips curling up pleasantly and Baekhyun offers to buy Yixing another drink. They are both smiling now and Baekhyun starts talking about how much he enjoyed playing today’s concerto and between all the music talk he sneaks in a comment about how ugly Yixing’s shirt is or subtly asks Yixing for a drink. Yixing has a lot of fun and he feels a bit sad when he realizes he has to go back to the hotel.
“It was really nice meeting you.” Yixing says and of course Baekhyun interrupts, Yixing thinks he might have a habit out of interrupting people but he also thinks it’s cute how enthusiastic he is.
“We should meet again.” Baekhyun says.
Yixing just laughs "Yeah, we should some time."
But Yixing doesn't think they will, because they don't exchange phone numbers or hotel names and Baekhyun is probably just trying to be a good host.
In the morning, Yixing gets pleasantly surprised. He wakes up way earlier than he should have but he decides it’s better this way because he can finally visit Paris and he takes a shower, dressing up quickly after.
The lobby is full of people although it's still pretty early and Yixing makes his way towards the restaurant to grab breakfast. But, after sitting down at his table and taking a sip of his coffee he feels movement in front of him. When he lifts his gaze he sees Baekhyun sitting down at his table with a plate in his hands smiling sleepily at Yixing. He’s so cute.
“What are you doing here?” Yixing asks.
“Aren’t I allowed to be at the hotel I’m staying at?” Baekhyun says easily, humming slightly as he picks some scrambled eggs off his plate.
“Oh. What a coincidence. I’m staying at this hotel too!”
Baekhyun snorts “Yeah, I think I can tell.” Yixing starts smiling then because Baekhyun is so incredibly cute in his oversized hoodie, with his ruffled hair and sleepy eyes. His lips curl downwards when he picks a mushroom out of his plate and then gingerly placing it on Yixing’s plate.
“You don’t like mushrooms.” Yixing states.
“Yeah I don’t, do you wanna fight me about it?” he says threateningly and they both burst out laughing. Baekhyun though is still picking all of his mushrooms and putting them on Yixing’s plate. The truth is mushrooms aren’t Yixing’s favorite either but he likes seeing Baekhyun’s concentrated face so he lets him do whatever he wants.
"Is there anything else you don't like?" Yixing asks suddenly, before he can think better of it and Baekhyun accidentally drops a mushroom in his glass of water.
"Oh nooo," he whines and Yixing starts laughing, making Baekhyun giggle slightly as he tries to pick the mushroom out with a fork.
"Well it seems that it's pretty impossible to get it out," he states, watching Baekhyun struggle with a knife now and not bothering to tell him it would be easier with a spoon. "And it will give your water a pleasant aroma."
Baekhyun glances mischievously at him before smiling sweetly. "Why don't we drink it together then?"
"Oh, unfortunately I have just finished eating so I have to go back to my room," Yixing replies laughing and Baekhyun purses his lips.
"Such an unfortunate event," he speaks with laughter in his voice "But if you could come on a walk with me, I would forgive you"
"For what? For you dropping your mushroom in your glass?"
"Shh, just accept your fate of coming with me."
In the end, Yixing does accept Baekhyun's invitation
“I-- Ok let’s go, but just so you know I’m not buying you food.”
“Yeah you will.”
Yixing will. He doesn’t even try to argue with Baekhyun because he knows he will, he can’t resist Baekhyun’s charm.
They walk all day and buy all kinds of weird stuff and get lost on Champs Elyseés. Yixing wonders if they are the only people in history to ever get lost on a straight way. Being with Baekhyun makes Yixing feel so free, he really likes the way Baekhyun is.
Baekhyun invites Yixing to dinner that night.
The restaurant is full and Yixing realizes that the members of the orchestra Baekhyun is playing with are there. Baekhyun calls Yixing to his table and they both order the same thing (what they order doesn’t have mushrooms). After they finish eating Baekhyun begins.
“Should we get out of here?"
"But won't these people miss you?"
"Nah, they see me every day," Baekhyun smirks “I think they are already sick of me.” Yixing seriously doubts that, he doesn’t think anyone can get sick of Baekhyun. He’s so refreshing and so so cute.
They get out of the restaurant and the quiet of the street is now replaced by Baekhyun's laughter. Yixing feels intoxicated, and it may be because of the wine he had at dinner but he really thinks it's because of the shine in Baekhyun's eyes or the curl of his lips as he talks. And Baekhyun starts telling Yixing another story about how he met some violinist who taught him how to play the violin and he sounds so excited, so young and Yixing wonders briefly if Baekhyun knows how old he is; if he realises that he's acting so childishly, recklessly. Yixing was never allowed such freedom, and the way Baekhyun makes it seem so easy just takes his breath away.
They walk around aimlessly while Baekhyun keeps talking and talking and Yixing who has heard him talk almost every minute he has spent in Paris still wants to hear more of that voice so he starts asking questions about Baekhyun
"Do you like it here?" Yixing asks and it's completely not relevant to what Baekhyun was saying but he actually stops and answers.
"I might, if you actually listen to me." There's a teasing smile on his face.
"I am listening to you now, so why don't you like mushrooms?"
"Because they're disgusting, do I need another reason?"
"No, not really" Yixing says shrugging and Baekhyun laughs, asking a question himself.
"Would you like to be here with someone else?" Yixing glances at him.
"Yes," and he can feel Baekhyun tensing besides him.
"With whom?"
"It's a secret. So what about you?"
"Hmm, it's a secret," Baekhyun says slowly and Yixing snorts before they both start laughing, tension slipping away.
Then Baekhyun asks another question before Yixing gets the chance to. "Yixing do you want to kiss me?"
Immediately, Yixing stills.
Baekhyun is looking at him, eyes shining and lips pink "Because I really want you to."
And maybe it's the way Baekhyun looks so sincere, or maybe it's the way the pretty lights shine upon his face, or maybe it's the wine he had that makes him kiss Baekhyun.
He wants to have more, to taste more, to know more of Baekhyun and he kisses almost desperately, almost as if Baekhyun is an illusion that could shatter at any moment. But he isn't and Baekhyun reciprocates and kisses Yixing back sweetly, nibbling on his lower lip before sliding his tongue against it and everything is so hot and Yixing can't even think properly; he just wants to feel.
Baekhyun pulls away with a string of saliva sticking to his lips and he looks at Yixing, eyes intent, before stepping back and smiling again, Yixing realizes it’s not quite a smile but more of a smirk and he feels dizzy. "I should go back; I think that apple juice really got to my head."
Yixing is so surprised he starts laughing. He doesn't really know what he was expecting, though - maybe another kiss? Maybe a whispered "more", maybe, maybe, maybe.
Baekhyun leaves Yixing. Just like that - he smiles at him widely before going back to the restaurant, leaving Yixing there in the street, still feeling hot from Baekhyun's lips.
Yixing wants to forget the mystery that is Byun Baekhyun, needs to, because all he thinks about are Baekhyun's lips on his, Baekhyun's smile, Baekhyun's songs so he leaves Paris even though he still wants to know more.
Even though he still wants.
Once again, he doesn't know where the plane will take him. Maybe this time he will find himself at the North Pole, or maybe in Hawaii. But, in the end, it's not the North Pole and it's not Hawaii, either. It's Rome.
Yixing laughs when he gets there.
Rome.
