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The omega's body was thrown against one of the school lockers unexpectedly while the sound of kisses got progressively louder. They were wet, almost needy kisses. 

Two bodies glued to each other in such an intimate and shameless way, hands tracing each other's bodies while the alpha was concentrated on satisfying the omega with long black hair.

The kisses stopped occasionally to let out breaths of hot air, both of them gasping and already sweaty, which makes it clear that they had been doing this for quite a while.

“Thanos..” The omega cries, begging, after parting his red, swollen lips, watching the alpha move his head back to contemplate the mess Nam-Gyu was at that moment, biting one of his piercings, snake bites, in the process.

“Damn, you're so pretty.” He compliments the younger man, holding his chin and inclining it upwards, then kissing him while his other hand sneaks towards the other man's butt, applying pressure against them. Pelvis against pelvis. Sweet moans reached Choi Su-Bong's ears, his alpha side completely proud of itself for letting Nam-Gyu, his omega, be satisfied with simple touches and words.

But everything stopped when the school bell rang loudly, making the younger man startle and put both hands on the alpha's chest, pushing him away.

His breathing was completely out of rhythm, his eyes looked around in the empty hallway, showing concern about being caught, as if making out was a crime. But Choi knew why, after all, they were just friends. Friends with benefits, but friends, and the other students didn't know that, or just pretended not to, since it seemed so obvious.

Thanos moved away from the other, straightening his school uniform, which was messy because of the black-haired omega, trying to center his famous cross necklace right in the middle of his chest, giving the other boy time to do the same.

The empty corridor quickly filled up with other students and the previous silence was taken over by the sounds of laughter, conversations and feet walking or running around.

"Did you guys skipped classes to eat each other out again?" A voice that the two boys recognized was heard and when they looked in the direction of the sound, they could see an alpha girl approaching them, holding a strap of her backpack with delicacy. 

One of her eyebrows was raised and this only made Choi smirk sideways, crossing his arms. He doesn't owe any satisfaction to anyone, not even his friends.

“No, not at all, Se-Mi!” Nam-Gyu exclaimed, waving his hands frantically and attracting more attention than he didn't need from other students. “We were helping the librarian with the books. What kind of people do you suppose we are?"

“I don't know about Thanos, but I assume you're a liar.” Se-Mi was direct with her answer, laughing nasally as she witnessed the indignant expression the omega was making in that very moment, upset. “It's just that..you guys reek of cherry and lemon…”

Nam-Gyu opened his mouth to protest, but as soon as he heard Se-Mi mention the smell of the two friends' pheromones, he just closed it again, having no idea what he was really going to argue about right now. This only made the tallest of the three smile even more, that mischievous smile he was already known for.

“Oh no..we've been caught, so now what?” He dramatized, placing a hand on his chest, frowning his forehead in an attempt to look horrified and sad, receiving a slap on the arm from the omega next to him soon after.

“Stop being an asshole, you moron!”

Se-Mi and Thanos laughed together as Nam-Gyu complained about everything.

The conversation extended for a while, especially after two more students joined the trio, Min-Su, a beta, and Gyeong-Su, another alpha. 

This is the school's famous group, the most popular, but not as popular as Choi himself.

You see, he had built an empire there, he was an Alpha leader. The most popular, the most desired and the most respected among all the other Alphas there. He was basically what any Alpha would want to be.

But with such a reputation come multiple responsibilities, and the principal should say so. In-Ho, the school's principal, blindly trusted the purple-haired boy to carry out any school task, to help protect Omegas from other Alphas and to set limits in the corridors so that there were no fights.

However, let's be fair, Choi is an amazing guy and manages to make all of that seem simple to deal with, even if it means carrying the weight of the meaning of the word of his birth designation, Alpha.

Thanos couldn't resist puffing out his chest whenever he passed other students, with his confident walk, his chin raised and a sly grin when he heard random comments about himself or when he saw some alphas getting quieter than usual, showing respect for him.

“Thanos is absurdly handsome..”

“Right!? I wonder how he's still single.”

“And did you see him at the basketball practice yesterday? He was on the team with his shirt off, I almost screamed when I saw him!”

Almost all of his friends rolled their eyes when they saw Choi trying to pretend he didn't care about what the other students were saying, but they knew very well that the other liked it, vain as he is…

“We're going to be late if you keep walking slowly like you are now, Thanos.” Se-Mi hits his friend on the arm with her elbow, forcing him to try to walk faster.

“You already know that he likes to be praised wherever he goes, Se-Mi. He likes to hear what they have to say about him.” Gyeong-Su comments, laughing with a twinkle of amusement in both his eyes.

The purple-haired one just yawns loudly, stretches out his arms and puts them on the shoulders of his two Alpha friends, and stops walking. This ended up causing Nam-Gyu and Min-Su, who were walking behind them, to bump into the taller one's back and Nam-Gyu couldn't control himself, cursing out Su-Bong with every naughty word possible on planet earth.

“I love all of you..” Thanos sounded really crazy when he said that, even though his closest group of friends were used to that kind of reaction out of nowhere, it was still funny. “...my  team Thanos…”

“How many times have we told you to stop calling our group that?!” All the others said in unison, becoming momentarily irritated and showing it by the large, quick steps they were taking at that moment, leaving behind a Thanos who pretended to be heartbroken to the point of crying.

Classes. The second class of the day, but the first for Thanos, would be History and the purple-haired man even thought about pretending to be sick so he could miss it. 

The only reason he didn't was because Se-Mi and Nam-Gyu were staring at him with their evil faces, their eyes squinted and their fists clenched on the top of their wooden desks. Choi may be known at school for being intimidating and putting others in order, but he would have to admit that nothing compares to his two friends when they get really angry about something that bothers them in any way.

So the alpha leader just sighed and walked across the classroom to his usual seat, the last table at the back.

He dumped his backpack on the table and sat down awkwardly in his chair, without worrying too much about his posture - after all, teachers rarely warned him about that sort of thing. Once again, alpha leader privileges.

From one moment to the next, all the students were sitting in their respective seats and fell silent when they saw Professor Gi-Hun enter, but they soon started talking again, and even louder.

Gi-Hun was a middle-aged, omega, black-haired man who looked very serious most of the time and rarely smiled. Okay, Thanos might be exaggerating a little here. Gi-Hun was the sweetest teacher he knew at that school, but he was one of the most strict.

Gi-Hun was smiling at that very moment, perhaps because, like Thanos, he also liked receiving compliments about his new haircut, which was shorter than his previous one. Even Min-Su commented on the professor's hair out loud, which is also a rare occurrence. 

The purple-haired alpha just rolls his eyes as he scribbles in one of his notebooks that he took out of his backpack at some point.

“Thank you, thank you! I really like my new haircut, but that's not the only reason I'm happy. Your class is getting a new addition!” Su-Bong no longer had his eyes lowered towards his own notebook but instead his eyes were raised towards Professor Gi-Hun, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion as he heard those words and the ones that followed made the strange feeling he was feeling even worse. “Exactly, a new student! Go ahead, don't be shy!”

The alpha leader's blue eyes flew towards the door as fast as the wind, narrowing visibly when he caught sight of a new figure leaning against the doorframe, one he didn't recognize from his hallways. 

It was a boy, shorter than him, with thick but tidy black hair. His eyes were as black as his hair. He had a relaxed smile on his lips, his hands were hidden inside the pockets of his pants and the fact that one strap of his backpack was being held on one shoulder only contributed to his relaxed posture, which the alpha leader didn't like.

His back straightened out of nowhere and he found himself in a state of alertness like never before, he had some kind of feeling about that boy over there and it didn't seem to be a good one.

The new student took a few steps forward, finding himself right next to the teacher.

Choi's ears opened to hear the whispers among the students, which were growing louder and louder. A group of omegas sitting further along practically screamed, jumping up from their seats to perch on the tables, staring at the boy at the front of the room with the greatest fascination in the world, practically drooling if we are being honest...

“IT'S MG COIN!” Quickly, cell phones jumped into the hands of most of Thanos' classmates to record and photograph the famous YouTuber. The alpha leader's face hardened, his arms crossed against his chest as his eyes analytically watched every move the other made in the background.

“Please, I'd like to ask for privacy in the first place.” The idiot's voice finally came out, laughing, removing his hands from his pockets to gesture for his fans to calm down. He was probably used to this kind of reaction , Thanos thought.

When the room was more or less back to normal, with the students, especially the omegas who were releasing their sweet scents, trying to be quiet and respect each other's order, the youtuber decided to introduce himself better with teacher Gi-Hun's permission once again.

“I can see that I don't need much of an introduction here, but still...hello everyone, my name is Lee Myung-Gi and I'll be your new classmate. I hope I can get along with all of you.” He ended his introduction with a wink that made certain omegas sigh with desire.

Su-Bong clenched his jaw with immense force, ignoring the words of thanks that Myung-Gi said to Gi-Hun. His blue irises followed the path the other took to one of the few tables that didn't have an owner. His thoughts began to emerge at that moment and they were so many and so intense that pulling one of his lip piercings with his teeth was no longer enough to sort them out.

All his mind was saying was: Danger , danger , danger , danger .

That Lee Myung-Gi smelled like danger .

The history lesson went by faster than he thought, perhaps because his mind was more occupied thinking about the student sitting a few meters away from him than the events of the Second World War. There was something about him that managed to make all of Thanos's senses suddenly so acute, he didn't like how the youtuber had already arrived attracting attention, leaving even some of the omegas falling at his feet and making his name fly around like it was nothing.

As soon as the bell rang, Thanos made sure he stayed for the last minute in the hope that the new student would leave first, purposely taking longer to pack his school materials into his backpack.

“Su-Bong! It's good that you stayed for last, Principal In-Ho needs you to do something very important.” The omega teacher's voice came out clearly, gradually approaching his student, to which Choi raised his head from his backpack to smile with his teeth. A gentle, friendly smile, a way of gaining more trust with his teachers, as well as showing that he is willing to listen and comply with their requests, however annoying they may sometimes be.

“Of course, Professor Gi-Hun. What does the principal want?”

The omega just smiled when he heard the younger man's question, stretching out his arm and clearing the way for the alpha to see something behind him.

Shit . That was the purple-haired man's thought when his blue eyes caught sight of the new student, still in his relaxed pose, looking in his direction without any kind of reaction.

“The principal expects a responsible student to show Myung-Gi around and there's no one better than you!” The teacher explained the situation, but Choi wasn't even listening anymore. He was just concentrating on that being in front of him, with his tongue passing through his white teeth. Everything was even more different now that they were face to face, Choi was even able to smell Lee's pheromones now that the room was practically deserted and that smell wasn't hard to identify, a smell so spicy and strong, like cinnamon.

The alpha leader had the answer to his biggest doubt about the guy, he was an alpha like him and he knew it by their scent. Not that his appearance said otherwise, even if Myung-Gi wasn't as physically strong as Thanos, he was still considered a threat. His shoulders were broad, he was slim and lean and much shorter than Choi, on the positive side of most of the disadvantages already mentioned.

“Myung-Gi, this is Choi Su-Bong. He'll help you with whatever you need, I guarantee it!”

The way the other alpha just looked at Thanos from the bottom to the top with his very attentive feline eyes, without feeling intimidated in the slightest, made Choi gnaw with irritation, more than he already felt. 

Who does he think he is to do something like that? Isn't it clear where Thanos stands in the hierarchy? Why was he worrying so much about the other guy anyway? More and more questions were forming and before he could explode right there, Su-Bong just grabbed his backpack, slung it over one shoulder, and walked towards the door without even worrying about whether the other alpha was following him or not.

Gi-Hun said goodbye to his two students, his voice becoming more distant with every step the purple-haired boy took, already setting foot outside the classroom door. 

His facial features and the way he gripped the strap of his backpack tightly showed anger, after all...he didn't want to be doing this. Of all the tasks In-Ho and Gi-Hun had already given him, that was undoubtedly the one he was finding hardest to do.

To the alpha leader's surprise, he didn't see a single head in that hallway. Great...now he's not going to get rid of that asshole that easily.

He could hear Myung-Gi's relaxed footsteps behind him, just as fast, but undoubtedly less tense than Thanos'. A melody could be heard too, the sound of a tune being whistled that the taller man couldn't identify and, frankly, it didn't really matter.

He let out a deep, loud sigh so that Lee would hear and realize that the other wasn't in the mood for him at the moment, but he ended up getting a laugh in response, a giggle of pure amusement as he realized the kind of reaction he was provoking in the alpha leader. The tense shoulders, the long, strong strides, the final sigh...yes, Myung-Gi knew exactly what he was doing.

“Thanos, isn't it? Sorry, some of our classmates ended up telling me a bit about you in class. Are you going to show me around or..”

The sentence was cut off halfway through because the purple-haired alpha stopped walking to turn his whole body towards the guy, crossing his arms and lifting his chin, his blue irises looking down towards Myung-Gi, who suddenly seemed more interested in the cross necklace Thanos had around his neck than his face.

“Listen to me, Lee..” He growled, expressing dominance towards the other, who only blinked slowly with a neutral expression as he raised his head slightly to look the taller man in the eye. “I don't know what your game is here, at this college, but I guarantee it won't go well, so...you'd better give up.”

There was a moment of silence. Thanos' mind proud to have put that alpha in his place and to have played his role as an alpha leader, all evaporated when the black-haired alpha decided to open his mouth once again:

“There is no plan, Choi.”

The alpha leader's eyebrows furrowed quickly, his eyes filled with anger because the other didn't seem the least bit intimidated and he took that sentence as an affront to himself, a threat to everything he had built up over the years there. He needs to defend himself and everything he owns from alpha bastards who believe they can rule like he does, from alpha bastards like Myung-Gi.

“I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm the alpha leader of this school.” It was direct and bold in case the other didn't already know that, even though it's something immensely obvious. 

“I'm aware of that, yes. However, may I ask why you're telling me about it?” The question seemed very innocent if it weren't for the sideways smile the other boy gave him, raising both eyebrows. Lee seemed, in a way, happy that the information had been confirmed by the voice of the alpha leader himself. Smug, that's what the shorter alpha was.

Thanos was so furious that he began to release his pheromones without thinking, and the acidic, lemony, very refreshing scent made its presence in the nostrils of the other alpha, who seemed to inhale more deeply with his eyes open to smell Choi's perfume.

Thanos was imposing himself at that very moment, showing that he was in charge and that it wasn't an insignificant alpha like Myung-Gi who was going to disrespect him as he was doing at that very moment. The tension increases infinitely more when the purple-haired one is caught off guard by the other's spicy smell, that damn cinnamon.

“You'd better stop what you're doing.” A growl leapt from his throat, something he didn't do very often, but considering the proportions this dialog between them was taking, it was necessary. The sentence came out low in a fierce tone, the same tone he uses to show the other alphas who the authority really is.

The tension was increasing and it looked like it was going to get worse at any moment if Thanos didn't get out of there now, but that proud, vengeful side of him seemed to want to stay to show Myung-Gi that he was messing with the wrong man.

“I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not doing anything.”

A move, a foot against another foot, a knee against another knee, a head almost against a chest…

Fuck, did that short son of a bitch have something to with invading personal spaces? One more thing Thanos will list as something he hates about that half-wit youtuber.

The spicy smell of cinnamon and the acid of lemon seemed to flood the hallway, mixing and creating an intense but pleasant fragrance, but it won't be enough to put an end to what's about to happen there.

“I'll get to know the school by myself then. It was nice to meet you, Su-Bong.”

No, he didn't do that, did he? That's enough .

“You son of a bitch..”

A bang echoed down the hallway so loudly that the students who were climbing the stairs nearby ran excitedly towards their alpha leader and the school's newest student, already familiar with that kind of noise.

Choi didn't hold back and punched Myung-Gi's handsome face hard enough to turn the other's head to the left with a certain unexpected brutality. The purple-haired one was suddenly panting, his face animalistic and his gaze capable of piercing the skin of anyone he looked at.

Myung-Gi took a few moments to react to what had happened there, his jaw clenching as he listened to the students laugh and further incite Thanos' actions during the fight, pulling their cell phones out of their pockets. 

Great..

Thanos swung his right hand, the one that had just thrown the punch, practically declaring that the fight was over, that he wasn't going to invest any more against the shorter alpha, that he just wanted to impose order...but he was wrong to believe that it would end there.

Still watching Lee with his head turned to the left, he heard a low laugh and his vision was surprised by a fist, which hit the purple-haired boy right in the middle of the nose, injuring him.

Thanos threw a hand at him as soon as he felt the impact and a guttural growl came out so naturally that it alarmed some of the students who were now making a circle among them, shouting “Fight, fight, fight” at the top of their lungs. 

So he runs towards the other with all the speed he can muster, catching him off guard and trapping him with his arms to throw him to the ground with a loud thud, causing the youtuber to let out a muffled groan of pain.

“Uhhh…” The students murmured in chorus, increasingly satisfied with what they saw and Choi wouldn't mind showing what he was capable of, proving that he could protect the omegas, proving that he was a real threat to other alphas and showing that everyone had chosen a great alpha leader. He was confident of winning the fight and it was extremely satisfying to contemplate Myung-Gi's state, to see what he was capable of.

His legs went up over the other alpha's body, who was lying on the ground and trying to free his hands from Thanos' grip, growling aggressively. But another punch landed on Myung-Gi's face, and the black-haired alpha's vision blurred slightly, but it was still possible to see the trickle of blood running down the nose of the boy on top of him. Myungi-Gi's cheek was starting to turn purple, and a wound had opened up on his eyebrow and upper lip, some blood seeping out.

Thanos was smiling evilly...or he was, because the famous MG Coin decided to protect himself by projecting a large amount of saliva towards the alpha leader's cheek, who only closed his eyes on instinct for a few seconds. When he opened them again, his eyes went from blue to “red” with the fury he felt, and he raised his fist once more.

“Stop, dammit!” A female voice was heard, much louder than all the others. Everyone recognized that voice, and Thanos didn't even need to look back to know who was holding his wrist now. It was a firm grip, but there was a delicate touch to it.

“Let me go, Jun-Hee.” He sighs, his eyes closing and his shoulders relaxing a little more. He just let himself sit on the new student's chest, not caring much whether the other would complain or not.

