severely unedited don’t roast me pls 🤧
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“Three times! Hmm! Maybe I underestimated the little alpha.” Wesley contemplated as he leaned back in the heated pool.
“Shush. Once was more than enough. I already felt like I was gonna ascend to heaven after the first one.” Dex muttered as a light flush covered his neck and shoulders.
“And you did almost ascend a second and third time.” Wesley giggled, covering face from Dex’s view.
“Hush! You’ll scare the children.” Dex splashed him lightly making Wesley laugh a bit before calming down.
Dex closed his eyes and laid his back, letting the jets push the heated water against his sore low back. Wesley peeked over at him with a mischievous grin. He looked around the open pool area. Not many people were here, mainly due to the holiday. The few that were here at the pools further away from them. The two had gotten into a heated pool after checking in. Using his toe, he poked Dex’s side. Dex lazily opened an eye to look at Wesley who gave him what could only be described as a pervy grin.
“The knotting was worth it though, right? That shit is mindblowing. Feels like the two of you are connected in the most erotic way possible. I’d let Mars do it more often if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m unable to function the next day.” He sighed wistfully.
Dex pressed his nose in embarrassment but didn’t deny it. He absolutely agreed. Knotting was intoxicating but so goddamn draining. After waking up after each time, he was incapable of moving for several hours. But he very much enjoyed it and wanted it again.
“But you gotta be careful. Once you give them permission to do it once they might get carried away.” Wesley scowled all of a sudden.
“Leave that poor man alone Wes. From what you said, you’re entirely to blame.” Dex laughed.
Wesley shot him a grin. “I know. Doesn’t mean I can’t complain.”
“I don’t know how he can stand you some days.”
Wesley wiggled his brows. “I can give you several reasons. And not a single one is safe for public consumption.”
Dex stared at him. Wesley stared back with an arched brow. A moment passed. Then they both broke out into laughter.
“You’re such a menace.” Dex said as his laugh died down.
“You love it.” Wesley blew him a kiss.
Dex rolled his eyes but didn’t deny it. The two had been friends since forever, read preschool. He did in fact know that Wesley was a menace and still loved him for it. They both relaxed. Occasionally talking more about Kloh’s rut, Mars’s ‘punishment’ and general things like their lab study.
“That’s him.”
“Are you sure?”
“Absolutely. I’m going over there.”
“Lex, stop.”
“No, let go.”
Dex twitched as somewgst loud arguing voices filled the quiet space. He tried to ignore them but it kept going. He frowned as the voices got louder. Did they not see the reduced noise zone sign? He wrinkled his nose at their rudeness but didn’t open his eyes, tuning them out. As he did so, the voices got louder as they drew closer.
“Lex! Stop, you freaking idiot.” A light feminine voice hissed.
“Stay back if you want to. Just don’t get in my way.” The second voice, Lex, replied.
Wesley loudly sighed, also annoyed with the loud banter. Dex peeked over at him. Wesley had his eyes open as well, appearing very much annoyed. They made eye contact and wordlessly decided to leave. The arguing voices got closer and closer. The two got out of the pool and dried off.
“Is that….”
“HE MARKED HIM?!” Lex yelled out, drawing many upset looks.
The few people inside shushed him or called out to them to be more quiet. Dex and Wesley actively ignored it. They were here to relax, not to invest in some unrelated drama. Dex threw his towel over his shoulder and grabbed his bag. As he headed to leave he felt someone tap his arm. He turned and naturally looked down.
Reflexively he dodged as he saw a hand flying towards his face. Although it didn’t hit as hard as it could’ve, the hand clipped his jaw forcefully. He heard Wesley call out his name but he was still stunned. Before he could collect his thoughts, a crisp slapping sound filled the air followed by a cry. He shook his head and saw a thoroughly pissed off Wesley standing in front of him protectively.
The omega who hit him had fell back onto the floor. His friend has rushed over to help him up. His jaw was stinging. He touched his face, still surprised. The two omegas stood up. Dex did a double take as he recognized the fiery red hair of the crying omega.
“Alexandre?” Dex frowned.
