More Than Okay {Xiubaek} (1/2)

More Than OkayTitle: More Than Okay

Pairings: XiuBaek, side!Hunhan, mentions of past!one-sided(?)XiuKai, mentions of others

Length: 9.7k

Rating: PG-13

Summary: In which Byun Baekhyun waltzes in Kim Minseok’s perfectly okay life, with coffee and croissants, and perhaps the promise of more. College!AU

Warnings: Mild language, lame attempt at humour, over-use of emoticons, Baekhyun’s freaky word-vomit, Luhan.

Notes: This really proves that my sense of humour has been completely fucked over (thanks Tumblr!), and that I should stay away from this genre forever. SayAMplus, thank you for being the first one whose eyes bled over this. You brave little soldier. Too precious for this world. <3  Byun Baekhyun: Hello! :D I was just wondering if anyone has taken down notes during Mr. Livernois’ class? Truth is, I haven’t gone to any of his lectures… Any adorable being kind enough to share his notes with me? ^_^Minseok scoffs at the obnoxious words that appear on his home page. He should never have accepted Luhan’s proposal to join the Facebook group of “2014-2015 B.A. Undergraduates”, especially since the group’s description was “ReAdY tO gRaDuAtE?? SHiT nO, jUsT rEaDy To TaKe DoWn UnIvErSiTy!!.(He later got all explanation he needed: the administrator of the page was none else than Oh Sehun, the weird kid that was a self-proclaimed wiz when it came to social media and an awkward vegetable when it came to anything else).Luhan had said it would be helpful, since the kids would post notes from interesting seminars they might attend, or simply information about any change in their program and such –then of course, it was Luhan we were talking about. He never should have trusted him.Minseok is ready to keep on scrolling and completely ignore the request of his fellow student, despite the fact that he actually istaking the same course and hasnotes from the lectures, when a detail of the post catches his attention:Byun Baekhyun: (PS: I’ll buy you a croissant and coffee for your sympathy, oh you wonderful angel that graced this earth with your presence!!)Now that’s a gentleman’s offer. Minseok ponders for a while, lets his cursor hover over the text, before he starts typing down a comment: the offer is just too good to ignore.Kim Minseok: Hey, I have the notes you requested… I can hand them to you tomorrow if you want.The reply comes seconds after.            Byun Baekhyun: Really?!? Oh my God you are a saint!! Let’s meet at the cafeteria, any time you want works for me!! Thank you so much you wonderful, amazing, detectable human being <3 <3 <3Minseok shakes his head, amused at the amount of excitement the words of the other (Byun Baekhyun is his name, and he must be a guy, although his profile pic is that of a girl-group… SNSD, he thinks? Maybe?)Kim Minseok: Ok. Nine o’clock thenMinseok is ready to shut down his laptop, when a notification stops him from doing so.Byun Baekhyun: …That early? :/ :( :’( T_T TT_TTMinseok sighs; the use of that many emoticons should be forbidden by law.Kim Minseok: 9 o’clock. Sharp.He smiles, liking how the unbending tone is almost palpable in his reply.Byun Baekhyun: …Okay…His smile widens even more at Byun’s comment.  He made the guy stop using emoticons, which must be a fucking miracle. Of course, then again, he is Kim Minse-Byun Baekhyun: See you tomorrow, Minseok-ah!! XDMinseok can only sigh, as he shuts down the lid of his laptop, ready to go to sleep. After all that guy, Byun, seems like a freaking headache.