“Quit with your shit, I don't want to babysit children.” She points, letting go of Thanos' wrist and pushing him away rudely, putting her hands back inside her hoodie, never undoing her serious face.

Jun-Hee was the fiercest omega in the school, also one of the most desired, who didn't give a damn about any of the alphas, she defends the rights of an omega more than anyone else did there and yes, she even did more than the adults themselves sometimes, being one step ahead of everyone. 

Choi has no problem admitting that he thinks she's pretty, but he'd better keep that to himself, otherwise Jun-Hee's alpha would go after him and Se-Mi gets very angry when the subject is her omega.

Thanos just wiped his face, removing all the saliva that the other had spat out, but ended up smearing the blood that was dripping from his nose. His blue eyes lowered to study Myung-Gi's face before he got off him, letting out a breath of air as he smiled sideways.

“What's going on here?” A slightly more strident voice, identifiable as being that of a much older person, passes through the barrier of students, asking for permission to pass even though she is shoving the students with her shoulders.

In that short space of time, Thanos got off Myung-Gi and waited for him to get up. He ran his hands through his clothes to recompose himself, his colored nails stretching his tousled strands of purple hair as his forehead wrinkled when he saw the woman who had just shouted.

“Please, children! The day has barely started and I am already confronted with such things this early in the morning?” The old woman rolled her eyes at the two delinquents in front of her with a frown. Her manner of speaking really had an angry intonation.

“Miss Geum-Ja, I didn't…” Choi is interrupted by the teacher, making him clench his teeth in front of the beta woman, his blue irises directed at Lee with a very unfriendly face. It's all that idiot's fault .

“I don't want to hear any excuses. It's not the first time I've called you out for getting into trouble like this, Mr. Su-Bong.” The woman put her fingers on her eyelids, rubbing them slowly with every word that came out of her mouth. “You both go immediately to the principal's office.”

“What?! That's not fair!” Myung-Gi replied, gesturing with his hands to show his anger. Thanos rolled his eyes when he heard that, the alpha was to blame for everything that had happened there. If he had followed Thanos' orders and not defied him, none of this would have happened.

The students around them, who seemed to be increasing in number, let out sad sighs when the bell rang again, signaling the start of another class they would have to attend. They began to leave little by little. That was good, then there wouldn't be so many people to satisfy.

Thanos just watched the scene with his arms crossed, sometimes turning his head to the left, muttering swear words in English, or biting his snake bites or even playing with his cross necklace out of nervousness.

“Nothing is fair in life, son.” The look of helplessness and confusion on the youtuber's face almost made Thanos laugh out loud, but the alpha would never give the black-haired boy that kind of satisfaction, so he decided to keep quiet for now. 

The beta teacher straightens up once more, turns her body at a ninety-degree angle and walks off, probably to attend her next Korean lesson.

The two alphas were now standing in the corridor and at least one of them seemed to be genuinely thinking about what to do.

Su-Bong grumbled again, letting out a “Son of a bitch..” before his feet began to move on their own, his head tilted downwards. He already had the route to the principal's office mapped out in his mind, after all...he'd been there many times, for the good and the bad, but he always seemed to get away with it.

Neither of them bothered to speak to each other, as Myung-Gi just decided to follow Thanos quietly, and after perhaps a minute and a few turns around the halls, the two of them found a wooden door with a gold patchwork sign that read “Principal” in black letters.

Thanos knocked on the door twice, waiting, until a “Come in!” came from inside the room in a penetrating, deep, very masculine voice.

Without much delay, the alpha leader put his hand on the doorknob, turned it without much effort and entered the room. A faint smell of alcohol, liquor is the scent of the principal's pheromones, suddenly entering the nostrils of the two students.

                         “ Fly me to the moon

                          Let me play among the stars

                          Let me see what spring is like 

                          On-a Jupiter and Mars ”

Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra is the first thing they hear playing softly on a record player in the background. It appears to be a calm environment, where the natural light coming through the large glass window behind the director illuminates everything around him.

In front of the director's desk, where you can see various papers scattered around, there are two chairs, almost as if fate already knew that Thanos and Myung-Gi would end up there.

Choi soon sat down in the chair closest to him, the one on the left, while Lee occupied the other. The two students looked at the principal, a short but muscular alpha, swiveling in his black, padded chair with his phone next to his ear. 

It wasn't possible to hear what the person on the other side was saying, but from what the man talked about, he seemed to be reserving something.

“All right, Choi Su-Bong and Lee Myung-Gi..” Suddenly, In-Ho put his phone down on the table, as if his conversation with the other person on the other side of the line had only lasted a second. Thanos tried very hard not to laugh when his eyes flicked to the still-on screen of the older alpha's phone, the call still in progress. However, his amusement was short-lived when he saw the face of the man in front of him again, his hands intertwined and his eyes seeming to study the two teenagers who had been sent before him. “Do you want to explain to me what  were you doing fighting?”

How did he already know that? The gossip in this school spreads very quickly, my gosh .

A continuous silence, in which neither of the boys was able to look the principal in the eye and tell him what had really happened earlier. Thanos didn't do it because he didn't have much to say, In-Ho would understand for sure. But he couldn't understand why Myung-Gi remained silent. He could have snitched right there, but he didn't. Why?

“Right. Since neither of you will explain why what happened happened, your parents will know what happened, Mr. Myung-Gi, and you will be grounded. Since you're already eighteen, Mr. Su-Bong, I'll just have to ground you. You should be careful what you do in the corridors, especially with new students like Mr. Lee Myung-Gi.”

Okay...what the fuck? Normally In-Ho didn't do this kind of thing with Thanos, so what changed? He was indignant now, too much so. Was it because it was Myung-Gi? What's so special about this kid anyway? Fuck's sake .

“There's no need to warn my parents, mister In-Ho. We're all grown up now, so we can very well handle the consequences of our actions on our own. Just ground me.” The black-haired alpha said without moving a muscle, except for his jaw, staring at the ground between his spread legs with an unknown interest.

Thanos couldn't help but notice the way In-Ho nodded proudly. Seriously now, what the hell is happening? Why is Myung-Gi being treated so well?

Then In-Ho looks at them both and leans back in his chair, turning it slowly from left to right. He arranges some of the papers on the table with one hand, thoughtfully.

“Well, I'm glad to hear that you're both willing to cover what you've done and take responsibility. I won't inform your parents, Myung-Gi, but be warned that I may do so if this happens again.”  Lee sighs with relief discreetly while Thanos maintains a neutral expression, the one he's always had since entering In-Ho's office, forgetting the part he almost wanted to laugh. “Your punishment will take place tomorrow, which means you've received detention. I hope I don't regret my final decision, now you two can go.”

They both stood up at the same time and when he realized this, Thanos rushed out of the room before the younger alpha, his emotions calmed, but his thoughts never left that damned youtuber who had been parachuted into his school.

“Shit..”

“Relax, it's not that bad. It's just a detention, chill out.” Nam-Gyu says, placing a hand on the alpha's arm and rubbing the area intimately, something they're both already accustomed to.

“Yeah, Thanos. That's not such a big deal. Besides, you've done worse things before and never had any major consequences. Two hours in detention is a piece of cake, it'll pass quickly.”

“You're not helping, Gyeong-Su. And it's not going to pass quickly, not even for a second!” The purple-haired one exclaimed loudly, frustrated by the situation. Before, he seemed fine, he didn't feel any kind of negative emotion and suddenly the thought of being in detention made him feel a knot forming in his throat, tightening more and more as his thoughts sank into it.

“And why is that?” Min-su asks in a low voice so as not to cause a fuss around him, which Choi is very grateful for. It's good to have a friend like that for these kinds of situations.

“Because that fucking youtuber is going to be locked in there with me for two hours.” Just saying the word youtuber out loud and associating it with that fuckhead of Myung-Gi made him growl so loudly that he ended up scaring some of the beta-students who passed by the group. His entire group of friends seemed to exchange quick glances with each other, sending silent messages with a mere gesture, which only increased Thanos' irritation.

“I don't understand Morse code, don't you want to say it out loud?”

Some of them just smiled while others just shrugged, making Su-Bong roll his eyes.

“Just make sure you don't kill him, alright?” Se-Mi replied, smiling sideways and biting the tip of her thumb, her dark eyes shining with mockery at her friend.

“No promises..”

Chapter Text

Just because his morning was ruined it doesn't mean that the rest of the day will be too. Thanos had more classes to attend, time to spend with his group of friends and the best part was yet to come...the basketball practice.

Basketball is the school's main sport and at his first opportunity, Thanos signed up without hesitation, becoming one of the best, if not the best, player in the college and the team captain of his senior year. He knew how to coordinate the team, was very good with his movements and the fact that he was tall gave him many advantages. He couldn't let something like that go to waste.

In addition, training sessions were his safe space, where he could vent all his anger at running with the ball all over the court, score several points and even throw it in the face of his opponents that he had succeeded, even if most of the team were his close acquaintances. The title of “friends of Thanos” doesn't belong to them.

So that's what happened, he arrived at the gym a few minutes late, to which the coach just looked at him opening the door and rolled his eyes.

"Su-Bong, go and change quickly. The whole team was waiting for you!"

Thanos couldn't hide the sideways grin that suddenly appeared when he saw the other boys running around with the balls, warming up for when the game would start and the real opponent would take the field...that's right, Choi Su-Bong himself is the biggest opponent they face. Perhaps because of his unpredictable moves, the other players compare him to a crazy man and they're right, Choi is crazy.

He rushed into the boys' room with his backpack in hand, taking off his clothes and putting on that eye-catching cyan-colored outfit, but he couldn't change it as much as he wanted to, after all, it was his school's theme color.

When he returned to the field, he noticed that the students were listening attentively to their team coach explaining what they were going to do next. Choi already knew that they were going to play for practice, especially since the inter-school tournaments were almost approaching.

It was time to give everything, do his best and put everything he knew into practice in order to win, even if it meant cheating. Yes, he has no problem in cheating to get what he wants. Call him dishonest if you want, he'll just say that he has what it takes to win and it's most likely that his shoulder will bump into yours afterwards.

"Let's also try to include our new team member as much as possible, shall we? I'm counting on you guys."

Then the coach proceeded to explain things and what would happen from now on in training, but everything stopped there in the alpha leader's head because the words “new team member” stuck in his ears, just like in history class this morning.

No, no...there's no chance. It can't be.

It seemed that everyone was moving in slow motion except for him, who turned his head slightly to the left, his blue eyes in disbelief at what they had found.

There he stood, dressed in the cyan clothes of the basketball team, his eyebrow and lip cut and his cheek bruised from the fight they had earlier. His black hair messier from running and his black, feline eyes now staring straight up at the taller one. A shiver ran down Thanos' spine when he felt Myung-Gi's gaze on him, but he would not appear surprised to see him there. Thanos wouldn't give him that satisfaction. They continued to make eye contact until one of them broke first and it was obviously Choi who won that battle of stares.

However, all that was already too much. It already looked like a chase scene you only see in cliché movies and Su-Bong scowled at the thought of it.

"Su-Bong! Why are you still there? I've already ordered you to build your team for the game."

It didn't take long for the alpha to return to his senses, blinking his eyes a few times, but only nodding in agreement without wanting to make too much noise.

What used to be the best part of the day stopped being so when MG Coin decided to join the team and no one warned Thanos about it, something that usually happens whenever a new person is added.

It wasn't too difficult to choose the people who would be part of his team, avoiding choosing Myung-Gi and leaving him for the opposing team. In all honesty, Thanos can't tell which would be the better or worse option: to have the black-haired alpha on his team and have them end up working together, or to leave him, as he did, for the opponent's team and have him play against him. Either way, both options were terrible and he wouldn't be able to handle today's training even if he tried.

Well, the match between the two teams went on for quite some time. The intense lights reflected the sweat from all of them, especially the sweat dripping from the forehead and neck of Thanos, who seemed to be running more than usual. This was perhaps because a boy called Myung-Gi was defending him, to Choi's misfortune.

Despite being taller as his advantage and Lee being shorter, the other seemed even more agile than he looked, running and dribbling the orange ball with precision and coordination, taking it out of Thanos' hands with a simple movement of his legs and his outstretched hands.

All this is driving the purple-haired one crazy.

They were tied and the game seemed to be played more between the rookie and the veteran, the other players on both teams watching the scene as if it were a battle between titans. Even the coach himself didn't escape this reaction, squinting his eyes as he watched Thanos slam hard against the shorter alpha.

Su-Bong smiles sideways after throwing MG Coin on the floor and running with the ball in his hands, dribbling and jumping towards the basket, scoring and breaking the tie for now.

They were very close to the end, but it still seemed that the jerk of the new student didn't want to let go of Thanos' foot for a second, running after him, sometimes even more than necessary.

The alpha leader is running towards the basket when Myung-Gi appears right in front of him, bending down to steal the ball from Thanos, who doesn't allow it, bouncing the ball between his legs for his left hand to catch. His blue eyes shone brightly as he paid close attention to the black-haired boy in front of him, who had come too close to him. Without many alternatives to that move, Choi just twists his bent body backwards, feeling Myung-Gi's body rub against his back.

"And now what are you going to do, “Thanos, the Legend”?" The deep voice was filled with a sneer that Su-Bong hadn't expected. That damned voice made Thanos' jaw clench harder than expected, his fury growing by the minute and his mind becoming even fuller, filled with the face and name of a person. Lee Myung-Gi.

"Go fuck yourself." He was very direct with his response, trying to put aside his desire to turn the youtuber's other cheek purple for the moment and concentrate on the game. 

Yeah, he was being very individualistic at that point, but if it meant beating Myung-Gi, then he'd have no problem being individualistic now.

He tried to shoot after a while, holding on tightly to the orange ball, but it was difficult when the black-haired alpha threw himself at him, snatching the ball out of his hands and running the other way faster than an arrow.

"Shit.."

Thanos grumbles, gasping for breath, wiping some of the sweat from his forehead with his wrist and watching as Lee leaps high in front of him to score two points for his team. Son of a bitch, that's what the other one was and no one will be able to prove otherwise.

Growling softly, he only approached his opponent with more frustration piling up, thinking of all the ways he could kill him with his bare hands right there, his thoughts dissipating when out of nowhere someone appeared on his right side, giving him no time to think about what to do or how to react.

"LOOK OUT!" A voice shouts and a shock occurs, one of his colleagues accidentally runs into Su-Bong, letting them both fall to the ground. Choi sighs brokenly in pain as he feels his knees hit the hard floor with a certain force, both his hands also stretched out so as not to allow his torso to fall towards the ground as well.

Just as he was about to stand up, cursing loudly, he felt wrinkled but gentle fingers grasp his chin, the physical contact causing what felt like an electric shock. However, all the gentleness in that touch was replaced by something more aggressive, rougher. The fingers began to squeeze Choi's jaw as if his life depended on it, forcing him to look up, still on his knees.

The blue eyes met the black ones of Lee Myung-Gi, who tilted his head a little to the left, his black hair - half wet from sweat - falling over his tired, bruised face. He seemed to analyze everything about Thanos, as if he could see deep inside him with those strangely feline eyes, and the alpha leader was only able to swallow dry for a second...because the next one he «woke» up.

“Hey, what the fuck do you think you're doing, asshole? Are you crazy?” He stood up quickly, getting rid of the other man's grip on his face abruptly, laughing as he pushed the other man to the ground without much effort.

Seeing that the situation seemed to be about to escalate into something more, the trainer blew his whistle and ran towards his two students, causing Thanos to roll his eyes in response.

“No fights within the team! We can't have something like this when competing with teams from other schools! Grow up!” The authoritative voice of the beta coach made some of the youngsters nervous, after all...he was the authority there. "Everybody out. Sae-Byeok, could you deliver these reports to the secretary's office? Thank you."

Thanos watched Kang, his favorite alpha teammate, just take the reports and walk out the front door of the gym. Sae didn't like Choi very much, but Thanos liked her for how good a team player she was.

Changing the subject now, Su-Bong just shrugged and turned to leave, but the coach's voice called out to him, to which he just lowered his head and gathering the rest of the little patience he still had with himself, he walked over to the older man. The youtuber walked past him, his hands in those fucking pockets of his training shorts, putting on his usual relaxed posture, as if nothing had happened.

“Yes, coach?” Once again he puts on that smile that charms any adult to help him get out of trouble, no matter how fake it is. Damn, he needs to go for a smoke urgently..

“You know I like you a lot, but I can't tolerate this kind of attitude, especially from you, the team captain. You have to set an example for the others! Did you see what you looked like just now?” The way the coach said that made Su-Bong uneasy, his teeth pulling at one of the piercings in his lower lip. Despite this, he kept looking straight into the older man's eyes, showing that he doesn't mind listening to and heeding the advice of his superiors from time to time.

Actually, he does care, but he has to keep his reputation and curriculum clean for now.

“If you continue to act like this, I'll have to take the position of captain of this year's team away from you and I'll choose another student to become captain, are we clear?” The beta pulls the student closer to him when he realizes that the other members of the team are slowly leaving the dressing room so that they don't overhear his conversation with Thanos.

“What? That's not fair! I-..”

“Are we clear?” It was a rather harsh rhetorical question in Thanos's opinion, mainly because it made the alpha leader's heart leap with nervousness. He can't lose the title of team captain because if that happened, people would think he was becoming softer, he would lose his position because other alphas would believe they could take his place...

No, no, no...that can't happen at all.

“Yes, coach.” He said after sighing loudly, to which he received a smile and a pat on the back of the head in response. Thanos had to control his nerves a lot at this point because if he didn't, he'd growl at the coach and that would only make things worse for him.

“And make sure you take a shower, you reek of...cinnamon it seems…” The alpha's blue eyes bulged when he heard that, and he did a huge acrobatic move to grab his sweatshirt and pull the back of it towards his nose. Indeed, there was the intense, spicy and irritating smell of cinnamon . That son of a bitch had infested his whole body with that damn smell on purpose, he was sure. Did he mark him? IS MYUNG-GI FUCKING NUTS? WHAT'S HE THINKING? DOES HE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?! 

Choi didn't even wait for the teacher to say anything else, he just ran towards the dressing room with long, strong strides, determined to find Lee to explain himself.

