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    Leaving only those words, Henry left the room, abandoning me.

    Now alone in the room, I looked around while touching my wet hair. There wasn’t anything else for me to do, and sitting on the bed felt strangely embarrassing.

    Even knowing that it was futile, I aimlessly wandered to the window. This room was on the second floor, so jumping wouldn’t kill me, but I wasn’t confident I could safely get out of the mansion that way. Furthermore, I had left the money Joo Do-hwa recovered in my room, so there was a high chance of being caught if I went to retrieve it.

    “…Am I really going to do this?”

    The place where I had inserted my fingers still felt twitchy. I had roughly wiped off the gel that had leaked out, but I left what had pooled inside just in case. Perhaps because of that, I felt an indescribable part of me getting wet.

    It was quite a long time before someone came to the room. I was just wondering if I should ask him to use a condom since we were going to do it anyway. As I was staring out the window endlessly with complicated feelings, the closed door suddenly flew open.

    “…”

    The person who entered was, of course, Joo Do-hwa. For me, who had secretly hoped it would be Henry, it was an undeniably disappointing situation. Come to think of it, I had hoped he would say through Henry that he couldn’t go through with it, that it was enough and we should forget about it.

    Joo Do-hwa looked at me briefly before silently closing the door. He, too, seemed to have showered, his hair wet like mine, but he was wearing only a single robe. Joo Do-hwa, who carelessly brushed back his bangs covering his forehead, strode in.

    “Henry really lacks sense in strange ways.”

    His wet hair flowed back down over his smooth forehead. His usually curly hair now lay flat and calm. Perhaps because of that, the atmosphere he exuded was strangely unfamiliar.

    “He bothered to dress you.”

    “…”

    Henry didn’t dress me, I dressed myself. I fiddled unnecessarily with the hem of the t-shirt I was wearing. Even if what we were about to do was obvious, I couldn’t just be naked.

    “What are you doing?”

    Joo Do-hwa, who had approached the bed while I was hesitating, asked me. I thought he was referring to me standing by the window, but his following words were different from what I had expected.

    “Take them off.”

    “…”

    I flinched, furrowing my brow. The dry command forced me to face the reality I had barely been denying. Seeing my hesitation, Joo Do-hwa openly curled up the corners of his mouth.

    “Do I have to undress you myself?”

    This wasn’t the first time I’d been asked to take off my clothes. Among the guests visiting Oceans, there were those who said they’d pay for a strip show. Spray water on your head, cut your shirt to show your nipples, wear only a necktie while naked. I had heard all sorts of perverted requests.

    But why was this situation the most unpleasant of all those combined? Was it because I could refuse at Oceans but had no choice now, or because Joo Do-hwa was wearing an expression of annoyance as if he was doing me a favor?

    “We don’t have time, so hurry up.”

    Suppressing the irritation that welled up at those words, I grabbed the hem of my t-shirt and lifted it.

    Taking off my top wasn’t particularly special since I had done it once before in front of him. The cold air touching my bare skin, him gazing intently at my body, fixing my disheveled hair—all felt familiar this time.

    Taking off my pants wasn’t difficult either. I hesitated briefly before removing my underwear, not because I was embarrassed to show my naked body, but because his reaction to my exposed physique was predictable.

    Of course, pondering wouldn’t change anything, so I had no choice but to pull down the elastic and take off my underwear as well.

    “…Ah.”

    As soon as my lower body, previously covered by the scrap of cloth, was exposed, a small exclamation escaped his lips. The smile that briefly crossed his face was the kind of sneer I had anticipated. He spoke without even thinking of averting his gaze.

    “You even shaved?”

    Like a cheap whore.

    “…”

    I bit my lower lip slightly. My hairless lower region was one of the private parts I rarely exposed. When I was young, I didn’t even know what the problem was, but I unintentionally learned by seeing others’ genitals. The occasional comments from those who tried to rape me also played a part.

    “I’m sorry to the person who went to all the trouble, but I don’t have such perverted tastes.”

    I didn’t even make such preparations, but I couldn’t bring myself to explain. It didn’t seem like I’d get a good reaction even if I told him it just didn’t grow. So I clumsily covered my front with my underwear, but Joo Do-hwa gestured to the bed with his chin.

    “Get on and lie face down.”

