That one remark makes Kyungsoo steer away from visiting Chanyeol for a whole week.
One day. Two days. Three days.
He does a lot of sulking, but also a lot of thinking. Even though none of reflections seem coherent, not even to himself, and his lines of thought walk in circles for hours until he disrupts them, all that thinking seems to somehow dialogue with his head and he slowly comes to terms with accepting – something? Anything? What’s going on inside his skull? He himself doesn’t quite understand.
Four days. Five days. Six days.
He’s deeply torn between being sincere and remaining in his comfort zone. He decides he won’t do anything drastic before he peacefully sorts himself out, and, in his mind, ‘visiting Chanyeol’ sounds pretty drastic at the moment.
Seven days.
But alas, he is weak. And so, on the eighth day, he locks up his confused heart and goes out to Kris’ house.
And from then on, visiting Chanyeol (and Jongin) becomes somewhat of a routine. Ignoring his inner debacle makes it easier for Kyungsoo to be as sociable as he would usually be, avoiding being weird around Chanyeol and building an unexpected friendship with Jongin over jenga and battleship. Jongin’s temper is a balance between Chanyeol’s and Kyungsoo’s own, which Kyungsoo is thankful for, and he calmly dismisses any displays of affection from Chanyeol toward him, which Kyungsoo is even more thankful for.