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The door beeped as Seonghwa unlocked it, opening up to the comforting scent of his and his boyfriend’s mixed scents. For a lot of people it would be hard to breathe in such strong alpha scents as well as Jongho’s changing one, leaving a lighter scent in its wake.
When Seonghwa met Jongho, his scent was like a wooded smell with a spicy tang, when he was upset his scent would turn smoky like a campfire. After taking his scent pills, it changed to a more sweet smell, like heavily scented flowers after it rains. Seonghwa loves both scents, but is happy every day that the floral scent grows and lingers.
“Jjong! I’m home love!” Seonghwa calls, kicking off his shoes and hanging his backpack up on the wall hangar, looking into the living room for his boyfriend. He treads into the shared living space after sliding into his house slippers, peaking through the archway on the right side of the living room to see if the younger was in the kitchen. When he wasn’t, Seoghwa shuffled down the hallway at the back of the living room and opened their shared bedroom door.
Jongho was in fact in their room, but doing something completely new in the entirety of their relationship. He was nesting. Aggressively, might Seonghwa add.
The transitioning omega stood at the foot of their bed, Seonghwa’s red jumper squeezed in his fists as he angrily pouted at the messy nest before climbing onto the bed and laying his jumper in between two pillows. He then moved around all the blankets twice, scrunching some up and laying others flat out to add cushion to their bed.
Tutting to himself, he then proceeded to shift the pillows around, leaving the red jumper at the head of their bed. Seonghwa quickly shook himself out of the shock only to rake his eyes over the younger in soft amusement. Whilst raiding the older’s closet to find suitable items for the nest, he had also put on one of Seonghwa's biggest knit sweaters, a soft fuzzy yarn material that was big on Seonghwa and engulfed Jongho. Added with his newly dyed blond hair and a pair of Seonghwa’s fuzzy socks, kneeled in the middle of the nest pouting, Jongho looked like the epitome of soft.
“Jongho are you nesting?” Seonghwa finally asked, startling the boy. Jongho’s eyes widened, hands still outstretched to shift a scrunched up blanket as he slowly turned various shades of red.
“H-Hyung! I- It’s not- I’m- you see- ugh!” Jongho stuttered out, hands moving to cover his face as he shrunk into himself. “M’sorry, I just missed you and-and I just…” he mumbled through sweater paws, trailing off before peeking his eyes over to the alpha. “Please don’t be mad.”
“Baby bear, I’m not mad! Why would I be mad? You’re nesting, it’s cute. I missed you too lovely. Can I join you? Or do you need to finish?” Seonghwa soothed, moving to stand a few feet from the bed, not yet joining the boy in fear of ruining his progress.
Omega’s hated having their partners/mates enter a not fully made nest and Seonghwa didn’t want to ruin one of the first proper omega urges the transitioning boy had.
Jongho’s eyes widened at the alpha’s words before slowly lowering his hands showing off his small pout. Seonghwa wanted to scoop him up and hide him from the world. “You think it's cute? It’s not ugly?” he asked, voice vulnerable as he looked up at the older.
Seonghwa nodded, moving to crouch by the side of the bed, giving Jongho the height advantage to soothe him as well as releasing calming pheromones. “Baby bear, you are the cutest omega. So pretty and soft and your nest looks very nice bubs. May I join you?”
The omega pursed his lips for a moment before nodding, only to hold out his hand in a stopping gesture as Seonghwa moved to climb on the bed. “Those need to be off, they’re too scratchy.” Jongho stated, pointing at Seonghwa’s black ripped jeans.
The alpha chuckled, moving over to his opened wardrobe and changing into a pair of white sweatpants to match the white hoodie he wore to his night classes.
After getting the omega’s nod of approval, he climbed onto the nest, careful not to move anything. As soon as he was properly in the safe zone, he gathered the younger into his arms, pulling him to sit in his lap.
Seonghwa slipped his hands under the sweater to rub small circles on Jongho’s hip as the younger melted into him, a content hum rising from the back of his throat.
Seonghwa moved his head to face where Jongho’s had rested against his shoulder, giving him soft pecks on his forehead and and cheeks. “My pretty omega built such a nice nest for us. You did so well baby, so perfect.” Jongho melted even more at the words, a giddy whine leaving his mouth.
He let the smaller move off of his shoulder and tug them to lay down, hands falling from Jongho’s waist as the younger shifted things around until he was content.
Jongho then grabbed a fluffy white throw San had gifted him overtop their bodies before snuggling into Seonghwa’s open arms. The older kissed all over his face, one arm wrapping around his waist and the other moving to brush his bangs away to give him a loud kiss in the middle of his forehead earning a light slap to his arm.
These were Seonghwa’s favorite moments, when Jongho could let go and stop worrying about society. Falling into his own rhythm and being the cutest omega Seonghwa had ever seen. His baby bear.