#10
The guy who used to talk about sex education, where did he disappear to? Kang Jihan sometimes went crazy and ejaculated inside. I thought it was safe because we ran out of condoms, but how naive was that thought? I realized it again.
Kang Jihan had a long ejaculation, and he didn’t stay still even when enjoying the afterglow. His cock continued to move in and out of my inner walls filled with semen. Because of the flesh that greedily enjoyed the lingering pleasure of ejaculation, fluid continued to pour out of Nam Seonwoo’s cock against his will. As the squelching sound and the simmering moans behind his back made his ears dizzy, the bed became wet.
Nam Seonwoo blankly looked out the window. The bright morning sunlight was revealing the shameless act in its entirety. It wasn’t the first or second time he ended up like this in the morning, but it was still embarrassing to be like this in broad daylight.
Kang Jihan asked in a playful voice.
“Am I still the best?”
Nam Seonwoo pressed his forehead. He pressed his forehead against the sheet because he didn’t even have the strength to press his forehead.
“It’s just a dream…”
“Don’t smoke even in dreams.”
Kang Jihan laughed, saying ‘You know, right?’ while licking the side of Nam Seonwoo’s face buried in the bed and his ears until he got a response. Nam Seonwoo weakly nodded. Even if it was a joke, he shouldn’t say such things, and he was reminded again that his roommate was a beast, but Kang Jihan muttered.
“I told you not to say such things in bed.”
Wondering what he was going to say, he lifted his head, and Kang Jihan smiled brightly.
“But I love you.”
Next to his neatly raised lips, his cute dimple was visible. Looking at that shameless face, Nam Seonwoo thought, I’m really hopeless because my feelings are completely soothed by that face.
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Nam Seonwoo lazily stretched and looked at the clock. It was already noon, and he wondered if he had fallen asleep again. The time was the same as the one he saw in his dream, so he hesitated for a moment, but he smiled faintly as he smelled the doenjang jjigae flowing into the bedroom.
As he opened the door, the same morning scene as always welcomed him. A broad back making something in the kitchen, a pot boiling with a bubbling sound in front of it, and…
“Are you up?”
Kang Jihan, who turned around with a gentle voice. Nam Seonwoo nodded with a yawn.
The kitchen was filled with delicious smells. As he sat at the table, Kang Jihan placed doenjang jjigae, omelet rice, and seasoned radish kimchi in front of him one by one. The French toast he preferred for breakfast had long been replaced by omelet rice. Nam Seonwoo pointed at the well-cooked omelet and asked.
“What is this?”
Ketchup was freely sprinkled over the widely spread egg. It looked like something was drawn, but no matter how he looked, it only looked like a lump. When he asked, Kang Jihan pouted and brought the ketchup. The ketchup he squeezed with all his nerves barely completed one letter.
Nya.
In the end, Nam Seonwoo burst into laughter.
“Hey, is it supposed to be a cat? Where does it look like a cat?”
“This is the ear, and this is the whisker.”
“It looks like a bug’s leg, not a whisker. I almost lost my appetite. Just draw what you usually draw.”
As he rubbed the ketchup cat with the back of the spoon, Kang Jihan asked as if it was absurd.
“What do you usually draw? A heart?”
“Yeah. That would be better.”
At first, his hand cramped when he saw the heart decorating the omelet rice, but as he saw Kang Jihan using the omelet rice as a canvas, he missed the heart.
Even though it was smeared with ketchup and the visual was a bit strange, the taste was excellent. As he scooped the next spoonful and stuffed his cheeks, Kang Jihan sat across from him.
“Is it tasty?”
As he nodded as if it was obvious, Kang Jihan’s dimple deepened. Since he was just leaning on his arm and watching, he asked with his eyes, ‘Aren’t you going to eat?’ and Kang Jihan pushed his share of the omelet rice towards him.
“Eat this too.”
If it were before, he would have worried and asked, ‘Why aren’t you eating?’ but Nam Seonwoo, who had been tormented by Kang Jihan for a long time, realized that he was the one who should eat a lot. Even just yesterday and today, he had been licked all over by Kang Jihan. As Nam Seonwoo emptied his plate and even scraped Kang Jihan’s share clean, a satisfied laugh was heard from across the table.
“I’m good at cooking now.”
“Mmm.”
“Did you just say mmm?”
“Don’t talk to me when I’m eating.”
His pronunciation was unclear because of the food in his mouth, but Kang Jihan just giggled as if he liked it.
Kang Jihan, who used to say he would pack lunch for him all his life, really made breakfast every morning. At first, he was in a mood to make all three meals without considering his own schedule, so they compromised on breakfast.
“Why don’t I gain weight even though I eat so well?”
