By Zephyria 
“You two are still the same. You’re really close.”
Perhaps realizing it would be difficult to join the conversation this time, the CEO simply set down the menu they had ordered and left immediately. Min-gyu returned the employee ID to Yi-ho without losing his smile. While Yi-ho was tidying away the ID, Min-gyu was already tilting his beer glass again, his gaze fixed on Yi-ho.
By the time they paid, the CEO looked a bit fed up with the two of them. Even though they had practically treated their meal as appetizers, the alcohol bill had come out twice as high.
The fact that tomorrow was a Saturday with no work was like the greatest blessing. As Min-gyu headed home, the plastic bag of additional alcohol bought from the convenience store hung heavily in his hand. The beers inside clinked and rattled against each other.
Passing through the main gate of the apartment complex, Min-gyu naturally draped his arm over Yi-ho’s shoulder. It looked the same as when he used to do it all the time in the past, but there was a slight difference. Instead of his hand just hanging loosely below the shoulder, he occasionally stroked Yi-ho’s cheek.
“Song-i.”
“Yeah.”
Min-gyu simply let out a silent laugh. A languid, drunken haze surged pleasantly between the two of them. Having successfully finished a project, facing a holiday the next day, and spending a Friday night on a date with their lover—the mood of these two office workers was quite jubilant.
Maintaining that posture, they passed other buildings and took the elevator to the floor where their homes were located. As the elevator doors opened and Min-gyu stood in the middle of the hallway, he flicked his hand to the left and right.
“Unit 1, Unit 2. Which one?”
“…I gave it a thorough cleaning after what you said before. Let’s go to my place.”
The door to Unit 2, where Yi-ho lived, opened.
After filling the fridge with the beer they bought, they took out two cans to drink immediately. A bag of snacks was placed in the center of the table. Sitting opposite each other with the snacks between them, they looked exactly as they had for years. This time, the beer cans clinked.
Feeling stifled, Min-gyu undid the buttons of his collar down to the upper chest. The cycle of laughing, feeling fluttery, and laughing again didn’t seem to end, no matter how much they did it. When they giggled frantically at each other, they were like the high schoolers who first met; when they vented about old-fashioned bosses like the Executive Director and the Head of Department, they were in their 20s; and when their hearts throbbed as lovers, they shifted into their 30s.
Ah, as expected.
Yi-ho felt it was a moment to slightly correct his thoughts.
“Cha Min-gyu, you… you said before that we aren’t friends anymore.”
“Yeah.”
“I think I don’t like that.”
“What do you mean?”
There were times when feeling like family felt like a limit to a relationship. The word ‘friend’ was the same. Because these were the two most common types of relationships ordinary people have, Yi-ho had been desperate to hide his feelings, which he had embraced in an unconventional form. Especially because he thought the person holding the bond of friendship hoped for that level of relationship.
However, the newly formed relationship of lovers also had boundaries from a certain perspective. There was a line where Min-gyu would get sulky if Yi-ho accidentally touched something….
Thus, an intersection was created where the three circles of friend, family, and lover overlapped for the two of them. But was there a need to cram it into the smallest area? All three circles created over fifteen years belonged to them.
Meanwhile, seeing Min-gyu look tense with a sobered face because the words ‘friendship’ had come out of Yi-ho’s mouth seemed a bit cute.
“Let’s be friends, lovers, and family too.”
“Aha.”
After his relief, Min-gyu wore a tender expression that could be interpreted in any number of ways.
“As expected, Song-i is the smartest. I can just take and use the good parts. Right?”
Just as no one knows the exact name of the color the sky takes at a specific moment during sunset, Cha Min-gyu and Song Yi-ho could simply live according to the time they created together.
Forget the two bags of beer they had bought; even the cans in front of them were half full. However, the two were leaving the table and heading toward the bedroom. As soon as they stepped into the room, their lips collided.
