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honey's homecoming. 13.
mx jooheon x lilsis reader (adopted)
explicit, smut, mdni | chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
You share one last intimate morning with Jooheon before watching him leave for a world tour.
The morning heat crept in before consciousness did—a thick, humid blanket that settled over the cramped bedroom like a second skin. The fan on the nightstand whirred its mechanical complaint, oscillating left, right, left, right, pushing warm air around without offering any real relief. Dawn light filtered through the thin curtains, pale gold and hazy.
You surfaced from sleep slowly, piece by piece.
The first thing you registered was weight. An arm draped across your waist, heavy and solid. A thigh pressed between yours. Breath stirring the fine hairs at your temple. Sweat-slicked skin adhering to sweat-slicked skin where your bodies touched.
Jooheon's chest rose and fell against your back. His heartbeat thudded steady between your shoulder blades.
The second thing was the heat. Summer mornings in this house were always like this—the old air conditioner wheezing its last breath years ago, leaving only the fan to stir the stifling air. The sheets were twisted around your legs, kicked off sometime in the night. Your nightgown—a thin cotton slip that barely counted as clothing—had ridden up to your waist. His boxers were the only thing between him and nudity.
You didn't move. Didn't want to break the spell.
Because the third thing you registered was the awareness that today was the day.
Jooheon stirred behind you. His arm tightened, dragging you impossibly closer, his face pressing into the curve of your neck. His lips moved against your skin—not a kiss yet, just the shape of one, the suggestion.
"You're awake," he murmured, his voice sleep-rough and low.
"How did you know?"
"Your breathing changed." His palm spread across your stomach. "Got faster."
The heat wasn't just the morning anymore.
Your body responded to him the way it always did—instantly, instinctively. The press of his hips against your backside revealed he was already half-hard, his cock trapped between your bodies. Your thighs squeezed together, a pulse of want fluttering low in your belly.
"We should get up," you whispered, though you made no move to do so.
"Should we?"
"Mom will be in the kitchen soon. We're supposed to help with breakfast."
His mouth found the spot below your ear—the place that made your thoughts scatter like startled birds. "She won't check on us."
"Oppa—"
"Shh." His hand slid lower, fingers skimming the hem of your nightgown. "Just a little longer."
The first touch of his fingers against your inner thigh made you gasp. He traced patterns there—lazy, unhurried spirals that crept higher with each pass. Your legs parted without permission, your body making decisions your mind hadn't caught up to yet.
His cock hardened fully against your lower back. You could feel every inch of him, that thick, curved length that still amazed you every time you saw it. Remembered it. Felt it inside you.
Jooheon shifted, and suddenly you were on your back, the mattress dipping under his weight as he settled above you. The fan oscillated away from the bed, then back, a brief reprieve of moving air before the heat settled again.
You looked up at him.
Sweat glistened in the hollow of his throat. His hair was a mess, falling into his eyes. His lips were slightly parted. His chest—sculpted from years of dance and military training—rose and fell with an intensity that had nothing to do with the heat.
"You're so beautiful," he said.
The words weren't practiced. Weren't part of some seduction routine. They fell out of him like a fact, like stating the sky was blue or the fan was loud or today was going to hurt.
Your throat tightened. "I'm a mess. I haven't even brushed my hair."
"Beautiful," he repeated, and kissed you.
The kiss was slow. Deliberate. His lips moved against yours with the patience of someone memorizing a scripture. His tongue traced your lower lip, asking, and you opened for him. The taste of sleep and last night's tea and something underneath that was just him.
His hand found the strap of your nightgown, dragging it down your shoulder. His mouth followed the path of the fabric—kissing your collarbone, the curve of your shoulder, the soft skin of your upper arm. The nightgown slipped further. Your nipple tightened in the open air before his mouth even reached it.
When his lips closed around the peak, you arched off the mattress with a muffled cry.
He sucked gently, then harder. His tongue flicked. His teeth grazed. His other hand palmed your other breast, thumb circling in tandem with his mouth. The dual sensation sent sparks cascading down your spine, landing in the ache between your legs.
"Jooheon oppa—" His name was a plea. For what, you weren't sure. More. Everything. One last time before the van came.
He released your nipple with a wet pop, his eyes meeting yours. "I need to taste you."
Before you could respond, he was moving down your body. His mouth left a trail of fire down your sternum, your stomach, the jut of your hipbone. He hooked his fingers in the waistband of your panties—plain white cotton, nothing like the lace things you'd worn in Seoul—and dragged them down your legs.
The fan turned toward the bed. The brief rush of air against your exposed pussy made you shiver.
Then his mouth was on you, and the fan didn't matter anymore.