The almost crying omega looked up at him. The side of his face was a bright red, a big contrast from his pale skin. Clearly Wesley had a better angle to slap someone. His eyes were clearly filled with unshed tears but they didn’t look scared or upset. Instead they held anger and lots of it.
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Wesley and Dex were absolutely dumbfounded as Alexandre’s tears fell in large angry droplets.
“Lex…” The female omega friend started to pull him back but was pushed away by Alexandre, who glared at Dex.
“I’m his mate! I’m his and he’s mine! Everything he’s done with you he did with me first! I came first! ME!” Alexandre spat out.
Everything? The word echoed in Dex’s mind.
Alexandre saw the two in front of him stiffen. He laughed cruelly. The laugh broke into Dex’s mind and for a second he was worried about the sanity of the person in front of him.
“He didn’t tell you, did he? I fucked him well before you did. I’m his first, his second and very much his third. Not you. Me.”
He reached back and pulled something. The three omegas then saw the wet glandular patch in his hand. Light pheromones filled the space. Nothing too threatening.
“You’re not even his first mark.” Alexnadre smiled. “I am.”
And he turned just enough that they could see the indented teeth marks on the delicate omega gland. They weren’t as deep as a normal mark was but it was nonetheless still a mark. Dex went still. Although he couldn’t smell the stain of Kloh’s pheromones within Alexandre’s, he didn’t believe the omega was completely lying. Not with the amount of conviction and confidence he had. Plus hatred. A chill ran down his spine, the negative feeling curling into the pit of his stomach.
You’re just a fall back plan.
He wants a real omega.
Aren’t you just a beta pretending to be an omega?
He’ll never truly love you.
You’re nothing!
A cold but sweet voice danced across his eardrums. Bringing up memories. The hand on Wesley’s back started to shake. It was that shaking that snapped Wesley out of the shocked state first. He scoffed loudly. He stepped back so that he was holding onto Dex. He started to lightly pat the man’s side as the shaking got a little more violent.
“It’s delusional omegas like you who give us all a bad rep. Come on Dex, we have a massage to get to.” He scowled at Alexandre and turned, grabbing Dex and pulling him out the area.
Why would he want you when he could have me?
Just look at you. Too tall. Too muscular. What alpha would like that?
I can see why he hasn’t actually marked you yet. He told me you wanted to wait but clearly he just didn’t want his mark on such a person.
Just change your gender. Better to be an beta than an unloved, unwanted omega.
He marked me first.
First.
The voice grew louder and louder. He blindly followed Wesley as he desperately tried to shake the thoughts from his head. Thankfully, they weren’t followed. Dex was pulled along until they were past the saunas and in the hallway leading towards the massage rooms. Once he had determined that they were safe, Wesley turned to face Dex.
“Hey! Look at me.”
Dex was in a daze. Messy thoughts ran through his mind as the twisted from the voice to doubts.
Why didn’t Kloh tell him? Was Alexandre lying? What if he is telling the truth? Does that mean Kloh has been lying to him? Or at least omitting huge parts of his relationship with Alexandre? Should he confront Kloh? But what if Kloh gets upset and thinks Dex doesn’t trust him? Then what? He couldn’t go through this again! He wouldn’t go through this again! Kloh wouldn’t lie! Right?
“Hey! Snap out of it and look at me!” Wesley tiptoed to grab Dex’s face in his hands, pulling the man down to eye level.
Wesley’s voice jolted him out of his questioning. He blinked slowly and tried to focus on Wesley. Wesley scowled then his face softened as he saw the live and raw panic in Dex’s face.
“Do you trust him, Dex?”
“Who?” Dex responded somehow, still fighting his thoughts.
“Kloh hun. Do you trust him?”
“With my heart.” Was his immediate response, without hesitation. Just naturally.
Wesley smiled softly and relaxed a bit.
“Then trust him, okay?”
Trust him? He trusted Kloh. With his heart, his body and his soul. Kloh could be trusted. He had earned trust and never used it against Dex. He was trustworthy.
Dex took a deep breath and barely nodded.
“Don’t let that little asshole get in your head. Now take another deep breath and chill out. You’re spiraling.” Wesley patted his head, reassuringly.