Heads flushed with alcohol quickly summoned sexual desire. Their tongues intertwined immediately without any exploration.
Yi-ho gripped both of Min-gyu’s arms. Then, just as Min-gyu had done to him before, he pushed his body down onto the bed. Since hugging him down was too much, he pressed down on Min-gyu’s shoulders with both hands, and Min-gyu obediently leaned back.
“Heh.”
A suit shirt, a loosened tie, and well-fitting trousers. Seeing Min-gyu lying on his bed in his just-off-work attire felt a bit strange. It felt as if the carbonation from the beer they had been drinking was popping over his shoulders and limbs.
“So, are we lovers now?”
“…Yeah.”
“You bring your lover and lay him on the bed, and you don’t say anything?”
As if tempting Yi-ho, Min-gyu pulled his tie loose and began opening his shirt buttons himself. Yi-ho recalled the words that used to pour over him from Min-gyu during sex, enough to make him burst from embarrassment. Even if he couldn’t exercise that level of creativity, application was possible. It would also be easier to reveal more honest inner thoughts while drunk. Among those, something worth saying to Min-gyu would be….
“…You’re sexy.”
Min-gyu, who was about to throw off his shirt, smiled deeply. The words he just spoke became even more sincere.
“Song-i is really drunk….”
“You think you aren’t?”
“Mmm. Want me to tell you how my lover can become even sexier?”
“What is it….”
Even amidst the surging drunkenness, it was a temptation that caught his ear.
“My lover just has to undress me.”
“……!”
Min-gyu was already shirtless. Then, there was only one area left where the lover could undress him as requested. He was being incredibly provocative.
“If you keep doing this, I’ll just—!”
“Just what?”
Min-gyu asked back, pretending to cover his chest with both arms. There wasn’t a speck of shyness in his expression. Yi-ho’s next answer was delivered by the alcohol rather than his head.
“I’ll kidnap you to Amsterdam…!”
“Huh?”
Because such an unexpected answer came out, Min-gyu asked back in confusion.
“Why Amsterdam? The Netherlands?”
“Yeah. I’ll pack you as oversized luggage in a container and take you away….”
“Eh?”
Min-gyu blinked in bewilderment. Yi-ho, who didn’t have the mental capacity to retrace what he had just blurted out, was struggling with the structure of Min-gyu’s belt buckle.
“Song-i, why the Netherlands? Do I have to go there?”
“Because the Netherlands is….”
Even while drunk, this part seemed embarrassing, and Yi-ho’s voice faltered.
“The first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage….”
“…….”
“If you keep tempting and fooling around with your one-sided crush without knowing how scary I am, just know that I’ll take you there, get a stamp, and live with you for the rest of our lives….”
“Hah.”
It was an absurd plan, but there was none of the characteristic hesitation he had when talking about uncertain things. It seemed the brain of this coding nerd, who occasionally spat out baffling ideas, had been crafting this algorithm for quite a long time.
“I have some weight to me, so shipping me as luggage would cost quite a bit.”
“Your weight isn’t the problem. The problem is your volume because of your height…!”
Wow, he seems to have researched this quite specifically.
“Having a wedding abroad sounds nice too.”
“…Really?”
Yi-ho looked up and met his eyes. Cha Min-gyu, who was perfectly happy even though he was at risk of being put in a container box, was also quite drunk.
“First, let’s finish the important work in Korea.”
Min-gyu gave him a hint by personally opening the buckle that hadn’t been opened yet. Even while completely drunk, the tension of the atmosphere right before sex remained, so Yi-ho bit his lip slightly and continued the process. While leather rubbed and metal clicked, no one spoke, making the clumsy sounds seem louder. When he lowered the suit zipper, he felt dizzy. Soon, Yi-ho lifted the waistband of the drawers and pulled the penis inside out.
“I thought you’d undress me carefully, but you just snatch the cock away….”
“N-no, I didn’t!”
“I’m happy as long as Song-i loves me anywhere. Ugh…!”
