BHB 78

“I don’t know, fuck.”

Again, despite his harsh tone, he carefully traced Yeowon’s lower lip and came down to gently nibble his  chin like a child.

“Why don’t you know?”

“Read the room.”

He knew they were in the mood to do it after waking up, but Yeowon wanted to keep pressing. He strangely wanted to keep getting confirmation about that feeling of jealousy. Why he was jealous, and how he was jealous—he wanted to ask about every little detail.

“How did you endure disliking him?” Yeowon found it increasingly funny and playfully flicked Lee Taegang’s wavy hair as he asked. 

In response, Lee Taegang sucked on his chin with a “tsk” sound and raised his eyes. “It was maddening.”

“Who told you to endure it?”

“You know what would happen if I didn’t.”

“What are you talking about now?”

“You think Baek Seungha is the only one I dislike?”

“… There are others?”

“I told you. I hate everything you like.” Lee Taegang growled softly and skillfully pulled up his white T-shirt, which doubled as pajamas, to his chest. 

Though he felt a cool sensation, Yeowon couldn’t pay attention to that at all and narrowed his eyes as he continued the conversation, “Who else?”

“Kim Myungjoo. Do Youngjae. Jin Youngchae. Lim Yoona. Jo Suchan.”

“Ha. They’re your friends too, you know?”

“Han Doyeon, Song Woori, Kim Minchae, Seo Heeyoon, Min Juah, Choi…”

“Stop, stop!” Yeowon panicked at the names pouring out like from a machine that spits them out when a button is pressed, and covered his mouth. “W-why are you suddenly naming my ex-girlfriends?”

At this baffling turn, Lee Taegang gently removed his hand from his mouth and smiled crookedly. “How many times do I have to say it? Everything you like, everything you’ve liked—I hate it all.”

It was completely unreasonable. He even had the absurd thought that maybe Lee Taegang actually hated him, but putting all the pieces together, there was only one conclusion. Could it be that he…

“Can we do it now?”

He looked down at him as he momentarily fell silent and grabbed the waistband of his pants. He was ready to take them off as soon as he got permission. It was Lee Taegang who couldn’t read the room. Unlike Yeowon, who had grown quite serious, Lee Taegang seemed quite heated, with his nape turning red. His steady breathing began to change irregularly.

Seeing his already dazed eyes, Yeowon exhaled a silent sigh, troubled. 

Right, who else would indulge this bastard’s childishness if not him? It was better than him carelessly sleeping around with anyone, male or female.

“Take them off.”

At Yeowon’s brief encouragement, Lee Taegang easily took off his loose round-neck T-shirt, throwing it aside, and removed his training pants and briefs in one go. He immediately buried his face in Yeowon’s chest and pushed the cumbersome blanket off the bed.

As Yeowon shivered from the coolness on his more exposed body, Lee Taegang overlapped his body with him and rubbed against him intimately. Yeowon was always dissatisfied with how there wasn’t a single awkward movement in his actions. How many times must he have done this to show no sign of embarrassment while having sex with a man? 

Lee Taegang loosened his tightly closed entrance skillfully and caught him pleasure spots with uncanny precision.

A corner of his heart unknowingly tightened at his practiced skillfulness. Now he fully understood what jealousy was. While feeling relief at having figured it out, conversely, his anger intensified. With jealousy becoming clearly perceptible after being unconsciously avoided, everything made him angry—that Lee Taegang had rolled around with Jeon Chaemin like this, that he was so skilled at handling a man’s body. It felt as if he was falling apart because of childish possessiveness.

Yeowon pulled his body with both legs and grabbed his chin as he rummaged through his  chest, lifting it up.

“You said it yourself.”

Lee Taegang’s lips, wet with saliva, were visible. Yeowon bit his tempting lips hard and continued,”That while we’re doing this, my body is yours.”

“…”

“The same goes for you.”

“…”

“Just don’t try rolling around your lower body like a slut somewhere else.” Yeowon harshly spoke his true feelings under the pretext of him. 

As he warned him fiercely, Lee Taegang’s light laughter flowed into his mouth where their lips met,”Sounds like you’re the one monitoring me.”

Even though he answered casually as usual, his voice was strangely pleasing. His hands touching his body began to intensify.

“This much is just courtesy.”

“Just don’t get hurt because of some other bastard.”

Lee Taegang pushed his tongue into his mouth, which he had bitten without mercy, and began kissing him randomly. Throughout the mixing of moist flesh and swallowing someone else’s saliva as if it were his own, he laughed. At the pleasant laughter he hadn’t heard in a while, Yeowon, though finding it ridiculous, laughed along and pulled his nape closer.

