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Black Dove

Three years ago,your cousin left and your best friend/first love started treating you like dirt under his feet. Ever since you never wanted to open up to people. Now that your cousin is back and you’ve grown, tension stirs up between him and your old best friend. Soon you find out something about the two of them that you wish you didn’t and find yourself tangled in a war.

Pairings- Vampire Scoups x Reader and vampire cousin Jeonghan, The performance unit come into play now!!!

Genre- Angst, Horror,Romance, Action and Vampire Au

Warnings- Cussing, Bullying,Drinking, suggestive themes, violence, Literral spines and some gore

Word count- 13K +

Chapter 3 ( Masterlist)

“We’re what now?”

“Please,___. My sister is Making me come along to this stupid party and I don’t want to go alone.” She explains on the other side. Aki has a twin sister and to say they’re completely different is an understatement. Aki is more reserved and tends to stick to the fine arts, while Hana is an athlete and a complete party animal.

“I dunno, Aki. Parties aren’t really our thing. Why is she making you go anyway?” I carry the conversation up stairs and plop down on my bed.

“She wants me to go and ‘experience the fun things’. Like what I do isn’t fun. She also said school isn’t for learning…” She huffs.

“Well I would but It’s a school night and all-“

“___. It’s Friday.”I shoot up from bed to look at my calendar on my wall. It really is Friday. How could I possibly forget?

“Man, I really didn’t know. I guess this week has been so weird that I lost track of the days-“

“So you’ll go?!” She questions.

“Wait,what? I didn’t say anything about-“

“Good! I’m right outside your house!” She says. I rush over to my window and see her bright red truck. Seeing me peeking, she waves up at my window.

“Aki, I don’t even know what you wear to a party..”

“It’s ok hun, I got you covered.” Another voice announces. Hana shows up in Aki’s window and waves at me as well.

“You owe me big time.”

I guess I don’t have much choice since they’re already here. I pack my essentials like my phone and wallet in a small backpack. I walk out the front door to see my cousin and his friends hanging out on the porch still. They all look towards me.

“Where you goin?” Jeonghan asks.

“Umm I’m going to a party.”

“A what now?!” Jeonghan bursts, taking the rest of the boys by surprise. “Since when did you start going to parties? I thought you hated parties.” He wonders. I shrug my shoulders slightly and tighten the straps of my back pack.

“A party is a party. I don’t mind them as much anymore. Plus I’m older.., gotta live a little…” I lied. He seems skeptical and raises a brow. He gives a hum and bids me a goodbye and continues to play uno.

I walk up to the car parked in front of my yard. I scurry into the back seat and plop down. The two girls glance my way, Hana having a smirk on her face. “ glad you were able to make it.” She chirps and turns around to put her stick in drive. The car rolls forward and I see my house, along with my cousin, get smaller as the distance grows. I watch out the window as the afternoon sky makes the clouds a bright red and orange. There wasn’t much talking, well besides the two sisters chatting it up in the front. Aki seems to notice my silence and turns around.

“You seem quieter than usual.” She states and rests her cheek against the seat head. “If you didn’t want to come to the party you could have just said no.” She huffs with a slight pout. I didn’t want her to think it was uncomfortable or that it’s her fault.

“It’s not that, Aki. Don’t think I’m upset with you.” Her shoulders rest a bit, showing that she was tense before. As if a weight was lifted off her shoulders.

“You upset about what happened earlier today with Seungcheol?” She asks. My eyes roll over from the window to her direction. Hanas ears almost perk up at the sound of his name. I just shrug as a response. Luckily, Aki and I have been friends long enough to where she knows that silence is just how I deal with stress. Usually, she just lets me be until I choose to talk about it with her. Which is one of the reasons I respected her so much. Hana on the other hand…

“You have a problem with S.coups?” Hana questions with her eyes still on the road but knuckles tight on the wheel.

“I guess you can say that.” I say and rest the side of my head on the window.

