Taeon didn’t particularly like even this side of Sunjeong. He hated the weak appearance of shedding tears at the slightest raised voice. Sunjeong, who had been silently shedding tears for a while, finally opened his mouth much later.
“Does this neighborhood belong to you, Yoon Taeon?”
He’d wondered what he was going to say with that hesitant opening, but this was all he came out with. Absurd enough not to even let out a sneer, Taeon glared at Sunjeong, and Sunjeong didn’t avoid his gaze. Rather, his two eyes, where the dripping tears were gradually stopping, gradually shone sharply. Soon, with a cold gaze Taeon had never seen before, Sunjeong said.
“I’m going to do it where I want with whoever I want. Whether it’s this neighborhood or that neighborhood.”
“Fuck, Go Sunjeong! Do you want to have sex with a bastard like that?!”
The smell of cigarettes, tacky bleached hair, and greasy oil dripping down. Taeon’s stomach churned as he recalled the appearance of a man that Sunjeong, with his weak stomach, could absolutely never embrace.
“If you’re going to do it, at least find someone proper.”
“Then why do you do that?”
Sunjeong’s voice asking this was cold.
“Why do you just do it with anyone…… and live so recklessly? I can’t but why can you?”
“Am I the same as you, ah, really, this is so frustrating I could die.”
Taeon’s voice, which rarely rose, filled the narrow corridor. The middle-aged man who had only grabbed his underwear and was looking outside, wondering what the hell was going on, made eye contact with Taeon, whose expression became even more furrowed.
What cut off the story that was only going in circles was Taeon’s phone, which began ringing noisily.
[Yoon Taeon where r u?]
[Don’t tell me u ditched?]
It was because of messages Yuhyeon kept sending after discovering an empty room when he came out from washing.
It would be understandable for Yuhyeon to be flustered. Taeon, who was looking at his phone, let out a deep sigh and said.
“Hey, anyway. Don’t keep staying here. And don’t get involved with that bastard either. I should probably go now.”
“……”
Taeon, whose gaze was on the messages Yuhyeon kept sending, didn’t notice Sunjeong’s long eyelashes trembling. After catching his breath for a while, Sunjeong asked in a cold voice.
“So Yoon Taeon, you’re saying you’re going to have sex right now, right?”
“Yeah. What else is there besides that.”
Sunjeong’s face as he looked at Taeon speaking in a blunt voice was ominous.
“Agh, what, Go Sunjeong!”
It was a matter of an instant when Sunjeong’s fern-like white hand, which had never done anything rough to anyone in his life, snatched Taeon’s hair.
***
Pained moans continued to burst from Taeon’s mouth at how strong the small hand’s grip was.
But Sunjeong, whose build was much smaller than Taeon’s, couldn’t overcome Taeon’s strength. In the end, Sunjeong, who was separated from Taeon, had an aggrieved expression as if he himself had been grabbed by the hair.
“Are you crazy? What are you doing, Go Sunjeong, fuck, really.”
With his hair completely disheveled by Sunjeong’s touch, Taeon asked in a sharp voice.
“Slut bastard.”
“What?”
“Yoon Taeon, you’re really a slut-like bastard. Why are you so promiscuous?”
Sunjeong’s voice, which had always checked on Taeon’s well-being first and spoke to Taeon in a careful voice, had a strength that couldn’t usually be found. Moreover, his extremely angry face had an unprecedentedly dark expression.
White face, gentle expression, calm voice, careful speech.
It was a completely different appearance from the Sunjeong that Taeon had known all along.
“I’m a slut?”
To be honest, the term slut wasn’t unfamiliar. Even though they’d met because of pheromones, the Omegas who judged Taeon to be fine as a lover often demanded that Taeon settle down. When he didn’t give any particular answer to those words and met other Omegas, they put the word slut in their mouths.
It didn’t matter because they were in the same situation too. He knew that the person in front of him calling him a slut also sought out countless Alphas every time because of pheromones.
Taeon had a subtle sense of solidarity that made him not want to criticize them.
But Sunjeong was different.
The only hardship that his body and mind, which knew no suffering, had probably experienced was from when he started chasing after Taeon.
Because he had to come to slums he would never have set foot in before, smell all kinds of foul odors, and experience Taeon’s cold treatment.
Yet at the same time, Taeon had finished his days in the castle-like huge mansion he’d visited a few times when he and Sunjeong were still friends, and lived in the kindness of everyone except Taeon.
The pheromone problem was even more so. Sunjeong obtained suppressants as if it were nothing—suppressants that Taeon could only purchase by giving up many parts of his life. He naturally took care of his own pheromones and even tried to solve Taeon’s pheromone problem.
