Double-Piece

Ajin muttered while fiddling with the rag.

“I don’t like it anyway. If I sleep with the boss, my back will hurt a lot, and he’ll keep biting and nipping my body, and saying weird things… .”

Seok-ju smiled faintly at him. He touched A-jin’s thin and cold wrist and explained in an unusually soft voice.

“I’m not asking you to fuck me. I’m just asking you to sleep.”

“… …Just sleep?”

“huh.”

“why?”

“I sleep well when I sleep with you.”

Ajin tilted her head as if she didn’t understand. How is that possible? How can a guy who can’t sleep even after smoking weed or drinking alcohol sleep well with me?

Seok-ju whispered to A-jin, who was looking confused, while pushing his handsome face in front of her.

“Just like you’re a cripple. I’m a sleep cripple.”

“… … .”

“Shall we help each other and live together as cripples?”

* * *

Late at night. Ajin, trapped in the sound of snoring and slurring that echoed everywhere, was staring up at the ceiling with her blanket covering her. She could see the heavy, neatly placed beams. Somewhere in the corner, she could see the envelope of money that I had hidden by climbing up the dresser.

‘Just like you’re a cripple. I’m a sleep cripple.’

‘Should we help each other and live together as cripples?’

Seok-ju’s words continued to linger in my mind.

“Sleeping idiot… … .”

I’ve never heard or seen anything like that. What on earth could be wrong with you that you can’t sleep? You work all day. If I were you, I’d be so tired that I’d eat two bowls of rice as soon as I got home, then lie down on the cool floor and sleep until the next day. Do you have some kind of mental illness?

Ajin slowly turned her body to the side. Blue moonlight seeped in through the thin window paper.

What will Seok-ju do? Since he can’t sleep, will he smoke another cigarette? Or will he drink alone? He looked tired earlier. How will he go about his work tomorrow? Will he wander around with his eyes wide open like a grim reaper? He was worried that the customers who came to buy drugs would run away when they saw him.

“No, why should I worry?”

Ajin turned over. How could such a big man get into trouble just because he didn’t get enough sleep? It wasn’t like he hadn’t slept for more than a day or two. It was funny that he was worried about the owner of the mansion.

Ajin closed her eyes tightly. Just sleep.

But just a few seconds later, Ajin opened her eyes again.

“No… … . My sisters aren’t coming today either… … .”

Why didn’t you call a prostitute? You said you’d sleep for at least two hours if you did. Did you think I’d sleep with you if you asked me to?

… … That could be true. I’m just a servant. It’s right to do whatever the boss tells me to do. I probably wouldn’t have thought he’d refuse.

“Ahhh… … .”

Ajin pulled the blanket up to her head. Then she quietly flapped her feet. She couldn’t keep her feet still because she remembered Seokju’s hands that had touched her earlier. Her feet, which had been warmed by his hot body temperature, had already cooled down and her toes were numb.

Ajin held her breath while covering herself with a thick blanket. Then, when her lungs were so full that she felt like she was going to suffocate, she pulled the blanket down and exhaled.

“… …Should I just come and check if you’re sleeping well?”

Ajin sat up, groaning.

Ajin walked slowly down the hallway, tiptoeing, to Seokju’s room. It wasn’t easy to walk quietly on the floor with her uncomfortable legs.

And then, after all that effort, he just loitered around in front of the door.

I wonder if I came for nothing, and I wonder what will happen if Seok-ju gets angry and asks why I came after leaving just now, and I also wonder if I will get in trouble if I go in for no reason and wake him up from his sleep.

Ajin scratched the back of her neck. Then she bit her lips and knocked on the door. Then she quickly put her hand away and waited for the door to open.

But the door didn’t open. Ajin’s face was sank with disappointment. She said she’d sleep with me. But she’s sleeping alone.

“The boss is a liar.”

I told you I was a sleep idiot. Ah-jin turned around with her lower lip sticking out. Then she started limping towards her room. His spine sagged without a trace.

Just as Ah-jin was arriving at Myeong-jin’s room, the door opened with a bang, and a low voice cut through the heavy night.

“who is this.”

Ajin quickly turned around. Seokju was standing in front of the door. He was naked. He usually wore loose pants and a robe, but today he was completely naked, not wearing a single thread.

Droplets of water fell from his soaking wet hair and ran down his thick neck. His body, bathed in the soft light of the lantern, was also glistening with water. He must have just come out of the bathroom.

Ajin stared blankly at him. Seokju smiled with the corners of his lips raised.

“It’s Ajin.”

Ajin, who entered Seokju’s room, didn’t know what to do and just rolled her feet in place. Her head was down. Seokju’s naked body was so masculine that she couldn’t raise her eyes at all.