Jooheon ate you out like a man starving. His tongue flattened against your folds, licking a broad stripe from entrance to clit. He circled the sensitive bundle of nerves, then sucked it between his lips. Two fingers pressed inside you—a stretch that was familiar now but still made your breath catch—and curled upward.
Your hands fisted in the sheets. "Oh god—"
He didn't stop. His tongue worked your clit while his fingers pumped steadily, finding that spot inside you that made your vision blur at the edges. The obscene wet sounds of his mouth on your pussy filled the small bedroom, competing with the whir of the fan and your high, breathless moans.
His free hand pressed down on your hip, pinning you to the mattress when you tried to buck against his face.
"Stay still," he commanded, the words vibrating against your folds.
A whimper escaped your throat.
He sucked harder. Fingered deeper. The coil in your belly wound tighter and tighter, pleasure building like pressure behind a dam.
Then he stopped.
"No—" you gasped. "Don't stop, please—"
But he was already moving, shifting up your body, his cock nudging against your entrance. The head pressed against your slick opening, and you both moaned at the contact. He was so thick. Even now, even after everything, the size of him made you feel impossibly full just from the head alone.
"I want to feel you," he said, his forehead dropping to yours. "I want to be inside you when you come."
"Then do it."
A single thrust.
He buried himself to the hilt in one smooth motion, and your back arched off the mattress. The stretch was exquisite—that brief moment of resistance before your body yielded, opened, welcomed him. He filled you completely. Every ridge, every vein, every pulse of his heartbeat echoing through his shaft.
"Fuck," he breathed. "You're still so—"
"Tight," you finished for him, a laugh hitching in your throat. "You always say that."
"Because it's always true."
He pulled back slowly, then thrust forward. The drag of him against your inner walls made you gasp. The friction was perfect—the wet slide of your arousal coating him, the way your pussy gripped and fluttered around his thickness.
His rhythm started slow. Deliberate. Each thrust was a word, a sentence, a paragraph in the conversation your bodies were having. I'm going to miss this. I'm going to miss you. I don't want to leave.
You wrapped your legs around his waist, pulling him deeper. His pubic bone ground against your clit with every stroke, and the added stimulation made your moans pitch higher.
"Harder," you begged. "Please, oppa—harder."
Something broke in him.
His control shattered, and he fucked you in earnest—deep, driving thrusts that made the headboard creak and the mattress squeak. The sounds of sex filled the room: skin against skin, wet suction, his grunts and your cries. Sweat dripped from his chest onto yours. The fan oscillated uselessly, doing nothing to cool either of you.
Your climax built like a storm. Pressure gathering. Muscles tensing. The world narrowing to the single point of his body moving inside yours.
"Look at me," he commanded.
You opened your eyes. Met his gaze.
"Come for me." His voice was rough, raw, scraped clean of everything but want. "I want to feel you."
You fell apart.
The orgasm crashed through you—pulsing, clenching, your pussy milking his cock with rhythmic contractions that made him groan. Your nails raked down his back. Your moan was swallowed by his mouth as he kissed you through it, his tongue pushing past your lips in time with his thrusts.
He drove deep one last time and held there, buried to the hilt, his whole body tensing. The first pulse of his release was hot and thick, painting your inner walls. He groaned your name—not the formal version, but the intimate, shortened syllable that was reserved just for the two of you.
Pulse after pulse. Hot and thick and his.
You clung to him as he emptied himself inside you, your legs locked around his waist, your arms around his neck. Neither of you moved. Neither of you wanted to break the connection.
When the last pulse faded, he sagged against you, his weight pressing you into the mattress. His breath was ragged against your neck. His cock still twitched inside you, softening but not withdrawing.
"I love you," he whispered.
"I love you too."
He kissed your shoulder. Your collarbone. The corner of your mouth. "I don't want to leave."
The words hung in the humid air, heavy and painful.
"I know." Your fingers traced the sweat-damp curve of his spine. "But you have to. And I'll be here when you come back."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
He lifted his head, meeting your eyes. His were glossy—not with tears, not quite, but close. The vulnerability in his expression made your chest ache. This was Jooheon stripped of the idol, of the performer, of the careful image. Just a man, scared of losing what he'd found.
The fan oscillated toward the bed. The breeze brushed your overheated skin.
Down the hall, a cabinet door closed. Footsteps—soft, slippered—moving in the kitchen. The clink of a pot. The hiss of the stove.
His mother was awake.
Jooheon pressed his forehead to yours. "We should get up."
"Yeah."
Neither of you moved.
His body was still flush with yours, his weight a comfort you didn't want to lose. His release was still warm inside you, a physical reminder of the intimacy you'd shared. The sheets were a disaster. Your nightgown was twisted around your ribs. Your discarded panties lay crumpled on the floor.
