“Hyung.”
Sehyun’s voice was low and damp. Was it because of the alcohol, or was it the atmosphere created by this closed space? His voice, dropped a tone lower than usual, burrowed into Doha’s ear.
Doha sensed he couldn’t possibly avoid this and looked directly at Sehyun.
“I’m finally getting to see you properly now.”
Sehyun opened his mouth slowly. It was a strange tone that seemed both mocking and coaxing.
“You’ve been working so hard to avoid me.”
Could it even be possible to avoid someone when they were stuck together like glue every day doing activities?
Of course, even in that situation, he’d done his best to at least avoid making eye contact… but had it been that obvious? He thought he’d handled it quite composedly.
“You’re really transparent.”
Sehyun’s arm moved. As his hand approached Doha’s cheek, Doha tried his best to pull his face back and avoid the touch.
“Why are you avoiding me? You’re hurting my feelings.”
“…Because your hand is approaching me in a burdensome way?”
“That’s not what I was talking about.”
Sehyun finally grasped Doha’s face with his hand. The gaze that had briefly looked away while avoiding his hand met Sehyun’s again. Doha’s lips stuck out like a carp’s from his face being held in Sehyun’s hand.
Their gazes collided head-on with nowhere to escape. Sehyun’s eyes were slightly unfocused from the alcohol. His languidly lowered gaze made it impossible to guess what he was thinking.
“Are you embarrassed about what happened that day?”
“Em-em-embarrassed? Who is?”
“How many times are you going to say ’em’?”
He thought the memory had faded quite a bit after a few days, but being alone with Lim Sehyun in the very place where that incident occurred brought all the memories that had stimulated his peripheral nerves crashing over him like a receding tide. His face turned red and his fingertips felt tingly.
“Hey, and that was…”
“Were you going to say it was a mistake?”
Sehyun asked as if seeing through Doha’s thoughts. His reaction was quick, as if he’d simulated this moment dozens, hundreds of times.
“That day, did you feel bad?”
The problem was that he hadn’t felt bad. The problem was all the self-loathing that came rushing in afterward.
“Answer me honestly. Did you dislike it?”
“……”
“You’re not answering.”
Although he was living a life steeped in lies, constitutionally his tongue twisted when it came to saying something false.
“But you really seemed to like my body.”
Lim Sehyun’s thumb wickedly scraped along his jawline. Doha’s body stiffened at Sehyun’s words, which clearly carried sexual implications.
This bastard, where the hell does he learn these shameless lines?
“What, so what, why are you suddenly bringing that up?”
Although his face had turned red as a beet, he needed to face this issue head-on at least once. If he didn’t sort this out properly here, there would be trouble later.
“You know, hyung.”
“Uh…?”
He was bothered by Lim Sehyun’s touch constantly moving across his skin. Having all his senses clinging to another person’s fingertips was unfamiliar.
“I… really enjoyed it.”
Did he really need to say that in such a sticky and slow way? If it was a personal reflection, wouldn’t writing it in a diary be a more appropriate direction?
“Let’s do that again.”
Watching Lim Sehyun casually say something that could cause big trouble made Doha’s head spin. Did this guy have absolutely no worries or concerns about that act?
“I decided to take responsibility for you with this one body of mine, but I think I’ve been too complacent until now.”
What do you mean? Take responsibility for what? What’s been complacent?
Lim Sehyun’s hand slid down. The hand that passed by his neck lightly grasped the collar of his pajamas.
“Hey, you’re drunk.”
Doha urgently cried out, pushing against Sehyun’s chest. If he got swept away like this, it felt like he would really cross a river of no return.
Once could be excused as a mistake, but twice isn’t a mistake. That’s just a habit!
“About that matter, first sober up and…”
He was going to suggest they rationally try to cover up what happened that day, but Lim Sehyun’s actions were developing in a completely different direction.
Sehyun’s lips covered Doha’s lips. It was an action without even the slightest hesitation.
“Mmph…!”
Taking advantage of the gap as Doha inhaled in surprise, Sehyun’s tongue unhesitatingly plunged into his mouth. His mouth, occupied before he could even defend it, heated up intensely.
The tongue movement that scraped the roof of his mouth and swept down his teeth was persistent and skilled. The strength that bound Doha’s escaping tongue and sucked on it thoroughly made his mind flash white.
“Haah, ugh, ngh…”
The wet friction sounds rang in his ears. The explicit sound of saliva mixing and flowing between their lips stimulated his shame, but at the same time aroused a strange excitement. The sharp alcohol scent wafting from Sehyun seemed to intoxicate even Doha’s breathing.
His body lost its strength. His skin heated up intensely, and reflexively remembering the pleasure from that day, his lower half pulled taut with a dull ache. Doha quickly pulled his waist back, worried this physiological reaction would be discovered, but Lim Sehyun pressed his body even closer the more he pulled away.
