Romantic Gangster

#77

Whether a customer was paying, or asking about an item, or when there were no customers, Ji-woo kept thinking about Hyun-joon. He often thought of Hyun-joon even usually, but… this was severe. Hyun-joon didn’t leave his mind for a moment.

The face of him holding his hand and saying he understood his words… kept lingering in his mind, and the hot body temperature made his fingertips tingle. He missed Hyun-joon so much.

After checking the time every 20 minutes, from 9 o’clock he checked the time every 5 minutes, from 10 o’clock he stared at the clock every 2 minutes, and from 30 minutes before the end of his shift, he kept staring at the clock.

As soon as the part-time job hours that felt long enough to be tiring ended, Ji-woo quickly took off his convenience store vest, put it away, grabbed his bag, and left the convenience store. His mind was already a mess with Hyun-joon piled up for 7 hours. He could only think that he had to see Hyun-joon right away. He felt like he would cry because he missed Hyun-joon so much.

Why am I like this… Why to this extent…

Strangely, he was out of breath even though he didn’t run much as the distance was short. Ji-woo, who barely reached the front, stood in front of the door of the store where Hyun-joon worked and looked inside. He saw Hyun-joon, who hadn’t gone in to change clothes yet. Hyun-joon, who placed an empty tray in the kitchen, smiled at the words of a man who poked his head out of the kitchen.

“……”

The moment he saw that face, the moment he saw Hyun-joon smiling at someone else, heat suddenly rose throughout his body. It was so hot as if his whole body would melt. It felt like the feeling of missing him all this time was bursting out of his body.

He was out of his mind due to the pheromones leaking out rampantly. Several men passing by simultaneously turned their heads towards Ji-woo. Ji-woo, who was panting and couldn’t breathe well while bending his waist, lifted his head at the approaching shadows.

“Excuse me.”

“……”

“It seems like your heat has hit… Should I help you?”

A few men with strange eyes came closer and reached out their hands. Suddenly, several different pheromones mixed together at once and hit him. At the unfamiliar alpha’s unfamiliar pheromones, strength left his legs and his breath became more ragged. The man’s words spun round and round in his dizzy mind.

It seems like your heat has hit…

Heat has hit…

Heat…

Heat cycle?

It was clearly his body, but he couldn’t control it. Even when he tried to stand up straight, he couldn’t put strength in his legs, and even when he tried to calm down, he couldn’t calm down.

He didn’t want to look like an omega whose heat cycle had begun, so he wanted to do something about his panting breath, but he couldn’t even hide that.

“Fuck, the pheromones are so arousing.”

“Excuse me. We’re not strange people. You need to suppress it anyway. I’m telling you we’ll help.”

“We’re really good at it.”

The three men each spat out a word. His body trembled with fear. Ji-woo looked at the store door that he could reach in just a few steps past the men. Hyun-joon was seen going inside to change clothes. It shouldn’t be… Ah, it shouldn’t be…

He was so startled and his body felt so strange that he couldn’t even speak properly. His lips trembled and his toes curled up.

“Hey, let’s just take him. There’s an unmanned motel behind here.”

“Ah, I made plans to meet Soo-min at dawn.”

“Then you stay out of it.”

“Ah, shit. But it’s such a waste.”

Ji-woo, who barely took a step back from the men who kept approaching and roughly grabbing his shoulders and wrists, held back his tears that seemed like they would fall and barely recalled Hyun-joon’s words.

“If your body feels strange, go into a place where no one can enter right away, lock the door, and call for me. I’ll come right away.”

A place where no one… no one can enter… No one…

While repeating the same words and looking around, Ji-woo pushed the shoulder of the man approaching again and entered the building in front of his eyes. It was dark and hard to see, but when he raised his head, he saw the emergency exit and bathroom signs lit up. The emergency exit was an open space, so he had to go to the bathroom.