He pulled out slowly, and you both winced at the loss. A thin trickle of his seed followed, cooling on your thigh.
Jooheon grabbed wet wipes from the nightstand and cleaned you gently—tender swipes that felt more intimate than the sex had been. Then he cleaned himself. Then he collapsed beside you, pulling you against his chest.
You lay there, staring at the ceiling.
The morning light had shifted from pale gold to bright yellow. Dust motes floated in the beam that cut through the gap in the curtains. The fan hummed. The kitchen sounds continued—water running, the chop of a knife against a cutting board, his mother humming a trot song under her breath.
"I used to stare at this ceiling when I was a teenager," Jooheon said quietly. "Before I debuted. Before any of this." His arm tightened around you. "I'd lie here and dream about what it would be like. The stage. The fans. The music. I never imagined this."
"Never imagined what?"
"You." He turned his head, pressing a kiss to your hair. "Here. With me. Like this."
Your eyes burned. You blinked rapidly, refusing to let the tears fall. "You're going to make me cry."
"No crying. Not yet."
"Then stop saying things like that."
A soft laugh rumbled through his chest. "Can't help it."
The cabinet closed again. His mother's voice called out something indistinct—probably asking if either of you was awake, probably wondering why the bedroom door was still shut.
"We really should get up," you said.
"I know."
Another moment passed. Then another.
Finally, Jooheon sighed and sat up, swinging his legs over the edge of the bed. The morning light traced the contours of his back—the muscle, the sweat, the pink lines your nails had left on his shoulder blades. You reached out and touched one of the marks, and he glanced back at you.
"Evidence," you said.
"Good." He caught your hand, brought it to his lips, pressed a kiss to your palm. "I want to take them with me."
Breakfast was a quiet affair, though not in the way mornings usually were quiet.
The kitchen table was small—a relic from Jooheon's grandmother, the wood worn smooth by decades of elbows and plates and spilled soup. His mother had outdone herself. Tofu stew. Grilled fish. Kimchi. Pickled vegetables. Steamed rice. More side dishes than three people could reasonably eat.
"You need to eat," she said for the fourth time, pushing the fish toward Jooheon. "Who knows what they feed you on those tours? Airplane food. Hotel food. Nothing like home cooking."
"I eat fine, Eomma."
"You've lost weight. I can tell." She clicked her tongue, already rising to fetch another container from the refrigerator. "I packed some side dishes for you. They'll last a few days if you keep them cold. And your manager needs to make sure you're eating properly. I should call him."
"Please don't call my manager."
You kept your eyes on your rice bowl, pressing your lips together to suppress a smile. The domesticity of it all—the mother fussing, the son protesting, the girl sitting quietly at the table like she'd been there forever—felt normal. Felt like any other family breakfast.
Except your stomach was in knots.
Except Jooheon's knee was pressed against yours under the table.
Except every shared glance felt loaded, weighted, heavy with everything you couldn't say in front of his mother.
"Next time you come home," his mother said, settling back into her chair with a satisfied huff, "you should bring a girlfriend."
Jooheon choked on his soup.
You froze, your chopsticks hovering halfway to your mouth.
"Don't give me that look," she continued, oblivious. "You're past marrying age, Jooheon-ah. Your father was already married at your age. I had you by thirty. If you don't start looking soon, all the good girls will be taken."
"Eomma—"
"I'm serious. There are plenty of nice girls in the neighborhood. The Park family's daughter just finished her studies. Very pretty. Very polite." She nodded firmly, as if the matter were already settled. "Next time, bring someone home. I want grandchildren before I'm too old to spoil them."
Jooheon's knee pressed harder against yours. His face was carefully neutral, but his ears had gone pink—the tell you'd learned to recognize.
"I'll think about it," he managed.
His mother beamed, satisfied, and turned her attention to your nearly-empty bowl. "You're not eating either. Here, more rice."
The thought twisted in your stomach like something alive. Bring someone home. She didn't know. She couldn't know. And even if she did—even if she somehow suspected the truth of what existed between you and her son—there was no world in which she would accept it.
You were the neighbor girl. The orphan they'd taken in out of kindness. His little sister in everything but blood.
You pushed the rice around your bowl, appetite gone.
Jooheon's hand found yours under the table. Squeezed. Held on.
he suitcases sprawled open on Jooheon's bedroom floor like open mouths, waiting to be fed.
Two massive black hardshells. A carry-on. A backpack for essentials. The wardrobe of an idol—stage outfits, casual wear, accessories, toiletries—all needing to be sorted and folded and packed with military precision.
