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"I don't really understand, how did they allow an alpha and omega to room together?" Sungho struggles to keep the phone on his shoulder, and the box he carries in one hand and the luggage he pulls in another aren't helping, but his cousin can't seem to calm down no matter how many times sungho assures him.
"Sunoo-ya, I told you I'll manage, I ain't that weak, and he's got special permission from the head dorm's office AND the principal's office, so I don't think there's a life-threatening dilemma in any of this, okay?" He tried to reason with him as he read the door numbers.
The 10th floor isn't the best option, but at least his room is the fourth, so it's supposed to be around the corner, "I found it! I'll call you back okay? No worries, bye." He hangs up without giving the other boy any time to reply.
Putting the box on the floor, he decided it'd be more respectful if he knocked on the door instead of using his keys right away, just in case his roommate was inside, so he knocked. And when nothing happened and three minutes of waiting passed, he decided to use his keys and get in.
When he got in, locked the door behind him and then looked around; It looked okay to him, not the most tidy place but he expected much less out of a man living alone. However; the place smells real nice, something subtle and somehow comforting, a scent that could be easily a beta's or even an omega.
Forest and rain, it's less earthy and more of the trees and rainy days, yet the alpha pheromones that stuck loosely around made it clear that his roommate IS an alpha.
He noticed he had been standing in his place for a while just inhaling the scent and emitting his own. The realization made him blush a little then he looked a bit around then noticed a pretty package from a cake shop sungho knows on the small kitchen table with a blue note on it.
"Welcome to your new home roomie! Sorry, I won't be able to welcome you in person cause I have dance practice and I'll stay late, but make yourself home! Also, your room is the one on the right. And oh! Here's a cake I got for you ^^, hope u like it and let's take care of each other from now on.
-Myung jaehyun."
He looked at the cake and let out a small chuckle, "what a unique one." He whispered to the red velvet cake that stared back at him, "Good thing the room is kinda cold, you'd have melted by now." He addressed the cake as he carried it and dragged his luggage to his room.
When he decided to apply for their university dormitory, he wasn't against rooming with other people as he knew the rooms were separated, he could keep his own peace and save himself from the pain of having to wait for his driver because of his inconsistent schedule. But when the principal; who he's acquaintance with, sat him down and explained that there were no rooms available for now yet he could room with an alpha as an exception.
The older man told him he knew him well and he could guarantee absolutely no harm would touch him from the said alpha, and since he knew both very well, having the principal knowing sungho's parents and him since he was a middle schooler, he thought the two would get along.
Sungho wasn't scared of alphas, if anything he isn't scared of others in general, it's just his shy personality and some bits of anxiety usually stop him from approaching others easily.
So he agreed, if the principal thinks so, why wouldn't he give it a shot? An omega or not, he'll do his best to befriend the other and live peacefully for the next three years.
He put the cake on his study table and laid on his bed, all the exhaustion of his tiresome morning catching up, and he found his eyes closing on its own, sleeping involuntarily even if it was just 4 pm.
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When he opened his eyes, his head was aching slightly, he took a look around trying to remember what happened. "I must have fallen asleep when I laid down..," he mumbled and sat up, feeling something sliding down his chest to his lap, "mhm? When did I get that?" He whispered drowsily as he eyed the blue light blanket that was on him. Soon he realized the box he left by the door was next to his luggage, the air-con was on, the lights were dim and the door was closed.
He couldn't help but smile, the way his roommate had been leaving a great impression on him was no joke. Folding the blanket that reeks of alpha's forest scent and holding it to his chest, he decided to leave the room.
As soon as he opened the door, the smell of ramyeon being cooked filled his nose, reminding him he didn't have lunch today, and surviving on his morning coffee and toast.
With hesitant steps, he walked towards the kitchen, hearing faint music from there, and then he saw a tall boy in an oversized white t-shirt mixing the ramyeon and singing softly to the song in the background, he smiled and danced a bit as if he's performing, and it was pretty charming.
