PUCKD Ch 24

It must have been a moment of madness.

“Sorry for not telling you sooner. It’s been about 50 days? Not that long. I was planning to tell you before the 100-day mark. Ah, I’m serious!”

The moment Shin Hojae left that room, he went to the nearest restroom and locked himself in a stall.

As he hastily pulled down his sweatpants and underwear together, his erect penis stood up straight, almost touching his navel.

In his mind, the image of Kwon Junghyun he had just seen and the sensation he felt when they kissed replayed as if they would explode.

“No, about how we met…. My girlfriend was originally a ‘Dooming’. Uh, one of my subscribers. She sent me a DM saying she was a fan, you know? I was bored late at night, so I replied a bit, and we clicked really well? So we met up outside a few times and….”

Shin Hojae, biting back a curse, grabbed his penis with his right hand. He had barely stroked it a few times when a clear fluid began to bead at the tip of the glans.

‘Haah, fuck…’

The hem of his t-shirt was getting in the way. Shin Hojae, with a rushed hand, flipped up the hem of his shirt and bit down on it, stroking the shaft of his cock even faster.

“Huh? Ah, my girlfriend lives in Seoul. It’s true I met her when we had our inauguration ceremony. Ah, we weren’t dating back then! Anyway, then she asked me out first, so I said okay right away.”

His climax came absurdly fast.

‘Haah, haah…’

Shin Hojae stared blankly at the cloudy white fluid splattered on the toilet lid and the tiled floor.

His penis had lost some of its hardness but was still in a state of excitement.

“Hey, hey. Cut me some slack! Your hyung-nim got his first girlfriend ever, so I could be a bit shy about telling you! How long are you gonna hold a grudge over something like that!”

Shin Hojae was, compared to other men his age, sexually reserved.

When you do high-intensity training every day to the point where you’re drenched in sweat, you don’t even have time to think about masturbating.

So, it had been quite a while since he had last gotten himself off.

“And aren’t our Chul and Hojae-Hojae lonely singles? That’s why it was even more awkward to say anything. A sense of guilt, perhaps, for being the only one to hop over to the world of couples full of dreams and hopes?”

Right, so that must be it.

The reason the heat wasn’t leaving his genitals.

In this state, it would be difficult to return to the dorm, so Shin Hojae had no choice but to grab the shaft of his penis again.

He planned to go back after getting off one more time.

“Huh? Why do I call her my girlfriend? Then what do I call my girlfriend if not my girlfriend. Ji-seonsu, I know you want to pick a fight because you’re jealous, but you have to pick a fight that makes sense for me to even want to play along, right?”

But why was Kwon Junghyun popping into his head again?

Things like his lust-filled eyes, the moans that escaped his rough and cold lips, and the story that he had masturbated thinking of him…….

“Ah, of course I’ll introduce you! Just wait a bit. Unlike you guys, my girlfriend is a bit shy. You have to give her plenty of time to prepare mentally.”

Shin Hojae thought of the legs full of scrapes, slick with ointment. And the image of Kwon Junghyun spreading those legs wide and stroking his firmly erect penis.

“Ah, what are you doing? Give me 500 won, quickly. I said 50 days.”

And in that moment, another climax hit him. It was a dizzying pleasure that made his thighs tremble.

Gasping for breath, Hojae slammed his fist against the restroom door.

He couldn’t forgive himself for thinking of him at the moment of climax.

“Hojae-Hojae. You have to give me some too!”

Smack!

The stinging pain on his shoulder made Hojae jump in surprise and come to his senses.

Shin Hojae was currently in the 2-person room he shared with Doomin, talking with Doomin and Minchul. He had been lost in other thoughts and had barely heard the latter half of the conversation. Hojae rubbed his stinging shoulder and asked dumbly.

“……What was that?”

“Give me 500 won!”

Doomin waved his palm in front of his face. Looking closely, there was a 500-won coin on his palm.

“Uh… 500 won? I don’t have any…. Is 5 dollars okay?”

“Shit. Hand that over, then!”

Shin Hojae, without knowing why, rummaged through his pocket and handed over 5 dollars. Yook Doomin collected it with a satisfied face.

“I think our Hojae-Hojae must have hurt his head a bit during the teamwork training the day before yesterday.”

“Shin Hojae. You okay?”

“Let’s let him rest. He must be tired today too since Lee Sanggon was being a total dick to him. Crazy bastard. I don’t know why he’s like that.”

“Moon Seungyeol and Ahn Dongjoo have quieted down a bit, though.”

“Yeah, yeah. Dongjoo hyung even got pretty close with Alexei, you know? After the teamwork training, Alexei called him to the rink separately and taught him some goalie training methods that Russian players use. I thought he was a cold man from a snowy country, but he has a warm heart.”

Two days had passed since the teamwork training.

For the past two days, the players had a matchup against a local team.

And Kwon Junghyun sat on the bench throughout the practice game, watching the match. With the face of a perfect club owner trusted by all the players and coaching staff.

It was a sight that made it hard for even him to believe that this was the same person who had gotten an erection and made lewd jokes while kissing a man.

The players, who only saw him as a good club owner, would never know.

With what a vulgar face Kwon Junghyun seduces men. What obscene moans flow from those lips.

A dirty, promiscuous hypocrite.