"It's like a three-dimensional puzzle," you said, holding up two nearly identical black jackets. "I can't tell which one is which."
"The one on the left is for performances. The right is for interviews." Jooheon took them both from your hands and laid them in the suitcase with practiced efficiency. "You get used to it."
You folded a sweater—soft cashmere, the color of cream—and placed it beside the jackets. "How long did it take? To get used to it?"
"Years." He picked up a stack of jeans, rolled them tightly, tucked them into the gaps between the jackets. "After my first tour, I came home and didn't unpack for two weeks. Just lived out of the suitcase. It felt more familiar than my own room."
The confession landed somewhere in your chest, soft and sad. You thought of him in hotel rooms and airport lounges, surrounded by people but somehow alone. Living out of suitcases. Singing his heart out to faceless crowds.
Your hand closed around a shirt in the dresser drawer—a simple black tee, worn soft from countless washes. You lifted it without thinking, brought it to your face. Cedar. Vanilla. Him.
You looked up. Jooheon was watching you, a small smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"Keep it," he said.
"What?"
"The shirt. Keep it." He crossed the room, his hands settling on your waist. "It looks better on you anyway."
You clutched the fabric like a lifeline. "I'll wear it to bed."
"I know you will."
You turned in his arms, pressing your face to his chest. His heartbeat was steady under your ear, a rhythm you wanted to memorize. Your hands fisted in the back of his shirt.
"I have something for you too," you whispered.
"Oh?"
You pulled back and reached into the drawer where you kept your sleepwear. Your fingers found the familiar lace—baby pink, delicate, the panties you'd worn to bed last night. They were still faintly warm, still carried the scent of your skin.
You held them out.
Jooheon stared at them. Then at you. His expression flickered through surprise, understanding, something deeper and hungrier.
"Put them in my coat pocket," he said, his voice rough.
You crossed to the closet where his travel coat hung—a long black wool thing he'd need for the cold European leg of the tour. Your fingers slipped the lace into the inside pocket. Hidden. A secret token only you would know about.
When you turned back, Jooheon was right there.
His hands cupped your face. His kiss was fierce and desperate—nothing like the slow, gentle kisses from the morning. This was a kiss that said I'm scared too. I don't want to go. I'll miss you every second.
You kissed him back just as hard.
The van arrived at eleven.
You saw it through the living room window—sleek, black, tinted windows. It idled at the gate with the patient menace of something official, something belonging to a world you weren't part of.
His manager texted: Here. Take your time.
Jooheon's mother bustled around the entryway, pressing containers of food into his hands, adjusting his collar, telling him to call when he landed. Her chatter filled the space where the silence would otherwise have been deafening.
"The side dishes are in the blue bag," she was saying. "Eat them within three days. And there's rice cakes in the red container. Share with the members."
"I will, Eomma."
"And don't forget to—" Her phone buzzed in her apron pocket. She glanced at the screen, her eyebrows rising. "Ah, it's Mrs. Park. She's probably calling about the garden." She looked between you and Jooheon, hesitating. "I should take this. Just a moment."
She stepped toward the kitchen, phone already pressed to her ear.
The moment she was gone, Jooheon pulled you into the alcove by the front door—half-hidden behind the coat rack, out of sight of the kitchen and the windows.
His arms wrapped around you so tightly you couldn't breathe.
"I'll call you," he said against your hair. "Every night."
"Even if it's just two minutes."
"Even if it's just two seconds." He pulled back just enough to meet your eyes. His were wet. "Wait for me."
"You know I will."
His mouth crashed into yours.
The kiss was desperate. Breathless. It tasted of the morning's bittersweet reality and the tears neither of you were letting fall. You clung to him, trying to memorize the feel of his lips, the press of his body, the way he breathed your name against your mouth like a prayer.
His mother's voice drifted from the kitchen. Still on the phone. Still distracted.
"I love you," he whispered.
"I love you too. I love you. I—"
Another kiss. Deeper. Fiercer. A kiss that was trying to say everything there wasn't time to say.
Then his mother's footsteps, returning.
They broke apart.
Jooheon grabbed his bags. His mother appeared, sliding her phone back into her pocket. "Mrs. Park wants to know if the tomatoes need more sun," she said, shaking her head. "As if I'm an expert. Now—are you sure you have everything?"
"Yes, Eomma."
"Passport? Phone charger? The side dishes?"
"Yes. Yes. Yes." He bent to kiss her cheek. "I'll be back before you know it."
She hugged him tightly, her face pressed to his shoulder. "Be safe. Eat well. Don't work too hard."
"I won't."
Then he straightened. His eyes found yours.