The place where Baekhyun will have his next concerto.
Yixing really wants to forget, but now that he's in Rome he decides to take advantage of it and hear Baekhyun performing Rachmaninoff. Baekhyun is truly a talented pianist. Rachmaninoff's concertos aren't the easiest, especially the one Baekhyun is going to perform.
Rachmaninoff's piano concerto in C-minor.
Yixing's heart will break.
Except it doesn't. It doesn't, because after the concerto Yixing waits for Baekhyun. And when Baekhyun sees him he runs to him and smiles that beautiful smile that's all teeth and his nose scrunches so cutely that Yixing wants to kiss every smile line Baekhyun has.
And he could do it. He could lean down now and capture Baekhyun's lips. Oh god, Yixing really wants to do that. But he doesn't and Baekhyun breaks the silence.
"You came"
That's all he says and he... He seems so happy. Yixing likes it, likes the feeling of seeing somebody smile because of him, it feels really nice.
"I came. I wanted to listen to your Rachmaninoff; it was beautiful." You are beautiful.
There are so many things Yixing wants to say, but Baekhyun cuts him off with a kiss and Yixing kisses back because this is what he has wanted since Paris. This is what he couldn't stop thinking about.
He wants Baekhyun. He wants Baekhyun a lot. He only met him two weeks ago and they only talked for 3 days while in Paris but he wants him and Baekhyun seems to want him too because he kisses him so hard, only stopping for a few seconds to breathe.
Baekhyun pulls Yixing along and it's in a haze that they get to a hotel, maybe Baekhyun's, maybe Yixing's, maybe somewhere in between.
Yixing stops breathing as Baekhyun pushes him back into the bed, eyes wide and lips pink and wet.
"Byun Baekhyun, what is this?" he asks, although he doesn't really need an answer; he knows what this is
"An escape. That's what you're looking for, right? I'm giving it to you." Baekhyun's smile looks so different now, so provoking that Yixing lets it all go; the tension, his thoughts.
Baekhyun's button-down shirt ends up somewhere on the floor, together with Yixing's shirt and their pants and he is already moaning, Yixing's lips hot on his neck.
"Is this a mutual thing?" Yixing asks and Baekhyun laughs.
"I need an escape as much as you do, so yes, it's mutual."
Baekhyun doesn't elaborate and Yixing doesn't push, instead he counts the breaths Baekhyun takes as he pulls on the waistband of his boxers and the whimpers Baekhyun makes as Yixing breathes on his cock.
Yixing groans because Baekhyun's cock is so hard and hot and it's all because of him. He's wrecking Baekhyun as much as Baekhyun is wrecking him and it's undeniably satisfying.
Yixing licks the tip of his dick, slowly going down the length of it before sucking it inside his mouth and moaning.
The pleasure that comes from Baekhyun tugging on his hair - hard - and making him choke slightly takes him by surprise and Baekhyun's sweaty, red smirk makes it all so much better. The look in Baekhyun’s eyes softens as he sweeps Yixing’s damp hair from his forehead.
"Aren’t you going to fuck me already? Please, Yixing, please," Baekhyun whines, voice lowering, and Yixing obeys. He kisses the tip of his cock again before grabbing the bottle of lube Baekhyun has dazedly thrown on the mattress.
The first finger makes Baekhyun wince and he closes his his eyes tightly, but Yixing licks at his lips and bites at his neck and the pain decreases as he pushes in a second. By the third finger Baekhyun is moaning so loudly and Yixing thinks the sounds he is making are lovely.
"Should I stop?" he asks as he takes in the sweat on Baekhyun's forehead, the redness in his cheeks and the biting of his lips.
But, instead of an answer, he gets a high pitched whine followed by a low moan of "More, Yixing, fuck me, please."
And he does; he kisses Baekhyun slowly, tenderly before grabbing his hips and pushing the tip of his cock inside of him. His eyes are shining and his back feels damp with sweat as he thrusts inside of Baekhyun. It all feels a little blurry, like the pleasure is so overwhelming it almost makes him feel numb. Baekhyun's nails scraping against the skin of his back hurt and his teeth are sharp against his collar bones but the pain heightens his senses and Yixing feels dizzy with everything he's feeling.
"God, I'm coming," Baekhyun moans and Yixing barely gets to touch his dick before he comes all over his hand, collapsing against the pillows. Somehow the sight of a completely worn out and dazed Baekhyun tips Yixing off the edge as he comes all over Baekhyun’s stomach, vision going slightly white around the corners.
"Fuck," Baekhyun hisses, pulling Yixing on top of him and ignoring the mess they made. "Fuck me," he whispers breathlessly, and Yixing just smirks back slightly.
"I just did."
It's not really a surprise for Yixing that Baekhyun is gone in the morning as he has already realised that this is just a one night stand, but what really comes off as a surprise is the note stuck to the waistband of his pants
My next concerto is in Barcelona, I hope we can coincidentally meet again^^
This time Yixing knows where to find Baekhyun, so he flies to Barcelona. It's not just a concerto this time, but a recital for one of the most important families in Spain; Yixing looked it up just before leaving.
Baekhyun has already texted Yixing the name of the hotel he's staying at and the room number, so Yixing supposes one night stands can count for more than just one night. Baekhyun seems to agree, as he pulls him along to the hotel's bathroom and pushes him in a stall, dropping to his knees before him.
"Byun Baekhyun stop it; we're in a public bathroom," Yixing says as he feels his face getting hotter and probably redder, trying to make Baekhyun get up but he just smirks.
"Oh, but we are free to do whatever we want, so let's consider this as the action of relieving stress."
Relieving stress, in Baekhyun’s world, seems to mean sucking each other off in the bathroom and fucking twice in the hotel room, but although Yixing enjoys it an actual lot, he thinks he likes the moments in between more. Like the way Baekhyun is all sweaty and clingy after sex, or the way he tries to be sexy as he climbs the bed but ultimately slips on the blanket and, most of all how he falls asleep on Yixing, mouth open and lashes black and long against his cheeks, chest rising and falling with every breath. Yixing likes those moments the most.
In the morning Baekhyun is still there, warm, sleeping soundly next to him and Yixing feels happy.
When he wakes up, Baekhyun yawns like a little puppy and stretches his hands above his head "Hey, do you want to come with me today?"
"Where?" Yixing asks.
"Shh, don't ask questions. Just get dressed and follow me," Baekhyun kisses his nose before getting up from the bed and entering the bathroom, probably to shower.
Yixing feels like he needs a shower too. "Hey, wait for me! Share your water with me!"
Baekhyun laughs.
Yixing is surprised when he realizes that Baekhyun is taking him to his orchestra practice. He really wants to ask why Baekhyun’s doing this because Yixing is going to see him anyway, tonight at the concert, but he decides not ask and instead waits to see what Baekhyun wants to do.
When they get there Yixing doesn't get to ask what he should do now he just sits there and watches Baekhyun laugh with everyone else. After the rehearsal is done Baekhyun calls him on the stage. "Guys, this is Yixing he has been to every concert we had in Europe."
A few whispers of "Oh a rich man, nice catch Baekhyun keep him" make Yixing blush but Baekhyun just laughs it off and tells him to ignore them because they are just jealous. He starts introducing Yixing to every member of the orchestra but Yixing doesn't remember all of them. Only a few names stick to him but what Yixing will forever remember is how sincere Baekhyun's smile is and how weird he feels right now when Baekhyun is introducing him to people that are important to him. After everyone leaves he grabs Yixing's hand leading him to the piano.
