#62
Exhaling rough and rapid breaths, I glared at hyung and attempted to rebel by violently shaking my caught wrists once more. But Saheon hyung, as if he hadn’t applied any strength at all, smiled leisurely and annoyingly mimicked my words.
“Aw, then hyung doesn’t like it either.”
I let out an incoherent scream. My already bright red face felt like it was about to burst. Saheon hyung threw his head back and started laughing out loud. I could see his jawline and the prominent Adam’s apple below it trembling softly as he leaned back.
I didn’t even have the leisure to think about how handsome he was again. After strongly throwing off my wrists that hyung had caught as if throwing a tantrum, I bowed my head deeply to hide my overly heated face. I tried to hold my breath for a moment to somehow control my emotions, but it wasn’t successful. My shoulders heaved with my panting breaths.
A feeling of embarrassment, greater than ever before, washed over me like a tidal wave. I tightly closed my eyes and tried to gather my emotions. Belatedly, regret flooded in that I should have just packaged it as a letter of admiration written in childhood, just a cute memory.
Saheon hyung would probably think of it that way too, and was just enjoying teasing me, but I had overreacted. I pressed my tightly closed lips and took a suppressed breath.
Saheon hyung’s large hand touched my cheek. I felt a sense of liberation from the cool air on my wrists, which had been feeling a bit sore.
“…Cheongmyeong, are you crying?”
With my head bowed deeply, I looked up at hyung with sharp eyes instead of answering. The corners of hyung’s mouth, which had been looking like he had just realized something, crumbled. Whether it happened unconsciously or not, Saheon hyung quickly set his lips firmly and pretended to be serious, but I had already seen him smiling.
“Okay. Okay. I’ll give it back.”
Saheon hyung, trying to keep a composed face, took out the old love letter from his pocket. On the front of the letter, written in large and crooked childish handwriting, was “To Saheon hyung”.
I snatched the letter from hyung almost like grabbing it. Seeing the letter paper, I vaguely remembered a childhood memory. It was a typical kindergarten class where we were told to write a letter to the person we liked the most.
I wasn’t sure of the exact contents, but I could clearly see that it had survived until now. While I was briefly contemplating how to get rid of the letter now that it was out of hyung’s grasp, a quick kiss touched my cheek.
As hyung smiled and kept making kissing sounds with his lips pressed to my cheek, hot steam touched the corner of my eye. The hypothesis that he found it fun to tease the little kid who used to openly say he would marry Saheon hyung when he grew up gained strength.
“Cute.”
Saheon hyung released me with a loud smacking sound. My cheek even felt a bit sore, as if it had been sucked. I rubbed my cheek and decided to hide the letter in my back pocket first, to prevent hyung from snatching it back.
I reached behind and stuffed the letter into my back pocket. Hyung just watched my actions with a light smile. A large hand touched the top of my head. The gently stroking hand gradually slowed down, then started to lightly touch my ear.
Setting aside his playful demeanor from just moments ago, hyung’s mood seemed to have settled somewhere. When our eyes met, he slightly raised one corner of his mouth subtly. Due to his smile, a faint dimple formed on the part of his cheek near his eye. It was dizzying for a moment.
As if noticing that I had let my guard down, Saheon hyung’s finger carefully traced down along my ear. The sensation of it following the groove sent a shiver down my spine. As my ear heated up, my Adam’s apple moved greatly without me realizing.
Suddenly, every part of my body touching hyung felt hot. It felt like an itch I couldn’t bear without moving my body. I tried to soothe the itch by slightly lifting my waist.
I heard rough breathing. Before I could register whose it was, we entangled in each other’s lips like people who had found a spring after a long thirst.
But it was only for a moment. Just as Cinderella returns to reality upon hearing the clock strike twelve, the doorbell sound, louder than ever before, split us apart.
I was startled as if struck by lightning and almost rolled off hyung’s lap. If Saheon hyung hadn’t quickly grabbed my waist firmly with his quick wit, I might have actually done so.