The look lasted only a second—but it held everything. Every morning. Every night. Every whispered promise and shared secret and breathless confession.
Then he turned and walked out the door.
You stood on the porch, his mother beside you, and watched the van pull away.
It rolled down the dusty road slowly at first, then faster. The tinted windows swallowed him whole, gave nothing back. You watched until the black shape became a dot against the green hills. You watched until the dot disappeared around the bend. You watched until there was nothing left to watch.
"Well," his mother said with a sigh, "the house will feel empty now."
You couldn't speak.
She patted your arm, a gentle, motherly gesture. "I'll be in the garden if you need me."
Her footsteps receded down the porch steps, toward the tomato plants and the wide-brimmed hat she wore when she gardened. You stayed where you were, staring at the empty road.
The summer heat pressed down. Cicadas screamed in the trees. A dog barked somewhere in the distance.
Then you turned and walked back inside.
The house was quiet. Too quiet. The kind of quiet that amplifies every small sound—the creak of floorboards, the hum of the refrigerator, the distant voice of his mother singing to her tomatoes.
You stopped in the doorway of Jooheon's bedroom.
The suitcases were gone. The floor was bare except for a few stray socks that had been left behind. The bed was rumpled, the sheets still twisted from the morning. The fan still oscillated on the nightstand, doing nothing but pushing the heavy air in circles.
You crossed to the bed and lay down on his side.
The pillow still smelled like him. Cedar. Vanilla. The faint tang of his sweat from the morning. You pressed your face into it, breathing deeply, trying to trap the scent in your lungs.
The bed was vast and cold and entirely too empty.
Your hand found the black tee shirt—the one he'd told you to keep. You pulled it against your chest, curling around it like a child with a stuffed animal.
The tears came, finally. Quiet ones. The kind that slipped down your cheeks without sound, without sobbing. You let them fall.
Three months.
Maybe four.
The fan turned toward the bed. The breeze brushed your damp cheeks.
You closed your eyes and focused on the lingering scent of cedar and vanilla, and the faint, fading warmth where his body had been.
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honey's homecoming. 12.
mx jooheon x lilsis reader (adopted)
explicit, smut, mdni | chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
Returning to the quiet hometown before his idol life resumes, you and Jooheon find comfort and deep emotional reassurance during a private, intimate evening at a secluded hot spring bathhouse.
Jooheon's initial schedule in the city has come to an end and you are now on your way back home. The car smelled like his cologne and the faint, sweet remnants of the convenience store snacks you'd grabbed at the last rest stop. Seoul had disappeared in the rearview mirror hours ago, replaced by the familiar patchwork of rice paddies and the hazy blue silhouette of the mountains that cradled your hometown. Your hand rested on the center console, and Jooheon's fingers were laced through yours, his thumb stroking lazy circles against your knuckles.
Neither of you spoke much. The silence wasn't uncomfortable—it was the heavy, full silence of two people trying to memorize a moment. The way the afternoon sunlight caught the dust motes floating in the car. The weight of his hand. The soft hum of the engine.
His jaw tightened as he took the exit ramp. You watched the muscle work, traced the line of his neck down to where his collar hid the bruise you'd sucked into his skin two nights ago. Your mark. Yours, even when the world claimed him as theirs.
The house appeared through the windshield, unchanged. The same gate. The same garden. His mother was already standing on the porch, waving with a dish towel thrown over her shoulder. Her smile was wide and genuine, the kind that crinkled the corners of her eyes.
"There they are!" she called, hurrying down the steps. "My babies are home!"
The word babies made Jooheon's ears flush pink. You suppressed a smile.
She enveloped you first, her apron smelling of sesame oil and something sweet baking in the oven. Then she pinched Jooheon's cheeks, declaring him too skinny, insisting she'd feed him properly now that she had him back for a few days. Her chatter filled the silence that had followed you from Seoul, bright and ordinary and grounding.
Dinner was a parade of dishes. Kimchi jjigae. Bulgogi. Japchae. More banchan than three people could reasonably eat. His mother kept piling food onto your plate, remarking how you "glowed" now, how Seoul must have agreed with you. Jooheon choked on his water at that, coughing into his napkin while you kicked him under the table.
The normalcy was a mask. You both wore it well.
Then his phone buzzed.
Jooheon glanced at the screen, and his entire body stilled. The chopsticks paused halfway to his mouth. His expression flickered, something complicated. Something heavy, before he locked it down.
"What is it?" you asked, keeping your voice light for his mother's sake.
"Schedule," he said. "Finalized tour dates and comeback prep."
His mother clapped her hands. "Oh! The world tour! You must be so excited, Jooheon-ah. Where are you going? How long?"
