It was getting harder to ignore this situation just because I was sleepy. Even if I wanted to shove him off, my hands were pinned behind me and wouldn’t bend properly, and trying to roll over was just as difficult with Juni sitting on top of me.
“W-what is this? Stop. What are you doing?”
As if to soothe my flustered voice, Juni lightly traced the center of my back with his fingertip. He pressed just enough strength into it, like he was drawing lines on a musical staff. Wherever his touch passed, my skin tingled from deep inside. When I twisted slightly to resist, Juni coaxed me in a languid voice.
“If you stay still, it’ll be over soon.”
Something warm and damp suddenly brushed along my spine.
Smack.
Ah…!
Juni was kissing my back. When he bit and sucked on my fingers earlier, I could brush it off as a dog licking me, but the soft warmth pressed against my back was unmistakably human.
No… I shouldn’t have let it slide so easily from the moment he started licking my fingers.
“It tickles!”
As my hands flailed, Juni pressed them down from behind. Then he planted his lips slowly across different spots on my back, sticking and pulling away with wet sounds. Every time he did, my body jerked, and his short, broken laughter mixed with hot breath brushed against my skin.
Just as I felt relieved when his lips finally lifted after touching me at random, one spot was suddenly bitten hard.
“Ah! That hurts, ngh….”
Even after he pulled away, the area throbbed as if my flesh had been torn. I couldn’t see it, but it felt like clear teeth marks must’ve been left behind.
“This is because Hyung did something wrong. Got it?”
I wanted to ask what exactly I’d done wrong, but I gave up—there was no way a normal answer would come out anyway. As if applying medicine, he slowly licked over the sore spot with his tongue. A strange, ticklish sensation spread from my lower back through my whole body.
“Ugh, that feels weird… Don’t—stop! I said stop!”
Juni leaned further down and dragged his tongue slowly along my spine. The shiver crept upward, climbing toward the top of my head.
When the tip of his tongue reached the back of my neck, my shoulders tensed without me realizing it. Thankfully, his touch stayed limited to my back; his body covering my upper half didn’t climb any higher. Instead, he pressed a firm stamp of a kiss at the base of my neck.
His lips pulled away briefly, and he lowered his face until it brushed my left cheek. The position left my entire body pinned beneath his weight.
“Hyung, can you feel it?”
Because of the ticklishness along my back, I couldn’t notice the change in his body.
What he meant wasn’t my condition—it was the lower half of his body pressed against my butt. As if to remind me again, Juni pushed his center closer. My hips must’ve moved while I struggled earlier, but now even that felt difficult. I didn’t want to stimulate that area.
Juni pressed himself between my thighs and rubbed slowly. If my pants got pulled down like this, it felt like things would turn out exactly like they had in the game, and the thought made my head spin. Even if it was only somewhat hardened.
“Juni. This is enough for a reward, isn’t it? Get off now.”
Was it because he was gay? I wasn’t even his type, so why was he getting excited licking my back? Was he just the kind of guy who reacted to any skin contact?
“Hey! Are you not listening?”
“…I’ll listen.”
The restraints around my body vanished all at once. The weight crushing me disappeared, and my hands, which had gone pale from being pinned down, slowly regained their color. I clenched and unclenched my fingers to get the blood flowing again.
Juni stepped off me and stood beside the bed. I shot him a resentful look, but when my eyes fell on the obvious bulge at the front of his pants, I quickly turned my head away again.
“If you want anything more than this… I can’t handle it.”
“I can’t do it with anyone but you, Hyung.”
“What can’t you do? Just a few days ago you were hanging around that card thief.”
“It doesn’t stand up for guys like that.”
I let out a hollow laugh and pointed at the bulge in his pants with both hands like a cheesy ta-da reveal. I doubted there’d ever be a surprise bigger than this.
“Wow, congrats. At this point, it’s basically already up, isn’t it? Shouldn’t that be enough? What’s the problem?”
“It’s not a proper erection.”
“What? It’s that big! No way!”
“Wanna take a closer look?”
Juni reached for his belt buckle. I quickly stopped him, saying no, that was enough, cut it out. He obediently halted what he was doing.
…This is confusing. So confusing.
The drowsiness that had almost pulled me into sleep vanished like I’d splashed cold water on my face.