Even though he was moving his steps with the thought that he absolutely mustn’t get caught, it felt like his body was melting. Even in the midst of this, the thought that he wanted Hyun-joon to do something to him kept intruding. Between his legs was already soaked, and he could feel something hot flowing down his inner thighs with each step.

Ji-woo, who rubbed the tears running down his cheeks with his hand, quickly entered the bathroom with the lights on. He heard footsteps following him from behind. He was so scared that even just breathing mixed with the sound of crying.

“Wh-what… What should I do…”

Ji-woo, who barely entered an empty stall and locked the door with trembling hands, searched for his cell phone in his bag. It should have been caught right away, but only pens or workbooks kept getting caught and the cell phone didn’t. His hand, mixed with surprise and fear, kept missing.

“He basically came all the way here with his own feet, asking to be fucked.”

“The smell, fuck, it’s so good. Hey, open the door.”

“Ah, I’m so fucking hard.”

Then, the men’s voices were heard right outside the door. Startled, Ji-woo curled up his body, and at that moment, the bathroom door shook wildly. Tears flowed incessantly at the sound of banging on the door with fists. Hyun-joon… He had to call Hyun-joon quickly.

Ji-woo, who firmly bit his trembling jaw and swallowed his crying sound, turned his bag upside down and spilled it on the floor. The cell phone in the inner pocket of the bag fell on the workbook with a thud.

Ji-woo squatted down, picked up the cell phone, and pressed Hyun-joon’s number at the top of the call log. Thanks to the prank of often calling and talking even when they were right next to each other at home, Hyun-joon’s number always occupied the highest place in the call log.

Ring ring…

-Yeah, Ji-woo. I just came out, where are you? Are you still at the convenience store?

As soon as the ringtone rang once, Hyun-joon’s voice was heard. Ji-woo held the cell phone tightly with both hands and barely made a sound with his stuttering words.

“H-Hyun-joon… I… I’m… next to… next to the store… building… bath-bathroom…”

-Ji-woo. What’s wrong with you? Next to the store? The store where I work?

“Yeah… Can… can you come… quickly? I’m too…”

At the sound of Ji-woo’s voice, the men who had been quiet for a moment started shaking the bathroom door wildly again. They seemed to have heard the sound of the phone call. Ji-woo quickly held the cell phone with both hands and grabbed the lock tightly.

“Hey, I’ll just go over from the next stall. I’ll be nice and just touch you a bit, this kid is so fucking eager.”

Ji-woo’s face turned pale. Even in the midst of his mind and body melting into a mess, he immediately understood what those words meant about climbing over from the next stall. If the man climbed over from the next stall… There would be no answer then. Even if he opened the door and went out to avoid getting caught by that man, there were two more men outside. It was clear that he would be caught and dragged away helplessly.

No, it shouldn’t be… What should I do… Hyun-joon, Hyun-joon… Please…

The moment he felt extreme horror at the wildly shaking door and the man’s voice coming from above, the shaking door quieted down. Then, with a thud! sound, something hit the door hard twice. And the voice of the man talking above the door also moved away. He heard a sound begging to be saved, followed by the sound of hitting something with a smack, smack, and the man’s scream was also heard loudly.

Ji-woo listened to the unknown situation outside the door, holding the lock tightly with his trembling hands. He thought Hyun-joon had come, but he couldn’t open the door because he couldn’t see him, so he stayed a little longer.

“Ji-woo. You can open the door now. I’m here.”

The moment he heard Hyun-joon’s voice, tears poured down. Ji-woo opened the door without hesitation, relying on that one voice. As soon as he opened the door, the face he wanted to see the most and wished for the most finally made him burst into tears with a sound.

“Hyun-joon, Hyun-joon…”

“Yeah, I… I’m here. It’s okay now. Fuck, what is all this… Ah, what? Ji-woo… You, pheromones… Eugh, why are you like this? What, is it your heat cycle?”

