POSSESSION: The Hidden Omega In All Alphas' Academy [BL]-Chapter 116: It Hurts

In his high school years, when most of Kylian’s friends were experiencing the bliss of innocent first love, Kylian rather chose to devote himself to learning hard physical training, and extra tuition classes so that every day he could reach one step closer to his goal of becoming an Elite Alpha of their narrow-minded society.

Love chose to intervene in his path of dedication a few times when he received many proposals from the gorgeous girls in his school, but without a second thought, he turned all of them down, hurting their pride badly. It rather intended to spread strange rumors about him among the students, but mastering his art of indifference, Kylian was never very bothered by it.

He always believed he could only reciprocate the feelings of love after mutually feeling it inside him, towards the person who had approached him. By not having any sense of attraction even towards those beautiful girls, Kylian often questioned himself if he was only attracted to men.

But even that thinking was crushed soon when he received a proposal from a young omega boy whom he was assigned to as his trainer in the gym he was working in his hometown. Though omegas were always considered gorgeous among all the classes of society, he still didn’t feel any sort of attraction towards him as well.

However, upon returning home on that day, with a confused face when he asked Marita how to identify himself if he was attracted to someone...to which his mother had only smiled subtly before responding in a soft voice.

> "When you find something ethereal...it can be anything, suppose a breathtaking scenario...and while you are captivated by the beauty of the picture before you, your heart unknowingly misses the presence of that one person next to you. You’d long for it, thinking only if you could have witnessed that view together with that person...

> "Remember, when you have sensed that particular feeling all by yourself, you might be in love with that person...my little boy."

Unknowingly when Kylian’s heart was pondering about Zenith’s absence to witness such beautiful scenery, Marita’s words echoed inside his ears, making him turn fluster red with the awkward realization.

His ocean eyes swirled a bit impatiently when he tried to deny his own conflicted emotions, mumbling to himself, ’I must have really lost my mind. Me...in love with that weird pervert? I know he has helped me so many times...even in my first heat...that’s why, I must be just confused... I must be mistaking my gratitude for him for love...

’Yeah, love is too strong of a word to define what we both have between us. He only formed a pact with me so that he could annoy me as much as I wanted... But...to think that I am missing him here while I still have Aiden with me, I...I just can’t grasp what Mom had told me before in this situation. Yes, I am scared...to call it love...’

"Hey, why did you fall all silent? Are you okay?" Aiden’s loud howl jolted Kylian back to reality as he was lost in his pool of muddled thoughts. Gulping his saliva, he rushed quickly towards Aiden and sat next to him on the rooftop, while Aiden still gawking intensely at him, "Were you thinking about Zenith?"

Kylian winced while meeting Aiden’s eyes this time as if he was very startled from his sharp observation. This time he didn’t lie, and rather asked back with a frown on his temple, "Where is Zenith...may I ask?"

"I don’t know. Maybe...he’s busy playing around somewhere..." Aiden shrugged, but the small smile lingering on his lips looked a bit surly upon answering him. Turning his head around, he stared blankly at the glistening waterfall as he further added, "But...you were really thinking about him, huh? Even in the class, you had raised your arm because you wanted to block the sunrays falling over his sleepy face, right?"

"Hey...be honest, do you have mind-reading abilities?" Once again baffled by his observation, Kylian couldn’t suppress his anxiousness while asking him out, which made Aiden chuckle briefly at him.

After a small pause, the smile slowly tainted from his lips when Aiden exhaled a heavy sigh, "Take it as advice from someone who has stayed by Zenith’s side for a long time. Don’t get deeply indulged with everything he does or says to you. I know you won’t understand it now, but...I have seen many people badly hurt whenever he was bored of them, and cast them aside without a second thought."

While Aiden spoke, his facial expression turned very somber. He also sounded quite serious from his tone, when he commented, "I still don’t completely understand what’s going on in between you two, despite him claiming that you’re his pet now... I know you detested him as a bully badly since your arrival here, but looking upon the unexpected bonding that has built in a short period between you two, I can only say don’t end up like his fuck buddies, Kylian."

"Fuck buddies? What’s that?"

"Huh?"

This time, Aiden flinched from Kylian’s innocent mumble, meeting his ardently curious ocean eyes. Belonging to a very ordinary background Kylian still had pretty much difficulty grasping his head around the world of rich brats of the Academy, so he murmured in a baffled tone, "I mean...y-you only fuck when...y-you are in a relationship, right?"

’He’s too innocent. Why are you playing around with someone as naive as him, Zenith?’ The thought echoed vibrantly inside Aiden’s head, as he let out another big sigh before explaining to him.

"Zenith hates to be tied to a relationship or a bond that might last forever. Until now, that boy had hundreds of fuck buddies who would fall for his seductive charm in an instant and end up sleeping with him. But I have seen all of them were brutally hurt when he tossed them aside without a second thought. I hope by now spending time with him, you must’ve known that he hates omegas, so...most of his fuck buddies were betas...irrespective of their genders."

"Betas...who would sleep with him without a relationship..." As if he was exposed to a dark secret about Zenith that stirred a sharp pain inside his naive heart, Kylian couldn’t hide the sad look on his face while he blankly stared at the floor.

But a quick thought struck him like a jolt of thunder when he urged Aiden, bearing a perplexed expression, "Y-You’re a beta too, right? Then...does that mean...do you also have that kind of relationship with Zenith—"

"Stop with your unbelievable imagination, Kylian. How could you even reach that assumption?" But without letting Kylian finish his words, Aiden scolded him in a low rumble, unable to hide his disgusted face upon hearing such a thing.

"But...you only said he sleeps around with betas—"

"But Zenith has a particular type he prefers, Goddamnit! And I am just his best friend, I am even getting goosebumps from thinking about that wildest imagination you just had about our relationship!" His embarrassed howl interrupted Kylian’s mumble once again, while Aiden pushed his brown hairs above his forehead, letting off another big exhale. "Zenith prefers someone smaller, cute, and submissive ones he bed. I have never seen him wafting from his preferred type, until now."

’Cute, small...and submissive...that means he likes the kind of people who are exactly opposite from me...’ Aiden’s words echoed vividly in his ears, unknowingly stirring the sharp pain inside his chest as Kylian could feel a nauseousness building inside him.

Clenching his fist tight, he lowered his gaze down, unable to hide the sadness cornered in those blue eyes as he asked himself, ’That means all this time when he was gentle and sincere towards me...maybe...he has shown this side of him to all those partners he has bedded with...right? That means...I wasn’t anyone special to him as he made me feel whenever he was with me...

’Hah, I feel like a fuckin’ joke now... That means I was the only one all this time who found sincerity in his actions, right? But still, I wonder, why my heart aches this badly as if I am barely holding my tears. I had the hunch already that rich brats like him were used to toy with the emotions of commoners like me, but...still, damn...it hurts...’

~ "Kylian, even though he has been Zenith’s side for the longest time, and even though he has been a hardcore playboy until now, you shouldn’t be assuming the sincerity that he has shown you all this time based on Aiden’s answer." When his wolf Morpheus tried to cheer Kylian while watching him swallowed by the grim emotions, his tone sounded a bit desperate, "It might be possible that he has caught a liking to you and—"

"I don’t want to believe in anything now, Morpheus. In fact...I should’ve never listened to you in the first place...if only I had done that, I wouldn’t have felt so shitty as I am right now..."

But Kylian scolded him in a low grumble through mind-link, before realizing a cold grasp of palm had touched his cheek.

"Kylian, are you crying?"