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Chu sangwoo is a logical person.
He has always been so, even though his second gender turned out to be an omega. The one who are supposed to be social and decoil. He considers himself the complete opposite of those. Since he was a child and was too fed up to tell the mean guys he didn’t not remember their faces and names willingly but rather cause he couldn't, the way he was being treated, and even more how he couldn't to tell his parents he was being bullied at school, because logically it would take their time is what he said to himself. Being an only omega child in his household of alphas, he had heard things that people said about him and his parents. He didn't want to add more.
He grew up without knowing how to start a conversation with someone if there was no reason behind it, didn't see the point to it and that was the reason why he was so alone at University; he spent his first two months without a single acquisitance, and after had to get known to others because of group projects.
It felt weird at the start, when Jihye showed up occasionally, and became his friend, after spending so much time alone. Sometimes he would try to smell her pheromones, but when he couldn't smell anything, curiosity got the best of him and he came to know that Jihye was a beta.
And then came the error named Jang jaeyoung.
Jaeyoung was a completely different species to sangwoo. He was loud, bold, found pleasure in meaningless talk. Sangwo couldn't figure him out at all. All these years without someone to play with him and tell him stories to make him laugh or protect him from his bullies in junior school, or listen to him had made sangwoo see human interaction on a scale basis or value and use only.
Jaeyoung was also musk and vanila and sometimes burnt caramel when his Sangwoo called him by his name or hyung, and something so so unique to him that he couldn't name but was just his Jaeyoung hyung's smell.
(He would never admit he loved the smell, he bought a ton of vanilla and musk candles the very day he met jaeyoung and smelt him)
With time, he learned how to act around another human being without being weird and having getting adjusted to his pheromones. Jaeyoung was a really nice person, he was calm and adjusted to sangwoo's pace, waiting for him and he didn’t judge sangwoo for being a loner or make funny of his appearance.
Time actually seemed to pass quickly after jaeyoung came into his life. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into month, and now sangwoo barely could remember his life before the storm named Jang jaeyoung was.
He was most shocked when he woke up one day and could smell jaeyoung so so close to him and the fact that he liked it. He liked the way jaeyoung held him close, arms around his waist, nose near his scent gland and thighs pressed between his.
He kicked him off his bed.
(And a whine was heard in the back of his head but he won't talk about that now)
That day he went into heat untimed. He was in the middle of one of his theory class when he suddenly remembered Jaeyoung's heat to his back, his legs, his as-
He couldn't breathe the very moment the thought registered in his mind. He had to excuse himself from university for next week. He couldn't see his hyung for the whole week and it pained him.
If he spent the week pressing himself to the wall connecting his and Jaeyoung's room, or rutting to one of forgotten over Jaeyoung's clothes or calling jaeyoung to fall asleep over his voice or demanding over call to bring him food, only he needs to know.
The next week since jaeyoung was more closer than ever. He always made sure to feed sangwoo, tidied his room if they were to work there and did his eyes literally shined with stars whenever he looked at sangwoo.
Sangwoo knew it all and he througly felt pleased with the fact that jaeyoung was doing all this for him.
But the didn't mean he didn't remember the bad days, the ones with fights and a lot of tears, when sometimes sangwoo's omega side got the best of him when he heard people in hallways look at him weird and make wishpers of how unomega like he was and the one time someone dared say sangwoo was most probably infertile had hurt him the most. He remembered the way jaeyoung protected him in one of these bad days, putting himself in front of these whispering shadow and punching them until they ran away crying and bleeding. He remembered the way jaeyoung looked like that, like his warrior in a red armor, his hands red and eyes burning with anger, the moonlight behind him making his hair look brighter, like a prince.
He remembers that exact moment to be when Jang jaeyoung senior turned into his Jaeyoungie hyung.
