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Shivers ran down his spine at the vision of the new born baby crying in the cradle. 

He cannot raise yet another demon . 

It wasn't his fault, it was just him being an imbecile he fell into the devil's trap and let the other ruin him. 

The elder women in the village were whispering among themselves, most of them calling him cursed, the women who delivered the child was in utter shock at the appearance of the infant. 

"A cursed soul.... gave birth to a cursed Child" "He should be killed along with the baby otherwise who knows when he decides to ruin the peace of village" "These urbans come to make fun of us villagers, but will tell them they are the biggest fools themselves" "It's already unacceptable that he -" "Stop! " The head in the village shouted stopping the murmur of the village women. "No more discussion we will behead the child and sacrifice it to the goddess of land of Akriel village, so that we can please her and she would maintain the peace in her land and protect us from the demons".

He could only listened, listened the way villagers talked so cruelly about that infant, who was now quiet and just admiring his surroundings peacefully, nobody can look at him and say that he will be the curse to the society in the future. 

There lied the baby in the cradle enveloped in a white cloth, half of his body was pale with a hint of flush in it and the other half sickly green in colour;one of his eye completely black contrasting the paleness of his skin while the other eye was a dirty white, where the palette of his skin was different, ugly shades of green. He was a monster, a demon, worst nightmare for the villagers. 

"Can I atleast spend a few minutes with him, before you sacrifice him? " "You got an hour, adore your cursed child for the first and last time"

The child looked harmless although he appeared grotesque but innocent at the same time. The baby starts crying when he sees him and the years that break off from the confines of those weird orbs are dirty brown in colour although that is bizarre, a freak of nature but those cries are pitiful so he takes that baby in his arms and shush him silently "Even if would ever think about protecting you I cannot not when you are going to put all those innocent people into misery when you start growing. " He notices that the baby starts to grow a weird appendage from his head, it's small but it appears that it is trying to grow out, he chuckles humourless at the discovery "see you are transforming into a monster ".

After an hour, those village women come to take the baby, they were chanting some incantations while they carried the baby in a basket made of bamboo decorated with forms of deities on the basket. 

" Follow us" They commanded him and he quietly followed. 

They reached a cave where there was no source of light and moonlight shone on one particular rock, which had many incantations and figures of deities inscribed on it. 

It was difficult to move due to absence  of light but the crowd of women and him made it to the rock. 

The head of the village took baby into her arms and chanted something in the baby's ear and then laid him down on the rock. He was crying making grabby hands toward everyone,maybe monsters too seek for love. The lady was old about in her fifties, she had long, untamed hairs and she wore a red cloak. 

The head began incantations once again and after sometimes it feels like she possessed some kind of power, everyone knelt down for her and then she pulled out the sacred sword from the side of her waist and without any hesitation she cut of the baby's head. The cries stopped, a sound like a soft shud resonated in the cave as the baby's head rolled down the stone. The body was still spasming even when the head was cutted off, the blood that spurted out of his neck was green and smelled too bad for a human blood. The head that rolled down from the rock now rested before his legs, he admires that the baby's eyes are still the same black and dirty white and he still looked horrible with some drops and streaks of his own black blood in the face. The entire scene was gross. The head women too had blood splattered on herself. 

And he just stood there cold and with tears rolling down his face. 

"You better leave this village soon otherwise you would be the next sacrifice" The head women challenged him fiercely. 

City felt weird to him after having so much memories in the village but he won't have to suffer a lot since, he will end his sufferings soon. 

He kept on moving, everybody was giving him weird looks since he was wearing some weird looking cloak, he was moving without a footwear and had his eyes downcast. He was bleeding from hid foot and had streaks of that baby's blood on his face and body since he stood in the front row, where these ministrations took place. 

Soon he reached his destination, that house looked scary and gave off eerie vibes. But, he was determined to end his sufferings so he took a step forward towards the house which was now completely engulfed by thick vines of some kind of wild plant and it looked scary as hell. 

He entered through the main door and shut the door down, no one seemed to be there but he knows that he is not alone, that the resident of the house have already sensed his presence. 

So, he calls out softly in a low whisper "Beomgyu I want to meet Heeseung, please help me reach him. "

And he is answered back by low whisper in his right ear "Anything for you"

The door of that house never opened again he found solace in those close doors near his lover. 

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The art of loving oneself is the most beautiful art and it's artist is you yourself. 

3 January, 2023

"So, Heeseung how are you feeling ? Try speaking to me come on" The doctor urged Heeseung gently. "I-I-okay" He replied, anxiety filling his nerves. "Good, I see he is improving, Mrs. Lee, last time- anyways, Heeseung you have your counselling sessions starting from tomorrow and to your releif just three days in a week. Thank you Mrs. Lee. See you tomorrow.

Heeseung was a bright kid but an incident changed his easy life to a difficult one in one go. When he was 12 years old, he changed his school, back then he used to live in calm, peaceful village in the protection of his mother as his father worked in the busy city but his father wanted them to shift permanently to the city in order to give Heeseung a better education environment. Well, his father only wanted his best so they shifted. It was hard at first for him as well as his mother to get used to the busy lifestyle of the city. The cars and huge vehicles that Heeseung heard about from his father used to fascinate him before but now watching them with his own two eyes was even amazing, the adrenaline rush he first felt when he had his first ride in a rented cab was so thrilling. "Mom look at that building it's huge, Dad how many floors does it have? " " Oh that is a government funded IT sector it has about 25 floors but it isn't the tallest one here... oh look that is our apartment, 5 th floor is where our apartment lies. "  Heeseung can not believe that he will be living in this apartment , from outside the apartment had glass sliding doors leading to balcony and had many floors. "10, 11,12,13,14 oh the apartment has 14 floors Dad. " "It does son, and you will be going to a nice school as well, make friends and enjoy your life. I hope we can live in a better apartment when you once start earning, why Heeseung? "Heeseung felt determination and a bit of nervousness course through him.He will make his parents proud he thought to himself. " I will dad" He said with enthusiasm. 

Next day when Heeseung has to begin his schooling in the new Institution he was excited. He went happily to school fascinated by the infrastructure of the buildings and the new faces. He thought that children here looked like they belong from a rich family or if not rich but still... they weren't villagers, judged by the way they were talking and they behaved. In his previous school in village he never experienced such a decorum. Now, he was a bit intimidated. But, he kept his motivation high and tried to interact. 

"Hello can I please request for help perhaps? " Heeseung asked in a polite voice to a boy who looked way older than he was, the stranger must be around 18 years or so, judging by the appearance. "Sure, what is it? " Stranger replied politely "can you please help me find my classroom? " Heeseung asked showing him his schedule. The guy told him the way and Heeseung smartly followed to reach his destination. 

He realised that student and teachers were very nice and kind to him, they helped him alot and he felt much comfortable now. 

It was around 3 months or so that Heeseung has been going to his new school, he had fun and he learned new things as well but there was a feeling that would mock and make fun of him, a voice coming from inside of himself that says'You are a villager, try to match them otherwise they won't ever spend there time with you'. And it hurt him a lot to think that way. Practically speaking, nobody really initiated conversations with him it was usually him initiating a talk, although his classmates were kind enough to carry along his conversation but they never showed any curiosity or genuine interest in him. He didn't have a particular group of friends instead he would walk like a tail behind any group of his classmates in order to convince himself that he was fine and was not treated differently. His classmates would talk about some 3-D movie and he would know nothing about it but still pretended that he watched it. Once, his classmates were talking about how they played some games and Heeseung didn't even know how a touchscreen or a smart phone worked. This entire situation really irked him in a very negative way. 

Slowly, he started to drift away from his family, classmates and everyone with whom he interacted. Everyone thought that it's just puberty hitting him but it was worse ,the anxiety of interaction and being judged for living in a village in his early stages of life really scared. 

Heeseung soon stopped talking to anyone and if he tried talking he thought that he is being chocked by the hands of humiliation, judgment and the standards of living. He would sometimes talk to his parents but go absolutely mute if one of his dad's coworkers tried talking to him. 

Upon seeing this condition of their son, his parents seeked for help and soon discovered that their son was experiencing a condition of Selective Mutism. 

Since, then Heeseung is undergoing counseling sessions so that he could improve. Although he was trying hard but anxiety gets the best of him. 

Now, he is better as the doctor stated, so his sessions have been reduced. 

All those expectations over him no more exist. His parents maximum income is spent on his therapy and it hurt him a lot but he did not have courage to confess that out loud. He was so grateful to his parents for still treating him as their precious gem. He wanted to be better for his parents and yes for Taehyun. 

Taehyun, is his friend yeah his friend. Heeseung can confidently say that they are friends and more.

Back in 2020

Heeseung first saw Taehyun in a hair salon where his mother was getting a haircut and he stood outside the salon waiting for his mother. He saw a person with shoulder length hair enter the salon and said something to the hairdresser present there. The hairdresser nodded and then started to chop the person's hair down. After entire dressing the person now had shorter hair. The mysterious human paid for the service and left. 

In the process the human bumped into Heeseung while rushing outside. The stranger muttered a quite 'I am sorry' and Heeseung saw the stranger for a fraction of second as the stranger rushed passed him. 

On one of his sessions Heeseung was asked to communicate with someone in the park, anyone he felt comfortable with. He saw the same person sitting on one of the bench petting  a cat. Heeseung thought that it's better communicating to someone whom he have atleast seen that communicating with a total stranger. So, he proceeded with determination to conduct a small talk with that human. 

"Aw so cute, if I could I would bring you to my house but I am not allowed to. " "Uhm ex-excuse me" Heeseung managed to stutter out as he saw the stranger talk to the cat in their lap. "If you don't mind..... can I-may I -can I maybe I sit here ? " "Sure" A soft voice answered him. "Actually I am practicing................... " Heeseung tried to continue but noticed that he was moving his mouth but no words came out or nothing was audible. He again got his anxiousness kicking his nerves. The stranger stared at him and Heeseung noticed that they had a really pretty pair of big eyes , brown and warm and the human resembled so much like the cat on his lap, some sort of adoration striked him. 

"You okay, do you have some health concerns? " The stranger asked carefully. Heeseung tried mustering up all the courage he had to bring himself to reply "selective mutism" "Don't worry you can take your space and get comfortable, it's really nice to see that someone tried approaching me, otherwise I am just a freak of nature for everyone, by the way I am Taehyun and you must be? " "Hee--heeseung" Heeseung stutter out. 

Well, the first meeting with Taehyun was kind of embarrassing for him but he wanted to befriend Taehyun something about him was really attractive. 

Heeseung thought that it might be the last time he saw Taehyun but he was wrong. 

Heeseung had many other moments when he saw Taehyun and grew comfortable next to them as they would interact a little with each other. 

Unlike others Taehyun seem to be genuinely curious about Heeseung. 

Heeseung was happy, soon Taehyun became his constant , his friend. He doesn't remember when he fell in love with Taehyun but he was sure that the process of coming on terms of loving Taehyun was a long one and not something like love in first sight. 

Taehyun's presence always brought comfort to him since, he was different, different from others same way as Heeseung. 

At first he never understood how to address Taehyun, but Taehyun being the mature and understanding human that they are confessed that they think of being a transgender and that they would like to get all the medical support possible in order to experience a better life. 

It was like, somedays Taehyun would feel like being a women and next day a man. Heeseung once expressed his gratitude to Taehyun, saying that he is grateful that Taehyun trusts him enough to tell him all about himself. What Taehyun said next made him respect Taehyun even more "I am not shy or insecure about my identity, I lived as a women in my early age but growing up something is not feeling right it feels like I am caged in this body. I researched a lot before coming to terms to recognize myself as a trans. You know there is literally a thought difference in between a cis and trans. My sister would tell me that maybe I am like this because I find my aesthetics in a masculine form but it's not that I just think that living as a male would give me more freedom and I feel I would develop better that way. I was up for getting hormone shots but you know financial crisis. I want to grow and teach people how they should not be ashamed of what they are, how they want to experience their life and with whom. So, it's not much of a big deal if I expressed myself to you. Well, physically I am very much a women but I don't mind the way you adress me. Sometimes I feel picky about me pronouns but, don't worry I let you know if I am feeling moody any day. But, you can address me as 'he' since, it makes me feel like I have more freedom. "

Since that day there regular meetings increased, Heeseung even introduced Taehyun to his mom and his mom herself felt so happy to see Heeseung interact with someone who is so brave. 

Heeseung knew he was in danger when he first saw Taehyun cycling nearby the park, he had headphones on and his hairs covered those beautiful chocolate eyes, he was wearing a black cropped top on top of which he wore a simple black plaid shirt unbuttoned and a blue regular fit jeans , classic and beautiful. And the thing Taehyun was coming towards him. And Heeseung can confidently say he is in love with Kang Taehyun. 

It was not a rocket science to understand that probably Taehyun is as whipped for Heeseung  as he was for Taehyun. It was visible by the way Taehyun acted around him. Taehyun would help Heeseung to talk without making him anxious, he would use easy topics to hold conversation with the other boy, talking about what he likes or dislikes and the very next day he would see Taehyun trying to buy him things that he liked of course if his pocket allowed him to. But, Heeseung thought that he wouldn't just assume things instead he would like to confirm the other's feeling. 

After someday Heeseung gathered up the courage to talk to Taehyun. They were already friends and it would be a lie if Heeseung said that he is not scared because he is, it would be really shameful and heartbreaking if his assumption about Taehyun is not true, it might also mean that they would no longer be friends. But, due to his condition he thought Taehyun would never like to spend his life with him. Maybe he would enjoy the company but not life.

Taehyun never opened up about his parents even when Heeseung asked . 

He replied "It doesn't matter I don't matter to them. " with a sad chukle. 

In 2022

It was a beautiful day sun shining low in the sky and casting a pretty golden halo over the horizon . The atmosphere casted a golden hue over the entire place, the trees rustled as the soft breeze blew through the trees. Heeseung and Taehyun were enjoying the comfortable silence and a serene atmosphere sitting on the same seat where they first met, when Heeseung first talked to Taehyun. 

And now, Heeseung is here to confess his feelings to Taehyun after two long years. 

