"Yeah. I'm fine." He turns over again and looks at Woo-young's face. ...he hadn't really stopped to appreciate the fact that Woo-young is attractive, before. And, you know, espers are all hot, but still. "Was it... okay?"

"What, the kiss?"

He nods mutely.

"It was one of the best kisses I've ever had."

He doesn't know how to react to that.

"I've slept around a bit, you know, and I don't want to say it was the very best, but... especially coupled with the feeling of guiding? It was really good."

Oh. Okay.

"And I didn't want to stop for me, I just want to make sure you're only doing things that you want to do and not things that you don't, and definitely not things you regret."

"...I guess... if it's you... it's not so bad?"

"Wow, sunbae, you sure know how to make a boy feel special."

"I, I mean, I mean that since you—"

"I know what you meant. It's less scary if we're not going to be partners and you already know me and you're not risking anything."

Yeah. That.

"...why did you never..."

"...never?"

"Um. Flirt? I guess? Or... try anything?"

"Because you wouldn't want me to. And our friendship is really important to me, a lot more important than whatever else we could be doing."

"So it's not... because you didn't want to?"

"Sunbae. Remember, six years ago, when I first came to a Queer Quasar meetup, and I said I had been questioning my sexuality because I was around so many handsome men?"

Oh. Yeah. He does.

"I was talking about you specifically. Meeting you in person was the thing that made me realise I maybe liked men, too.

"I've wanted it for years."

"But I don't want it to be a problem, you know? Like I said, I'm your—meep!"

Tae-gun is on top of him, kissing him, running his hands on his skin—

...Woo-young has seen Tae-gun naked with an erection before, but it's the first time feeling it pressed against him like that, and it's. Definitely very, very different. It sucks that his backlash gets rid of his ability to move but at least it does not get rid of sensation, at all, and he's definitely getting hard really quickly, too.

He pulls away. "I can't do—more than this. But I can do this. If that's okay?"