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Kim Woonhak had never been the omega his family had been hoping for.
When his secondary gender was revealed, they thought that his... special attitude would fade with time.
They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Woonhak had always been the tallest, loudest kid in class. Impossible to ignore with that explosive laugh of his. A tantrum-thrower.
And one thing he’d never do in his life was let anyone walk all over him.
Which, of course, always led to fights.
—“Idiot! That’s mine!” —his cousin screamed while they wrestled on the floor over god knows what.
—“I don’t care! I got it first!” —he yelled back, pulling her hair just as hard.
That’s how Woonhak grew up: a burst of chaos and energy.
Totally opposite to what his family expected during his adolescence. When he was 13 —the age when your second gender is usually revealed— his family waited eagerly, convinced he’d turn out to be a beta, or maybe, if they were lucky, an alpha.
His mom, already bragging to the neighbors about her strong little unagi, was certain he’d be a perfect alpha.
He just needs to act more serious and proper. A little push and a few years, and he’ll grow into it, she’d say.
After all, he was already one of the tallest in the family, surprisingly strong for his age, always the one asked to carry heavy stuff.
But when the test results came back…
They showed what nobody expected.
Omega.
The paper might as well have said “terminal cancer” judging by his parents’ faces.
Woonhak, unexpectedly, was an omega.
His mother didn’t leave the house for a week, unable to face the neighborhood gossip. Whenever someone asked about his result, Woonhak, in his usual cheerful tone, would just smile and say he was an omega.
His dad tried to teach him to be a “well-behaved omega,”
but everything he said went in one ear and straight out the ass.
And suddenly, the
—“Let him be, he’s just a kid”—
and the
—“My little unagi is so strong!”—
turned into
—“No, Woonhak, that’s not how omegas behave.”
—“You shouldn’t act like that. That’s not how good omegas are supposed to be.”
He knew his dad didn’t mean harm. He just wanted what he thought was best.
But holy hell, Woonhak was sick of being boxed in, of being labeled like his life had already been written out for him.
Well, his destiny could go straight to hell.
Suddenly, everyone had a manual on how he was supposed to act and who he was supposed to be.
But if he was being honest, he never gave a damn about secondary genders.
His logic was simple:
If someone was respectful and interesting, that was more than enough.
So that’s how Woonhak grew up, with a bunch of expectations he never intended to meet—unless there was money involved. In that case, sure, he’d “act like an omega” for a while. Until he got bored and went off to play in the dirt with the dogs.
He had a new friend now, named Sanghyeok.
They’d met this year, at his new high school.
Sanghyeok was everything Woonhak wasn’t: small, delicate, sweet, always with that soft smile on his face.
Gentle. Incredibly kind.
Too kind.
So kind that if you bumped into him, he would apologize.
And the wildest part?
The kid who screamed “omega” from every angle… was actually an alpha. Not a beta.
An alpha.
That’s what caught Woonhak’s attention.
That contrast.
And it was interesting enough for him to decide:
Sanghyeok’s mine now.
He practically adopted him on the spot.
Love wasn’t exactly absent in Woonhak’s life, either.
Though he had never been too interested in it.
In fact, dating a “real” alpha kind of made him cringe.
Every alpha he’d met was either dumb or full of himself.
Until he showed up.
Han Dongmin.
The guy from the class next door.
An alpha known for being ridiculously attractive and mysterious, like the cliché main character of one of those dating sims Woonhak secretly played.
He had Woonhak’s poor little heart the moment their eyes met on the first day of school.
Everything happened so fast.
It was when Dongmin asked where his classroom was.
It was stupid, really. But who could blame him? Woonhak was only 15.
And Kim Woonhak had NEVER, in his life, been shy.
But when that boy looked at him…
He trembled.
For the first time ever, he hesitated.
And he did something he never thought he would.
He looked away.
That alpha looked like a dream.