“She’s had multiple problems with seungcheol.” Aki chimes in. Hana seems to slouch more into her seat as her knuckles turn white with her iron grip on the steering wheel.

“Not surprised, he’s bad news. A fucking dick.” She hisses. Aki and I are taken aback by her venomous attitude. The both of us look towards each other and want to question but just keep to ourselves. She seems to be so in her head that she almost runs a red light and hits the brakes leaving Aki and I to jolt forward. That was enough to show us that she probably doesn’t want to talk about it.

I look out the window to see that we’re pulling into a shopping plaza parking lot. The two sisters unbuckle their seat belts and hop out of the car, leaving me confused. Aki opens my door and ushers me to step out.

“Why are we here? I thought we were going to a party.” I question and unbuckle my seatbelt slowly.

“The party isn’t till later silly!” Hana chimes and grabs my hand, pulling me out of the car. “Plus, we’re here for you. You can’t go to a party in that outfit. You and Aki are so helpless without me, so let’s go make you guys hot!” She says with determination and marches towards the plaza. Aki raises her brow and scratches the back of her head.

“Are we not hot now?” She asks and I just gently pat her shoulder and walk ahead with Hana.

“Don’t worry, Aki. You’re gorgeous.” I smile. She grins back and wraps her arm around my shoulder and drags me along to catch up to Hana.

About an hour passes and we stumble into a store in which Hana has grown great interest in. ‘Perfect for you guys’ she says and skips happily inside. The store wasn’t glamorous but it was trendy, and in my budget. My wallet needs a break after what happened in the make up store. Who knew it was so much money to make your face an even skin tone?

Even though our shopping hasn’t come to an end, my feet ache. I sit down on a chair by the dressing rooms as Hana drags her sister into one of the stalls with a handful of dresses. Warning me that I’m next and that I should enjoy the break when I have the chance. The cheap hard plastic chair never felt more comfortable. I rest my head against the wall and hear the two sisters bickering about the various outfits she’s trying, but I try to drown it out. My eyes close, letting my mind be at peace for just a bit. Especially after today’s events, I need just five minutes of peace.

Well I hoped I would get peace.

A loud crash booms and I snap my eyes open to see a young man on the floor with dozens of shoe boxes scattered on the floor. Cursing in what I can make out as mandarin, he rapidly tries to pick up the shoes. I get up from my seat and kneel down beside him and help him gather the shoes.

“Oh it’s ok! I got it, I didn’t mean to disturb you…” he breathes out and fumbles with the various pairs of shoes.

“No no no. It’s ok, I don’t mind.” He nods his head thankfully and with my help we manage to place them neatly back into their boxes.

“Thank you.” He bows slightly.

“No need to thank me. Ugh…” I read his name tag that hung loosely around his neck. “Jun.” he smiles and carries the tower of shoes back towards the door but a figure turning the Corner sharply runs back into the poor soul and causes the shoes to scatter about again.

“Soonyoung!” Jun whines and goes back to his knees to pick up the shoes again. I hurry over to help again and Jun mumbles out a quiet thanks. The man named Soonyoung comes down to our level and helps out as well.

“Hiya!” He greets me, taking me by surprise. Jun rolls his eyes and stacks the shoes on top of each other.

“H-hello..” I greet shyly. The other young man looks towards the poor employee.

“Tsk tsk Jun, making a customer pick up shoes?” Soonyoung jokes but it only causes Jun to huff. Soonyoung peers over to me again.

“I’m Soonyoung. Excuse my friend here, he gets shy around girls.” He giggles, which causes Jun to throw a stiletto towards him. Thankfully it misses.

“Um hi. I’m ___” I introduce myself. Soonyoung happily grins.

“You look about our age!” The outgoing boy bursts. I give a slight smile and top off the newly formed tower of boxes. “A quiet one, huh? That’s ok, I can be a little much sometimes. Right jun?” Soonyoung asks. Jun seems to shrug off his statement and carries a few boxes at a time to the storage closet. Leaving the two of us behind.