The other alpha had already left, since Thanos didn't find him inside, luckily for him.

Even after showering, his whole body still smelled of that damn cinnamon, but it was even worse now…

When Thanos removed his sweatshirt, he could see that the other man's perfume wasn't just on his shirt, but on his body. He hid the shirt inside a closet and tried to disguise that damn smell by releasing his own pheromones, but he didn't expect the cinnamon and the lemon fragrances to mix. Anyone who got close to Thanos and smelled it would probably get the wrong impression and rumors would spread. Well...Nam-Gyu certainly doesn't smell like cinnamon.

The lemon and cinnamon had stuck to the alpha leader's body even more and the shower had only softened it a little, but it was still possible to feel the fucking awful mixture, even though it was pleasant. He just prayed that he wouldn't run into anyone he knew as he raced through the college corridors towards his dormitory.

But obviously fate had other plans, Choi had been having a run of bad luck lately and everything seemed to be against him.

“Hey, Thanos! Wait a minute!” The soft voice known all too well by Thanos made the alpha stop his running for a moment as he listened to the beta slowly approach him.

“Hey, my boy Min-Su! I'm kind of busy, you know?” He replied to his shorter friend, speeding up his steps again in the hope that the other wouldn't follow him.

“Busy with what? You've finished training, as far as I know, you don't have any more classes.” The beta replied innocently, his face very confused as he tried to keep up with Thanos, who seemed to be walking towards the dormitories.

Su-Bong delayed to answer, as if he was thinking of an answer to give the younger boy, his blue eyes unable to look directly at Min-Su. He seemed busier trying to escape the questions and the fact that more people were approaching him now.

“You look nervous, is everything all right?”

“Nervous? Me?” Choi fails miserably at trying to show the opposite with the nervous laugh he lets out, his colorful nails scratching his tattooed neck. “Of course not! You're imagining things.”

Min-Su's sudden step closer to him almost made Thanos scream in fright, but he stood his ground. He needed to be firm at delicate moments like these. Min-Su just let out a “hmm” and after a few moments of silence, still walking, the black-haired beta spoke:

“You smell different today. Is that a mixture of lemon and...cinnamon?”

The older boy could have sworn he felt a small bead of sweat dripping from his forehead, his eyes locked, not moving, as he swallowed dry at that moment. Crap...he realized.

“I don't know....have you seen the new movie that came out? Pretty cool, huh?”

“Movie? What movie? No, I'm talking about your smell, Thanos. It's different, I've never smelled anything like it.”

Without even realizing it, Thanos' steps began to speed up even more, making it harder for Min-Su to follow him, but that was the objective.

“It's nothing! I just...went to the spice store, that's all.” He told the first lie that crossed his mind to get out of the way, not even analyzing how absurd the statement he had just made was.

“Are you trying to impress someone?” Min-Su asked shamelessly, to which Thanos only pushed the boy slightly to the side, without hurting him, but enough for him to fall behind, especially now that he was already at the entrance to the alphas' dormitory building. He hurried towards the door.

He sighed deeply as he closed the door of his dorm behind him, hurrying to take out a cigarette and smoke it as quickly as possible, distracting himself from today. Yes..that's what he needed, tomorrow everything would be better.

It was already afternoon and Thanos was just watching the pink and orange sky beyond the glass window on his right side. His hand was holding his cheek.

The peace that the sky conveyed passed soon after a small trace of the damned cinnamon passed his nose, a frown forming immediately afterwards as he remembered the day before. The basketball practice and everything that had happened.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help himself and looked behind him. A few desks away, Lee Myung-Gi was writing something in his ridiculous notebook, always with a relaxed posture and with his head well away from the notebook, as if he wrote things down precisely and didn't really need to get close to the paper to write.

Thanos made a “tsk” with his mouth that didn't go unnoticed by the teacher who was inside the classroom with them, Sangwoo was his name.

“Quiet, Mr. Su-Bong.” The teacher looked at the student, pulling his glasses further up his nose with his right hand. His eyes focused on Choi to show that he was serious. Sangwoo was a teacher who quickly became upset at the slightest thing. If he got angry, there was no turning back.

The purple-haired one just rolled his eyes, covering his mouth with his hand to support his limp head. Those two hours in detention without doing anything were going to be hell, even more so when Sangwoo took the cell phone away from the two young students.

Choi tried to occupy his mind with the things he'd learned this morning in class, but he couldn't really pay attention - something he rarely does, but that's okay - because Min-Su decided to tell their group of mutual friends about the “mysterious smell” Thanos had yesterday. Nam-Gyu and Gyeong-Su showered him with questions, while Se-Mi looked at him with one of those smiles that looked like she'd already solved the riddle, but there was no way she could know, right?

Time passed so slowly, Thanos saw the way the hands of the clock hanging on the wall moved cruelly slowly, causing the alpha leader to become more frustrated. He huffed all the time and then he lowered his head to close his eyes against his forearms, falling asleep.

“I'm going to have to go out for a few minutes. If I'm not back by the next bell, you're dismissed.” Sangwoo answered a little later, waking Thanos in the process. Thanos jumped a little when he saw that the professor was standing next to him and when his blue eyes looked up, he found Sangwoo staring at him with a frown. It really scared him more than he'd like to admit.

“Yes, sir.” Su-Bong replied, struggling not to yawn.

His vision was still a little blurry from waking up, so he straightened up, running his hands over his face as he stretched out in his chair, leaning his body back little by little. He sighed softly and when he looked at the clock after having slept for what seemed like three hours, he almost choked when he saw that not even an hour had passed since he entered that damn classroom.

There was no way for time to pass any faster and this irritated Thanos deeply. He tapped his finger on the wooden table, wondering what he could do, especially as he hadn't brought anything with him.

His cell phone could be seen on the teacher's desk further on. 

Great, but it wasn't Choi's number one concern now, not when he remembered that the youtuber was locked in that classroom just like him.

His mind thought of revenge, even if it was small, it would be enough to make him happy that afternoon.

“Does your face still hurt? Did I hit you too hard? I'm sorry, I didn't know you couldn't take it..” His lips curved into a mischievous smile after saying that phrase of pure mockery, Thanos has fun with even the smallest thing, so there's nothing better than provoking the person you despise with all your might.

Myung-Gi raised his face, his eyes looking tired, pretending to be bored by Thanos' provocation. It was that damn posture that he hated so much about that being.

“And your nose? Is it better, or do you want me to hurt you again?”

The smile disappeared when he heard that, his eyes blinking a few times as he thought about how to proceed. The indignation at the answer from the other alpha managed to pierce Thanos' tolerance barrier once again, and Thanos is starting to lose his mind a lot when it comes to Lee Myung-Gi.

“What did you say? Are you crazy, MG Coin?” He put his index finger to his head to emphasize his second question, which sounded more like a statement. His frown deepened and he couldn't restrain himself and had to pull out another of his lip piercings.

“Sorry, I didn't know you were deaf as well as weak.”

A laugh leapt out of Su-Bong's mouth, his mouth opening slightly so that he could run his tongue over his teeth while trying to calm the animalistic side of him that was about to explode, but that's a bit tricky when it comes to Thanos. You know, he knew Lee was just teasing him since Choi is well aware that his punches are really strong and they really hurt. Myung-Gi was lying at the time, but that didn't stop the purple-haired man from getting upset.

As soon as he noticed, the older boy jumped up from his chair and moved towards the other alpha's desk, placing both hands right on top of the notebook that Myung-Gi seemed to be busier writing in. The older boy's back was bent towards the other alpha, right next to the table, and his blue eyes tried to look for any sign of irritation coming from the black-haired alpha.

Myung-Gi just sighed and looked at his hands on top of his notebook, dropped the pen on the table and his black, feline eyes met Thanos's blue ones, having no real interest in turning them away now, which Su-Bong was grateful for.

“I think I've made it clear how you're supposed to talk to me, haven't I?” His voice changed to an authoritative one, as a true alpha leader should, as he waited for a positive response from the younger boy. Myung-Gi rose from his chair, blinked a few more times and then said:

“Thanos...do you really want me to be honest?”

The alpha leader's eyebrow rose when he saw the way the other alpha asked that question, and the expression he had on his face when he asked it seemed to be one of genuine presumption. Choi Su-Bong had to admit that he had never felt intimidated by another alpha until now, because Myung-Gi seemed to be so unpredictable in his own way..

His blue eyes were fixed on the shorter alpha's black ones and he stopped moving when his ass collided with one of the tables in the place, his desk to be precise. Thanos didn't even realize he was walking so far, more occupied with his thoughts than whatever was going on at the moment.

“I'm starting to get sick of you and this is literally the second day since I met you. You're a spoiled, insufferable brat..” The sudden approach made the taller boy wary. Although Myung-Gi is shorter, you never know when he might attack, so you have to stay alert.

Su-Bong's hands grip the edges of the table tightly while his back tilts backwards little by little, unconsciously, because Myung-Gi was cutting too much distance. MG Coin certainly wasn't a fan of personal space. 

“If you hadn't challenged me, none of this would have happened. I'm the alpha leader of this college, you must-...”

“I don't think you understand that I don't want to become the alpha leader of this place. I don't want to challenge you for anything. Are you really that stupid and you didn't understand that the first time?” The fact that Myung-Gi cut him off made him snort loudly, his eyes rolling back as his sullen scowl returned to the contours of the other's face.

“I don't believe that. A youtuber like you, with such fame, would want to be king of this place and wouldn't miss an opportunity to end my reign.” The purple-haired man moved his head forward with the intention of making the other move away, growling to impose territory, but received a growl and a dangerous approximation of the black-haired man's face in response.

“I really despise you.” Myung-Gi replied, tilting his head to the side with a straight face. Thanos clenched his jaw when he heard that, after all, their feelings for each other were mutual. Even if they were enemies, they had to agree on something, right?

“And I..” He pauses briefly, breathing heavily and causing the hot air to hit the other boy's face on purpose, just to irritate him more before he finishes his sentence. “...I hate you, you piece of shi-..”

He couldn't finish the sentence because Myung-Gi's face had closed off the centimeters of distance between their faces, their different lips contrasting when they came into contact. Thanos' were cracked, while Myung-Gi's were softer and this sent a shiver through Choi's entire body.

A thousand explosions, like fireworks, seemed to tingle the back of his head, in the nape of his neck, at that act, so surprising, so uncertain, yet so deliciously sinful.

Thanos' hands moved towards the collar of Myung-Gi's shirt abruptly, gripping it tightly and pulling him away from him. His half-glazed blue eyes inspected the other, without making any further movements.

They were both gasping for breath, their lips were half-open and Thanos hated to pull Myung-Gi closer to him through the collar of his blouse, totally immersing himself in the moment. Their lips met again, with more fury in a fiery kiss. Thanos' eyes opened slightly to make eye contact with Myung-Gi from time to time as they both fought for dominance, after all, they are both alphas.

Su-Bong had his whole body almost lying on his desk, his hands reaching up to squeeze Lee's neck in the middle of the kiss, growling when he felt the other man's whole body press even closer to Thanos, causing friction and a small moan from him came out.

Myung-Gi smiled during the kiss, enjoying the squeeze Thanos gave his neck, with one of his hands gripping the older man's waist tightly, which would probably leave marks later, and the other hand pulled his purple hair back, leaving Thanos' neck exposed for him. 

The kiss stopped so that Myung-Gi could get closer to the alpha leader's scent glands while trailing wet kisses down his throat. Even though he had his hands on his neck, Myung-Gi was still able to smell his lemony scent and Thanos knew that.

“You smell so horrendously good for a motherfucker like you..” That was the most disrespectful compliment Choi had ever heard about him. He moaned internally when he heard the sound the younger boy made, a breathy whimper.

“I can say the same..” Thanos has time to say before kissing Myung-Gi again, pulling his head so hard from the hand that was gripping his hair that he's sure some of it was ripped out and got caught in Lee's fingers, but it didn't matter. 

Their kiss was intense, with several growls from both sides, their hands moving, exploring and squeezing each other's body parts as if the fights between them were over.

No, they weren't, because now their fights were about lust and not genuine physical aggression. At least, not at that moment.

The struggle for dominance isn't over yet, and Myung-Gi ends up biting Thanos's lip so hard during the kiss that he injures him, opening a part of Choi's pierced lip and causing some blood to flow out. Thanos only moaned in consequence, and made sure to retaliate by biting Myung-Gi's tongue soon after, also injuring him.

But even that wouldn't stop them.

The kiss continued, the lips of both beginning to turn red and painted with blood, both from the wound on Su-Bong's lip and the wound on Myung-Gi's tongue. The blood seemed to be just another incentive, increasing the pleasure with that addictive metallic taste.

The intense smell of cinnamon dulled all Thanos' remaining cognitive thoughts and he lost himself in that new sensation, which he had never experienced before.

That seemed so radical and incorrect from everything he had been taught before, since alphas should only stay with omegas and nothing else. 

Alphas should stay with omegas and nothing else.. 

Alphas should stay with omegas and nothing else..  

Alphas should stay with omegas and nothing else..

Before the black-haired alpha could pull his hair again, Thanos's eyes widened as he realized what he was doing and then his hands settled on the younger boy's ribs and pushed hard enough to throw him towards the opposite desk, causing him to hit it.

The black-eyed one looked a little confused when he turned his gaze back to Choi, but there was no time for conversation or teasing, as Thanos ran towards the teacher's desk, grabbed his cell phone and simply ran out of the classroom as the ringtone sounded outside.

It would have been an hour's detention by now and the purple-haired one had simply left before he even knew whether teacher Sangwoo would be back in the classroom or not, but that wasn't the most important thing. He really only needed to run away after he realized how stupid that was.

That damn cinnamon was still stuck in his thoughts and on his olfactory system, those black, feline eyes seemed to be stuck on him every day and now he had discovered something. Myung-Gi seemed to have an interest in alphas. Or at least, that's what the whole tense moment between them hinted at.

His tongue ran over his bruised lip, feeling the metallic taste of blood that was still seeping faintly. Fuck, feeling that wound will always remind him of that moment. What the fuck got into him?

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It's been two days since that Tuesday in the afternoon, since that detention, since that damned event. Thanos hasn't been able to face Myung-Gi since, neither in class nor when he passes him in the corridors.

In a way, he's afraid that Myung-Gi will spread it to the other students, starting rumors...which wouldn't be real rumors, it would be a true story that Choi would always deny if someone asked him about it directly.

Frankly, the fact that it was still a secret until now amazed Thanos a little. He had expected Myung-Gi to use that to his advantage somehow, but maybe that was just Choi's conscience trying to prove to him that in some way, the other alpha really did have the desire to become the future alpha leader of the college, even when Myung-Gi denied it.

There are a lot of things involved there, Thanos would never be taken seriously if they found out he kissed Myung-Gi...another alpha. The order of things doesn't work like that, it's not in the nature of an alpha to be with another alpha, no. Alphas are supposed to be with omegas so that they can later create their future family together, without dysfunctionalities like that. 

But that son of a bitch named Myung-Gi didn't just torment him during the day, in class. No..

As if that wasn't enough, that bastard still appeared in his deepest thoughts. Thanos would catch himself thinking about him while writing about his schoolwork or talking to his friends. That idiot even appears in his damn dreams, touching and doing inappropriate things that Thanos doesn't even want to mention to himself.

He could still feel the other man's lips against his, he could feel the damn hot breath that made him shudder against his skin, he could feel Myung-Gi's ingenious fingers curl around and hook into his purple hair, pulling his head back. He could feel the other man's nose brushing against his scent gland on his neck and smell his lemon pheromones with desire, pure desire.

And that fucking cinnamon that made Thanos' heart pound with recognition..

Su-Bong's urge to simply hurt Myung-Gi and break his face once again seemed to grow stronger and stronger after that incident.

The purple-haired one couldn't help but feel indignant at the other's boldness and relaxation in taking the initiative and kissing Thanos without warning. It had happened so quickly that he didn't even realize how it had unfolded and perhaps that was why he liked it, because he wasn't thinking coherently. 

Either way, Lee Myung-Gi became Choi Su-Bong's personal hell from that moment on. It wasn't just the cinnamon pheromones that bothered him now, it was everything about the other alpha...

Don't want to find out what it's like to feel like killing the person you detest the most and openly announcing to the world that he's your enemy, and at the same time feeling your penis hardening with fresh, vivid memories of your sworn enemy kissing you and exploring your body.

It's a horrible feeling that the alpha leader is going through alone and he hates every second of it, especially as he tries to distract his thoughts to other stuff, or tries to do other things.

Thinking about sad things, even his own death, doesn't seem to work. Cigarettes don't seem to have the desired effect either and even Nam-Gyu can't make the image of Myung-Gi fade from his brain.

Yes, every time Nam-Gyu kisses him it only reminds him of his afternoon in detention because it's hard not to notice and feel the bloody wound that the black-haired alpha left on his lower lip.

The first time the omega asked about it, Thanos said that it was one of his piercings that had caused it, a lie that was badly told since the wound was right in the middle of his lip and not at the tips, where his snake bites were.

Nam-Gyu already knew him well enough to realize what was true and what wasn't. Thanos kind of hates that because he can't hide anything from the younger one, no matter how much he wants to. 

And now that it's mentioned, another thing that's also hard to believe is that Thanos only met Lee Myung-Gi in person exactly five days ago and on the very second one, the famous MG Coin throws himself at him and kisses him without feeling any shame or any kind of embarrassment. That was truly unbelievable.

His thoughts seemed to be traveling at a thousand an hour, so constant and seeming like they would never stop, until Se-Mi's voice woke him up from his momentary trance.

“I don't like him standing too close to her, whispering in her ear. Somehow, she even seems to be tolerating him. You know how she is with other alphas..” Se-Mi's voice was low, her tone showing that she was feeling jealous as she growled defensively.

Thanos's blue eyes wandered in the direction Se-Mi was looking and came across Myung-Gi sitting right next to Jun-Hee at a table further along, both of them having lunch together while he said something and smiled, Jun-Hee just rolled her eyes and gave a small, sideways smile.

Choi tried very hard not to think about Myung-Gi, shifting his gaze back to his plate of food, holding his fork with almost no strength and just playing with some of the rice in it.