The spot he’d bitten still ached, and the scene from earlier kept replaying in my head. I tried rubbing the area with my hand, but the angle was awkward and I couldn’t quite reach it.
Juni watched me for a moment with his head slightly tilted, then quietly left the bedroom.
Still… when I told him to stop, he actually stopped. That’s a relief.
Was it lucky—or unlucky—that I was the master in our contract? Maybe I shouldn’t have gotten involved with him from the beginning.
As I traced back where things had started, I remembered how I’d been the one to call him into the real estate office after scratching his car, then volunteered to become his errand boy.
“I’m the root of all this. Me.”
And in the game… if I hadn’t picked up ShutUp’s Ring of the Noble Elf’s Breath, we wouldn’t have gotten tangled up either. I ignored the warning that I should never cross paths with him and stepped right over the police line myself.
“…Haah.”
Thinking back even further, the Panty Stalker had only stolen underwear before, but after I deliberately bought sexier ones to provoke him, his obsession had gotten worse.
Everything I did just made things escalate. Even with Roban—if I thought about it, I shouldn’t have gotten involved during that parking dispute and just watched from the sidelines.
Memories from the past flickered through my head like film reels. At least it meant I didn’t have alcohol-induced amnesia yet. Especially the things I’d done wrong—they stood out with painful clarity.
Click—.
While I was lost in thought, the bathroom door opened. I quickly lay down and pulled the blanket over my head.
I still hadn’t sorted out my thoughts, and I didn’t know how to face Juni. Part of me thought I should be angry, but after hearing about his parents’ recent death and remembering how he’d stood there calling someone “Hyung” with such sorrowful eyes, I couldn’t be cold to him.
Besides, he’d cleaned my whole place today—was it too harsh to complain just because I let him mess with my back a little? …No, wait. Wasn’t I being too careless? What if, as a gay man, he’d actually decided to do something worse—
“Hyung.”
I was supposed to pretend to be asleep, but hearing his voice while I was lost in thought made me flinch. The blanket was thin; he probably noticed my body stiffen.
“I’m heading out now. I wanted to have dinner together, but something came up.”
Too embarrassed to answer out loud, I stuck my hand out from under the blanket and gave a small wave. As I tried to pull it back in, he caught it.
“Walk me out. You’re not sleeping.”
“Huh? Uh… okay.”
Guess pretending was pointless now, so I got up without resistance.
At the entrance, Juni started putting on his shoes. Even though we weren’t making eye contact, I felt awkward and ended up staring at the shoe cabinet instead.
“I’m going.”
“…Yeah, okay. Take care.”
As he stepped outside and said goodbye, I reached out to close the door.
But his body suddenly slipped between my outstretched arms. Our cheeks brushed together as he pulled me into a hug. Juni wrapped both arms around me like I was a teddy bear. Even though it was just our warmth touching, it felt soft and stable—like being back on the bed.
It wasn’t a hug filled with ulterior motives; it was simply warm and comforting. The miserable feeling from nearly dying alone from a hangover that morning, the blow to my self-esteem after being scammed—those moments felt buried deep inside soft fluff. Maybe it was because he was so big, but he was surprisingly nice to lean into.
Slowly, I lifted my hand and lightly stroked the back of Juni’s head. It was a reflexive gesture, but it conveyed a deeper bond than words ever could.
Soon, Juni pulled away carefully, and only then did our eyes meet. I’d expected the gaze of a fierce beast, but instead it was like a gentle dog blinking back at me.
“G-get home safe. See you tomorrow.”
“You sleep well too, Hyung. And don’t call anyone else over besides me.”
“Okay.”
I watched as Juni opened the door and left. His dark silhouette disappeared from the entrance along with the shadow.
Leaving the now-silent doorway behind, I went to the bathroom and took off my T-shirt. When I checked the spot he’d bitten in the mirror, clear teeth marks were stamped into my skin. It was swollen red—maybe it would bruise. And scattered across my back were small red marks like mosquito bites. Thinking that every one of them came from his lips sucking on me made my face heat up.
Earlier, I’d wanted to take a nap in the freshly cleaned house, but now all thoughts of sleep had vanished because of Juni’s touch.
And even after he left my sight, the things that happened between us—especially that hug at the entrance—kept coming back to me throughout the evening.
Just like the kiss marks left on my back, it felt as if Juni had left little marks all over my mind too.
