Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 32.1
Perhaps because it was a late hour, there was no one inside the elevator.
When only the two entered, only silence and the light of the fluorescent lamps remained. The doors closed, and the floor numbers began to ascend.
Watching the numbers change one by one, Ha-on let out a chuckle.
“It brings back memories of when we were trapped in this elevator.”
And at that time, after having a slight tussle with Cha Jeongwon, he had ended up kissing him.
It seemed Cha Jeongwon was thinking of the same thing. The concentration of the Alpha’s pheromones trapped within the narrow space grew dense. It felt as though it were stacking up layer by layer in the thin stratum of air between the two.
The one who couldn’t endure was Ha-on.
The moment Ha-on turned back to look at Cha Jeongwon, a notification sound alerting their arrival on the 5th floor was heard along with a beep.
As the elevator doors opened to both sides, the cold air of the hallway seeped in.
It was a shame, but…
“I’ll go first.”
After Ha-on stepped out of the elevator, he waved his hand at Cha Jeongwon. He didn’t wave his hand back like Ha-on did, but he didn’t avert his eyes.
The doors began to close. Right at that moment when the doors were closing as Cha Jeongwon’s body was hidden little by little, the doors opened again.
“Senior?”
As Ha-on turned his head, Cha Jeongwon leaned half his body out from the elevator.
And very briefly, yet clearly, he aligned their lips.
It was a kiss that was touched with a tap and separated right away.
In terms of time, it was a single instant, but the Alpha’s scent seeped through the gap between his breath and swept past the inside of Ha-on’s nose hotly.
“Good night.”
“This is foul play.”
It felt as though his heart were about to burst. Ha-on grumbled while standing in front of the door.
The elevator doors closed. It felt as if the Alpha scent and warmth surging inside there were abruptly cut off and vanished in an instant.
Left behind alone, Ha-on stood in that spot for a while.
The sensation remaining on his lips was vivid.
“This isn’t a dream, right?”
The suite room, the pheromones, and even the elevator kiss. For things that could happen in a single day, way too many things had ended up happening.
Standing before the door with a dazed face, Ha-on closed his eyes tightly once and opened them.
“Let’s get it together.”
Just then, his phone rang from inside his pocket.
Is it Kim Hyeongyu or Cha Seojun?
Or could it be… Cha Jeongwon?
Recalling the names of the people who had almost made Ha-on lonely today, and the person who had made him not lonely, he looked at his phone.
It wasn’t the people he had expected. It was Mom.
His mood grew restless again. Still, since he couldn’t answer the call either, he pressed the call button.
“Yes, Mom.”
His bouncing voice sank flatly.
[I got a call from your aunt, and she said something suddenly came up. So in case you were going to contact her too, she said not to. She seemed out of her mind.]
“Ah, really? I was actually planning to try calling her, so that’s a shame.”
He had no intention of doing so at all, but Ha-on just acted as if he did.
He didn’t know what kind of matter had arisen for his aunt, but he felt that a matter had arisen at a very opportune time.
Afterward, after exchanging simple greetings, he ended the call.
“What is this… the Cha Jeongwon Effect?”
If not that, then what else could it be.
Ha-on stared down at his phone for a while. Then, he decided to start the work he had paused.
***
Ha-on first went in front of the closet and pulled out a bag. It was a large suitcase he usually pulled out only when going on a trip.
A few t-shirts and track pants. Underwear and socks.
A toiletry pouch, laptop, charger, and even slippers, Ha-on silently swept and packed his belongings.
“What’s this, preparing a work piece already? Starting to play the role of a bound spirit?”
Along with the sound of the front door opening, Kim Hyeongyu’s voice was heard.
Ha-on didn’t even turn back to look at him and kept packing his bags.
“Hey. We haven’t even officially started practical assignments yet, isn’t it too early to pull all-nighters at school already?”
Kim Hyeon-gyu glanced at the suitcase.
Even if their rented room were in front of the school, once the semester began, students in departments with practical training would come to eat and sleep at school. The Design department was especially like that.
There were seniors who lived placing a mat on the workshop floor to sleep, or slumping over draft boards to catch some shut-eye, keeping a sleeping bag in a corner of the model room.
Of course Ha-on was one of them too, but today was different.
He zipped the suitcase shut in a straight line and raised the handle up.
“I’m going.”
***
‘I’m crazy. Really.’
Standing in front of the door lock, Ha-on took one more deep breath.
Recalling the Alpha scent that would waft out from the inside and the person who would be within it, his fingers trembled.
Ding-dong.
Ha-on pressed the doorbell first.
After a moment, there was a sign of presence inside.
When the door opened, Cha Jeongwon appeared dressed in a comfortable t-shirt.
As if he had just finished showering, his hair was half-wet as if roughly dried.