“Look, who'd have thought we'd see Se-Mi getting angry and jealous of the new student?” Nam-Gyu teased Se-Mi as he always does, smiling mischievously, a smile that grew even wider when the alpha's head turned in his direction and her blazing eyes met his.

“You'd better be quiet or I'm going to steal your dessert.” She's referring to the pudding offered to the students to eat, something that rarely happens and which often runs out much faster than any other food provided by the school.

“Don't you fucking dare..” Nam-Gyu just quickly grabs the pudding, pulling it closer to him in a defensive and protective position. His face contorts into a frown. Se-Mi just smiles victoriously, turning her attention back to her omega and the damn youtuber.

“But seriously, how do you know he's such a bad person? He doesn't seem that bad in the videos on his channel, and when I spoke to him yesterday, he seemed really nice.” Gyeong-Su says, opening his pudding and holding the spoon with enjoyment. 

“Yes, maybe you're just exaggerating because you're jealous, Se-Mi, right?” Min-Su asked quietly, analyzing how jealous the alpha sitting next to him seemed. The beta always turned out to be the most naive of the group, always seeing the good in everyone and blaming the human emotions of others, even his own friends, when they didn't like someone without ever having said a word to them.

“No. I know what I'm talking about, okay? He doesn't seem like a nice person. He struts around because he's a famous YouTuber and…

“And he's trying to steal Jun-Hee's heart for himself.” Nam-Gyu cut Se-Mi's sentence in half to conclude with one of his provocative remarks. He tried to say it seriously, but then burst out laughing when he realized that Se-Mi once again had that murderous look on her face when she was upset.

“You should see your own face, Se-Mi. It's so funn-...FUCK!!!” The black-haired omega flared up after the table was raised slightly, causing a small bang throughout the school canteen. The other students looked in the direction of the popular table to see Nam-Gyu bending down to grab his shin and Se-Mi smiling victoriously while Gyeong-Su and Thanos laughed loudly and Min-Su tried hard not to laugh, putting a hand in front of his mouth. Nam-Gyu received a really hard kick.

“You deserved it, Nam-Gyu..” Gyeong-Su said, placing one of his hands on the back of the omega sitting on his right side and giving him a few encouraging pats.

“Continuing my previous train of thought, since someone didn't let me finish speaking!” Once again, the girl's eyes lit up, glaring at Nam-Gyu, who was still rubbing his shin with his hands. It's a good thing the purple-haired alpha is between the two of them, otherwise they'd start one of those stupid fights they usually do. “If that MG Coin was that cool, he probably wouldn't start a fight with Thanos, don't you think? No matter how much of an asshole Thanos is.”

"Hey!” Thanos finally says something since the conversation started out as a gossip about a betrayal between some students at the college to end up in Myung-Gi somehow.

“She's kinda right, Thanos.” Everyone laughed at the comment from the group's only beta friend, Min-Su getting a little scared after saying it, but calming down after seeing how Thanos just shook his head negatively and smiled in amusement.

“But Se-Mi is right. Myung-Gi doesn't seem trustworthy…” He then said, stopping what he was doing to stare at Myung-Gi once more. His blue eyes met the black, feline eyes of the other student.

That means that son of a bitch was already looking in your direction before?

Thanos swallowed dry when he realized that he had been staring for too long. Myung-Gi seemed to smile sideways, very slightly, just to tease or irritate Thanos, both of which work very well with the older man.

The purple-haired boy refused to look away, but that turned out to be his doom, and he had to hold on tight to keep his thoughts from returning to the bloody moment they both had in that fucking detention on Tuesday, failing miserably.

“Thanos, are you okay? You seem like you might be getting sick or something.” Gyeong-Su worries about his friend, frowning. “You're suddenly getting so red..”

“You're burning up! Do we need to go to the infirmary or something?” Nam-Gyu gets a little agitated after placing his hand on Su-Bong's, feeling his warm skin contrast with his own, which is colder.

The alpha leader turned his attention away from Myung-Gi, who seemed to be more preoccupied with the intro of one of his new videos than with Thanos, and he let a good amount of air out of his nose. 

He spent all this time holding his breath? Really?  

“Would you like some water?” Min-Su asks, extending his bottle towards his colorful-haired friend.

Choi looked around and because he was in the center of his table, he ended up seeing all his friends' gazes on him, worried, except for Se-Mi.

She had narrowed her eyes and turned her head to look at Thanos and then turned her head back in another direction, towards the youtuber, more specifically.

As he looked down at his legs, still not answering any of his friends because he knew he wouldn't be able to pronounce all the words correctly, he almost had a heart attack, bulging his eyes in a way that was far too dramatic for his liking and he squeezed his thighs together faster than a cheetah.

"I-.." He cleared his throat, shifting uncomfortably in his chair, his eyes refusing to land on his friends, or on that idiot sitting across from him, so he stared at the ceiling for a few seconds. “...I need to go.”

Putting everything aside, Choi rose from his chair and walked quickly to his dormitory, not looking back. He pulled his sweater lower, covering up as much as possible of the discomfort forming in his pants.

Why does that always happen when he thinks about that other alpha jerk?!  

When he entered the room, he took no time in closing the door and pulled back the curtains on his window, leaving his room a little darker than usual, but that wouldn't be a problem, as it was still possible to see a little.

Sighing loudly, he just sat down on his bed and gently unzipped his pants, pulling out one of his piercings with his teeth as he always does.

When he finally unzipped his pants, he was able to feel a certain relief as he freed himself, observing the marking of his penis on his white boxers, a part that was a little stained with pre-cum.

Slipping his hand inside his boxers, he held his penis and let himself go, starting to touch himself. His touches were gentle at first, his hand going down and up in such a good rhythm as he let his head hang back.

He needed help, he had to finish this soon, to get back to class. He needed something to make him cum faster.

Thinking about Nam-Gyu was a good option. 

Imagining the omega crawling towards him, his black eyes shining and converging between looking directly at Thanos or at his cock with desire. Imagining Nam-Gyu rubbing his hands on his thighs and removing Choi's pants with his teeth and mouth.

Thanos groaned at the thought of it, speeding up his hand movements a little as his breathing quickened, his left hand gripping the sheet of his bed tightly as his eyes rolled back in pleasure.

He imagined Nam-Gyu licking his cock from the base to the tip, delighting in the slight spasms the alpha had from time to time, and then his mouth opening and positioning the dick in his mouth, letting his head fall onto it while Thanos encouraged him with his movements with one of his hands caressing his soft, dark hair.

Black hair as night..

And when he held Nam-Gyu's forehead to watch him, pulling his head up, his face changed shape into Myung-Gi, who smiled pervertedly as he ran his tongue over the tip of Thanos' cock, still inside his mouth.

Choi opened his eyes when he realized where his thoughts were going, stopping his hand for a moment. 

Even here that son of a bitch can't get out of his head? What else could he do?

Even though he had stopped his movements, he could feel his penis throbbing in his hands and his body twitching with need, so Su-Bong just decided not to think at all, going back to holding his cock, running his thumb along the tip and making his belly involuntarily shudder with satisfaction. 

His imagination came back with a bang, Myung-Gi sucking his dick with real veracity in his head movements. The alpha leader couldn't help but think of those soft, pink, wet lips around him, while the other alpha's fingernails scratched his thighs hard and eagerly.

Thinking of Myun-Gi holding his penis with one of his hands, sliding it in while pulling Thanos' hair and watching him squirm and moan so pathetically.

And then they kissed just like the first time they had, in the detention room.

Yes, Thanos could admit a little that he loved that moment, more than anything else that had happened in his life so far. Even the taste of blood was delicious and only made him want more.

“Fuck…” Thanos groans loudly in his room, biting his lip now, specifically aiming to bite at the wound Myung-Gi had made in him, only to open it up a little again and taste the metallic flavor he had been craving for only seconds ago.

“Is this how an alpha leader behaves? Squirming and moaning like a little slut for another alpha?” Myung-Gi had whispered in his ear, now purposely slowing down his movements with his hand to make it a more tortuous moment for Choi. “Who knew I'd have that kind of effect on you, huh?”

Thanos growled, although he moaned soon after, a very wimpy moan as he gave a little pout, wanting to hide his face of shame somewhere. Humiliation...who would have thought he would enjoy such a thing .

Being humiliated by another alpha, this one sucking on his neck, his left hand wrapped around Thanos' member, pumping it, while his right hand explored his torso, his fingers finding his hard nipples and enjoying playing with them, squeezing and massaging with his fingers. 

A scene worthy of a pornographic movie that Thanos wouldn't mind shooting if they paid really, REALLY well....

“Cum for me. Show me how much you want me, c'mon..”

Thanos was whimpering louder and louder, despite trying to hold back, and then his vision went blank for a second as his muscles tensed and he reached his climax, dirtying everything around him, not just his hand.

“Myung-Gi..” It was the last thing he moaned before he came.

His whole body was twisting, one of his legs was shaking so badly that Thanos had to close his eyes to try to get his thoughts together and calm his breathing, although it was difficult.

“You're so pathetic...I love that from you so fucking much…” It was Myung-Gi's last whisper before his image dissipated from Thanos' mind.

Thanos put one of his arms over his face, hiding it, feeling a little tired.

He really did it..

He succumbed to his lust, let himself be carried away by his deceptive imagination and allowed temptation and desire to speak for themselves in relation to his body in that mere moment of vulnerability.

And everything resolved around Lee Myung-Gi, who appeared in his thoughts so unexpectedly. 

Why can't he get over that stupid fuckhead?!

What kind of spell did that damn disgusting youtuber put on him to make him have this kind of reaction when he thinks, looks or even breathes the same air as MG Coin?

These are just slip-ups, showing that even an alpha leader respected by everyone like him has his moments of weakness.

That won't happen again, not at all.

He can't allow this kind of behavior to continue. 

He can't like another Alpha. He won't allow it to happen, not even if he has to give up his position as Alpha leader of the school.

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The thought that the next day would be Monday made Thanos sigh in irritation. It seemed that the weekend passed so quickly for no apparent reason, perhaps because he spent the two days at school, locking himself in his dormitory alone for the most part, since Gyeong-Su preferred to spend the two days away. Even Su-Bong doesn't know exactly where, but that's okay, he didn't have to know everything about his friend anyway.

Still, he remained lying on his back in his bed with his blue eyes staring vaguely at the white ceiling. 

His mind was failing miserably at the promise he had decided to make to himself and Thanos was starting to get stressed. Like it or not, he was constantly remembering that exchange of glances he had with that son of a bitch of MG Coin in the school canteen and the consequences that came after that. He remembers all his sinful fantasies and all his strangest, most intimate desires while he was using his body to satisfy himself.

“Ugh...” Thanos growls, squeezing his eyes shut tightly and clenching his jaw, turning his body to lay in a fetal position.

What Alpha does that kind of thing thinking about another Alpha? Why not with Nam-Gyu?

The problem was that he tried to picture Nam-Gyu first, he really tried with all his strength, but the fact that they both had black hair completely altered the images and the Omega's delicate face ended up becoming Myung-Gi's striking face against his will.

He needed to distract his thoughts urgently and it seemed that fate had decided to listen to him for the first time in his life when Gyeong-Su suddenly entered the room.

“OH SHIT!” Thanos quickly got out of bed, startled by the loud sound of the door slamming on the desk right next to him as his friend entered the bedroom in a completely outrageous manner. “Holy shit! Don't fucking do that again!”

“Sorry, I'm excited!” Gyeong-Su laughs out loud, closing the door with his foot while scratching the back of his neck.

Choi could actually see his friend's body shaking with excitement, something that was very common in the other Alpha. Gyeong-Su was even more extroverted than him occasionally and Thanos thought that was completely impossible, so when they met at the beginning of college it was a great match of personalities.

“Why are you acting like that? Did you finally get the number of some Omega?” Thanos grinned sideways, completely teasing. Gyeong-Su squinted his eyes and made a fake grimace of annoyance when he heard his friend's idiotic comment, tilting his head slightly in an overly dramatic movement.

“Funny. No, it's not that and you didn't have to mention how disastrous I am at seducing someone...”

The purple-haired boy couldn't stop another laugh from bursting from the bottom of his lungs when he saw the other Alpha roll his eyes, walking over to his friend and placing one of his hands on his shoulder in comfort.

“I just can't help it.”

“Anyway, one of the fraternities is having a party tonight and we're going!” Gyeong-Su didn't even let his friend process the information, he grabbed Thanos' wrist, went to find something on his bed and dragged the purple-haired Alpha out with him.

“Easy, easy! What fraternity? Are the others going too? I didn't even say I was going!” The Alpha leader tried to reason with his friend, trying to free himself from Gyeong-Su's grip, but the grip was so tight and strong that Thanos just closed his face for a few seconds, trying not to lose patience.

“Since when do you miss a party? Everyone will want to see the school leader there!” Gyeong-Su stated a truth that Thanos was fully aware of, but he realized that this would also be his first party with Myung-Gi. He'll be there, won't he? He probably will.

“ I don't know if I can face him... ” Thanos thought to himself, looking at the ground while still being dragged by Gyeong-Su. He really didn't want to look at that damn youtuber again, not knowing that he might have the wrong thoughts like last time, thoughts he wasn't used to having at all.

Yes, maybe with Omegas, with Nam-Gyu specifically, but with another Alpha? Never! Absolutely NEVER!

Thanos would hide somewhere as soon as he laid eyes on the bearer of that damn cinnamon that burned his nostrils and was so fucking intense and distinctive. As proud as Thanos is, he can admit to himself that that damn cinnamon was more prominent than his sour lemon smell and that irritated him deeply.

“What was that?” Gyeong-Su finally stopped walking to look in his friend's direction. Su-Bong blinked when he heard the other ask that.

Oh crap, did he say that out loud?

“I was saying...you don't want to make a bad impression at the party, do you? Wouldn't it be better if we went there prettier? You know, leave everyone open-mouthed like always?”

He didn't need to say anything more, Gyeong-Su's smile widened sharply and as quickly as they had left the first time, they were back in their dormitory.

Good, that will give Thanos more time to mentally prepare to meet Myung-Gi after all he's been through.

The venue for the party was one of the sorority houses that Thanos knows well, after all, he knows every corner of the school like the good leader he is.

It was already dark and the lights outside the large house, which looked more like a mini mansion, illuminated everything around. It was nice.

There were multiple students outside chatting with their plastic cups in hand, or they were dancing or even throwing more toilet paper at the trees as usual. Thanos wouldn't have minded doing that either if he wasn't so nervous as he currently is. He pulled out his lower lip piercings more often than usual and it got to the point where he's sure he felt a bit more of the coarse skin scrape across his upper lip. 

A reminder of what Myung-Gi is capable of doing to him. What he really did to him on Tuesday..

Thanos's colored fingernails reached for his lucky necklace, that big metal cross that usually hides his cigarettes inside. Maybe he needed one now to inhibit his stupid thoughts and keep them away from that stupid MG Coin.

“Come on, Thanos! Let's make the whole world dazzled by our coming.” The other Alpha spoke up, distracting him from his daydreams. If he didn't have to mention Myung-Gi in his explanation, Choi would probably thank Gyeong-Su for taking his mind off things once again.

“Yeah, let's go.” Thanos gave the best smile he could manage, stepping forward when he felt a hand rest on his back and pushing him slightly forward, towards the open door of the fraternity.

When they got inside, all the windows were closed and the atmosphere was even darker if it weren't for the LED lights in every corner. Several people were wearing LED bracelets and accessories as well.

The music was very loud, loud enough that Su-Bong could hear the beats of the songs hitting him right in the chest, as if it were his heart beating loudly. Just like that damn Tuesday–

Damn it, why on Earth does he keep thinking about that stupid detention? It's starting to get exhausting.

And then Myung-Gi's face appears, with that usual smug grin, in that relaxed possession of his, unafraid to screw things up, with those feline eyes of his devouring Thanos with a single glance, activating his damned spicy, intoxicating cinnamon pheromones that made the blue-eyed Alpha's legs melt against his will.

“I can see them!” Thanos heard his friend exclaim, who was looking in a specific direction and this caused Su-Bong to shiver involuntarily.

“Myung-Gi?!” He exclaimed almost in despair, his head moving from side to side looking for the son of a bitch wherever he was. This seemed to catch the attention of Gyeong-Su, who raised an eyebrow in the purple-haired man's direction, completely confused by his best friend looking for his alleged enemy at that party.

“...what? No, the rest of our pack is over there.” The other Alpha pointed with his index finger in the direction of Nam-Gyu and Se-Mi, who seemed to be encouraging Min-Su not to feel so shy about being at that party.

“Dude, are you okay?” His black-haired friend laughed quietly, the taller one almost unable to hear over the loud music. Because of this, he just nodded and then the rest of his friends finally came over to the two of them.

“How are my favorite Alphas in the group today?” Nam-Gyu exclaimed, moving closer to Su-Bong as they now stood side by side. It didn't take long for Thanos to correct himself and grab his Omega's waist.

“Thank you very much for the part that touches me, shaky hands...” Se-Mi rolls her eyes and crosses her arms, elbowing the Omega's ribs when he decides to retort by showing his tongue in a childish act.

“We're fine, thanks for asking!” Gyeong-Su said as he swayed his body to the rhythm of the music that was playing. This seemed to infect Min-Su, who smiled slightly as he observed the figure his friend was making.

“So, what do you guys want to do first?” The Beta asked quietly. If it wasn't for Se-Mi repeating the question, since she was right next to the short boy, Thanos would have been able to simply ignore what he had said without even noticing.

“Everything and more, my boy Min-Su! There are no limits at parties!” Thanos finally opened his mouth to shout those phrases, trying his best to cheer up the shy mood of his most introverted friend in the group. Nam-Gyu and Gyeong-Su joined in, shouting with joy and nodding in agreement, looking mischievously at Min-Su, while Se-Mi shook her head in denial despite having a clear smile on her lips, typical of her own controversial nature. On the other hand, Min-Su only seemed to be smiling nervously and it didn't go unnoticed that he was gulping, a detail that was funny to Thanos.

“How about a few drinks first? Calm the nerves and get us in the right mood for the party, if you know what I mean...” Nam-Gyu suggests, waving his arms and hands in a very articulate way, looking at his pack with a smile and a twinkle in his eyes that showed mischief.