He listed the cities. Tokyo, Osaka, Bangkok, Jakarta, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris. The names filled the kitchen like bright, foreign birds, each one a mile marker on a road taking him away from you. Three months. Maybe four, depending on promotions.
You pushed your rice around your bowl. The appetite you'd had moments ago shriveled.
His mother didn't notice. She was already talking about watching the livestreams, about bragging to the neighbors. Jooheon nodded along, but his eyes kept cutting to you. Reading you. Measuring the slow collapse happening behind your carefully neutral expression.
Later, you stood at the kitchen sink, washing dishes that didn't need washing. The water was scalding. You barely felt it.
Arms wrapped around your waist from behind.
"Come with me," Jooheon murmured against your ear. "Tonight. There's a place. Just for us."
The jjimjilbang was tucked into the foothills outside town, a winding twenty-minute drive from the house. Jooheon had made a phone call in hushed tones, pulling strings you didn't ask about. By the time you arrived, the parking lot was empty, the main building dark except for a single lantern glowing by the entrance.
A middle-aged woman in a simple hanbok greeted you at the door, bowing deeply. She didn't stare at Jooheon. Didn't ask for autographs. Just led you through a maze of wooden corridors until you reached a sliding door at the very back of the property.
"The bath is yours for the evening," she said, her voice soft and unhurried. "There are towels and tea inside. Please take your time."
The door slid shut behind her.
And then it was just you and him and the steam.
The bath was outdoors but fully private, ringed by a high bamboo fence and the natural shield of the hillside. Lanterns hung from wooden posts, their flames flickering against the darkening sky. The water was a pool of milky jade green, fed by a natural hot spring, with smooth stone steps leading into its depths. Steam rose in lazy curls, catching the lantern light and turning everything dreamlike.
The air smelled of minerals and wet stone and the clean, green scent of bamboo rustling overhead.
Jooheon undressed first—simple, unhurried movements. He folded his clothes and set them on the wooden bench, then straightened, letting you look. The sculpted planes of his chest. The curve of his shoulders. The tattoo on his abs. His cock, still soft, resting against his thigh. He was beautiful in the way old statues were beautiful, all proportion and purpose.
"Your turn," he said, and his voice was gentler than the steam.
You shed your clothes piece by piece. When the last layer fell, he took your hand and led you into the water.
The heat was immediate and enveloping. It sank into muscles you didn't know were tight, loosening knots that had formed over the past week. You gasped at the first touch, then sighed, your body going boneless as you descended the steps. Jooheon kept his grip on your hand until you were chest-deep, the milky water lapping at your collarbones.
You floated.
The water held you, suspended you. Above, the sky had deepened to indigo, and the first stars were pricking through. The bamboo whispered. A cricket sang somewhere in the dark.
Jooheon moved through the water toward you, and the ripple of his approach reached you before his hands did. Then his palms found your waist, turning you, drawing you against his chest. Your back pressed to his front. His arms wrapped around you, and his chin came to rest on your shoulder.
"Better?" he asked.
You didn't know how to answer. Better wasn't the word. Nothing in the world felt like this—the heat and the quiet and the solid reality of his body behind you, heart beating slow and steady against your spine.
"I don't want you to go," you whispered.
His arms tightened. "I know."
"It's stupid. I knew this was coming. I knew you had a life to go back to."
"It's not stupid."
"I'm going to be here, in this house, sleeping in your bed, and you're going to be on the other side of the world. And you'll forget—"
He turned you around so fast water sloshed over the stone edge. His hands cupped your face, fingers threading into your wet hair, and the intensity of his gaze stopped your breath.
"Don't," he said. "Don't do that. Don't tell yourself stories that aren't true."
"Oppa—"
"I will never forget this. I will never forget you." His thumbs brushed your cheekbones. "You are not a detour in my life. You're not something I'm going to look back on and wonder if it was real. You're real. This is real."
The steam curled around you both. Somewhere, water dripped from a bamboo spout into a stone basin, a rhythmic, meditative sound.
"I'm scared," you admitted, the words cracking open something tender in your chest. "I'm scared that when you leave, this ends. That you'll find someone in Paris or London or—"
"There's no one." His voice was iron. "There never was. There never will be."
He kissed you.
It wasn't like the kisses in Seoul—urgent, hungry, driven by the knowledge that there were other mouths waiting, other hands reaching. This kiss was slow. Deliberate. His lips moved against yours with the patience of someone who had forever. He tasted the steam. He tasted like home.
Your hands found his shoulders, then slid up to bracket his neck. He lifted you easily, your legs wrapping around his waist, his arms supporting your weight. The water held you both, making you weightless, making the press of your bodies feel inevitable.