Shameless guy. Nam Seonwoo glared at him and put down his spoon, and Kang Jihan stood up with the two cleanly emptied plates. As he crunched on the apple that came out as dessert, Kang Jihan naturally went to the sink and put on rubber gloves. As he looked at the back doing dishes under the morning sunlight, various emotions crossed his mind.
Kang Jihan’s anxiety had decreased a lot. Just looking at the morning was proof. The fact that he took the words about cheating in a dream as a joke was a really big change.
Not only that, but now they sometimes spent time with their respective friends after class ended. There was a time when Nam Seonwoo came home late after playing with Park Gyuhyeon, and Kang Jihan was asleep on the sofa. He didn’t go out barefoot and waited quietly and fell asleep. Of course, he still had to be next to him when he woke up in the morning, but even this much was reassuring.
Nam Seonwoo fiddled with his ring finger with his thumb. This couple ring also greatly helped in soothing Kang Jihan’s anxiety. As he started going out properly dressed without a hat, people naturally gathered around him. Among them, there were quite a few who sent subtle signals, and the gender was not limited to women. Nam Seonwoo, who had been locked in the house for a while just because he received a note from a male senior, almost got an F in attendance and only reached a compromise with this couple ring at the last moment.
Always wear it on your ring finger. If someone suspicious approaches, scratch your cheek with the hand wearing the ring. As he faithfully kept these two conditions, troublesome things decreased, and Kang Jihan also lowered his guard. Now, Park Gyuhyeon, who knew about their relationship, worried about Kang Jihan, saying that he was really sick.
It was true, but Nam Seonwoo sided with Kang Jihan. After all, Kang Jihan knew that he was pathological. It was commendable that he was receiving psychological counseling as he suggested. Even though he didn’t like the counselor saying, ‘For a healthy relationship, you should keep your distance from him,’ he went regularly. Park Gyuhyeon grumbled, saying it was disgusting, but Nam Seonwoo didn’t care.
‘He’s really commendable, at this point.’
Sometimes, when he woke up in the early morning, he found a gaze silently watching him with bated breath. When he saw that gaze that seemed to want to engrave his existence in his eyes, he sometimes thought, what if the past is repeated? What if, just in case, I die again this time and leave him alone?
But now, he was feeling every day that many things were different from the past. For example, the military. With the doctor’s diagnosis, he didn’t have to go to that damn military this time. Even the fact that he was indifferent to his classmates who kept in touch after graduation, and that he became close to his classmates who were a year younger and participated in many department activities, was different. Small things changed, and as those small things gathered one by one, they were heading in a completely different direction.
Kang Jihan, who had finished the dishes, took off his apron. As he approached the table to give him a piece of apple, he suddenly noticed his outfit. It wasn’t his usual pajamas or naked body hidden under the apron. A neatly ironed dress shirt without a single wrinkle and shiny dress pants. As Nam Seonwoo looked at Kang Jihan from head to toe, he tilted his head.
‘What’s today?’
On Saturdays, they usually spent time at home until the late afternoon. Moreover, even if he had to go out, a twenty-one-year-old college student wouldn’t dress up like this. As his gaze lingered, Kang Jihan’s face changed worriedly.
“Is something wrong?”
Come to think of it, his hair was also neatly combed. As he continued to think, Nam Seonwoo looked at the calendar with an ‘Ah.’ Today’s date was circled in red with Kang Jihan’s handwriting.
「First Greeting」
That’s right, today is the day.
As Nam Seonwoo looked up at Kang Jihan, who had taken his eyes off the calendar, his face was full of tension like his hair, which was stiff with wax. As he fed an apple to his lover, who had hardened in the meantime, Nam Seonwoo swallowed his laughter.
Today was the day his parents returned to Korea.
Originally, they should have come back in late summer, but their return was delayed due to sudden work, and eventually, his parents entered Korea in late winter.
During that time, his parents, who had repeatedly told him not to break up with his boyfriend, and Kang Jihan, who had prepared summer, transitional, and winter suits, were finally meeting today. Because the schedule had been postponed repeatedly, Nam Seonwoo was actually a bit less excited. But Kang Jihan didn’t seem to be.
“Looks good. I like it.”
Nam Seonwoo realized again that his boyfriend was handsome. What did students call this? As he pondered the term students used, Kang Jihan revised his question.
“Do you think your parents will like it too?”
“Since they’re my parents, they probably have similar tastes to me.”
Only then did Kang Jihan, who was relieved, go into the dressing room to prepare to leave. Meanwhile, Nam Seonwoo lay on the living room sofa and rolled around. It had been a long time since they last met, but he didn’t have to show off to his family, so he was planning to just wear a coat and go. Kang Jihan would have washed his body clean, so he was checking the flight delay information when the dressing room door finally opened.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