Heeseung turned his attention towards Taehyun as he saw the other one focussing on the glittering surrounding. Heeseung took in a deep breath and cleared his throat in order to get Taehyun's attention and then he interrupted the silent atmosphere by muttering a small"I need to tell you something and I don't know what to say umm I mean Taehyun, uhh........ I like you. "He confessed, and as soon as he said that he hid his face in his hand, embarrassment hitting him hard. Heeseung was dead scared to see Taehyun's reaction, after a few minutes he heard Taehyun chuckle and say" I know that and its not just me who knows... you know hyung you are too obvious , so obvious that even the doctor who is treating you might also know and everyone else but it is a relief that you confessed since I was also going to do the same-"and suddenly Taehyun cut himself off. At the silence, Heeseung turned to look at Taehyun and saw that the other was blushing while a shy smile played on his lips. Heeseung  smiled , as once again a comfortable silence prevailed. 

The next day Heeseung asked Taehyun to visit his home and Taehyun agreed. 

"Hello! Welcome", " Hello"greetings were shared among Taehyun and everyone at Heeseung's home. They chatted for a while as Heeseung's mother got them some snacks in the meantime. 

"Heeseung take care I need to go, I have an appointment... " Heeseung saw his mother signed him not continuing her statement. Heeseung nodded understandingly. There was a click of door indicating that she left. 

It was after sometime that they were in a position that they didn't expected to be in this soon. 

It's was unknown to both of the teens that when it happened but they found each other a small breath apart from each other. 

They were playing carrom, and then a sudden tension rose between the two when Taehyun said "I want to trust you even more. " in a vulnerable voice and Heeseung wrote on a paper that was lying there 'you can trust me as much as you want but I hope I can trust you too, I an taking sessions seriously and soon I will be better'. 

Taehyun really hated to see Heeseung feel insecure , and he must have been really anxious and insecure that's why he wrote on paper since, he couldn't speak. It happens sometimes that Heeseung cannot even speak to Taehyun, to make it a bit convenient Taehyun always carry a small diary and pencil with himself. 

Just to make Heeseung to not feel bad about himself Taehyun approached him slowly cupping his cheeks and smiling a little bringing their faces close, so close that they could feel each other's breath on their faces igniting some kind of warm feeling in them. To ask for consent Taehyun nodded his head as 'yes? ' and Heeseung replied with a nod as 'yes'. With that said Taehyun leaned forward towards Heeseung. Heeseung could feel warm breaths of Taehyun on his lips making him aware of the close proximity between them. The closeness made him feel nervous as well as excited as he wanted to know about what happens next. They were so close to each other that they Heeseung felt Taehyun bump his nose to his but their lips didn't quite touch. Maybe it was their inexperience that they had a hard time navigating each others lips, as they had their eyes shut. But, after some clumsiness their lips met in a sweet and soft kiss. They broke apart from each other since they didn't know how to proceed further. Their eyes met each other as Heeseung placed his hands on the back of Taehyun's head, they looked into each other's eyes as it ignited a heat in both of them making them feel hot all over their bodies. Their lips met more firm this time, once again as they pressed kisses to each other's lips. When they broke apart and Heeseung giggled a little they both started laughing hysterically. Taehyun looked at Heeseung in daze and thought 'Beautiful', because he was and Taehyun would love to see Heeseung laughing like this. 

Their usual meetings after Heeseung's therapy continued , they would meet and talk to each other for hours until Heeseung's mother urged them to leave. 

Sometimes, if Taehyun felt confident enough he would even give a peck on his cheeks or forehead Heeseung forgets sometimes that he is the elder one between them because Taehyun takes such a good care of him. 

Taehyun had always been a mature person too mature for his own age. 

Once, Taehyun tried to explain Heeseung how society is responsible for pre-mature thinking and behaviors of a human being as society push people to be mature and smart otherwise you would be taken advantage of. 

It's like society have been really hard towards Taehyun. 

Taehyun's parents were ecstatic when they were blessed with another girl child, 'their Taehyun'. Taehyun was everything they could ask for. She was just so beautiful. They planned to raise her the same way as her sister. 

It was all going fine, although the family  had major financial constraints. 

But, one day it was not fine anymore. Taehyun and her sister were left at home in the custody of their uncle since, their parents had a marriage to attend. The three of them were watching a movie , soon Taehyun fell asleep in the midst of the movie. 

When she woke up rubbing her eyes and organizing her untamed middle length hair. She noticed that no one was around, the movie was over and something random was playing. She moved in order to look for her sister and uncle. When she approached the kitchen, she heard a sound like someone is crying and most certainly it felt like her sister, the sound was coming from the room besides kitchen. Taehyun was terrified, she took slow cautious steps as she went near the room. From the tinted glass part of the door, she had to tip-toe to be able to see, she saw her sister half naked and her uncle trying to touch her, he even slapped her. Her sister was molested in front of her own eyes. For a 14 year old Taehyun it was really confusing , she didn't knew what to do, she had no mobile phone to call anyone and most of all she was scared. So she screamed, at her scream the man looked at her and gave her an ugly stare and her sister gestured her to move away or run away while in tears. 

She was really naive. She kept on banging door till someone unlocked it. Too scared to look at what's going on she crouched down on the floor and kept banging while calling for her sister. It was after an hour when the door opened. It was her uncle, he grabbed Taehyun by her hairs and said"Dare open your mouth to anyone and I will be doing the same with you. That's why women are born, to serve man and that sister of yours said no.... "He laughed maniacally" A women can't say no" with that said he moved out of the house. 

Taehyun rushed to her sister and attempted to cover her with the duvet that was laying on the floor. "Unnie what was happening... are you okay? " Taehyun asked panicking to her sister. Her sister brought Taehyun close to herself and hugged her tight as she kept on sobbing, unknown to Taehyun she herself began sobbing. Both the sisters sat on the floor hugging and crying. Her elder sister felt so guilty for exposing her younger sister to such a negative thing taking away her innocence. 

What hurt Taehyun even more was, when her sister said"Don't tell anyone about this Taehyun, otherwise I will kill myself " "Why unnie, he hurt you then why? ".She got no response , just her sister shaking her head as no. 

The next morning when their parents reached back home they asked about the absence of the girls uncle, and Taehyun's sister hurriedly replied" Something important came up so he left. "Taehyun felt her blood boil , it wasn't her fault but she was still hiding. Their parents observed the change in the atmosphere of the house but then they were tiered from the travel and thought that that maybe two sisters had a argument or something. 

The Other day when Taehyun's mother was braiding Taehyun's hairs, she decided to tell her mother about that days incident "Mom... you know that day when you were not there.... uncle hurt unnie" Taehyun took hold of her mother's hand that was still in her hair braiding and turned her attention towards the women who was looking at her in a questioning manner. Taehyun brought her mother's hand to her lap and gave a squeeze as if she knew that it was gonna hurt her mother whatever she is going to say and continued "She was naked and uncle was doing something...... she was crying and uncle still didn't stop. She was not looking okay... I got scared mom what was happening? Unnie said not to tell you anything but I-I- don't know.... mom what's going on? " Taehyun had tears in her eyes as she watched her mother having an expression on her face that she never saw, it looked like she was hurt and angry and confused. She touched Taehyun's head and and then gently took a hold of her cheeks and wiped the tears that fell out of her eyes and she herself had moisture in her eyes, there was an ugly silence, which broke when her mother said"Darling you are.. "Taehyun expected her mom to say something helpful but what she said next scared her and she felt caged in her own body, her mom said" never gonna speak about this to anyone , do it for your unnie ".

Since, that day Taehyun never once felt comfortable in her body , when puberty hit her and the changes that she experienced made her feel even more scared than she ever felt about growing up. She felt as if everyone is watching her and she would be attacked and will never get justice. She looked into the mirror and wished to be a 'boy'.She was scared and she felt so uncomfortable. That's when she came out to be a trans and even wished to get a hormone treatment . Her parents didn't says anything against because she would never listen to them after a single shot of hormone injected to her, their family went into the worst financial crisis. Taehyun's father lost his job and now even living was difficult... let alone treatment that was way too expensive. 

After going through a lot of gender crisis Taehyun became strong and stayed strong. 

Taehyun stayed strong. 

For himself. 

For his family. 

And now even for 

Heeseung. 

That's why Heeseung needed to get better so that he could be better and strong for Taehyun. 

7 January, 2023

Finally, the day Heeseung was waiting for since forever, Taehyun's exam are getting over today and he is excited to meet his boyfriend.. yes boyfriend.

Heeseung was waiting patiently till 5 in the evening. The evening is cold, the temperature in room is really comfortable due to heaters but outside it was freezing cold. Heeseung messaged Taehyun standing outside the apartment building to ask about his whereabouts since he was supposed be at Heeseung's at 3 in the afternoon. 

Heeseung went inside and saw his mother cooking as he informed her"Taehyun might come... h-h-home mom, cook f-for him. " "Sure dear", she smiled at him. After that he went inside his room, covering himself with the blanket and scrolling through his phone. 

After about an hour Heeseung heard a knock at his door and he called" Come in ".

He saw a really distressed Taehyun come inside, he had tears in his eyes as he slowly approached Heeseung's bed after locking the door. Heeseung got really concerned at his appearance and gestures him a 'what happened? ' by hand signs, Taehyun doesn't answer him instead he seats himself at the edge of the bed where Heeseung was half laying inside the blanket and then leaned his entire weight on Heeseung as he hugged him, wrapping his arms around the elder's neck as he sniffled softly burying his head in Heeseung's neck. Heeseung bought his hands up to his head as he stroked Taehyun's hair softly and kept quiet.

Heeseung is well aware of Taehyun's break downs at times and in those times he let Taehyun feel comfortable, trying to soothe him as much as possible. He knows Taehyun likes silence, it helps him block out all the sounds that are unpleasant to him. It makes Heeseung feel comfortable too, maybe because he himself prefer to stay quite... 

Usually, Taehyun is this way when he feels some kind of way that is just so negative that it makes him tear up. In the beginning of their relationship Heeseung never saw Taehyun cry but when he did, he knew that Taehyun suffers more than he can imagine. The society has never been kind to him. 

Heeseung turns the younger's face to plant a kiss on his lips, he peppered some more kisses on his lips;although Taehyun didn't responded to those kisses but Heeseung knew that they were soothing him. 

After some time Taehyun spoke in a voice even lower than a whisper"Hyung..... missed you".Heeseung chuckled and muttered "I know but that won't make you...... c-cry... what is it? "

Taehyun sat back straight from where he was lying down before on his hyung's chest. "Why can't everyone be you... they just got to be so mean" Taehyun said with a sad smile. 

What Taehyun said next made Heeseung's heart race at a speed that is inhumane. With a really shy and sad smile Taehyun said "Would you... would you make love to me tonight... hyung? " Sometimes, Taehyun looked so fragile that it hurt Heeseung that how could be someone so pure, beautiful and strong but fragile at the same time. 

Heeseung just remained silent since it was not something that he expected, his mom was at home, although she knows about them but that's not really cool to be freaky when your parents are at home. 

They have done it before once when Heeseung's parents were out somewhere and that was a happy day since both of them were happy and they just happened to be high on hormones too and it just happened impulsively like their first kiss. 

Heeseung knew that he won't be able to tell Taehyun no, so he simply nodded as yes. 

After getting his permission Taehyun moved from where he was sitting on the edge of the bed to sit comfortably on top of Heeseung's thighs over the blanket. 

Now as Taehyun was well seated on his lap Heeseung looked at him. His baby was wearing a black ripped jeans, a white T-shirt and a plaid shirt with black checked on top of it, he had his black hairs covering his eyes, casting a lustful look on his entire demeanor. 

Taehyun moved closer as he motioned Heeseung to cover him with blanket too. 

After the entire settlement Taehyun lovingly wrapped his arms around Heeseung's neck and hugged him tight. Heeseung took a hold of his waist as he pulled Taehyun even closer to himself and they kept hugging for a moment. 

Taehyun started peppering kisses on Heeseung's neck, starting from his ears to the junction where his neck and shoulder connected, he kissed him with firmness. After few innocent kisses Taehyun ground in top of Heeseung's crotch while sucking lightly so that it does not leave marks. The entire situation was just so hot that it made Heeseung extremely turned on. He could feel himself hardening inside his pants as Taehyun ground down on him. Taehyun feels good when he makes Heeseung feel good and he knows Heeseung is feeling good because of the small hums that he earns everytime he sucks on the skin. 

Heeseung had his hands inside of Taehyun's shirt, touching his back. When Heeseung trailed a finger down on his spine, Taehyun moaned a small breathy 'ah' peeling himself off Heeseung's neck and urging Heeseung to kiss him by baring his neck to Heeseung, he places his hands on the back side of his ankles as he bent backwards, seducing Heeseung.

Heeseung licks along his throat as he takes his hands out of his shirt and then roams them all over the shorter's body. 

Something that Heeseung absolutely loved about Taehyun was his body, so lithe and small in his hold. 

Heeseung kisses on the backside of his ears and then continued teasing by kissing and biting his ears. He trailed his hands all over the shorter's body avoiding his chest. Taehyun noticed that. Taehyun takes his hand and then looks at him with eyes full of lust as he slowly and sensually moves his hips back and forth on Heeseung's lap and then places a large palm of Heeseung on his breast. Heeseung breaks the eye contact out of shyness at which Taehyun says"you don't need to be shy hyung I want to feel pleasure and this feels so good, too good so please continue ". Heeseung brought other hand of his and then placed both on Taehyun's chest feeling the small and soft breasts in his hands. Small enough that his hands were too big on his loves chest. 

Heeseung leaned forward as he kissed Taehyun firmly, lips locking and moving together as they moved in sync, producing small pop sounds everytime they release their lips. 

Taehyun moans when Heeseung applies pressure on his boobs "hah.. Heeseung hyung...... more... ah mmhmm"

"You sure you want this Tyun? " "Yeah".

" Lie on your... ..... b-bac-k Tyunnie".Taehyun nodded and moved to lie on his back removing the blanket, it was endearing to see Heeseung being all hyung like and then his little verbal mistakes and stuttering happen. 

"Where are you going? " Taehyun asked as Heeseung unlocked the door to move outside. Heeseung just gave him a smile. 

In the meantime, Taehyun took off his plaid shirt and jeans and lay down, staring at the ceiling. Anyone can look at him and conclude that a lot is going on through his head. 

When Heeseung enters his room his eyes widened at the sight of Taehyun half naked on bed. They both felt shy at the eye contact. 

Heeseung took out something from the drawer Taehyun guessed them to be condoms. 

Heeseung approached him, Taehyun opened his legs as if inviting Heeseung closer to him close enough that he could only feel the two of them in the world. 

