Narda gave a shake of her head. "No. I mean, usted and I ordered a ton of food. You can just share with us. But before we leave, please remind me to order something to-go for Nari."
"Thank you." Baekhyun bowed his head to her.
"Nari likes the veggie toppings pizza." Chanyeol informed Narda.
On many occasions when he had gone out with Kyungsoo, Nari, and Baekhyun in the middle of the night, they would rarely go to pizza places. But when they did, Kyungsoo always scolded Baekhyun and Chanyeol because they always tended to forget that Nari liked the vegetable pizza. It had taken at least four outings to a pizza place for them to remember what she wanted on her pizza, even despite the fact that Kyungsoo classically condition them into remembering it.
Hearing Chanyeol's words, she shot him a confused look. "Wait. You know Nari?"
The way in which Nari referred to the EXO boys--our neighbors, she had once called them--hinted to Narda that she knew who they were, but didn't personally know them. Now Chanyeol was sounding like he knew Nari, was familiar with her on a personal level rather than merely as neighbors.
Chanyeol nodded his head. "Yes, we know her. She's part of our official team of stylists. Nari has been doing our hair ever since we debuted."
"Oh." was all that Narda said.
She was surprised, and she had to admit that she was upset about Nari keeping that from her because they were good friends. Still, she knew that there were secrets between the two and that there were certain things they preferred to keep private--for instance, when Narda didn't tell Nari that she was spending her free time as Byun Baekhyun's sasaeng.
Now that Narda had shared information about her sasaeng acivities, she thought it was time for Nari to share some information of her own.
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Their shared pizza dinner with Narda was an undesirable experience for Chanyeol to say the least. Each time he tried to make conversation with Narda, Baekhyun would cut in and steal her attention away from him. Narda continued politely trying to talk to Baekhyun, while still including Chanyeol, and when the pizza arrived, the taller of the two boys was relieved that at least Baekhyun would be too busy eating pizza to even try to talk to anyone.
The two of them dropped Narda off at their apartment since Chanyeol didn't think it was gentlemanly to let her walk in the middle of the night alone, even if it was just across the street. Narda thanked them for the meal and the two boys were on their way back across the street to their dorm building.
When they arrived, Chanyeol and Baekhyun pushed the door open to the lounge room. The boys were still there. Only a few from the group were missing--mostly members of EXO M. Lu Han, Tao, and Yixing were nowhere to be seen. It was about two and a half hours after Baekhyun and Chanyeol had left the building, and the other members had the drive to continue waiting for them, even when three of their own left to find food elsewhere.
"Where are Lu Han hyung, Yixing hyung, and Tao?" Baekhyun wondered, walking up to the table and setting down the boxes of food from the kimbap place. The food had long since gotten cold and the other boys would have to heat them up.
With his chin propped on his hand and slightly drooping eyes, Junmyeon replied, "They went to buy food for themselves because you two took forever."
"Seriously." Kyungsoo agreed.
"I would have gone with them." Sehun admitted shamelessly. With a tiny hint of jealousy, he added, "But Lu Han hyung no longer funds my eating expenses ever since he became closer friends with Tao. Now they do everything together and he forgot about me."
Jongin looked to him with an amused expression. "Okay, this isn't about your love life with our hyung, maknae. This is about the food Baekhyun hyung promised to bring."
With his eyebrows furrowing in confusion, Chanyeol pointed out, "I told Baekhyun I was getting pizza with a friend at Six Malls over Korea, and he said he would inform you boys." As another detail of Baekhyun's lie came to him, he added, "He also said that Junmyeon hyung asked him to come along with me so I wouldn't get lost."
"I never said that." Junmyeon assured, almost looking offended as though that wasn't something he would normally say.
Sehun laughed. "He would say that though."
Chanyeol said nothing, but shot Baekhyun a look.
There was a silence in the room that lasted about two seconds before Jongin's phone beeped in his pocket. He pulled it out to open a notification which made him gasp and then smile like a madman. He typed away on his cellphone with frantic thumb movements and hit send. Soon eight other phones in the room beeped at the same time.
As they got their phones out to see the message, Jongin said to one of the band members, "So that's where you were, sneaky hyung."
Chanyeol clicked on the link sent by Jongin and it led him to a gossip article on allkpop. On his screen he saw a picture of him and Narda, from earlier that day before Baekhyun joined them. They were walking side by side near the mall as they were approaching it. It had been taken from a distance away which made the quality bad, but it was clear that it was him. Narda's face was too blurry to determine who she was unless the person knew her already.
EXO's Chanyeol is into school girls and was spotted on a date with one, the article claimed.
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"Ah hyung, you had that secret very well hidden from us." Sehun teased. "You like school girls? Aren't you a little too old for them? Not even I'd go for them, and I'm a bit closer to their age."
"You are a school girl." Jongin said jokingly.
Baekhyun took one look at the photo and was not amused by it. He quickly closed out of the web page and stuffed his phone into his pocket.
Chanyeol wasn't pleased about it either, but his reasons were different. His managers from SM Entertainment would see it, they would know he had been out with a girl who could possibly be a love interest, they wouldn't be pleased by the pictures taken, and there would surely be consequences.
Not to mention the public criticism he would face because of that article that was simply not true.
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just pretend that isn't a terrible photoshop job, gals. i normally would cut her away from her background and then paste her onto his image (even though it would still look shitty tbh). but that's too much work so i just collaged them side by side with zero effort.
im honestly so tired bc of school, but this story is getting good. so i thought i would post a new chapter. i'll try to post something for my other exo fics tomorrow as well.
i hope you like the chapter, and thank you so much for reading.
