"What the hell is that?" Jihyo's voice suddenly boomed through Momo's apartment. Mina whipped her head at the omega and felt the color in her body flush away when Jihyo, Momo and Sana were staring at her.
"What was what?" Nayeon asked, closing the refrigerator door, and popping a small chunk of chocolate into her mouth.
Jihyo walked closer and was about to get a hold of Mina's collar, but she immediately flinched away.
She was slightly panicking. The mark was still painful—since… Chaeyoung bit the same mark a couple of times and made a few more around her shoulder and at the base of her neck.
Jihyo gave her a look. "Mina—”
"Can I tell you guys one thing at a time?" she managed to answer back, her face feeling warm again.
Sana had her brows furrowed and her eyes darted from Mina and then to Jihyo. But when Mina unconsciously raised her hand to touch her mark, Sana gasped.
"You didn't!"
Mina started panicking. "D-didn't what?"
Jihyo quickly grabbed Mina's shoulders and turned her around. They all gasped when Jihyo gently pulled the fabric of her top away from her neck.
"That's a mating mark," Jihyo stated, pointing at the red lines.
"From who?!"
"When?!"
"Wait—you mated with someone?”
There were too many questions being thrown at her and she wanted to answer all of them to silence her friends.
Mina silently asked Jihyo to take her hands away, the omega did, and Mina was thankful for that. So she laid her hands out, took a deep breath and sighed.
“You guys need to sit down for this.”
She led all of them to the couch and waited for them to sit down. Sana rushed to her spot, Jihyo followed right after, while Nayeon and Momo took their time to come over and settle in.
Once they did, all four of them looked at her with expectant expressions on their faces. Wanting answers from her.
“So, the reason why I was out for a week was because…” she took a deep breath and smashed her lips into a thin line. “I was in heat.” Mina immediately held a hand out to Sana when she caught her friend about to say something. She did the same to Nayeon when she reacted as well. “I went to the doctor, and she said that I’m a late bloomer.”
Jihyo then raised her hand and Mina allowed her to speak.
“So you’re now an omega?” she asked.
Mina pursed her lips. “I apparently always have been according to my doctor, I’m just a late bloomer,” she had to reiterate that again. “It’s probably why I can smell a lot of scents compared to Momo.”
The beta took a moment to register what she said but eventually nodded. Mina hoped she did because she didn’t want to explain all of this for the third or fourth time.
“So you had your heat for the entire week?” asked Nayeon.
“Yes.”
“The doctor confirmed it?”
“…Yes?”
“Who gave you the bite?”
“Chaeyoung.”
Her friends froze.
Sana jumped from her seat and her jaw dropped, eyes wide, like it was gonna pop out of its sockets. Then she jumped again and pointed at Momo and Nayeon. “Pay up, bitches!”
“Wait!” Nayeon raised her hand at Sana. “But we didn’t know it would be because of her heat!”
Momo groaned and reached inside her pocket. “Great.”
Mina looked at them like they were crazy. “You guys bet on me?!”
Jihyo leaned back and sighed. “I tried to talk them out of it.”
“Great.”
Mina immediately removed the yellow latex gloves from her hands and picked up her phone when she saw that Chaeyoung was calling her.
She had a feeling something was up. Chaeyoung never usually calls around this time of the day.
“Hey—“
“Mina—“ Chaeyoung cut her off, she was breathing heavily over the phone. “It’s here.”
Her eyes went wide. “Your rut?”
Chaeyoung started panting, even grunting as if she was in pain. “Yeah.”
Guess her gut feeling was right. Mina didn’t think twice and grabbed an overnight bag and threw it on her bed.
“I’ll be there.”
“Are you sure?”
Mina stopped her movements when Chaeyoung asked the question. She knew what the alpha meant, she was aware, and was already briefed about it.
But she didn’t hesitate to say, “Yes, I’m sure. I’ll see you soon.”
Chaeyoung knew her rut was arriving. She didn’t forget. But for her to not prepare for it was uncharacteristic of her.
Sure, most of the time she would either take suppressants or have a toy ready for her to abuse for the entire three days of her sexually drunken haze.
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