It was his mistake to try and tease while his penis was being held. Yi-ho applied a bit of pressure to the shaft and the lower sac with his hand and then released it. Even so, Min-gyu let out a brief moan and then chuckled. Moreover, the volume in his hand grew tighter and larger.
“…Cha Min-gyu.”
Gyuuu—hearing his name with the last syllable stretched out due to intoxication, Min-gyu’s lips twitched.
“Whaaat.”
“Do you want me to do it with my mouth too?”
“Hmm….”
Min-gyu pulled Yi-ho’s arm to make him lie on top of him. Even with Yi-ho resting on his upper body, he didn’t seem heavy at all.
“No, later. I’m in a bit of a hurry today.”
Min-gyu sought Yi-ho’s lips while sliding his hand inside his trousers through his lower back. The fingertips, traveling down the groove from the tailbone, quickly found the gap.
As soon as the entrance was rubbed, a learned pleasure was triggered. It was a reaction created by Cha Min-gyu, who always whispered sweetly and performed foreplay while probing the back.
During the time Yi-ho worked from home, had they skipped more than a day? The place where they had continuously mixed their bodies twitched and swallowed the fingertips on its own. It was to the point where a single finger could penetrate the dry gap immediately.
“Ah….”
In that process, Yi-ho had learned how to relax his lower body. His body had adapted to the way it found pleasure as the inner walls were forcibly spread by a thick penis. Two fingers now pressed firmly inside.
“Can you feel it’s gotten a bit softer?”
“No, I…, ngh, how would I know….”
“Song-i can just put his hand in and feel it together.”
“What are you talking about, you pervert?”
“Ah, I’m trying to share even a tiny bit of something good, and you’re being so mean.”
Pretending to grumble, Min-gyu pulled down Yi-ho’s trousers and underwear to expose his buttocks. The embarrassment of the posture, with his buttocks lifted while lying on top of Min-gyu, hit Yi-ho belatedly. Min-gyu kindly pulled Yi-ho’s hand and brought it between his buttocks. He felt the entrance that held Min-gyu’s two fingers up to the root. His face, already warm from the alcohol, flushed even more.
While he felt like he might die of embarrassment, he wanted to know at least once how Min-gyu touched him. His hand moved as if tracing the shape of the junction. Min-gyu’s fingers were on the thicker side. The hole holding them was open by the diameter of two fingers.
As if teasing the timid movement, the fingers embedded inside flicked and poked the inner wall.
“Hng.”
“Song-i, isn’t it too erotic that you’re tightening up because you’re excited while fiddling with your own hole?”
“Ah, ugh, yeah….”
Then, Min-gyu spread his fingers in the direction Yi-ho was touching to create a gap. Yi-ho’s fingertips felt the inner wall right in front of him.
“Put it in.”
“…Haa….”
The pervert who did things unimaginable by Yi-ho’s standards had finally infected him as well. If it weren’t for the courage given by the alcohol, he would have snapped, ‘Forget it and just finish it!’, but right now, Yi-ho was in a more honest state. Yi-ho tried to squeeze his fingertip in next to Min-gyu’s finger. After a slight stinging sensation, his fingertip entered slightly.
“Ah, ugh….”
His knuckle caught on the tightened folds. As he went inside following the curvature of the knuckle settled internally, the insertion became slightly easier. Just as Min-gyu said, the inside was hot and soft. And it felt so….
“Haa, ugh, it’s strange, ngh…, hng.”
“Wow, whose lover is moaning so erotically….”
“Because someone, ah, does it almost every single day, hnggh.”
Yi-ho now felt sexual pleasure even at the sensation of the dry interior opening. It was because of the memories of being poked inside, being bitten and sucked all over his body, and ejaculating from penis stimulation.
“Yi-ho.”
The chill of being called like that, without the playfulness, also played a part.
“Put your finger in up to here. This is your favorite spot….”