Heeseung sat down in between of Taehyun's opened legs as he began kissing his thighs. Taehyun inhaled sharply, placing both of his hands under the pillow that was below his head. Heeseung kept pressing kisses as he whispered out "you know you are pretty and too beautiful, lovely and sweet and I love you.I might not be able to speak too much but i hope that you know that".Taehyun nodded lightly as he too whispered bach" You are doing such a good job hyung, you said that entire thing so fluently "Taehyun smiled at him and Heeseung returned back that smile to him in such a lovely way. 

Heeseung kissed his knees as he held his legs open by the back of the knees, his sweet ministrations continues as he kisses and sucks marks on Taehyun's skin. Taehyun was breathing heavily as his grip on the pillows tightened closing his eyes, tilting his head to the side. " Why are you so....... "Heeseung said and Taehyun understood that elder is asking for his sensitivity. Taehyun shyly looked at him a very furious blush spreading across his face as he said" I did things... umm I mean I don't need a prep I came prepared.. umm I guess it because of that"at the end of his not so innocent confessions Taehyun laughed at Heeseung's expression which was just too funny in this situation, he was sitting in between shorter's legs with mouth open and an awestruck expression that he wore on his face Taehyun was growing impatient so he demanded what he wanted"Lee are you going to something or not... Stop looking at me like that"Heeseung nodded as he hovers over Taehyun close to his face. He brings one of his hands to Taehyun's face and gently stroke his lips before diving in to kiss him hotly. Taehyun let out a surprised moan as he felt Heeseung hooking a thumb in his mouth opening up his wet cavern as he kissed him again, he had his thumb as well as tongue inside if Taehyun's mouth. Taehyun gripped his hairs in a really harsh grip as he tried to return the kisses with equal enthusiasm. The room was otherwise silent but if you hear closely near the periphery of the bed you could hear soft grunts of Heeseung and Taehyun's breathy moans as well as wet sound of kissing. 

"Hyung touch me please" Taehyun asked in such a vulnerable voice "I need you ".

Heeseung went back to sitting on his heels in between Taehyun's legs as he runs his hand on the soft expanse of soft, smooth and unblemished skin of his thighs" Look at me baby"he said in a seductive but demanding tone to Taehyun and Taehyun complied maintaing a heavy lustful eye contact with Heeseung. Heeseung complemented him by muttering a soft "good" against his skin. 

Heeseung was a menace ;since past 5 minutes he had been sucking on Taehyun's thighs very near to the crotch area but never touching him where he wants to be touched. Taehyun was so desperate that he took a hold of his hyung's hand that was resting in his hips and gave a squeeze as he begged, yeah he begged to him"Please hyung, I have been so nice...... hyung I got a lot going on inside my head please don't make me wait anymore and don't ask me anymore ........ " "What do you want then sweetheart? " "I want to be quite and I don't want to hear anymore I just want you to take care of me" Taehyun pleaded with oh so sweet voice and big eyes that Heeseung can't never say no. 

And now Heeseung was on the mission to make his baby feel good. 

Taehyun felt like crying because of the pleasure that he was feeling, he was propped up on his elbows as he gripped the bedsheets in a death grip, moaning softly and breathing heavily, he had sweat collection on his forehead that rolled down by his temple, he had tears almost falling out of the confines of his eyes and his lips parted as he moaned, Heeseung had rolled up his t-shirt up just below his breasts as he was eating him out like the best meal he ever had. 

Heeseung licked at his hole as his fingers touched him there just touching his labia and feeling the wetness, he moved to lick his baby's clitoris in a very slow and sensual way as he rubbed his clit with his tongue. The entire thing had Taehyun see stars as he moaned out loudly when Heeseung sucked at his clit, God he is just so sensitive there. 

"God hyung I'm gonna die... ah hah please oh my god hyung" Taehyun was moaning, his moans getting loud. 

Heeseung smirked at him as he began to take off his own clothes and Taehyun sighed in relief as he knew what's coming next. 

He knew that he was going to be fucked nice and that's true. 

Heeseung was so deep into him that he felt his brain going shut. Heeseung had changed their position as they were lying down on the bed by their side. Taehyun had his back pressed to Heeseung as Heeseung was fucking into him with slow and deep thrust . Heeseung was kissing gently at the back of his neck and playing with his boobs inside the shirt, it was way too much to handle when he had Heeseung's thick and long cock inside of him. He couldn't even think anymore just moaning shamelessly without caring that Heeseung's mom is at home. As if Heeseung was suddenly reminded about his mom he brought the hand that was playing with Taehyun's boobs to shut at his mouth muffling his kitty like moans. Taehyun rolled his eyes back into his skull at the sudden change in pace, when Heeseung moved at a frantic pace both of them moaned at the pleasure. Heeseung wanted to praise Taehyun but he knew that Taehyun wanted silence so instead of telling him in word he decided to moan directly into his ears. Taehyun got so turned on by that shameless action that he almost screamed, he placed his hand on top of Heeseung ones that were shuting his mouth in an attempt of muffling louder moans that he himself was letting out. Heeseung thrusted directly at his g-spot and that made him lose his voice as he threw his head back  and arched his back to angle that it made Heeseung think think that he might break from there pushing his ass back onto Heeseung's crotch. 

He wanted to be stimulated even more so he bought Heeseung's hand that was holding his waist in a painful grip to his clitoris urging him to provide some more stimulation, Heeseung complied rubbing his fingers harshly on the sensitive area. Taehyun felt shivers ran down his body at the stimulus he felt like he was going to cum real soon. 

He moaned like an omega in heat, like there is no tomorrow and maybe there isn't maybe he won't be able to love Heeseung the same way that he is. This unsettling feeling inside of him tells him that he is going to lose Heeseung but Taehyun is strong he won't let that happen. 

Taehyun was pulled back out of his mind by a loud moan that he himself let out and then he realized that Heeseung has already removed his hands from his mouth. 

"Yes hyung I am close.... ah so close", " Feels so good hyung"Taehyun kept on moaning softly. Heeseung behind hums as he was so entranced by the scene in front of him that he couldn't stop himself from letting out deep, guttural moans himself. Taehyun was having his eyes closed, moaning like a kitten and in the between the moans he would mutter some phrases those phrases were coherent a few minutes back but now he was just saying something incoherent along with Heeseung's name as a prayer. Heeseung saw a huge bruise at the younger's waist that was due to Heeseung holding him so tight and the sight of the waist made him realise how tiny Taehyun is behind all those layers of clothing, so tiny that that Heeseung feared that he is going to break him. 

Taehyun was everything that he needed. 

Taehyun is beautiful, pretty, small, smart, strong and more and Heeseung fell in love a little bit more if possible. 

Moments like this made Heeseung feel proud because in the the haze of lust he was still able appreciate Taehyun, and Taehyun once told him that it means his heart belongs to Taehyun and indeed it did. 

"Fuck I feel like I am going to break you, y-you are so lovely and gorgeous..... God, " Taehyun tipped his head back so that he was able to look at Heeseung in his eyes, with one hand he reached behind grabbing his hairs and pulling him in for kiss. The kiss was so sensual the way Taehyun licked inside his mouth that it had Heeseung halting his thrusts and giving his full attention to the pretty creature in his arms. 

At the lack of motion Taehyun began to move on his own accord as he also rubbed his pussy feeling getting wet even more and he was sure it will hardly take a minute and he would be cumming. 

"Fuck me hyung don't stop... I am so close" and not only Taehyun knew he was close but he knew Heeseung was too. 

Taehyun teasingly clenched around Heeseung's dick making both of them moan and Heeseung pushing his dick even deeper into him. Taehyun arched his back at the action and just maintained a sexy eye contact with his hyung, making a siren like eyes and God did that turn Heeseung on even more than he was. The tightness of Taehyun's pussy, the pleasure of having his dick squeezed so well in something so wet and hot and everytime Taehyun moved a bit a squelching sound followed and those eyes looking at him in such a sexy way, Heeseung felt himself release precum in a huge amount he was close for sure. 

Heeseung gripped Taehyun's hips in an unforgiving grip and fucked him into the mattress, Taehyun almost caved into himself at the feeling of getting his sensitive spot getting hit everytime Heeseung fucked into him. He gripped Heeseung's hair still trying to maintain the eye contact although Heeseung had his eyes closed but he kept staring at him, looking at him made Taehyun feel grounded and that he is not imagining things but Heeseung is actually there right beside him so close that he feels no one else but Heeseung. 

Just a few rough and hard thrust and Heeseung was coming in his condom with a loud grunt. 

Heeseung moved his hands to Taehyun's pussy removing Taehyun's own hand and began rubbing the sensitive clit in a rough way feeling the wetness as he slowly grinded his dick inside the smaller's pussy. Taehyun convulsed, his hands reached out to grab anything and tried to move away from the stimulation but he was oh so close and wanted that sweet release so badly  that he shook pathetically in Heeseung's arms letting out broken moans and whines and shutting his eyes close as he felt himself climaxing. 

Heeseung still kept rubbing him while he pulled out, sending the shivers of overstimulation all over Taehyun's body. Taehyun was so spent that he couldn't even stop him, he instead sobbed in a really broken way trying to get Heeseung stop in his ministrations. 

Heeseung took a pity on him and stopped. 

"Calm down baby,..., it's fine , you did so good ...., was it too much baby? "

Taehyun nodded pitifully. 

Heeseung kissed him loving and softly on his shoulders and jaw. And then proceeded to kiss him on lips trying to sooth him. 

"Hyung"

"Hmm baby"

"Clean up? "

Heeseung laughed at how a tired Taehyun said that so cutely. 

"Okay clean up"

"Hyung do you think that we are going to be okay? " Taehyun asked from where he was laying on Heeseung's chest wearing one of his shirt comfortable inside the blanket after cleaning up. Heeseung sighed saying "We will be, why are you worried Tyun? "Instead of answering Taehyun just nuzzled close to Heeseung , raising his head to kiss his cheeks and whispering a small 'good night'. 

He was worried because he knew something was not okay.... An unsettling feeling inside him always tells him that Heeseung would be in danger if Taehyun is around him. No doubt he was being paranoid everytime they hung out together at the park from the past few weeks. He was hyper aware of his surroundings. But, Taehyun saw himself as Heeseung's protector always having a feeling to protect him because no matter what Heeseung is like a delicate flower that wilt really quick when the atmosphere is harsh to it. And Taehyun is a glass who could not be crushed easily. But what Taehyun didn't knew is that glass breaks. 

"Hyung I have a dream of living with you in a place that we can call ours'.

" Oh yeah Tyun I was going to tell you but you distracted me.... We are visiting our village would you like to go with me, I know your parents won't be easy but if you can then please come with me, my mom wanted that too. Dad had something important to deal with so he already went there and we would go there next week"

"Hyung you know I get scared...... something is scaring me and am scared bout you...... I will talk to dad, cause anyways I am a burden to them, so if I am not there they would be happier. They didn't even ask me where I was going when I stormed out of house crying. I don't wanna leave you I am coming with you. "

"You're not a bur-burden Tyun.... ......... Why c-c-cry? Hmm? "Heeseung asked lovingly stroking Taehyun's hairs. 

" Some kind of negative energy hyung it got me really nervous and I got scared and concerned about you so I came running..." Taehyun trailed off thinking. 

After an hour or so Taehyun felt Heeseung sleeping peacefully, having a beautiful serenity casted on his face. But, Taehyun was troubled, troubled beyond his own set limit. He thought maybe he was just distressed by the atmosphere of his house or it's just the city making him sick. He saw trees dancing as the winds blew through them and created a beautiful performance but something..... Something was wrong and the more he stared at those huge trees something felt wrong. He got so pressed up that fear crept up in his veins , he immediately hugged Heeseung tighter waking him in the process. 

"What is it Tyun? "

"I am scared hyung... what do I do I don't wanna hear anything.. make it go away. "

Heeseung got really concerned at his behavior, he thought that Taehyun might have had a nightmare. So, he hugged him tightly bringing his head to his own neck as Taehyun's head rested on his arms and Heeseung hugged him by his small waist and continued stroking his hairs till the time Taehyun was relaxed and sleeping. 

It was raining heavily in the cold night of January. 

Sounds of digging ground came from inside of the forest. 

A crying woman, who was grieving over the loss of his son was sitting on the land with his body in his hands as an old man was digging a home for the dead soul. 

The two people then put the body inside the earth and prayed to the mother land of Akriel. 

"Its the season of beautiful flowers , mother if my son did nothing wrong then allow him to bloom into the prettiest flowers... 

Flowers that would kill them who made my child perish".

Chapter Text

He was not supposed to be punished. All he did was loving her. 

Loving someone who loves you back shouldn't be a curse. 

They said that the girl was fated to marry that man's son. But, she refused . Instead she found love and solace in someone else's arms. 

They even got married and settled in a small cottage in the forest where it was easy for him to work, as he was a carpenter in the village of Akriel. Wood was available in plenty and it was easy to work in the shallow, beautiful forest. 

Soon the God was enchanted by their love and blessed them with a news of child that was growing in his wife's womb. Such a beautiful life. 

But, fate bought them to the worst side of the humanity, exposing them for exploitation. 

Someone did that to them that they never even imagined. 

They killed her husband. He died in her arms and his parents buried him on the cold rainy winter night.And just a two days later, she gave birth to a child. 

To her misery the child was dead. 

The elder women in the village were sure that the baby was alive just a few days ago safe in the mother's womb and hence concluded that the baby might have died due to the extreme situations that the mother was facing since a last few days after her husband's death. 

It was too much for the young women to lose her husband and child. Villagers started to blame her for the death of her husband saying that if she would have married the one who prophecy once announced in the beautiful village of Akriel as her life partner than the poor guy must have been alive. 

The pain was too excruciating, so much that she decided to kill herself on her own. 

"You took his life but his soul will stay here to blossom in your life" She said as she stabbed herself to death. 

Taehyun was mesmerized by the beauty of the the Akriel village. The entire village was surrounded by forests and small streams of river tributaries. 

Most of the men in the village were carpenters and mechanics who would transport from village to city in the early morning and return back be evening after selling their goods. There were some men who also were quite literate and took care of the commodities required in the village and other necessary things. The women of the village were basically the ones who formed the government, it was quite new for Taehyun to see women sitting on the pedestal of the village governance. The head of the village was a lady who welcomed Heeseung and his mom with so much enthusiasm and even greeted Taehyun with so much affection. Taehyun felt at ease in the calm and soothing atmosphere of the village away from all the city noises and all the tantrums of his family. It took a lot of patience to deal with his family so that they allowed his to go with Heeseung but nothing that he can't do. 

