Soohyun didn’t want to tell Seojun that he couldn’t ride in cars. There was nothing good about letting others know that he had some kind of mental problem. Without answering Seojun’s question, Soohyun said he’d go to the bathroom for a moment, then entered the bathroom and washed his face with cold water.
“It’s okay. I took my medicine too.”
Soohyun muttered while looking at his pale face reflected in the mirror. After wiping his face with a towel and heading toward the living room, he saw Seojun sitting awkwardly. As soon as he saw Soohyun, he jumped up from his seat.
“Let’s eat dinner. I made it.”
“You made it yourself?”
“Yes? I’m not sure if it’ll be tasty…”
Seojun had been moving busily since early morning for the dinner. He didn’t know how to cook much, but he thought he could at least handle trimming and grilling meat and vegetables, so he sought advice from a chef he knew. He bought steak meat and purchased asparagus, potatoes, and button mushrooms to go with it.
He could have asked Jinwoo to do simple grocery shopping, but he didn’t want him to find out that he was having a date with Soohyun at home, so he did all of this himself.
“I don’t know how to do much. But the taste should be okay.”
“I’ll enjoy it.”
A faint smile appeared on Soohyun’s face. Seojun, who had been watching only Soohyun’s face from start to finish, also had a similar curve drawn on his face.
Soohyun began eating the food Seojun had made. Though his skill at grilling vegetables and meat was clumsy, the presentation looked quite decent.
“It’s delicious.”
“Ah! Really? Haha, that’s a relief. I called this chef hyung I know and…”
Seojun began explaining how he bought ingredients and made the food. Watching him talk with gestures and a very passionate face, Soohyun occasionally nodded.
“…But after doing it, I felt like Soohyun-ssi was really amazing.”
“Me?”
“Well… actually, this stuff you just cut and grill. But when I looked up recipes for the food Soohyun-ssi makes, they were all complicated. And yesterday! The lunchbox was so delicious.”
“That’s a relief. You seemed to want to eat it.”
“I’m absolutely not someone who fawns over food, but yesterday I just…”
“It’s fine. I’m glad you enjoyed it.”
Seojun’s face turned stupid again. It was because Soohyun smiled with the corners of his eyes folding. Throughout his acting career, he’d seen countless smiling faces, but Soohyun’s was the only smile that made his heart race as if it would burst.
“Choi Seojun-ssi?”
Soohyun called to him as he stared at him with his mouth open and a dazed face. At this, Seojun snapped back to his senses and brought a wine glass and wine bottle.
“Wi… wine! I forgot the wine. I got a recommendation for one that goes well with steak.”
Soohyun hesitated when he saw the wine. For Soohyun who was taking medication, alcohol was something he should avoid.
“Do you… drink wine?”
“Just a very small amount… please.”
But he couldn’t refuse his earnest preparation, so he accepted the glass. He filled about 1/3 of the transparent wine glass and held out one glass to Soohyun.
“Soohyun-ssi, thank you for accepting today’s invitation.”
“I also… look forward to it.”
Cheng-
The sound of the glasses briefly touching was clear. The resonance created by the collision of glasses handmade by glass artisans seemed to enhance the taste and aroma of the wine. Soohyun put a little of the alcohol he was drinking for the first time in years into his mouth and held it. The fragrant and astringent wine went well with the steak, just as Seojun had said.
“…It’s delicious. Very.”
The time after that mainly consisted of Seojun talking and Soohyun listening. The two who had been conversing at the table moved to the living room and sat side by side on the sofa.
“Soohyun-ssi. I…”
Unlike Soohyun who had drunk about a sip of wine, Seojun, who had gulped down quite a few glasses of wine, was drunk enough that his cheeks and ears were bright red. It wasn’t to the point where his tongue was twisted or his body was swaying, but he talked more than usual and was more aggressive toward Soohyun.
“Choi Seojun-ssi, you should stop drinking wine…”
“Soohyun-ssi. Lee Soohyun-ssi.”
Seojun called Soohyun’s name several times, then pushed his body to lay him down on the sofa. And he quickly climbed on top of him and bent down.
“Choi Seojun-ssi?”
“Soohyun-ssi. I… I’m really sorry.”