"So today I will be your personal piano teacher, you can ask me to teach you whatever you want," he pauses and glances at Yixing mischievously "But that doesn't mean I will actually do it, a teacher has his limits Yixing."
"You offered to teach me teacher Byun so, Ravel's Jeux d'eau? Do you know it? Is it breaching your limit?"
"Yixing, who do you think I am of course I do? Do you want me to teach you this?" he plays the first keys. "But it might be hard for you to learn it."
"Doesn't matter I want you to teach me this, teacher Byun."
Baekhyun laughs and starts playing Jeux d'eau slowly so that Yixing can watch his fingers closely and learn. He wonders how Baekhyun knows that he can play the piano but he puts that thought away because Baekhyun leans his head on his shoulder while still playing the soft notes of Jeux d'eau.
Yixing is able to play the beginning of the song after teacher Byun shows him how and his teacher rewards him by kissing him and then asking for his reward because he was the teacher and he needs Yixing to pay for his tutoring. That night they both giggle a lot over nothings.
When Baekhyun's concerto is over they go to a bar and get drunk together and they both laugh so loudly that strangers glare at them because of how noisy they are but that is not important at the moment and Yixing feels truly happy.
London is rainy and Yixing doesn't really like it, he didn't particularly want to ever go to London but Baekhyun is going to do Chopin's piano concerto in e minor and Yixing is ready to feel as enchanted as the first time he listened to Baekhyun's piano. His piano is so different, so alluring, Yixing can't avert his eyes every time Baekhyun is playing.
He realizes.
He realizes how deep he has fallen for Baekhyun. He realizes how much he craves him, how even having Baekhyun writhing under him from pleasure, Baekhyun moaning his name, how it's not enough anymore. He wants Baekhyun to be his. He wants to know Baekhyun feels the same. He wants so much but all he does is kiss him harder, fuck him harder, slower, make him realize all the things Yixing has to say just by touch.
Baekhyun travels all around Europe and Yixing follows. Now Baekhyun always looks for Yixing in a crowd and maybe winks at him. Sometimes he pulls Yixing in the changing rooms before a concerto, drops to his knees and unbuckles Yixing's belt. And Yixing can't stop admiring the way Baekhyun's pretty red lips stretch around his cock, he wants to pull Baekhyun off and then kiss him for hours but Baekhyun has a concerto to play and a crowd to please.
Baekhyun is not only Yixing's.
He is everyone's.
And Yixing has noticed. Baekhyun has to please a crowd, he has to be his lovely self to everyone. Yixing admires him and pulls harder on his hair in the nights Baekhyun has flirted too much with one of the ladies that came to congratulate him for his perfect rendition of Chopin.
It's raining in Berlin when Yixing finds out he is in love with Baekhyun. The hotel room Baekhyun is staying in has a piano and Yixing wakes up to the sound of that piano. Baekhyun is moving his lips gently as if singing and Yixing recognises Ravel's Alborada Del Gracioso and he opens his eyes and watches Baekhyun as he always does. Baekhyun is wearing his shirt and nothing else underneath and it's raining outside and Yixing almost laughs. Of course Baekhyun would choose Ravel on a rainy day.
He realizes he forgot to ask Baekhyun who was his favorite composer so he does exactly that once he finishes playing.
"Ravel."
Of course.
Of course the playful works of Ravel are the ones that Baekhyun likes most. Ravel is Yixing's favorite too. Yixing doesn't let Baekhyun leave the bed that day.
He has no way to contact Baekhyun anymore. He thinks it's his fault. He thinks Baekhyun got scared because he slipped and said "I love you" when Baekhyun was smiling at him after one of Baekhyun's recitals in London was over. Baekhyun's smile had fallen off his face so fast and Yixing has tried to contact him. But Baekhyun wouldn't answer his phone calls and he wasn't in the cities he was supposed to be in. Baekhyun wasn't at his programmed concertos. Baekhyun had erased himself from Yixing’s life, somehow, before Yixing could properly put him there.
Yixing started pondering if this was really worth it. If travelling without a purpose was worth it. Unknowingly, his purpose had become Baekhyun. He was doing this for Baekhyun. But now when there is no Baekhyun no cute white teeth, no mischievous eyes Yixing wants to go back home.
Yixing wants to forget.
He wants to forget about Baekhyun, he wants to bury himself in work. He wants to finally do what his father wants him to do. He is going to wear that suit and sit cramped inside an office while talking to other people in suits.
So he does that. Yixing buys a plane ticket for the next flight towards Seoul. He is going to apologize to his father and tell him that yes, yes he wants to become the next CEO, yes he wants to lose his life he wants to wear that god damned suit.
The plane ride is long and Yixing swears he is never gonna enter a plane in his life unless it is absolutely necessary, he doesn’t want to leave home anymore, doesn’t want to meet anyone else that might steal his heart and never give it back. Yixing wants this all to be a dream, wants Baekhyun to be just a dream, a beautiful dream full of dazzling smiles and heated touches.
He is going to marry whatever girl his father wants him to, he is going to try as hard as he can to love her and then make a kid and he swears he is not going to let his kid stray as his father let him. He doesn’t want him to get his heart broken as his father. Fall in love with an illusion.
His father’s satisfied smirk kind of pisses him off, but Yixing smiles and bows down from his waist.
“I have come back.”
“Have you thought about your reckless actions?” he asks, voice powerful and clear.
“Yes father, and I want to be the next CEO.”
“That’s a good decision, son, I knew you would realise this sooner or later.”
“Yes, fa--” Yixing gets interrupted by the sound of the door opening and when he turns around he doesn’t expect Baekhyun, red cap pulled over his eyes and voice raspy and low.
“I came to get my money,” he states easily before looking up and Yixing freezes. Baekhyun’s eyes are red and his lips bitten, hair messed up underneath his cap and there’s an easy kind of smile on his face. His smile falls off his face when he sees Yixing.
“Yixin--” his eyes are so wide it’s almost funny.
“What money do you need from my father?” Yixing asks and his voice comes out unexpectedly warm despite himself.
“I-- Yixing.” Talkative Baekhyun with easy smiles and cute winks can’t find his words and Yixing just doesn’t know how to react. He doesn’t know what exactly is happening right now. The silence in the room is broken by his father’s voice who is smiling pleasantly at Baekhyun.
“Oh. You came to get your money right. I will give you even more because as you can see you did a good job. Yixing is here. Didn’t he Yixing? Wasn’t he good at bringing you back here?” Yixing wishes looks could hurt. It was a bad thought but he wanted to punch his own father and then punch Baekhyun too and never have anything to do with them ever again.
“Come on Baekhyun! Take the money, you said you needed it.” Yixing’s father says. Yixing feels sick. He excuses himself and storms out of the room. He ponders just running away again. Going to Alaska to forget everything.
He doesn’t know what exactly to do but his feet lead him to the park next to the company. Ahh. That park where his father made him wait for hours before he could actually meet and talk to him. The park where Yixing cried every time he did something that disappointed his father. Now he can’t even cry because he sees Baekhyun running towards him.
Baekhyun.
He wants to get up and run away, he doesn’t want to see him again but Baekhyun reads his mind “Don’t run Yixing. Talk to me.”