“You go to the campus close here right?” He asks. I guess he still wants to chat.

Ya. I do.” I say awkwardly. I’m not trying to seem like I don’t want to talk, even though I kinda don’t, but I tend to be a little awkward in these situations.

“Great! Maybe we’ll see each other soon. Me and my brothers just moved here. Our family owns this shop.” Soonyoung rambles.

“Jun is your brother?”

“Ya. I have two other ones. Which you're probably gonna be seeing soon too.” He chirps.

“Wow, you look nothing like jun.” I think aloud. Soonyoung looks in the mirror close by and slicks his hair back playfully.

“Yep, I know. I’m better looking.” He says slyly and winks at me in the mirror. I can feel the slight heat rise to my cheeks. “Nah, I’m joking. All of my brothers and I are adopted, two from Korea and two from China.” He explains.

“Oh that’s cool-“ a slap on the dressing room door catches my attention. Aki walked out slightly sluggish and Hana with a triumphant smile on her face. The two sisters notice me and waddle over.

“You’re next, ___.” Hana smirks and looks over at Soonyoung. “Sorry, as cute as you are, we have business to attend to. So I have to take this fine young lady and shop!” She explains to Soonyoung and drags me Away. Soonyoung looks slightly confused but just waves.

“I’ll see you around,___” he shouts as I’m being dragged.

Hana wiggles her eyebrows at me. I just huff. This was weird but not the worst thing to happen today. If anything, it cleared my mind for a bit.

He seemed like a nice guy.

Hana pushes me towards a rack of dresses that look to be my size and begins to sort through the different styles. “So, who was the cutie?” She blatantly asks while piling clothes on her shoulder.

“That guy? I dunno, I just met him..”

“So you think he’s cute?” She tried to confirm while pulling more dresses from the rack.

“I never said that.”

“Well, you never said he wasn’t either.” She argues and moves to another side of the store. Aki returned after paying for her dress and sticks by my side while Hana shops. Soon, her search comes to an end and you both walk out of the dressing room.

“I can’t believe we were able to find such a nice dress! You’ll look amazing!” She chimes and slaps my behind. I flinch and rub my butt at the sudden sting. “Now let’s go pay for it. Oh, and look who’s working the register…” she coos. I look up to see Soonyoung waiting at the counter with his face in his palm. I just shake my head and make my way over to the counter. Soonyoung notices me and lifts his head.

“Why hello!” He greets. The employee next to him rolls his eyes at his outburst. Probably one of his brothers.

“Hey…” I smile and place the dress gently on the counter.

“Just this?” I nod and he proceeds to take the security tag off. “Well this looks fancy. You going to a fancy dinner or something?”

“Umm no. I’m actually going to a party.” I confirm and he just nods and scans the tag.

“I thought you might be going to dinner with your boyfriend or something. And it’ll be 34.99.” I try to explain that I’m not seeing anyone but Hana slams her hand on the counter.

“She actually doesn’t have a boyfriend.” She says and offers her card to the boy. I try to intervene but she shushes me. “She’s as single as a Pringle.” Soonyoung raises a brow and takes her card.

“Oh, well my mistake.” He tears the Receipt and puts it in the bag. “Have fun at your party. See you around, ___” he grins and hands me my bag.

“See you.” I wave goodbye and me and the two sisters walk out the store. Aki was confused as to what happened in the store. While her sister was grinning and prodding me with her elbow. I just exhale and walk beside them to her car.

By the time we got to their house it was starting to get dark. The party surely started already but Hana insisted that going to a party late was the best way to go. Aki and I complied and went to their shared bedroom. The room looked like it was split in half, Hanas half is much more bubbly and bright while Aki has a much more mature feel.

