Gentle Giant Chapter 64
There are times like this. When you toss and turn once while sleeping, but after that you can’t fall back asleep and your eyes become even more wide awake. That was Dain’s current state.
Dain picked up his phone from the nightstand and checked the time. 5:20 AM. It was an awkward time.
With his vision becoming clearer, Dain only rolled his eyes around to survey various parts of the house. Perhaps because it wasn’t the ceiling and wallpaper he had been looking at every day for several years, it felt unfamiliar.
He understood what Juho meant when he said he couldn’t sleep after coming to his house. So this was what it meant to not be able to sleep when your sleeping place changed.
Come to think of it, was Juho sleeping well? Remembering Juho’s words about not being able to sleep because he was scared lately, Dain glanced to the side. Judging by how he didn’t wake up despite the rustling sounds that should be audible, fortunately Juho seemed to be sleeping well.
Relieved, Dain began to fidget in earnest. Once he woke up, all sorts of thoughts were swirling around in his head.
“Ah, right!”
Among the thoughts churning in his mind, ‘research materials’ suddenly popped up. He had said he would organize them over the weekend and hand them over to Jiyoon as quickly as possible, but yesterday he had been wrestling with the new house all day and had completely forgotten.
Since he was already up like this, he thought he might as well finish organizing it quickly.
If he did it in the kitchen, it wouldn’t be too noisy, or it would be fine to go to the dressing room and do it there.
Dain looked at Juho, who was sleeping soundly, once more before getting up from his spot. To get out of bed, since the nightstand was positioned on his side, he had no choice but to climb over Juho.
Carefully, carefully. After slowly lowering Juho’s arm that had been on his chest, Dain lifted his upper body.
Looking down from above, Juho’s sleeping face was truly angelic. Even his hair scattered carelessly on the pillow looked lovely. Dain’s lips twitched.
He wanted to kiss him.
While Dain looked at Juho’s cherry-like lips and pondered whether to kiss him or not, his own lips repeatedly protruded and retracted.
No, he had to hold back. What if Juho woke up.
Dain’s shoulders dropped slightly. So when you had a lover who couldn’t sleep well, you had to be careful about things like this too.
He resolved to steal kisses to his heart’s content later when Juho could sleep well. Just as Dain was crossing over Juho’s pelvis area on his knees…
*Thud.*
Dain’s right kneecap hit something.
“…??”
Dain lowered his head to look below. Though it wasn’t visible because it was covered by the blanket, something hard… Up to that thought, Dain made a “huh” sound and quickly retreated backward, plopping down.
As the bed swayed greatly from this, Juho’s eyelids lifted upward.
“Mmm, hyung…?”
“Ju, Juho…?”
“Yawn. Yes, hyung.”
Juho rubbed his still blurry eyes and called out to Dain. At his innocent call that seemed to know nothing, Dain’s face became tearful.
He should have just stayed lying down and kept thinking, why did he wake him up trying to do some research…!
Dain scolded himself from a few minutes ago, but it was already spilled milk.
“Hyung, are you already up? It doesn’t seem like morning yet.”
“Mmm. I, I couldn’t sleep well.”
“Really? Was something uncomfortable?”
“No, no, it’s not that. Um, Juho.”
“Yes?”
At Dain’s words that he couldn’t sleep well, Juho sat up abruptly. Dain, who said he could sleep anywhere as long as he had somewhere to rest his head, couldn’t sleep…! His face was full of worry about Dain.
Seeing such a Juho made Dain feel complicated. Now wasn’t the time for him to be worrying about me…
Dain continued speaking as casually as possible, carefully so that Juho wouldn’t be embarrassed. Pointing with his trembling fingers at that place covered by the blanket.
“Um, well. You seem more uncom… ahem, uncomfortable, Juho. Going to the bath… bathroom would probably be… fine?”
“…!!”
Juho’s face, who had been listening carefully to what Dain was saying, turned bright red in an instant. No, turning bright red was only for a very brief moment, then he turned pale blue.
Juho muttered something short between his teeth, then headed toward the bathroom with big strides.
Just from seeing his back, you could tell how flustered he was. Dain blushed as he gauged the texture and size of what had touched his knee.
“It was big. I guess it’s because he’s a tiger.”
Dain muttered to himself while placing his palm against his burning face.
Although he said he didn’t know much about sexual things, he was also a beast-man. While he didn’t know in detail, he had been hearing about physical changes that occur after secondary sexual characteristics since he was young. This was because his parents had thoroughly provided theoretical education about beast-men.
If there was one thing missing from that, it was, as Dahee worried, detailed sex education.
Of course he knew that Juho was a male beast-man who had undergone secondary sexual characteristics, and he himself was a beast-man who hadn’t undergone them yet, so there would be such differences. But when he actually encountered it directly, he was too surprised.
