Joel, who muttered meaningfully in a loud voice, came up the stairs with thud, thud, thud! strong footsteps. While Mom, who had pushed me to the very top step of the stairs, rushed down, Joel, standing just two steps below, tilted his chin.
“What are you doing not going in? It’s your room. You should show me around your room. Right? ‘July.'”
“…….”
I don’t want to! I said I don’t want to! No matter how loudly I shouted inwardly, there was only one thing that would answer me.
Oh dear. 🙁
Along with the system’s annoying mutter to itself, I had no choice but to leap into my room. Because Joel flung open the door without hesitation as if it were his own room.
Pretending not to hear Mom’s voice shouting, “Mom, Dad, and hyung! will be downstairs! The TV will be on really loud too! Can’t hear anything!” I hurriedly put away my clothes. But Joel clearly heard it and laughed “Puhahaha!” while bending backwards.
“Why is it so messy?”
“You threw a tantrum at dawn telling me to come out in 15 minutes……!”
Like Joel’s scolding, my room was a mess. Clothes were strewn here and there, and the 『One-Eyed Jack』 comic books I bought to study were rolling around on the floor. I’m not usually this messy but I’ve been busy lately……! Plus it was because of that bastard causing a commotion from the morning!
I urgently stuffed my pajamas under the blanket. But because Joel grabbed and pulled the corner of the blanket, the clothes I’d hidden on the bed came tumbling down.
“Well, there’s not much to see.”
Joel, with his hands in his pants pockets, wandered around my room as if it were his own. Even though there was nothing strange or suspicious, I nervously swallowed my saliva for no reason. Joel opened and closed the closet door while slightly frowning like an inspector or something, then suddenly bent down and looked under the bed.
“What are you doing?”
“I thought there might be something.”
After confirming only dust was rolling around, Joel clicked his tongue with a tsk. He seemed disappointed for some reason. He sat in my desk chair without permission, spun around and around, and said.
“Why is there nothing fun when you’re a virgin teenage gay?”
“What does me being gay and being a teenager have to do with fun things!”
The chair, which had been spinning slowly, soon stopped completely. Squeak! When the large-bodied Joel leaned his body crookedly, the chair screamed. Joel tilted his head to the side and giggled meaningfully at me.
“You know, things like that. Magazines full of naked men’s bodies, or porn, or well…… things you use when doing this kind of stuff.”
“…….”
While saying “this kind of stuff,” Joel’s gesture of shoving the index finger of his opposite hand between his index and middle finger formed into an O was truly explicit.
Mom, Dad, hyung. Is that also because that bastard likes me? Does that bastard really like me? I was so embarrassed my face naturally turned red. Irritated, I threw whatever clothes had fallen on the floor toward Joel.
“Why would I have that kind of thing!”
“Because the secondary sex characteristics period with raging hormones is naturally like that.”
What Joel got on his head was my pajama pants. Joel pulled down my pants nonchalantly, then stared at me intently and pulled up the corners of his mouth. Then he buried his nose in my pants and started sniffing.
“Right. You pretend sooo hard to be ascetic for a teenage gay, but should I find out if you’re really ascetic? Huh?”
“Why are you smelling it!”
I was bewildered. Is that bastard really crazy? While I was opening both my eyes and mouth wide in shock, Joel, not caring about me at all, brought the middle seam part of the pants to his high nose.
“I’m wondering if you had a wet dream while thinking of David’s ‘that sculpture-like body.'”
“Aaaaah!”
I screamed and quickly snatched my pajama pants from Joel’s hands. That bastard, my, my…… there, did he smell it? Isn’t he a crazy bastard? Joel was the one who committed the crazy act alone, but I was the only one whose face turned bright red and felt like my head was spinning. Joel went “Hmm.” making a small sound, then let out a snicker with a pfft.
“But hmm, I guess that David bastard isn’t that sexy after all? Well, there’s no particular smell. How boring.”
“……Can’t you please just leave?”
I gathered all the clothes that had fallen on the floor into my arms. I was afraid Joel might try to smell my…… body part again.
“I’m begging you. Please.”
I brought both hands together in front like a prayer. In my life, the only time I’d been this desperate was right before checking the Seoul National University medical school acceptance announcement. But just like that result was ‘rejected’ in red letters, this time was similar.
“When things are about to get fun, why should I?”
Joel, who jumped up, now started rummaging through my desk. The way he looked especially closely at the bookshelf made me think he might be looking for the strange magazines or DVDs he mentioned earlier.
“Boring nerd bastard.”