Hana rushes to her closet and pulls out a giant box. Opening the hatches on the box it opens and expands into many different compartments of cosmetics. Make-up in all different colors and shades. Some sparkling while others are dark and matte. Clapping her hands together, Hana turns towards Aki and I. Nervous gulps emit from our throats. Sure, we wear makeup but nothing as extravagant as this.

“Let’s beat some faces, ladies.” Hana says while pulling Aki forward into a seat.

What seems like hours of poking and prodding at our faces, we’re finally done. Hana finishes Aki first and rushes her to put on her outfit.

She was stunning.

I had never seen Aki like that, it was like a completely different girl. She wore a red dress that opened all the way down to her bust. It was skin tight and short enough to expose most of her legs. Her hair was tied in a high pony with beautiful curls coming down her back. Her glasses are long gone and replaced with contacts, making her eyelashes pop more.

“Oh my, you look freaking hot.” Hana compliments and rushes over to her sister and pushes down on the wrinkles of her dress. “Here put these heels on.” Aki grabs the shoes and slides them on. She tries to walk but not without trouble. She stumbles but luckily I grab her forearm before she crashes.

“Hehe… I guess I’m not used to this.” She huffs as I pull her up. She stands up and now towers over me with her heels. Gaining her stability again she peers down at my face. “Wow. Now that’s a woman.” She giggles and I feel my cheeks heat up. I try to look at myself in the mirror but Hana stops me.

“Nah ah ah. Dress first, then you can see how you look.” She commands and throws the dress at me and pushes me towards the bathroom. “And you better not look at your face in there!” She yells through the other side. I decided to comply and not look at my face, as hard as it was. After squeezing into the dress I pop my head out the door for assistance with the zipper. Aki happily zips me up and hands me the shoes for the night.

“Oh my…” Hana stares speechless with her mascara wand in her hand. Aki can’t really seem to find the word to say either. I sway side to side shyly as the eyes of the girls don’t leave me. Aki grabs my shoulders gently and guides me towards the full body mirror hanging on their wall.

Let’s just say that I didn’t recognize myself. Of course I look like me but the outfit isn’t me. The body tight black dress made my figure pop, way more than my usual baggy sweaters did. The dress has a slit on the side where my thighs are; showing a lot more leg than usual. The neck of the dress came down at a very low V , showing most of my chest. The makeup made my facial features much more sharp and mature. While my hair was curled in a half up half down style, a much more youthful hair style.

“I’m cold.” I mumble and the two other girls start to laugh. I give a chuckle as well and sit on one of the beds thinking to myself. Ya, I do look like a fine ass woman.

—-

The car ride to the party wasn’t too long. Hana played her favorite songs and sang aloud the whole ride. Aki and I sat in the back playing video games together on our phones. It’s now fully dark outside as we arrive in the neighborhood. It’s a normal looking neighborhood but with dozens of cars parked all around. The house was noticeable with people around in the front yard. The house looked different from the rest of the neighborhood; the house is a lot bigger and more extravagant.

Hana parks alongside the sidewalk not too far from the house. We see other youngsters pass by the window in similar attire. We all exit the car and I walk around to meet Aki on the other side ,but I’m stopped by Hana spraying my entire body with perfume. It takes me by surprise and I block my face with my hands.

“A woman is nothing without a good spritz.” Hana chimes and does the same thing to her poor sister. Aki tried to push her away but Hana was much faster.

“That’s more like a hose down than a spritz, Hana.” Aki argues but Hana just shrugs and walks towards the house. Aki gives up and links her arm to mine. “Well if this party turns out to be a bust then at least we smell like roses.” We both laugh and make our way to the entrance.

The front yard was filled with young people just standing around drinking. But the real party was inside. We stepped through the front door and the loud bass from the music was enough to shake the floor. Tons of people crowded around dancing and drinking. A table was seen with people playing a round of flip cup. I look over slightly to see people lounging and Making out as if they weren’t surrounded by people. The house was huge and even had a giant backyard with a pool, which was also filled to the brim with people.

