Siwoo’s wrist was caught as he walked quickly with hurried steps, wearing his hood pulled down over his ball cap.
Since it was obvious who had grabbed him, Siwoo tried not to stop his busy footsteps.
“Siwoo-ya.”
But because that person calling his name wasn’t following along, he was forced to stop.
Why is he acting like this today, really? And of all places, at a hotel.
There’s nothing good about getting caught arguing at a hotel in the early morning.
“Hey, let’s leave for now. Myunghun hyung might call again.”
Siwoo quickly turned around and approached Evan, speaking quietly without raising his head. And rather than pulling his hand from Evan’s wrist, he grabbed Evan’s wrist that was holding his own wrist and pulled.
“Kim Siwoo.”
Honestly, even he himself was a bit flustered by the situation.
Before the regression, quite heavy and intense emotions had passed between the two. But those hadn’t flowed out of their mouths.
Unformed emotions had only circled around them in a complicated way. And the moment he tried to push those emotions into some kind of framework, he regressed.
Now the situation was different again. Those subtle emotions that had been floating around seemed like they would become subordinate to a specific word. And along with that, their relationship would be completely twisted.
“Yeah. I know, I know. Let’s go somewhere quiet and talk again.”
At the words delivered as if rushing him, Evan finally started walking.
Touching the wrist Evan had released, Siwoo bit down hard on his molars.
It was really strange. Churning, rippling, the emotions of the person walking right next to him came to him again. Though invisible, it spread out slowly like ink dropped into clear water.
A very small tickling sensation bloomed from his chest. And as time passed, it spread throughout his entire body.
Would it be better to say something, anything? Siwoo, who was walking looking only at the ground with his ball cap and hood pressed down, couldn’t see Evan’s expression. But right now, Evan seemed so anxious and flustered that he couldn’t properly control his complicated emotions.
In the elevator, and when passing through the wide lobby, the slight gap that had formed between Evan and Siwoo wasn’t narrowed. Rather, if Siwoo walked even a little slower, he had to see Evan’s broad shoulders and back.
When the valet parking staff stopped the car in front of the lobby, Siwoo quickly got into the passenger seat. Just then, his cell phone vibrated. This time it was a message, not a call.
[How long will it take you to get here?]
At Myunghun’s message, Siwoo glanced at Evan.
[About 15 minutes.]
Since there would be no traffic at this early hour from the hotel to the dorm, Siwoo sent an honest answer.
After checking the message, Myunghun didn’t send any more replies. If they got in within 15 minutes, there would be no problem.
“Evan.”
Since Evan didn’t say anything even on the way to the dorm, Siwoo called him first.
“Just because you like me and I like you, I don’t think much will change. We’re already on the same team, we work together, we live in the same house…”
Siwoo, who had been rambling on trying to somehow salvage the situation, couldn’t properly finish his words. The car that had been running well suddenly swerved, so he quickly shut his mouth. Evan reached out his arm and caught Siwoo’s body as it lurched forward.
At some point, the car had stopped on the shoulder.
“……”
Siwoo, who looked at Evan to say something about why he was suddenly acting like this, couldn’t part his tightly closed lips.
There were more memories with Evan than he thought. That day too. The day the phone connected to Hyunsu hyung’s radio.
He was fully captured in those eyes filled with deep darkness. Even knowing the distance between them was gradually narrowing, Siwoo couldn’t even move his pupils.
Evan’s hand approached and removed the hood that had been pressed down.
Evan tilted his head slightly, and his breath was felt directly. Along with the intensely penetrating scent, Siwoo slowly closed his eyes.
“Siwoo-ya, do you like Evan?”
The eyelashes of Siwoo with closed eyes trembled. Something soft and squishy holding warmth touched his lips. Since Evan spoke in that state, his own lips moved together too.
“He says he likes you so much. If you try to build walls and run away again like this, he thinks he’ll go crazy, so what should we do?”
Their lips were touching, but as if waiting for an answer, Evan didn’t do anything more.
It seemed like he should honestly say, ‘Siwoo likes you too. And this time he won’t run away. So you can do whatever you want.’
“Si……”
He tried to start speaking with the word ‘Siwoo too.’ But what he felt the moment he moved his lips was a sense of falling.
Evan’s soft and moist tongue wet Siwoo’s lips and didn’t miss that gap where his lips parted slightly to speak.
Evan’s lips, holding moist warmth, bit down firmly on Siwoo’s lower lip.
Along with that, a refreshingly cool mint scent wrapped around Siwoo’s body.
Their lips locked together as if not allowing even the slightest gap, and Evan’s hot hand touched the nape of Siwoo’s neck. The ball cap Siwoo had been wearing until now fell to the floor.
In the space that had been filled only with Evan’s scent at first, a sweet plum scent gradually seeped in. Two completely different pheromones gently intertwined and mixed.
Siwoo wrapped both arms around Evan’s neck.
“Hng……”
Evan’s tongue that had entered between his lips swept through Siwoo’s mouth. Evan’s breathing deepened as he softly and flexibly explored Siwoo. And he carefully touched Siwoo’s tongue, which was flustered at suddenly receiving Evan’s tongue.
Unlike the pheromones that rippled roughly without hiding his emotions, Evan’s actions had leisure and were considerate of Siwoo. Siwoo, who melted into the breathless, stuffy yet thrilling sensation, would hurriedly inhale whenever Evan’s lips moved away even for a moment and then seek him again.
Their breathing tangled and the sound created by sticky saliva filled the car.
When Evan pulled back his body in consideration of Siwoo who was struggling to follow, a thin thread of saliva connected between their moistly wet lips.