Dain looked at the bathroom where the sound of water continued endlessly and fanned himself continuously with his hands to cool down the heat.
“Fuck, damn…”
Ruined. Fucked. Shit!!!
While Juho moved his hand rhythmically, his mind was filled with self-deprecating words.
Why did you get hard without any awareness! Even though you jerked off so much yesterday!!
On his lips that had already been severely bitten and had no more places left to burst, red blood droplets formed once again.
This was why he desperately tried to wake up earlier than Dain every day, but today he had slept too carelessly. He hadn’t even noticed Dain waking up.
As if that wasn’t enough, as soon as Dain’s finger pointed at his thing, getting excited and hard again – it was shameless. Fuck.
Still, those trembling fingers were so cute. Ah, he should have looked at his face properly.
He was so flustered for a moment that he couldn’t even make eye contact with Dain. By the time he somewhat came to his senses, he had already escaped to the bathroom.
“Ugh…!”
Juho, who had been slowly replaying Dain’s words, let out a short moan, and soon emptiness washed over him. Now all that was left was to open that door, go out, and apologize to Dain.
No matter how much he was his boyfriend, if a dark-skinned guy had that erected next to him, it would be off-putting. Plus, they were stuck together sleeping every day.
He might immediately suggest buying another bed. Jung Dain seemed to have no immunity to that sort of thing at all…
Another big sigh poured from Juho’s mouth as the heat subsided. Go die, Lee Juho.
After irritably messing up his hair, Juho opened the bathroom door. Anyway, what was done was done, and he had no choice but to desperately clean up the mess.
“Ah, Juho.”
“Hyung…”
“Wa, wait. Juho. Stay right there!”
“Yes?”
Juho, who had been moving with heavy steps toward Dain with his head hung low, looked up at Dain’s urgent words.
“Wha, what is this!”
“Hyung?”
“Juho! What’s wrong with your lips! Why are they bleeding like this! Did you bite them??”
“Ah, it’s okay. It doesn’t hurt.”
“Doesn’t hurt my ass! They’re completely swollen!”
Dain, who had been standing still, ran quickly to Juho. Then he held Juho’s small face with his hands and began examining his painfully swollen lips.
From how much he had chewed them, there were already scabbed places, and places where blood had beaded up drop by drop.
Dain’s eyebrows furrowed. Juho’s lips, which had been pretty like cherries when he was sleeping just moments ago, were completely tattered. At the sight that clearly showed he had bitten them while blaming himself for showing an embarrassing appearance, Dain’s eyes became moist.
“Juho, I’m disappointed in you.”
“H-hyung! I’m sorry, hyung. I think it’s natural for hyung to be disappointed in me. Still…”
“Of course!”
Dain’s eyes turned sharply upward, and his voice became crisp.
Juho wasn’t used to Dain getting angry like this. He was afraid Dain might tell him not to even touch him. He was scared he might tell him to get lost because he found his disgusting appearance repulsive.
The words to persuade Dain as usual didn’t come out in a string. It seemed like Dain’s wariness, which he had worked so hard to break down, was shooting up sky-high again.
“Again…!”
When Juho was unconsciously crushing his lips with his teeth, Dain’s finger suddenly entered Juho’s mouth.
When the hard, round finger touched his teeth instead of the sensation of his own lips, Juho was startled and released the force he had put on his jaw.
“Juho. I know that happening in the morning is something that can happen to all men. Moreover, you said it hasn’t been long since your secondary sexual characteristics came. Of, of course! You might have been a little embarrassed that I caught you with that, right? But how can you chew up such pretty lips like this because of that? They’re about to bleed again!”
“…”
“You can’t carelessly hurt your body like this! Even if you’re embarrassed, still.”
“Are you okay with it, hyung…?”
“Hm? With what?”
“I, I showed you that kind of appearance. Sleeping next to hyung and being like that… isn’t it disgusting or scary…”
At Juho’s un-Juho-like stammering, Dain’s eyes slowly blinked.
So, Juho had gone to the bathroom and come out looking like this because he was worried that he might be disappointed in him…?
Dain, who had been interpreting Juho’s words one by one, jumped up.
“No, no! Juho?! What are you talking about!”
“What?”
“Why would I be disappointed by something like that! Wh-why would that be disgusting! They said it’s a natural physiological phenomenon…!”
“They said…? Who did you hear that from?”
“Mmm. I heard all that stuff when I was young! I, I may not have had secondary sexual characteristics yet, but I know that much!”
“Ha, haha…”
A deflated laugh leaked from Juho’s mouth. In the end, he had been trembling while putting on a show, getting scared all by himself until now.
With relief that he wouldn’t be cast away by Dain, Juho momentarily lost strength in his legs and sat down.
Seeing Juho suddenly sit down, Dain was startled and wrapped his arms around his shoulders.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