Dex jerkily nodded. With Wesley supporting, they carefully lowered themselves to the ground. Dex quickly wrapped his arms around his legs, stuffing his head between his knees. He took several deep breaths. Only fully realizing afterwards that his breathing had gotten all panicky and out of sorts. His heart thudded loudly in his ears. He could feel his hands shaking. He squeezed his eyes shut and cursed. God, he was spiraling! He hadn’t had a panic attack in months. And to think it was over a psychotic ex that definitely couldn’t be trusted.
“I’m okay.” He said after several minutes of calming his heart down.
“Good. You’re okay. Everything’s going to be fine.” Wesley murmured and continued to stroke Dex’s head soothingly.
“I’m sorry. I —”
“There’s no apologies Dex, not for this.”
“It just brought me back to —–“
“Sebastian. I know. You don’t have to explain it to me. Just let me know when you’re better and we’ll figure out the next step. Okay?” Wesley hugged him lightly and kissed his head.
Dex leaned into the hug and nodded.
“Okay.”
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“Okay thing one and thing two.”
“Here!” “Here!” The two preschoolers obediently raised their sticky cotton candy covered hands with wide grins.
They had on big puffed red jackets with the word thing written in the Dr. Seuss font and the corresponding numbers. They each had blue hats to match. Ever since the first time they heard Kloh refer to them as thing and thing two, they had adopted the nickname. Only truly falling in love with it after actually watching and reading The Cat in the Hat.
Kloh grinned back at them. He would say that they had a pretty successful day. After Kloh had picked them up, they immediately went to the fair. They spent hours picking presents for their friends and their favorite teachers. Then they went on the carousel and watched a gingerbread house contest. After running around for hours, they stopped to eat some sweets before dinner. (That was naturally a secret promise between them and Kloh). Kloh had gotten them a cotton candy that was shaped into a rabbit. After taking several pictures the three tore it apart like savages, feasting on its sugary goodness.
“We have accomplished today’s mission and will be reporting back to the Cat shortly.”
“Yes sir!” They shouted their little hearts out and happily took Kloh’s hands.
They each lugged a bag that was roughly half their size. Kloh had all the heavier stuff in the bags across his shoulders. The two kiddies insisted on holding their own things. Kloh could only put very light objects in their bags and give one to each. They proudly carried their bags, huffing and puffing alongside Kloh.
Thankfully it was a short trip to the car. Kloh let them place their bags in the trunk. Then he strapped them into their carseats.
“Kloh?” Annette asked as he checked the belt on her.
“Yes thing one.” He replied with a smile.
“If Mama is the cat and Mom is the hat, who are you?” She curiously asked.
Kloh laughed lightly and booped her nose.
“Well I’m thing zero. The original thing.”
“There’s a thing zero?” Lyca asked, astonished by the news.
Kloh nodded. “Only special people can have a thing zero in their lives. Like you two. I came first then you two. So it goes, thing zero,” he pointed to himself,
“Thing one.” He booped Annette’s nose again making her giggle,
“And Thing two.” He also booped Lyca’s nose making the boy giggle as well.
“That’s so cool.” Lyca exclaimed.
Annette hurriedly nodded in agreement. “Yeah. We get to have a thing zero.”
They two cheered a bit longer. Kloh finished securing Lyca before getting into his own seat. The twins chatted for a bit before sleep hit them full force. Ten minutes into the drive back, their light breathing and little snores mingled with the low volume radio in the background.
Kloh smiled lightly as he checked on them through the rearview mirror. Ha had fun. The two balls of sunshine and innocence were fun to be around. They reminded him why he chose his major. He wanted every kid to experience happy days like this. Too get obsessed with characters and to have someone indulge them for a little while. He wanted kids to get to be kids. Another smile came naturally as he imagined all the other things they could do together.
Fifteen minutes later, he pulled into the driveway of their house. Well not his, the twins’ house. He saw the lights on and figured Kayle was waiting for them. He quickly grabbed the bags from trunk. He heard the door slam open. Kloh reacted quickly closing the trunk, making sure the little ones inside weren’t affected by the sudden burst of energy.