My cheeks burned with bewilderment and embarrassment. The doorbell sound rang continuously. Hyung, who had irritably brushed up his bangs, couldn’t hide the annoyance on his face. As I glanced towards the front door, I tried to quietly get off hyung’s thigh.
However, Saheon hyung firmly held my waist, stopping my movement. After looking down at his belt area once, Saheon hyung brought his index finger to his lips and made a quiet “Shh” sound. I quickly shut my mouth. I swallowed dry saliva from tension.
Ding dong, ding dong. The doorbell sound rang continuously. I looked at hyung with anxious eyes. Hyung, still lightly pressing his index finger to his upper lip, curved his mouth into a cool arc.
‘What’s wrong.’
I mouthed silently, but Saheon hyung just smiled slightly. As I was about to chew on my lower lip at his somewhat dangerous smile, my aunt’s voice faintly seeped in from outside the door.
“Is no one home?”
“They might have already left. Saheon said he couldn’t stay until dinner…”
It was a presence whose identity I could tell just by the voice. Of all people, it had to be my aunt and uncle who came. I looked at hyung and the front door with nervous eyes, like someone caught doing something bad.
“Ugh, what’s the use of raising a son. I told him to bring Cheongmyeong home, but the son I see after a year can’t even wait that long, oh my goodness.”
My aunt, muttering as if lamenting, let out a deep sigh. I stared at Saheon hyung with wide eyes. Hyung smiled, his eyes crinkling, then tightly hugged my waist with his strong arms and buried his face in my shoulder. There was no space to be found between hyung and me.
My face heated up at hyung’s bold behavior, as if embracing me, with just a door between us and them. I tried to make a stern expression and shook my head. But hyung nuzzled his head and silently made kissing sounds with his lips.
“I guess he has a flight today too. Was he called around a lot when he was a newbie? We can just send it by courier later.”
I heard my uncle’s voice trying to console my aunt. I glared at the unfilial son and patted hyung’s back. Only then did hyung peek his head up and smile broadly.
Finally, there was a rustling sound from outside the door as if they were picking something up, and then the footsteps gradually faded away. After hearing the sound of the opposite front door being open for a long time, the elevator opening and closing, and even the faint voices disappearing, complete silence fell.
Saheon hyung lowered the index finger he had been pressing to his upper lip slightly. Looking towards the front door with his finger lightly hooked on his lower lip where his mouth ended, hyung smiled mischievously.
“There are too many intruders here. Right?”
I, who had almost been mesmerized by hyung’s actions in the confusion, barely managed to come to my senses and spoke the words I had been holding back with narrowed eyes.
“…You shouldn’t say things like that.”
Hyung just smiled without saying anything. When I looked at him with stern eyes, Saheon hyung let out an exaggerated sigh. I scolded hyung once more.
“Unfilial son. Shameless.”
“Hearing it from your mouth makes me feel like a real piece of trash.”
“How could you do that?”
I spoke as if snapping at him, but there was no strength in my voice. Saheon hyung bit his lower lip hard as if trying to hold back laughter, then deliberately put on a gloomy expression and muttered in an intentionally lowered voice.
“I’m sorry. I was wrong.”
I was about to say one more thing when he showed even a verbal attitude of reflection, but I decided to let it go. When I opened my mouth to speak and then closed it, Saheon hyung, still wearing a gloomy expression, quietly interlaced his fingers with mine.
“It’s thrilling to do it at your parents’ house too. But I think our house is better. Right?”
Saheon hyung muttered with a very apologetic expression, as if regretful. I was momentarily captivated by his voice and face, but belatedly realizing the content of his sweet words, I narrowed my eyes. Saheon hyung quickly added, as if making an excuse.
“I’ll text Mom. Say I love her.”
“…Tell her you’ll visit too.”
“Alright, Sim Cheong.”
Hyung chuckled softly. After squeezing our interlaced fingers once, hyung slightly lowered his eyes. Light reflected off his skin, illuminated by the morning sunlight. Unlike my sunken eye area that gave a haggard impression due to the long shadows cast by my eyelashes, his looked atmospheric.
“…Then… Shall we continue what we couldn’t finish earlier?”
