Doha was confused by this situation.
‘Crazy, Lim Sehyun.’
This wasn’t anything like being drunk. The two had only drunk a few sips of beer, and neither was drunk. Unless the small amount of alcohol had stimulated an impulse that had been lying dormant.
Saliva mixed and breaths were shared. A more stinging stimulation than the carbonation in the beer flowed down his spine. When Sehyun bit down on Doha’s lower lip, Doha’s body flinched and trembled.
“Haah……”
At the end of a long breath, their lips separated. A silver thread-like strand of saliva stretched out then broke with a snap.
Doha looked up at Sehyun with dazed eyes. He was so flustered that his breathing was a mess, and his vision was spinning.
“You, you……”
Doha stammered, roughly wiping his lips with the back of his hand. His head wouldn’t work to figure out what to say.
Sehyun was looking down at Doha with wet eyes while evening out his disheveled breathing. His lips glistened, and his cheeks were flushed redder than usual. But those eyes were clear as could be.
What the hell is with this bastard?
“You told me to do it, hyung.”
“No, what I told you to do wasn’t this!”
I said you could go date somewhere! And I didn’t even mean that seriously!
His chest felt stuffy somehow. Was this guy actually an idiot after all?
“I’m a guy.”
“Yeah.”
“And, we’re in the same group.”
“Like I wouldn’t know that.”
“Your, your hyung.”
“So old-fashioned.”
Sehyun countered each of Doha’s words one by one. Unlike Doha, he had a shameless face without a trace of confusion.
“You…… did you take something?”
As he thought of various possibilities, he arrived at an extreme thought. Did he get corrupted by Jo Taejin’s bad influence?
“Do I have to take drugs to kiss you, hyung?”
Instead, Sehyun asked as if incredulous.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
Doha stopped mid-rebuttal. Kissing another guy in your right mind, and a member at that, wasn’t exactly sane either.
Doha’s gaze unconsciously went to Sehyun’s lips. Glistening lips. Still flushed red. Those very lips that had just been persistently biting and sucking his own lips.
Flush. Heat rushed to his face. This is driving me crazy, really.
But at that moment, he recalled what had happened in bed last time.
“You, this isn’t your first time.”
Some kind of intuition kicked in.
“First what?”
“You did it in your right mind last time too!”
“But hyung.”
Sehyun leaned his body at an angle and asked playfully. The smile hanging on his lips was irritating.
“It didn’t feel bad, did it?”
“……What?”
“If you hated it, you would’ve kicked me away right away. Or grabbed me by the collar.”
At Sehyun’s words, Doha was left speechless. He was right. If it had been his usual self, his fist would’ve come out immediately. Why did I just stay still?
‘That was just because I was too flustered…… I froze.’
An excuse came to mind, but he couldn’t spit it out. The logic was lacking to convince Lim Sehyun.
“Actually, you liked it, didn’t you?”
“No.”
Sehyun pressed mischievously. Doha squeezed his eyes shut. His head was complicated. He remembered the 19+ novel he’d read not long ago.
When he’d read that, he’d definitely giggled thinking where could such delusions exist, it’s really unrealistic. Now that was unfolding as reality.
“Since when did you have these, these impure thoughts.”
“I don’t think I’ve even started the impure stuff yet.”
“What?”
“I studied a lot though.”
Fuck. What study. He became afraid to hear the answer. No, he absolutely must not hear it.
“I guess I have a knack for it.”
“I really don’t want to ask.”
“Want to try what comes next?”
Sehyun asked with sparkling eyes. It looked like pure curiosity, but the meaning contained within was anything but pure.
“Are you crazy!”
Doha stood up abruptly. Because he got up too hastily, the table shook and the empty beer can rolled across the floor making a clattering sound.
“Ah, why. I’m saying I’ll show you what I studied.”
Sehyun leaned back leisurely on the sofa, looking up at Doha who had stood up as if fleeing. He looked as pleased as a cat that had cornered a mouse.
“I want to go to the dorm.”
“Even if we go to the dorm, we share a room.”
Lim Sehyun teased Doha as if he could see exactly what he was thinking.
“This is maddening. This is sexual harassment.”
“Are you going to report me?”
“I could.”
“The article would really come out funny.”