But all that was stuck in the bookshelf were things used for studying. Joel smirked his lips.
“Right. My room is super boring. It’s full of boring stuff. So let’s leave, huh?”
“Whether it’s boring or not is for me to judge.”
“Ugh!”
Joel pushed the head of me, who was standing awkwardly while hugging clothes, with his index finger, then this time thoroughly searched around the bed. He flipped over the pillow, put his hand inside the pillowcase, then lifted the blanket and sniffed the blanket smell. Again, again why is he doing that……! I quickly piled the clothes on the desk chair and snatched the blanket from Joel’s hands and hid it behind my back.
“Why my blanket again!”
But the blanket was too big and long. Joel pulled the end of the blanket sticking out beyond my body, stared at me and smiled, then smelled it again.
“Have you done that kind of thing here?”
“That, kind, of thing, what.”
Was it because of anxiety? My heart went thud, thud, thud! beating fast. Joel took one step closer to me, then stared down at me and brought his mouth to my ear.
“Sex.”
“…….”
That short word filled with two S’s mixed with metallic sounds and wind sounds tickled my eardrum terribly. Joel giggled loudly as if for me to hear, then blew air into my ear with a whoosh.
Right when I flinched and stiffened and was about to step back, Joel’s arm grabbed my waist. Thunk! The blanket fell down, and Joel pulled me toward him while hugging my waist. And still with his mouth brought close to my ear, he whispered.
“Ah, right. You said you’re a virgin. Then…… masturbation? How did you do it alone? You’d have to do it alone quietly without that harmonious and affectionate family knowing, right? Then the room would be better than the bathroom.”
“…….”
Thud, thud, thud. Joel’s wide, thick ribcage touched around my collarbone, and that heartbeat was clearly audible. The body heat of the thick arm wrapped around my waist felt incredibly hot even though there were clothes between us. That breath was the same. Hot and humid.
Frozen in place due to the content of those explicitly sexual words, Joel’s gaze slowly swept over me. Joel, with both corners of his mouth rolled up, this time brought his mouth to my opposite ear. While I flinched and stiffened when our cheeks touched, Joel stood firm and unwavering.
“What do you usually think about? You’re crazy about faces. So you’d imagine the most handsome man possible. That body would also be huge and beautiful. Just like a Renaissance sculpture. What did that sculpture-like man do? Did he cup your cheeks and kiss you? He probably touched your whole body, right? And here too…….”
“Ugh!”
Swoosh, when Joel’s hand that had been caressing down the hollow part of my waist reached around my pelvis and soon firmly squeezed my buttocks, I gasped in surprise.
“He definitely touched you. Right? Even though you’re a virgin who’s never had sex once, I think you’d like this place a whole lot. You’re a pervert bastard after all.”
“……Let go!”
Only when Joel started giggling like usual did I finally come to my senses and pushed that body away forcefully. I could tell without looking. That my face was bright red from my cheeks to the tips of my ears. Because my cheeks were burning hot.
Joel, who was pushed back obediently, was smiling brightly with his usual complexion in contrast. As expected, there’s no way Joel Gomez likes me. Would someone play with the person they like like this? At least I wouldn’t.
“I told you to stop mocking me for being gay!”
“I didn’t mock you for being gay, I just teased you. That stupid face is funny.”
Joel pointed at my face and grabbed his stomach laughing “Puhaha!” I was beyond annoyed and irritated, and anger welled up.
“You’re, really…… a son of a bitch.”
“Nothing new.”
Even though I threw out a curse containing my bubbling anger, Joel just shrugged his shoulders. As expected, Joel Gomez doesn’t like me. His high favorability is obviously just because teasing me is fun. The kind of favorability you have toward prey that’s fun to play with. Him coming to our house this early morning and taking me to the lake was also probably because he was bored going alone, as he said.
“Really, son of a bitch. Trash bastard. Annoying bastard…….”
I muttered all kinds of curses loudly for him to hear while throwing clothes thud, thud! hard into the closet. And while taking out clothes to wear to school and throwing them on the bed, I shouted.
“I need to get ready for school, so get out!”
“Since you saw my body too, I should see yours for it to be fair, right?”
But that Joel son of a bitch dropped the clothes I threw on the bed onto the floor with thunk, thunk, then sat cross-legged in that spot. Let’s see how long that son of a bitch barks!
I gathered all those clothes and left my room. Then after changing clothes, I came back to the room and packed things I needed to take to school today like homework. Until then, Joel, who had been sitting on the bed dangling his legs, suddenly muttered as if for me to hear.
