Leo’s breath mixed in between his flustered lips, and Hyedam’s eyes slowly closed at the coffee scent filling the surroundings. Leo’s unrestrained and unhidden emotions rushed in endlessly like a rising tide.
Behind him was something like a wall, and in front was Leo.
The heels of the completely trapped Hyedam gradually lifted. He became just as urgent at Leo’s desperately invading kiss. Wet saliva mixed, and his breath naturally quickened at the thrilling sensation felt at the tip of his tongue.
His hands that had stiffened in surprise languidly relaxed. Leo’s hair touched the tips of Hyedam’s fingers as they moved along his shoulders.
As one of Leo’s legs dug between Hyedam’s legs, a heated moan flowed from Hyedam’s mouth as he leaned his swaying body against him. A satisfying sensation rushed in from the pressure applied to his body, and when Leo’s lips, which had been giving him plenty of the coffee he always craved, tried to move away, the urgent Hyedam lightly bit his lower lip.
Finally releasing his lips, Hyedam caught his breath with the tickling of their touching nose tips and their mixing breaths, then tilted his head back and placed the tip of his tongue on Leo’s lips.
It always seemed like Leo started it, but afterward, the one who urged, yearned, and became impatient was himself. He tried hard to deny it, ignore it, and pretend not to know, but when Leo was by his side, he unknowingly wanted to touch him. It was good to fully feel this frantically racing sensation like this, but he also liked those kinds of brushes, accidentally lightly bumping into each other.
He’d spent several days not thinking about him and doing well, so why was it that when he just appeared before his eyes, when skinship started like this, he couldn’t come to his senses?
“Hyedam.”
“Yeah.”
Touching Leo’s back of the head and soft hair tickling his fingertips, Hyedam slowly brought his mouth to Leo’s lips. The corners of Hyedam’s mouth lifted slightly as he enjoyed the sensation of the soft and warm lips being crushed. He could fully feel the fast heartbeat, impossible to distinguish whose it was, from his arms that firmly embraced his waist and their touching chests.
“Try saying you missed me.”
Because their lips were pressed together, Leo’s pronunciation was muffled, and as his lips moved, Hyedam deliberately bared his teeth and lightly bit his lower lip again.
“I don’t want to.”
“Why?”
When Leo spoke while rubbing their nose tips as if coaxing and whining, Hyedam shook his head slightly.
“Were you a contrary frog?”
“Kiss me more and I’ll think about it.”
“Uh…… but.”
As soon as Hyedam heard Leo’s hesitating words, he slowly pulled away his lips that had been playfully pressed against him. And he also slowly lowered the arms that were wrapped around his neck. But he couldn’t quite separate their bodies that had been touching like one body. Hyedam, who lowered his head, buried his face in Leo’s shoulder.
Even while fully feeling the vibration of Leo’s body trying to hold back laughter, the only place Hyedam could hide was in his arms.
“Where is this……”
“A lounge exclusive to customers who use private jets.”
“Is anyone here?”
“The staff went to the break room as soon as we came in, and there are no other people.”
Listening to Leo’s answer full of laughter, Hyedam chewed on his lower lip. He thought he lived putting good strength in his brain, but every time he became an amoeba, Leo was always by his side. In self-loathing at having been too faithful to instinct, Hyedam rubbed his forehead against Leo’s shoulder with a groan.
“I want to kiss more, but if we do more, I feel like I won’t be able to hold back.”
Don’t even be considerate of this kind of thing. I want to die. It didn’t take much time for his body that had heated up in an instant to cool down coldly as if suddenly having ice water poured over it.
“Ahem. Hmm…… The car is ready in the parking lot. Will you go straight home?”
Hyedam, who didn’t have the confidence to shamelessly look at Leo’s face, covered his face with one hand and pushed him away slightly with the other hand.
As soon as Leo’s hand that had been stuck to his waist fell away, brushing his waist and buttocks, Hyedam opened his bag that was worn crossbody and took out his tablet first.
“They say the road is blocked, so I think it would be better to use a drone taxi instead of a car, and if you’re thinking of going somewhere other than home, from now on my schedule is to be with you? I want to have chimaek by your side when we count down to the new year.”
Drone taxi instead of a car. Then. First call a drone taxi, and if the destination isn’t home, where is it? Just tell me. I need to put in the destination when calling the taxi. And the next schedule is……
Hyedam’s fingertips, about to call a drone taxi without looking at Leo, couldn’t land on the tablet screen. But he couldn’t lift his head to look at him either.
Normally, in his head where the thought “let’s watch the countdown together having chimaek somewhere? Why would I?” should come first…… it was filled with strange things.
Chimaek? How many chickens should we order? Would ordering about three with different flavors work? He was already naturally accepting spending the new year together with him.