Choi pulled back the corners of his lips in a smile, showing his clenched teeth, when he heard that. Thanos had always agreed that in order to truly enjoy yourself at a party, there should never be any lack of alcohol, and that was the first thing on the list of things to do in a place like the one they were in.

“Please, I need it badly.” The pack leader looks for the fraternity bar and as soon as he sees it, he runs towards it, knowing that the others will be walking in the same direction right behind him. Thanos was the one who always made his way wherever he went, it had become a habit.

They didn't stay long at the bar, Su-Bong ordered the usual, a soju with that delicious sweet aftertaste he likes so much, while the rest of the group ordered other drinks that were more bitter for Thanos' taste. Min-Su was very hesitant when it came to choosing, he seemed to be considering whether to get a bottle of water, but then Thanos ordered another soju and gave it to the boy.

“It's sweet, you'll like it! I swear!” Thanos hands the greenish glass bottle to the Beta, who takes it and smells the content with a certain amount of doubt, but after taking a small sip, and coughing a few times, he comes to the conclusion that it's really good.

The longer they drank, the better the party got.

Since it was late at night, most people were inside the large house, dancing happily and chatting loudly. The music, mostly electronic with an addictive beat, got louder and louder and the atmosphere more stuffy.

Thanos could hardly breathe where he was with the amount of people around him, rubbing up against him, even though none of them really wanted to.

Alpha's mind was also a little numb now, his eyes were a little blurry from the drink, but he still let his body move on its own, dancing and swaying without any worries.

He was able to see Se-Mi talking to Gyeong-Su a little further away and in one corner of the small mansion, he could distinguish Min-Su kissing another boy. It looked like the other Beta, Dae-Ho, but Thanos wasn't sure. If so, it would even make sense for Min-Su to want to taste Gi-Hun's “perfect little son”.

Nam-Gyu appeared in front of him soon after. The Omega started talking to him at the same time that he put both arms around Thanos' waist, but the taller man wasn't listening to a word the other was saying.

“...and Mi-Na said that maybe it will happen, but it's not a hundred percent certain.” Thanos looked at the shorter boy when he heard the sentence halfway through, he was completely lost in thought and Nam-Gyu laughed when he realized it.

“Where are your thoughts at the moment, handsome?” 

“On a boy with black hair and beautiful dark eyes who drives me crazy...” Choi let that slip, glancing quickly at Nam-Gyu and noticing that the Omega was smiling wider after hearing that.

A good Alpha praises his Omega, doesn't he?

The problem was that he wasn't talking about the boy in front of him. His drunken thoughts were on that half-wit youtuber, but he would never admit that out loud, and certainly not to Nam-Gyu, so it's simply better to let him believe that he's the one Su-Bong is thinking about.

“You're doing it on purpose to inflate my ego, aren't you?” Nam-Gyu smirked sideways, gripping Thanos' body tighter and pulling them closer together, gluing them even tighter as they danced. Choi only returned the mischievous smile as he realized the effect his comment had on Nam-Gyu, even if it was falsely “meant for him”.

“But what were you saying?” Thanos bent his body forward so that his head was about the same height as Nam-Gyu's, using the chance to get his nose close to the Omega's scent glands and finally enjoy that sweet cherry smell he loved so much.

However, when he felt it, he was almost...disappointed. It wasn't that intense scent that burned his nostrils every time he smelled it, not so spicy and characteristic. It didn't smell like cinnamon.

“I was talking to Mi-Na and she heard that there might be some kind of event happening at the college, but it's not one hundred percent confirmed, so keep quiet about it!” Nam-Gyu pointed with his head in the direction of the pretty, brown-haired Omega, who was standing near the entrance of the fraternity, greeting other students who were just arriving.

“You know I don't open my mouth for anything. Who do you take me for?” He teased, placing his hand on his chest and pretending to be offended by Nam-Gyu's choice of words, who just laughed quietly at Thanos' jokes.

“I can't believe she invited him.” A softer voice comes from beside the dancing pair. They both took their attention away from each other and were faced with a tight-faced Se-Mi, eyes half-closed, lips pressed together in a thin line and her arms crossed tightly against her chest. She was even growling and her focus was further ahead, more specifically on two people.

“So jealous, my God...” Gyeong-Su appeared at Se-Mi's side, laughing slightly in fear of activating his friend's rage even more.

Then the Alpha's blue eyes caught sight of those two people. Jun-Hee, with her hair slightly damp and her face painted with light make-up, was wearing a beautiful short black dress and smiling in the direction of a boy Choi knew far too well.

There he was, Lee Myung-Gi, with a relaxed smile that irritated Thanos to the core. 

He had his hands in the pockets of his leather jacket, as they always were, and his black hair, parted in the middle, looked fluffier and more voluminous compared to previous days.

Those damned dark eyes looked around, calmly analyzing until they stopped directly on the purple-haired Alpha. For some reason, Thanos is sure that the shorter Alpha's smile grew even wider, but he was too far away from the other to make any assumptions. It was such an intense stare that the young man felt completely naked in front of the youtuber.

Their gazes lingered longer than he would have liked to admit and the thought that it was the first time he had laid eyes on him after the incident in the canteen on Friday only intensified his shame and urge to hide.

No! Stop thinking about this shit, now!

Thanos begged himself. 

It was a slip, an accident, it won't happen again. I'm strong enough to overcome temptation. I carry the title of leader with me, I need to show that I'm flawless and perfect to play the role I've conquered myself.

But all his thoughts went down the drain when, even though they were far away from each other, that spicy scent filled his lungs with strength, making Thanos melt. 

His tongue automatically swiped at the scabbed wound on his lip, taking the opportunity to tug at one of his piercings with his teeth in the process, while his eyes couldn't tear themselves away from Myung-Gi's. Knowing himself, Su-Bong is sure that his pupils are very dilated right now.

“Wow, are you jealous too, or something?” Nam-Gyu put his cold palms on both of the older boy's cheeks and pulled his entire skull towards him, so that Thanos looked completely at him.

“What? No, why would you ask something like that?” His eyebrow rises.

“Because you reek of lemon quite heavily.”

Thanos didn't even realize that he had let his own scent escape, but now that he was sniffing the air around him, he could actually smell his acidic aroma. 

He closed his eyes, concentrating to avoid releasing any more pheromones and ending up infesting the place with his own scent, still biting his lip.

“Do you want to tell me what's going on? You've been acting a bit strange lat-” Nam-Gyu gasped in surprise, his eyes widening as he felt the Alpha's cracked lips collide against his.

Thanos needed his thoughts to stop for a few seconds, that's all, so he just threw himself at Nam-Gyu at the first chance he got and kissed him with veracity, without fear of the people around him finding out. But again, his eyes opened and met the predatory gaze of Lee Myung-Gi, who analyzed him, looked at him up and down, and smiled coldly. 

Even kissing Nam-Gyu...is not enough...his attention still drifts towards that jerk.

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Everyone applauded and celebrated as he took another shot of a drink he didn't even know what it was. His throat no longer burned as much as before because he got used to the taste and he raised both his arms, smiling and shouting happily.

Being honest, Thanos didn't even know anything anymore. It all seemed like a blur around him and he didn't care as long as he felt as good as he did at the moment.

He felt a few taps on his back, heard some muffled voices encouraging him to drink even more, but he didn't want to push his luck. Even though he was in this condition, he knew what he was like when it came to excessive drinking, he'd probably end up throwing up on someone and he didn't want to tarnish his perfect reputation in any way.

Perhaps it would be better to go away for a while, have a sip of water first and come back later? Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

"I'll be right back! I...won't be long!" Choi didn't even realize that he hiccupped in the middle of his warning and simply walked away from his pack, not answering Gyeong-Su's question. He walked through the crowd of people, walking slightly crookedly, being bumped into left and right by the other students, which only made it harder for him to walk towards the mansion's kitchen.

He entered the kitchen after much pushing and pulling, finding a group of other Alphas and Betas, what looked like a pack, mixing a bunch of different drinks and pouring them into a huge bowl.

In another corner of the room, there were two girls making out. As he looked, Thanos almost choked when he realized, from their behavior and the strong scents emanating from the place, that they were both two Alphas. And they weren't just any girls, they were Sae-Byeok and Ji-Yeong.

They seemed so affectionate towards each other, kissing as if they were never going to see one another again the next day. It was those lingering kisses, those kisses that Thanos had never really felt before with anyone, not even Nam-Gyu. They were kisses of genuine love and a hitch formed in Thanos' throat.

They were both Alphas...Alphas.

People passed by them, some frowned in their direction, but Sae-Byeok just lifted her gaze in their direction and flashed her middle finger without even breaking off the kisses. They seemed so confident, unafraid of other people's opinions or comments.

Thanos felt like such a coward now that he was watching that scene in front of him and his mind began to wonder...

What if it were him and Myung-Gi instead?..

He probably stared for a long time because the two girls looked at him with arched eyebrows. Choi just smiled and waved his hand in a friendly, drunken greeting. Ji-Yeong smiled back while Kang just gave a small nod.

Su-Bong then turned his face away and moved towards the sink. 

His mind remained numb after observing that. He turned on the tap slowly and stared at the water that flowed almost silently, bending down and putting his head to one side so that he could drink as much water as possible while he tried to drown his doubts and insecurities in the darkest, most gloomy place in his mind, praying that those questions would die there. The water was cold, just the way he liked it.

And then, whatever he was imagining, his daydreams were extinguished when he heard a voice whisper in his ear, a warm breath that made all the hairs on his body stand up in an unexpected shiver.

"Shouldn't your majesty be dancing and celebrating with your pack on the other side? Why are you here, hm?" The purple-haired Alpha didn't even need to turn his head to know who it was, that damned cinnamon gave the idiot away straight away, but Thanos still turned his body briskly to find the shorter Alpha standing right in front of him with a sly smile on his red lips and his arms behind his back.

“Why the fuck are you stalking me?” Thanos growls, resting his hands on the kitchen counter, the back of his body against it, and he almost feels small and vulnerable in front of that fucking creep, even though he's clearly the tallest between them.

"Stalking you?” Myung-Gi put his index finger to his chin in a falsely interrogative pose while looking up at the ceiling as if pretending to think. "I don't know what you're talking about. I would never do such a thing."

"Stop being a liar. Wherever I go, you're always there. You were even dumb enough to blatantly follow me when I went to the bathroom a little while ago!" Su-Bong could feel that his temple was going to explode and that all his humor was disappearing much faster than expected.

Still, even after his declaration, Myung-Gi continued with his nonchalant nature and his eyes sparkled with amusement as he realized that the Alpha leader was starting to get increasingly irritated.

“Just say what the fuck you want.” Thanos took a deep breath before speaking, trying to pull himself together and not lose his cool. He wasn't going to give that victory to the youtuber in front of him, wasn't going to let him see that his provocations got a reaction.

“Me? Nothing.”

Blue eyes scanned the black-haired Alpha's face angrily and then the taller one completely lost control, lunging forward and clenching the fingers of his left hand around the black leather jacket the other was wearing. He held on tightly and, ignoring the glances other students were giving him as they eventually passed that area, almost punched Myung-Gi in the face with his right hand if Myung-Gi hadn't turned his head away. Those freakin' incredible reflexes he has.

“Will you stop?” The shorter one raises an eyebrow, probably waiting for an answer from the Alpha leader, but he doesn't get a word, just a frustrated growl and then Thanos lets him go.

"Get the fuck out of my face.” Choi complains, determined now to finally leave that place and go back to his dormitory. His night had been ruined, his mood was gone and he was angry. It really was a good idea to clear his head.

He walked forward, insisting on bumping his arm into MG Coin's shoulder without any kind of delicacy and refused to look back. He simply walked out of the kitchen and returned to the crowd of different students dancing and enjoying the party, his eyes glancing around to find his pack in the distance, still sitting on the same red sofas from a while ago and shouting for Se-Mi to turn over the small glass.

Choi couldn't help but smile as he realized that Min-Su also seemed to be joining in the cheering, copying all his friends' euphoria while another Beta, who Thanos was now able to confirm was Dae-Ho, held the boy's waist and rubbed his needy face against Min-Su's neck.

Then his blue eyes gazed at Nam-Gyu from further away. Should he tell him he was leaving right now?

He should indeed, after all...he had said he would come back to them later and so he didn't make them worry so much about him, but he still had that angry, stubborn side of him coming out. He didn't want to tell anyone where he was going, he wanted to be alone for a few minutes without anyone on his tail. Whatever, he'd come up with some excuse the next day and everything would be fine, he just needed to practise a bit what he'd say because he knows he can't lie that well.

After pondering for a few seconds, which seemed more like hours, the Alpha walked towards the door of the mansion with his head down and ignoring some of the looks other people were throwing in his direction.

“Going so soon, Thanos?” A female voice asked from right behind him and when he turned to see who it was, he ran into the brown-haired Omega that Nam-Gyu had mentioned earlier. Choi couldn't say he didn't know her, it was obvious that he knew the school's queen of secrets. 

Mi-Na, as well as being beautiful, was a girl who had full knowledge of all the school gossip, from students to teachers. She always had an innocent smile on her face, but Thanos knew that there was nothing innocent about her and that was what he liked so much about her.

The first time they spoke to each other was when she warned him that there were rival packs who would try to do something to dethrone him, which of course didn't happen. They tried to humiliate Choi in a basketball match, but he proved too strong and determined to fall for their silly games. Tsk, these rival packs weren't even good enough to challenge him properly, much less as leaders…

“Yeah, I'm not feeling very well.” He confirmed and his voice came out very sober, which surprised him a lot, but he kept a neutral countenance so that the brunette girl wouldn't ask any unwanted questions. "But don't worry, gorgeous. The king of the school won't be swayed by anything in this world."

"I know that, handsome. I hope you enjoyed the party! You're always welcome anytime, you know!" She smiles and Thanos returns the smile, nodding. “Hmm, but can I ask you a question?”

Shit, that's what he wanted to avoid.

"Could it be another time? I want to make an important call and I wouldn't like to waste time." To further emphasize the lie, he took his cell phone out of his trouser pocket and waved it around, but it didn't seem to do any good because Mi-Na was walking towards him in that sluggish way that would make anyone nervous.

“It'll be quick, I promise, I won't take up too much of your time.” She finally stopped walking to stand right in front of him. Choi began to sweat just thinking about what kind of question she was going to ask, it could be about anything. Mi-Na could be very unpredictable, it could be something as serious as something simply ridiculous. In any case, Thanos didn't want to get it right because the image of his brief conversation, if it could even be called a conversation, with Myung-Gi in the kitchen came to mind even though he hadn't asked for it. “There's something going on between you and Nam-Gyu, isn't it?”

It took a few moments for the purple-haired Alpha to assimilate the Omega's question, and he blinked several times before opening his mouth to answer.

“What do you mean?” Thanos may be drunk, that's a fact, but he wasn't stupid. He knew what she meant.

"You can't fool anyone, you know. It's kind of obvious already..." Mi-Na crossed her arms and had a teasing expression on her face, trying to get Su-Bong to confirm right away what she so desperately wanted to hear.

The purple-haired boy didn't fall for the bait, he stayed still and squinted, but coughed when he heard the next thing the girl said. His eyes went wide for a few seconds and he was sure that his face was already saying everything she wanted to hear.

“But in a way, I see you and Myung-Gi a little-..” Mi-Na didn't finish her train of thought because of Choi's sudden cough and stopped talking to ask if the school leader was okay.

"I really need to go now, beautiful. So, if you'll excuse me..." The Alpha puts his hand in front of his face and turns to finally leave the fraternity, leaving a confused Mi-Na with his sudden reaction. He prays that she will forget about this interaction for the next few days and pretend that nothing really happened.

It was so much colder outside, completely different from the hot and stuffy space, full of different people, in which Thanos had just left. It was pleasantly cold, an icy wind was blowing on that starry night and the music was no longer as intense as before.

Thanos almost tripped on the small steps of the fraternity house, almost falling face-first to the ground, if someone hadn't grabbed his arm and pulled him up.

"Thanks, dude. You saved me from a nasty fall." The purple-haired man smiles, scratching his tattooed neck and feeling the string of his beloved necklace. But then he ended up facing the person he least wanted to see.

“You're welcome.”

“And you're still able to lie and say you're not stalking me!” The Alpha exclaimed, frowning and pursing his lips in annoyance as he realized that Lee let out a small laugh upon hearing his protest.

"And I'm not. We just happened to want to leave the party at the same moment."

"Yeah, sure. And you really want me to believe something like that." The taller one replied without even looking the youtuber in the face and turned to leave. He started walking towards the dormitories, completely frowning, and trying hard to ignore the damn sounds of relaxed footsteps and that melody that Myung-Gi liked to whistle so much.

“If you came here to bother me, just fuck off.” He tried to be direct and cutting, showing his total displeasure at having that idiot as company, but Myung-Gi really didn't seem to understand Korean, or perhaps he was so dense that he didn't even understand obvious statements like the one Thanos had just said.

“I just wanted to be a good samaritan and join the legendary Thanos...you don't have to be so defensive every time.” The smaller Alpha walks a little faster to keep up with Su-Bong's steps and stay right by his side. “I'm an excellent companion, you're lucky to be with me.”

Su-Bong didn't reply, just growled softly.

I'm too drunk to do anything about this prick. I don't need to walk that far to the dorms, I'll just bear with him a bit longer and then I'll see myself finally rid of him for the night.

“I saw you talking to Mi-Na.” Lee says, turning his face to look at him, but Thanos didn't dare look at the other back, even more so when he mentioned Mi-Na.

“Hm...” It was the only thing he answered, the closest thing to a confirmation that Myung-Gi would get.

"She came to talk to me too. She asked me about you." That's when the purple-haired boy reacted, turning his head to look at the black-haired boy with a somewhat alarmed expression. Thanos was able to see another restrained smile twitch across the other Alpha's face and that left him slightly confused.

"You guys spoke something about me. About me and you, the two of us.." It was only then that the blue-eyed one realized what he had done. If Myung-Gi was stalking him, then he saw Thanos talking to Mi-Na, noticed his reaction when the Omega mentioned MG Coin and probably got suspicious and now...the purple-haired boy had just confirmed that son of a bitch's suspicions in front of him.