Aki looks at me slightly uneasy as she tries to back away from a couple grinding on each other, just a few inches away from her. “This is really something!” She tries to yell above the bass but I could barely hear her. Hana grabs the both of us and drags up to the kitchen. The kitchen was a little quieter than the main area and less people resided in it. I peered over to the countertops where dozens of different drink options were on display. Ranging from beer to whatever that stuff that looked like fruit punch is.

“Well ladies this is where I leave you.” Hana says and takes a can of beer for herself and cracks it open. I look over to Aki Where she stands surprised at her sister.

“What do you mean? I thought you were staying with us.” Hana giggles and bit and leans on the table.

“I said I was taking you to a party. I never said I was going to hang out with you. Plus, while you guys do whatever, I can drink as much as I want because I have designated drivers now.” I go to say something at this bullshit but Aki stops me before I can.

“Fine. We will have fun! Without you and we’ll do it without drinking.” Aki announces, causing other people in the room to look towards us. Aki marches off towards the kitchen exit but collides into someone else who walked through the door. The other figure holds her steady before she falls.

“I’m sorry! I didn’t see you!” Aki apologizes but when she finally notices who it is she backs away.

My heart drops.

“Mingyu?” Aki says below her breath but he seems to have caught it. Mingyu looks at her and raises a brow.

“Do I know you?” He asks. He lowers down to her level and stares directly at her face. His eyes widen and a slight laugh comes from his mouth. “No way! You’re that music major girl .” He glances at her appearance and back to her face. “I couldn’t even recognize you.” Aki tries to respond but Hana barges between them.

“I seem to not be able to go anywhere without rats following behind.” She hisses at the tall male. Mingyu rolls his eyes and walks around the both of them. “Hey! I’m talking to you.” She yells but Mingyu waves her off.

“Chill. The last thing we would want to see is you.” Mingyu sneers and walks beside me. Standing right next to me, he grabs a shot off the table and throws it back. A hiss comes from his lips as he slams the shot glass back down on the counter. I try not to make eye contact because it seems he doesn’t recognize me either. But when I think he hasn’t, his eyes snap towards me. His eyes widen in surprise and nearly stumbles back.

“__-___?” He stutters. I don’t really know what to say so I just give a small nod.

“What are you doing here? You don’t seem like one to go to parties…” he starts. He’s talking to me normally. Usually, he would talk to me with a teasing attitude.

“I’m really not. But I decided to go to one.” I give a short answer and try to walk towards Aki As she shuffles towards me. Hana looks way more annoyed than before as Mingyu ignores her.

“So if you’re here then that means that the captain of the jerk is here too.” She spits at mingyu. Her heels clack as she stomps out of the kitchen and into the main area. Aki and I looked at each other in question of what that was all about , but we just gave each other a shrug.

Mingyu takes another shot. I guess he feels satisfied because he wipes his mouth and walks towards the exit. He glances towards us and stops briefly at the door. “You two watch out. Parties like these can be dangerous. If you decide to drink then drink like a smart person, ok?” He informs and looks over to Aki, who was in awe of what he said. He smiles her way and walks out the door.

“What the hell was that?!” Aki says baffled and rests her hand on her forehead as if she was checking her temperature. “That couldn’t have been mingyu…” she whispers.

“I guess it just keeps getting weirder, huh.” I say to her, resting my hand on her shoulder. She gives a slow nod and leans against my shoulder. As weird as it was, I want to have a good time with her. So the last thing I want to think about is Seungcheol being here. I grab Aki’s hand and lead her to the main area. She looks at me astonished but decides to follow anyway.

The loud music boomed in our ears as we made it to the dance floor. Dozens of people are dancing in groups that are compact. Some danced solo as well.

And plenty of grinding.

I look towards my friend and she already seems to be getting into it. She sways her hips to the beat. I tag along and we both start to move along to the music.

We danced for a while until Aki had the sudden urge to pee. She held her legs together as she dragged me along to desperately find a bathroom. We walked up the stairs of the house and into a hall. The hall was long and didn’t have that many people in it.