Strange. A ticklish sensation rose from his toes, making his entire body tingle. He was enveloped in a fullness that surpassed the usual sense of security he felt with him. This was satisfaction, and this satisfaction, so strong it made breathing difficult, felt unsettling.

Yeowon squeezed his eyes shut and pulled the back of his head even more strongly. Whether these feelings he had for him were illusion or reality, one thing could no longer be denied—that sex with him, which had become familiar, felt incredibly good. 

Yeowon stopped trying to hold onto his consciousness being pulled by lust and began to immerse himself. At times like this, this bastard was completely his own. The thrill that came with that fact was indescribably intense.

***

When they arrived at school in Lee Taegang’s car after a long time, it immediately drew the attention of the students. A bright red foreign car appearing unusually couldn’t help but catch the eye. To begin with, there was no other student in this building who drove such a car except Lee Taegang.

Yeowon, getting out of the passenger seat, accepted the pouring gazes as usual and kindly received the occasional greetings from juniors who recognized him. He then walked toward the main entrance, shoulder to shoulder with Lee Taegang, who had just gotten out of the driver’s seat.

The sex that began in the middle of the night ended around dawn. As he felt every time, Lee Taegang was aggressive during sex, as if he were fighting. He was combative and pounced like a madman. Moreover, it never ended just once. He couldn’t help but be amazed at his stamina, acting as if he were releasing some pent-up frustration.

He himself was second to none when it came to physical strength. He was born with it, even receiving offers from sports team coaches. Basketball, soccer, swimming—he enjoyed all sports. In college, he occasionally played tennis, and when bored, one of his ways to relieve stress was to run on the treadmill like crazy at the gym he had a membership for. Though it was hard, he rarely felt tired, but sex with Taegang severely exhausted him.

With sex lasting until dawn, he had naturally planned to skip class, but tossing and turning in bed from early morning and then having another round when their eyes met in the morning had completely woken him up inadvertently. Thanks to that, he ended up coming to school in a conspicuous manner, and he suddenly realized it had been a while since he’d come to school with him. The pouring attention was especially noticeable because of that.

Meanwhile, Lee Taegang had been all over the place, doing who knows what.

Yeowon turned to look at Lee Taegang following behind him as he entered the lecture hall. Just as he was about to ask what he’d been up to lately, some guys, either classmates or juniors, overtook them and deliberately bumped into his shoulder as they passed. 

At this action that could never be a mistake, Yeowon’s gaze sharpened. “What’s this?”

“Going around with eyes in the back of your head?” After deliberately bumping into him, they acted as if they were the ones who got hurt, grabbing their shoulders and pretending to be in pain. 

‘What kind of behavior is this?’ 

Just as his brow furrowed even more—

“Ah, were you so distracted you didn’t notice people passing by?”

‘What nonsense…’ 

Before Yeowon could even open his mouth, the grinning face was full of mockery.

“Hey Jeon Chaemin. Your boyfriend is here.”

The guy who had bumped into him threw a mischievous joke toward Jeon Chaemin, who was sitting blankly near the entrance of the lecture hall, then went to his seat snickering with his friends. 

In that group, Yeowon could see several of those who had been mocking Jeon Chaemin before. They were the few remaining after some had disappeared on leave of absence.

Students in the lecture hall looked back and forth between Yeowon and Jeon Chaemin, whispering. Jeon Chaemin, unable to hide his embarrassment, hunched his body with a flushed face. Yeowon scanned the interior of the lecture hall with a bored expression.

‘Are they elementary schoolers?’

It had been so long since he’d encountered such childish pranks that he couldn’t even laugh sarcastically. Yeowon deliberately sat near Jeon Chaemin and met the gazes of each of the onlookers one by one. As if daring them to say something.

“Sit down.” He spoke to Jeon Chaemin, who was trying to hurriedly gather his things and stand up, unable to withstand the stares and whispers. It wasn’t a commanding tone, but a single phrase delivered calmly, as if leading. “What did you do wrong to run away?”

“…”

“Stay seated.” Yeowon spoke ordinarily, as if having an everyday conversation, regardless of whether those around them heard. 

Jeon Chaemin, who had hesitated, sat back down. He knew his hands holding the bag were trembling slightly, but without deliberately acknowledging it, he gestured to Lee Taegang, who was standing crookedly.

“What are you doing? Sit down.”

Sensing something off about the school atmosphere, Lee Taegang alternately scanned the guy who had deliberately bumped his shoulder and Jeon Chaemin, who was hunched like a frightened herbivore. 

Finally, he looked down at Yeowon with dissatisfaction and noisily dragged a chair, sitting down loudly. “Lucky you. Now you’ve got a boyfriend too.”