(The next morning, as he checks his Facebook page while taking his coffee, he sees that Luhan has liked every single comment of Byun’s, and none of his. He’ll have to talk to Luhan later about this.)The cafeteria is eerie, as it ought to be so early in the morning; most students are still trying to will themselves out of bed after all. It’s 8:50, and Minseok is in front of the cafeteria, fully awake and a bit earlier than he should, as he likes to: he doesn’t like being late.Byun is nowhere in sight, and when the digital clock at the entrance of the cafeteria shows 9:05, Minseok unconsciously starts tapping his foot to the ground, in a clear sign of impatience and annoyance. If he doesn’t like himself being late, he absolutely loathesothers being late.A sleepy brunet makes his way into the cafeteria, dragging his feet and trying to keep his eyes open. Minseok lets his eyes slid past him, sure that Byun would be a little more… alivethan this one. He keeps his eyes fixed at the door, ready to scold the boy the moment he arrives. It’s been already fifteen minutes, and Minseok has now a scowl on his face.A light tap on his shoulder stops his intense eye contact with the door, and he turns around only to come face to face with the brunet that walked past him about a minute ago.“Excuse me, are you Kim Minseok? Sorry I’m late.” he says, his voice low and a bit monotonic. Minseok looks at him, puzzled: there is just no way that this could be Byun Baekhyun. The brunet is distant and calm and collected, and Byun seemed to be the exact opposite of that.“Yeah…” he says. “Are you Byun Baekhyun?” he asks. To his outmost surprise, the brunet –Byun- nods.It’s then that Minseok notices that Byun has a huge paper cup of coffee in his hand, which dangles dangerously in his grasp as he tries to pour some sugar in it. His eyes widens in realization: if this is Byun, then this is his coffee he’s holding. “Wait! I don’t take sugar in my coffee!” he exclaims quickly, but it’s too late: Byun has already poured the whole thing in. Minseok’s heart drops a little as Byun, unfazed at his outburst, continues with mixing coffee with sugar“Sorry to disappoint you, but that’s mine. Coffee is my top priority in the morning; I’ll take care of your coffee later” Byun says as he takes a huge gulp of coffee. Minseok can only nod appreciatively, glad that someone shares his enthusiasm for coffee (he’s not so thrilled about having to wait in order to taste some of the heavenly beverage himself, but there’s little he can do about it). He studies the brunet boy carefully, thinking that maybe he isn’t that bad after all –perhaps his obnoxious self only appears on the Internet world. They stay side by side as Byun finishes his coffee, in total silence, and Minseok thinks that this isn’t so bad: he’s a big fan of silence, and meeting someone with the same taste is certainly a good thing. Seeing Byun like this, calm and collected –albeit a bit sleepy still-, Minseok can even see them as friends, in the future.Byun finishes his coffee with a content sigh and drops it in the bin nearby. Minseok smiles a bit as Byun turns to face him expectantly. He hands him his cleanly handwritten notes, knowing that they are in safe hands; Byun seems like a decent dude, after all-“OMG Minseok-ah thank you sooooo much!! You are literally saving my poor ass from getting beaten by this scary-looking professor! I went to the first lecture we had, but he was so scary I just never returned to his class, can you imagine? Honestly I can’t thank you enough! What kind of croissant do you want? A plain one? A chocolate one? Vanilla flavour, perhaps? Say it and it’s yours! Hell, I’ll buy you the whole stock if you want to!”Minseok gapes at the brunet that is looking at him, fully alert now, with his eyes twinkling and a huge smile plastered on his face.…Did a simple cup of coffee do this?He lets himself being dragged at the cafeteria by the overly-excited brunet that keeps blabbering about his life, his daily struggles to get out of bed and how his three priorities are “coffee, literature notes and then his saviour Kim Minseok”. As Byun buys him three croissants and a coffee –while flirting and chatting with the whole cafeteria stuff in the process- Minseok can’t help but feel slightly bothered by the fact that Byun has forgotten to let go of his hand.

“You are not very talkative, are you?” Byun says, as they eat their croissants (Byun ordered one for himself as well, unable to resist the almond cream-filled one). Minseok had thought (okay, hoped) that, after they had dealt with their exchange, they would go on their separate ways, but apparently this would remain an unattainable wish.

Byun isn’t bothered in the slightest by his silence: he talks enough for two people, truth be told. He can practically do all the conversation on his own –which suits Minseok just fine. He has never wanted so much to make someone shut up –and Luhan is his best friend, for fuck’s sake.

(Eventually the brunet gets up with a “Shit, I’m late for class! See you around Minseok-ah!”, and Minseok waves at him absent-mindedly, silently thanking the gods that Byun is gone.) ***

It takes a month for Minseok to see Byun Baekhyun again –the most peaceful and calm month of his life, that is of course interrupted when the obnoxious brunet comes into the picture. Minseok is in Livernois’ class, minding his own business, positioning his things –pen, notebook, blank sheets of paper, book he’s currently reading, spare notebook- exactly the way he wants them to be in order to pay the most possible attention in class. He’s expecting the professor and the other students to enter anytime now –he’s a bit early, of course.What he doesn’t expect is Byun Baekhyun’s excited voice calling his name overly-affectionately (“Minseok-aaaah, where have you been hiding all this time?!”), and his whole persona coming like a tornado to sit next to him. Minseok can only watch in horror as Baekhyun practically opens his bag, turns it upside down and empties its contents on the desk –hisdesk-, covering completely the things it already hosts –his things. He can almost see his sheets of paper folding and crumpling, and he cringes internally. Byuncontinues to spill the mess all over his desk and all over his life, without showing any signs of being bothered by the chaos in front of them.All of this happens, of course, with Byun’s incessant annoying blabbering in the background, which even covers the shuffling of the other students getting their seats.