This is the sacred(?) dorm, and all the members are in the same house, yet he’s doing this kind of thing… His rational thoughts couldn’t continue.
His mind became hazy from Sehyun’s kiss that took all his breath away.
Sehyun’s hand grasped the back of Doha’s neck, fixing it so he couldn’t escape, and his other hand wrapped around his waist, pulling him tightly against his own body. At the heavy, hot heat felt from their touching lower bodies, Doha tensed up completely.
“Whew…”
When their lips briefly separated, a silver thread connected thinly between the two before breaking. Doha’s eyes, gasping for breath, were flushed red.
“I am drunk.”
Sehyun pressed Doha’s wet lips with his thumb.
“But I can see exactly who you are.”
Doha was shocked at Sehyun shrugging his shoulders as if asking what other problem there could be besides that.
This guy has no reservations about doing this with a man, and with a member at that.
‘Hey, I think your genre has been destroyed.’
The cry from his heart that welled up didn’t make it outside and was swallowed back down. Because Lim Sehyun immediately blocked his mouth.
Their tongues tangled again, and their bodies pressed together. Why did it feel so good, why did his feet move smoothly following Lim Sehyun’s lead?
In the end, Doha faced a familiar scene.
“Haah, hah…”
A familiar ceiling, and Lim Sehyun’s face. Through his fallen hair, heat-flushed black eyes shone.
This is really an accident.
* * *
Berrybread @berry_ 20 minutes
You worked so haaaard whether or not you won they all look relieved I’m getting all choked up lol lots of ups and downs (OnX group image)
Bambambambam @bamm 17 minutes
Honestly isn’t OnX’s story insane? They overcame all the unfair treatment, total shounen manga material right? This 2nd place is more valuable than 1st I don’t accept rebuttals #OnX_You_Worked_Hard #OnX_Congratulations_On_Runner_Up
Kkukku @wwaal_ 15 minutes
Ah really ffs…… I thought they’d get 1st place ㅠㅠㅠ But still 2nd place is something, our OnX babies really worked hard ㅠㅠㅠㅠ (image of disappointed members) (image of Doha clapping)
Anon @anonku 8 minutes
Honestly OnX crushed it in stage reactions but the vote count was a monster. Still it seems OnX took all the public appeal? Look at the music chart lineup ㄷㄷ (music chart screenshot)
Youth @yolo_life 1 minute
Battle Crown is over… I don’t know how to live starting next week please hurry with the new song activities I’m dizzy
Onee @oneeee Just now
OnX’s new song reaction is no joke ㄷㄷㄷ
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Not getting 1st place was disappointing, but OnX gained a lot through Battle Crown. All the songs they sang on the program and released as music sources lined up in the upper ranks of the TOP100. Even AVN’s song had video views that pierced the ceiling and shot into the sky, as if it was now OnX’s song.
The promotional effect of the new song they revealed at the end was also tremendous. Even though it hadn’t been officially released yet, it had higher buzz than any other new song.
Sehyun had focused on perfectly promoting the song’s message, and it returned with these results. The strategy of not over-embellishing the unreleased new song’s production and distorting the song’s atmosphere worked well.
Doha was impressed by Sehyun’s foresight. That’s right, it’s wiser to take practical benefits rather than just the 1st place title given by a program.
“Ah, it’s still disappointing watching it again.”
But contrary to Doha’s guess, in fact Sehyun had been greedy for both promotion and 1st place.
OnX was currently in the middle of filming a commercial. Even while doing this, they were checking yesterday’s Battle Crown broadcast in their spare moments.
“You’re disappointed now?”
“Of course. If only we hadn’t fallen behind in global voting, it would’ve been doable.”
Sehyun, who had changed clothes and come out, looked at himself in the mirror and changed his pose this way and that. Doha straightened his flipped collar.
“You’re really relentless too.”
There weren’t just one or two relentless things about Lim Sehyun. First of all, he was absolutely sickening when it came to OnX-related matters, and even more insane when it came to member care.
The question of just how far he could go for the team had now changed to wondering how far one dared to imagine.
To offer his own body as a sacrifice to fundamentally block Baek Doha’s altruism. Even though Doha had no such intentions. Though of course, what right did he have to say anything when he collapsed so helplessly to primal stimulation?
‘But it’s too high-stimulation to refuse.’
In the end, they caused an accident again that night. The first time could be excused, but after committing it a second time, now he’d lost even the qualification to seriously say ‘This shouldn’t happen!’
His head hurt. How on earth should he cure the regressor’s illness?
Looking at Lim Sehyun just made him feel unsettled. He was like chaos incarnate.
Battle Crown had ended successfully, but it felt like an even bigger worry had arisen.
“Doha-ssi, we’ll start filming.”
Let’s make money first and think later.