“You ran away first.” Yixing doesn’t want to talk. Baekhyun stole his heart and then gave it away for money.
“Yixing, listen to me.”
“No, you listen to me. Don’t ever come near me. As you can see I have an enterprise to lead and I don’t have time for anything. I don’t have time for you, for your excuses.”
“Why can’t you just listen to--”
“Stop now, don’t hurt me more just go spend the money you earned. Does it feel good? Does the way you earned them feel nice?” Yixing then smiles at Baekhyun what knows is his most charming dimpled smile but doesn’t look at his face.
He just leaves.
÷
Tonight Baekhyun finally finishes his world tour. He is going to finally get home. Get to Seoul and then rest and just earn his money out of small recitals or maybe he could just teach kindergarteners how to play the piano. That would be quite nice.
3 months have passed since he saw Yixing. After that he tried to forget.
He met a cute girl in Paris and she was really good with her mouth.
He met a cute boy in Berlin and he fucked him so roughly. It was so good. It almost made him forget.
He met another boy in Amsterdam. The boy reminded him too much of Yixing. Baekhyun cried while in Amsterdam. He hated himself for it but he allowed himself to cry. He was the one who hurt Yixing but he allowed himself to cry. Baekhyun laughed bitterly through his tears. He wasn’t as strong as he thought, when he stole Yixing’s heart he gave him his too. He cried and cried and cried and he wanted to go to Yixing and apologize for everything.
After Amsterdam, Baekhyun starts shining even brighter. He performs his concertos even better and his Mozart recitals sound even sweeter. Baekhyun becomes a strong person.
On the outside. On the outside Baekhyun is his perfect flirty self.
On the inside all he wants to do is have Yixing again.
Yes. Baekhyun loves Yixing. So much.
÷
3 months have passed since he last saw Baekhyun.
2 months have passed since he took over his father’s business.
3 months have passed since he has started missing Baekhyun.
Time has passed and he still misses Baekhyun even though he tries. He tries to forget everything about him. He can’t. In those two months they have been together in Europe Baekhyun has completely stolen Yixing’s everything and then left him. Alone. In a big room on top of a building being responsible for people’s lives. Alone.
Tonight he has a company dinner at a big restaurant and he has to be there and be happy and make a deal with one of the rivaling companies.
When Yixing enters the restaurant he hears the sound of a piano.
He stops.
No. It can’t be. This can’t happen to Yixing. If it’s indeed him Yixing thinks he is going to break down. He walks further into the restaurant and looks at the one playing the piano.
He should have known. Jeux d’eau was being played. It was really him.
Yixing doesn’t trust himself now. All he really wants to do is grab Baekhyun’s hand and run out of there. Run out of everything.
Being a CEO wasn’t a thing Yixing wanted. He wasn’t bad at it but he didn’t need that. Right now the hate he thought he harboured for Baekhyun just vanished. He had fallen in love with Baekhyun. He is still in love with Baekhyun.
Yixing wants to laugh because no matter how much he loves Baekhyun he did this for money.
So Yixing just watches from afar. He watches Baekhyun’s nimble fingers making Jeux d’eau sound even better.
"So how are you, Mr. Zhang?" a man Yixing thinks he remembers asks and he smiles coldly
"Oh, I am well, the company is really successful, too, and what else could you want?"
Everybody laughs and Yixing almost tells them to shut up, because, although Baekhyun is the biggest liar in the room, the sound that comes from his piano is the most sincere and the false laughter just spoils it.
"I heard that your father is sick?" a woman with too much lipstick on asks and Yixing smiles, lips curling up beautifully.
"Oh, you don't need to worry, he just forgets to rest sometimes."
Again the whole table laughs, but Yixing just tunes it all out and listens to Baekhyun's piano.
When Baekhyun finishes playing, he looks at Yixing before getting up from the piano. He grabs his hand and takes him outside. Yixing can’t even protest because he feels Baekhyun’s warm sweet mouth on his and he tries to stop himself, he really does try to not kiss charming Baekhyun, but what resolve he may have had disappears when Baekhyun licks his way into his mouth. They kiss like that for a few minutes which feel so short and when Baekhyun steps away to speak Yixing just wants to grab him and silence him with his lips. But Baekhyun just steps away from him.
“Yixing you have to listen to me.”
“What is there to listen Baekhyun, I believed in you and you betrayed me that’s all there is to it.”
“No. No Yixing it’s more than that. Yes I started doing this for money at first but then I met you. I met you not the one who your father described to me as a spoiled child who just ran away from responsibility, you didn’t run away because of the responsibility, you ran away because you truly didn’t want that. I fell in love with you Yixing. I fell in love with the you who smiles at me and hums every piano piece I play, I fell in love with the you who calms down a crying child, I fell in love with the you who makes me feel like I’m the most important in this world, who kisses me, who loves me back. Do you still love me Yixing? I want you to love me. Please don’t start hating me. I took the money because your father wouldn’t let me go near you. I love you Yixing.”
Yixing looks at Baekhyun and he is so sincere and he has tears in his eyes and Yixing really doesn’t want Baekhyun to cry so he opens his arms. Baekhyun looks at him in the eyes and he seems so unsure, so vulnerable that Yixing takes a step forward and takes him in his arms. They both cry for what seems like a really long time before speaking again.
“Baekhyun?”
“Mm?”
“Don’t you just want to forget everything bad?”
“I do.”
“Baekhyun?”
“Mm?”
“Let’s both get away.”
“Ok.”
One
Author: Anonymous until 1/30/14
For: hopeandmemory
Pairing: Baekhyun/Lay
Word Count: 6,270
Summary: Byun Baekhyun doesn’t need an orchestra.
Warnings: smut, barebacking
Rating: NC-17
One
Suits are really annoying.
So annoying.
So very annoying.
Yixing has come to really hate suits. Since he was a child his father always hugged him while in a suit, scolded him while in a suit, made him take piano lessons while in a suit.
Even now, when Yixing is twenty, he really hates suits. He hates the words his father says while wearing those sleek black suits; "I think it's time for you to learn how to take over the company."
Yixing hears those words and he doesn't even let them register but he already knows what his father said. What his father wants him to do. And Yixing really thought about it and he weighed all the pros and cons and he doesn’t want this so he says “No” and gets out of of his father's office. No. No, Yixing doesn't need to be a CEO. No, Yixing doesn't need to be cramped inside a big office, wearing a sleek black suit and meeting lots of people who just want to leech off of him.
No.
Yixing doesn't want this.
So he runs. He goes home grabs some of the most necessary items and buys the next plane ticket. He doesn't care where it takes him, he just wants away from all of this.
He meets the famous Byun Baekhyun at an after-party of one of his concertos. The concerto had been so fun and he has never seen anyone have so much fun while playing the piano; Baekhyun's fingers were soaring over the keys and when Yixing thought he saw Baekhyun smile he was sold.
Ravel's piano concerto was one of Yixing's favorites. The one which made Yixing want to really learn how to play the piano, just so that he can make people have as much fun as he has when he listens to it. But Byun Baekhyun... Byun Baekhyun just made everything better. Yixing was on the edge of his seat, wanting to hear more, wanting to be closer so he could see how fast those hands moved on the piano keys.
