Green tea with Peach

Winter day. Snow sparks under the skew rays of the sun, creating bizarre glares. Flakes of snowflakes fall silently, covering the roofs of houses, cars and everything around with a fluffy blanket. The day was surprisingly warm, although they promised frosts and a severe blizzard. In one of the many parks of a never-sleeping city, children throwing snowballs at each other, some fall to the ground, making snow angels, and nearby, not lagging behind, their parents run after the children, as if they themselves had fallen into childhood. Couples holding hands slowly walk, while others walk embarrassingly nearby, sometimes accidentally touching their palms or shoulders, driving each other even more into the paint. Among these lovers there are also just friends who decided to take advantage of such beautiful weather and finally relax together. It is such friends that two omegas seem to go, holding hands, and dreamily enjoying the nature around. But how wrong are those who mistake them for just friends. There’s a lot more to it than friendship. The couple hides hot kisses behind closed doors, and in love looks called “friendly support.” Parents turn a blind eye to their special relationship, attributing it to a teenage rebellion, because they understand that their children have no choice in any case. Friends from time to time joke that they simply have not yet met normal alpha. And what about the omega? They don’t need more. Now, walking under a quiet snowfall, they wanted to fall into an apartment with one of their friends, drink hot cocoa or coffee with marshmallows, and then sit down with a noisy company and watch something to match the mood. Jaemin, an omega with pink hair and deer eyes framed by long eyelashes, is distracted from the contemplation of the park by humming in his pocket. He looks at the screen in surprise for a second, and then brings the phone to his ear, removing the call. Renjun, walking nearby, quizzically raises his eyebrows, to which he asks to wait with gestures. “Yes, father?” In the dynamics, a clear speech is heard, as Jaemin’s face becomes darker and darker. When he removes the phone in a state very close to rage, Renjun worries: “Bunny, what is it?” “Father wants to see me in the office in an hour” Omega with light brown hair only smiles at these words, uttered in the afterlife. “It’s great, you know, I haven’t seen Mr. Moon for a long time and…” Huang is not allowed to finish, interrupted. “P-f-f… You don’t get it, Renjun. He wants me to come alone. And as he put it: “dressed in something befitting of a future chairman.” Do I dress somehow wrong?!” He ends his angry tirade with a muzzle of his tongue, and the question asked remains hanging in the air. The Chinese wrinkles, and then, encouraging the “bunny” with a smile, some exhausted and anxious, takes his hand. “I don’t think it’s serious. In any case, you already have to go… Knowing you, one hour to gather for you will be catastrophically short.” “Oh, who would say” Jaemin didn’t keep himself waiting, causing a burst of laughter at the second. The phone buzzes disgustingly again, and Na takes it with obvious irritation in his eyes, which immediately gives way to surprise. “I do not remember that I called the driver… It’s Dad, I guess… Okay, Injuni, I gotta go…” The named one feels the quick touch of his lips to his cheek, and moments later looks at the fleeing omega. Renjun smiles almost happily and waves his hand after him, but as soon as he first gets into the car that has arrived in time, the smile fades and the eyes begin to shine with tears. When he meets, he sighs bitterly and dials someone’s phone number.