Shin Hojae shook his head to drive the thoughts of him away.

The 7-day training camp was all over, and tomorrow was the day they returned to Seoul.

『Phew. It’s so obvious you’re staring.』

Kwon Junghyun was drinking coffee in the airport lounge on his way back to Korea. When he turned his eyes towards the source of the sound, he saw Peter smiling mischievously.

『I’m just looking because they’re our players.』

『Really? And you’re going to insist that Hojae just happens to be there every time?』

『Well, Shin Hojae-seonsu does stand out.』

『Okay. Let’s go with that. For now.』

Swinging his crossed leg, Peter sipped his hot coffee. Junghyun turned his head forward again and looked at the group of players.

Yook Doomin, Ji Minchul, and Shin Hojae were standing in a franchise coffee shop inside the airport, talking.

The lounge where Junghyun was sitting and the café were separated by glass, so he couldn’t hear their voices, but he could clearly see that the three of them looked very cheerful.

Does he like coffee?

It wasn’t like he could see what he was ordering from here anyway, but out of habit, Junghyun continued to follow Hojae’s movements.

A moment later, Shin Hojae broke away from the other two and headed towards a display of souvenir cups and teddy bears.

He seemed to be looking intently at a cup with “Canada” written on it, and then he was seen holding a teddy bear keychain wearing a red hoodie, lost in thought.

『Looks like a souvenir for his girlfriend?』

『…….』

Junghyun had been thinking the exact same thing.

Shin Hojae, as if he had made a decision, held both the cup and the keychain in his hands and got in line at the checkout counter.

『He was picking out maple wine at the liquor shop earlier. She must be a lover with quite a cute taste.』

『…….』

『They must be a well-matched couple. Hojae has a cute side too, you know. The way he gets worked up sometimes. You can feel it in his play.』

『Pete.』

『Personally, I’m grateful to Hojae. When you think about it, the fact that you’re acting like a decent human being now is thanks to that kid.』

Junghyun stared out the glass window without a word.

『Was it 4 years ago? When you suddenly went back to Korea. You said your grandfather had passed away. I thought you would come back to America after the funeral.』

『…….』

『But you just left a single message asking me to sell the house you were living in for you, and no matter how long I waited, you didn’t come. I couldn’t even guess the reason until you contacted me this time. I never imagined that the MJ I knew was your family’s business.』

Junghyun only turned his eyes to look at Peter’s face. He raised his eyebrows and drank his coffee.

『I knew you were well-off to some extent, since you didn’t seem to worry about money unlike the other international students. Was your time in America just a brief deviation before inheriting the business? Like a bachelor party that guys have before getting married.』

Junghyun let out a soft laugh. Peter’s words comparing those days to a bachelor party were amusing.

He had never once thought of it that way. To Kwon Junghyun, those 10 years had been nothing but a time of killing himself.

『It wasn’t a party, it was an exile.』

Junghyun corrected him simply. Peter frowned.

『Exile?』

『Yes.』

『Hmm. You won’t tell me the details even if I ask, will you?』

Junghyun just gave a slight shrug.

『Still, you went back to Korea 4 years ago to study to be the successor, right? For the MJ that will be yours in the future.』

『Haha. Pete. MJ is not mine.』

Peter bent his eyebrows in an exaggerated way, as if he didn’t understand.

『What are you talking about. The guy who created a sports team and is even serving as its CEO.』

『It’s true that for this past year, I have been studying to be the successor.』

『You mean to say it’ll be different after a year?』

『Well, if there are no major mishaps, I suppose I could become a useful tool.』

『…Phew. I’m weak with riddles.』

Junghyun looked at Peter with a faint smile on his face.

『I hope a day comes when I can tell you, too.』

『That means you’ll never tell me. You do remember saying the exact same thing when you went back to Korea 4 years ago, right?』

『Mm.』

『Such an annoying brat, anyway.』

Peter shook his head with a fed-up tone and stood up, saying he would get more coffee. Seeing the cold cup of coffee at Junghyun’s seat, he asked if he should get him a new one, but he refused.

If he drank any more here, he felt like he wouldn’t be able to sleep a wink during the 12-hour flight. Although, it wasn’t like he could sleep well even if he didn’t drink it.

At some point, Shin Hojae had disappeared from his line of sight. It seemed he had already finished paying and moved to another place with his friends.

“…….”

A teddy bear keychain, a souvenir cup. And maple wine.

Who would be the person to receive them?

The announcer he had a dating rumor with last year? Or, as Pete said, would it be a cute type of woman? The kind who would look good with a keychain on her bag.

Just imagining it for a moment, it was surprisingly a good fit. Of course it was. Shin Hojae was a perfect hetero alpha male, after all.

If they had met under normal circumstances, he was someone who would never have a point of contact with him, a gay beta.

Junghyun suddenly pulled the corners of his lips up into a smile. It was because he remembered the two kisses he had shared with Shin Hojae.

To say it just felt good was not enough. The act of kissing and holding each other feels good to some extent no matter who the partner is.

Kissing him was not merely an act of lips and tongues touching. It was a sensation as if something located much deeper was being touched.

It was a moment that would never have happened if he had been putting on a pretense of being a ‘good person’ in front of him.

Because the Shin Hojae he knew would never kiss a beta man 6 years his senior, not even by mistake.