A firm, round butt, darkly muscled thighs, bulging back muscles, unusually sagging hair, a firm, broad chest, and a snake-like penis that can be seen from the front or the back. Pepper. Penis. Dick. Dick. Penis.

Ajin shrank her neck even further. But she couldn’t stop glancing at Seokju’s body. I think I thought about it that night too. I wonder what kind of pepper is that size. I couldn’t believe it even as I was looking at it.

The body was the same. It was different from the bodies of the men that Ajin had seen. It was much stronger, bigger, and thicker. At that age, I thought, he could be the leader of a gang of thugs.

Ajin rubbed his emaciated forearm for no reason. He felt annoyed because his unmanliness seemed to stand out even more when compared to Seokju.

Seok-ju moved very slowly. He dried his hair with a warm towel and put on his pants without underwear. Then, he occasionally looked at A-jin and smiled inexplicably.

Ajin, who couldn’t stand it any longer, turned her body towards the bathroom and said.

“Hey, should I go wash up too?”

“Why? Are you having sex with me?”

“No, no!”

Ajin shook her head and hands together and denied it fervently. Seokju smiled and gestured toward the neatly laid out blanket.

“You can just lie down.”

At those words, Ajin awkwardly approached the blanket. The white bed was as clean as snow. It was embarrassing to step in. Ajin hesitated, biting one side of her lip. Seokju passed by her, threw aside the blanket, and lay down. Then he tapped the spot next to him.

Ajin’s eyebrows rose.

“Hey, let’s sleep together?”

“then?”

“You said you just wanted to sleep.”

“I’m just going to sleep.”

“I thought I was going to sleep a little bit further away… … .”

“How is that sleeping together? You sleep separately.”

Ajin stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do at the unexpected turn of events. Seokju groaned in his throat. Then he stretched out his hand, grabbed the back of Ajin’s knee, and pulled her toward him.

Ajin flinched and flailed her body as if her leg was being dragged away by a shark. However, she could not overcome Seokju’s strength. Ajin collapsed into Seokju’s arms. Seokju stretched out her frail body and beat her before gently laying her down next to him.

“I won’t eat you, so just go.”

Seok-ju covered A-jin with the blanket up to her chin. A-jin looked at Seok-ju with a fresh look. Then Seok-ju lay down next to A-jin as if he was trying to show her off. He covered A-jin with the blanket and exposed his upper body.

Their arms were touching. One was too hot to be normal, and the other was too cold. So they were pressed together, and the temperature was pretty good.

It was strange. It was really strangely, strangely comfortable.

Ajin’s eyelids quickly became heavy. She blinked dimly, as if she would fall asleep at any moment. Ajin turned her body slightly toward Seokju. Then Seokju looked at Ajin as if he had been waiting.

“president.”

Ajin called him with a voice that was choked with sleep.

“huh.”

Seok-ju answered lightly.

“good night.”

“Phew… … . Okay.”

Seok-ju laughed out loud at A-jin, who was only politely greeting people. Are you an idiot, boss? I don’t like you. Whenever you do that. You really are very good at greeting people.

Ajin’s breathing soon subsided. The thin, regular breaths that came out in various colors could not have been more peaceful. Seokju, who had been waiting until he fell into a deep sleep, reached out his hand to Ajin’s waist when the brightly rising moon ruled the world.

I didn’t mean to do anything bad. I just wanted to get closer to him. I thought I would have good dreams if I held him in my arms and fell asleep.

Seok-ju wrapped his arms around A-jin’s waist and pulled her towards him. Her slender body easily settled into his arms. A satisfied smile appeared on Seok-ju’s lips.

He pushed the pillow that Ajin was sleeping on far away. Then he put his thick forearm under Ajin’s head. The two of them became closer.

Seok-ju closes his eyes while caressing A-jin’s body. A-jin, whose face is buried in Seok-ju’s neck, speaks in a hoarse voice.

“Stop touching me.”

Seok-ju, startled, tilted his head back. Then he looked down at A-jin. Because of her bushy hair, he couldn’t see whether her eyes were open or closed.

“Aren’t you sleeping?”

“Not yet.”

“Then can I see your face?”

“… … .”

Ah-jin kept her mouth shut. The conversation with Seok-ju always flowed strangely. The process was strange, and the conclusion was strange. Even though I was an idiot who had never been to school, I could tell that Seok-ju’s way of thinking was strange.

Ajin nodded after thinking for a moment. It wasn’t like she was going to put a pepper in my butt, but she could allow that much.

Seok-ju smiled uselessly and gently brushed A-jin’s bangs back. Soon, A-jin’s face was clearly visible under the blue moonlight. Seok-ju stared at A-jin with his mouth tightly shut.

The more I looked at her, the more beautiful her face was. It was impossible to describe her with common words like peerless beauty or stunning beauty.

It was a face that blended night and moon. It seemed as if the gently sparkling night sky had come down to the ground and become a person.