Gentle Giant Chapter 16
To be honest, it wasn’t that there wasn’t space for a double bed in the room, it was just that Dain’s body size was also far too big for a super single.
The vertical length was barely adequate, but the horizontal width was so narrow that if Dain rolled over once, he would immediately fall to the floor.
It was realistically impossible for both himself, who was over 180cm, and Juho, who was over 190cm, to sleep on such a bed.
At Dain’s words, Juho looked around the bed and nodded.
“Hmm, the width is a bit narrow.”
“Yeah. So you can sleep on the bed, Juho. I don’t mind sleeping on the floor at all. I’ve slept on it a lot.”
“Where?”
“Huh?”
Dain asked back at the sudden question. Where?
“You said you’ve slept on the floor a lot. Where did you sleep that you slept on the floor so much? Do you usually sleep at other people’s houses too, hyung?”
At Juho’s rapid-fire questions that poured out as soon as he asked back, Dain was momentarily flustered but quickly provided an answer.
It was nothing special. Since they lived on the floor in the countryside. Dain had only started using a bed after coming to Seoul.
“I told you I came from the countryside. The countryside house didn’t have a bed. So floor living is familiar to me. Why?”
“Ah, no. I just thought maybe you slept somewhere other than home where you lived on the floor…”
“No, I told you I don’t have friends. I’ve never slept anywhere else besides here since coming to Seoul.”
Dain corrected Juho’s words with a smile. Feeling like he had overreacted too much to something trivial, Juho briefly cursed inwardly then soon wore a bitter smile on his face.
“I wondered if hyung had other friends besides me. I really only have you, hyung.”
“Juho…”
Lines that would make others cringe seemed like a scene from an art film when Juho said them. Dain, who already had the ‘Lee Juho male god’ filter fully applied to his eyes, was tremendously moved by that single sentence.
Dain quickly pulled up and held Juho’s hand, which somehow looked dejected, and patted it.
“I really only have you as my closest friend who I can open my heart to, really.”
“Really…? What about other friends?”
“I really don’t have any. Really, really.”
“I only have you too, hyung. Really, really, really.”
After Juho’s words ended, both of them made ‘pft’ sounds and laughed simultaneously.
Somehow it had become like a contest of who had fewer friends, but anyway, it ended with the heartwarming conclusion that they were each other’s closest friends.
The conversation that started with who would sleep on the bed had veered off to another topic in the middle. Seeing Juho’s face full of fatigue, Dain quickly returned to the bed topic.
“So first, you sleep on the bed, Juho.”
“Mmm. Hyuuung.”
“Uh, huh…?”
Juho said “Hyuuung” while drawing out the end of his words. It was a voice he had experienced several times already. When Juho spoke with this drawling, aegyo-filled voice, Dain had never been able to refuse him. As expected, this time was the same.
“Hyuuung, let’s just sleep together. I’m confident I won’t move from that corner over there. Please??”
“Juho. Then it’ll really be uncomfortable.”
“Hyuuung. Please? Let’s try sleeping first and if it’s really uncomfortable, I’ll tell you.”
“Really?”
“Yes! I really can’t sleep if I’m even a little uncomfortable.”
Juho lifted Dain’s hand that was still covering his and hooked their pinkies together. At the cute action that didn’t suit his build at all, Dain, who finally let out a small laugh, moved his head up and down.
At the consent obtained after several attempts, Juho’s eyes curved like crescents. That eye-smile was so dazzling that Dain squeezed his eyelids shut then opened them.
* * *
Dusky evening. The light from the streetlamp standing at the entrance of the villa alley was passing through Dain’s one-room window and illuminating the bed. Juho relied on that dim light to thoroughly examine Dain’s face.
Eyebrows slightly furrowed as if dreaming something, eyelids that occasionally twitched. And lips that constantly mumbled something incomprehensible.
Juho, who had woken up long ago, had been admiring Dain in the same position without moving for dozens of minutes already.
He had come to Korea half-doubting, or honestly, with the mindset that he could turn around and go straight back to America if he didn’t like what he saw in person. But he never expected that ‘Jung Dain’ would match his tastes to this extent… It was truly unexpected.
Normally one would be disappointed when meeting in person after only meeting online.
But then again, Jung Dain isn’t normal. The very expectation of being disappointed by such a cute creature was wrong from the start. He had made the wrong prediction, and Jung Dain, who beautifully overturned that prediction, was completely his type.
Now that it had come to this, there was only one thing left to do. He had to thoroughly devour Jung Dain. Both outside and inside.
Juho gently rubbed and smoothed out Dain’s wrinkled brow with his long fingertips, then slid that finger down along his nose bridge. The round nostrils at the end of his long nose were touched. After enjoying that soft sensation for a while, he gradually realized Dain’s part-time job time was approaching and began waking Dain up.
He wanted to spend time watching Dain all night long, but thinking of the reaction he would show if he missed his part-time job, it was right to wake Dain up here.
“Hyung. Wake up. It’s already 9 o’clock.”
“Mmm…”
His body, which had been sleeping sweetly, was gently shaken. Dain, who didn’t want to end the sweet feeling and was mumbling with his head buried in the pillow, opened his eyes with a start.
What…? A question mark appeared in Dain’s mind. It feels more stuffy than usual.
Dain, who had been dazed for a moment, rolled his eyes around to look at his surroundings.
The same one-room scenery he usually saw, and Juho next to him. Huh? Lee Juho??
Dain’s gaze, which had been moving here and there, stopped at Juho’s face. Only then did he remember that he had agreed to sleep crammed together with Juho on this narrow bed.