"And this is my room that we will be sharing for next few weeks" Heeseung says with a smug smile. Taehyun felt heat rush in his body by just imagining Heeseung with himself in the same bed but he wanted it. If you ask Taehyun he would simply say yes for marrying Heeseung and live his dream life with him. 

Heeseung showed Taehyun around the village and places near his wooden home. Taehyun saw a different glow in Heeseung since they have gotten here. He wasn't stuttering, he seemed confident, happy and lovely. People in the village treated Heeseung as their own son and even made Taehyun feel comfortable among themselves. 

Taehyun noticed that the village wasn't densely populated instead it was resided by a few thousand of the people. 

"Now, we are going to meet my friend.. and then we can rest a little because the look on your face suggests that you are dead tired. " Taehyun looked at Heeseung ridiculously as he rolled his eyes at him and savagely replied"I am not tired Lee, don't get me started on how you were panting like a dog just a few moments back".Their lovely argument continued as they reached at a certain someone's residence. 

"My God Heeseung hyung, you grew up so tall and manly huh?  And wait who is this? " It was Jungwon, cute best friend of Heeseung, who was apparently being a fool in front of Taehyun. "It's Taehyun,.... And you are a fool for not letting your visitors enter the house" Heeseung said as he playfully hits Jungwon. 

Taehyun was completely astounded by the exchange, he never saw Heeseung this comfortable with anyone but look at him now all happy and smiling contagiously. Taehyun found Jungwon really adorable and was soon dragged into their silly friend circle. 

"Actually I always stayed at Jungwon's when I come at his place since he lives alone....... umm I was thinking if that is okay with you.. "

"Hyung quit being rubbish.. Taehyun hyung would you like to stay here with us play some horror games and shit... "

"Yeah, okay I am in"

And the night began with a bowl of ramen in each of there hands and a makeshift cave made by Jungwon of some fluffy blankets. It was cozy, Taehyun have only experienced this a long time back when that disgusting act with his sister had not yet taken place and both of them were just normal little kids enjoying their lives making tents and cottages and acting like teachers, those days were way to good to be real for Taehyun. And now that he is experiencing this now, this new feeling with a new friend and Heeseung it felt the same, the same euphoria as earlier  he felt with his sister. 

"So, guys bring up your worst stories deadly ones and the ones which will make you scream with all your might"Jungwon said enthusiastically. And with that said the journey of horror movies began. 

" And then he fell in love with her, but she admitted that she was possessed and then she attacked her and.................. He died"

Taehyun was genuinely happy to see Heeseung talk so much.... but the shitty story he told really made him roll his at him. 

"Come on Lee what in the fucking disgrace did you just recited am sure that Jungwon would do better than you it's a solid 5/10" Taehyun muttered shyly, knowing that the story was so horrendous that the one who recited must get negative digits as scores but it was the love of his life who told the story so, well he has to. His cheeks getting pink on realizing that Jungwon was looking at him in such a ridiculous way and whispers under his breath"Young love".

"Hyung that was total shit first of all and second of all don't put Taehyun hyung in embarrassing situations, where he can't even stand for you even though he would no matter what."

"So let me tell you a story. A lovely couple who were living a beautiful life in the middle of the forest, were expecting a child. 

The man worked hard as a carpenter amd his lovely wife was a member of village association for children and their education. 

One morning the man was found to be dead. 

The wife had to deliver the baby within a few days. 

The baby was born in a fine sunshine, but what a shame, he was dead. 

The mother committed suicide. 

She cursed the village that the person behind all this would suffer . 

It is said that the mother of the man helped bury the the man with the help of a very sophisticated looking old man. It is said that the mother died due to so much pain that her spirit will induce same pain to everyone who tried to do this to her. 

And you know what makes it even scary..... All of this what I told you is real. "

Jungwon ended the story with a stern look in his eyes. 

"This is real ? How can someone be so cruel? " Taehyun asked with discomfort in his eyes he looked like he was the one experiencing it. 

"Yes, it is and Jungwon you lose since, my mom had already told me about all this".

" But, who died, and who killed? "

"Yeah, that right onle elder women know and if you ask the people near forest they are so terrified that they think that if anyone of them says the name of the family members they would be doomed. "

Later that night Taehyun lied in his bed a bit shaken and with heavy heart. Heeseung was sleeping on the other side of the bed facing towards Taehyun. 

Taehyun kept staring at Heeseung, and suddenly a feeling crept him that Heeseung is in danger or Heeseung would be in danger if he stays too close to him. Whenever Taehyun felt like this, it was too hard for him to take control of himself. Hurting Heeseung, that too Taehyun, that's not possible, he would always protect him from everyone. 

Taehyun was so much into the shock state that he started crying without even knowing that he was, he was shaking profusely. 

"Heeseung Hee-hee-seu...... I don't feel oka-okay, please...... wake... up. Taehyun started to sob as he shakes Heeseung, to wake him up. 

" Taehyun, calm down why, what happened? "

"Marry me"

MARRY ME

MARRY ME

MARRY ME

On a romantic date if Taehyun would have proposed Heeseung, he would have been really escalated but today, it was terrible to see the smaller crying and muttering love confession to him. Heeseung felt confused as to what triggered Taehyun soo much. 

Heeseung tried his best to talk to the shivering and crying boy to get him back in senses because what the fuck who says 'marry me' while the nightmare they watch eats their brain live. 

And wait a minute

"Taehyun,.., marry who? " Heeseung asked confused, because Taehyun never said who does he wants to marry. 

After a series of confession and a lot of crying, Taehyun was behaving normal. 

"I wanna marry Heeseung hyung, hyung would you marry me? "

Heeseung was baffled "Baby, we just graduated from college and we can't just get married yet. "

Taehyun felt tears prick his eyes as he sat up turning on the lamp by his side and in an eerie calm voice he tried to explain himself to Heeseung "I feel as if you would get hurt when I am near you so I want....... I want to be close to you to protect you from everyone and myself, yeah, that's kinda selfish that I love you so much that I want to be with you all the fucking time but hyung just let me be....., I know I can love you so well and if you marry me I will be your got husband or good wife anything.. anything just please hyung and if you think that I am sputtering nonsense then that's not true I have been thinking about this since a long time...., don't say no to me now... "

Heeseung knows many of his college mates who are married and happy right after college and Heeseung thinks that it's really good it he marries young as well. 

You see, Heeseung was born in a village where boys got married at a young age of 16 or older and in some cases even younger. So, for Heeseung to get married at 22 was still late although in the city at that age people just fuck around and have fun but for him he thought that the land goddess of Akriel always bless the ones who got married young since their soul  is still pure and tying knot with another pure soul means a powerful bond. Even his mom and dad got married at 17 and 18 so, he was kinda glad that Taehyun bought this conversation on the table. 

After lots of thought and thinking for about an hour, after he asked Taehyun to give him sometime to think he came to conclusion. 

"Fine I will marry you"

Heeseung told Taehyun, as Taehyun moved to the edge of the bed from where he was sitting in the middle and hugged Heeseung. 

"Love you" Taehyun beamed at the taller as he cupped Taehyun's cheek and kissed him. 

Taehyun's family did create a lot of problems but at the end it was Taehyun who always takes decision for himself. 

So, yeah they are getting married, in the village Akriel. 

Heeseung's mother could never be happier, she was glad that it was Taehyun who is just so precious in her eyes going to be her son's life partner. 

Jungwon was completely shocked at the news as he really thought that things really escalated so fast that he only blinked once and his bestie is getting married. 

On the day of marriage

"Gosh hyung you are actually stupid, God knows what Taehyun hyung saw in you that he wants to marry you"

Jungwon was helping Heeseung into his wedding attire when the elder chocked on water and spill the liquid on his white dress shirt. 

Heeseung looked unbelievably beautiful. 

He had his hairs in the natural way fluffy and covering his forehead, his hair was decorated with a pretty rhinestone jewelery, his eyes were painted a pretty pink with a natural makeup since it's forbidden in the village to use artificial products on a holy day, lips covered with pink shade lip balm, white shirt that really did wonders to the show of his shoulder and a pant that is handloom and fit him just perfect. He was barefoot since, the ceremony takes place on the holy grounds so they cannot step on it with shoes on, it's considering insult to the land. 

Taehyun on the other hand was getting ready with the help of his doon to be mother-in -law. 

He had his black hairs coverings his eyes as some part of hairs were braided with colourful ribbons, his eyes painted a deep blue at the end and a coral pink in center. He had a light purple shade on lips and a heavy jewelry adorned his neck, the jewelry was not well finished and was made up of expensive elements and gemstones. It was made in village itself so it was a bit difficult to finish it properly, but it looked pretty on his dainty neck anyways. He was wearing a white silk shirt and a handloom pant just the same as his soon to be husband. He looked beautiful. 

The ceremony began as all of village gathered at the center and sat on ground. On the soil there were various commodities used to create a beautiful handcraft that was drawn on the ground where all of them sat around it. 

"Mother goddess of Akriel gets happy and she bless new pair of the souls when we invite her through this beautiful art" The elder woman told Taehyun as she smiled in herself.

Taehyun felt a huge amount of live as he never once  felt lonely, although his parents were not here with him and for him on such an important occasion. 

The elder women of the village began with the incantation of some prayers as Taehyun saw Heeseung join his hands and close his eyes, so Taehyun mimicked him doing the same. 

It was a long time of about half an hour when this ritual was completed. 

"Now, come here Taehyun you see that forest right, now what you have to do is to go inside as I will blindfold you and you will keep moving till your inner voice tells you to stop. The place where you reach try to search for a seed, a plant seed on the ground, you know that there is plenty of them inside. This is the last ritual, you will bring the seed plant it and take care of it. It brings love and prosperity in house and maybe a little Taehyun or Heeseung in the house".The elder woman instructed Taehyun with enthusiasm. 

"Bring a pretty bean wifey" Heeseung mouthed at him in whispers. Taehyun shyly nods and then turn toward the woman who was carrying the cloth to blindfold him. 

"Okay, here I go" Taehyun says confidently as he struts forwards. 

"Hyung what if Taehyun hyung bump his head on a tree trunk? " Jungwon asked curiously, as Heeseung, his mother and all the villagers gave him a 'what the fuck 'look

Taehyun marched forward humming a song that came into his mind. He was not scared at all instead he felt like everything is going to be okay, he felt that Heeseung would be safe now and that no one can harm any of them. 

He was barefoot so, he would hiss sometimes when something sharp would pierce through his his skin. But, that did not undeterred him from moving forward. 

Taehyun felt as if someone is watching him. But, whoever is watching him finds Taehyun really beautiful. A beauty roaming in the woods, he is just so pretty that it felt like trees are going to fall for him. 

He kept moving to the deep and dark of the forest as he felt a wierd kind of force watching him and appreciating him. It's weird but that is what he was feeling. 

After moving some more, Taehyun felt like that force telling him search for it, and he started to pat his hands on the ground as he tried to feel any seed in his hand. 

After searching for 5 minutes, Taehyun felt it, the force and he grabbed it. 

Taehyun sensed it in his hands that it felt like a seed and then turned around to get back. 

But, suddenly he felt scared as how would he get back there without opening eyes. 

"The land will lead you" The elder woman had instructed him once. 

So, following his intuitions he kept on moving when he heard a voice that made him smile "Tyun" It was Heeseung. 

He removed the blindfold, and oh he was shocked to see that it was already night. The village people had made bonfires to sit around and wait. 

"Excellent, look at it, it is a perfect, healthy seed you got there, the wait was worth it" The elder woman smiled. With that all the rituals ended and  now they are married. 

"Heeseung hyung was so desperate that I thought that he will go inside forest to find you, you know the land goddess protect us. Nobody ever gets harmed".

Everybody was dead tired. Taehyun kissed Heeseung once  as they went to bed in order to sleep. They had plans but Taehyun kind of spoiled them due to his late return from the jungle explorations. 

Taehyun woke up early in the morning to find the house completely empty and Heeseung sleeping on the bed. 

He decided to get ready. Feeling really wifey on the first day. He decided to cook, clean and prepare himself for the day. 

Taehyun spend extra hours in the bathroom to get ready for tonight. 

He came out and dried his hairs as he wore a thin bra of cotton that had soft lace work on it and of sky blue color and the undies of the same color as well. He wore a really cottagecore looking white, floral, cotton goen and applied a  little bit of makeup. 

But, after so much hardworking, cooking and cleaning poor Tyun fell asleep in the living room. 

Heeseung woke up and quickly freshened up because he could smell something really tasty, so he rushed to get ready. 

As he reached the living room, the view of his very pretty baby came in front of him. 

Taehyun was sleeping peacefully as if he was drained of all the energy and maybe he was Heeseung notices that the house is completely clean, from previous day when marriage errands got the entire house disarranged. The smell came from kitchen, that meant that Taehyun cooked as well. 

Heeseung examined what Taehyun was wearing and his initial moral went out of the window. He decided to let Taehyun rest earlier but, right now smaller looked so pretty that he couldn't help but place a kiss on his cheeks in attempt to wake him up. And he was successful on the first try. 

Taehyun opened his big, beautiful eyes and looked at Heeseung, sleepiness still swimming in those celestial eyes. Taehyun still managed to smile at Heeseung fighting the sleepy urges. 

A voice tells the woman who was praying the forest deity that something wrong is about to happen, something that could not be avoided. 

Something is planted to bore a bad soul and that something is going to change the destiny of this village. 

The woman smiled and said something in their native language. 

"Mother take care if you pour us poison, we will gladly consume it for you always loved her descendants and children".

Heeseung  was on his knees as Taehyun sat comfortably on their sofa-cum-bed. 

From the moment Taehyun had opened his eyes, they have been kissing and Taehyun was already enough worked up that he was moaning everytime Heeseung trailed his hands down his body. 

Heeseung on his knees, was caressing the smaller's dainty legs while chanting the prayers of his beauty ,maintaining a turgid eye contact with his lover. 

"Wanna make you feel so good..... Take these off? "Heeseung asked as he circled his fingertips on the waistband of his panties. 

" Sure hyung... just.... "

As soon as he got the consent he proceeded to take of those pretty looking panties, he had to admit that blue really suits his princess and suits even more when it's sky blue or pastel. He made a mental note to bring Taehyun more of these lingeries when they will start living together in the city. 