Sehyun laughed loudly. Roughly imagining what kind of article would come out, a leader who was sexually harassed by a maknae member from the same group…… This is crazy. He decided to stop thinking about it.
“I’m leaving.”
“Where will you go.”
“The dorm! I need to sleep!”
“Let’s go together.”
When he headed toward the door making thumping sounds, Lim Sehyun followed giggling. Lim Sehyun, who had gotten close in no time, draped his arm over Doha’s shoulder.
“Should we buy hotteok on the way?”
At Sehyun’s attitude that seemed to have no confusion at all, Doha pressed his forehead. Something was wrong with this, really wrong.
* * *
Tick, tick.
The sound of the clock hanging on the wall sounded especially loud. 3 AM. But Doha’s eyes were wide open.
‘Crazy bastard, Lim Sehyun. Lunatic, Lim Sehyun.’
When he closed his eyes, that moment in the studio automatically replayed. Hot lips, tongues thickly entangled, a low voice scratching at his ear.
‘Ugh…… Lim Sehyun!’
Doha pulled the blanket over himself and flailed. His face was hot enough to burst.
The problem wasn’t what Lim Sehyun had done. The problem was his own reaction of not particularly…… disliking it while it was being done to him.
‘Why wasn’t I disgusted?’
Normally between guys, and sweaty guys at that bumping into each other, feeling repulsed is normal, right? But why, was I only flustered and had no repulsion. Is there a problem with this body?
‘Don’t tell me, I’m also……?’
Doha suddenly looked back on his past life. He didn’t know what the real Baek Doha was like, but before the possession, he was a lifelong solo. Not because he wasn’t interested in women, but just because life was too busy, he thought his romance cells had withered away.
‘Could the cells themselves have been that way?’
No way, that can’t be.
Doha shook his head vigorously and turned over to lie down.
The opposite bed came into view. There, the culprit Lim Sehyun was sound asleep, oblivious to the world. His regular breathing could be heard irritatingly.
“……Sleeping so soundly with your legs stretched out.”
I can’t sleep a wink because of you and am here kicking the blanket. Injustice surged. You dump a bombardment instead of a pebble into a calm lake and dare to sleep leisurely by yourself? He was so outrageous he was left speechless.
Revenge.
Right, revenge is needed. I can’t be the only one suffering.
Doha sneakily got up from the bed. He tiptoed, killing the sound of his footsteps as he approached Sehyun’s bed.
Even in the darkness, his handsome face shone irritatingly. He wanted to punch that nose bridge. Or should he doodle on his face. Should he take some humiliating photos and spread them somewhere.
Doha cast a shadow over Sehyun’s face and glared with all his might. It was with the sentiment of hoping he’d get sleep paralysis.
Childish, but this was about all he could do right now.
‘Should I just step on him.’
It was the moment Doha was about to reach out and pinch Sehyun’s cheek.
Swoosh.
Sehyun’s arm that had been outside the blanket suddenly moved.
“Eok?!”
There was no time to avoid it. Sehyun’s hand snatched Doha’s wrist and pulled it toward him. Doha’s body, having lost its balance, toppled onto the bed.
As he fell onto the soft mattress, a firm embrace wrapped around Doha.
“……!”
When he came to his senses, Doha was in the state of being fully embraced in Sehyun’s arms. Sehyun’s long arms were firmly wrapped around Doha’s waist.
When Doha struggled and raised his head, he saw Sehyun’s face right in front of his nose.
The closed eyes smoothly opened. Eyes that shone brightly even in the darkness faced Doha.
“Why are you lurking around someone else’s bed?”
A raspy voice flowed out.
“You weren’t asleep?”
“Watching you kick your blanket was entertaining, hyung.”
Sehyun smiled languidly. Sleepiness was clear in his eyes. He seemed to be in a state of drifting in and out of sleep…….
It was something to feel sorry about waking someone who was trying to sleep, but rather it seemed like a good thing. Suffer a bit from not being able to sleep.
“Because it was irritating watching you sleep well alone.”
“Mm, so it was impressive enough to keep you up at night, hyung.”
It was somehow pride-damaging. Saying it like that makes it seem like this side liked it, doesn’t it?
“Not at all. Not at all?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
What do you mean yeah. What yeah. He felt like his chest would burst. But when he quietly held his breath, he could hear a heart pounding at his ear.
Lim Sehyun’s heart was beating very intensely.