He thought he should distance himself from him and told Seoyun so, but reason and emotion were playing completely differently. He was happy to see Leo’s face, happy to be with him, and instead of being annoyed or angry at his nonsensical logic and stubbornness, he giggled along.
And to avoid being caught looking like that, Hyedam walked ahead of him grumbling. The conclusion he reached after agonizing over his words asking for an award was a hug. A hug that family and friends could lightly share. A slight embrace is okay, right? A maximally indifferent and light patting hug.
Although the result of that hug ended up like this again, Hyedam, who had been blankly staring with the drone taxi reservation app open, raised his head at the warm feeling touching his cheek.
“Don’t carelessly show your dimples in front of me. It really makes me want to eat you up.”
At Leo’s words, always confident, unhiding, and even shameless, Hyedam unnecessarily rubbed the dimple spot he’d kissed with his hand that had been stopped in midair.
“Where should I put as the drone taxi destination?”
Trying not to react to Leo’s words, Hyedam spoke in as calm a voice as possible.
“But why aren’t you answering? I asked if you wanted to go on a trip.”
“Ah, well. I think everyone wants to go on a trip.”
“Who knew that not being honest could be charming too.”
Hyedam glanced at Leo, who was taking the tablet he’d been holding. Words are easy to say. Going on a trip isn’t easy either, and deciding where to go, making reservations, and packing—all of that was included in travel.
Recalling the battle of wits with Leo that happened in a short time and even the kiss just now, Hyedam, who felt fatigue suddenly rushing in, sank deeply into a single-person couch in the lounge. And instead of him, he blankly admired Leo, who seemed to be calling a drone taxi, looking at the tablet and talking to someone on the phone in French.
No matter how much I think about it, it’s strange. They were in a relationship exchanging lips just moments ago, but when looking at him separated like this, he felt like a complete stranger. Why is a guy like that interested in me? Isn’t it natural to think like that?
Ah. Whatever, let things be as they will.
It was a heart that had already been completely exposed. To be coldly honest, Leo constantly flirting with him honestly and consistently is his normal appearance. Even he himself thought it was ridiculous how he always pretended it wasn’t so but then lost his mind as soon as there was skinship.
The end is, well. It’s set as a sad ending.
Then, as Seoyun said, should I leave behind one grand memory? Considering Leo’s age and such, it doesn’t seem like it will go that long. So my misfortune won’t transfer over.
In the distant future, wouldn’t there be a day when I drink soju saying, “I’m someone who dated the heir of the Lewis family”? Of course, no one except Junseok would believe it. Just because I break up with Leo, do I need to make an effort to forget? I’ll just live like that. Like I did back then.
Hyedam’s gaze didn’t leave Leo, who was pacing around talking on the phone a little distance away. As Seoyun said, he’s young, solid, rich, handsome, and there’s a persistent side to him, but that’s, well…… anyway, objectively speaking, he himself wasn’t losing out either.
“What?”
Fiddling with his lips, Hyedam cut and pasted Leo this way and that in his mind. Attaching him like this and like that, making all kinds of chaos in his head, he saw Leo looking at him and moving his mouth, and slightly shook his head.
There’s no need to say that right now in my head I’m evaluating you this way and that, stripping you naked and analyzing in detail even that sturdy body hidden under your clothes.
“I did get an earful from Robert, but anyway, we’re taking off in an hour, so shall we catch our breath for a moment?”
“Huh?”
“We decided to go on a trip.”
“……I don’t have a passport.”
I don’t have clothes either. I don’t have anything. You might have some items to make do with in the carrier you brought, but I don’t have anything?
“If it were up to me, I’d want to go to Switzerland or Northern Europe, but given the situation, it’s too much to go that far, and if we go by drone taxi or car, the roads are blocked and it doesn’t feel like a proper trip. So where should we go?”
At Leo’s riddle-like words, Hyedam tilted his head to the side. So where are we going? We’re taking a plane but if it’s not as far as Europe, Japan? Southeast Asia?
Hyedam stealthily placed his hand on the hand Leo extended, who had approached with long strides and tapped his nose. Hyedam, who got up from his seat leaning on Leo, who slightly raised an eyebrow as if surprised by his own action of holding hands, first took the tablet he handed over.
“Where do you think we’re going?”
“I don’t know.”
“Should I tell you? Or not?”
Hyedam, who had been thinking of this country and that country, shrugged his shoulders.
“You don’t have to tell me.”
Where we’re going, what does that matter? What matters is that we’re going somewhere together.
“Why? Aren’t you curious?”
“Because I trust you.”
Life is all about making up one’s mind, and when worrying, he’d rack his brain this way and that and have many thoughts, but now that his mind was somewhat set, there was no need to hesitate.