“I think so… While waiting for you, suddenly, suddenly… I… What should I do…”

The moment he saw those fucking bastards banging on the closed bathroom door and trying to climb over from the next stall, he lost his mind and only now clearly felt the thick pheromones he hadn’t noticed. No, this couldn’t be expressed simply by saying it was thick. The whole bathroom was filled with the scent of Ji-woo’s pheromones. It felt like being in a castella house made of castella.

His lower abdomen tightened and churned. It was inevitable that his lower body reacted. Just looking at Ji-woo’s face, who was holding onto him and looking at him pitifully while shedding tears, made him want to erect, but now that he was covered in pheromones that weren’t controlled at all, it felt like either his eyes or his head would quickly turn.

Hyun-joon clenched his teeth, suppressing the thought of wanting to take off Ji-woo’s clothes here with superhuman strength. His jaw muscle bulged, showing how hard it was for him to hold back. For now, they had to go to a place where they could be alone, a safe place.

“…Let’s go home for now. Get on my back. It’s hard for you to walk, right?”

Normally, he would have said he would somehow walk, but not today. It was hard to even stand on two feet, and he was drained of strength after going through a scary situation. Ji-woo picked up his bag and things that had fallen on the floor, looked at Hyun-joon who bent his back, and quietly climbed on. Hyun-joon, who easily lifted his body as if he wasn’t heavy at all, finally left the bathroom stall.

“……”

On the bathroom floor outside the stall, three men were lying down. Two were moaning, holding their heads with their mouths all torn, and one was sitting against the wall, coughing heavily.

Hyun-joon, who kicked the man lying on the floor blocking the way, raised his foot as if to stomp on his face, and the man curled up. Hyun-joon, who spat out a curse as if they were pathetic, hurriedly left the bathroom with Ji-woo firmly on his back.

“…Phew.”

Hyun-joon, who left the dark building, ran thinking only of Ji-woo on his back, looking only ahead without paying attention to anything else. He had to get home quickly and prevent other bastards from seeing Ji-woo.

He was already so pretty that all sorts of bastards were eyeing him, and now even his pheromone scent was pretty, making him really crazy. The image of those fucking bastards banging on the closed bathroom door kept coming to mind and made him angry.

If he had been just a little, really just a little late, those bastards would have touched Ji-woo. Ah, fuck. Should I go back and kill them? His feet stopped for a moment, but now it was more important to separate Ji-woo, whose whole body was boiling, from this dangerous world than killing those trash-like guys. Hyun-joon ran towards home again.

“Ha…”

He was about to cross the crosswalk, but the light just had to turn red right in front of his eyes. Hyun-joon exhaled his rough breath and glared at the bright red light.

“Ji-woo. Are you a bit okay?”

“Hyun-joon… I’m weird… It keeps… leaking out…”

“…Leaking out?”

“Yeah… I… I… want to do it…”

His body was so hot that it was hard to endure. Ji-woo closed his eyes with a sob, and tears dripped onto Hyun-joon’s shoulder. Not knowing what he was saying, Ji-woo only wanted Hyun-joon’s warmth and touch. Ji-woo sniffled and looked at Hyun-joon’s neck in front of his eyes, then gently pressed his lips against it.

“…Ah… Crazy…”

Hyun-joon, who felt Ji-woo’s lips pressing, suppressed his desire to take off Ji-woo’s pants right away and glared at the still bright red light. Fuck, change! Change quickly!

Not long after, the light flickered and changed to green. Hyun-joon, who had been holding Ji-woo’s buttocks with his hands clasped under them, lifted him up with both hands.

“…Heuk…”

At the same time as his body swayed greatly, Ji-woo’s moan clung to his ears. Moist breaths mixed with trembling and crying flowed.

“…Fuuuck.”

His head felt like it would spin, his eyes felt like they would roll back. And between his legs, it was about to burst. The melted castella soaked his whole body. Hyun-joon ran and ran. As he turned into the alley, the familiar rooftop stairs were visible ahead.

Just a bit more.

The last 30 seconds were a full-out sprint.