Sangwoo looked sideways at jaeyoung, silently sleeping next to him with his laptop still on, lips half-opened from where his breath escaped. He smiled briefly with his memories, moving to rest his head on Jaeyoung's shoulders and closing his eyes to try to sleep too, smiling again when he felt jaeyoung unconsciously moving to rest his own head at the top of sangwoo's. He could feel Jaeyoung's vanilla musk mix with his pine and rain scents and create something so unique to themselves, if nearly made him whine.
Sangwoo had gotten very much so comfortable with skin ship, only with his Jaeyoungie hyung though, he didn't need warnings for hand holding, or hand on his waist or head pats or sometimes when his hyung randomly decided to kiss his hand or temple. Sometimes jaeyoung would be especially happy and when they were sharing backhugs he would release his pheromones and nudge sangwoo too do as well. To create a space only with their pheromones it was the quickest way to calm sangwoo down and make him feel home.
(He especially loved those kisses and pheromones. And was left wanting for more)
Choi Yuna sitting right in front of them in the cafe grunted and frowned and dragged her chair behind staring at them incredibously. Hyeongtaek put up his phone to take their picture and Jihye looked at Yuna to say, “Shhh, you’re gonna wake them up.”
It followed by some giggles.
“Taekie, take lots of pictures and make sure to send in our gc later ok?.”
Sangwoo opened one eye when he heard the camera shutter as well as Jihye, looking at his two friends smiling and one looking about to vomit at him in the seat in front of his.
“What-” He started, Jaeyoung moved in his sleep. “What are you doing?”
“Are you two dating?” Yuna asked with a raised eyebrow.
“What?” Sangwoo asked in a low voice to not wake jaeyoung up.
“Are you two dating?” Jihye repeated excitedly, big puppy eyes staring at Sangwoo and making him strangely uncomfortable.
“Uh, no?” He replied with a frown, looking up at jaeyoung sleeping next to him. Jihye and Yuna looked at him tiredly and sighed.
The three shared a look for two seconds before their expressions change to mutual understanding.
“Oh. It’s nothing.” Jihye said with a suspicious smile. “Go back to sleep, I’m sorry for waking you up.”
“Okay?” Sangwoo said, confused. Both Hyeongtaek and Jihye were giggling and Choi Yuna has a suspicious smirk on her face when the table retuned to a peaceful silence again. He returned to his original place, face against Jaeyoung's neck, who was more than happy to reciprocate the gesture, letting out a happily sound in his sleep and pushing Sangwoo closer as if he was a teddy bear, to make his scent mix up with jaeyoung more.
Before Sangwoo surrender to his sleep, he swore he heard the camera’s shutter again.
2.
The second time was very, very much so awkward for sangwoo. And that is too say a lot because even if sangwoo became less robotic and more human, he still was blunt on most things.
It happened when sangwoo took jaeyoung ti his parents' house during a holiday. He wanted to show his parents' that he too could have friends.
(It was mostly his sister, who saw jaeyoung being tagged on his only post on Instagram and demanded he bring the guy home)
The whole ordeal started out quite nice with sangwoo introducing them to each other, Jaeyoung being questioned by his parents seperately later(which he doesn't quite understand why), his sister gushing over him and a suspicious atmosphere surrounding the family and Hyung when he came back from his bathroom break of only two minutes.
And then his mother pulled him in his room to discuss something important as she said.
She sat right across him and took out things from the drawer in a brown bag and it started.
"Sangwoo I know you probably had this conversation before but I’d like to refresh your memory. Knowledge is never enough.” his mother said said, intertwining her fingers on the table.
Sangwoo frowned and very confused, even though he tried to look like he wasn’t intimidated at all. He probably was failing, his mother was terrifying when ever she taught something.
“Right, so I won’t have to explain everything for you, you already know the basic stuff.” she nodded, then took a deep breath. “sangwoo, you now probably, finally, have gotten to the phase where your body starts to change and you start to have... Different thoughts about certain things, right? given how things are for you now.”
Suddenly, sangwoo's eyes were so wide-opened he was afraid they would just fell off his orbs.