    “…”

    We’re really doing this. The sense of reality that suddenly hit me was accompanied by despair. It was already this awkward and uncomfortable. The act that would follow felt thoroughly unpleasant.

    “Don’t make me tell you twice.”

    Instead of answering him, I slowly climbed onto the bed.

    The bed, large enough for three people to lie down on, was similar in size to the one in my room. As I crawled up and lay face down in the center, another command followed.

    “Raise your hips.”

    “…”

    Fuck. Such a curse rose to the tip of my tongue. I thought I was used to humiliating situations, but the humiliation I felt now was different from what I was feeling right from the start. Only now did I realize for the first time how shameful it was to be completely naked without a single thread on my body.

    “Get in the proper position.”

    With trembling fists clenched, I raised my knees and lifted my hips. As I buried my face deep in the pillow, I felt Joo Do-hwa climbing onto the bed. Just as I felt a touch on my cooled skin, he grabbed my buttocks and spread them apart.

    “I thought it might be like that since your skin is so white…”

    “…”

    “It’s quite bright in color for something that’s been used a lot.”

    I clenched my jaw and squeezed my eyes shut. The gaze examining my backside was too explicit. Joo Do-hwa pressed his thumb next to the exposed hole and spoke in a matter-of-fact tone.

    “You must have had many admirers. It’s pink.”

    I suddenly realized that Joo Do-hwa had stopped addressing me as ‘hyung’ at some point. The kindness he had shown until now had vanished completely, and his raw, unfiltered manner of speaking made me feel like an object.

    “Is this why Kei was so crazy about you?”

    There wasn’t even time to utter the first syllable of ‘condom.’ After his amused voice said that, I felt something blunt touch my backside. I didn’t need to see it to know what it was.

    It probably wasn’t even erect yet, I thought at that moment.

    “…!”

    With a push, the sex organ at my entrance forced its way in. A heavy pain spread from the tightly stretched opening. The sensation of my tailbone being crushed made my knees, which I had barely managed to keep up, collapse.

    “…I told you to keep your knees up.”

    Joo Do-hwa grabbed my hips and forcibly raised them again. His member, which had slid along the cleft, was once again positioned directly at the entrance. And with another push, I had no other choice but to try to escape from him.

    “W-Wait…”

    This was too big, far too big. It felt like something could go terribly wrong at this rate. It was as if we were breaking a taboo that shouldn’t be broken, and I feared my lower body might be ruined.

    “No, stop, I can’t…Ah!”

    “Stay still.”

    A large hand forcefully pressed down between my shoulder blades. The strength, too powerful to resist, seemed to flatten me against the bed. I struggled to break free from him, but he paid no attention and attempted to insert himself again.

    “Ugh…!”

    With a push, the blunt tip forcibly opened the narrow entrance. When I reflexively tightened below, Joo Do-hwa muttered a low curse.

    “I told you to prepare…what did you do…?”

    “I-II did, I did loosen up…”

    I didn’t think it would be enough, but I had used three fingers. I’d heard that usually, that much was enough for insertion, and that they disliked it if it was any looser, complaining it was too slack.

    “…Why is it so tight?”

    But now, Joo Do-hwa exhaled an irritated sigh as if he had encountered an unsolvable problem. His long breath carried a tremor of what might have been anger or excitement.

    “You’ve lived like a whore. So why are you so tight?”

    I had no chance to answer that. His persistent pushing was making it hard to breathe.

    “Ugh…it hurts, ah…”

    The gradually rising scent of his pheromones made me feel newly resentful. Not because it was disgusting, but because even that sweet fragrance couldn’t take away this pain. When I used my mouth earlier, my mind had become hazy, but now I felt my senses becoming even sharper.

    “Bear with it, it’s my first time.”

    As he said this, Joo Do-hwa moved the hand that had been pressing my back to grip the base of my neck. Overcome by a sudden sense of danger, I tried to raise my upper body and look back. Leaving aside why it was his first time, I had something to say about that too.

    “I-I’m also…first…!”

    “What do you mean by first?”

    Naturally, he didn’t even pretend to hear me. He just looked down at me with a sneer, as if wondering what nonsense I was spouting now. His slowly blinking eyes were much hazier than usual.

    “At least tell a believable lie.”

    And in one go, he pierced through me below.

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