You don’t really do parties. You’ve never thought too hard about them. When you’re a teenager, you were always made to come straight home, awkwardly slinking away from whatever attempts at friendship the guys your age would weakly pitch in your direction in favor of Father’s heavy hand. All bets are off once he’s home for good from Pohang, no longer sheltered by the perpetual back-and-forth, your mother half-dissociated for each of the countless hours he is away and still failing to occupy reasonable space once he’s home. Sister after sister stepped up to the plate to bring you up, soften the skin of your palms; there are years of tender damage for Father to undo, and he starts as soon as he can. You learn to love it ⸻ it’s what you’ve had to do with most things ⸻ learn to love your Father, his teachings, his hopes for you ⸻ learn to love life and the earth that insists you carry on, day after day. And so you are never quite granted access to this fabled ritual of teenage bonding, wherein you do not have the capacity to ponder what exactly you are missing out on. There is you, Father, the contusion across your hip or your thigh or wherever god permits it, and you have never taken it upon yourself to wish for more.
And so she insists upon a party. Your knee-jerk reaction is to grimace, play off your discomfort as though you’re above such a juvenile conception. The partiers are those with no future to claw their way toward, and they waste away their extant days with libertine intemperance until the very end. Alas. Light won’t stand for it, and somehow (you know exactly how you fall to her wiles, irksome as it is) you’ve been roped into pledging your attendance. It gets worse. You’ve got shit smeared on your eyes, shimmery and sunset-toned and completely unlike you. It took a lot of sweet-talking, and a bit of wrestling on your part until the rigid aggression summoned forth to protect you sheepishly regresses back. Fine. So you’ll go.
And maybe then the events of the night are a blur, you hopped up almost entirely on adrenaline as you stumble helplessly through the thumping bass and blinding lights, a constancy of neon strobes. You would never, ever go so far as to say you could tolerate the party-going crowds. You’re there to linger behind Light like a shadow, keeping your gaze low and your eyes half-squinted to keep the light out. Are you getting too old for this shit? (Jesus Christ, you’re only 27. Feels like your life has only just started away from the panopticon of Father, off where you make your own living with your own form of fulfilling career; it might not be an age thing, merely the way you were put into this world. Maybe it doesn’t matter.) Though it wouldn’t be so bad on its own, that little pest keeps teasing you. You initially try to overlook it, assuming your own perversion has inserted itself into an innocuous scenario. That doesn’t sound like Light, though. They’d probably push and push and push you until your only option was taking them in the bathroom ⸻ the measures are not quite that desperate ⸻ you can exhibit restraint, patience, something.
Though every dream of opening you up had readily been dashed by the flat line your lips were pressed into and the dead stare squared from furrowed brow, you survive the social-facing half of the night with as few blows to your ego as possible. That whole introvert and extrovert thing always sounded like bullshit to you. You liked people, despite your distance from them; couldn’t it have just been a fault of your inexperience rather than a matter of charging or draining? And yet Light blows whatever social extroversion you thought yourself in possession of completely out of the fucking water. Aflame, chipper and sleazy as always. Sometimes you can’t believe he goes out in public presenting himself the way he does. Then you realize that you’re following right behind him, a few inches diminutive, and whatever perception of him surely shallowly reflects back onto you. Unclench, dickhead. Liven up like she has. Both past and future have decayed from your constant stressing, and it wouldn’t kill you to loosen the fuck up. Maybe even crack a smile for the fact that you’re spending time together.
Or crack a smile for what’s supposed to come after.
The greatest force impelling you through the night’s span is all that goddamn teasing. A hand ghosting just shy of your waistband, maybe a stupid wink, some approximation of dancing together involving a little too much friction and whatever goddamn abomination your dance abilities are. You don’t dance, but she was certainly grinding on you. You wonder what people will think of you, you in this stupid makeup, with your loathsome quote-unquote date ⸻ Father always had language for people like this, and the vitriol with which he spat it always terrified you to your core, knowing he could hate you this much, he should, he would, he does ⸻ and it finally dawns upon you that you think about yourself way too much. Everyone here seems to be just like you, or maybe a little more toward Light on the spectrum. But they are enjoying themselves, free of the prison cell of external judgment, and so you make your best attempt at doing away with your self-hatred. If only for now. The feelings will undoubtedly creep back in once you’re alone, questioning what’s wrong with you or what you’re attracted to or any other question branded onto your skull as a learned behavior.
Your attendance comes with the caveat that you retire back to your own apartment afterwards, whether they join you or not. You need that time to unwind, be it through sexual gratification or a drawn-out night time routine. Light tags along, because of course they do, and you at least find some satisfaction that this half of the night favors you and you alone. (Okay, that one’s bullshit too. It wouldn’t be any good if they weren’t just as eager as you were, and relatively speaking, they’re such a freak in the vastest sense of the word that it seems difficult to find a sexual pursuit that wouldn’t get them all fired up. So you’re both happy, then.)