Yixing wanted to see more, so much more. So he paid for an after-party ticket just to meet him; Baekhyun. When he entered the restaurant he heard the rich sound of a piano. And he instantly knew who it was. The song that was played was Ravel's piano concerto in G-major again, but it was just a piano this time. And Yixing swears he has never seen a pianist that can play a piano concerto without an orchestra.
Byun Baekhyun doesn’t need that orchestra.
It seems that Byun Baekhyun just needs a piano to charm everyone. Or maybe it just works on Yixing.
Yixing goes to the bar to ask for a drink because he certainly needs it. He wants to talk to Baekhyun, see if the way he speaks is as smooth as the sound of his piano.
Baekhyun ends the piece and everyone in the restaurant starts applauding immediately, and Yixing is surprised when Baekhyun suddenly turns shy. He bows and smiles awkwardly (still charming) while waving to everyone and heading towards the bar. Yixing is left dumbfounded when Baekhyun asks for just an apple juice before he turns to Yixing and smiles.
"I saw you watching me."
Yixing tries not to lose himself in Baekhyun's smile and shiny white teeth "Doesn't everybody?"
"Yeah, but you were very insistent; I thought I would melt when I played the second movement."
"Well I'm glad that you didn't melt, it means that i have a chance to talk to you," Yixing feels the corners of his mouth pulling up and he can't stop himself from smiling. Baekhyun is just smiling back at him and Yixing feels something bubbling inside him but he decides not to think about it.
"Maybe you will make me melt later, who knows?" And the shy Baekhyun who bowed awkwardly after playing a concerto with just his piano smiles cheekily, like he knows Yixing already likes him a lot. A bit too much, if Yixing really thinks about it; a little more than he should like a person he has only just met.
"Well I think you already know my name," Baekhyun starts “So what's yours?"
A person who doesn't even know his name yet.
"Yixing."
"Nice to meet you, Yixing" he says slowly, lips curling up pleasantly and Baekhyun offers to buy Yixing another drink. They are both smiling now and Baekhyun starts talking about how much he enjoyed playing today’s concerto and between all the music talk he sneaks in a comment about how ugly Yixing’s shirt is or subtly asks Yixing for a drink. Yixing has a lot of fun and he feels a bit sad when he realizes he has to go back to the hotel.
“It was really nice meeting you.” Yixing says and of course Baekhyun interrupts, Yixing thinks he might have a habit out of interrupting people but he also thinks it’s cute how enthusiastic he is.
“We should meet again.” Baekhyun says.
Yixing just laughs "Yeah, we should some time."
But Yixing doesn't think they will, because they don't exchange phone numbers or hotel names and Baekhyun is probably just trying to be a good host.
In the morning, Yixing gets pleasantly surprised. He wakes up way earlier than he should have but he decides it’s better this way because he can finally visit Paris and he takes a shower, dressing up quickly after.
The lobby is full of people although it's still pretty early and Yixing makes his way towards the restaurant to grab breakfast. But, after sitting down at his table and taking a sip of his coffee he feels movement in front of him. When he lifts his gaze he sees Baekhyun sitting down at his table with a plate in his hands smiling sleepily at Yixing. He’s so cute.
“What are you doing here?” Yixing asks.
“Aren’t I allowed to be at the hotel I’m staying at?” Baekhyun says easily, humming slightly as he picks some scrambled eggs off his plate.
“Oh. What a coincidence. I’m staying at this hotel too!”
Baekhyun snorts “Yeah, I think I can tell.” Yixing starts smiling then because Baekhyun is so incredibly cute in his oversized hoodie, with his ruffled hair and sleepy eyes. His lips curl downwards when he picks a mushroom out of his plate and then gingerly placing it on Yixing’s plate.
“You don’t like mushrooms.” Yixing states.
“Yeah I don’t, do you wanna fight me about it?” he says threateningly and they both burst out laughing. Baekhyun though is still picking all of his mushrooms and putting them on Yixing’s plate. The truth is mushrooms aren’t Yixing’s favorite either but he likes seeing Baekhyun’s concentrated face so he lets him do whatever he wants.
"Is there anything else you don't like?" Yixing asks suddenly, before he can think better of it and Baekhyun accidentally drops a mushroom in his glass of water.
"Oh nooo," he whines and Yixing starts laughing, making Baekhyun giggle slightly as he tries to pick the mushroom out with a fork.
"Well it seems that it's pretty impossible to get it out," he states, watching Baekhyun struggle with a knife now and not bothering to tell him it would be easier with a spoon. "And it will give your water a pleasant aroma."
Baekhyun glances mischievously at him before smiling sweetly. "Why don't we drink it together then?"
"Oh, unfortunately I have just finished eating so I have to go back to my room," Yixing replies laughing and Baekhyun purses his lips.
"Such an unfortunate event," he speaks with laughter in his voice "But if you could come on a walk with me, I would forgive you"
"For what? For you dropping your mushroom in your glass?"
"Shh, just accept your fate of coming with me."
In the end, Yixing does accept Baekhyun's invitation
“I-- Ok let’s go, but just so you know I’m not buying you food.”
“Yeah you will.”
Yixing will. He doesn’t even try to argue with Baekhyun because he knows he will, he can’t resist Baekhyun’s charm.
They walk all day and buy all kinds of weird stuff and get lost on Champs Elyseés. Yixing wonders if they are the only people in history to ever get lost on a straight way. Being with Baekhyun makes Yixing feel so free, he really likes the way Baekhyun is.
Baekhyun invites Yixing to dinner that night.
The restaurant is full and Yixing realizes that the members of the orchestra Baekhyun is playing with are there. Baekhyun calls Yixing to his table and they both order the same thing (what they order doesn’t have mushrooms). After they finish eating Baekhyun begins.
“Should we get out of here?"
"But won't these people miss you?"
"Nah, they see me every day," Baekhyun smirks “I think they are already sick of me.” Yixing seriously doubts that, he doesn’t think anyone can get sick of Baekhyun. He’s so refreshing and so so cute.
They get out of the restaurant and the quiet of the street is now replaced by Baekhyun's laughter. Yixing feels intoxicated, and it may be because of the wine he had at dinner but he really thinks it's because of the shine in Baekhyun's eyes or the curl of his lips as he talks. And Baekhyun starts telling Yixing another story about how he met some violinist who taught him how to play the violin and he sounds so excited, so young and Yixing wonders briefly if Baekhyun knows how old he is; if he realises that he's acting so childishly, recklessly. Yixing was never allowed such freedom, and the way Baekhyun makes it seem so easy just takes his breath away.
They walk around aimlessly while Baekhyun keeps talking and talking and Yixing who has heard him talk almost every minute he has spent in Paris still wants to hear more of that voice so he starts asking questions about Baekhyun
"Do you like it here?" Yixing asks and it's completely not relevant to what Baekhyun was saying but he actually stops and answers.
"I might, if you actually listen to me." There's a teasing smile on his face.
"I am listening to you now, so why don't you like mushrooms?"
"Because they're disgusting, do I need another reason?"
"No, not really" Yixing says shrugging and Baekhyun laughs, asking a question himself.
"Would you like to be here with someone else?" Yixing glances at him.
"Yes," and he can feel Baekhyun tensing besides him.
"With whom?"
"It's a secret. So what about you?"
"Hmm, it's a secret," Baekhyun says slowly and Yixing snorts before they both start laughing, tension slipping away.