Once sungho took another step closer and as a cue the boy looked up towards him, a big yet shy smile crossed his face and he turned the stove off and came to greet the boy closer, "You're up, hopefully, you had a good nap? I was making food for both of us, hungry?" His voice and smile have a huge boyish charm to it, and he sounds awfully genuine.
Sungho without realizing clinched on the blanket and nodded, "Thank you for this..., and my name is sungho." He added as he handed the blanket over, the other blinked at it as if remembering it then he took it gently, "Most welcome. Mine is jaehyun! I heard we're the same age so I hope we live together comfortably." Jaehyun replied with a smile.
"Are you eating? If we leave the ramyeon for so long it'll be too saggy." Jaehyun pointed back at the kitchen while his eyes never left sungho's, who had been doing his best to ignore the happy pheromones the other was emitting, finding him endearing. "Yeah, I'd love to." The omega replied softly.
The dinner went great if sungho could say, he insisted on washing the dishes so the younger dried them next to him, all while exchanging small things about themselves here and there, jaehyun doing most of the talking, making the omega chuckle occasionally.
"By the way, I have a gaming console over there, you're free to game whenever you want, hopefully, we'll play together some other time. That of course if you want to." The taller offered as they both exited the kitchen and quickly added at the end with a slight blush on his cheeks.
Sungho smiled at him, warm and relaxed, "I'd really love to, but you'd have to teach me..?" He tilted his head slightly up towards the alpha, blinking his beautiful eyes at him, "O-of course, it'll be my pleasure to do so; we'll have so much fun for sure." The warm pink was evident on the taller cheeks as he held his room's doorknob, "I'll see you tomorrow then, goodnight. And if you need anything, please tell me, I'll be up late working on some project."
Sungho nodded, "you too, nighty." He said softly and closed his door. Breathing a deep sigh of relief, he was extremely grateful for having such a roommate, the boy was more like an excited puppy rather than an alpha, attending to his needs semi-consciously as if it's just a nature of his, let alone how he's respectful and he only stares at his eyes and always makes sure his words won't come across as a demand but an offer.
He looks forward to what their lives together will turn out to be.
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The next morning jaehyun woke up to his raging alarm, sighing as he got less than six hours of sleep and getting up, knowing that if he stayed a second more in bed he'd pass out again. Robbing his eyes he opens the door only to be hit with the scent of sakura filling the air, the place screams of an omega, and then his eyes snap, remembering his roommate and the heavenly scent that filled the apartment since yesterday.
Looking down at himself, he was shirtless as per usual, so he immediately went back in and threw on any of his t-shirts and went back out to the bathroom that looked a bit wet, sungho probably took a shower earlier that's why the apartment's filled with his scent, he showered quickly and did his morning routine, never bumping into the omega, till he checked the kitchen and noticed a plate with a yellow note on it.
"Morning jaehyun-ah
Have some breakfast before classes!
Good luck.
-sungho."
He chuckled a bit, it was quite a good meal, obviously ordered by delivery services. "So he's a morning person?" Jaehyun mumbled to himself smiling and unwrapping the plate.
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It was later that day when jaehyun realized he didn't have sungho's phone number, he was rambling about the omega to his best friend taesan, the younger having none of it and paying more attention to the book he was reading on his phone when jaehyun suddenly stopped.
"Bro, I just realized I don't have his number, he'd probably want to go shopping and I'd love to take him, like my car is right there or something." He mumbled, "hyung, you sound like a loser for real, why are you so desperate? Won't you come off as scary? He's an omega after all." Replied the younger alpha.
"He never looked scared, he was gentle, soft. Anyway, have you heard of him? His name is park sungho." That got taesan to look up from his phone, "from the vocal department?? The boy that my baby is talking about nonstop? Hyung, he's so famous how the hell have you never heard of him? He used to have a band back in high school so he has many followers on Instagram, and even now, he's well-known for his great voice and stuff, donghyun is a big fan of his and they've recently gotten really close because of a project they worked on together."
"Donghyun has nothing but praises for the boy that I sometimes get jealous of, but to be honest I never met him before so I don't know myself." He looked down for a second then remembered, "Oh right, and he's single." He added.