Now,Taehyun only had his gown on while he was completely naked on inside. 

Heeseung lifted Taehyun by his tiny waist just slightly to adjust his position, making him lay down properly on the entire width of the sofa, that made easier for him to continue his ministrations. 

Heeseung trailed his hands up starting from the ankles and lifting the lower end of the gown in the process and continued till he reached those perfect hips. 

Taehyun took a shaky breath getting turned on by the way Heeseung was taking everything so torturously slow, he was trying to be a good wife in his husband's hand but the said man was really checking his patience. 

"Open up your legs baby, I know you are waiting for some action. "

Like an obedient wife Taehyun opened his legs. It was a bit embarrassing since, Heeseung is having his whole pussy in front of him. 

He was unsure about what was about happen since, today they didn't talked anything on the prior notice, instead it felt like a mutual understanding between the two. 

Heeseung closed his eyes and started kissing his milky, plush thighs squeezing them. 

"Hmm.. hyung... Yes"

Taehyun hummed appreciating the way elder's grip caused the formation of those large hand prints. 

Taehyun closed his eyes when he felt Heeseung touching the very insides of his thighs and then rolled his head back on the back rest of the sofa lying completely submissive for Heeseung to take care . 

Soon, he felt all the motions halt , he opened his eyes only to find Heeseung biting his lower lip tight as he eyed the pretty pussy of his husband. 

"Such a small pussy, how will you take me huh?......., so pretty. "

Heeseung talked dirty while still having his entire attention his pussy. 

"Stop staring hyung, it's embarrassing........ And.. and you know what --I - I can take you very well. Have taken you so good twice before"

Without a word exchange Heeseung dived into the wet delicacy in front of him. 

He beggan licking the labia, and then proceeded to plant heavy kisses on those flushed pussy lips , sometimes playfully biting and sucking on the skin there. 

Taehyun let out a loud moan when he felt the elder strongly pull him toward himself and placing his legs on both the sides of his shoulders as he sucked harshly on his clitoris. 

"This not a cemented house princess, you don't wanna be heard right? " Heeseung asked sexily while twirling his tongue  on top of the small pussy , seeing those flowery petals, punk in colour twitch. 

Heeseung trailed his hands along Taehyun's body and reached his neck. He applied a little pressure on his neck and smirked in an evil manner when he saw how Taehyun rolled his eyes back and closed his eyes, tilting his neck back all for Heeseung to devour.

Heeseung continued eating him out as his one hand maintained a grip on his neck while the other was prodding his small pussy, sometimes spreading those lips apart by long fingers to give him more space to suck on and then massaging the area roughly. 

"Ah.. mhmm hyung ah ah ah I yah I close I am so close"

At a certain portion when Heeseung licked Taehyun almost lost his life, he shrieked, and almost shouted. 

The sensation was just too much, too much to the point where he began sonning harshly as his hands buried themselves in the hairs of his merciless hyung, he was shaking. The legs on Heeseung's shoulders were quivering, and his toes were curled in such a pretty manner, his back was arching off the dofa back rest in the form of pretty bow. 

"Too much hyung ah-ah-hi-giv-me a minute please".

" Sure "

Heeseung broke off from his pussy. Taehyun almost came when he saw hoe disheveled Heeseung looked. Lust filled eyes, messed up hairs, slick all over his lips and chin. 

"So wet babydoll"

He stopped torturing Taehyun with his lips but continued to roll his fingers on his clit..

At this point Taehyun couldn't even utter a word, he just grabbed Heeseung's hand that was punishing him and tried to push it off, although he was unsuccessful. Taehyun tried to pull away from that venomous sensation that was too good that it had him roll his eyes back and his brain roll back in some other dimension. 

He was full on sobbing, when Heeseung again attached his lips to that pretty pussy, relishing it's wetness and taste. 

"Taste so good"

Heeseung started to lap at his sopping cunt even more enthusiastically when Taehyun started to almost arc completely off the sofa. Heeseung just knew that Taehyun was feeling so good that it was not comprehensive in words that why his smart baby was uttering bullshits. 

Taehyun came almost unexpected. He was shocked at himself when he came. Looking at Heeseung wide eyed. 

Heeseung touched his pussy lips, which made him flinch violently. He night those cum slicked fingers to his lips, licking them as if he was starved. 

Taehyun now notices that all this time his hyung was jacking himself off while eating him out. 

"Do you want me to help you hyung? "

"You're going to serve me like a good little wifey you are" Heeseung stated with a smirk in his face.

The plant will grow and blossom to the prettiest flower, this marriage is going to be forever no matter what, who dies first or who does last they will meet again. But, with the ugliest gift of nature in their arms they would die. 

"Hyung wake up we got so much to unpack"

Taehyun was up early in the morning and had already began arranging everything. 

On unpacking he opened a small carton and then smiled at it.It was the planted seed that he found in the forest. 

He put the pot on the windowsill so that it had enough sun to grow . He poured some water gently to get the soil moist. 

After the setup if the plant he began working on other things. 

I will grow, raise me with all the love you have . 

RAISE ME

RAISE ME 

RAISE ME

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I will take care of you in his absence.

They have been unpacking since the time they returned back to 'their' apartment the entire day was hectic . Heeseung's parents decided to stay in the village for some more days since his dad had some business in the village and his mother can't be anymore happier back at her old home and meeting all those who used to be very close to her back then ,she was simply having fun re-bonding with everyone .

Heeseung asked Taehyun to go meet his parents although he knew that they were really unhappy with their decision but he wanted to have matters talked down.

"Are you sure you can handle them? I can come with you if you ..." . "It's okay , hyung I can manage and anyways I need to go get my clothes as well and meet my sister ." Taehyun explained Heeseung as he was in the process of wearing shoes.

Well,it was an understatement to say that Taehyun was dead scared . Now,that he was here so close to press the bell of his once own home he wanted to return back . Gathering all the courage that he had he pressed the SPST switch . A sound of hurried footsteps was audible and soon the door was opened revealing his mother . A gush of emotions surged in him . His mother hugged him without saying a word to him . Taehyun hugged her back . It was after many years that he was able to hug his own mother . The rough patch that their family is going through really affected their relationships it was soothing to feel loved by his mother once again but it wont't heal what has been once shattered . "Where have you been Taehyun we were so concerned . " "I was with Heeseung hyung " Taehyun said as he showed his hand to his mother which had a pretty ring on the ring finger clearing all the doubts . 

His mother wordlessly lets him in as she calls for the rest of the family members . They all gathered in the tiny space of the living room with a shocked expression evident on their faces . His sister rushed to hug her as she smiled at him , they didn't look much disappointed but it felt like they weren't proud of all what Taehyun did .

His father only greeted him as his mother went in the kitchen to cook some snacks for them and his sister helped him pack his things.

"It feels quiet weird you know, it feels like someone is going to hurt Heeseung ,maybe I am being paranoid and all but that just scares me I just had nothing in my mind so the only thing that came into my mind was to marry him and so I did ." Taehyun ranted all his experience to his sister. "Well , I think that you have seen how vulnerable he gets and the lifestyle he has and how difficult living I mean like living in a normal or general way is for him so you might just be feeling protective towards him and that"s completely normal maybe you are scared that someone is going to hurt him and when you love someone and they get hurt it feels like we failed to protect them so it's our fault and maybe you are experiencing the same although nobody hurt Heeseung . Just be kind to yourself ."

The family had a lunch together where Taehyun tried to explain his actions it wasn't very pleasing but he was satisfied that now he had nothing to hide from anyone.

Heeseung was delighted to see Taehyun appear in their bedroom , he was about to call him when he entered the room. "Hey" he greeted Taehyun ,as later returned him a smile . Heeseung motioned him to tell the details about how his day went .

"It was fine they are just okay with my actions and Heeseung you don't need to think and analyse all that stupidity let's just leave it . You tell me how was your day? " Taehyun notices the way Heeseung gets tensed when he asked about his day , Taehyun grew concerned immediately . "Scored um-in-internship....but in different city ." heeseung told Taehyun as he handed him the offer letter. Taehyun went through the letter and he was impressed that Heeseung scored an internship at such a young age in a MNC , but in different city.....

Later that night Heeseung's parents called them to discuss about the further plan . They were all proud and happy .

"My friend offered me to stay with hi-him " Heeseung told them. They all collectively agreed to that but what about Taehyun . "Heeseung am I coming with you ?" Taehyun asked in an expectant voice , he was sure that Heeseung would definitely take him with himself . "N-no, I am staying at a fr-fri-iend's home and that would be too much-- of  a favor if I ask him to let you stay as well and you know how the rent of apartments are so expensive these days so ....... " Now this was cruel they just got married . he was happy for his hyung but staying away from him that too for 3 months straight as if he was not fighting everyone to be happy with his husband ,why can't he just have solace . And hearing that Heeseung is going to be away from him for such a long period of time irked him . He wasn't sure but something just made him feel that they are not going to be okay but he concealed all his negative emotions and just went along with the plan that Heeseung told him because there was nothing that he could do , he cannot stop Heeseung from pursuing his dreams and be selfish ; it was the time when he needs to grow up and adopt maturity .

That day Taehyun realized that relationships are not easy . One needs to compromise a lot and learn a lot ,sacrifices and growth are mutual partners and one needs to sacrifice in order to grow .

Heeseung had to leave in 5 days . All those 5 days were really hectic . Packing stuff for him and helping him with his preparation along with mentally preparing him for the independent life that he was going to experience .

Taehyun knew that his  hyung was scared . He had never ever been alone away fro the family and now he has leave everything behind to move out and live a life on it's own where there won't be anyone to kiss him and tell him that it was okay and that he is doing completely fine .

It was their last night together and Heeseung would be leaving tomorrow . The couple didn't wanted to spend a moment away from each other.

Taehyun found himself on his husband's lap as he rode him under the sheets with the lights turned off . They exchanged breathes with each other as they were so close concentrating on the raw feeling that they were experiencing at the moment . They wished that this moment never come  to an end .

That night they made love in it's rawest form, they lost the track of time till how long they were awake and in action but Taehyun remembers very well that he saw the first ray of sunshine before sleeping but he also remembers that Heeseung didn't stop fucking him at that time as well .

Departure was really bitter. Taehyun promised himself to not to cry and be strong for Heeseung and fortunately he was.

The loneliness that that followed Heeseung's departure to another city was too prominent to be ignored . And maybe,Taehyun did shed a few tears when he was doing laundry and found Heeseung's shirt among other clothes . Heeseung being the loyal man he was he kept calling Taehyun after every two hours telling him about his whereabouts . 

It was difficult for Taehyun.

To cope up with loneliness Taehyun started to look out for employment. Having no genuine interest in any jobs that were being offered to him at the time really stressed him out . one day,out of frustration Taehyun called Heeseung and started to rant about how the world is being so cruel on the poor boy that is himself. Heeseung consoled his stressed husband and promised that everything will be okay and that he just needs to look out for jobs that interests him. 

After having a long talk with his husband Taehyun felt like sleeping , it was just tiring to live these days . He hadn't had any food in his stomach and it was already almost evening but tireness really didn't allow him to get up and cook something instead he just drank some juice just to quench his thirst and went to bed .

Taehyun was in a really deep sleep . The window in his room showed the view of the purple skies and city lights . On the window sill of that same window was the seed that was not matured up as a plant and that plant even though quiet tiny had  a small bud.

Taehyun was in a really deep sleep . The small bud started to bloom bloom into the prettiest flower ever the same way that innocent soul's mother wanted her innocent son's soul to bloom . The flower was pretty taking in all the natural natural colors that represent Akriel  . Beauty at it divinity.

Taehyun stirred in his sleep . He suddenly felt quiet strange like hot and bothered . Half asleep in his subconscious mind he trailed his hands down and into the sweatpants that he was wearing . He was wet all of the sudden. in his vulnerable state he started to rub fingers over his heat . The warmth that surged through him surged as lava inside his body he was getting really uncomfortable when a sweet  scent started to fill his nostrils and he had a hard time to breathe and then all of the sudden the sweet smell was reduced to calming scent that had him lost in haziness not knowing what was happening to himself he continued to rub himself in order to calm his nerves but it seemed like it was not working .

"Taehyunie" someone called him and that someone's sounded very much like Heeseung . "Heeseung hyung ?" Taehyun questioned in that hazy state of mind still not believing that Heeseung is somewhere close to him. "Breathe me in pretty human you are not supposed to think when I am here".This time it sounded like complete stranger .Suddenly there was again this cloud of heavy floral scent that made Taehyun choke . Soon enough there was no sound coming from him apart from very faint breathing. The creature that laid behind him smiled satisfied . The creature ripped the blanket off Taehyun's body and was entranced by the beauty that laid before his eyes."I promised my mom to bring misery upon the ones who are responsible for my misery".That was the last thing that the creature said before uncovering himself from under the blanket.

The creature looked like a good looking human but the flowers that stuck out from all the places on his head and those colorless eyes and that pale skin with all those weird tentacles that grew from the creature's body made him anything but human.

The creature crawled creepily towards Taehyun and admired him but suddenly the demeanor of the creature changed and he stared at Taehyun with the red hot hatred in his colorless eyes. "Not your Heeseung hyung it's CHOI BEOMGYU".

The creature looked around frantically before he spotted the comforter that was now lying on the floor;he picked the comforter and gently covered the body of unconscious human and got inside the comforter himself.

The rest of the night the lights were turned off in that house and sound of laughter , creaks of bed accompanied with wet squelching sound and slapping sounds hit the warmly colored walls of the room . The creature hid the obscenity of his actions by doing all those dirty things to that poor human soul . Defiling and corrupting the once pure soul out of pure revenge , agony ,and anger and sadness over loosing his entire life and loved ones.

Taehyun raised him .

It was already about a month since their marriage and about to be three weeks that Heeseung left for his inernship.

Taehyun raised him . Gave him everything he needed to become the monster that he is now ; from bringing his smallest unit of life that was the seedling that Taehyun bought on the day of their marriage to planting it,watering it and just giving all the love that anyone would need to grow.

Taehyun raised him.

IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE BEFORE TAEHYUN KNEW WHAT HE WAS RAISING.

Taehyun raised the demon.The demon who have now left the mark on Taehyun that will never vanish.

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“Found a really good looking man for Taehyun, when she grows up I am planning to get her married to him…”

“He looks quite handsome…”

“Guess Choi’s have that in their blood”

He was in clouds, he felt great after such a long time. He always feels like this when he is with Heeseung, when he is touched by the careful hands of Heeseung. But Heeseung was not here he was in different city working hard to complete the duration of his internship living with one of his friends then who did he experienced at the night?