Then Baekhyun asks another question before Yixing gets the chance to. "Yixing do you want to kiss me?"
Immediately, Yixing stills.
Baekhyun is looking at him, eyes shining and lips pink "Because I really want you to."
And maybe it's the way Baekhyun looks so sincere, or maybe it's the way the pretty lights shine upon his face, or maybe it's the wine he had that makes him kiss Baekhyun.
He wants to have more, to taste more, to know more of Baekhyun and he kisses almost desperately, almost as if Baekhyun is an illusion that could shatter at any moment. But he isn't and Baekhyun reciprocates and kisses Yixing back sweetly, nibbling on his lower lip before sliding his tongue against it and everything is so hot and Yixing can't even think properly; he just wants to feel.
Baekhyun pulls away with a string of saliva sticking to his lips and he looks at Yixing, eyes intent, before stepping back and smiling again, Yixing realizes it’s not quite a smile but more of a smirk and he feels dizzy. "I should go back; I think that apple juice really got to my head."
Yixing is so surprised he starts laughing. He doesn't really know what he was expecting, though - maybe another kiss? Maybe a whispered "more", maybe, maybe, maybe.
Baekhyun leaves Yixing. Just like that - he smiles at him widely before going back to the restaurant, leaving Yixing there in the street, still feeling hot from Baekhyun's lips.
Yixing wants to forget the mystery that is Byun Baekhyun, needs to, because all he thinks about are Baekhyun's lips on his, Baekhyun's smile, Baekhyun's songs so he leaves Paris even though he still wants to know more.
Even though he still wants.
Once again, he doesn't know where the plane will take him. Maybe this time he will find himself at the North Pole, or maybe in Hawaii. But, in the end, it's not the North Pole and it's not Hawaii, either. It's Rome.
Yixing laughs when he gets there.
Rome.
The place where Baekhyun will have his next concerto.
Yixing really wants to forget, but now that he's in Rome he decides to take advantage of it and hear Baekhyun performing Rachmaninoff. Baekhyun is truly a talented pianist. Rachmaninoff's concertos aren't the easiest, especially the one Baekhyun is going to perform.
Rachmaninoff's piano concerto in C-minor.
Yixing's heart will break.
Except it doesn't. It doesn't, because after the concerto Yixing waits for Baekhyun. And when Baekhyun sees him he runs to him and smiles that beautiful smile that's all teeth and his nose scrunches so cutely that Yixing wants to kiss every smile line Baekhyun has.
And he could do it. He could lean down now and capture Baekhyun's lips. Oh god, Yixing really wants to do that. But he doesn't and Baekhyun breaks the silence.
"You came"
That's all he says and he... He seems so happy. Yixing likes it, likes the feeling of seeing somebody smile because of him, it feels really nice.
"I came. I wanted to listen to your Rachmaninoff; it was beautiful." You are beautiful.
There are so many things Yixing wants to say, but Baekhyun cuts him off with a kiss and Yixing kisses back because this is what he has wanted since Paris. This is what he couldn't stop thinking about.
He wants Baekhyun. He wants Baekhyun a lot. He only met him two weeks ago and they only talked for 3 days while in Paris but he wants him and Baekhyun seems to want him too because he kisses him so hard, only stopping for a few seconds to breathe.
Baekhyun pulls Yixing along and it's in a haze that they get to a hotel, maybe Baekhyun's, maybe Yixing's, maybe somewhere in between.
Yixing stops breathing as Baekhyun pushes him back into the bed, eyes wide and lips pink and wet.
"Byun Baekhyun, what is this?" he asks, although he doesn't really need an answer; he knows what this is
"An escape. That's what you're looking for, right? I'm giving it to you." Baekhyun's smile looks so different now, so provoking that Yixing lets it all go; the tension, his thoughts.
Baekhyun's button-down shirt ends up somewhere on the floor, together with Yixing's shirt and their pants and he is already moaning, Yixing's lips hot on his neck.
"Is this a mutual thing?" Yixing asks and Baekhyun laughs.
"I need an escape as much as you do, so yes, it's mutual."
Baekhyun doesn't elaborate and Yixing doesn't push, instead he counts the breaths Baekhyun takes as he pulls on the waistband of his boxers and the whimpers Baekhyun makes as Yixing breathes on his cock.
Yixing groans because Baekhyun's cock is so hard and hot and it's all because of him. He's wrecking Baekhyun as much as Baekhyun is wrecking him and it's undeniably satisfying.
Yixing licks the tip of his dick, slowly going down the length of it before sucking it inside his mouth and moaning.
The pleasure that comes from Baekhyun tugging on his hair - hard - and making him choke slightly takes him by surprise and Baekhyun's sweaty, red smirk makes it all so much better. The look in Baekhyun’s eyes softens as he sweeps Yixing’s damp hair from his forehead.
"Aren’t you going to fuck me already? Please, Yixing, please," Baekhyun whines, voice lowering, and Yixing obeys. He kisses the tip of his cock again before grabbing the bottle of lube Baekhyun has dazedly thrown on the mattress.
The first finger makes Baekhyun wince and he closes his his eyes tightly, but Yixing licks at his lips and bites at his neck and the pain decreases as he pushes in a second. By the third finger Baekhyun is moaning so loudly and Yixing thinks the sounds he is making are lovely.
"Should I stop?" he asks as he takes in the sweat on Baekhyun's forehead, the redness in his cheeks and the biting of his lips.
But, instead of an answer, he gets a high pitched whine followed by a low moan of "More, Yixing, fuck me, please."
And he does; he kisses Baekhyun slowly, tenderly before grabbing his hips and pushing the tip of his cock inside of him. His eyes are shining and his back feels damp with sweat as he thrusts inside of Baekhyun. It all feels a little blurry, like the pleasure is so overwhelming it almost makes him feel numb. Baekhyun's nails scraping against the skin of his back hurt and his teeth are sharp against his collar bones but the pain heightens his senses and Yixing feels dizzy with everything he's feeling.
"God, I'm coming," Baekhyun moans and Yixing barely gets to touch his dick before he comes all over his hand, collapsing against the pillows. Somehow the sight of a completely worn out and dazed Baekhyun tips Yixing off the edge as he comes all over Baekhyun’s stomach, vision going slightly white around the corners.
"Fuck," Baekhyun hisses, pulling Yixing on top of him and ignoring the mess they made. "Fuck me," he whispers breathlessly, and Yixing just smirks back slightly.
"I just did."
It's not really a surprise for Yixing that Baekhyun is gone in the morning as he has already realised that this is just a one night stand, but what really comes off as a surprise is the note stuck to the waistband of his pants
My next concerto is in Barcelona, I hope we can coincidentally meet again^^
This time Yixing knows where to find Baekhyun, so he flies to Barcelona. It's not just a concerto this time, but a recital for one of the most important families in Spain; Yixing looked it up just before leaving.
Baekhyun has already texted Yixing the name of the hotel he's staying at and the room number, so Yixing supposes one night stands can count for more than just one night. Baekhyun seems to agree, as he pulls him along to the hotel's bathroom and pushes him in a stall, dropping to his knees before him.
"Byun Baekhyun stop it; we're in a public bathroom," Yixing says as he feels his face getting hotter and probably redder, trying to make Baekhyun get up but he just smirks.
