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“babe where you going?” the words came out as slurred whispers from gyuvin’s mouth, with his eyes still shut. he just felt ricky leaving the nest they’d been in for days, and the urge to pull ricky back immediately took over his barely conscious mind.
and so he did, gyuvin opened his eyes and locked onto the beta, who was getting ready to shower. the marks he had left over the past few days were all clearly visible, and the beta turned back to look at him, his curious cat-like eyes scanning gyuvin.
“i’m meeting hao hyung and hanbin hyung today.”
ah yes, gyuvin was supposed to go with ricky too, but the stupid rut that had come early a few days ago made him unable to tag along. gyuvin would probably kill anyone near ricky was zhang hao’s original words.
stupid, stupid rut. gyuvin could only watch ricky go into shower and come out smelling nice and sweet, but without his scent all over him, and the marks he had left all covered under his shirt.
sometimes gyuvin just wished ricky was an omega, so that he could leave his mark forever on ricky—so that everyone would know ricky belongs to him.
however, gyuvin’s scent just fades away a few hours after he scented ricky. desperate for something permanent, he’d even thought about biting into the beta’s deteriorated scent gland, and once, they’d actually tried it.
gyuvin’s teeth sank into ricky’s skin, leaving saliva trailing over the beta’s neck. yet ricky only felt pain from that experience, and the effect turned out to be about the same as scenting.
now, gyuvin stared at ricky choosing the perfume to wear for today. before he can stop himself, the words slipped out naturally, “can i scent you today?”
of course, ricky said yes. there was no reason to refuse a request that doesn’t hurt much, especially one that can make his alpha happy.
after finishing with his makeup, he opened his arms and hugged gyuvin, allowing himself to be engulfed in the embrace. the hug was so warm that it almost made him cancel his plans to go out.
ricky glanced at his phone and saw that it was about time to leave. he left pecks of kisses on gyuvin’s cheek and pulled away before he actually lost his mind and flaked on zhang hao.
“i’ll be back real quick, ok? do you want your mango mousse cake?” ricky cupped gyuvin’s face in his hands. the pouty alpha nodded, his big brown eyes staring at the beta, a silent plea to let the beta stay.
gyuvin had always been the type of alpha to be very clingy after his rut, especially with a beta partner. ricky would have loved to just stay in the nest with him the whole day, but he really had to go.
“bye qubing.”
“bye…”
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“if my eyeballs fall out right now i would think gyuvin is here.” as soon as ricky reached the cafe, zhang hao commented with a look of distaste.
ricky blinked slowly in response, confused. “what?”
hanbin looked at ricky lovingly, as he always did. “well, you smell just like gyuvin without scent blockers on.”
to be honest, ricky was a little surprised by the remark. this was the first time he’d heard such feedback ever since he started going out alone with gyuvin’s scent on him. but he wasn’t that surprised, given the alpha’s reaction before he left the house.
“qubing just ended his rut. just let him be.” ricky absently replied, and hanbin took the chance to start a new topic.
“hao hyung went crazy knowing gyuvin’s rut came early. it took me a few hours to calm him down before he run to your house and kidnapped you.” hanbin said, shaking his head with a smile on his face. it was rare to see zhang hao lose his composure.
hao had been really worried about gyuvin’s unexpected rut, since ricky hadn’t had time to prepare himself for it.
zhang hao averted his gaze from ricky, feeling his cheeks flush. “it’s common sense that betas aren’t made to handle an alpha’s rut. what if ricky ended up with a broken arm?”
everyone knows zhang hao treats ricky like his own brother. extra care is one, scolding and nagging like he single-handedly raised ricky is another. he always show his care in the most subtle way, which makes ricky more touched by his reaction.
“thank you.” ricky whispered, and he was pretty sure zhang hao heard it, given that his cheeks grew even redder.
“does it still hurt when you two have sex?”
what an attempt to change the topic. if ricky had been drinking, he would’ve choked and spat out his drink. if he’d been walking, he would’ve tripped and rolled down the street. but he was doing neither, so he just stare at zhang hao with pure terror.
“you did not…”
“yes i did, tell me now.”
ricky buried his face in his palms and groaned in agony. he quite literally told zhang hao everything and zhang hao also told hanbin everything, so it was no secret that gyuvin has a big dick.
and since beta don’t produce slick like omega do, extra work was needed before they could both can enjoy sex together. but an alpha in rut who wasn’t able to think straight often just push his way in, and once they had to stop midway because ricky starting bleeding.
they’d taken a break to figure out how to make things work. ricky didn’t know what gyuvin did, but he’d reached out to zhang hao to seek for advice. it’s embarrassing, humiliating if exaggerated, since he never had such problem (?) with his past flings.
after long discussions, zhang hao and hanbin suggested just tying gyuvin down while ricky prepare himself for sex. to prevent gyuvin breaking the ropes before ricky was ready, the two even got ricky a blindfold. surprisingly enough, this worked out for the alpha and beta.
but that was with ricky carefully calculating the date of gyuvin’s rut. with something unexpected like the recent one, ricky probably had to go through some pain.
