Taemin held the boy tightly, not giving him room to escape anytime soon. The junior gasped for air, when the handsome player briefly stopped kissing to give him a little break. Taemin’s lips formed a smile as he opened his eyes and observed the younger student’s red face. His gaze was dreamy, and he seemed a lot happy, looking at the shy junior. Kai’s heartbeat went fast, his chest rose quickly every time he took a breath. He closed his eyes again and lowered his head, making his forehead touch the senior’s lips unintentionally. The sun-kissed boy lifted his hands and clung to Taemin’s shirt, still gasping desperately for air. He wanted to push him away, but his hands were shaking, and his head was spinning. He felt a little dizzy from the situation and had no strength in his arms. He became weak. Taemin inhaled the junior’s scent once again before he lifted his chin with his right hand.

“It was a mistake to mess with me.” he stated with an intimidating aura and smirked again before he leaned in for another kiss and whispered, “I’m like a rose with thorns, pretty to look at, dangerous to hold. You dared to challenge me, now show me your confidence and let me sting you.”

Kai shot his eyes open quick, and still he could not resist the dangerously seductive senior. He was lost in his embrace. This time Taemin used his tongue and made the younger one breathe even harder than before. The handsome player twirled his tongue and played with Kai’s to show him how it is done the right way. Kai tightened his grip on Taemin’s chest. Instead of pushing him away, the junior pulled him closer. The senior then grabbed the sun-kissed waiter’s neck and firmly gripped his hair to turn the kiss into an aggressive one. He took a step between the legs of Kai and made him walk backwards until his back touched the wall. The sun-kissed boy could not escape. Did he want to? The senior bit Kai’s lips and gently pulled away to make him realize that he was being teased. Then Taemin suddenly glided his hands down the junior’s body and touched Kai’s belt to open it. He wanted to do more than merely kissing. Kai was sweating due to irritation and becoming a little .

“Wowowow!” Jonghyun finally stepped in and grabbed the shoulder of his friend, “Hold it there, Taeminnie…”

The handsome player abruptly let go and stepped back. He suddenly had a shocked expression, gulped, and briefly looked at Jonghyun before he left the basement with quick steps. Kai was still leaning on the wall in ecstasy, staring into the void where the senior was standing seconds ago. He immediately covered his face and slowly sunk to the ground. He felt embarrassed. What had happened? He did not want the senior to stop. His body responded to Taemin’s touches and teasing. Kai tousled through his hair in shame as he buried his face in his knees and breathed fast. He felt dizzy and his stomach was turning.

“Hey, are you alright?” Key knelt and put his hand on the junior’s shoulder, “Sorry about that… Taemin can be very pushy when he’s set eyes on someone…”

He helped Kai back on his feet and gave him a glass of water, to make him feel a little bit calmer. The sun-kissed student still trembled.

“Here, take a seat…”, Key said and caressed his arm in worry, while he helped the junior to sit down on a stool at the little bar next to the pool table in the basement, “Taemin had one or two bottles too much… He didn’t mean to harass you like that… He might be a jerk when it comes to lasting relationships, but he would still make sure that the other person wants to do it too…”

Jonghyun sighed, exchanged glances with Key and told Onew that he would go look for the handsome player. Key nodded as he worried about Taemin as well, but he did not want to leave the drunk juniors here on their own. Onew asked Xiumin if he was feeling well, luckily, he was. His stamina was great, and he was the only one who could still walk straight and talk clearly. Chen had become gibberish, Sehun was still sleeping on the couch and Chanyeol was crying. He became sad because he felt lonely and wanted to be loved too. Onew and Key asked Xiumin to help bring the boys home safe and sound.

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Jonghyun went upstairs and looked for Taemin, but he was not to be seen in the arcade. Perhaps he had left already. The worried senior knit his brows and pushed through the crowd to check the restroom. He came across Baekhyun and Kyungsoo.

“Hey, did you see Taeminnie?” the senior asked them with a gentle yet worried voice.

Both students shook their heads. Kyungsoo’s eyes were red and Baekhyun had put his arm around his shoulders. Jonghyun became more worried about his junior, but he needed to find Taemin first.

“You guys should go back to the basement.” Jonghyun said and smiled at them before he left the arcade.

Baekhyun knit his brows. Something had happened downstairs, he could tell. But before they went there, he needed to clear things with his depressed friend.

“So?” Baekhyun asked with a pout and put his hands into his pockets, “Why did you cry?”

Kyungsoo remained silent. He did not want to tell everyone about his feelings for Kai and why he was hurt like this. He genuinely wanted to get over Kai, but unfortunately he needed more time.

“I think I know what’s bothering you…” Baekhyun suddenly added and leaned on the wall, “You like someone among us, right?”

Kyungsoo looked up and gulped distressed. Was he that obvious to his friends? First, Sehun, now Baekhyun. They noticed it.

“Is it Sehun?” Baekhyun asked a little nervous about it and pouted.

He had lowered his head. Kyungsoo blinked surprised as it made no sense to him that Baekhyun thought it was their tall friend. He shook his head slowly.

“Are you sure about that?” Baekhyun questioned him, “He cares for you in a different way…”

Kyungsoo shook his head again, as the one he liked was obviously not Sehun. Baekhyun sighed in relief and smiled.

“Good, let’s go to the others.” he ordered and stopped asking Kyungsoo about his private struggles.

They walked back together.

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Taemin fell back on his bed and covered his eyes in frustration. He had run the entire way to their dorm and was out of breath. He had sweated too but did not bother to take a shower and change into clean clothes. He was overstrained and felt dizzy.

“…”, he whispered and tried to calm down, but the thoughts of Kai and their sticky kiss at the basement made him become all excited and nervous, “...”

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After a while he took his phone and checked his social media. He glanced at his display for about ten minutes then he searched for Kai’s socials. His profile was set private, but Taemin urged to look at his pictures and check his friends list. He wanted to know what the waiter was sharing privately, where he liked to go, what he did on his days off. Taemin became curious about the junior.

“Ugh!” he moaned and covered his eyes again, put the phone down next to his head and whispered to himself, “Do I like you, or do you attract me because I haven’t slept with you yet?”

He was referring to his lifestyle. He liked girls all the time until he had . After that, he would feel empty. He would become sick of these girls and would drop them. Now he was curious if it was the same with the sun-kissed boy. He had never wasted so much time for a girl, except Naeun, but with Kai, a guy, he had been going back and forth for a while now. Maybe his interest in the junior would vanish if he got what h