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The door is opened by a green-haired omega with typical body proportions and elegance in the features, but a slightly large head gives it a special charm: it was involuntarily thought to be a doll. “Chenle, what’s on your head? You were just a blond yesterday” Renjun grumbles, not having time to cross the threshold of the apartment. In response, a guy in home workouts only trembles his hair and just brushes it off. “I don’t know myself, something just hit my head, and now…” He pulls a couple of strands of hair, as if trying to make sure that his own words are true. “Did the lightening hit?” The elder grumbles again and goes inside, taking off his jacket as he goes. “Oh, come on!” The quick response flies back, and the junior shuts the door. “So what happened? You sounded upset.” Renjun sighs, twists his head in an attempt to get rid of the obsession and falls on the sofa. “Jaemin was called to the company…” His voice breaks disgustingly at the end of the phrase, and the omega itself curves its thoughts. “Is that a problem? And why aren’t you with him?” In response to the guy older looks with reproach, Jeong actively reflects, and in a second he is overcome by awareness of the situation. “Do you think about the same thing that I am about?!” As if from his thoughts the younger man settles on a soft white carpet. “If you’re about getting engaged, then yes… Someday it should have happened… But I didn’t think so soon…” Words are given with difficulty, Huang has to restrain the approaching tears. “I love Jaemin, but you know me: I will not be able to go against his parents… I can scare you, of course, but parents… I am too correct in this regard.” “I would argue about the correctness, but in any case you knew that this is not forever… Moreover, you are cousins, I hope you were not so stupid as to think that your parents will allow you to continue this relationship?” “We hoped…” Omega sighs in response. “You shouldn’t be upset like that. You will find yourself a beautiful alpha, you will have a gorgeous wedding, and you will give birth to cute pups.” To these words, the elder builds a dissatisfied grimace, and then weaves into the kitchen in the hope of seizing his grief. Chenle, who has come next, grumbles something like: “As in his house, for real,” to which Renjun only mimics him with the phrase said earlier: “You shouldn’t be upset like that.” As a result, Huang brewed green tea for himself, found chocolate and a piece of pie somewhere in the fridge from the coffee shop closest to Chenle’s apartment. When the elder reached for buns from the same coffee shop, the younger warned him not to whine about acne on his face later, which worked flawlessly, and the guy removed his hands from the pastry. The younger limited himself to a mug of cocoa. They spent the rest of the day playing games, gossiping, discussing politics, even touching on Chinese history, complaining about life, crying over the film, remembering childhood. The guys came to their senses closer to night. They came to them that tomorrow Monday, and the clock was already half past ten. The sky darkened, stars were visible in some places, and snow that had recently fallen in large quantities lay on the ground with snowdrifts. “So much snow piled up. After your arrival, a complete disgrace began on the street” Chenle noticed with a smile. “Damn, I hope, our “fashionista” managed to get there on time. His father was extremely strict, as I understood from intonation, when he spoke about time. And in general, he sent me only one message, and some kind of “fuck off.” “What did he write?” Renjun picked up the phone, opened the conversation, which he showed to others extremely rarely, almost never, to be more precise, and handed it over to Zhong. The younger one only surprisingly bulged his eyes while taking a phone. Reading the messages for the current day did not take much time, given that the second almost did not respond. After Chenle finished reading, he gave out in surprise, raising his voice towards the end of his phrases. “What the hell?! No “hello,” no “bye”?! You wrote him almost a whole poem, and he replied “I’ll tell you everything tomorrow,” and that’s it?! Seriously?!” There was no limit to green-headed discontent, but noticing a sharp change in the mood of the elder, all the anger disappeared on its own. “Well, gege… What are you doing? Don’t be sad ahead of time, whatever it is, I don’t think you will stop keeping in touch. You know each other longer than I live, and I’m already eighteen, by the way.” Sadness from the brown eyes does not disappear anywhere, absorbing all the joyful rays to the last. Renjun sighs as if this is his last breath of air before his harrowing death. Then, smiling bitterly, barely exposing his teeth, he pulls the younger to himself, placing his head on his knees. Chenle leaned more comfortably on a soft carpet, on which they had “chopped” into cards five minutes earlier. “Why did you remember your roots?” Hm? You Chinese dolphin…” Questions uttered in a jokingly protruding tone were accompanied by sorting through the younger’s hair. “Don’t forget, hyung, you’re actually Chinese, too. Anyway, I have the right. I’m Chinese after all. Yeah? And I don’t care that I spent my whole life in Korea.” Renjun looked at these sweet indignations with a gentle smile on his face. He was the only child in the family, since his dad was weak in health, and could not give birth to a brother. Omega did not blame his parents, and always asked his father and dad not to apologize for the absence of younger or older brothers. That is why Chenle was not his blood relative, but his younger brother. His childhood passed with him and Jaemin. This restless, loud and at times annoying, but so caring, understanding and ready to give everything for his relatives, Zhong Chenle grew up in front of his eyes. According to Na and Huang, even the brother