When he realized where this chat was going. “Oh my God-”
“-You must know this is you’re an adult and everyone walks through that phase. You’re in the phase you’re starting to know your body better, touching yourself, knowing your preferences, searching for porn and gradually... You’ll want to have sex.” she said comprehensively, fingers still intertwined on the table, beside the brown box.
It wasn't like he didn't already know this. His mother when came to know as him being an omega, the first thing she did was give him an hour lecture on safe sex. It had flustered sangwoo enough to not look her into the eye for next few days.
And the she opened the brown bag. Sangwoo decided to focus on the black spot on the table rather than look anywhere else in the room.
“sangwoo, look at me, please.” his mother called him, and he regretted it the moment he looked up at her. “This is a condom.”
Sangwoo flushed enough to feel his neck become warm.
“So, this is a condom.” she said it again. “It is commonly used to prevent pregnancy, most importantly, and it is also used avoid STI’s so please always use it, unless you are sure you want to have kids with him and can raise them all well” she left the condom in front of Sangwoo and then looked inside of the bag again, picking up a blue bottle. “This is lube, it usually helps making the sex easier and more pleasant. You wouldn’t want to be hurt, would you? Or maybe you would but that all comes down to communication first as well, so make sure to communicate with him before you want to do that. So lube is as important as a condom.”
Sangwoo stopped, frowning over his red burning face. Him?
“There’s a few more things you could use, but those two are the most important and indispensable ones.” she said and then, for sangwoo's utter discomfort, she took a fucking dildo off the bag. “Now please pay attention to that part.”
“What are you- Oh my-” sangwoo started, stopping the sentence in the middle when she grabbed the condom from the table and opened it pulling it over the dildo in the table in front of them.
Sangwoo could feel his brain completely stop working. And somehow was able to conjur out.
"Mom . Please. Stop. I know all this. What is the need to- why are you- today- of now-"
His mother didn't even flinch and replied. “I’m telling you all that because I am assuming you’re gonna be the bottom given you are an omega, but you should discuss about those roles with your boyfriend top sometimes too. I’m pretty sure you’re gonna like bottoming.”
“My... My boyfriend?” Sangwoo asked with a frown, and then widened his eyes when realization finally hit him. He flustered out "Jaeyoung hyung?!”
She seemed really confused. “Uh, yeah? You have any other boyfriend that I should know about?”
“Oh my- Oh my God.” Sangwoo was horrified. “hyung is not my boyfriend!”
It was his mother's time to stop, now understanding sangwoo's total horror and confusion when she started giving the sexual education class.
“Oh., I am so sorry.” She said, her expression still remaining neutral. She took sometime to gather her thoughts before wishpering," not yet. But soon"
(If sangwoo heard her he didn't bother commenting but rather ran off to his hyung, even though he couldn't look him into the eye for next one hour)
3.
Hyung: baby I will be dropping by to give my hoodies and food, no need to open he door I'll use my key
Baby: mmhm, sorry hyung for troubling you
Hyung : awww it's totally alright baby, you are in your heat so I'm very glad to help. Rest well, love ya
Baby: yea me too
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Choi Yuna who was reading the messages over Jaeyoung's shoulder backed away making a sick face.
"Are you sure you are not dating?".
Jaeyoung looked at her with a blank face. He remembered the way sangwoo holds his hand, intertwining their fingers , fiddling with Jaeyoung's hoodie, wearing them(unwashed, thick with Jaeyoung's pheromones) when he is near heat or sometimes just because, the way he smiles at him, the look in his eyes which replicate the way jaeyoung looks at him, the way he lets jaeyoung pull him in his lap without any warning, the way he sometimes kisses jaeyoung, on the lips, when he thinks Jaeyoung is sleeping or on his temple as a reward for doing a good job at his game or when he-
Jaeyoung breaks into a grin and says
"We are, only that sangwoo doesn't know yet"