“Haa…… this……”
I don’t want to separate. Not wanting Evan to move away even a little, a sigh burst from Siwoo’s mouth as he tried to get closer, putting strength into the arms wrapped around his neck. It was because something pressed down on him strongly.
Deep flush colored the face of Siwoo who had opened his eyes that had been closed until now.
He couldn’t think about anything. Where this was, who he was with and what he was doing right now. None of it mattered.
Siwoo, who had been deeply inhaling and exhaling with his heart beating as if about to burst, realized they were inside a car stopped on the shoulder. And he also noticed that what had put a brake on his current actions was the seatbelt.
Evan’s face, which had leaned close to him, came into view. Siwoo’s cheeks, which had been trying to avoid his gaze at the complicated emotions rushing in, were cupped by Evan’s large hands.
“I asked you. What does Siwoo say?”
Siwoo, who had been lowering his eyes to avoid Evan’s gaze, bit the inside of his lower lip slightly. The intense scent remaining heavily in his mouth. He couldn’t believe what had just happened to him.
You’re the one who didn’t give me time to answer.
And doing this when I should be hiding, running away, and avoiding……
As long as others don’t catch us. Just the two of us. Two.
Evan and me. The two of us.
Evan’s two hands gently caressed Siwoo’s cheeks lost in thought. Siwoo lowered one of the two hands wrapped around Evan’s neck and unfastened the seatbelt that was interfering with his movements.
“Siwoo…… wants to kiss Evan.”
Making eye contact, this time Siwoo approached first.
Let’s be honest. Don’t hide, don’t run away.
More than anything, he didn’t want to have regrets.
The moment their lips touched softly, Siwoo unconsciously pulled his body back slightly. Evan’s lips immediately followed. Precariously, as if playing, their lips locked and separated.
When Siwoo approached, this time Evan moved away.
A little more, a little more. As much as Siwoo approached, Evan retreated.
“……Kim Siwoo.”
At Evan’s voice, which seemed lower and more subdued than usual, Siwoo blinked slowly. He just moved following his instincts. Touching Evan felt good, and he just followed the ecstatic sensation it brought.
“Ah……”
Evan sitting in the driver’s seat. And himself sitting on his legs. Siwoo, who had been looking down at Evan from above, reached out and covered Evan’s eyes. He covered his eyes, not his own, because that gaze looking at him was burdensome. And he wanted to look at Evan.
Heat strong enough to be overwhelming gathered in his lower abdomen.
He’d covered his eyes, but that handsome face wasn’t completely hidden. Without realizing it, Evan’s hands were touching Siwoo’s waist. The hand that had been over the thin hoodie moved slowly. It touched the bottom hem of the hoodie, and next, that hand slid in as if gliding under Siwoo’s clothes.
Between their breathing, the sound of cars occasionally passing quickly on the road could be heard. Orange streetlights illuminated the inside of the car.
Evan’s hand stroking his waist was hot. He couldn’t tell if his own body was cold or if his hand was hot.
The hand slowly stroking his waist went up slowly along his spine. Heat rushed along following Evan’s hand. Siwoo, who had bit down hard on his lower lip, slowly removed his hand that had been covering Evan’s eyes.
“Shall we kiss?”
Making eye contact with Evan who whispered while raising the corner of his mouth slightly, Siwoo let out a long sigh. Lucifer wasn’t him but Evan. Evan, who was said to captivate everyone in 3 seconds, had clearly captured him from the moment they first met at the airport.
It was Evan who had suggested kissing, but it was Siwoo who approached.
Their wetly soaked lips tangled again.
The Evan who had softly and carefully guided Siwoo was gone.
Touching and stirring everywhere inside his mouth, he stimulatingly bit the tip of Siwoo’s tongue that couldn’t follow and curled up. Even when their lips briefly separated, Evan sucked on Siwoo’s lips. Without anyone leading or anyone avoiding, they deeply explored each other.
They exchanged countless kisses, begrudging even that short time when Siwoo caught his breath.
Once. Twice. Three times.
Siwoo’s cell phone rang noisily and repeatedly hung up. From the way it whined a few more times, it seemed messages were coming.
Siwoo, who had been ignoring both the ringing and vibrations, avoided Evan’s lips and buried his face in his shoulder.
After a slight gap, Evan’s cell phone rang.
His whole body had heated up from the kiss they’d just shared. With his eyes closed, Siwoo fully felt his rapidly beating heart—he didn’t know if it was his or Evan’s—gradually settling down. The arrow had left the string and ran toward the target. No, now it had reached the target so it couldn’t be taken back.
In the meantime, Evan’s hand slowly stroked Siwoo’s back.
Following a rustling sound, the ringing that had continued stopped.
“Yes.”
“Where are you?”
“Outside.”
The fingertips of Evan, who was on a call with someone, touched Siwoo’s chin. When Siwoo’s face buried in his shoulder was revealed by the movement of his fingertips, he lightly kissed his fully reddened lips. In the meantime, Myunghun’s words were continuing from beyond the cell phone.
“We’re coming in now.”
It was words for Myunghun but also words for Siwoo. A long sigh flowed from Evan’s mouth as he watched Siwoo, who had been comfortably nestled in his embrace, move and even fasten his own seatbelt in the passenger seat.
“Hand.”
As the cold wind from the air conditioner seeped into the embrace where Siwoo had been hotly nestled just moments ago, Evan reached out his hand to Siwoo first. Soon Siwoo’s small, warm, and soft hand came into his palm.
Evan held that hand and pulled it to kiss the back of his hand.
The short time returning to the dorm.
No conversation was exchanged, but it felt like they’d had more conversation than ever.
Light was seeping into the sky that had been full of darkness. It was the early morning that Siwoo loved most.