My face turned red. Saheon hyung clearly always knew how to utilize his handsome face. Dazed by the attack that prevented me from coming to my senses, I ended up offering my lips.
The warmly touching lips were always good. The tongue that gently invaded my mouth rubbed against pleasurable spots. The sound of saliva exchanging was explicit. The inner cry that I shouldn’t treat my aunt and uncle like that from just moments ago had long been forgotten in the candy-sweet kiss.
I could feel hyung, who was kissing me while firmly holding the back of my neck, becoming increasingly urgent. Even trying to breathe through my nose made me dizzy. When I turned my head to breathe, unable to hold it any longer, Saheon hyung made an impatient loud noise and whispered irritably.
“This won’t do.”
Hyung’s hands firmly grasped my buttocks, and then my body shook greatly up and down. I barely managed to hold back the scream that almost came out. Unstably clinging to hyung, I had to tightly hug hyung’s neck.
“Hyung, are you crazy? Why…”
Hanging like a koala, I wrapped my legs around hyung’s waist. As if it wasn’t heavy at all to support the weight of an adult man, Saheon hyung looked ready to throw me over his shoulder if necessary.
“Let’s go to the car.”
The suggestion to go to the car didn’t seem to have purely innocent intentions. With my face burning bright red, I attempted a meaningless rebellion, asking to be put down.
“I, I can walk…!”
“I can carry you too.”
“We’re not, not doing it in the car!”
Desperate to stop hyung, I shouted whatever came to mind. The words I blurted out came right back to my ears. Belatedly realizing what I had said, I felt like I could die from embarrassment right then and there.
I wondered if I looked like someone with only that on my mind. But it seemed to act as a kind of control device for the person who appeared to have only that on his mind.
Saheon hyung, who had been quiet for a moment, let out a low sigh and then hugged me, who had been precariously clinging to him, so tightly I could barely breathe. After the strong force relaxed, my body slid down. I planted my feet on the ground in an awkward posture.
The heated atmosphere from just moments ago had disappeared, leaving only a somewhat awkward and embarrassing air. It was so awkward that hyung, who would usually push for what he wanted while joking around slyly, stopped midway.
Saheon hyung turned his gaze towards the window, messing up his already disheveled hair even more. Judging by his slightly reddened neck, clear traces of excitement could be read. Hyung, who had slowly inhaled so that his chest area heaved, quietly exhaled and spoke in a more calmed voice than before.
“Okay. Go to the car first. We need to go home. I’ll pack my things and come. The car is parked on basement level 1.”
Hyung briefly lowered his gaze while smoothing down the upper part of his left thigh. As I awkwardly looked at hyung, I suddenly remembered last night’s events.
‘Hyung seems too… in heat.’
‘You don’t have to respond to everything, so if you don’t like what hyung is doing, hit me. You can even kick me.’
Could the reason Saheon hyung, who always seemed like an animal in heat, stopped be because I expressed that I didn’t like it? Although it was something that should naturally be done, I couldn’t shake off the dazed feeling.
Saheon hyung rummaged through his pocket and then placed the car key in my hand. When he pressed down on my fist, I felt both hyung’s warmth and the coolness of the key at the same time. I couldn’t predict what would happen if I met his eyes, due to the heat of his gaze that I could feel even without looking.
In the end, I grabbed my outer clothes and fled to the parking lot as if escaping. The unfamiliar behavior in a familiar place made my senses even more sensitively heated.
The cold air outside helped calm my thoroughly heated body. My reflection in the elevator mirror showed that both my cheeks were flushed.
Saheon hyung’s car was immediately visible as soon as I exited through the door leading to the underground parking lot. I pressed the car key to unlock it, then opened the driver’s side door while continuously fanning myself.
The interior lights of the car came on. I discovered a bouquet of flowers placed on the passenger seat. Unlike the common sharp appearance of roses, this bouquet of somewhat round white and pink flowers was pretty and neat.
After getting into the driver’s seat and closing the door, I reached out towards the ownerless bouquet. Unable to even think about touching the fresh roses from early morning, I timidly fiddled with the end of the light purple wrapping paper and muttered to myself.
“Is this for aunt…?”
