Ethereal - TaeBin ✐

Chapter 17

Soobin left his room and soundly walked to Beomgyu’s room, he slid his hand down the wall as he walked, feeling the texture beneath his fingers and somehow it made him feel good, he liked the feeling.
Beomgyu’s room was not that far away from his own, but it still seemed long to the tired boy.

That was so pathetic, why did I say that to her? Oh god, this is embarrassing. He pondered, his cheeks warming up as it was a habit of his ever since he was a kid. Soobin thought about the girl sitting on his bed in his room, and suddenly the realization that he is yet again a married man hit him. What the hell.

He lifted his hand from the wall and knocked on the door instead, it opened quickly and he saw Beomgyu, in his nightgown, looking sleepy.

“Come in” Beomgyu muttered as he moved to the side and Soobin walked in, taking a seat on the younger’s bed. He watched as Beomgyu closed the door lazily and walked to him, plopping down the bed and closing his eyes.

A few silent minutes passed by and none of the boys talked, Soobin heard Beomgyu shuffle on the bed before letting out a groan and punching him on the back.

“Ow, that hurts!” Soobin winced and rubbed his back, throwing a glare to the boy sleeping behind him.

“Well? What brings you here dead in the night, I thought you would be sleeping by now with how much you complained during the party of not wanting to be there and wanting to sleep instead. What’s wrong now?” Beomgyu opened his eyes and asked, yet did not get up from his bed or even sit straight. Soobin did not mind it a bit.

“I can’t sleep in my room, it’s weird having someone else there after so long-”

“I’m not gonna let you sleep here, grow up, hyung”

“Come on!” Soobin whined but Beomgyu shook his head, “I let you sleep in my room when you get scared! It’s not fair!!!”

“That was when I was a kid, it doesn’t count” Beomgyu countered, still not opening his eyes, “besides, what are you even scared of? You are married now and have Ari to sleep with”

“It’s not that I’m scared…” Soobin paused before continuing and spoke again, “I Just don’t want to sleep with her, you know what I mean!”

“No hyung, I don’t know what you mean. So go back to your room and sleep on the couch if you don’t want to sleep with her, I feel bad for her but knowing you, you are just being stubborn. And don’t come barging in my room again!” Beomgyu shooed him away and Soobin grumbled but chose not to say anything, convincing Beomgyu would not work; and besides, he does have to sleep in the same room as Ari before rumors spread around.

He picked up a pillow and threw it on Beomgyu’s face before running out the room back to his own place. He giggled to himself when he heard Beomgyu cursing him loudly.

Soobin opened the door to his own room without even thinking about knocking and barged in.

He hesitated before walking to his bed as he saw Ari sitting there with her hair falling on her bare shoulder. Soobin turned around to leave the room and come back once she was done, but at that moment, the latter turned around.

Soobin’s eyes widened at what he saw, he moved his hand to cover his mouth as he let out a gasp. There, sitting on his bed was Ari, but the latter had the body of a man… A MAN?!

“A man… y-you're a man?” The words left his mouth and he backed away, trying to find the door handle but the damn thing seemed to have evaporated into thin air.

Taehyun quickly put on a shirt and stood up, “Soobin wait… don’t- I-I thought you knew, I thought your father told you and you- you were okay with it-” He walked towards Soobin, but Soobin walked back, refusing to believe what he just saw.