Instead of answering, Ian nodded slightly. In this state, no matter what restaurant they went to, they might be dragged to the police for obscene acts.
Whatever food it was, if he ate it with Ganghyuk, it was delicious. He felt sorry for Jaehyun who must have worked hard making a date course for a while, but perhaps he had anticipated this would happen.
Ganghyuk, who closed the door with a thud, sat in the driver’s seat somewhat hastily. His movement of fastening the seatbelt was smooth.
That day, Ian learned that Ganghyuk was an incredibly good driver. It was quick to the reserved hotel.
After leaving the car to the employee who came out to greet them, Ganghyuk grabbed Ian’s hand and led him to the highest floor. They started kissing from the elevator, and as soon as they entered the room, they did it once in front of the door.
After that, on the sofa, on the bed, in front of the decorative cabinet, in the bathroom, while eating on the dining table.
They clung together as if to discharge all the moisture in their bodies as semen. Traces of their lovemaking remained throughout the room that had been neatly organized.
When the bed got dirty, they just headed to another room. Finally, when they had no energy to move even a fingertip, Ian could appreciate the night view from the hotel while embraced in Ganghyuk’s arms.
“I think we’re crazy.”
Even while saying it, laughter came out. Though it was sex after a long time, it felt like they’d tried every position.
Ganghyuk became a bit rough only during sex, so currently Ian’s entire body was full of red marks.
“So you didn’t like it?”
Ganghyuk smiled while wrapping Ian’s freshly showered, moist hair around his fingertips. To say he didn’t like it, Ian’s pheromones pleasantly wafted around.
“No. Let’s date again next time.”
Having sex in a place other than home offered a different feeling. Ian rubbed his cheek against Ganghyuk’s chest with a languid expression like a full cat.
His eyelids gradually sank heavily. He wanted to talk with Ganghyuk a bit more, but sleepiness rushed in quickly.
“Baby, sleep well.”
Did he answer “yes”? He didn’t know. At some point, Ian was walking on a road heavily piled with snow in his dream.
The red flowers blooming on the plum tree planted by the roadside caught his eye. As he approached as if entranced, an elegant fragrance brushed past the tip of his nose.
There was a small shop in front of it. Ian hesitated at the savory smell flowing out from inside. It was a nostalgic scent he could never forget for his entire life.
“My child.”
The door opened and his grandfather came out wearing an apron. At the beloved face, Ian’s eyes quickly reddened.
“Grandfather……”
He ran and threw himself into the longed-for embrace. He felt the familiar scent. The hand stroking his head was warm, so Ian tried to pull up the corners of his mouth.
“Why did you only come now? I prayed every day for grandfather to appear in my dreams.”
“The living must live.”
You don’t know how much he’d wanted to hear this voice. Grandfather patted Ian’s head for a long while as he cried until his face turned red.
“Let’s eat, my child.”
Grandfather pulled Ian’s hand, whose eyelids were swollen. It was the now-collapsed Hoho Soup Restaurant building. Inside, Ian ate his fill of the soup rice grandfather had boiled for him.
Only after Ian waved his hands saying he couldn’t eat anymore did grandfather stop bringing soup rice.
“From now on, you’ll appear in my dreams often, right? I really missed you so much, grandfather……”
Worried that grandfather might disappear, Ian tightly grasped grandfather’s hand with both hands. Even though it was a dream, the warmth felt from his hands seemed so real that the tears that had stopped for a moment came again.
“I’m happy as long as my child is happy.”
Wrinkled hands slowly wiped away the tears covering his cheeks. It was when Ian stood up from his seat, anxious at grandfather not making a promise.
Grandfather and the surrounding scenery gradually became hazy.
“Grandfather, don’t go. Stay with me a little longer……”
Ian clung to his grandfather pleadingly, but it was useless. Grandfather stroked Ian’s cheek one last time.
“Don’t cry. My child, grandfather loves you very much.”
“Sniff, me too…… I love you so much too, grandfather……”
His insides collapsed at conveying words he couldn’t say while grandfather was alive only now. In the space where he was suddenly left alone, Ian cried without knowing how time passed, in piercing loneliness.
“Baby.”
A low voice awakened Ian’s consciousness. When he opened his eyes soaked with sorrowful tears, he saw Ganghyuk looking at him.
“Grandfather, grandfather……”
“Yeah. He came to visit you?”
“Yeeees…… But he left too quickly……”
It was just a dream. But Ian felt sad as if he’d had another parting with his grandfather. If only he’d stayed a little longer. He missed grandfather, who had disappeared as if he had urgent business, so much that the tears wouldn’t stop.
“He’ll come visit again.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
At the voice filled with certainty, Ian sniffled and hugged Ganghyuk’s neck. Then he whispered in a small voice:
“Executive Director, I love you.”
He felt the body touching his flinch and tremble. Though he knew it was a sudden confession, Ian realized one thing while telling his grandfather he loved him.
You mustn’t spare loving feelings. If you love someone, you must express it every day. Though he didn’t want to imagine the end with Ganghyuk, still, if such a day should come, so his heart would ache less.
“……I love you too.”
At the confession returned, Ian smiled hazily and closed his eyes again. Warm breath touched his moist eyes.
He was fortunate to have Ganghyuk, who immediately filled grandfather’s empty space. And like Ganghyuk said, he had faith that grandfather would come visit him again someday.
Pat pat. The hand tapping his back and the affection touching all over his face soothed his upset heart.
Ganghyuk’s eyelids also slowly lowered. The light seeping through the window faintly illuminated the two of them and then faded away.
One day among the two’s many days was passing.
<Young Omega> Complete
