Unlike the Others

Chapter 9

"I'm hungry, wanna stop to eat something?" Jinhyuk asks, eyes glancing around them on the busy narrow street, stopping to consider the food stalls and small stores.

They had dinner around an hour ago, that's not enough for someone normal to get hungry again. It's not like they had a small bowl of ramen each, they've ordered seconds and the noodles were pretty thick.

"Ok but you're paying," Jinhyuk snaps his head towards him to glare at him, no real bite in his dark eyes. With his hands still in the pockets of his black jeans, Jinhyuk leads the way to a bungeoppang stall.

The older pays for 3 and hands one to Wooseok, they move to lean against the closest building wall, he's holding onto the extra one and starts eating his, his cheeks filling like a squirrel's and his eyes sparkling as he enjoys the food.

Still, Wooseok can't find it himself to feel surprised at Jinhyuk's appetite. "Is it an alpha thing?" He asks as Jinhyuk finishes his bungeoppang while Wooseok has half of his left. "Sooil, Minsoo and you seem to have bottomless stomachs,"

Jinhyuk tilts his head to the side, raising an eyebrow at him and gives him an awkward smile. "I thought you didn't like to assign stuff to genders?" He asks, his tone careful, clearly not wanting to upset Wooseok.

The red haired boy shrugs. "I'm against gender roles but we can't deny there are traits linked to our gender though," He pops the last bite of his bungeoppang into his mouth, eyes still locked with the alpha's. "Especially physical traits, like your longer canines," Jinhyuk raises a hand to his mouth as if feeling conscious of them. "And some we can't see, like appetite,"

"I never stopped to think of my appetite as an alpha thing..." Jinhyuk says, glancing up to the dark sky as if he would find the answer there. He turns back to Wooseok, moving the extra bungeoppang to Wooseok's lips and pointing with his chin for him to go on. The younger ignores the still present voice inside his mind that tells him to not show any weakness to an alpha and takes a bite of the offered treat.

That voice keeps getting easier and easier to ignore when around Jinhyuk.

"Guess its easier for an omega to know the reason behind their appetite," Jinhyuk gives him a questioning look, taking a bite on the opposite side where Wooseok's is. "During ovulation, our hormones get all crazy and it affects our appetite, making us get hungrier or less." The blue haired male's eyes widen slightly and pink dust his cheeks, he looks away breaking their eye contact.

Wooseok can't help but chuckle at his friend's flustered reaction, the desire to press his revealed buttons too strong to ignore. He takes a step closer, a hum that comes from deep in his throat like a purr earning Jinhyuk's attention.

"What? Didn't your past omega partners get hungrier during their heats?" The reaction is immediate, Jinhyuk's pink cheeks turning feverish red and the color crawling up to his ears.

"I've never even dated an omega before!" He exclaims, voice a bit louder than before and gone a few notes higher earning a few glances from people walking past them but Jinhyuk doesn't seem to notice them, his eyes locked with Wooseok's. "I've actually never dated someone,"

Wooseok gives the other male a blank stare something that seems to frustrate the older since he whines he's being serious, even going as far as to stomp his feet once like a toddler.

"Bullshit, you're so popular, ain't no way you've never dated someone and especially not an omega," Jinhyuk huffs, taking another bite of the almost forgotten bungeoppang before offering Wooseok more but the younger shakes his head.

"You're pretty popular yourself so do you have a long history of past partners?" Wooseok frowns, the look in his eyes hardening and his stomach dropping.