His mouth left yours and traced a line along your jaw, then down the column of your throat. Your head fell back, eyes closing, the stars and the bamboo blurring into a wash of darkness and green.
"I love you," he said against your pulse point.
You stilled.
He'd never said it before. Not in words. He'd said it with his hands, his mouth, his patience, his possessiveness. But the words—the three simple, terrifying words—hung in the steam between you.
"Jooheoney oppa—"
"I love you." He pulled back to meet your eyes. His were wet, though you couldn't tell if it was the steam or something else. "I should have said it earlier. I should have said it the first night, when you hugged me in the living room and I felt your heart beating against my chest. I should have said it in Seoul. I should have said it every day."
Your throat closed. Your eyes burned.
"I love you too," you managed. "I've always—I've loved you since I was a kid. I just didn't know it was this kind of love until—"
He kissed you again, swallowing the rest of your words.
The kiss deepened. The languid heat of the water, the weightlessness, the absolute privacy, it stripped away the urgency that had defined your encounters in Seoul. There was no show here. No performance. No audience. Just Jooheon, his body pressed to yours, his cock stirring against your thigh as the kiss grew more passionate.
You felt him growing, hardening, the thick length of him nudging between your legs. Your body responded instinctively, your inner walls clenching, already slick with more than the mineral water.
"Wait," you breathed, pulling back slightly. "Your—the last time, in Seoul, you pulled out. And I know we shouldn't—"
His forehead pressed to yours. "I've thought about it."
"What?"
"Coming inside you." The words were rough, scraped raw. "I've thought about it every day. Every night. What it would feel like to let go. To feel you clench around me while I fill you."
Your breath stuttered.
"But only if you want it," he continued. "If you're not ready—if you're worried—"
"I want it."
The words were out before you could second-guess them. And once they were spoken, you knew they were true. You wanted to feel him without barriers, without hesitation. You wanted to carry a piece of him with you when he left.
His eyes searched yours. "You're sure?"
"I'm on birth control," you said. "I started after... after that first time in my bedroom. I knew—I hoped—"
Something fractured in his expression. Relief, maybe. Or gratitude. Or just the overwhelming weight of everything you were both feeling.
He kissed you again, and this time there was nothing slow about it.
His hands moved to your hips, positioning you. The water lapped around you as you shifted, your legs tightening around his waist. The head of his cock found your entrance, and you both gasped at the contact—the heat of him, the slickness of your arousal, the absolute rightness of the moment.
He pushed inside.
The stretch was familiar now, but no less overwhelming. He was so thick, so impossibly thick, and your body welcomed him with a shudder. Inch by inch, he sank deeper, until he was fully seated, until there was no space left between your bodies.
Neither of you moved. You just breathed, forehead to forehead, his cock pulsing inside you.
"This is different," you whispered.
"I know."
Every other time had been frantic, desperate, driven by the urgency of discovery or the presence of others. But this—this was slow and sacred, a communion rather than a performance. You could feel every ridge of him, every vein, every pulse of his heartbeat echoing through his shaft.
He began to move.
Slow, rolling thrusts that barely disturbed the water. His hands gripped your hips, guiding you up and down his length. You clung to his shoulders, your face buried in the curve of his neck, breathing him in. Cedar. Vanilla. The mineral tang of the spring.
The pleasure built differently than it had in Seoul. There was no climbing urgency, no frantic chase toward climax. Instead, it radiated outward, suffusing your entire body with warmth. Each thrust sent ripples of sensation through you—not just in your pussy, but in your chest, your throat, the soles of your feet.
"Feel so good," Jooheon murmured. "Always so tight. Always so perfect."
You moaned against his skin.
His pace remained steady, unhurried. This wasn't about getting off. This was about feeling each other. Memorizing each other. Storing up enough sensation to survive the months ahead.
"Look at me," he said.
You lifted your head, meeting his gaze. His eyes were dark and glittering, reflecting the lanterns. His lips were parted, his breathing ragged.
"I want to watch you," he said. "When I come. I want to see your face."
You nodded, unable to form words.
His thrusts grew deeper, more deliberate. Each one pressed against something inside you that made your vision blur at the edges. Your moans grew louder, echoing off the bamboo. The water sloshed against the stone.
"Touch yourself," he commanded, his voice strained. "I want to feel you fall apart."
Your hand slid between your bodies, fingers finding your clit. The moment you touched yourself, the pleasure sharpened, crystallized. Your inner walls fluttered around him.
"Fuck," he hissed. "You're squeezing—I can't—"
He was close. You could feel it in the way his rhythm faltered, the way his grip on your hips tightened.
"Come," you whispered. "Come inside me, oppa. I want to feel it."