Dain, who hurriedly put one leg down on the floor, raised his upper body.
“Hyung, are you awake?”
“Uh… Juho.”
“Yes. Did you sleep well?”
“Uh, yeah. I slept well. What about you? Wasn’t it too narrow?”
Dain had barely finished grasping the situation. However, he was still full of sleepiness. Because of that, Dain asked Juho while rubbing his half-open eyes.
Fuck, rubbing his eyes with his fists is so fucking cute, so fucking adorable. Juho, who clenched his fists at the impulse to record the scene before his eyes as a video, answered while organizing Dain’s disheveled hair.
“Not at all. Rather, I slept too well.”
“Really?”
“Yes. What about you, hyung? Was it uncomfortable?”
“Nooo, I wasn’t uncomfortable at allll either.”
Dain spoke in a completely relaxed tone since he wasn’t fully awake yet, then grinned. Little did he know that at that tone, Juho was internally shouting ‘Crazy, so fucking cute!!’ once again.
Receiving Juho’s gentle, caring touch as he tended to his hair, Dain felt very regretful but removed his hand from his head to go to his part-time job.
Though he was the first to remove it, when Juho’s large hand moved away from his head, he felt so disappointed that without realizing it, his eyes full of regret followed Juho’s fingertips.
Watching such a Dain, Juho moved his hand from left to right, then from right to left again. Following that movement, Dain’s sparkling eyes filled with earnestness also moved left and right.
“Pfft.”
Juho’s suppressed laughter echoed in the small room. Dain, who had been blindly following Juho’s hand, suddenly came to his senses at that sound.
“Uh…?”
What was I doing? Dain, who was still sitting with his gaze on Juho’s hand, instantly turned red.
What kind of behavior did I just do!! Even if I’m a cat beast-man, I’m still a person! I acted completely like a pet cat!! But, more seriously than that, following Juho’s large hand with my eyes was so… so fun!!
If Juho had moved just a little faster, he would have almost unconsciously reached out and grabbed that hand.
Whether he had instinctively followed the hand while half-asleep, Dain, who came to his senses, returned to a demure gaze.
Seeing that, Juho briefly regretted that he should have held back his laughter a bit more. However, soon seeing his face that had turned red enough to be clearly visible even in the streetlight, he thought this was enough.
“Ahem, ahem! Then I need to shower and get ready to go to my part-time job. Juho, you rest a bit more.”
“You showered earlier, but you’re showering again?”
“Ah, yeah. I get hot easily. I shower several times in summer.”
After Dain answered awkwardly, he got off the bed with unnaturally creaky movements.
Juho, who was persistently staring at the cute back view of his right hand and right foot moving together, opened his mouth wide and laughed loudly along with the sound of the bathroom door closing.
Ah, fuck, so fucking delightful. How long had it been since he felt such pure joy? It was already so fun to have Dain in front of his eyes and play around with him.
Even though he was waiting without doing anything until Dain came out, humming sounds naturally flowed out.
How long had he been waiting for Dain like that? Even though quite some time had passed, no sound of water could be heard from the bathroom.
“What?”
Juho’s head tilted sideways filled with curiosity.
Knock knock.
Dain, who had barely managed to enter the bathroom to avoid Juho but had been absent-minded for a while due to his disgraceful behavior, was startled by the sound of knocking on the bathroom door.
“Hyung?”
“Uh, huh???”
Dain, who opened the door at the sound calling him from outside, tilted his head at Juho’s surprised face. He opened the door because he thought he was asking him to open it, but why is he making that face? Wasn’t that the sound of asking him to open the door?
“Huh? Juho, why??”
“Um, it seemed like you’ve been in there for a while but I didn’t hear any sounds. I wondered if something happened…”
“Ah! No, I’m going to, I’m going to wash now!”
Dain, who didn’t know he had done nothing for so long that Juho found it strange, hurriedly grabbed the shower head.
Dain put his hand on the faucet to turn on the water right away, and at the same time, Juho grabbed Dain’s side.
“Hyung, you’re trying to turn on the shower water first without even taking off all your clothes?”
“Ah…? Uh, oh yeah. Now that you mention it…”
Looking down while being embraced around the waist by Juho, he was in a state where he had only taken off his pants but was still wearing his t-shirt and underwear.
For a moment, Dain peacefully thought ‘Oh, I should take off my clothes.’ And the very next moment, realizing his state and why Juho had made a surprised face in sequence, he immediately screamed.
“Ahhh!! Juho!! Get, get out!!!”
“Hyung??”
“Qu, quickly!!”
Dain, who removed the hand wrapped around his waist and pushed Juho out regardless, closed the bathroom door hard enough to make a bang sound.
Juho, who was instantly kicked out of the bathroom, stood blankly staring only at the bathroom door for a moment, but soon the corners of his mouth began to slowly rise.
“Heh…”
They were trunks so baggy it would be embarrassing to call them underwear. It would be hard not to be unsexy in underwear like that. A black short-sleeved t-shirt with blue striped trunks below.
Dain’s underwear was a million light-years away from Juho’s usual tastes.
However, the thin but(?) solid thighs visible between those trunks and the straight calves were quite nice. Actually, the more he chewed on it, the more arousing it was.
Listening to the sound of water leaking from the bathroom, Juho’s imagination spread endlessly.
At this rate, he felt like he would be the one showing an unseemly sight, so he barely restrained himself and sat on the bed, just waiting for Dain to come out. While thinking about what words he would use to tease Dain this time.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