“I SAID TO NEVER COME BACK HERE! I WILL CALL THE COPS ON YOU!” Aida’s loud and angry voice filled the air.
“And tell them what? I asked to see my adult son who was hidden from me and was denied that right by a woman who has a history of being medically insane.” A much calmer, much colder voice replied.
“He’s not here Kristoff. Now go please.” Kayle’s much calmer voice filled the tense air.
Kloh froze, accidentally pressing the garage key. The rattles of the garage door raising drew the attention of the three adults. Three pairs of eyes snapped towards him.
“You’re back.” Aida stiffly said.
“Kloh. Hi, hun. How was the trip?” Kayle asked, much more relaxed.
“Good. The kiddies are sleeping inside.”
“Really? Then they must be completely tuckered out.” Kayle laughed as she went over to him.
“I’ll help you take them in. We also have some gifts they picked out.” Kloh raised the two heavier bags, willfully ignoring the two awkward silent adults.
“Alrighty. Which baby do you wanna take?” Kayle asked amicably, also choosing to ignore the other two.
“Here you grab the bags and I’ll grab both of them.”
“But two —-“
“I promise I’ll be fine. I’ve carried both of them multiple times today.”
Kloh flashed her a smile. He unbuckled both car seats and skillfully managed to get the twins in his arms without waking them. Kayle smiled at him to which he smiled back. He nodded for her to lead the way. The group of four walked through the weird atmosphere, chatting about what Kloh and the kids did that day. As they passed Aida, Kayle handed her the key and asked her to make sure the car was locked before she came back in. Aida mutely nodded.
Meanwhile Kloh could feel a burning hot stare drilling into the back of his head. But he refused to look back. Although it sounded like the situation had everything to do with him, he wouldn’t acknowledge it. Let them argue.
Kayle led them to upstairs. Although they had their own separate rooms, the two liked to sleep together. As they opened the door to a room. Kloh realized that they were entering his room. Or rather what could be considered his room. It was mostly bare due to Kloh packing ever little he owned and could take. There was still a pretty moderate set up. A big queen sized bed still laid snugly in the corner.
“Aht. I forgot this room is …. I’m sorry. They really like sleeping in here. Should we send them —”
Kloh shook his head and went over to the bed to lay down the two. “They can keep it warm while I’m away.”
Kayle faintly smiled and nodded. The two quietly put the odds to bed before leaving the baby monitor on and leaving the room. Once outside the room, they stood for a moment.
“I guess you heard the conversation.” Kayle asked as she looked away from Kloh.
“Just the last part.” He honestly replied nad looked at the pattern he carved into the door as a teenager over Kayle’s head.
“You know who that is? Recognize him?”
Kloh nodded. It’s not like he couldn’t recognize the man. He did. Not only did the man like 5 points similar to Kloh but he also looked like Ares and Seph.
This was Kristoff, father of Ares, Seph and unfortunately Kloh.
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Author’s Note
Let. It. Begin.
Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy.
Thanks for the chapter! So much going on 😱
Thanks for the chapter
So much drama is unfolding, I’m loving it!
Thank you for the chapter!
thanks for the chapter.
Alexandre is such a butt head! Kloh was never even an alpha with him, was he? And now Sebastian showing up at the family home is more offensive than we thought 😤. Thank goodness Kloh and Dex found each other (in the hottest possible introduction!) when they did.
Screw you Alexandre!!! Screw you too Kristoff!! Stay away from Kloh!!!!!!! 😤😤😤
I want Dex and Kloh to graduate, get married, and have little babies all drama and stress freeeee.
I love how Kloh ignored them.
Thank you for the chapters!
I love the Thing 1 and Thing 2 bit. My sister and I used to fight over who was Thing1.
My love, just some minor edits
“Dex pressed his nose in embarrassment but didn’t it.”
“somewgst”
“Ha had fun”
Look I like finding these but lmk if you need me to stop 😂
No no I love it 🤧 it’s very easy for me to overlook things even after several rereads
If there was any money in being a proof reader I would’ve made that my career 😂