of the younger omega — Satoshi did not often participate in Lele’s life as cousins did. The guy lying on his lap yawned sweetly, covering his mouth with his palm. After fidgeting on the spot, Chenle reached for his phone and, scrolling through the Twitter feed, caught his eye in time. “Will you go home? It’s really late in time. Maybe you’ll stay in my place today? In any case, we go to one university.” Rather claimed than asked the youngest. “You know, but a tempting offer, Lele… Tempting…” Renjun thoughtfully stretched out, peering into the courtyard outside the window. Chengle lived near N University, where, by happy coincidence, if you could call it that, the offspring of almost all influential personalities of Korea, China and several other countries of the world studied. The university was huge, so to cross at least once a day, you had to try very hard, given that it consisted of four buildings, seven floors each, plus two gyms and an equally large dining room. The educational institution held the bar both in terms of education and discipline. There were never any rumors of illegal acts, and if there were, then always without any reason. But there were also personalities who spoiled the general authority of the university, however, for unknown reasons, they managed to stay at the university, trying to attract less attention to themselves. For this reason, children from all over Korea and other countries were eager to get here. The exams were held according to very high parameters, and the conditions for passing were tough, the best of the best studied here. Even those students who study on a fee basis had high scores and excellent academic performance. Three friends got to study at the university on the budget themselves, so they cared for the grades, and tried not to miss the lectures. As Jaemin said: “P-f-f… I did not spend so much nerves, hair and patience to stand at the end of the rating… This, damn it, is not a sexy prospect at all…. " Therefore, they didn’t really want to be late so that they didn’t have to make excuses for the teachers later and not lose face in front of the group. For the professors, they were perfect students, but fellow students knew how bitchy the three might be. Omega wasn’t the type looking down on everyone, showering insults on those who didn’t dress in the latest fashion or the way they liked it. On the contrary, they always smiled, joked, were familiar with almost everyone, no arrogance and cunning in voice or behavior. They tried to maintain communication with everyone with whom it is possible, but it was worth crossing the road for at least one of them, it was possible to put an end to all their communication with the good half of the university. No one humiliated poor students, who were not lucky enough to incur the wrath of the omegas, but the news, as well as rumors, spread at a rate that could not be explained. The information that a certain person did not get along with the “Devil’s trio” scattered like a fragrance in the wind, and the poor person received a few caustic words from the mistresses and oblique glances from the rest. The very three chose the words competently, not directly insulting, but through the conclusions of the person himself. So it turned out that phrases seem harmless at first glance, but have a curly connotation and huge meaning for the one to whom this phrase was addressed. That is why no one decided to cross the road for them. Renjun still looked wistfully out the window, weighing all the pros and cons, not forgetting to massage Chenle’s head. Thoughts were confused, and a simple question seemed to have turned into a global problem. The elder omega was not in the room, his mind was far away, next to a certain omega, and anxiety filled all thoughts and souls. Finally, having decided and coming to a completely reasonable conclusion, which was not easy and not immediately, he somehow smiled too exhausted at his reflection in the window and said: “I will probably stay, you know. Too lazy to go anywhere, and the driver will give me a lift tomorrow…” The youngest, lying on his friend’s lap, only nodded weakly, as if he was expecting such an answer, simultaneously typing something on the phone. Less than a minute later, Zhong screamed or squeaked somehow like a dolphin and jumped to his feet. “Wa-ah, the Lee brothers returned to Korea, and with them Donghyuk!” There was so much enthusiasm and joy in the voice that the eldest wondered why this Chinese dolphin does not rush or ride like a deer. “Honestly, I even had time to forget about them. They were in Canada or in America, right?” “Yeah, both there and there. How could you forget about them, they were not there for only three months? Of course, they did not arrive on time, very late. Next week, credits, sessions and other stuff will begin. Although… Knowing them, I’m pretty much two hundred sure, all three of Lee won’t have any problems, especially alphas.” “You know, I don’t understand at all how they manage to hang out, be at many parties, drink at times, and at the same time be the best in their groups, help parents and do their hobbies?” Information about Lee’s older brothers was known only through rumors, he heard the omega talking about yesterday’s fun party and complaining about Jeno being as cold as ice towards them. He knew about Donghyuk because he knew him personally. He was not part of the so-called “Devil Trio,” but with him the trio somehow had a more complete look, but they were not in a hurry to call them a quartet either. “They drink or not, but behave with dignity even when drunk. They don’t annoy anyone, have fun, drink, dance. And the next day, as if nothing had happened to the first lecture… Crazy people.” Huang yawned, saying “you can’t argue with this, of course”…. Then he made a doe eye face and asked Zhong to give him clothes and “make up” the bed, to which the youngest only snorted, but went to fulfill the request.