“I don't know what you're talking about.” Thanos started walking again, now more quickly than before and with clearly more tense steps. This only seemed to amuse the younger Alpha at his side. Thanos was already getting close to the dormitories, just turning the corner and they would be at the entrance.

"Jun-Hee told me that she was the school's queen of secrets and gossip. Are you afraid she'll find out something and spread it? Are you afraid she'll find out about that fateful Tuesday?" The question was so unscrupulous. It came out of Myung-Gi so easily that Thanos would have thought the moron had wanted to ask that question for a long time and had been training all this time to unleash it right in front of his face.

Thanos was incredulous now, the nerve in his temple was probably popping now and without even giving Myung-Gi time to reason, he just grabbed the shorter one and threw him against the nearest wall. Lee crashed backwards into the wall of the dormitory building, not at all prepared for the impact.

Thanos approaches, cornering the other, stretching out his right arm and resting his hand on the side of Myung-Gi's head to hold his entire body.

"You're going to keep your fucking mouth shut, understand? Nothing happened that Tuesday. Nothing at all. Am I fucking clear?" He couldn't hold back any longer, the scent of lemon quickly appeared and surrounded them both while the wind carried some of it away. 

"Are you really going to deny what happened that afternoon? Are you going to keep living in a lie?" Myung-Gi spoke in a more serious tone, which startled Su-Bong. Of all his interactions with the youtuber, he always spoke so provocatively and so smugly that it was still strange to hear him speak in a more assertive tone.

"I'll keep denying it until the day I die. There's no such thing as Alphas having relationships with other Alphas.." But when the image of Kang and Ji-Yeong flashed through his mind, he held back for a moment. “...at least when it involves me there isn't.”

Myung-Gi just laughed at that, as if what Thanos had just said was the funniest thing in the world, and Choi's anger began to rise even further.

“Ah...you're one of those...” The purple-haired boy stood up straight when he saw Myung-Gi lift his body off the wall to come slightly closer to him, but he still didn't move from his starting position. “I really don't know how to choose well.”

Thanos understood what the asshole meant by that and suddenly a deep pang of pride deep down in his being felt hurt by the comment.

He doesn't know how to choose well? Thanos was someone very worth choosing, so why would he say something like that?

“I fucking hate you.” His impulsiveness was stronger and it acted faster. The words would come out before he could stop himself and Myung-Gi fell silent staring at Thanos, stopping whatever he was talking about earlier that Choi wasn't really paying attention to.

A sideways smile appeared on the younger boy's striking face after hearing that and just then the spicy scent of cinnamon arose to mix with the lemon just like on that fateful Tuesday last time. They blended together in a harmony that was so delicious, so addictive and intoxicating.

“Go on...say it again.” Myung-Gi asks, both his eyebrows raised as the irises of his feline, analytical eyes move across every detail of the purple-haired boy's face.

Just as Thanos was about to open his mouth to speak again, Lee grabbed the wrist of his hand that was resting on the wall, causing Su-Bong to overbalance and move his body further towards the black-haired Alpha. The younger one's hand moved to grasp the taller one's waist and before he could pull back, their faces were face to face, so close that the hot breath of the son of a bitch of MG Coin was hitting him.

Thanos felt his heart, as well as his pulse, begin to beat faster at this, his nervousness began to intensify and he was only able to swallow. Without meaning to, his eyes drifted to the other Alpha's slightly parted lips and he thought about how tempting they now looked.

Fuck, what's my fucking problem anyway?

“Say it, come on...” He said again, completely taking Su-Bong's attention away from the other boy's lips. Thanos looked directly at the Alpha in front of him as he felt his own breathing start to become ragged.

"I. Fucking. Hate. You." Thanos said, accentuating each word to emphasize his feelings towards Myung-Gi, but some of the words came out almost nonsensical, uncertain. Myung-Gi must have noticed this, because his lips formed a predatory smile that made Thanos shiver at the sight of it.

Suddenly, the black-haired Alpha's face came closer and closer to his face, so near that their noses were touching. The physical contact tickled Thanos' skin and he couldn't help letting out a silent sigh.

“Well, if that's true, then...why aren't you pulling me away from you right now?” It was a very valid question that Su-Bong couldn't answer at all, even if he really wanted to. His body refused to accept his orders, he couldn't move at all as he felt the shorter boy's arm around him, as he felt himself getting lost in those penetrating glances the other gave him.

There was nothing that could keep them apart now. Thanos didn't know if it was because of the cinnamon that was invading his lungs, if it was because of his pride in wanting to show that he was indeed a worthy choice, if it was because he had Myung-Gi right in front of him the way he had that Tuesday afternoon or if it was because the image of the two Alphas kissing had flooded his memories and he was picturing himself with the youtuber in their place.

He knew nothing anymore, he couldn't think straight no matter how hard he fought to keep his mind clear and free of any desires that might make him regret it in the future.

It was when he saw Myung-Gi's body move forward to end the distance between them and bring their lips together that Choi acted, turning his head to the side just in time to feel a wet kiss being deposited on the left corner of his lips. Lee's lips were wet, soft, just as he remembered them to be, leaving a bittersweet taste that the purple-haired boy would rather forget.

"Nothing happened. Nothing will happen again." Thanos frowned, stepping away from Myung-Gi and crossing his arms as he watched the other Alpha lean against the white wall of the dormitory building, put his hands in his trouser pockets and smile smugly...as always.

Noticing that the younger Alpha looked like he was not going to say another word, Thanos turned and started walking towards the entrance of the building, but he still managed to overhear.

“You won't be able to run away forever, you know?” The Alpha leader raised his shoulders in a defensive pose and pulled out one of his lip piercings in a nervous act, starting to walk faster and leaving an amused Myung-gi behind.

Chapter Text

Thanos couldn't figure out what was going on that morning.

At first, everything seemed normal. It was Monday, he woke up, decided to get out of bed and stretch, looking at the bed next to him and seeing that Gyeong-Su had already woken up and left the dorm.

So he made his way to the bathroom, did his business, brushed his teeth and washed his face, returned to the dormitory, and put on his usual school uniform.

Through the window, he could see the clear sky and several students walking with their school books and cell phones in hand. Nothing out of place, nothing different...

Today is going to be a good day.

But as soon as he stepped outside his dorm room and closed the door, the happy and pleasant atmosphere he had seen seconds ago dissipated. Wherever he walked, he had an uncomfortable feeling that eyes were watching him, and not the eyes of someone in particular, no...it was the eyes of everyone he passed by.

Looking around, he realized that his intuition was correct. Multiple students, most of whom he knew by sight and had never spoken to — he probably did, but he rarely cared — were staring at Thanos shamelessly, while some whispered among themselves or giggled in a way that the Alpha leader was very familiar with.

Did I do something yesterday at the party that I don't remember? Although I was under the influence of alcohol at the time, I wasn't so drunk that I would do something crazy, right? Impossible, if that were the case, I wouldn't remember anything from last night.

So Thanos was genuinely confused. Why is everyone acting so strange? Yes, he is very used to receiving attention almost every day, but he doesn't receive this kind of attention. I mean...even the teachers who passed him inside the classroom building seemed to look at him suspiciously, as if they knew something that Thanos didn't.

When he turned the corner of one of the corridors, Thanos bumped into someone who seemed to be running.

“Hey! Watch where you're going, bro!” Su-Bong exclaimed, taking a small step back and raising his arms in a gesture that was clearly too dramatic, even his brain realized that, but hey! Don't judge him, he's nervous about this whole situation that's still unknown.

Thanos' blue eyes then came face to face with a short boy with bright yellow dyed hair, and the absence of pheromones coming from him showed that he was a Beta. On his neck, Thanos saw a small tattoo of shiny black lines that formed numbers. Three small numbers: 324. A very peculiar tattoo in Thanos' opinion, but he had tattooed his name on his back, so he couldn't criticize the other one.

“Ah, Thanos! The man of the moment!” The blonde replied with a broad smile on his face, approaching the Alpha and giving him a little hug as if they had known each other for centuries, as if they were very close friends. Thanos didn't know how to react to that interaction and just stood still with one eyebrow raised. “Honestly, I wasn't expecting something like that, but I don't judge you, just so you know! I think it's very brave, pal, very brave indeed!” 

The purple-haired boy blinked a few times, trying to process everything the other one was saying, trying to decipher and understand. 

“What? What are you talking about?”  The Beta in front of him just smiled slyly, patting the purple-haired boy on the shoulder in a friendly, teasing manner, but Thanos was completely lost at that moment. 

“Oh, stop playing dumb...” The blonde-haired boy approached Su-Bong, asking him to bend down so that the Beta could whisper in his ear. Thanos wanted to say no, but his body acted involuntarily and he lowered his face until his right ear was level with the blonde guy's mouth, who whispered: “Everyone knows already...”

When Thanos turned his face to look at the unknown Beta, he found the blonde laughing frenetically, drawing some attention to them. The purple-haired one gave a small nervous laugh at that awkward moment.

“And...everyone already knows what exactly?” Choi had to ask. It was essential, he needed to know what was really going on and why the hell everyone was judging him. And if they weren't really judging him...well, it seemed like it…

The Beta stopped laughing to observe Thanos' face closely, and the Alpha leader was absolutely certain that his uninformed face said it all. The blonde took a while to do anything, but he opened his mouth to say something, probably to explain the situation, but was interrupted by a voice that came from behind him.

“There you are! We're going to be late for class, hurry up, idiot!” A tall guy with black hair said. His haircut was pretty ugly in Thanos' opinion, but that's probably not an important detail to mention.

This new person approached the blonde Beta, his scent was stronger and so sickening that Thanos couldn't even clearly identify what kind of fragrance it was. That one was an Alpha without a doubt.

Thanos grimaced in disgust, not afraid that the other Alpha might notice, which he actually did.

“Come.” The black-haired Alpha held the Beta's arm tightly, seemingly a little possessive for the moment, while looking Thanos up and down with a serious expression. Su-Bong raised an eyebrow and chuckled at the immature behavior of the other nameless Alpha, noticing that he also had a tattoo on his neck with the number 250. 

“It's okay! Calm down and relax, you crazy bastard! You don't need to hold me like that!” The blonde exclaimed as if he was complaining, but his amused smile and sincere laughter seemed to say the complete opposite. The black-haired Alpha dragged the blonde Beta slightly by the arm, being careful not to hurt him, but with enough force so that he could control his direction.

Thanos watched them until they disappeared around the corner again. They both had similar tattoos. Were they best friends or a couple? Hmmm..It doesn't matter, Thanos, focus. What did the blonde guy mean when he said that?

That whole strange moment was enough for Thanos to confirm that it wasn't some kind of paranoia he was suffering from, but that something really had happened for everyone to be focusing on him all the time in such a bizarre way. And obviously, he could only think of one thing...or rather...on one specific person.

MG Coin .

Since Myung-Gi showed up at school, Choi's whole life has been turned upside down to an extreme degree. Until a while ago, he never imagined he would kiss another Alpha, AND WORSE, ENJOY IT!

Thanos is sure that Myung-Gi has something to do with this whole situation, and when he catches him...Myung-Gi won't live to tell the story. As soon as he sees him, Thanos will approach him and demand an immediate explanation. He's the Alpha Leader, for fuck's sake! He can get anything he wants.

Su-Bong walked around the corridors for a while, looking for that YouTuber son of a bitch, but he couldn't find him anywhere. Thanos almost punched a random guy who had the same haircut as Lee and looked like him from behind.

Still, he paused for a moment and took a deep breath in an attempt to think clearly.

All right...where will I probably find him? Hmm...

Thanos thought that the other Alpha might still be in his own dorm room, that is, if he wasn't already in the classroom for the next Psychology class with Professor Hyun-Ju.

Walking into someone else's dormitory must be absolutely ridiculous and unscrupulous..he would do that without hesitation...no, it's better not to. On second thought, there are two excellent reasons not to do it: first, Myung-Gi may be very relaxed and nonchalant, but he seems to be the type of student who doesn't usually skip classes, so he must be attending the Psychology class. Second, after all these recent events involving him and the YouTuber, the last place Thanos would want to be is in the devil's lair, especially if he's inside.

Thanos decided to walk to the classroom, praying that his prediction was correct and that Myung-Gi would be there, while receiving stares from all sides and more random comments that he pretended not to hear. To tell the truth, he couldn't even understand half of them.

As soon as he saw the door to the classroom, he rushed in and his eyes went straight to the chair where Lee usually sat, clenching his jaw when he realized it was empty. That wasn't what he was expecting, and in a way it was a little bit disappointing to know that Myung-Gi wasn't there, and even Su-Bong couldn't understand why he was feeling that way.

“Can you take your seat, Su-Bong? The bell has already rung…” It was the soft voice of Teacher Hyun-Ju, a very tall and beautiful Alpha woman, her black hair tied back in a small ponytail and her gold earrings swaying along with her head. 

Thanos nodded and walked toward his desk with his head down, thinking about how he had completely ignored the earlier bell simply because he was too busy trying to figure out why Myung-Gi wasn't in class.

He sat down in the last seat at the back, his precious spot. When he looked up, all his friends were staring directly at him. Thanos almost jumped out of his seat when Min-Su's face was right in front of his, but he controlled himself.

“Fucking hell.” Choi complains quietly so that the teacher, Hyun-Ju, who had already started teaching, doesn't hear anything, and he chuckles softly. “Are you guys trying to give me a heart attack?”

Unfortunately, his smile gradually faded when he noticed how everyone was looking at him. Min-Su's eyes seemed to be searching for something, which Thanos couldn't identify, looking right at Thanos' blue eyes. Gyeong-Su looked serious, but his expressions were a total question mark. As for Se-Mi..she was holding her head with one hand and wearing a mischievous smile that implied she knew everything that was happening right now and was taking advantage of that fact to tease Thanos. Yes..she really is that kind of person and there's no escaping it..she knows something..if not everything..

However, Nam-Gyu analyzed Thano's face with a frown, but he didn't seem angry. His eyes radiated an indecipherable, more somber feeling..it seemed more like a sorrowful understanding.

Thanos waited for one of them to say something, to end that extremely uncomfortable moment and ask everything they seemed to want to ask, or to mock him in Se-Mi's case. As expected, nothing happened. Everyone just listened to Professor Hyun-Ju's explanation of Pavlov's theory and the classical conditioning.

Thanos sighed and turned his attention to the blackboard.

With all due respect to the teacher, because he liked her very much, Thanos will not be able to pay attention to this particular class. He completely forgot his backpack and books in his dorm room, and besides, he is not a big fan of Psychology. It's also not like he could concentrate at a time when everyone was acting weird around him for some mysterious reason.

And Thanos spent more than half of the lesson reflecting on this issue, head bowed, trying to relive every day that had passed, trying to understand what was wrong, especially because it was something that directly involved him.

“I apologize for being late, Ms. Hyun-Ju. May I come in?” Su-Bong clenched his jaw when he heard Myung-Gi address the teacher, quickly becoming irritated by the other's presence in the same space as him. “Of course, Mr. Lee, but please don't let this happen again.”   

“I know, and thank you.”

All the students' attention was on Myung-Gi right then, but Thanos caught Nam-Gyu glancing back at him and saw Se-Mi staring at him too, raising her eyebrows even more provocatively with the most mischievous smile she'd ever given him. It was a bit scary, Thanos wouldn’t lie.

Choi's blue eyes followed the other Alpha's relaxed walk to his chair, a few feet away from Thanos on the left. As soon as he sat down, Myung-Gi sighed silently and looked in Su-Bong's direction. 

Thanos narrowed his eyes at him, completely suspicious of the small interaction between the two. And what did he expect from that? That Myung-Gi would just get up from his chair and explain to him what the hell was going on? That would have been an excellent option, especially if the Alpha Leader could punch his perfect little face right after the matter was clarified.

But not everything is a bed of roses, and the purple-haired one was only able to pull one of his piercings with his teeth and growl softly when Lee decided to tilt his head and pout mockingly, his damn dark eyes sparkling with the most malicious amusement. Ah, but I will be all over him in no time...just wait, MG Coin. 

Thanos straightened his back, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath, quickly turning his attention to the desk next to him, where he saw Se-Mi copying the lesson into her ring notebook. Perfect!

“I'm just going to steal a page and a pen from you, thank you!” Thanos leaned to the side, stretching and snatching his Alpha friend's notebook abruptly, causing Se-Mi to miss the pen and make a huge line on the page where she was writing.

“Hey! You idiot, give it back!” Se-Mi grumbled under her breath, glaring at the purple-haired boy, but she didn't fight to get her notebook back. She just crossed her arms and stamped her foot impatiently.

Thanos tore two pages from his friend's notebook, putting them aside and returning the notebook to its owner, smiling innocently shortly after when he grabbed one of Se-Mi's pens, which was inside the pencil case, and took it very slowly to his desk, thanking her with a simple gesture of putting his hands together. Se-Mi just rolled her eyes in response and went back to writing, muttering to herself.

Thanos quickly began writing on the page the sentence: Are you going to explain to me what the hell you did to make everyone look at me so oddly?

He crumpled the paper into a ball, waited for the teacher to turn her back on him and discreetly threw the paper toward Myung-Gi as quietly as possible. His intention was to hit the other Alpha on the head, but he missed and was a little upset when the paper landed right on top of Lee's notebook.

Myung-Gi stopped what he was doing, taking a few seconds to look at the sheet and hold it with one hand. He slowly opened the sheet, unfolding it, and then turned his face to meet Thanos' blue eyes.

As soon as they made eye contact, the purple-haired boy couldn't control how his body straightened up dramatically. For some inexplicable reason, that cheap-looking YouTuber managed to affect him in the most terrible and multiple ways. 

Myung-Gi returned his gaze to the paper, beginning to write as a sly smile appeared on his red lips. Ah..how I want to wipe that smile off his face...

It didn't take long to receive a reply. Myung-Gi threw the paper back to him, and Thanos hurriedly opened it. Finally, he was going to get the answers to his questions.

Good morning to you too. I'm starting to think you really love having my attention, always finding ways to communicate with me right after saying you hate me...

And, unfortunately to your misfortune and to my own delight, I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't do anything.