Taehyun woke up in cold sweat as he re winded the broken memories of the past night. He sat up and took the appearance of his surroundings. He was well aware of the absence of the pants but what shocked him was the wetness in between his legs it seemed like someone came inside of him, and the thought scared him shitless but considering the fact that door was locked from the inside and that the windows were locked from inside it kind of made it impossible for someone to enter inside and have their way with him. He ran his hands to his bed hairs and massaged his forehead, maybe he just masturbated too much last night. He looked towards the window where the signature of his marriage sat in the form of potted plant. Taehyun noticed the way the flower that had bloom, it was just the buds till last evening but now the flower had bloomed into a pretty color of orange and had pretty sky blue lines running along the petals. The flower was pretty. Taehyun got up from the bed ignoring the way his thighs were sticky and he was having pain in his lower back and upper thighs reached to touch the petals of the pretty plant gently as if trying not to hurt the little flower and whispered a small ‘pretty’ to the flower.

While cooking the breakfast for himself he tried to remember about the last night but he couldn’t remember about anything he can’t believe that he really was that frustrated that he fucked himself to unconsciousness.

He smiled to himself and thought about the sweet times with Heeseung.

“Mom I want to marry her”. A young boy said as he argued with his mother while holding hand of a pretty girl who stood beside him with equal fierceness in her eyes.

“Son, you are not destined marry her, I understand you but the Goddess won’t, you are supposed to marry-“

“Mom, if you can’t support my decision then please don’t give any advices as well.”

“They are going to kill you if they find out.”

“I will protect him ma’am, I will protect your son.” The women said tightening her hold. The young man looked at her with glee and trust.

The mother smiled at them knowing that at the end she is going to be the one who is going to cry over the dead body of her son, she knew it but the love between the two young couple looked so much beautiful than the cruelty that she knew that would be bestowed onto them. She tried to stop them but she failed.

Taehyun was well aware of what he has been feeling from the past few days could be the sign of pregnancy, he was not surprised because the couple were trying to get pregnant as soon as they were married although the first time they had an unprotected sex was when Heeseung was leaving the next day and decided to go raw and it had been more than three weeks already so Taehyun was not surprised if he was pregnant but he still decided to get the pregnancy test kit to do a test on himself.

The result was what Taehyun thought it would be he was pregnant. Earlier that morning he wasn’t that excited or anything but now that it was confirmed that he was indeed pregnant and not just an intuition a single tear left his eye, he was overjoyed and so happy but sadly he was alone to feel the happiness. Of course he is going to tell the news to Heeseung but his absence felt tenfolds right now. He just wished that Heeseng could be here and celebrate with him.

He couldn’t wait to tell Heeseung this great news. He wanted night to already arrive so that he could talk to Heeseung and hear his voice.

Later at night Taehyun called Heeseung and the phone was answered within 3 rings and a sweet “He-hello?” was heard from the other side Taehyun smiled at the adorable stutter, that he had grown to love, this was his precious Heeseung. “Hey dear husband, how was the day?” he asked “Pretty nice actually..how was your day …y-you fou-n a job?”  Heeseung asked, Taehyun can hear the sound of clicking of keys on a keyboard, he knew that Heeseung might be working on some new UI/UX design and must be working hard for it but Taehyun is going to spoil all the motivation that his husband might be having right now by telling him an amazing news. “Yeah, found a new job…..mother of your child..”. He could hear Heeseung laughing, and saying ‘what a great pick-up line’. “Hee , I am pregnant.” Taehyun says sincerely. The line went silent for a while before Heeseng stammered “Y-y-you are p-pre-pre-preg-“ “Yeah I am pregnant.” Taehyun cut short his struggle by finishing the statement himself. A sniffle was heard and Taehyun laughed out “Hyung, are you crying?” “I wa-wanna be there.” Heeseung replied and that single statement bought tears in Taehyun’s eyes. “Hey, I’ve cried enough today shut the fuck up, don’t make me cry anymore, what kind of man are you to make a freshly pregnant human cry.” Heeseung instantly laughed at the way Taehyun framed the sentence. “My bad, pwe-plea-se don’t cry and go to re-rest it’s too late now.” Heeseung said sweetly. “bye, love you.” Taehyun said as he disconnected the call. They promised that they wouldn’t chat for too long if Heeseung is workimg on some project because the poor man ends up talking all night long and just procrastinate his task and then the team lead threatens him that he might just end up losing the opportunity to work a job at a good position in the same company. So they just close the gates of their hearts after having small conversations and anyway it was just 5 more months and Heeseung might come and visit him someday, if his boss allows of course.

Telling your husband that you are pregnant on the call was not a very cool thing to do in Taehyun’s opinion, he missed Heeseung and that was not helping him. He couldn’t even share his experience of finding out about his pregnancy with Heeseung too. He was hurt and sensitive and only had Heeseung on his mind.

He was caught up in his own thoughts when he smelled a weird aroma surrounding his senses. He tried to follow the source of the enticing aroma, it smelled very rich in floral fragrance and overly sweet, Taehyun took a hunch and thought that it could be the plant in his bedroom so he climbed the stairs and the smell only got more intense, confirming his suspicion. When he opened the door he thought he was going to have a heart attack. The plant that was so small was somehow grown too big, the flower that was the size of his palm looks like it has grown to the size of his entire arm and the plant that was as small as his forearm is now taller than him. This is not normal, he is an intelligent person and never in his life had he ever heard of something like this. This was bizarre, he didn’t know how to explain what he was seeing. He went closer to the almost scary looking plant now and tried to touch the flower, on touching the petal his fingers were covered in some wax like substance, it was sticky and smelled exactly like what his entire home smelled like right now.

He was perplexed, he didn’t know what he was supposed to do in this situation and he decided that it is best if he asks for someone’s help. He rushed to the living room once again to retrieve his phone and call for help. He rushed downstairs and grabbed the hold of his own phone and called the the first contact that he could think of and that was Heeseung.

This time it took time for the call to be received and he was greeted by a pretty voice of his husband as he asked “Hello, love? Everything okay?” Taehyun felt calmness rush into his veins just as he heard his husband talk. He was so nervous that he didn’t knew how to explain the situation, he had never seen something so freaky before. “The plant that we have planted has grown enormously, it wasn’t that big just a few minutes before but right now it’s bigger than me, what do I do?” Taehyun tried to explain calmly. “Come on, now don’t be a b-baby and stop the dr-drama tyun.” Heeseung said with fake annoyance in his voice. “Hee, I am not fucking around that plant actually looks monstrous. Let me show you” Taehyun deadpanned, “yeah, let me see it for myself”.

Taehyun took careful steps as he reached the room and then he opened the door. Somehow, the lights were turned off and he was even more terrified as he can smell more of the sweetness of the scent and that made him feel dizzy. “Heeseung, I am scared, this plant even smells weird and I think that last night too I smelled something like this and it was so suffocating that I was not conscious or something like that.” Taehyun ranted as the smell started to get the best of him. “You never told me ab-about what happened last night-“ his sentence was left incomplete as he heard a beep that indicated that the call has been disconnected. He was pissed off at this behavior of Taehyun. But he let it slide off as he thought about his pregnancy and thought that it might be just because the younger might be missing him so he is messing with him.

Heeseung could have never been this wrong his entire life.

“I was going to give you and your son a prosperous life by marrying my daughter to him why you let him marry some other woman?”

It’s against the prophecy too.

A sad sigh left through the distressed mother’s parted lips.

Heeseung was allowed to have two leaves after every two months. He can enjoy his vacations for three days though.

It was already one month.

One month since Heeseung has been gone and Taehyun had been supposedly alone.

The second month of the internship was rather harsh on Heeseung, he was given a lots of project to work on, the company had eye on him and wanted him to become the main UI designer. This favoritism had bought him a lot of work recently. The communication with Taehyun had been scarce these days and Heeseung can confidently say that Taehyun is not appreciating this behavior at all and that the younger is missing him too much. These all were normal reactions though, but, what was not normal is that Taehyun sounded scared everytime Heeseung mentioned about coming back to home once his vacations started, he seemed to make lame reasons to convince Heeseung to not to come home and then laughing it off. This behavior of Taehyun scared Heeseung too, poor boy thought one day that Taehyun might have found someone more capable and better person that is why he is now pushing him away. He even confronted Taehyun about the reason why he was behaving like this and after a long silence Taehyun replied to him that ‘he was trying to protect him’ and a wet sob whacked out from him. Heeseung was speechless at the break down. He remembered the days when they were not married yet and Taehyun would come to him and ask him to be quite and just hug him for mental support and then few kisses and pecks accompanied along with a cuddle session would help the younger to calm down. Right now they were so far apart that Heeseung couldn’t do anything but just stay on the call without saying a single word and let Taehyun cry out and let out all that negativity that he had filled himself with in these past days.

Heeseung was getting restless to meet Taehyun after that conversation but Taehyun assured him that he was alright and that he was just missing Heeseung and so his emotions took over him and made him behave that way. He even sounded positively convincing too but not enough to calm Heeseung down.

Heeseung made sure to call Taehyun three times in a day no matter what just so that he can make sure that the younger was okay but for most of the part he was doing this to keep himself at peace because he won’t ever be able to live if something happens to Taehyun.

All the stress that he had was soon dissipating because it was just three days away when his vacations were about to begin and he was excited to meet his tyun.

“I can’t wait to meet you…..”

“Me too.” He wasn’t, he always had this fleeting that he would hurt Heeseung, he might hurt Heeseung and it might happen now that he is coming back. He was safe far away from him but that he was coming back, Taehyun had no idea about what to do. Soon, his thoughts were cut short when a thick, slimy tentacle encircled around his neck and gave a light squeeze to it. A thick potent scent filling his nostrils and making his mind go hazy. “Had fun talking to your husband?” a voice that he heard come from somewhere under the table across which he was standing, the voice was smooth and deep and was whispered in a way that made it evident that Beomgyu was annoyed. Taehyun felt tears sprung free from his eyes and fall free decorating his sunken cheeks. Since, the day that Taehyun had talked to Heeseung about his pregnancy the things had never been the same and he was so disturbed with the things that had been happening with him. He wanted to tell someone and reach for help but to whom..? not Heeseung because he didn’t wanted to lose him to this monster, he thought about his family but then the reason what is happening to them is his family itself. He himself was shocked to know as well but he couldn’t do anything at the moment. Heeseung’s family is still at the village, there is no way that they would help him and if the news spreads in the village it might harm his unborn baby, because that is how the people are there. He was scared. “Please, don’t….hurt Heeseung.” He chocked out. “We will see about that.” Beomgyu said as he made his way out of the table in a creepy manner.

Their house looked like nothing that it used to look like. The once lively looking home which was a safe place for the couple now looks a haunted house.

The plant had kept on growing uncontrollably and now it had grown to cover the insides of the house. It looked like a jungle. There were thick branches that grew out from every corner of the room breaking the concrete and huge flowers grew from the shoots of the plants that were so big and the flowers had this weird aroma and the wax on the flower made insects attract to it. They would get stuck and die there making those flowers look monstrous. The main gates and the windows were covered by some huge flowers and thick veins. Everytime he tried to escape from the house, the sensitive flowers would release a scent that Taehyun thinks signals Beomgyu about his location and Beomgyu is never gonna leave him. His beautiful home looked like monster’s cave. Taehyun had been crying for days because he was so hurt because of all the things going on.

His bedroom looked like some monster’s mating ground with the amount of huge insects making their home in that room. Beomgyu, the monster that he had raised himself lived there as if he were the owner of the estate.

Taehyun feels disgusted when he thinks about the number of times that Beomgyu have had ways with him and it’s going to happen once again.

Taehyun knows that there is no way out and that he has to do what Beomgyu wants him to do, therefore, he doesn’t put up a fight anymore.

The tentacle on his neck was tightening uncomfortably as if it wanted to break his neck. Beomgyu crawled towards him creepy before he took a hold of table leg and stood up at an eye level with Taehyun. He had small flowers growing out from his hairs and his hairs were long, reaching his shoulders. He had a pale body almost white and a sickening green pigment at some places. He had a nice looking face but it was horrifying to look at, at the same time. His eyes were white and his spit was something green sticky fluid that had the same aroma as the flower. He was skinny looking with bones protruding out and he was naked at the moment and the thing between his legs was thick and it looked very hard at the moment. He was insanely aroused and he was going to use Taehyun for his own pleasure now.

The tentacle on his neck assertively pushed him back till the time his back collided softly with the wall and the flowers and veins that had grown on the walls react to the stimulus and start secreting a heavy scent.

Beomgyu came close to him as he brought his hands to cup the face of the frightened boy infront of him and then forcefully opened his mouth with his fingers, before leaning in with his greenish-pink tongue out and kissing him forcefully. Taehyun knew his role, that was to stay still and do absolutely nothing and so he stood there just breathing, his hands limp around his sides and his mouth open and accommodating a tongue and a finger. It was gross. The weird substance that Beomgyu would pour into his mouth made him gag. He felt like is is going to vomit everytime Beomgyu kissed him.

Beomgyu’s other hand travelled inside Taehyun’s shirt as he wrapped it around his small waist and moaned in a vulgar way before parting away and saying “Your body is so tiny like this….you think it’s enough place for a baby?” he said with a dangerous smile on his face. Taehyun was startled by such a comment, he protectively brought his arm to cover his lower stomach above which Beomgyu’s own hand rested. “You dare not hurt my baby.” Taehyun tried to said courageously but his voice was fragile. “Never, angel it’s our baby afterall.” Beomgyu said smugly. “Do not say that it’s not true.” Taehyun said angrily this time. “I was joking.” Beomgyu said with the same smirk on his face, before his smirk dropped and his face morphed into a serious looking one. Taehyun knew that this night is not going to end well.

Beomgyu started to undress him till the last piece of clothing and then admired him as if he was some king of art. Taehyun felt some tentacles taking hold of his wrists and neck and ankles. Restraining him against the wall.

“You look good but not as beautiful as her.” Beomgyu said as took a step forward and then picked him up the tentacles adjusting the way Beomgyu wanted them to be and soon Taehyun was pinned against the wall and Beomgyu had his arms hooked under his legs supporting his weight. The tentacles tried to pull apart his legs and keep them in place. The one on his wrist twisted around his entire arm painfully. Few tentacles coming near his breast as they teased his nipples with the sticky and hairy tip making Taehyun feel uncomfortable but good at the same time.

