At the voice raised a tone in a friendly manner, Hyun-woong nodded.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Oh my, it must have been painful being clogged up.”
“It was painful, but…”
His hesitant thin lips were gathered small, just like a bird’s beak. Jae-min asked nonchalantly, pretending not to know.
“Did the milk flow out constantly?”
Hyun-woong flinched. Seeing him still embarrassed by the word ‘milk,’ laughter leaked out again.
“You had a hard time. Shall I take a look?”
Jae-min approached close to Hyun-woong. Then he slowly stroked his hand over his chest. Perhaps tense, Hyun-woong took a deep breath, making his chest swell up more.
After rubbing the chest muscles that felt firmer than usual due to clogged milk in circles, he gently touched the areola with his thumb.
“This one is still tucked inside as usual.”
As always, Hyun-woong’s nipple was hiding itself. Jae-min raised the corner of his mouth and briefly took his hand away.
“We got a new device at our clinic this time.”
“A new device?”
“Yes, it’s supposed to be useful for pulling out inverted nipples.”
“Uh…”
“Shall we try using it right away?”
Jae-min asked with sparkling eyes. Hyun-woong stiffened his body at the mention of something that stimulates inverted nipples. Since his eyes were covered so he couldn’t see ahead, and it was a new device he’d never experienced before, he seemed to feel resistant.
“Can’t it come out on its own if we just keep doing it without using devices?”
It was a stiff tone tinged with tension, but because of the subtly omitted words, it sounded somewhat obscene. Jae-min, who hesitated, soon smiled brightly and put on a friendly tone again.
“Then let’s proceed with the massage first, and if the nipple still isn’t properly out right before milking, I’ll try using the device.”
Jae-min raised both hands and placed them on both sides of Hyun-woong’s chest. He wrapped the broad chest from both ends as if gauging its size, then slowly applied pressure with his fingertips. He pressed firmly on the hard lumps he found.
“Mm…”
Whether it hurt but felt relieving, Hyun-woong made a small sound. Suddenly remembering that Hyun-woong had given a perfect score on the satisfaction survey, Jae-min barely held back the laughter that was about to leak out.
“It’s not news, but Hyun-woong, you really have a great body.”
“I just work out diligently.”
“That’s cool. You must be popular.”
Jae-min, who had been speaking without thinking, stopped. He had just now remembered what he wanted to probe about when meeting Hyun-woong. Yesterday too, he had actually followed him around to ask that, but he forgot because he got caught up in the incredible incident of receiving a handjob in the bathroom and touching his chest.
“It was a lie that I was dating Hyun-woong, and he just cooperated with me.”
The truth Yun-ji had revealed, but Hyun-woong’s reason for cooperating that still didn’t make sense.
Lost in thought, Jae-min reapplied pressure to his hands that had relaxed for a moment and pressed Hyun-woong’s chest firmly.
“You obviously have a girlfriend too, right?”
Pretending to know nothing, Jae-min asked. Hyun-woong, who had been making groaning sounds every time his chest was pressed, replied in a strained voice.
“I don’t have anything like that.”
At the easily obtained denial, Jae-min let out a breath of disbelief. He should have just asked at the clinic earlier.
Of course, until now he had naturally assumed Hyun-woong was dating Yun-ji and there was no room for doubt, so there was no reason to pry. Jae-min forced a smile and asked again.
“Huh? Really none? I thought you’d obviously have one.”
“How can I date a girlfriend when I come to a place like this for massage?”
“Ah, well. Still, people don’t know what illness you have. On the outside you look fine, so how can someone like you be single?”
“There’s someone who thinks I have a lover.”
At the low voice, Jae-min’s hand stopped abruptly. He was talking about him. While Jae-min froze, startled, Hyun-woong continued speaking calmly.
“I lied.”
Jae-min swallowed. His arms stiffened with anticipation that perhaps, right here and now, he might find out Hyun-woong’s true feelings.
“Uh… Why? Was there someone bothering you asking you to date? Lying that you have a lover to chase them away, is that it?”
Perhaps Hyun-woong also had circumstances that Jae-min didn’t know about. Someone at school might have been persistently confessing, and in the midst of trying to shake that person off, Yun-ji asked him, and pretending to have a girlfriend helped him too, so he allowed it.