Thanos boiled with rage when he read that. Of course that bastard would play dumb and pretend that he didn't know anything, as he always did. Did Choi really expect him to be sincere? He felt like an idiot after reading that sentence. Honestly, what irritated him the most was that the other one had written that he hadn't done anything with his perfect, round handwriting.

The Alpha Leader snorted louder than he should have as he returned to writing: Stop being a liar, you're always involved in this kind of thing. Ever since you set foot in school, everything has been turned upside down. God, how I hate you!

When he threw the paper back at the black-haired Alpha, Thanos felt Se-Mi's gaze on him. She turned her head to look at him and then at Myung-Gi with sinister interest, and the worst scenarios began to run through Thanos' mind with that.

...does she know that MG Coin and I...? No, it can't be. She would have said something if that were the case...right?

Thanos swallowed hard, staring at his friend. “What?”

“Nothing...” Se-Mi replies, raising her eyebrows and smiling mischievously, shaking her head playfully. “I just think you two are pretty obvious.” 

Thanos takes a moment to find a response to give to his friend, feeling breathless as he absorbs her words. “What...do you know?”

She raised an eyebrow, resting her chin on her hand, her eyes moving up and down as she analyzed Thanos, his reactions, and his attitudes. This only made the blue-eyed boy more nervous than he already was and he began to sweat coldly, feeling a slight pang of fear strike him.

“If you really don't know what I'm talking about, then you'll have a lot to explain.” She comments quickly, nodding toward Thanos's desk before returning her attention to the lesson.

The boy blinks a few times before turning to look at the crumpled paper in front of him again. After that short exchange between him and Se-Mi, he hesitated before reading whatever Lee had written. He was anxious, unable to stop pulling at his lip piercings, and his hand slipped to grip his cross necklace tightly. I desperately need a cigarette.

He took a deep breath and opened the paper. 

I genuinely don't know what happened, but if you want, we can figure it out together later. Since, according to you, this involves me too, I think I have the right to know as much about the situation as you do. It's your call, gorgeous .

Thanos wrote fuck you on the paper, but didn't throw it back at Myung-Gi as he had planned. He just kept rewinding everything he knew so far about the situation in his head.

Thanos slammed his lunch tray down on the table as soon as his entire pack sat down before him. The Alpha Leader remained standing for a few seconds, watching all his friends look at him with serious faces, others nervous, and Se-mi raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

“Can you finally talk to me? I woke up feeling very lost this morning, receiving much more attention than usual...as you can tell...” He paused mid-sentence, sitting down and pointing with his arms outstretched toward some corners of the cafeteria where a few students were talking and looking directly at him, gossiping. “And now none of you want to tell me why this is happening.”  None of them said anything. Se-Mi snorted with amusement, completely ignoring what Thanos had just said, and began to eat her meal.

Choi stood with his arms crossed, looking at them all, waiting for a response or some reaction he could pinpoint, but nothing. Pure silence at the table, where that never usually happens.

"Well..you could have trusted us, you know? Did you think we would..I don't know..judge you or something?" Gyeong-Su was the first to break the silence, his tone of voice suggesting that he was nervous. That made sense, Gyeong-Su had been one of Thanos' best friends since the beginning, the first to look at Su-Bong with eyes shining with admiration.

“Of course I trust you guys!” Maybe the purple-haired Alpha got a little too intense with his statement, but he wanted to show that he really trusted his pack. “Why do you think I don’t trust you?” “The video, Choi.” Nam-Gyu’s voice was heavy and assertive. That was the first time the Alpha heard the Omega call him by his family name, and it felt so weird in a negative way. Nam-Gyu must have been really angry, but about what? Thanos didn't know, but he could tell by the way Nam-Gyu refused to look directly at him while cursing quietly to himself.

“What video?”

Thanos saw all his friends look at each other in confusion and stood there for so long that Se-Mi just sighed and rolled her eyes.

“Show him, Min-Su.”

Min-Su nodded yes, feeling very nervous that Se-Mi was speaking directly to him, but he held his phone and typed a few things before turning the screen toward the blue-eyed boy.

Thanos frowned as he held his friend's cell phone, watching a video on the screen that appeared to be seventeen seconds long and was paused. He could see a stone floor very similar to the one outside the school, a dark environment, but illuminated by yellow streetlights.

“Just watch…” Min-Su encouraged him, speaking softly. Thanos just nodded slightly, clicking play.

He tried turning the volume up to maximum, but apparently the video had no sound, so he just watched in silence. He saw the camera shake; whoever was recording this wasn't a very good cameraman.  

It was nighttime, and Thanos could see some black trash cans, the kind that are usually behind the dorm building. The person was hiding there for some reason.

When he noticed, the camera had finally focused on something specific and stopped shaking. In the background, as the screen zoomed in, he could see...himself, with his back turned, moving around a lot. He could tell he was saying something, he seemed alone until, in a small frame, he could see that damn shiny black hair that the purple-haired one hated so much. He could see a malicious face looking directly at the Choi of the video with utter amusement, which made Thanos' veins dilate with rage.

He recognized the whole scene now, what had happened at that moment and what the video made it look like.

Someone recorded yesterday's argument between him and Myung-Gi. 

As the video was about to end, he saw himself move closer to Myung-Gi in the video, with the shorter one hidden behind him and the purple-haired one's neck tilted slightly..it looked like they had just kissed or something. Well, in a certain way they did, but it wasn't a kiss on the lips like all of Myung-Gi's fans believe it to be.

Thanos opened his mouth to protest, but fell silent as soon as he felt warm breath on his right ear, and when his nose was able to identify the spicy scent of cinnamon that he had already become too accustomed to, he became more tense.

“Seems like we're pretty famous, huh?” Myung-Gi's deep, sly voice was easily recognizable. His arms were outstretched, his hands gripping the edges of the table, passing on either side of Thanos as Lee was bent over his head. The voice speaking directly to him in such a soft manner sent a shiver down the Alpha Leader's spine, and his breathing became slightly more raspy in a reaction that was far too natural for his liking.

Thanos even felt the YouTuber's damn shirt brush against the back of his neck, in a small gesture of affection invisible to others but very present to him, and he hated the feeling of appreciation for such an insignificant touch. To give you an idea, he would have been quite capable of purring right there and then. What is wrong with me?

Still, he didn't pull away or complain to Myung-Gi for being so close to him, even with the current circumstances involving the two of them. Which doesn't even make sense, since just a few hours ago he wanted to beat Myung-Gi up. Why the hell do I feel like this?..

“I don't know what the hell this is, but it's totally taken out of context!” Thanos lowered the video, realizing that it had been posted on YouTube with the title “DOES MG COIN HAVE A BOYFRIEND?” along with a shocked emoji. “This shit was posted on YouTube!?!”

“On YouTube and beyond…” Min-Su replied, holding out his arm to get his phone back, but Thanos didn’t even pay attention to that as he read and searched for clues as to who could have posted it. The person only posted that video, and their name was “user” with a bunch of random numbers. It seems that the account was only created to post that video.

“Over forty thousand people have seen the video...” Myung-Gi commented, moving closer to Choi's neck. The taller boy tried to remain calm, but damn..the slightest contact was starting to affect him too much. He urgently needed to learn to control himself around the other Alpha, otherwise..what happened on last Thursday could happen again, and that would be very humiliating for Thanos. 

“Fuck...” Thanos muttered, pulling his purple hair back in frustration. He scrolled down a little further and clicked to read the comments, realizing how bad the idea was.

“Who is that purple-haired boy? He's really cute, I don't even know which one I'm more jealous of??” Su-Bong reads one of the first comments out loud, clenching his jaw when he hears Se-Mi and Gyeong-Su start to giggle lowly. He rolled his eyes as he read more of the comments, the vast majority of users using various photos of MC Coin on their profile pictures. “It should have been me. They kissed, that's so hot. Is the one with purple hair is an omega? I wonder which one is...I can't read this crap! And you two, stop laughing immediately!”

Se-Mi laughed quietly as she devoured a piece of bread, while Gyeong-Su seemed to attract more attention than necessary with his loud laughter. 

Thanos handed the phone back to Min-Su and sighed heavily, thinking about what he could do to end this whole situation quickly and have everything properly explained. When he looked around, he noticed how everyone was paying attention to how close he and Myung-Gi were to each other, which made perfect sense after watching that video.

“So, nothing happened between you two?” Nam-Gyu asks with a hint of uncertainty in his voice that makes Thanos' senses sharpen. A troubled Omega is always a problem for an Alpha to deal with. It's instinctive, at least for Thanos. 

“Only if you consider a small argument to be kissing.”

Thanos turned his head back to look at Myung-Gi more closely, especially after his previous statement. His manner of speaking was very objective, and he literally defended the blue-eyed one for saying that, confirming that nothing had happened..just another one of their arguments. Why was he doing that? This wasn't the first time Lee could have simply revealed everything that had happened between them and used it to his advantage in some way. Su-Bong couldn't understand why he simply didn't say anything.

“That's right.” He replied, hoping to make eye contact with Myung-Gi, but that didn't happen. The other Alpha was too busy staring at Nam-Gyu in a strange way that the purple-haired boy couldn't identify the emotions behind.

“And none of you have any suspicion as to who might have posted this?” Gyeong-Su asked, genuinely curious and increasingly excited about the whole plot he had just discovered.

“Considering the title of that fucking video, I’d say it was one of your shitty fans!” Thanos grimaced at Myung-Gi, making it clear how upset he was, but he only received a relaxed smile in response. “You’d better start controlling your little puppies more effectively.”

Thanos's pack fell silent, eating their lunch and their eyes darting between the Alpha Leader and the YouTuber, waiting to see how their interaction would unfold at that moment. Would they witness a discussion between the two firsthand? Last time, they had only heard others tell stories, including stories from Su-Bong himself.

“Do you really think I can control every person in my fanbase? Come on, you're smarter than that...” Myung-Gi moves away from the older boy, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms tightly against his chest. Thanos didn't like the other boy's calm attitude very much, his shoulders tensed and he rose from his chair, standing up.

“Are you going to hit me?” That question wasn't really a question. The black-haired Alpha's intonation sounded more like a sarcastic statement, just like all the others he always used to make. Damn, for some reason those feline stares he was giving Choi weren't helping him concentrate properly...

Thanos just walked slowly closer to the shorter one with a frown on his face, pondering how he was managing to hold back his intrusive thoughts telling him to grab Myung-Gi by the collar, knee him hard between the legs, and pull him into a wild and rough kiss while simultaneously pushing that black hair back and.. what the fuck am I thinking?

“..or do you want to make the rumor from the video come true, hm?” That whispered question towards him was what brought Thanos back to planet Earth. He was one hundred percent sure that his face must have looked like a tomato at that point. Thanos was unable to contain the hot breath that came out of his mouth and hit Myung-Gi's face, which he didn't seem to mind much.

“What did you say?” It was worth asking, he needed to make sure his mind wasn't playing tricks on him or something, he needed to make sure that those words had come from Myung-Gi’s mouth.

“You heard me..”

The bastard seemed very entertained by it all, especially by Thanos' reactions to his not-so-subtle advances. His dark eyes sparkled like a predator when it found its prey, and his tongue flicked quickly across his teeth. Yes, that MG Coin son of a bitch was provoking him in front of everyone, without any modesty or shame. Thankfully, everyone thought they were arguing and looking directly at their faces, otherwise Thanos would have had to explain why his pants were suddenly tighter against him.

“I have no idea how, but you better find a way to tell the truth.” Thanos says, biting one of his piercings before turning his back on Myung-Gi and returning to his seat. 

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Thanos wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand as quickly as possible while he waited for Sae-Byeok to make the next move. She had her eyes half-closed, analysing Thanos' actions and thinking about how she could overtake him to run towards the basket.

Thanos knew perfectly well that he couldn't be distracted now, after all...among several other team members, he ended up with Kang as his training opponent and she's no pushover. She's an excellent player and is literally his favourite teammate in the whole team, but obviously the Alpha leader wasn't going to say that out loud.

Unfortunately, his mind wasn't one hundred percent focused on basketball, but filled with skepticism, and obviously that's all Myung-Gi's fault, that little shit.

As team captain, it's essential for Thanos to make sure that all the team members are comfortable, he needs to encourage them and be there to help them with whatever they need. This also includes advising when something is wrong, such as a bad move, that perhaps there is a lack of communication between the team members or even warning them not to miss training sessions. 

Well, imagine the headache Thanos got when he arrived on the court and saw that that youtuber son of a bitch had decided not to show up for training. And to make things worse, the coach warned Thanos that he had to make sure that it didn't happen again and that he had to talk to Myung-Gi as soon as practice was over if he didn't show up in the meantime.

Choi wonders what made Myung-Gi miss the training day…

In fact, he's been thinking about Lee a lot more recently and it's stressing him out excessively.

"You're thinking too much and it's making you lose." The sound of the ball hitting the floor harder along with Sae-Byeok's tired voice allowed Myung-Gi to escape Thanos' mind for the moment and before he knew it, the other Alpha was running towards the basket he was supposed to defend and jumped, scoring two more points for herself.

"Well played, señorita." Thanos smiled, extremely breathless, clapping his hands silently to celebrate his friend's victory. However, Sae-Byeok just rolled her eyes and walked closer to Choi again.

"Is it because of your boyfriend?" Kang asked amusedly, raising an eyebrow and knocking the ball to the ground so that the coach wouldn't notice they were not playing.

"What?" Thanos frowns when he hears the other Alpha's random question.

"You're like this because you don't know why your boyfriend didn't come to training." That wasn't a question, it was a statement that made the purple-haired boy nervous. His hands began to sweat a lot more than before and he started pulling on his lip piercings as he always does.

"He's not my boyfriend...besides, I don't care what he does or doesn't do…”

"The smell of your pheromones says otherwise." The other Alpha says, smiling sideways and throws the ball against the ground in a choppy step towards Thanos, who didn't even manage to catch the ball in time because he was more busy sniffing the air to detect his own scent and see if what Kang said was really true. "Are you going to tell me that the video circulating around is fake?”

"Hey! How did you watch the video if you supposedly don't have social media? Did you lie to me?" Thanos is indignant and glares at the girl in front of him, crossing his arms and waiting for an explanation. Sae-Byeok explained to Thanos a long time ago that she hated social media and that's why she didn't have any, so how could she know about the video? 

"Apart from everyone talking about it, Ji-Yeong showed me." The sincere and direct answer always ends up catching Thanos. Sae-Byeok managed to be stone cold even when she wasn't.

"Of course she showed it to you.." 

So if the video has already reached the eyes and ears of people not chronically online...it means that the situation was much worse than Su-Bong thought. He really hopes that Myung-Gi does something about it, otherwise he'll have a very serious talk with Thanos' two fists.

"Just don't let him get into your head so much during training, you're like those animated cartoons when you're madly in love. Soon you get to him, fight with him for missing training and tell him you love him so much afterwards." Kang teased once again, amused to see that Thanos rolled his eyes and opened his mouth to say something, but whatever it was ended up being interrupted. 

The shrill sound of the coach's whistle blew in the background and caught the attention of the whole team, who started walking towards the coach.

"Well done, I'm very proud of your performance today! Two more runs around the gym and you can leave early!" The coach spoke loudly and that announcement allowed a broad smile to appear on the faces of all the students present. It was rare for the coach to let them leave early, and today was one of those days.

Thanos wastes no time and is the first to run through the gym accompanied by Sae-Byeok at his side.

"Don't forget what I said." That's the last thing the girl says to him before they separate.

Thanos felt much fresher and relieved now that he was lying naked on his bed. 

Because he had left early, he was able to shower in the bathroom of the dormitories, which are much more reserved than those in the gymnasium, and he still had time to smoke one of his cigarettes before going to his next class.

Maybe he needed to smoke one more to make sure he was well prepared for the next class because Maths is the subject he hates the most and having Sangwoo as a teacher isn't for everyone.

To make it worse, the conversation with Sae-Byeok from a few minutes ago was still fresh in his mind.

Tell him that I..love him?

NO! What kind of idea did Sae-Byeok give him? Wasn't it obvious that he hated that tiny, insignificant insect? He despises him immensely, he would never say anything like that to him. Besides, Thanos isn't a very caring or affectionate person. His only exception was his older sister, even with Nam-Gyu he wouldn't say such romantic things.

Nam-Gyu...

Su-Bong takes a deep breath when the Omega's name comes up. 

What were they anyway?

His relationship with Nam-Gyu was so complex. They were very close friends and although Thanos met Gyeong-Su first, he trusted Nam-Gyu more with his problems and secrets. Nam-Gyu was always his partner for better and worse, whatever the outcome and consequences of his actions, the Omega was always there with him, always.

And then Nam-Gyu took the first step, kissed Thanos and confessed his feelings that had been locked away until that moment. Thanos stared at Nam-Gyu for a while, speechless.

And he remembers his first thought being:

My friend likes me..

Did that thought mean something? Despite the kissing, the casual fucking, the flirting and the glances, Thanos didn't seem to feel anything more than just something physical. It's natural, it's in the biology of Alphas to be attracted to Omegas.

Despite this, he still sees Nam-Gyu as a friend he wants to keep for life and doesn't want to lose.

And now, Myung-Gi has come out of nowhere and everything has turned upside down since then. Thanos no longer understands anything about himself, his body, his spontaneous reactions when he's around Lee and he can't understand how the fuck that youtuber manages to have an effect on him in such unexpected ways. 

Me...liking another Alpha?

Thanos stared at the ceiling of his room, lost in the growing doubts that shook his insides, and he didn't even need to look before he grabbed his cross necklace, opened it and pulled out a cigarette to smoke.

He didn't even care if his room would be infested with cigarette smoke and odour, let alone if Gyeong-Su would complain to him later, as he usually does when Thanos smokes inside their room.

He just needed to calm down, get answers to his questions and rationalise, that's all.

As soon as Professor Sangwoo opened the classroom door, Thanos and his group entered the classroom along with the other students.

That classroom didn't have separate desks, everyone had to sit in pairs, and Thanos ran towards his usual desk at the back of the classroom without even waiting for his desk partner, Nam-Gyu.

The Alpha sat down and let his body slide forwards until he was comfortable in the chair in a very slouchy posture.