The hardest part is showing restraint until your front door clicks shut. The taxi you hail back to your place is operated by a bitter-faced older gentleman, and you briefly debate canceling. Goddamn inner critic. You see the way he looks at you, but he says nothing. From your reflection in the side-view mirror, the duskiness redacts the gleam of your makeup. You look overtired and miserable, but you’d like to think you don’t look like a fag. There is something seriously wrong with you. Coupled together, you both slink into the backseat, listening to a recorded talk show the driver broadcasts from his phone. Odd choice of revelry. He’d probably say the same thing regarding your pastimes. Call it even, then. A lump stagnates in your throat, bitter and cold and suffocating. You swallow, then swallow again, then draw in a deep breath that forces from your nostril in an exaggerated blow of dissatisfaction. Against your better judgment, you reach out, blindly guiding your hand to rest on Light’s thigh. You squeeze. Maybe things aren’t all bad.
When the tires grind to a halt in the parking lot, you bow your head reflexively, going both to pay and tip handsomely. The driver grumbles something you pretend not to hear. Maybe you slam the door shut a little too hard, then. It’s always been a bad habit of yours. You reach out for Light’s hand to hold it: you are eager to get inside / you don’t want to be seen outside / one or the other, or maybe both. More than anything, you are tired of thinking. They can fix that. They’re good at that. And so you drag them through the side door, up the stairwell, down the hallway until you and your keycard can announce your arrival to the entire building with a blissful beep of successful entry. Finally, some fucking relief. The door clicks shut. You lock it, look through the peephole for good measure, and after way too many hours, finally you let your guard down.
❛❛ You think you were funny all fucking night? ❜❜ These words of yours carry some bite, acrid and scathing. It’s half an outlet for whatever misery manifested in that stern taxi driver, but mostly just you getting ahead of yourself, too eager for this muscled frame that contains you. It’s bad, it’s so bad, it’s terrible enough that it verges upon abysmal: unmistakably, you’ve been Pavlov’d into getting just a bit turned on whenever you smell cherries. As though slightest dose of her was instantly injected into your subconscious, gift and a curse, burden and a relief that rides steadily through you. Though you don’t find it too frequent a scent on its own, there have been few times too many where it inadvertently imparted olfactory beatitude upon you, a hazard thrust at you, a misery. No way in hell could you ever disclose this information. Christ, it wouldn’t surprise you if it was done with a particular form of deliberate intent, repetitive action taken to train you like a dog. Maybe you are a dog, the kind too large for the couch they’re nevertheless hellbent on climbing up onto. Maybe you are a dog, for the sheer fact that you’re all over her before you’ve even made it past your fucking kitchen. You lean in close to nurse at her neck, teeth barely grazing the flesh before the goddamn cherry fragrance hits you in full force.
Fuck it, then. The likelihood that you’re making it to your bed is a stark zero. The odds of stumbling desperately over toward your couch aren’t any better, and soon the only destination left in sight is the stiff surface of your kitchen island. It will have to do. You’re palming at him through the thin fabric of your shirt ⸻ can it even be called that? You will never understand fashion and you’re not about to start, definitely not when this goddamned raiment stands solely to separate you, right now, from what you want ⸻ and gradually goading him over to new surface to pin him against. Not that he makes it fucking easy. God, no. He puts up a fight that will only ever result in you emerging victorious, a bit of resistance intended purely for you to break through. A hiss of annoyance, and you move in, lips jammed against his in one bitter movement.
Pulling back, panting, looking over them (looking up, slightly, and doesn’t that piss you off?) with feverish feelings you’d never have the lexicon to make sense of, ❛❛ Fuckin’ — fuckin’ teasing me like that. You little bitch. ❜❜ And you love it, that’s the worst part. Light has forced introspection from you, with thought processes otherwise left to fester and wither away if not dredged up to reality. Who gave them the right? It’s borderline comedic.
You press another kiss against their lips, a single hand weaseling up to hold at your throat. The implication of pressure only, never sensation enough to sate all those illicit desires you know they house within. You wouldn’t expect anything less. It’s why the two of you are such a good match. Throughout all of your life, you doubt you’ve ever known love. Love in its truest, purest form, at least. You have known violence from Father and quiet indifference from your mother, and you have known assembly line of sisters all trying their hardest to build you into something you are not. All you know of love is that it hurts people, changes them, ignores them. You really hope you don’t love Light, then. Whatever swells in your chest is something greater.
Fingers dance up her abdomen, hand smoothing out flat at her chest. You’d tear that goddamn tank off of her if you had to. You’d take one of the knives and lay waste to the fabric without a second thought. Thankfully, not necessary. Your grasp slips around, and fistful of the shirt’s back tugs up over her head, launched over toward the living room with an excess of force. Ten points if you can land it on the couch. And so it happens: your lips latch just below her collarbone, mouthing pitifully at the skin until you leave a sloppy, wet patch in your wake. The ideation clicks into your mind like a gift bestowed onto you. You heed it carefully, soft tilt of your chin to indicate the thought. Perfect, perfect.
