Wooyeon pushed Jeonghan away with his arm that bore handprints, then tried to leave the villa entrance again as if exhausted. Jeonghan hurriedly reopened the closing door and grabbed Wooyeon’s arm, pulling him back inside the villa.
“Go. Don’t follow me.”
“Sunbae.”
“Let’s stop for today.”
Wooyeon stepped backward, trying to pull his hand free from Jeonghan’s grasp. When Wooyeon lowered his head, tears fell to the floor with a plop, leaving water marks on the villa’s marble.
“Sunbae.”
“Stop it.”
“Phew, earlier I—”
“You too, you were also with Chu Seonyoung! Is it only my fault?”
Like a dam bursting, Wooyeon sobbed and poured out his words. As Jeonghan approached Wooyeon, Wooyeon looked up at Jeonghan while stepping back. Every time he shouted at Jeonghan, his chest ached painfully.
“To you, am I selling myself?”
Unable to bear looking at Jeonghan’s face, Wooyeon clutched his chest and averted his gaze. In the pain of being unable to breathe properly, Wooyeon squeezed his eyes shut and grimaced.
Then Jeonghan lifted Wooyeon’s face and kissed him again. The lips wet with tears interlocked with Jeonghan’s, tasting salty. Jeonghan’s touch, gently enveloping his soft, plump lips, tenderly caressed Wooyeon’s cheeks.
Wooyeon felt more tears at this than at any consolation. At the lips that sadly parted again, Wooyeon dropped tears with his long eyelashes lowered.
“But. Were you concerned about Chu Seonyoung?”
Eyes glistening with moisture turned toward Jeonghan again.
“You should have said so earlier.”
Eyes filled with puzzlement wavered before Jeonghan. Jeonghan was smiling faintly.
* * *
The one remaining major exam was tomorrow. Although his income had decreased after getting fired from the convenience store part-time job, on days without tutoring, he could devote his evening time entirely to studying.
Wooyeon was holed up in the Sanggyeong College library, looking through his major textbook. How long had he been concentrating? Wooyeon turned his head back at the touch of someone tapping his shoulder. The mechanical pencil lead broke with a snap.
“Sunbae.”
Kim Sunwoo whispered so quietly that even the person next to him couldn’t hear and nodded, then placed his bag on the seat next to Wooyeon. When Wooyeon rolled his large eyes to look at Sunwoo, Sunwoo stuck his face out from beside the partition to look at Wooyeon again.
“I moved seats since you were here, sunbae.”
Ah. Wooyeon smiled faintly at Sunwoo, then stuck his head back inside the partition. Living a busy life, Wooyeon had given up many things, and relationships between people were a prime example. Wooyeon didn’t dislike Sunwoo, who was friendly to him without any other reason.
And it was when Wooyeon had immersed himself in studying again. Someone tapped Wooyeon’s shoulder again. Thinking it would naturally be Sunwoo, Wooyeon turned his head toward Sunwoo’s side, but Sunwoo was engrossed in a phone game inside the partition. When he turned his head the other way…
“Were you studying hard?”
It was Jeonghan. At the voice whispering in Wooyeon’s ear while bending his tall frame, Wooyeon somehow felt his waist trembling. As Wooyeon shrank back, Jeonghan placed coffee taken out from a cafe on top of Wooyeon’s desk. Probably vanilla latte. Moisture was beading on top of the disposable plastic cup.
When Wooyeon raised his head to look at Jeonghan, Jeonghan smiled softly and tidied Wooyeon’s hair at the side.
“Have you eaten dinner?”
When Jeonghan whispered again, Wooyeon shook his head slightly.
“Then let’s eat together later. Shall we meet in front of here in an hour?”
Wooyeon, whose eyes had turned toward the Sanggyeong College library entrance and then met Jeonghan’s again, slowly nodded his head. Sunwoo in the seat next to him was a bit concerning, but if Sunwoo said he had no one to eat dinner with, the three of them could eat together.
Jeonghan’s gaze, which had been stopped on Wooyeon with lowered eyes, looked at the seat where Sunwoo was sitting for a moment, then turned back to Wooyeon. His smiling face was handsome.
“Then enjoy the coffee.”
Jeonghan lightly massaged Wooyeon’s shoulder, then left the Sanggyeong College library.
Wooyeon stared blankly at Jeonghan’s retreating figure, then turned his head again and reached for the coffee Jeonghan had left. The coffee taste spreading on his tongue through the straw felt sweeter than on other days.
* * *
“Sunbae.”
“……”
“Sunbae, are you okay?”
Sunwoo whispered in a small voice and tapped the shoulder of Wooyeon, who was slumped over his desk. His body was trembling as he barely raised himself up.
Wooyeon lifted his eyelids that kept trying to close and looked at Sunwoo beside him. His vision was blurred and he couldn’t study. His body was hot as if he had a fever. His breathing had become shallow and he felt suffocated because he couldn’t breathe well.
“Huk, sunbae. Look at all that sweat.”
Sunwoo reached his hand toward Wooyeon’s forehead worriedly. Wooyeon’s forehead and nape, which looked like they wouldn’t know sweat even in midsummer, were wet. When Sunwoo’s hand touched Wooyeon’s forehead, Wooyeon swatted Sunwoo’s hand away as if shuddering. When Wooyeon’s chair fell backward with a bang, the gazes inside the Sanggyeong College library turned toward Wooyeon.
“I, just, just a moment, the bathroom.”
Perhaps because everyone was busy with exams approaching, the gazes that thought it wasn’t a big deal withdrew from Wooyeon again.
Wooyeon left the library with both arms wrapped around himself and headed to the bathroom. Only Sunwoo looked at Wooyeon’s retreating figure with concern.