Your orgasm hit first.
It wasn't explosive. It was a slow, rolling wave that pulsed through your entire body, making you arch and cry out. Your pussy clamped down on his cock, rhythmic and desperate, milking him. The water amplified every sensation, the heat sinking into your bones as the pleasure radiated outward.
Jooheon watched you, his expression reverent. Then his own control shattered.
He drove deep—so deep you felt him in your core—and held there, his whole body tensing. The first pulse of his release was hot and thick, painting your inner walls. He groaned, a low, broken sound that vibrated through his chest. Pulse after pulse, he filled you, his cock twitching with each spasm.
You clung to him, feeling it. The warmth spreading inside you. The intimacy of it—his seed, his claim, the ultimate surrender.
When the last pulse faded, he sagged against you, his forehead dropping to your shoulder. His breath came in ragged gasps. His cock still throbbed inside you, buried to the hilt.
Neither of you moved.
The water settled around you. The bamboo whispered. The crickets resumed their song.
"I love you," he said again, muffled against your skin.
"I love you too."
He stayed inside you until the water began to cool. Then, reluctantly, he pulled out, and you both felt the loss. You watched as a thin white thread of his release drifted through the water, dissolving, disappearing.
The wooden deck beside the bath was warm from the residual heat of the stones. You sat wrapped in a thick cotton robe, your feet dangling over the edge, your toes skimming the water. Beside you, Jooheon poured steaming green tea into two ceramic cups.
Your phone buzzed on the deck between you.
You glanced at the screen. Hyungwon's name glowed in the dim light.
Arrived safely? The apartment is too quiet.
You smiled. Held up the phone so Jooheon could see.
He read the message, and instead of the tension you'd half-expected, his expression softened. "He's a good man."
"He's your friend."
"He's your something too, now." He set down the teapot. "That doesn't bother me."
"Doesn't it?"
He turned to face you, one knee bent, his arm draped over it. "What we did in Seoul, what we shared with Changkyun and Hyungwon, that wasn't a mistake. It wasn't just a fantasy, either. It was real. They care about you now. They're protective of you. And that... that makes me feel less alone."
"Alone?"
"In knowing that when I leave, you won't be unprotected. You'll have them. If you need something—anything—they'll be there."
You stared at him. "You've thought about this."
"I've thought about everything." He reached over, tucking a damp strand of hair behind your ear. "I know this is complicated. I know most people wouldn't understand. But we're not most people. And I trust you. I trust them. What we built in Seoul—that bond—it doesn't have to end just because I'm leaving."
Your throat tightened. "It's still going to be hard."
"God, yes." He laughed, but it was hollow. "It's going to be brutal. I'm going to be in hotel rooms at three in the morning, staring at the ceiling, wishing I was here. Or you were there."
"When I'm scared," you said quietly, "I can still feel you. Even when you're gone. It's like—" You pressed your hand to your chest. "Like you're still here."
He set down his tea and pulled you into his lap, robe and all. Your head found the curve of his shoulder, and his arms wrapped around you, solid and warm.
"When I'm on stage," he said, "looking out at a sea of light sticks, I'll be looking for you. Even when you're not there. Every song I sing—every single one—it'll be for you."
"Promise?"
He tilted your chin up. The lantern light flickered in his dark eyes. "I promise. I'll call you every night. Even if it's just for two minutes. Even if I'm exhausted. You're my anchor, baby. This—" He touched your heart. "This is what I'm coming home to."
The first tear slipped down your cheek before you could stop it. He kissed it away.
"Don't cry," he murmured. "This isn't an ending. It's a pause. A chapter break. The story's not over."
"It's just hard to believe that when everything is about to change."
"Change isn't bad." His lips brushed your forehead. "Remember how scared you were the first night? In my childhood bedroom? You were trembling. But look at us now. Look at everything we've become."
You were trembling now, but it was different. Not fear. Something closer to surrender.
"I'll wait for you," you said. "No matter how long."
"I know you will." He kissed you—soft, lingering, full of quiet resolve. "And I'll always come back. Always."
The steam rose around you, blurring the edges of the world. The bamboo swayed. The stars wheeled overhead, slow and indifferent. But in that moment, wrapped in Jooheon's arms, you felt like the center of the universe.
His phone buzzed somewhere in his discarded pants—probably his manager, probably another update about the tour, probably another reminder of how little time remained.
He ignored it.
He held you instead, his lips pressed to your hair, his heartbeat steady under your ear. And for a little while longer, the world outside the bamboo fence ceased to exist.
There was only this. Only him. Only the quiet promise hanging in the steam, as real and as sacred as the water that held you both.



