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The scenery was beautiful. Hyunjin calmly walked through hundreds of twisted roses, each one of them with countless thorns pointing angrily at the narrow path that divided them. The path lead to a big stone fountain. It looked ancient.
Hyunjin got closer and started to hear the sound of water. He started to tell apart 3 human figures, and when the vision got a little clearer he saw them talking together and looking back at him, curiously.
They had already seen him so there was no use in turning back now. He was going to talk to them.
A few meters away from the fountain, the 3 guys looked at Hyunjin waiting for him to introduce himself. It was actually just a formality thing, his uniform gave all the information they needed.
"Oh, hi. I'm a new worker here. My name is Hyunjin" He said while trying to calm his nerves.
He was waiting for them to answer with something, but they kept their mouths shut. He decided to keep talking.
"I met Yang Jeongin earlier today. Are you by any chance his brothers?" Hyunjin was trying to talk as formal as he could just in case his prediction was true.
After the three pair of eyes stopped analyzing every inch of the foreign face, one of them answered. "Uhm... You could say so." Hyunjin felt a poke his heart when he heard the boy's voice. It didn't match his face at all. "I'm Felix, he's Changbin-" a guy with the darkest hair Hyunjin had ever seen nodded, friendly but confidently. "- and that guy is Woojin." Hyunjin looked at where this Felix boy was pointing, and met eyes with Woojin, who smiled.
"Excuse me but, what do you mean by 'you could say so'?" Asked the new worker confused.
The gardens were filled with silence again. Hyunjin felt the tension, and the three pair of eyes staring at him so intensely they felt like needles on his skin.
"Do you always ask so many questions, Hyunjinnie?" Said the boy named Changbin with a raspy but also a little nasal voice. He slowly walked towards Hyunjin and put his hand on the taller's shoulder. "You're new, right? I'm sure you have a lot of work to do, why don't you get going?".
Hyunjin could feel the sarcastic tone in Changbin's voice, and it was obvious that the more time he spent there, the less welcome he was. "You are right, I hope you have a great day."
Once Hyunjin had left, Changbin, Felix and Woojin reunited. "That's the new guy...? Is Chris sure about this?" Woojin's voice appeared for the first time.
"He said he is completely sure, he has been spying on him for some months now and he is perfect for this." Felix answered Woojin's question, both worried about the older's decision.
After a quiet pause Changbin broke the serious mood. "He is damn cute tho." Said smiling at the sky.
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The insides of the mansion where big. The roof was so tall it hurt Hyunjin's neck when he tried to look up at it. The window's were long and narrow. The hallways, endless. In fact, a million dollar worth mansion.
How did a 18-year-old teen like him end up getting cast for a job here?
His steps were slow. The quiet mansion's smell was a mix between old wood and dust, a little too old, but oddly welcoming.
Hyunjin stopped walking all of a sudden. What was that sound?
On the other side of one door out of that infinite hallway, he could hear something. It sounded like some sort of animal, making breathy and imploring noises. Hyunjin started to walk again, this time more careful to not scare the thing asking for help.
The noises started to get clearer as he walked towards the door in front of him. There was one thing that was scaring him though, the clearer he was getting, the more it sounded human.
One meter away from the door, Hyunjin focused and started to hear a deep choked breathing followed by exhausted and pleading whispers. He couldn't help but feel terrified.
"JISUNG!" Someone from inside the room screamed.
Hyunjin thought that someone might need his help so he put his fear to one side and he opened the door a little to see what was going on. Once he saw the scene he felt both reassured and embarrassed at the same time.
He found a blond guy with significantly long hair with another guy, who was a little taller and had short dark messy hair. The taller was against a wall, completely red-faced with some drops of sweat running down his face. The blond one had put the other boy's hands above his head- making sure they stayed there with his right hand, while the left one grabbed him aggressively by the hair. Hyunjin's heart pounded faster and faster as he watched the scene.
The blond spoke with a characteristic and provocative voice, a few inches away from the taller's neck, making sure the wet air leaving his mouth tickled the naked skin of the other boy.
"Minho... If you don't want us to get caught you'll have to keep quiet, baby."
"You're making it hard for me to be quiet." Said Minho between gasps of air.
"Oh, really?" Answered Jisung, laughing, and introduced his index finger in Minho's mouth in order for him to suck it. While that was happening the taller raised his head instinctively, and only then Hyunjin realized the quantity of bite marks the guy called Minho had around his neck.
Jisung started kissing Minho below the ear and he lost it, he let out a small moan that filled the room for a second, completely hypnotized by Jisung's words and moves.
Hyunjin returned to the world again after he found something that gave him goosebumps: the same choker he was wearing forgotten on the dark floor of the room. He looked up again at Minho, only to realize he was also wearing this uniform.
Hyunjin's fear returned. He closed the door and started to walk at a fast pace. He needed to find the exit. He had to escape. What was the job really about? He wasn't going to sell his body like that, hell no. His adventure in this stinky mansion was over.
Or at least that's what he thought.