There’s something so dreadfully alluring about his frame. Addictive, you think, having reeled you in from the very first time you two were on each other with no holds barred. He can take it, and you really cherish it. You do. You pour out your rage onto him in a manner healthier than nearly any other so-called remedy. Light introduces you to concepts you never in your life would have stumbled upon organically, and your eyes bulge wide the first time you hear of such perversions. Just like that, you’re spun up into his world, finding it easy to forget your own relative inexperience when he’s got you experimenting with the unimaginable.
You’re not yet satisfied, though. Now you’re fumbling with his stupid studded belt, weaving it out through its loop and sliding it out and away from his hips. You’ll be needing that, maybe. Then the button clasp and fly, and soon you’re working ripped denim down his legs until the pants are slumped in a heap on the floor, at his feet. Drawing nearer and nearer, thank god for that. Your cock strains against your pants, desperate for any semblance of relief as you drink in more of his incredible body. No matter his stupid fucking goddamn height, you think he’s perfect. (You can never tell him this. This is for you to know and you only, as you can never risk the adoration inflating his head a few too many sizes. He’d get away with anything. Already, he does.) Candied heat suffuses across your cheeks, embarrassing as it is. Maybe it’s the goddamn cherry scent, but you’re so turned on that you can barely think straight.
It’s kind of your biggest downfall, when you really think about it. You look at them like they’re the best thing you’ve ever seen, and you really could kill them for that. Eyes flickering with just a little too much exuberance, too eager, too exhilarated, too much, just too fucking much. It never stops you from having your fun, but it does provoke their smart-ass mouth into action. Annoying, but nothing a bit of aggression can fix. Or exacerbate. You know they like the attention. You know you like the attention, the depravity of it all, the deep seeds of lust that only Light could plant in you. They flourish, they bloom.
Her panties are cute, but they’re in the way. A show of appreciation marks the trace of your fingerpads, heart-shape outlined against the waistband before you hook in, tearing them away. Shame you couldn’t spend a little longer appreciating them ⸻ maybe if she wasn’t such a fucking tease. Alas. She had this coming, simply put. There the two of you are, pressed against your kitchen island, one fully clothed and the other fully bared. This is intoxicating. What you intend as a proud simper is instead on your lips as an overzealous grin, and, squishing her cheeks together to press her lips into a pout, you kiss her. A gentle tug at her lip piercing. Every drop of blood in your body has traveled on the mission of coaxing yourself to utmost stiffness.
Small problems have simple solutions: the lack of lube at your immediate disposal is easily supplemented with a bit of tender loving care. Two fingers move in towards her lips, then, slow and steady, bouncing and bobbing in an exaggerated, demeaning display that culminates in an unceremonious shoving. You’ve never been one for gracefulness. Lucky you, though, as she seems intent on lending her aid, lips moving to form and suck at your fingers. Fucking bitch. You need relief as soon as feasibly possible, lest you’re relegated to desperately humping at her through an excess of layers. How embarrassing that would be, letting your libido get the best of you. When you’re satisfied with the saturation, you withdraw your fingers, forcibly maneuvering her around to face away from you.
Maybe you are desperate enough to bend Light over your kitchen counter and fuck him. So what?
You’re a half-step from pushing him forward, bending him as you please. A slight bend to your knee grants you easiest access to his hole, and you prod one finger in first, easing it in slowly before coupling the second alongside it. Hopefully you don’t have to waste too much time prepping him like this. Then again, god fucking forbid you tear him in half with how urgently you’ll be fucking into him. Your fingers pump, in, out, in, out, your free hand gripping to hold him open. When you’re satisfied with the preparation (see here: when you really, really can’t hold back anymore), you pull free, directing your eyes to his belt on the table’s surface. Into your hold it goes, studs reversed inward as you bring the buckle toward the end tip, forming a loop shape. You belt him once, reveling in the loud crack as the leather meets skin, how it already flames an irritated red at the sight of impact once you set the belt back down.
❛❛ So cute, ❜❜ you absentmindedly muse, finally, finally moving to pry yourself from your own constraints. You decide to retain the momentum of having Light fully naked with yourself all covered up, and so you’ve hardly wrestled your pants and boxers down before you’re lining yourself up and finally fucking pushing in. A groan pours out in excess, teeth locked in your maw tough enough to delineate it as a growl. Your breadth pins them against the island, one hand coming to rest at the back of their neck to keep them down. No use in starting slow, not when you know exactly what you want.
What you want is them, obviously. To take them like this, here, or on your couch, or on your bed, up against the window, somewhere the two of you run the risk of getting caught ⸻ with them, you are always either entirely unlike yourself, or too earnest in your self-adjudication. You aren’t sure which one is worse. What you are sure of is how good they feel, how your other hand slinks around to curl onto their hip, gripping as to pull them down onto your cock with every single time you drive yourself in.
You really are a fag, Dae-ho.