"Damn dude, that makes him ten times more my t-" the older said but taesan stopped him quickly as he got a call from leehan, "Yes, sweethear- hey hey calm down, ....Okay where are you? I'll be over in a second, please stay safe and don't get hurt." The smile immediately dropped from his face as he heard his boyfriend's shaken-up voice, his usual indifferent demeanor immediately changed at the news of his omega in distress, "hyung, donghyun, and sungho hyung are in terrible, there's an alpha crowding them at the football court stands." The young alpha said as he pulled jaehyun to run together.
As jaehyun heard the two names his heart dropped, and he immediately ran as fast as he could, being the football team leader gave him an advantage, and he was a bit frustrated with himself, if only he hadn't forgotten his football bag in his locker, he could've prevented such situation.
The distance wasn't that far, jaehyun easily slipped in, taesan tailing him, he climbed the stairs and immediately spotted the four of them, there was an unknown alpha standing up way too close to sungho and leehan, and his teammate, a beta named riwoo was standing between them.
He smelled anxiety with what he would recognize as both leehan and sungho's scents and his protective instincts went wild, he quickly dashed to them, pulling the alpha harshly by the arm, "Hey students are prohibited to be here unless there's a match, why are you here causing a scene on top of that??" He used his captain voice and not his alpha one, no matter how mad he was, he liked things to be civilized.
"Oh really? If so then why these two are here? I don't see any uniform on them, pretty much I know they're nothing more than singing doll-" taesan, who has both of the omegas behind him now growled, "Shut that stupid mouth of yours before I shut it for you." But jaehyun raised his hand to silence him.
"They're here by my permission, as the captain I can allow them. But you? I don't think so, so now get your ass out of this place or even god himself won't help you when I get you kicked out of this university." He threatened pointing at the security cameras filming everything that happened.
The two shared a challenging stare then the alpha backed up, mumbling some curses as he left. Jaehyun stayed in place till he saw him leave the court then turned around. "Is everyone okay?" He said gently, eyes meeting sungho's first, his pupils were blown wide looking shaken up a bit but he smiled slightly and nodded, "Sorry for the mess, we should've waited for you guys first." He said lowly.
"Hey no hyung, I usually come here alone often, that asshole just happened to follow us today, it's not your fault," Leehan said after reassessing his boyfriend that he was okay for the hundredth time. "Thank you riwoo, you did great." Jaehyun ruffled his hair quickly smiling down at the shorter boy, "Yeah yeah, they're both my friends you know." The beta mumbled.
"Are you okay?" Finally, jaehyun stepped closer into the omega's personal space, "Yeah, trust me I am, it's just he never knows how to take no for an answer, he has been bugging me since the start of the semester, I usually handle him well, but I was worried about leehanie." The omega ruffled his own long hair in frustration, "Hey," jaehyun chuckled ever so slightly, "he was an asshole, yeah, but I'll make sure to be around more often so he fucks off, how about we exchange numbers? You know, we live together now and getting to know each other so I thought that would be nice, of course, if you wanted to."
Jaehyun wanted to be comforted by the soft smile on the shorter's face, his cute shy giddiness about exchanging numbers, and the way his eyes softly shone as they talked, but he could smell the anxiety lingering around them, even when sungho was emitting content pheromones, jaehyun can't help but feel unsettled.
The practice was soon to begin, and the afternoon wind of late October was blowing unforgivingly, as taesan and leehan snuggled to each other, sungho sat next to them, jaehyun hummed and casually handed his jacket, "oh can you keep it with you? I might lose it in the boys' locker room." He half-assed the excuse with a smile, and sungho chuckled taking it, "We can't have that happen, I'll keep it safe with me." He said in an endearingly serious tone.
Jaehyun chuckled and left them to practice as sungho wore the football jacket, the one that had jaehyun's number and name on its back, he covered his smile with his hands that were hidden underneath the long sleeves, and he watched with warm cheeks, sakura scent filling the air around the three as he actively ignores the knowing smiles and stares leehan was giving him.