“Huk, huuk……”
Rushing into a bathroom stall, Wooyeon immediately latched the lock and hurriedly pulled down his pants. The underwear that went down below his thighs along with his pants was soaking wet as viscous slick stretched stickily.
“Wh-what do I do?”
Despair flashed across Wooyeon’s pale face. Even when he thought back to see if he had miscounted the days and recalled his cycle again, the heat cycle still had quite a while left. Tears fell with a plop on his finely trembling cheeks. It was the first time Wooyeon, a recessive omega, had experienced such a severe heat cycle.
At the unfamiliar sensation, Wooyeon didn’t know what to do and pulled up his underwear and pants again. What should I do? At the frightening imagination that kept coming, Wooyeon’s body, which had been leaning against the bathroom stall wall, slid down. The increasingly shallow breathing, the sweat seeping out, and the rising body temperature felt unfamiliar. It was different from previous heat cycles that he’d suffered through briefly like a light cold. Just then, the phone in Wooyeon’s hand vibrated.
「Sunbae, why aren’t you coming? -Kim Sunwoo」
「Are you sick? -Kim Sunwoo」
「I’m in front of the library, where are you? -Jeonghan」
「You looked sick earlier -Kim Sunwoo」
Between the messages from Sunwoo, there was Jeonghan’s name. Wooyeon pressed the keyboard that appeared at the bottom of the screen to reply to Jeonghan by selecting one of the messages displayed on the screen.
「namofeelnogoodsoryy」
Wooyeon grimaced at his fingers that kept slipping contrary to his intention. With his vision continuing to blur, tears surged and fell each time Wooyeon blinked slowly. His flushed cheeks were already soaking wet. Shallow breaths scattered intermittently.
Irritated to the limit by his body that wouldn’t obey, Wooyeon just carelessly sent a reply to Jeonghan. He hated it all. Why was his body suddenly like this, no, why was he born as an omega in the first place?
“Heu, uu……”
Wooyeon hugged his own arms while sitting down at the suddenly sensitive sensations. A thick alpha scent was approaching from afar. He didn’t know why, but he could instinctively tell that an alpha was approaching from a distance. His already wet rear twitched according to his heartbeat and gushed out slick.
Exhausted, Wooyeon dropped the phone he was holding and put his hand on the wall. The phone that fell to the floor was sticking out halfway outside the bathroom stall. At the continuously thickening alpha scent, Wooyeon’s mind grew increasingly hazy. His footsteps thundered in his ears. And finally, he was standing right in front of the door.
Wooyeon bit the inside of his lips and trembled. As his anus opened and closed ceaselessly, spitting out slick, his buttocks became completely soaking wet.
Knock knock.
Someone standing outside knocked calmly. There was no way that person, who was clearly an alpha, didn’t know there was an omega in heat inside.
Wooyeon tried to hold his breath, but even that wouldn’t obey. As Wooyeon staggered to stand up from his seat, the person outside picked up Wooyeon’s phone. The fingers and scent he caught a glimpse of were too familiar.
“Sunbae.”
“……ha, uu……”
“Sunbae, come out.”
It was Jeonghan’s voice. At the thought that the alpha outside was Jeonghan, Wooyeon felt relief and paradoxically fear at the same time. His light-colored irises wavered, wet with tears. In the narrow space, Wooyeon’s pheromones grew thicker and thicker. The Jeonghan outside knocked again.
“Come out, sunbae.”
“Heu, no……”
If he went out, he would be devoured just like this. Wooyeon slowly shook his head.
“There’s no one in the bathroom right now. Only me.”
“Ha, huuk……”
“First, try opening the door, be good?”
Thick excitement underlay Jeonghan’s voice that coaxed tenderly.
“It’s okay, come out.”
Jeonghan’s low voice calmly coaxed and soothed Wooyeon. Wooyeon, who had been listening to Jeonghan’s voice as if intoxicated, stopped shaking his head and staggered as he reached for the doorknob.
With a clank, as the latch released, the bathroom stall immediately opened and a thick fragrance flowed out.
“Our pretty sunbae.”
Jeonghan, revealed as the door opened, was smiling. The hands that cupped both of Wooyeon’s cheeks were large and hot. As Jeonghan’s skin touched him, his heart beat faster and he could feel all the blood in his body circulating rapidly. Wooyeon trembled in Jeonghan’s arms.
“In heat, even prettier.”
While holding Wooyeon, who couldn’t even control his own body, in his arms, Jeonghan whispered.
“The drugs work well on you too, good boy.”
With his hazy mind, Wooyeon couldn’t interpret what Jeonghan’s words meant. Jeonghan lowered his head and kissed Wooyeon’s cheek with a smack.
“Haak……”
Unable to endure it, Wooyeon trembled and let out shallow breaths.
“What should we do now?”
Jeonghan’s laughter rang in Wooyeon’s ears. He looked pitiful, hanging limply without being able to come to his senses, trembling all over.
Wooyeon trembled as he grabbed and clung to Jeonghan’s shirt. Pitiful breaths spread from Jeonghan’s nape. It was a thick, thick fragrance that an ordinary alpha wouldn’t have been able to endure.
“……han, Jeonghan-ah……”
As if something was so heartbreaking, Wooyeon was dropping tears like glass beads, one after another. Jeonghan watched such Wooyeon with languid eyes.
“You said you didn’t like the bathroom.”
“Heu, mm…… please.”
“Our pretty sunbae.”
Wooyeon could only resent Jeonghan, who smiled round and round while avoiding the point. His long eyelashes were also soaked with tears as he looked at Jeonghan resentfully. Should this be called bewitching? Jeonghan lewdly kneaded Wooyeon’s waist wrapped in his arms.
“Then shall we go to the department room? It’s right away.”
Wooyeon nodded like a broken doll. Each time he did, tears fell drip, drip, drip below his chin.
