#026
A healthy pleasure that left no room for unidentifiable emotions to penetrate. It was literally perfect. This alone was enough for Yechan.
Yechan suddenly thought that he hoped Jiwoon would get a girlfriend as late as possible. He imagined a situation where their play would be cut off. There was always a one-in-a-million chance for everything.
But that was all. Even if that happened, the two would still be close sunbae and hubae. Even without kissing, they would continue eating together, spending time, and maintaining their mental connection.
Yechan took out the math test paper he had solved during morning self-study. The clearly improved scores welcomed Yechan.
After spending weekends with Jiwoon, both his body and mind felt refreshed. Daily life with worries and stress resolved went smoothly throughout.
His studies were also producing satisfactory results every time. Among these, Yechan was most pleased that the obsession and anxiety that had been weighing him down were gradually decreasing. Yechan hummed while copying math problems to ask Jiwoon into his notebook.
If Yechan’s life until now had been gray, then Jiwoon was like a kind of prism in front of him. Yechan’s world, which had been filled with only black and white, finally revealed vivid colors when seen through Jiwoon.
Honestly, living was fun these days.
* * *
Yechan led Jiwoon to the galbitang restaurant he had been to with his mother. Steam rose from the galbitang with large ribs.
Yechan, holding scissors and tongs, trimmed the ribs and pushed the boneless galbitang toward Jiwoon. Only then did Yechan begin separating the bones from his own portion of ribs.
“It’s delicious.”
“Right? I thought of hyung when I ate here last time. I knew you’d like it.”
At those words, Jiwoon smiled slightly and stared at Yechan. Yechan, putting down the scissors and tongs to eat the galbitang broth, was pretty today too.
Looking at the light brown hair covering Yechan’s forehead, Jiwoon thought he was curious about what was inside that head.
“What are you doing during vacation?”
“Academy.”
“That’s boring.”
“It’s the same every day, you know.”
Yechan said while watching Jiwoon pick up ribs with chopsticks and put them in his mouth. The pale yellow t-shirt suited him nicely.
“Want to go on a trip?”
“It seems difficult. I can only play when the academy is on break, but then I have prior commitments with friends.”
“Yechan is busy.”
Jiwoon, who spoke calmly, chewed his food. Yechan asked.
“What are you doing during vacation, hyung?”
“Well. Studying?”
“Aren’t you going anywhere?”
“I should go to the beach once.”
I won’t go because you’re not going. Swallowing the answer that came to mind, Jiwoon replied in a bewildered tone. He remembered Jukyung suggesting they go on a trip to commemorate the 100 days until Suneung.
“Do you like the beach?”
Jiwoon, who had been thinking of the blue sea, looked into Yechan’s eyes and said.
“Yes. I like it.”
“Haha. I like it too.”
At Yechan speaking with a smile, Jiwoon’s heart skipped a beat. To calm that heart, Jiwoon smiled as if nothing was wrong.
For the weekend they were spending together after two weeks, Yechan had already gotten permission to stay overnight. The two returned to Jiwoon’s house and opened their books at the study desk after washing up.
After carefully solving the math problems Yechan had asked about, Jiwoon looked at the dimples deeply carved in smiling Yechan’s cheeks and barely held back from wanting to kiss him. Yechan carefully put the solution Jiwoon had taught him into his head.
And after finishing math, Yechan, who had taken out another book to solve foreign language problems, realized he had been stuck on the same problem for several minutes and closed the book.
When he looked up, Jiwoon was sucking on a lollipop while concentrating intently on his book. Jiwoon’s cheeks moved in bumps as he rolled the candy around.
Yechan looked for a moment at Jiwoon’s straight eyes focused on studying, then shifted his gaze to his lips. Watching the lips that gathered in a circle and then relaxed, Yechan rested his chin on the desk.
“Why.”
Without taking his eyes off his book, Jiwoon suddenly asked. Yechan pushed his face closer to Jiwoon.
Actually, Jiwoon’s concentration had already been broken when he heard Yechan close his book. While pretending to concentrate and just sucking on the candy in his mouth, he could feel Yechan’s gaze boring into him.
Even when he tried to pretend not to notice, when Yechan was so obviously slacking off, even resting his chin while looking at him, he couldn’t help but know.
“Give me candy.”
Only then did Jiwoon raise his eyes. Yechan, tilting his head slightly, was looking at him. At the face that filled his entire field of vision, Jiwoon briefly stopped breathing, then soon picked up one of the candies on the desk.
Since it was within arm’s reach, he could just grab it and eat it, but Yechan’s intention of deliberately acting coy and asking him for it was obvious. Jiwoon unwrapped the candy and pushed it into Yechan’s lips.
Soon the tip of Jiwoon’s thumb touched Yechan’s lips. At the candy entering his mouth, Yechan closed his eyes and then opened them. And just as Jiwoon’s finger was about to fall away, Yechan smiled with his eyes and bit the tip of his finger.
A thrilling sensation spread from his fingertip. Jiwoon looked at Yechan’s subtle eyes and slowly closed and opened his eyes.