‘Won’t you please take this?’
The reason he refused Sunjeong’s request, asked cautiously, was because Taeon’s life couldn’t be buried in Sunjeong’s innocent crush.
Taeon believed that if he exceeded the radius of life given to him through another’s goodwill, he would suffer even greater hardship later. So he wanted to work diligently with his young body to overcome the given limits at his own pace.
So he didn’t want to hear words like slut from Sunjeong.
“I’m a slut……”
The fact that he was abandoned by his birth mother as soon as he was born, the poorly equipped facility that people don’t easily believe exists in this day and age, the university he had no choice but to give up despite fairly good grades for various reasons, a body that was a lump of pheromones that felt like a beast even when it seemed okay.
Somehow, at the word that seemed to degrade all of this life, an unprecedented coldness settled on Taeon’s face. Bewilderment also began to gradually fill Sunjeong’s face as he looked at Taeon’s hardening face.
“That’s right.”
Taeon’s voice, which seemed like it would explode at any moment, was unexpectedly detached.
“I’m that kind of bastard.”
“……”
“If nothing happens, I’ll probably continue living like this from now on too.”
“No, Yoon Taeon, that’s not what I meant……”
The jet-black eyes that Sunjeong liked so much were becoming even deeper. Taeon opened his mouth once more.
“So don’t hang around me. Is there a need to wipe your face with a dirty rag?”
Taeon, who put his hands in his loose pants pockets, let out a hollow laugh. Unlike the dry sigh, an unknown hot sense of humiliation rose within his heart, but he didn’t want to express it in front of Sunjeong. It felt like he shouldn’t get angry at Sunjeong, who already looked like he was about to cry.
“Fuck……”
Taeon’s eyes widened at the word that popped out of his mouth, which seemed like it would mutter ‘I’m sorry’ in a small voice at any moment.
“Fuck, Yoon Taeon, really fuck……”
“Ha……”
It was the first time seeing Sunjeong curse. His slightly trembling body with clenched fists and his face that had turned pale, the awkward tense consonant pronunciation. Taeon was dumbfounded because Sunjeong’s face, muttering ‘fuck’ as if he’d made up his mind, was white and soft as always.
“Let’s wipe.”
“What?”
“With the rag, fuck, let’s wipe my body.”
“……”
Is he really crazy.
Taeon strode toward Sunjeong. Now Taeon was really getting angry too.
The problem was that a strange scent he couldn’t usually smell wafted to the tip of Taeon’s nose. Taeon, who was smelling a fresh citrus-type scent, only realized after a moment that this was a dominant Omega’s pheromones.
“I told you, I’m going to become promiscuous.”
“Hey, Go Sunjeong, you didn’t take suppressants?”
“I did.”
Sunjeong’s brow furrowed slightly as he spoke calmly.
It was because moving the pheromone glands by will rather than instinct was difficult even for a dominant trait.
A slight fever began to rise in Taeon’s body, which hadn’t yet entered its rut cycle, at the pheromone scent emitted by the dominant Omega.
“Yoon Taeon, you really have a problem.”
Sunjeong muttered in a small voice without avoiding Taeon’s gaze, which was looking at him in surprise.
The slight fever rising throughout Taeon’s body was a signal of rut. There was no way he could endure when a dominant Omega was intentionally pheromone showering. Taeon, who struggled to hold his breath, said to Sunjeong in a low voice.
“Go Sunjeong, stop it right now.”
But the already thick citrus scent lingering at the tip of Taeon’s nose only became more concentrated.
“You know pheromone showering without consent is rape, right? Legal punishment is obviously possible.”
At Taeon’s words, Sunjeong said in a resolute voice.
“If I have to receive punishment, I’ll accept it gladly.”
“……Crazy, fuck, this isn’t even a joke right now, Go Sunjeong.”
“But Yoon Taeon, you have to admit this one thing.”
“……”
“That you actually want to do it with me too. Admit that you like me. If you admit it, I won’t pheromone shower.”
“……”
“Even without pheromones, I can fuck you anyway.”
At the vulgar words that were unbelievable to have come from Sunjeong’s mouth, Taeon’s face turned deathly pale. Words like fucking or whatever were now almost dead language that even in this remote area, no one used unless they were quite immature.
But he couldn’t believe that Sunjeong before his eyes was using the expression ‘fuck’ and that the target was Taeon.
“Fuck what? Haa…… Hey, pheromones, stop, stop, fuck!”
The area around Sunjeong’s eyes, looking up at the panting Taeon with a cold expression, grew hot.
Now he wanted to end this long one-sided love.