"Oh, but we are free to do whatever we want, so let's consider this as the action of relieving stress."
Relieving stress, in Baekhyun’s world, seems to mean sucking each other off in the bathroom and fucking twice in the hotel room, but although Yixing enjoys it an actual lot, he thinks he likes the moments in between more. Like the way Baekhyun is all sweaty and clingy after sex, or the way he tries to be sexy as he climbs the bed but ultimately slips on the blanket and, most of all how he falls asleep on Yixing, mouth open and lashes black and long against his cheeks, chest rising and falling with every breath. Yixing likes those moments the most.
In the morning Baekhyun is still there, warm, sleeping soundly next to him and Yixing feels happy.
When he wakes up, Baekhyun yawns like a little puppy and stretches his hands above his head "Hey, do you want to come with me today?"
"Where?" Yixing asks.
"Shh, don't ask questions. Just get dressed and follow me," Baekhyun kisses his nose before getting up from the bed and entering the bathroom, probably to shower.
Yixing feels like he needs a shower too. "Hey, wait for me! Share your water with me!"
Baekhyun laughs.
Yixing is surprised when he realizes that Baekhyun is taking him to his orchestra practice. He really wants to ask why Baekhyun’s doing this because Yixing is going to see him anyway, tonight at the concert, but he decides not ask and instead waits to see what Baekhyun wants to do.
When they get there Yixing doesn't get to ask what he should do now he just sits there and watches Baekhyun laugh with everyone else. After the rehearsal is done Baekhyun calls him on the stage. "Guys, this is Yixing he has been to every concert we had in Europe."
A few whispers of "Oh a rich man, nice catch Baekhyun keep him" make Yixing blush but Baekhyun just laughs it off and tells him to ignore them because they are just jealous. He starts introducing Yixing to every member of the orchestra but Yixing doesn't remember all of them. Only a few names stick to him but what Yixing will forever remember is how sincere Baekhyun's smile is and how weird he feels right now when Baekhyun is introducing him to people that are important to him. After everyone leaves he grabs Yixing's hand leading him to the piano.
"So today I will be your personal piano teacher, you can ask me to teach you whatever you want," he pauses and glances at Yixing mischievously "But that doesn't mean I will actually do it, a teacher has his limits Yixing."
"You offered to teach me teacher Byun so, Ravel's Jeux d'eau? Do you know it? Is it breaching your limit?"
"Yixing, who do you think I am of course I do? Do you want me to teach you this?" he plays the first keys. "But it might be hard for you to learn it."
"Doesn't matter I want you to teach me this, teacher Byun."
Baekhyun laughs and starts playing Jeux d'eau slowly so that Yixing can watch his fingers closely and learn. He wonders how Baekhyun knows that he can play the piano but he puts that thought away because Baekhyun leans his head on his shoulder while still playing the soft notes of Jeux d'eau.
Yixing is able to play the beginning of the song after teacher Byun shows him how and his teacher rewards him by kissing him and then asking for his reward because he was the teacher and he needs Yixing to pay for his tutoring. That night they both giggle a lot over nothings.
When Baekhyun's concerto is over they go to a bar and get drunk together and they both laugh so loudly that strangers glare at them because of how noisy they are but that is not important at the moment and Yixing feels truly happy.
London is rainy and Yixing doesn't really like it, he didn't particularly want to ever go to London but Baekhyun is going to do Chopin's piano concerto in e minor and Yixing is ready to feel as enchanted as the first time he listened to Baekhyun's piano. His piano is so different, so alluring, Yixing can't avert his eyes every time Baekhyun is playing.
He realizes.
He realizes how deep he has fallen for Baekhyun. He realizes how much he craves him, how even having Baekhyun writhing under him from pleasure, Baekhyun moaning his name, how it's not enough anymore. He wants Baekhyun to be his. He wants to know Baekhyun feels the same. He wants so much but all he does is kiss him harder, fuck him harder, slower, make him realize all the things Yixing has to say just by touch.
Baekhyun travels all around Europe and Yixing follows. Now Baekhyun always looks for Yixing in a crowd and maybe winks at him. Sometimes he pulls Yixing in the changing rooms before a concerto, drops to his knees and unbuckles Yixing's belt. And Yixing can't stop admiring the way Baekhyun's pretty red lips stretch around his cock, he wants to pull Baekhyun off and then kiss him for hours but Baekhyun has a concerto to play and a crowd to please.
Baekhyun is not only Yixing's.
He is everyone's.
And Yixing has noticed. Baekhyun has to please a crowd, he has to be his lovely self to everyone. Yixing admires him and pulls harder on his hair in the nights Baekhyun has flirted too much with one of the ladies that came to congratulate him for his perfect rendition of Chopin.
It's raining in Berlin when Yixing finds out he is in love with Baekhyun. The hotel room Baekhyun is staying in has a piano and Yixing wakes up to the sound of that piano. Baekhyun is moving his lips gently as if singing and Yixing recognises Ravel's Alborada Del Gracioso and he opens his eyes and watches Baekhyun as he always does. Baekhyun is wearing his shirt and nothing else underneath and it's raining outside and Yixing almost laughs. Of course Baekhyun would choose Ravel on a rainy day.
He realizes he forgot to ask Baekhyun who was his favorite composer so he does exactly that once he finishes playing.
"Ravel."
Of course.
Of course the playful works of Ravel are the ones that Baekhyun likes most. Ravel is Yixing's favorite too. Yixing doesn't let Baekhyun leave the bed that day.
He has no way to contact Baekhyun anymore. He thinks it's his fault. He thinks Baekhyun got scared because he slipped and said "I love you" when Baekhyun was smiling at him after one of Baekhyun's recitals in London was over. Baekhyun's smile had fallen off his face so fast and Yixing has tried to contact him. But Baekhyun wouldn't answer his phone calls and he wasn't in the cities he was supposed to be in. Baekhyun wasn't at his programmed concertos. Baekhyun had erased himself from Yixing’s life, somehow, before Yixing could properly put him there.
Yixing started pondering if this was really worth it. If travelling without a purpose was worth it. Unknowingly, his purpose had become Baekhyun. He was doing this for Baekhyun. But now when there is no Baekhyun no cute white teeth, no mischievous eyes Yixing wants to go back home.
Yixing wants to forget.
He wants to forget about Baekhyun, he wants to bury himself in work. He wants to finally do what his father wants him to do. He is going to wear that suit and sit cramped inside an office while talking to other people in suits.
So he does that. Yixing buys a plane ticket for the next flight towards Seoul. He is going to apologize to his father and tell him that yes, yes he wants to become the next CEO, yes he wants to lose his life he wants to wear that god damned suit.
The plane ride is long and Yixing swears he is never gonna enter a plane in his life unless it is absolutely necessary, he doesn’t want to leave home anymore, doesn’t want to meet anyone else that might steal his heart and never give it back. Yixing wants this all to be a dream, wants Baekhyun to be just a dream, a beautiful dream full of dazzling smiles and heated touches.
He is going to marry whatever girl his father wants him to, he is going to try as hard as he can to love her and then make a kid and he swears he is not going to let his kid stray as his father let him. He doesn’t want him to get his heart broken as his father. Fall in love with an illusion.
His father’s satisfied smirk kind of pisses him off, but Yixing smiles and bows down from his waist.
“I have come back.”
