The first thing Gregory notices is the pain.
It's there before he even opens his eyes---in his head, in his back, in his ass. It curls over every inch of his body and makes him grit his teeth. He wraps his fingers around the abnormally crumpled sheets beneath him, trying to open his eyes through the agony.
Fuck, I didn't think it'd hurt that bad. Porn never told me this was going to happen.
He mentally smacks himself in the head for actually trusting porn. Of course they wouldn't have shown you the real deal, you fucking knucklehead. Gregory winces as he finally manages to prise his sticky eyelids open, hand instinctively moving to his lower back. Damn it, that hurts like a motherfucker.
So why do I feel so good?
When Gregory eventually rolls over, he immediately realises why. Kang Jeong-Soon's warm body is undoubtedly real---unlike the strangely vivid hallucination he'd almost managed to convince himself their tryst had been. Dappled in the sunlight streaming in from Gregory's suddenly useless curtains, Jeong-Soon's half-naked, puffy from sleep, and snoring loud enough to wake the fucking dead.
Gregory finds it hopelessly endearing.
He attempts to pull himself into a sitting position, struggling valiantly against the burning agony. When the pain lacing his body wins the fight, he settles for turning enough to see Jeong-Soon's face.
Half-wrapped in creased sheets, his boyfriend's lanky body hangs off the bed, bare toes touching the floor, pretty much no muscle definition in whatever the blanket exposes of his unclothed chest. There's a tiny streak of drool on his chin, his hair sticks up all over his head, and his face is swollen from slumber.
Despite that, he's still weirdly attractive. The more Gregory looks at him, the more he realises just how stupidly fucking pretty his boyfriend is. And he's pretty sure it's just him, because Jeong-Soon is the kind of attractive that could slip through a crowd without being noticed, the kind of attractive that wouldn't make sense on paper, the kind of attractive he'd never see on TV.
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