"Come Nam-Gyu." Thanos called the Omega, who was standing with his materials in hand and was paying more attention elsewhere than to Thanos. Nam-Gyu didn't look happy at all, he was serious and the smell of sour cherries was very evident now, however, another smell flooded Thanos' nostrils, one he knew immensely well. The purple-haired boy followed Nam-Gyu's stare and his face changed to an obvious scowl when he looked his way. "How the fuck did you get here?”

"With my feet." Myung-Gi replied sarcastically, but for some reason his tone seemed more venomous than usual. Myung-Gi wasn't looking at Thanos either, he was staring at Nam-Gyu, both of them in an intense, boiling fight of looks and pheromones.

"Very funny of you, but now get your ass out of the chair. It belongs to Nam-Gyu." Thanos comments, crossing his arms.

"That's weird..." The other Alpha frowns and begins to move his head dramatically sideways, examining the chair, and gives a debauched pout, turning to Nam-Gyu again. "I don't see your name written anywhere."

"Will you stop acting like a clown and let me sit down?" The Omega replies, clenching his jaw and if looks could kill, Thanos is sure that Myung-Gi would be seven feet off the ground by now.

"Nam-Gyu, will you stand there while I start the lesson? Go and sit down immediately." Professor Sangwoo's voice rang out and Nam-Gyu ran his tongue over his lips before turning and apologising to Sangwoo.

The purple-haired boy watched Nam-Gyu walk angrily over to Se-Mi's desk and sit down next to her, getting angrier as Se-Mi teased him quietly, laughing with her hand in front of her mouth.

"Why the fuck did you do that?" Thanos asked, looking at Myung-Gi with disdain, clenching his fists tightly as he realised that the other Alpha seemed quite unconcerned about the situation he had caused. "You're such a prick..."

"I don't understand why someone would throw a tantrum over a simple chair." 

Choi took a deep breath in an attempt to calm down, realising that Young-Mi, sitting directly in front of him, was looking in the direction of the two Alphas with curiosity that was soon replaced by fear when she realised she had been caught. The girl turned her head forwards, pretending to pay attention to the teacher's explanations about something Thanos had the slightest desire to learn.

Class had only just started and he already wanted it to be over. Fuck, he had completely forgotten that he's still being watched by the whole world ever since that fucking video was published, he now understands how celebrities feel with so many paparazzi after them and he can admit that it sucks.

"Are you mad at me?" Myung-Gi whispered quietly after about ten minutes had passed, while at the same time jotting down in his notebook some of the things Sangwoo was teaching. 

Thanos rolled his eyes. 

"I thought I made it obvious."

"Also, when aren't you mad at me?.." Myung-Gi smiles slightly, showing his teeth. "If you really wanted to, you would have forced me out of this chair, but I think you really do want me to sit next to you, right?"

Thanos turned his head to look at the other Alpha, biting the inside of his cheek as innumerable answers flashed before his eyes and the Alpha Leader wanted to spit them all out. Myung-Gi was urging him to do something, now whether it was fighting or having sex, Thanos didn't know.

"You already got me in a fight with the coach today, so don't fucking test me." The purple-haired boy spoke softly and brought his face close to Myung-Gi's, making sure his breath hit the other Alpha's skin. If Lee could tease in his own way, then Choi certainly could too.

"What? What fight?" Myung-Gi turned his face towards the older boy and looked him in the eye. This moment gave Thanos an excessively strange and abnormal feeling as a shiver ran up his spine, which is not the first time it has happened through Myung-Gi's fault.

Thanos took a few seconds to answer the youtuber's question because his blue eyes were too mesmerised by Myung-Gi's black ones. It had been two days since Thanos had been face-to-face with Myung-Gi this close, so he couldn't help the urge to observe every last detail in those damn feline eyes that made him melt at the mere thought.

Shit, why did Myung-Gi have to be born with a barely punchable face?

"All right, don't answer me if you want to." 

Thanos blinked three times before waking up from his trance and returned to the conversation he was having with MG Coin, something he had forgotten for a mere second, but then opened his mouth to speak.

"Why did you miss the training session today, Myung-Gi?" Thanos went straight to the question that had been haunting him since the morning. Although he disagreed, Sae-Byeok noticed that he looked worried and advised him to talk it over with Myung-Gi to get answers, so here he was, waiting for them.

But before he could answer, Myung-Gi looked forwards again and once more Young-Mi was turned around, scrutinising the two Alphas with a slight smile on her face. And once again, she became nervous when she realised she had been noticed, but she didn't manage to turn around in time before Lee addressed her.

"Are you all right? Do you need something?" 

Young-Mi swallowed, alternating her doe eyes between Thanos and MG Coin and her cheeks suddenly turned red with embarrassment. This would be funny to the Alpha Leader if he didn't feel that his privacy was somehow being invaded. 

"N-no. Nothing..." Young-Mi whispered more quietly than usual and turned around faster than the first time, causing Thanos to snort.

"These people will kill me one day.”

His comment seemed to irritate Professor Sangwoo, who stopped talking to look in Thanos' direction with a serious face and the student was almost certain he could see the professor's tempora almost explode outwards for a second.

"The conversation seems to be pretty lively back there, Su-Bong and Myung-Gi. By the way, why don't you guys share it with the class? Everyone's curious to know what you two are talking about." 

The Alpha Leader squirmed in his chair, making it clear that he was feeling uncomfortable at that very moment. All the students' eyes were now on him, several heads turned back in his direction.

"I apologise, Professor. It wasn't our intention to interrupt the lesson, simply my colleague here..." Myung-Gi paused to point at Thanos with his thumb as he thought about the lie he would tell the teacher. "...wasn't understanding Number Theory very well and asked for my help.”

Thanos squinted his eyes and looked at Lee out of the corner of his eye, annoyed. That idiot had just called him dumb with softer words! It was true that he hated maths and that he didn't really understand the subject as well as the other students, but that half-wit youtuber didn't know that.

"Of course. Nothing better than an exercise to make him really understand. Turn to page three hundred and forty-four of your textbook and do all the exercises." 

The table of the two Alphas went excessively quiet after hearing that...in fact, Thanos was horrified. He hates doing maths exercises, especially if they're in subjects he can't understand in the slightest. And he does try sometimes.

"And that applies to all of you, not just Su-Bong and Myung-Gi!" Sangwoo says with a falsely innocent smile on his face, twirling his index fingers in circles in front of the students. "Thank your classmates, Choi and Lee, later.”

All the students huffed and grumbled loudly, Se-Mi and Gyeong-Su sent ugly, judgemental glances in their friend's direction and this ended up making Thanos feel a little guilty.

"Fuck..."

"Do you still need help?" Myung-Gi asked softly, playing with his pen between his fingers.

"No, what just happened is enough. Thanks by the way.”

They kept quiet after that, each trying to solve the exercises as well as the whole class. 

Thanos wrote down the basics in his notebook, trying to decipher how on earth he was going to work out that damn calculation and find the value of n with n < 105.

He tried multiple times, but always ended up deleting all his calculations and always had to start again from scratch precisely because he didn't understand. It got to the point where he started to get so frustrated that he ended up pulling out some of his purple hair and throwing it on the floor as soon as he saw it in his fingers.

"The answer is fifty-three." 

Thanos looked at Myung-Gi, who didn't take his eyes off his own notebook and continued doing the calculations as if he hadn't just said out loud the answer to the exercise Thanos was struggling with.

The Alpha Leader didn't answer, he just looked at the exercise again and hesitantly began to write down the formula to arrive at the result and, as if by magic, he managed to arrive at the number fifty-three without any problem. An involuntary smile appeared on his face as he looked at the calculation he had just written down, he felt so proud of himself, even though he knew he had received a little help.

Thanos never expected to think this way, but sometimes the process matters more to get to the end, right?

"I missed the training session because I was busy recording my pronouncement video about <our> video." Now Myung-Gi replies, turning his head towards Thanos and they both stare at each other for a while. The older boy nods, silently thanking Myung-Gi for his sincere response. "Since you asked, I thought I should really collaborate. The video is a lot more popular than it was yesterday, so I thought it would be a really good idea to talk about it…”

For a moment, Thanos thought about complaining to Myung-Gi and saying that he should have dealt with this issue much earlier, but he thought twice before opening his mouth.

Despite his annoyance, Myung-Gi was helping him in the end. It turned out to be a kind gesture, rare, but kind nonetheless.

Never in a million years would a thank you come out of Thanos' mouth to thank Myung-Gi, so he preferred to do it as a gesture. Something simple, but effective enough to get the message through.

Thanos moved his leg closer to Myung-Gi's under the table and now they were both touching, leaning against each other. Lee seemed surprised, lowering his head to look at Thanos' leg glued to his, but his face soon relaxed and he didn't even move away from the touch.

Feeling the pressure of Myung-Gi's leg against his was a completely new experience, where neither of them seemed to be in a state of restlessness or irritation. They were both comfortable with each other and, as much as this wasn't his intention, Thanos is sure that this small gesture didn't just symbolise gratitude, but something more.

It ended up becoming something very special..

A show of affection from Thanos. His first move...

They stayed like that until the end of the lesson, with their legs pressed together and not caring if anyone eventually caught it. Thanos is sure that Young-Mi was the one who noticed straight away, but anyway...

The rest of the lesson went smoothly, Myung-Gi continuing to help Thanos in a subtle way until it was almost time for the bell.

"All right, now that we're almost at the end of class, I have to give you some news." All the students breathed a sigh of relief as soon as their attention was diverted from their books, but they tensed up again, suspicious of what Sangwoo had to announce that was so important. "Pack your bags because you're going on a trip next week. It was at the request of the headmaster In-Ho himself, and your class is one of the ones going on this trip.”

The students' tension dissipated and was replaced by a surprised and happy atmosphere, where everyone had a smile on their face and talked amongst each other, super excited for what was to come. Thanos was even able to see a small smile appear on Professor Sangwoo's face, it looked like a genuine dream.

"Your class director, Professor Gi-Hun, will be accompanying you on this trip. You'll leave on Monday morning at around 8am and return on Wednesday evening. The headmaster has reserved rooms for everyone in a hotel and I must warn you that the rooms are shared.”

"But Professor, where exactly are we going? Like, what's the location?" Min-Su raised his arm in the air, but asked without Sangwoo giving him permission to speak. The Beta must be pretty eager to do something like that, Thanos thinks.

"Well, the headmaster asked me not to give too many details about it. But I must say, don't worry or panic, you won't be kidnapped or anything like that." Listening to Professor Sangwoo joke with them was so weird, but so cool at the same time. Let that happen more often, please. "I'm just going to give you a little clue. Get ready for a lot of adrenaline..”

Thanos raised an eyebrow at that comment while most of his colleagues looked at each other without understanding the hint very well. When he looked at Myung-Gi, the Alpha just shrugged at what he had just heard.

School trips used to be a rare occurrence and now being announced with one made a huge difference to the students' mood, especially when they had no idea of the trip's destination.

Then the bell rang and the students started packing their things into their backpacks as quickly as possible. Thanos' class doesn't have lessons in the afternoon, so they were free to do whatever they wanted, as long as they didn't leave the school grounds.

"Who knows, maybe we'll end up sharing a room on the trip." Myung-Gi smiles sideways, putting the strap of his backpack on one of his shoulders, getting ready to leave, but he stands still, watching Thanos pack his things and seems to wait for an answer.

The Alpha Leader shakes his head amusedly and laughs nasally. "Don't push your luck, MG Coin." And they were smiling at each other, looking at each other without negative emotions, and it seemed so right, a gracious moment that won't fade so easily from Su-Bong's mind. Not anytime soon, at least.

Myung-Gi leaves and Thanos watches him go, until a hand taps him on the shoulder. Thanos turns his head to find Gyeong-Su and their group of friends gathered together.

"So, you guys wanna race to the canteen? I'll get there first!" Gyeong-Su proposes, looking defiantly at all of them. Thanos just nodded yes, his competitive spirit fully awakened now.

He didn't even notice Nam-Gyu's frown..

Thanos threw himself back onto his bed.

Today has been an interesting day. It started with basic training, then he talked to Sae-Byeok about Myung-Gi, something he never expected to happen. He witnessed a small cold war between Nam-Gyu and Myung-Gi, ended up making his first move on the other Alpha, another thing he never expected to happen, watched Professor Sangwoo being nice to the students, and lost the lunchtime race to Se-Mi.

He still believes that some alien abducted Sangwoo when no one was looking and the aliens replaced him with a nicer version of him.

Putting that aside, Nam-Gyu was acting strange at lunchtime, and Thanos is sure it was because of the little argument between him and Myung-Gi. Thanos just didn't expect Nam-Gyu to be so upset about it.

The Omega managed to stay quiet longer than Min-Su, something no one in the group ever thought possible.

He sat quietly in his corner while eating, head down, and even seemed to refuse to speak directly to Thanos. This was anything but normal.

Thanos sighed. He needed to set something up with Nam-Gyu, talk to him. He was aware of what had been happening over the last few days, he knew how he had been treating the Omega and how Myung-Gi had been getting too involved between the two of them, affecting their romantic relationship..if there truly was one.

The Alpha lay down on his side on the bed and picked up his cell phone from the top of the bedside table, ignoring all the notifications he hadn't seen since morning, and opened his messages with Nam-Gyu, starting to type.

See you on the roof of the Betas' dormitory building tonight? I think we need to get some fresh air, you and me..

The message was sent, but Nam-Gyu didn't reply. Thanos didn't even know if he was online or not and stared at his message for a few seconds.

Perhaps a sincere conversation between the two of them would help them both, help Thanos realize what he needed to do or not do and what step he could take next. Even though he had demonstrated something to Myung-Gi today, that didn't mean that his doubts and insecurities had fled, they were still there, in the shadows, waiting for a slip-up before they returned to torture Choi.

Thanos will have to wait.

Suddenly another notification appeared on his screen, an unknown number with no profile picture had sent him a message with a link. Thanos frowned, but clicked on the message anyway with his curiosity screaming and noticed that the link was to a youtube video, from MG Coin's channel.

The title of the video was "Am I Dating? Let's talk." and Thanos was quick to open the video. It was almost two minutes long and Myung-Gi was sitting on a chair, dressed in his school uniform. In the background, although it was out of focus, it was possible to spot a bed, some posters hanging on the wall, a few potted plants here and there and the closet on the left side of the screen. Myung-Gi recorded this in his school dormitory and even got his own room.

Lucky bastard..

"You've read the title of the video very well and I'm fully aware that that's exactly why you're all here." Myung-Gi begins, crossing his fingers with a serious expression. "I get it, the personal lives of famous people end up being the subject of social media gossip and there really are people who seem to care a lot about it, some for some reasons and others for others..."

Thanos listened attentively to what Myung-Gi from the video was saying, adjusting himself on his bed to make himself more comfortable while watching the video on his cell phone screen.

"A video has been circulating around where I and someone else ended up being in it, recorded without our knowledge and consent. Most of you have seen it, no need to pretend, I read all your thoughts and opinions on other social networks, like twitter."

Myung-Gi laughs, posting some comments from fans on twitter about the topic being addressed in the video which Thanos didn't even bother to read, paying all his attention to Myung-Gi and only Myung-Gi.

"No, I'm not dating...and even if I were, what do you have to do with it anyway?" Myung-Gi was blunt and direct in a way that some more sensitive people would find cruel. "You're my fans, you're here for my content and I'm not here to nurture parasocial relationships with you and I really hope you understand that."

Myung-Gi paused before continuing. Thanos was already pulling out one of his piercings with his teeth, for some nervous reason. 

"I've seen your theories..." More images of comments on twitter and other social networks. "...you even went further and looked for who the other person in the video was like real stalkers instead of trying to identify who was responsible for publishing the video. Honestly..you would have helped me a lot if you had..."

Thanos pauses the video at this point, disbelieving what he has just heard. What do you mean MG Coin's fans went to find out who he was? And did they find out?

So he slid his finger down and read all the notifications, all from his Instagram. When he clicked on the social platform, his jaw dropped at the number of people who had found his profile and were now following him. More than fifteen thousand followers, rising little by little and almost reaching sixteen thousand followers, that was an absurd and very frightening number.

He was full of requests in his messages and when he opened them to read some, they were all asking him about the video and Myung-Gi, everyone already seemed to know that it was him in that damn video and Thanos has a theory that Lee's damn fans posted his Instagram profile on other social networks that he didn't have.

He threw his hands into his purple hair, pulling it back, feeling suddenly frustrated. This was a different level of popularity that Thanos had never prepared for.

He swallowed and went back to watching the rest of Myung-Gi's video, before he regretted it.

"So, please, don't believe fake stuff on the internet. Videos like this are always taken out of context and created to cause disagreement. I'm not dating." Again a long pause, where Myung-Gi sighed and got up from his chair in a dramatic exit to end the video. Thanos really thought it was the end, until the screen went completely black and white letters flashed on the screen.

Actually, it's more complicated than that..

The video ends like that? That son of a bitch, I can't fucking believe it..

Myung-Gi gave his fans the opportunity to speculate even more and made it seem as if everything he had said in the video was partly true. That he wasn't dating, but still had some kind of relationship with the person in the video, with Thanos. 

That idiot..

Did you like it? Was it good enough?

Thanos received the message from the unknown number. Please don't let that person be one of Myung-Gi's fans who ended up discovering his phone number, because if it was...he needs to change it urgently….

Who are you and where the fuck did you get my number?

Are you serious that you can't recognize your favorite YouTuber? And I found out your number the same way you found out I was MG Coin the first time you saw me...

MG Coin? Dude...I'm going to fuck you up.

Why? I didn't do anything wrong..

Stop playing innocent. What the fuck was that at the end of the video? Did you have any reason to write that?

I do not tend to lie to my followers, I'm not a liar..

You're a son of a bitch, that's what you are.

Thanos didn't even wait to read the answer the other had for him, he just turned off his cell phone screen and put his pillow over his face, giving a muffled shout. Why did he trust Myung-Gi to sort things out?

When another notification arrived, he was ready to tell Lee to fuck off, until he realized that it was Nam-Gyu who had replied to his message.

All right, I think we really need to talk. Don't be late.