“Have you thought about your reckless actions?” he asks, voice powerful and clear.
“Yes father, and I want to be the next CEO.”
“That’s a good decision, son, I knew you would realise this sooner or later.”
“Yes, fa--” Yixing gets interrupted by the sound of the door opening and when he turns around he doesn’t expect Baekhyun, red cap pulled over his eyes and voice raspy and low.
“I came to get my money,” he states easily before looking up and Yixing freezes. Baekhyun’s eyes are red and his lips bitten, hair messed up underneath his cap and there’s an easy kind of smile on his face. His smile falls off his face when he sees Yixing.
“Yixin--” his eyes are so wide it’s almost funny.
“What money do you need from my father?” Yixing asks and his voice comes out unexpectedly warm despite himself.
“I-- Yixing.” Talkative Baekhyun with easy smiles and cute winks can’t find his words and Yixing just doesn’t know how to react. He doesn’t know what exactly is happening right now. The silence in the room is broken by his father’s voice who is smiling pleasantly at Baekhyun.
“Oh. You came to get your money right. I will give you even more because as you can see you did a good job. Yixing is here. Didn’t he Yixing? Wasn’t he good at bringing you back here?” Yixing wishes looks could hurt. It was a bad thought but he wanted to punch his own father and then punch Baekhyun too and never have anything to do with them ever again.
“Come on Baekhyun! Take the money, you said you needed it.” Yixing’s father says. Yixing feels sick. He excuses himself and storms out of the room. He ponders just running away again. Going to Alaska to forget everything.
He doesn’t know what exactly to do but his feet lead him to the park next to the company. Ahh. That park where his father made him wait for hours before he could actually meet and talk to him. The park where Yixing cried every time he did something that disappointed his father. Now he can’t even cry because he sees Baekhyun running towards him.
Baekhyun.
He wants to get up and run away, he doesn’t want to see him again but Baekhyun reads his mind “Don’t run Yixing. Talk to me.”
“You ran away first.” Yixing doesn’t want to talk. Baekhyun stole his heart and then gave it away for money.
“Yixing, listen to me.”
“No, you listen to me. Don’t ever come near me. As you can see I have an enterprise to lead and I don’t have time for anything. I don’t have time for you, for your excuses.”
“Why can’t you just listen to--”
“Stop now, don’t hurt me more just go spend the money you earned. Does it feel good? Does the way you earned them feel nice?” Yixing then smiles at Baekhyun what knows is his most charming dimpled smile but doesn’t look at his face.
He just leaves.
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Tonight Baekhyun finally finishes his world tour. He is going to finally get home. Get to Seoul and then rest and just earn his money out of small recitals or maybe he could just teach kindergarteners how to play the piano. That would be quite nice.
3 months have passed since he saw Yixing. After that he tried to forget.
He met a cute girl in Paris and she was really good with her mouth.
He met a cute boy in Berlin and he fucked him so roughly. It was so good. It almost made him forget.
He met another boy in Amsterdam. The boy reminded him too much of Yixing. Baekhyun cried while in Amsterdam. He hated himself for it but he allowed himself to cry. He was the one who hurt Yixing but he allowed himself to cry. Baekhyun laughed bitterly through his tears. He wasn’t as strong as he thought, when he stole Yixing’s heart he gave him his too. He cried and cried and cried and he wanted to go to Yixing and apologize for everything.
After Amsterdam, Baekhyun starts shining even brighter. He performs his concertos even better and his Mozart recitals sound even sweeter. Baekhyun becomes a strong person.
On the outside. On the outside Baekhyun is his perfect flirty self.
On the inside all he wants to do is have Yixing again.
Yes. Baekhyun loves Yixing. So much.
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3 months have passed since he last saw Baekhyun.
2 months have passed since he took over his father’s business.
3 months have passed since he has started missing Baekhyun.
Time has passed and he still misses Baekhyun even though he tries. He tries to forget everything about him. He can’t. In those two months they have been together in Europe Baekhyun has completely stolen Yixing’s everything and then left him. Alone. In a big room on top of a building being responsible for people’s lives. Alone.
Tonight he has a company dinner at a big restaurant and he has to be there and be happy and make a deal with one of the rivaling companies.
When Yixing enters the restaurant he hears the sound of a piano.
He stops.
No. It can’t be. This can’t happen to Yixing. If it’s indeed him Yixing thinks he is going to break down. He walks further into the restaurant and looks at the one playing the piano.
He should have known. Jeux d’eau was being played. It was really him.
Yixing doesn’t trust himself now. All he really wants to do is grab Baekhyun’s hand and run out of there. Run out of everything.
Being a CEO wasn’t a thing Yixing wanted. He wasn’t bad at it but he didn’t need that. Right now the hate he thought he harboured for Baekhyun just vanished. He had fallen in love with Baekhyun. He is still in love with Baekhyun.
Yixing wants to laugh because no matter how much he loves Baekhyun he did this for money.
So Yixing just watches from afar. He watches Baekhyun’s nimble fingers making Jeux d’eau sound even better.
"So how are you, Mr. Zhang?" a man Yixing thinks he remembers asks and he smiles coldly
"Oh, I am well, the company is really successful, too, and what else could you want?"
Everybody laughs and Yixing almost tells them to shut up, because, although Baekhyun is the biggest liar in the room, the sound that comes from his piano is the most sincere and the false laughter just spoils it.
"I heard that your father is sick?" a woman with too much lipstick on asks and Yixing smiles, lips curling up beautifully.
"Oh, you don't need to worry, he just forgets to rest sometimes."
Again the whole table laughs, but Yixing just tunes it all out and listens to Baekhyun's piano.
When Baekhyun finishes playing, he looks at Yixing before getting up from the piano. He grabs his hand and takes him outside. Yixing can’t even protest because he feels Baekhyun’s warm sweet mouth on his and he tries to stop himself, he really does try to not kiss charming Baekhyun, but what resolve he may have had disappears when Baekhyun licks his way into his mouth. They kiss like that for a few minutes which feel so short and when Baekhyun steps away to speak Yixing just wants to grab him and silence him with his lips. But Baekhyun just steps away from him.
“Yixing you have to listen to me.”
“What is there to listen Baekhyun, I believed in you and you betrayed me that’s all there is to it.”
“No. No Yixing it’s more than that. Yes I started doing this for money at first but then I met you. I met you not the one who your father described to me as a spoiled child who just ran away from responsibility, you didn’t run away because of the responsibility, you ran away because you truly didn’t want that. I fell in love with you Yixing. I fell in love with the you who smiles at me and hums every piano piece I play, I fell in love with the you who calms down a crying child, I fell in love with the you who makes me feel like I’m the most important in this world, who kisses me, who loves me back. Do you still love me Yixing? I want you to love me. Please don’t start hating me. I took the money because your father wouldn’t let me go near you. I love you Yixing.”
Yixing looks at Baekhyun and he is so sincere and he has tears in his eyes and Yixing really doesn’t want Baekhyun to cry so he opens his arms. Baekhyun looks at him in the eyes and he seems so unsure, so vulnerable that Yixing takes a step forward and takes him in his arms. They both cry for what seems like a really long time before speaking again.
“Baekhyun?”
“Mm?”
“Don’t you just want to forget everything bad?”
“I do.”
“Baekhyun?”
“Mm?”
“Let’s both get away.”
“Ok.”
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