“You enjoy this don’t you, look at your body react?” Beomgyu asked while rubbing the tip of his very hard and big dick against his vulva. “I don’t, it’s just how the body reacts you freak.” Taehyun retorted. Taehyun can tell that Beomgyu was not impressed by his behavior because the next moment Beomgyu was pushing his dick inside him forcefully.

The stretch and burn that accompanied, was almost unbearable. “Stop!Stop…it hurts, no…” Taehyun couldn’t even complete his sentence before he started crying and sobbing, while he tried to rest his head on Beomgyu’s shoulder involuntary. Heeseung never treated him like this. “Not stopping today baby, Heeseung gonna come tomorrow.” Beomgyu laughed mockingly. Taehyun felt more tears forming at the name of his husband. He was disgusted in himself for letting someone else touch him against his will, while he was pregnant with Heeseung’s child. This was shameful for him.

He started moving slowly at first before picking up the brutal pace. The tentacles that were teasing his breast are now roughly fondling his breast, making it hurt. He was already sensitive there and because of pregnancy, the feeling was multiplied. One of the rough tentacle made its way down his body and started rubbing his clitoris roughly as Beomgyu started fucking at a fast pace.

“You know, it feels fucking great because I feel ev-everything fuck, everything that any of the tentacles or the flower or the veins and tendril feels. Fuck.” Taehyun thought that he was gonna die because of the hard thrust and the tentacle that was enclosing his neck tightly. He was not able to breathe. The tentacles around his breast wrapped roughly around the entire circumference of his chest squeezing harshly as if to crush his ribs.

“Stop th- right now, pl-please.” Taehyun begged pathetically, he knew that he was going to pass out if this treatment continued anymore. He wanted to stay conscious and make sure that his baby is safe because if this devil is this insane while Taehyun was still conscious and resisting then what will happen when he is once unconscious and completely at Beomgyu’s mercy.

“Not today you bitch.” Beomgyu shouted out before a crazy look passed his expressions and he picked Taehyun higher and increased his pace faster. Tentacles wrapped all around him not an inch of his body that was not experiencing the painful crushing action of the tentacles.

The entire house was filled with the sound of painful cries and whimpers, if someone could hear him, Teahyun wanted them to barge inside their house and save him but now that it’s been weeks and no one have even reported for his absence, he was sure that nobody is going to give a fuck about whatever is happening inside this house.

He felt like he was going to die, whatever was happening to him bought no pleasure to him, but his vagina was quivering and he was getting wetter at every thrust. “Ah-stop-hah.” He moaned involuntarily as Beomgyu’s cock reached all the pleasure spots deep inside. He hated how his body reacted to the stimulation although knowing that it was natural and not something that he could control. He was scared for his own health because of the rough treatment that he was receiving. At some of the particularly carelessly hard thrusts Taehyun can see a bulge appear in his lower stomach.

He wanted to die but at the same time he wanted to be selfish once more in his life and just see Heeseung once more and if he could even more selfish then he would like to give birth to his unborn baby.

Beomgyu was going at a punishing pace, while the furry tentacle tip teased his nipples and sometimes wrap around the bud and making a suction pull, making Taehyun jerk away from the onslaught of pleasure. Beomgyu laughed maniacally as he was chanting “I am cumming….gonna fill you up for Heeseung to see, what a slut of a wife he has.” He said as he kept on hammering his still very hard dick inside his wet hole.

Taehyun remembered listening to Beomgyu say those vulgar words before losing the consciousness due to insane pain. He was not able to breath due to pain in his ribs and his lower body. His head was spinning and he shed few last tears before everything became black.

Beomgyu kept on thrusting into him like a mad man. He kept on fucking him till he came inside the unconscious body of the tainted angel. He was satisfied.

His heart stopped beating at sight of his house. Heeseung was standing at his doorstep but he was rather confused when he took into the appearance of his own house. The door was covered in thick woody branches and creepers, the house gave a spooky aura although it was just afternoon, heeseung felt his blood pulsing violently at the horrible sight. A disgusting smell was coming from the dead and debris of the plant. He couldn’t recognize his own house.

He took the dagger that was kept near the dustbin outside as he started to cut the green vines that were all over the door knob. When he managed to remove some of the obstacles in his way to open the door, he pushed the door aggressively jolting it open.

A shocked gasp left his mouth. Tear threated to spill from his eyes, he thought that he might be dreaming, but the sweat that was trickling down his temple made it clear that it was not a dream.

“No….Taehyun.”

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When Heeseung entered inside his own home he couldn’t recognize a thing in there. There were big vines of some kind of creeper growing everywhere, covering all the surface of the house. At places there were huge orange colored flowers growing, they looked monstrous. When Heeseung moved to inspect the flower closely he saw blue lines that were decorating the petals of the flower, some of the flowers had dead creatures and insect crawling on them. He was scared at what he saw, not able to comprehend what was going on, he started to look for Taehyun frantically. But when he reached the threshold of the living room his breath stopped. It looked the end of the world to him. He saw his tyun restrained on the wall. He was half naked with only a large shirt on. His hands were strangely kept up above his head by some thick vines, his legs were also tied the same way and they were not touching the ground, he was basically glued to the wall by the thick vines. Heeseung went closer to him, a strong smell of something rotting burned his nostrils. On closer inspection he saw the bruises on the younger’s face and the way the dried tear lines appeared on his face said a lot about the cruel acts that he was put through. He was unconscious. He had a weird greenish-brown slick covering his thighs even the corner of his mouth had the same green thing drying up. Heeseung was confused and scared.

He rushed to the kitchen where he saw all the ration scattered and there was practically nothing to eat. He took a knife and rushed back to Taehyun. He cut down the vines and freed Taehyun from them as he carried him to the closest couch. He lied him down as he brought water and a wet cloth to wipe him. He first tried to wake him up by splashing water on his face. Fortunately, it worked.

“Heeseung-“ Taehyun whispered as he carefully looked at the face of the man who was looking at him with horror in his eyes and then he squinted his eyes to take in the view of the horrible surrounding. The plants and vines with those horrid flowers were all over the places. Taehyun felt his eyes watering as he recalled the events from the last night. The things that Beomgyu did to him and the way he let that monster have his way with him it was pathetic of him to fall that weak but he had no other option than giving into what that monster had in his mind for him.

“…..yun..Taehyun say something, TYUN!” Taehyun looked at Heeseung shocked when he realized that he was so lost into his own thoughts that he didn’t hear Heeseung talk at all, and when he looked at Heeseung he saw tears starting to gather in his eyes “Taehyun say something.” But Taehyun didn’t know what to say exactly because there was too much going on he didn’t know from where to begin or what to skip telling him and what to tell him so he told him the most relevant thing that he could think of “Run away from here.” There was no emotion in his voice when he said those words it looked like he saw a ghost.

Heeseung was so confused that he didn’t know what is he supposed to do. The lack of response from Taehyun and the crazy stuff that he saw in the matter of fifteen minutes was too overwhelming for him.

“RUN AWAY FROM HERE.” Taehyun tried harder but it did not budge Heeseung.

“Please I just need to know what is this going on…I nee-ed to know what hap-hap-happened.” Heeseung stuttered.

“I cannot explain Heeseung but I can help you be safe can you please listen to me this once and get the fuck away from this place and just never come back.” Teahyun said in a pleading tone.

“No.” Heeseung replied. “Now you listen I am going to the medical store and I am go-goin to treat you and b-by the time you pr-prepare your response tyun.” And Heeseung turned around to leave the house in order to get some medicines.

Taehyun kept on looking at Heeseung till he was no more visible to him. With a tear slipping down his cheeks he stood up and moved towards his room in order to get dressed and look a bit modest.

‘Modest’ Taehyun thought in his head and chuckled humorlessly thinking about all the filthy things that monster had done to him. Suddenly he remembered about Heeseung and his crying face and just from nowhere he found a new courage to challenge that monster because there ain’t no way that Taehyun is going to let that monster destroy his happily married life.

He remembers the days in the beginning of his relationship with Heeseung, all those times that he used to listen to the voices in his head telling him that he is going to hurt Heeseung or that he was the one because of whom Heeseung might get hurt and now realizing that maybe the voices in his head were not wrong made him want to throw up. Just how true his thoughts were. But their love is stronger than that right?

It has to be and now that Taehyun was pregnant, he was not going to let that demon hurt his baby.

He has to do something afterall his entire family was at risk.

The train of his thoughts were broken when he felt a warm hand on his shoulder and turned around hastily almost spinning and falling forward, but another warm hand was there holding him. Those warm hands can only belong to his……..”Enjoying that Heeseung is back?...Don’t be he gonna die.”

What? Taehyun looked at owner of those warm hands and there stood Beomgyu ghostly pale with those gross odd eyes and long hairs messily falling on his face. He looked horrible.

“Fuck you.” Taehyun spat on his face.

“No darling, let me fuck you in front of Heeseung.” Beomgyu said maniacally.

Taehyun looked at him with horror as he felt vines riding up his legs and that strong sweet scent filling his nose, making him feel dizzy.

“Don’t do this Beomgyu, please don’t break my family. I fucking worked so hard to get what I had, let me live, let us live like we used to.”Taehyun pleaded.

“Oh yeah, you slut I don’t owe you anything. You know better than to put a fight or a show.” Beomgyu growled angry at the poor boy, who now had tears staining his cheeks.

Taehyun wanted to dig a hole and die because he was about to get raped in front of Heeseung the thought alone made him want to die, he wished that Heeseung lie for once, betray him for once and run away and then never come back instead of returning back with the medicines that are not going to do a shit in relieving his pain anyway.

“You destroyed my family and now when it’s your turn you are running away?” Beomgyu exhaled

“It’s not a game, family is not a game, my child is not a game, Heeseung is not a game, and I am not running I am protecting myself and protecting the ones for whom I care.” Taehyun said in an angry voice.

Heeseung was a man of his words and so he was back with all the medicines that he thought were necessary. When Taehyun met his eyes he could see pure horror and confusion swimming in them, he was moving his lips in effort to say something but nothing came out as words, he was horrified.

“Look who is here..” Beomgyu chuckled and soon there were thick vines wrapping around Heeseung and maneuvering him to the nearest couch. He was pushed down on the couch while Beomgyu stood there with Taehyun in his arms.

“Now, baby let’s show your husband what we have been practicing since he is gone.”. Beomgyu said maniacally.

Heeseung was so shocked that he thought that he lost his voice, the situation was overwhelming, it felt like he was experiencing a nightmare. He felt dizzy because of some weird smell, he could see his vision blurring with the haze that he was blinded in. ‘This couldn’t be real’, he thought. He could see from his blurry vision some monster like figure having various tentacles emerging from all the parts of his body and holding his Taehyun, not holding but forcefully holding, the tears, the pained whimpers and cries were all the evidence that told him that Taehyun was in pain. He could see Taehyun’s cloth being ripped apart as Taehyun tried to cover himself from the shame of being naked in front of Heeseung, not in front of Heeseung actually, because he has seen Taehyun naked many times and never would Taehyun hide from him, he knows that his love is ashamed of what is happening with him and therefore trying to hide himself. But, Heeseung felt even more shame because here he was helpless sitting in some haze and cannot move a single muscle.

Taehyun cried when he felt Beomgyu push inside him. He looked into Heeseung’s eyes and he was thankful to god that he cannot see the usual clarity in his eyes otherwise he would die of shame at the same spot.

“Heeseung are you enjoying the show…seeing him cry and all..?” Beomgyu said with a drawn out moan when Taehyun accidently clenched around him.

Heeseung gained some consciousness once he heard his name being called. He interpreted the situation with fear in his eyes. The disgusting act that was being committed in front of his own eyes was unbearable to watch. He put all his strength to try and free himself from the vines that were holding him in place, and he was somewhat successful.

He moved towards the pair and threw a punch at the ugly face of the monster. The action made the monster retreat from Taehyun, moving a few feet back and causing Taehyun to fall out of his hold and onto the floor. Taehyun crawled, trying to reach for the knife that was lying on the floor. As soon as he reached the knife, he brutally cut through the vines that were holding his legs and arms. He freed himself and ran towards the room upstairs, trying to distract the monster that was now attempting to choke Heeseung with a thick tentacle.

Upon seeing that Taehyun was running away, Beomgyu ran quickly in order to catch him. Taehyun tried to close the door of the bedroom so that he could put a barrier between himself and the monster, even though the barrier was nothing compared to the sheer strength that the monster held. He was almost successful, but one of the tentacles made its way inside. Beomgyu was now trying to squeeze into the room while Taehyun was putting in the utmost effort to keep him out and distracted.

Heeseung, downstairs, took advantage of the moment and made a quick call to someone. As soon as the call ended, he reached the room in which Taehyun was currently struggling to keep the monster away. He was holding a knife in one of his hands. As soon as he reached the raging monster, he plunged the knife into one of Beomgyu's tentacles, causing a screech of pain to echo through the house.

The monster recoiled, and Heeseung didn't waste any time. He grabbed Taehyun by the hand and pulled him away from the door. "Run!" he shouted. They bolted down the hallway, but Beomgyu, enraged and injured, gave chase. They could hear the thudding of his monstrous form behind them.

They reached the staircase, Heeseung shoving Taehyun ahead of him. "Go, I'll hold him off!" Heeseung turned, knife at the ready, facing the beast. Beomgyu's eyes, filled with malice, locked onto Heeseung. The monster lunged, but Heeseung sidestepped, slashing at another tentacle. Beomgyu roared, the pain and fury driving him into a frenzy.

"Keep moving!" Heeseung yelled again, the desperation in his voice cutting through the chaos. Taehyun, trembling but determined, sprinted down the stairs. Heeseung followed, slamming the door behind them. The sound of Beomgyu's rage-filled pounding echoed through the house as they barricaded the door of the room that they managed to enter, with whatever they could find.

Breathing heavily, Taehyun looked at Heeseung, eyes filled with a mix of fear and gratitude. "What now?"

Heeseung and Taehyun were panting, their eyes darting around the room for any sign of escape. The sounds of Beomgyu’s enraged pounding on the door sent shivers down their spines. The barricade shook with every blow, but they knew it wouldn't hold for long.

Heeseung, still clutching the knife, glanced around for any other means of defence or escape. "We need to get out of here and find help. We can't let him catch us. Baby, I made a call okay…if something happens to me you are going go with my hyung, got it? He is on his way-“.