Following Yechan, Jiwoon tilted his head slightly and said nothing. At the languid eyes gazing at him with some bewilderment mixed in, Yechan’s lips curved up.
Jiwoon’s shameless attitude of pretending to know nothing made something inside Yechan boil up. And that was fun.
Yechan smiled a bit deeper while still chewing on Jiwoon’s finger that was caught in his mouth. The candy in his mouth had melted, making the finger taste sweet too.
Even at that action, Jiwoon only stared at Yechan blankly. At Jiwoon looking at him steadily without changing his expression at all, Yechan’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Soon Yechan bit down on Jiwoon’s thumb that he was holding.
But Jiwoon’s expression remained the same. At the expression that looked not just calm but even dry, Yechan felt a bit frustrated.
And only then did he realize that what had been bubbling inside him was competitiveness.
That’s when it happened. Jiwoon moved the finger that was caught in Yechan’s mouth. At the sudden movement, the candy in Yechan’s mouth rolled around.
The moment Jiwoon’s thumb tried to slip out of Yechan’s mouth, Yechan tilted his head again and bit the finger hard. This time without any smile on his face.
Watching Yechan’s white face biting his finger with blazing eyes, Jiwoon’s eyes deepened. A languid smile that seemed visible yet not quite appeared on his face.
Yechan had wanted to see that seemingly leisurely, seemingly unbothered shameless expression break. But the moment he saw Jiwoon’s face that seemed to be smiling yet not quite smiling, heat came rushing from somewhere.
At the heat that instantly covered his entire body, Yechan had to taste defeat.
Yechan suddenly recalled Jiwoon’s gaze looking at him from the assembly platform on the playground. For some reason, he felt he needed those eyes from that time.
Yechan wanted Jiwoon to look at him like that time right now. But suddenly, strength entered Jiwoon’s hand, and soon the warmth disappeared.
Jiwoon, who pulled out a tissue to wipe his thumb, tapped Yechan’s cheek. Even though it was a small contact as if coaxing, Yechan had to gasp.
Seeing Yechan’s burning eyes, Jiwoon slowly closed and opened his eyes.
“Yechan. Is your mouth empty?”
At those words, his heart once again picked up speed with a thump thump. Yechan inflated his chest area with his overwhelmingly beating heart and took a big breath.
Seeing Yechan closing his eyes tightly and regulating his breathing, Jiwoon’s smile deepened. Now Yechan had no choice but to admit it.
He had lost the competition. The one who was anxious now was Yechan. When he opened his eyes, Jiwoon was smiling leisurely.
“…Yes. It’s empty, hyung.”
And because of that, Yechan decided to change his method entirely. He grabbed Jiwoon’s wrist and rubbed his cheek while speaking.
But Jiwoon was still just looking into Yechan’s eyes and smiling languidly. Yechan’s heart became impatient.
Soon Yechan overlapped his palm on the back of Jiwoon’s hand. Feeling the firm back of the hand and smooth skin that filled his palm, Yechan kissed Jiwoon’s palm.
“Won’t you fill it?”
Yechan, who narrowed the distance by pushing the study desk away with one hand, intertwined their fingers. Yechan continuously kissed the tips of Jiwoon’s straight fingers.
But even that wasn’t enough. He was anxious. Soon all five of Jiwoon’s fingertips became heated with Yechan’s warmth.
“Candy won’t do. …Please kiss me.”
Finally, Jiwoon’s lips curved completely. Yechan felt as if he had received permission.
Swallowing dry saliva from the anticipation that had risen to his throat, Yechan followed Jiwoon’s arrogant eyes. Jiwoon looked straight into Yechan’s eyes stained with heat and sat up on the bed behind him.
“Ah…”
Yechan couldn’t help but make a sound. It was because he could see the tip of a red tongue between Jiwoon’s slightly parted lips.
His breathing naturally became rough at the frighteningly dizzying sight. His throat gradually burned.
With eyes burning as much as his throat, Yechan lowered his gaze past Jiwoon’s white thighs and calves to his ankles and toes. Jiwoon’s lips curved up prettily.
“Good boy.”
It was a comment that somehow seemed to treat him like a child. Perhaps displeased with that, Yechan suddenly raised his head and chewed his mouth with sulky eyes, then soon bit his teeth tightly.
Watching that sight, Jiwoon opened his mouth and ran his tongue over the inside while laughing deeply. Fucking funny.
The next moment, Yechan’s eyes blazed blue-green. Jiwoon gently stroked Yechan’s cheek while whispering softly.
“I want to eat something sweet. Make it sweet for me. Fucking sweet. Yechan.”
At Jiwoon whispering affectionately without any playfulness, the sharpness in Yechan’s eyes disappeared in an instant. Soon, rolling his tongue to fill that place with the dreamy sweetness of candy, Yechan got up.
Then he closed his eyes gently and swallowed Jiwoon. Jiwoon, who took a big breath, closed his eyes and tilted his head back.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