“i mean, i don’t know, it’s okay, maybe he wasn’t that rough? or i’m just, uh, used to it already.” ricky mumbled quietly, feeling his cheeks warm.
“oooh i see,” zhang hao said teasingly, very satisfied to ricky’s expression. hanbin also let out a laugh.
ricky huffed. maybe he should’ve just stay home. extremely flustered at having to talk about his sex life in public, ricky grabbed his phone and stood up.
“i think it’s enough for today. can’t let you two tease me again.”
splitting up in front of the cafe, ricky waved goodbye to the hyungs and headed to gyuvin’s favourite bakery to get his mango mousse cake.
“ow!” a guy walking in full speed bumped into ricky, and their phones just dropped onto the floor. with no time to rub his shoulder, ricky bent down to pick up his phone.
but the guy was faster. he picked up both phones and kept apologising. ricky wasn’t the type to stay and confront someone, so he just grabbed his phone, said “it’s okay,” and continued his way to the bakery.
ᥫ᭡. ₊˚⊹♡
a few hours ago.
shortly after ricky left the house, gyuvin took ricky’s unwashed clothes out of the laundry basket — the one was meant to be washed a few days ago. he carefully placed it in their nest so that he’d be surrounded by ricky’s scent.
but he might have been sniffing too hard, because the scent soon faded away, and he knew ricky wouldn’t be back anytime soon. he had to do something about it.
so gyuvin got out of the bed and headed straight to the bathroom. since betas generally don’t have their own scent, ricky’s “scent” was a mix of body wash and perfume.
he grabbed the body wash ricky always used, then moved to the dresser where ricky kept his bottles of perfume. gyuvin was absolutely dying to smell ricky right now, so he selectively ignored the consequence of mixing the body wash with the jo malone perfume.
he sprayed a considerable amount of the mixture onto the pile of clothes (he would have poured everything out but he didn’t really want to die), then lay back into the bed with a smile on his face.
not very ricky, he thought. but it works. that’s good enough for him.
ᥫ᭡. ₊˚⊹♡
“i’m home!” ricky always (try to) sound happy when coming home, not only because he’s tired or anything, but he’s genuinely happy to come home to see his beloved alpha.
gyuvin, as expected, came out of the room and gave ricky a big hug. ricky could feel the grip on his waist tighter than usual, so he gave gyuvin a soft pat on the arm.
“lemme put down the cake first, okay?” the grip loosen, and ricky just let gyuvin cling to him as he walk towards the kitchen island to set the cake down.
“what’s wrong, hm? bb can you tell me?” ricky turned around to face gyuvin and gave a hug in return. he couldn’t smell the alpha’s soured scent, but he could feel that the alpha wasn’t in a good mood.
gyuvin tucked his face in ricky’s collar and snuggled for a moment, still not saying anything. ricky simply rock him gently, using the motion to tell him that he can always speak when he’s ready.
after a moment of silence, ricky felt his collar getting wet. he quickly cupped the alpha’s face and saw streams of tears coming down. he then used his thumb to wipe away the tears, his voice full of concern. “don’t cry bb, tell me what you thinking okay?”
the very moment gyuvin got closer to ricky, he caught a whiff of an unfamiliar alpha scent, not one of those that fade away in a few seconds, and definitely not from any of their friends.
ricky had always been pretty, so painfully beautiful that gyuvin didn’t give a shit to his sub gender and chased after him for months before they finally got together. but there’s always people trying to hook him up, despite the scent hovering over him, just because he wasn’t and could never be marked.
rational and logical gyuvin knew that the unfamiliar scent was probably an accident since the scent was really subtle, but the post-rut-foggy-minded gyuvin thought it was a sign from god that he’s gonna lose ricky.
“y-you smell like other alpha, i don’t wanna let you go.” gyuvin sobbed like a kid who had just lost his favourite toy. deep down, he was burning with embarrassment, but he’s gonna do anything to let ricky stay.
ricky let out a soft chuckle, amused by the response. “i’m not going anywhere bb, i’m all yours.” he gently pat gyuvin’s back, trying to stop the alpha’s hiccup.
gyuvin wriggled a bit and quickly took control of the hug, the post-rut-emotional alpha still remember biting hurt the beta, so instead he licked the rolemodel tattoo on the beta’s neck.
“stinky alpha scent…” he mumbled nasally, then quietly scented ricky.
“mm, lemme change my shirt okay? that should shake it off.” the hugging couple then made their way to their bedroom. the moment ricky opened the door, a weird but familiar smell attacked his senses.
“were you on some sort of perfume experiment while i was away?”
“uh…”
“why is my perfume bottle foaming?”
“i can explain that one.”
“kim gyuvin!”