Suddenly, with a splintering crash, the door burst open. Beomgyu, monstrous and furious, forced his way through the debris. His eyes, now gleamed with a terrifying intensity. Heeseung stepped forward, knife at the ready, but Beomgyu was too fast.

In a swift, brutal motion, Beomgyu grabbed Heeseung’s wrist with a strength that felt like iron. Heeseung struggled, trying to pull away, but Beomgyu's grip was unyielding. With a menacing grin, the monster twisted Heeseung's arm, wrenching the knife from his grasp.

"No!" Taehyun screamed, rushing forward to stop the inevitable. But it was too late.

With a cold, deliberate motion, Beomgyu plunged the knife into Heeseung’s side. Heeseung gasped, a cry of pain escaping his lips as he staggered back, clutching his wound. The knife hadn't gone deep enough to be fatal, but the pain was excruciating, and blood quickly stained his shirt.

Taehyun reached them just as the knife was withdrawn, catching Heeseung as he fell. "Heeseung!" he cried, his voice breaking. He glared up at Beomgyu, rage and desperation fueling his next move. Without hesitation, Taehyun grabbed a nearby broken chair leg and swung it at Beomgyu with all his might.

The makeshift weapon connected with a sickening thud, causing Beomgyu to stumble back. The monster roared in pain and anger, momentarily disoriented. Taehyun took advantage of the brief opening, pulling Heeseung to his feet.

"We need to get out of here!" Taehyun urged, supporting Heeseung as best as he could. Heeseung nodded weakly, the pain evident in his eyes, but he mustered the strength to move. They half-ran, half-stumbled toward the exit, Taehyun casting desperate glances over his shoulder to make sure Beomgyu wasn’t right behind them.

Beomgyu, shaking off the daze from Taehyun’s strike, let out a guttural snarl and started after them again. Taehyun and Heeseung reached the back door, fumbling with the lock in their panic. Taehyun’s hands trembled, but he finally managed to wrench the door open.

They burst out into the cool night air, the sudden chill hitting them like a wave. The darkness outside was both a blessing and a curse, providing cover but also hiding potential dangers. They could hear Beomgyu’s pursuit, the heavy, unsteady footsteps growing closer.

Before they knew it the door that was opened with so much effort was shut close by a monstrous looking flower.

“I knew it Heeseung, we won’t be able to make out of here…” Taehyun said with tears in his eyes, and a hand on his bulging belly. He gasped and asked Heeseung “Baby, you didn’t feel  my belly right..?” He said and placed Heeseung’s hand on his belly.

The scene was pitiful. Beomgyu was approaching them, that monstrous flower was looming over them as if it is going to eat them and the couple was standing in the dark corner, with their palms on Taehyun’s belly. Both had tears streaming down their faces, they both knew at this point that thereis no hope for them to make it out of this place and they knew that they might probably never see their baby being born. They didn’t say anything but were probably reminiscing about the first time that they met, the ambiguous start of the relationship, the fight they had to put for getting married and then fight that they had to put up with the society for themselves, for their career, for their relationship, for their identity and now when they were so far into their life, where they were blessed with this baby, who probably won’t have a fortune to live broke their heart. All this life only to end it this way. They would probably watch their other half die and both silently wished that they are not the one suffering this pain, they both wanted to see each other live for the last time.

Funny how the goals in life changes, with the situation, to manifest your loved ones die after you do was definitely not Taehyun’s ambition. But, here he was now wishing that the comfortable warmth of Heeseung’s hand on his belly remain there.

“Taehyunie,….I-I, c-c-ca-can’t see ya d-die.” Heeseung said with a lot of effort.

“I want you to- l- l-live for thi-th-thi-s.” Heeseung stuttered as he caressed Taehyun’s belly.

Taehyun held Heeseung’s face as he looked into his eyes there was a promise shining in them. It was a promise to protect each other, to be with each other. They felt each other just by looking at each other, this was probably what Heeseung’s mom meant when she told them that love is just a small unit of feeling towards each other because the real feeling is such a large, infinite quantity that it just couldn’t be defined and when you feel that towards someone that means that you have a purpose in life and your life is not meaningless.

“Time’s up you both, enough of drama I’ve watched since past 15 minutes, now enough.”

The couple got startled with the sudden voice as they looked towards the source of sound, and there stood Beomgyu with a menacing grin on his face.

“Beomgyu, let us go, I really don’t know our fault-“ Taehyun tried to talk to Beomgyu but was stopped with a tentacle wrapping around his mouth as he said “Baby, it’s not your fault it was your father who did this..he wanted to marry you off to me right now you have all of me.”

“You can’t-do-“ Heeseung tried to protest but he was dragged onto the floor till he reached near Beomgyu’s leg. One of the tentacle wrapped around Heeseung’s neck as Beomgyu said “ My wife, was thousand times prettier than your Taehyun, you know what Taehyun can never be what she was and they killed me because I loved her, she died with our baby being dead too. You need to know the pain I felt this is revenge, Heeseung, and you weren’t even part of it, it should be Taehyun who must die but you know what he would die gladly for you but I don’t want that. I want him to feel what my love felt, and what I feel that’s why I am going to kill you.”

Taehyun tried to speak something or move around but he was restrained by the thick tentacles.

“Heeseung I feel pity for you. Take a look at Taehyun once again this is the last time you see him.”Beomgyu said in a serious tone.

Heeseung looked at Taehyun, his eyes held yearning, love and tenderness. He really looked at Taehyun as if he is looking a masterpiece that can only be seen once and only time. He was probably trying to memorize all the details of his face, the eyes and the messy hairs but his mouth was covered.”Beomgyu can I see his entire face?” Heeseung said in a sorrowful tone “Not a single stutter…I see, you have probably given up on your life, right?” Beomgyu said with a taunt in his voice as he uncovered Taehyun’s face.

Heeseung kept staring at him like that. Taehyun was crying with his own arms hugging himself, he didn’t say anything to Heeseung, already accepting his fate. He cried harder when he saw Heeseung staring at him with so much love and adoration. Oh, how he wished that he could spend more time with him.

Taehyun was watching as Heeseung looked at him unblinking. Taehyun thought that Heeseung did not want to waste a single moment of his life that’s why he was looking at him so intently but that unblinking stare suddenly made chills run down his spine when it started to look unnatural.

“Hee-heeseung” he called out in a small voice. No response.

Suddenly due to sharp light falling onto his eyes Taehyun looked to see the source. It was the reflection of light. The knife that was plunged into Heeseung’s neck was the source of reflection. Everything, became blur for him. He could faintly recognize the voice of Heeseung’s brother and torches being switched on. Beomgyu looked unrecognizable with the form he had transformed into, he had thick vines coming from all over his body, weirdly sweet scent enveloping the house that was once a safe haven for them. There were more than 10 men in his house right now and they were all witnessing this madness. He recalled that Heeseung told him that his brother will come to rescue him. 'How his brother might be feeling?' Taehyun thought. His vision starting to fade.

What caught Taehyun’s frail attention was orange flowers that started to cover Heeseung’s dead body. A single tear slipped from Taehyun’s eyes as his consciousness was slipping away. Heeseung’s eyes were still open and staring at some distant void. He heard Beomgyu say something along the lines “Come to me when you miss him….”.

Taehyun closed his eyes, he can feel faint pain in his abdomen, suddenly carrying a child felt heavier to him.

He was carried bridal style by someone, there were monstrous sound ringing in his head, smell of metallic blood and the thick fragrance of weird flowers penetrated his senses. Among all those nasty smell, there was a faint fragrance of something fresh, that calmed him down, his mind supplied him about those beautiful flowers growing around Heeseung, maybe it was those flowers.

He felt like some part of him died.

Taehyun was put into the car and he was drove back to the village probably.

In his unconscious state of mind he thought if they will ever find Heeseung’s dead body, what if all this was just nightmare and they are safe and sound in their room probably cuddling, but deep inside Taehyun knew that it was all real and happening.

What he didn’t know was the challenge that he is going to face once he reaches the village.

He went to a complete unconscious state then.

His eyes opened in an uncomfortable bed, due to the sunlight falling on his face. He woke up to see some elderly women surrounding him. They probably didn’t notice that he was awake. They were talking about Heeseung, and something along the lines that ‘poor boy had an unfortunate wife’ and that ‘infidelity with monster’. And many other things.

He suddenly shrieked due the sharp pain he felt in his belly, that caught attention of the women in the room. They came closer to look at him and with a fake sympathy started to help him sit up and get started with the day.

He gathered strength and courage to live through the day.

He went inside the bathroom and stood there to manage his disoriented mind. He couldn’t interpret the situation that he was in, it was as if he lost all his senses.

After taking off his clothes he started cleaning himself. The dirt on his face, the slight pain that he felt when he massaged around his neck and a sticky sensation that he felt when he was washing his thighs reminded him of the previous night. He stopped washing himself as he put his hands on his growing belly and pulled his legs closer, while sitting down. He started crying, softly as if someone might hear him. Now, he had to fight his own demons, and then also fight with this monstrous society too. Hesseung, was now gone he had to protect himself and his unborn child.

He calmed himself down and once again gathered courage to live.

He thought that the worst has already happened now what worse can happen.

But, there was actually something worse about to happen.

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The rest of the days of his pregnancy were harsh. Listening to people talk so ruthlessly about him hurt Taehyun. They talked like Taehyun was the one who committed crime instead of thinking of him as a victim.

The elder lady who once blessed him at the time of their marriage is now behaving as if Taehyun was her worst enemy. Heeseung’s parents were devastated, they were so disoriented that they would practically cry till their lungs find it hard to breath in.

Time went slow after Heeseung’s death, at least for Taehyun. He would sit in silence for long hours just to caress his own belly and talking about something (usually Heeseung) to the unborn child.

It was like that on one night when he was having a peaceful time, but it was short lived since he started feeling pain in his lower abdomen and he kind of knew that it was the baby coming out…

The women in the house gathered around him along with the doctor who was going to deliver the baby. Taehyun was in so much pain that he thought he would pass out. He felt really uncomfortable and claustrophobic being circled around by so many people it was almost like he could not breath. He pleaded “Do something, help me deliver my child..” the doctor who was previously not paying attention looked towards Taehyun and with a worried expression she started the procedure.

After long hour of enduring extreme pain and agony, a cry was heard. Along with the cry came a loud scream followed by gasps and scared cries of the women in the room.

Taehyun was not in a state to comprehend things because of just giving birth, just a few seconds after delivering the child he passed out.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Heeseung’s mom who was holding her tears and looking at somewhere, Taehyun followed the direction where she was looking and the breath was knocked from his lungs.

There lied the baby he birthed, in a white cloth, he was sickly green and pale in color with heterochromia, one of his eyes black and the other being sickly white. He was quietly watching around looking very harmless.

Taehyun thought how fate can be so cruel, it was supposed to be Heeseung’s child but he borne the monster’s offspring. He felt disgusted in himself, it felt like betraying Heeseung and his family. It was like being the bad one while also being the victim.

When he heard people talking about the correct way to kill the baby so that his even his soul cannot harm the land of Akreil, he felt his heart shattering.

Maybe this is what he had been hearing since ages that no matter what you become or what you are a mother’s heart will always beat for you but Taehyun’s heart was shattered as soon as he looked at his baby. Was it the fact that he was affected because his baby will be killed as soon as he was born or was it the fact that he didn’t felt love towards the child, his own child.

The elder women in the village were whispering among themselves, most of them calling him cursed, the women who delivered the child was in utter shock at the appearance of the infant. 

"A cursed soul.... gave birth to a cursed Child" "He should be killed along with the baby otherwise who knows when he decides to ruin the peace of village" "These urbans come to make fun of us villagers, but will tell them they are the biggest fools themselves" "It's already unacceptable that he -" He could only listen, listened the way villagers talked so cruelly about that infant, who was now quiet and just admiring his surroundings peacefully, nobody can look at him and say that he will be the curse to the society in the future. 

But Taehyun knew better than saving the child, he knew that Heeseung is no more because of his mistake and he won’t be repeating the same mistake once again. He was ready to see yet another death of his own child and he did not know how to feel about it.

Taehyun asked to spend some time with the child.

The child looked harmless although he appeared grotesque but innocent at the same time. The baby starts crying when he sees him and the years that break off from the confines of those weird orbs are dirty brown in colour although that is bizarre, a freak of nature but those cries are pitiful so he takes that baby in his arms and shush him silently "Even if would ever think about protecting you I cannot not when you are going to put all those innocent people into misery when you start growing. " He notices that the baby starts to grow a weird appendage from his head, it's small but it appears that it is trying to grow out, he chuckles humourless at the discovery "see you are transforming into a monster ".

One moment the baby was in his arms and the other moment he was no more there.

They sacrificed him…..the people in the village looked like they got a new life after sacrificing his child.

He felt sick.

The elder women also told him to leave the village so he was on him to leave the village so he was on his way back to the city.

He recalled what had happened just a few moment ago --After an hour, those village women come to take the baby, they were chanting some incantations while they carried the baby in a basket made of bamboo decorated with forms of deities on the basket. 

" Follow us" They commanded him and he quietly followed. He saw his baby being killed in front of his very own eyes. The blood that splattered on Taehyun when the baby was beheaded is a mark, a hideous mark that will never leave his soul.

"You better leave this village soon otherwise you would be the next sacrifice" The head women challenged him fiercely. 

It was strange feeling going back to the same place for some comfort which caused misery to him but he had nowhere else to go.

So he reached the city, Heeseung’s brother took him there, in the entire ride he didn’t say any words to him. One they reached the city, he was asked to go home on his own, since, Heeseung’s brother did not have guts to go at that place again.

He kept on moving, everybody was giving him weird looks since he was wearing some weird looking cloak, he was moving without a footwear and had his eyes downcast. He was bleeding from hid foot and had streaks of that baby's blood on his face and body since he stood in the front row, where these ministrations took place. 

Soon he reached his destination, that house looked scary and gave off eerie vibes. But, he was determined to end his sufferings so he took a step forward towards the house which was now completely engulfed by thick vines of some kind of wild plant and it looked scary as hell. 

He entered through the main door and shut the door down, no one seemed to be there but he knows that he is not alone, that the resident of the house have already sensed his presence. 

So, he calls out softly in a low whisper "Beomgyu I want to meet Heeseung, please help me reach him. "

And he is answered back by low whisper in his right ear "Anything for you".