While Jae-min was spreading his wings of imagination, Hyun-woong gently shook his head.
“It’s not that.”
Just when Jae-min thought he might explain in detail, Hyun-woong shut his mouth tight. Feeling frustrated, when Jae-min pressed his chest firmly, Hyun-woong turned his head to the opposite side and muttered as if to himself.
“But I was trying to chase someone away.”
Jae-min narrowed his brows. It was a puzzling answer.
‘Does he mean he was trying to chase me away from being next to Yun-ji?’
But next to Yun-ji, Hyun-woong was too cold and blunt. Their conversation had absolutely no hint of fluttering feelings, to the point where it was hard to think he was acting awkward because of embarrassment.
‘The most plausible hypothesis is that there was someone clinging to him, and he wanted to chase them away by pretending to date Yun-ji.’
Jae-min, who had been racking his brain this way and that, eventually gave up and let out a thin sigh.
“Mm, you’re speaking in a difficult way.”
“I’m just, ugh.”
Hyun-woong’s words were cut off as he shrank his neck from the pain that bloomed when a lump was pressed. When Jae-min took his hand away, he let out words mixed with a sigh.
“…a cowardly person.”
He only said incomprehensible things. Jae-min frowned and loosely rubbed Hyun-woong’s chest as if finishing up. Thanks to the firm massage focused on the clogged parts, his chest had softened.
But then. A murmuring small voice could be heard from outside. Hyun-woong, who keenly noticed the noise, instantly stiffened his body. Feeling the rigid muscles, Jae-min gently stroked down around his shoulders as if loosening them, then glanced back.
“Oh right, there are quite a few patients at the clinic these days. Until now, Hyun-woong, you’ve been alone in the treatment room, but today there will be other customers too.”
“O-other people?”
“Yes, so…”
After checking whether the curtain was properly closed, he moved his gaze back to Hyun-woong. He stared at his thin lips that had been making groaning sounds until just now.
“Like this, we can hear each other’s sounds.”
“Ah.”
“Please just be mindful of that.”
At Jae-min’s words, lowered in volume to almost a whisper, Hyun-woong nodded without making a sound.
Whether it was quite uncomfortable that complete strangers, not doctors or massage therapists, could hear his voice, he looked several times more tense than usual.
Jae-min, who had been observing his closed lips, slowly lowered his gaze downward. When this tense, even from that stimulation, the nipple should pop out, but the situation was quite ambiguous. One nipple had risen up prominently, but the other one was still squished.
“Ah, one came out but the other one is still tucked in.”
“I-is that so?”
Jae-min poked the protruding one with his finger. As if not wanting to make a sound, Hyun-woong bit his teeth tightly and only twisted his body slightly.
“There’s also the time issue. Let me try using the device, while we’re at it.”
Jae-min approached the shelf and easily found the new device. Just as Yong-seok had shown him, he pressed the back button with a click like pulling out a pen refill, and a sponge-tip-like thing popped out from the front. Looking at it again properly, it only looked like a sponge tip, but like a water balloon, it was made soft by putting liquid inside.
Jae-min pressed the tip firmly. He could feel the liquid inside the tip warming up as it received external stimulation. It felt like touching a fluffy tongue.
‘If I just make it wet, it would be even more like a tongue.’
Right next to him was a container of massage oil. Jae-min squeezed oil onto his hand. He rubbed his palm with the tip to coat it thickly with slippery oil.
“It’s not scary, so there’s nothing to be nervous about. Relax your body.”
Hyun-woong took a deep breath. After watching his chest muscles move up and down about twice, Jae-min brought the device he’d been fiddling with to his areola. When he inserted it into the tightly closed gap, Hyun-woong jerked his waist.
“Hng…!”
“I treated you with jelly the first time, right? It’s similar to that.”
Jae-min casually repeated the lie he’d told once before. Because that time it really was his tongue. When he stimulated the hidden bud ticklishly with the soft tip, the nipple gradually came out.
Since Hyun-woong’s eyes were covered and he couldn’t know what state his chest was in, Jae-min deliberately scraped the nipple gently with the tip as if there was still a long way to go. Then he pressed the middle button with a click. It was when he brought the spinning tip to the nipple again.
