The Unwanted Third - ChanMinSung

ONE

Jisung's religion, the most confusing religion, at least in Jisung's opinion. It didn't have an official name because the leaders of the church felt everyone should feel the name inside them if they were a true member.

In other cultures or religions it is customary for a man to marry a woman. Even if the couple was arranged, they were married and sent on their way to have a happy marriage. In Hell, as Jisung called his religion, it had a lot of differences from other places but also some similarities. It was customary for there to be three people in one relationship, even more common for it all to be men.

After the United States government released a confidential document in 1967 stating there had been an "accident" while testing the brain activity of children while being put through stressful situations. In the document it announced that the effects of the experiments lead to what was called a "male pregnancy". The actual experiment had taken place years before but now a side effect was the use of an organ in the male body called "úter masculí" that was previously unused. The babies born from the men were perfectly fine, only a little smaller than babies that came from women, and, if they were males, they also had the úter masculí.

The finding of the úter masculí led to the Hell-ists making all male relationships the norm for their arranged marriages. If you even had one female in the relationship, you were frowned upon. This unspoken rule led to the lead officials in the religion spirit divorcing their wives and marrying younger, carrier, men involved in the church.

Since in Jisung's religion they didn't believe in divorce, the officials had to spirit divorce. A spirit divorce is where they aren't divorced by law but they no longer share any finances, property, or anything. Anyone that was involved in the marriage before the spirit divorce are free to go and marry other people after they officiate the divorce.

The process for getting married was complicated, making spirit divorces rare. In order to marry someone, they have to know each other for at least four weeks before they start going on dates. The use of the four weeks is to make sure they want to start the courting/dating process. After those four weeks, they have to go out on at least two dates before being boyfriend-boyfriend or boyfriend-girlfriend. After they are officially together, they have to be official for another year and four months before they can become engaged. After being engaged for at least four months, they can finally become married. All of that process is only for a two person relationship, if they want a polyamory relationship, they have to do more. Only having a two person relationship takes about a year and ten months.

If the couple decides that they want another person in their relationship, they just have to find a person they both want in the relationship. They then have to go on only one date with the person before being immediately engaged. They only have to be engaged for a month before marrying them.

If the person they are trying to marry doesn't want it, they can't do anything about it because if you defy the two (or more) people that are courting you, you can be sentenced to a punishment deemed by the church for the crime of wasting the person's time.

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Chan met Minho at a party Minho's parents were throwing to show off their new house. Chan fell in love with the younger at first sight, of course it took a little over an hour for Minho to notice Chan, but it was the same for him once he looked at him. For Chan it had to have been Minho's smile and eyes, both were wide when he got to talk about something that excited him. For Minho, it was Chan's height. Chan was a good six foot on a bad day while Minho was five foot eight.

They spent about six weeks getting to know each other before deciding to go on some dates. They quickly fell deeper into love throughout their seven dates. They were extra careful with how much time they spent with each other because they didn't ever want to fall out of love. They did get engaged the moment they had been official for one year, four months, and one day. They also got married the week after they were engaged for four months.

Their wedding had been absolutely beautiful. The main colors were white and gold with sage green accents. Both Chan and Minho cried during the ceremony and after due to their happiness. They both pledged to give the other their all and also revealed to their family they had no plans of having a third person enter their relationship. One of the main reasons was because Minho was a carrier and was more than ready to give Chan a big family, the second most important was because they both didn't think they had any more love to give in case someone else did have to join their relationship. Both of their parents were a little disappointed but made an agreement with the couple that if they couldn't get pregnant in a year that they would have to search for a third person.

Trouble struck when they had been married for one year and Minho still couldn't become pregnant. They tried and tried, both tried changing their diets completely, taking extra vitamins, getting more exercise, nothing worked. They had begun searching for any male that was a carrier and suited their relationship but they just couldn't find anybody. They then both decided to wait outside the doctor's office that specialized in úter masculí. They waited for hours until a boy under the name Han Jisung walked out.

They caught his attention by grabbing his wrist and turning him around. He looked so utterly confused and a bit startled. "C-can I help you?" He asked and the other two looked at each other and nodded.

"Yes, well, we hope you can." Chan started off, "Can we know why you were here?"

Jisung just hesitated but nodded, "Um... sure, I'm here because of severe cramping. I found out I'm doble fèrtil." Doble fèrtil literally means double fertile. It means he had twice the amount of eggs the typical man with úter masculí has.

"Oh, perfect. We were wondering if you wanted to join our marriage." Minho blatantly asked, not even a bit embarrassed.

"O-oh... I-I don't know. I never pictured getting married, and you two already have a relationship." Jisung admitted, looking down as he turned a bit red.

"Too late, if you refuse this we will have you punishedfor wasting our time." Chan threatened, Jisung's eyes widened as he shook his head.

"Exactly what I thought." Chan muttered before turning to his husband, "Come on Minho, let's get him home."

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They settled Jisung down in the bedroom all the way across the house from their bedroom. He was clearly uncomfortable with even being in their house because he was a stranger and they were married and had the intent of marrying him into their relationship.

Jisung didn't come from a wealthy family. His dad was killed before he was born by another church member while they were driving drunk. His mother did her best to support her and her son but due to her being a woman and believing in the religion she did, jobs were limited and underpaid. Due to his family being poor, he wasn't suitable for starting a relationship unless it was arranged.

Only the richer in the religion got to go out on dates and date like regular people. The poor were arranged by other poor (or wealthy families although it was more likely they were poor) families to marry to bring up their combined wealth. Having the proposal by Minho and Chan meant Jisung couldn't leave the relationship because his family would never be able to afford the bail, divorce payoff/settlement or for the proceedings for the court. He was officially stuck with them.

He was creeped out by the bluntness of the two and how they demanded he be a part of their relationship but he also wondered if it was normal. He knew sometimes there were couples that believed in Hell that would kind of stalk a person they took interest in.

This was different though, they purposefully waited outside the clinic for someone that suited their tastes to walk out. The person that suited their tastes happened to be Jisung.