Unlike the Others

Chapter 10

"Hey!" Sooil whines, hand reaching for Wooseok but the omega has stepped away from his reach, making his way back next to Yein and smirking as he peels the boiled egg he just hit the alpha's head with.

"You know, I didn't give that to you so you could abuse my boyfriend with it," Minsoo says but the smile in his lips betrays any act of annoyance.

"It's just an egg, Sooil isn't gonna die from that," Yein shrugs before taking a bite from his hot bar, offering the now pouty Sooil a bite. The eldest still sends Wooseok a half-hearted glare before accepting Yein's offering.

The four of them are making their way back from the convenience store closest to campus, Sooil and Wooseok actually skipping class at the moment but Yein and Minsoo only rolled their eyes at them when they showed up.

In Wooseok's defense, professor Bora said the day before that she would play them a movie for the whole class and the movie had actually very little relation to the class so he thinks its fine for him to skip it altogether.

"So how much has your English improved?" Minsoo suddenly asks, warm eyes looking at Wooseok. The omega tilts his head to the side, raising his legs higher than necessary as he walks, he's barely aware of how childish he must look.

"A decent amount," He mumbles, feeling self-aware of his pronunciation but not as much as before, he must accept that professor Haeyoon's idea of having them talk weekly in front of the class did wonder.

"Woah!" Sooil claps, the sound catching both Yein and Wooseok off guard and making them flinch but Minsoo just turns to give a sappy smile to his boyfriend. "And your relationship with Jinhyuk?"

Wooseok's eyes widen and he snaps his head towards his friends, the three of them looking at him with full attention. The omega raises his shoulders in a shrug but ends up keeping them up, reaching with one hand to pull his scarf to cover the lower side of his face and protect him from the icy winds.

"We are friends, I've met other nice alphas because of him too," Minsoo hums, leaning slightly forward so he can meet Wooseok's eyes, a silent sign for him to continue talking. "So I guess we are doing ok,"

They stop at a corner and wait for the traffic light to turn red so they can cross. "He has not been rude or anything, right?" Sooil asks, quirking an eyebrow but Wooseok quickly shakes his head no. "Ok, just making sure,"

"The kids and Changhyun are friends with him, of course he's nice," Yein says, the rest of them knowing he refers to Gyujin, Dongyeol, and Hwanhee. "Also Jinwook told me he's a great kid, went to the same high school I believe,"

Wooseok's eyes widen, jaw going slack behind his scarf but the surprise in his eyes is enough for Yein to quickly look away, clearly not wanting to elaborate on what he said.

But as the light turns red and they start crossing, Wooseok reaches to grab Yein's hand and pulls on it to earn his attention, the other omega grumbling a complaint and taking the last bite from his hot bar, eyes looking for a trashcan to throw away the wooden stick.

"Why do you know that?" Wooseok asks, tone accusatory and his hold on Yein's hand squeezing. "Why were you talking about Jinhyuk with Jinwook?"

Jinwook is another friend of theirs, a kind omega and the same age as Sooil, they meet while in middle school because he was in the music club with Yein, he had moved to Japan at the beginning of the year after scoring a scholarship.

"He noticed something was up when you got assigned as a pair with Jinhyuk, how he was able to do that going only by your texts I have no idea," They walk past a trashcan and Yein gets rid of the oily wooden stick, Sooil also throwing away the plastic wrap from the samgak kimbap he had inhaled after stepping out the convenience store. "So I told him what happened and he reassured me you would be ok,"