“Suddenly what are you talking about…”
Soohyun was in Seojun’s field of vision. He really liked his face that was neat like an oriental painting. What he liked more than that was his always quiet and calm attitude. He liked him who looked at him without the slightest waver, but instantly noticed what Seojun liked and carefully took care of him. Only after borrowing the power of alcohol could Seojun finally be honest with his own heart. He liked this person named Lee Soohyun. He was someone he wanted to know more about and wanted to be close to.
“What I did at first to Soohyun-ssi… being mean. I’ll apologize now.”
“I don’t mind.”
“I mind. I do.”
“Choi Seojun-ssi. But this right now is a bit…”
Soohyun was very troubled. The gaze he sent from a distance where their lips might or might not touch was excessively desperate and moist. Because he couldn’t understand why he was looking at him like that. But he couldn’t just push away a drunk person acting unreasonably, so he barely turned his head.
“When I see only Soohyun-ssi… I feel like I’ve become an idiot.”
“Pardon?”
“Words don’t come out well. I keep saying strange things. And when I’m not seeing you… I miss you.”
“Choi Seojun-ssi.”
Soohyun called his name with composure.
“Don’t push me away. Please.”
Seojun overlapped their lips. Soohyun’s eyes widened. Seojun acted as sweet as cotton candy. He gently sucked Soohyun’s lower lip, lightly bit it with his front teeth, then pushed his tongue between the parted lips and swept over the neat teeth and gums.
“Seojun…”
“Stay still.”
Seojun’s hand dug under Soohyun’s shirt. As the cool hand swept ticklingly over Soohyun’s side, goosebumps ran across his entire body.
“Mmph, mm-.”
Seojun tapped as if begging for Soohyun’s tongue. There was no sweet taste characteristic of omega pheromones at all, but strangely, it felt like there was a sweet taste in his mouth. Tapping Soohyun’s hesitating lips and tongue, Seojun pressed for a kiss. The moist inside of his mouth that he’d experienced before and the soft skin he felt with his fingertips were still the same. Seojun exhaled roughly.
“Choi Seojun-ssi…?”
After looking at Soohyun’s flushed face as if rubbing with flower petals, Seojun lifted him up in one motion.
“Wa- wait! Ah!”
“Let’s go to the bedroom.”
Seojun gently laid Soohyun on the bed and climbed on top of him. Seojun’s solid upper body revealed by rolling up his shirt came into view. Soohyun didn’t know why he wasn’t pushing him away. Was it because he’d gotten drunk from just a sip of wine? Even though he knew what he was trying to do, Soohyun had no thought of resisting. Not yet.
Seojun, who had taken off his top, slowly undid the buttons of Soohyun’s shirt. At the touch trying to undress him, he snapped to his senses and grabbed Seojun’s wrist.
“Choi Seojun-ssi. This right now, if you’re doing this because you’re drunk…”
“Have you ever seen a drunk person unbutton this well?”
There wasn’t the slightest hesitation in Seojun’s touch. After easily undoing five or six buttons, he threw open Soohyun’s shirt wide.
“You’re pretty. Soohyun-ssi. You actually know it yourself, right?”
“What do you mean?”
“That you’re pretty and attractive.”
Soohyun couldn’t say anything. It wasn’t that he didn’t know his appearance was quite attractive. But thinking about what he’d experienced before because of this, he didn’t particularly welcome his own appearance.
“Seeing you can’t answer, I guess you know. Soohyun-ssi.”
“Choi Seojun-ssi, I…”
Soohyun couldn’t continue speaking. It was because Seojun suddenly lowered his head and overlapped their lips. As their tongues intertwined and the mucous membranes rubbed against each other with wet sounds, his mind was becoming hazy. Seojun sucked in his lips and tongue without even giving Soohyun a chance to breathe. Occasionally making beast-like sounds, he brought his hand to the belt buckle.
“Wa- wait, th- this!”
“Soohyun-ssi.”
Seojun’s voice calling Soohyun’s name was full of lust. At Seojun’s action of carelessly rubbing the front of his pants between his legs, a heart-wrenching sound burst out.
“J… just wait…”
A moist tongue attacked Soohyun’s nipple. Like the color of Soohyun’s pale pink lips, his nipples were also a delicate color. Seojun felt the small protrusion stretching and swept and tickled the nub with his tongue. Taking the area around the areola into his mouth, with one hand he gently rubbed and twisted the opposite nipple he couldn’t bite with two fingers, teasing it.
“Ah, mmm, ah”