“You’re such an asshole.” We hear someone say down the hall. The end of the hall was dark and hardly lit by the hall light. But one would still be able to see.

It wasn’t hard to tell who it was. I inhaled deeply because this was the last person I wanted to see.

Seungcheol.

He lazily had his back to the wall as another figure was yelling at him. The other figure who turned out to be Hana. She stood a good foot away from him.

As much as Aki wanted to see, nature was calling and she rushed past the two and into the bathroom next to them. It takes them both by surprise and they look towards me. Seungcheol looks surprised and straightens himself up and stares at me.

“___?” He questions and takes a few steps towards me. Hana is having none of that and grabs his shoulder, making him face her again.

“I’m not done talking to you yet!” She growls.

“Well I’m done talking to you.” He states and pulls his shoulder away. Clearly annoyed by her presence.

“Oh sure. Leave, go leave to other girls just so you could fuck them over too.” Seungcheol stops in his tracks. His back is facing her and his front is to me. His eyes glance to the side before he spins around. He’s wearing a black button up that had most of the top buttons unbuttoned. The shirt was tucked into tight black jeans. And finished with his boots. Even with low light you could see the light bounce off the many rings that he had on his fingers. He brushes his hands through his long curly hair.

“Fuck you over?” He says in a low tone.

Hana seems unnerved but keeps her head up high. Seungcheol puts his hands in his pockets and stares lazily at her. “Really? I talked to you for a one time deed . And I remember you saying that you had the same intentions.” Hana gulps nervously at the vampire.

“Then you go around sleeping with any guy that bats his eyelashes at you and then calls me out for sleeping with other girls?” He clicks his tongue and walks towards her.

Hana looks away from his eyes nervously.

“That’s not how it works. So fuck off.” He says flatly while looking her dead in the eyes. “And if you bother me again… well, let’s just say …you don’t want to know what will happen.” He smirks and stands up straight. Hana stays put as Seungcheol makes his way towards me again.

I try to get away but he grabs my arm. Pulling me towards him and then pushing me against the wall gently. His body pushes against mine, keeping me in place against the wall. I glance at Hana and she stares with a look that could kill. I push him away harshly and pat my dress down. Trying to show Hana that it’s not what it looks like. Perfect timing because Aki walks out the bathroom with a relieved expression. That expression soon turns into confusion at the scene in front of her.

“So, that’s what you meant by you having problems with Seungcheol?” Hana scoffs. “You’re Seungcheol’s little plaything?” She says with venom. Aki tried to explain it but Hana walked away with her arms crossed. Her sister follows after and tells me that she’ll try to tell her what’s happening. They both scurry off, leaving me and Seungcheol alone.

I push him again. “What the heck was that for? I don’t know what drama you have with her but I don’t want to be in it. And I especially don’t want to be thought of as one of your ‘play things’.” I scoff.

“I don’t have ‘play things’. That’s stupid. I just want to fuck, nothing else, I don’t try to play with girls emotions. That’s too much of a burden if they catch feelings. They just can’t get enough of me I guess.” He smirks and rests his hand next to my head against the wall.

“Well I don’t want don’t want to be associated with either of those situations.” I say and slap his hand away. He just rolls his eyes and places his hand on top of my head.

“How many times do I have to tell you?I’m trying to prove myself to you. You won’t be treated like those other girls. You’re not someone I just want to have sex with. Unless…” Before he could finish his sentence I punched him on the shoulder.

“Fuck off.” I growl but he just laughs.

“I’m joking.” He smiles and looks down at me. Taking in my appearance. “But you do look beautiful. I mean you always do but this is different.” He compliments. I try to pay him no mind. “What are you even doing at a party like this?” He asks.

“What? I can’t go to a party?” He just exhales.

“I never said that. It’s just that you aren’t one to just decide to party. You like playing farming games and

Watching movies. You only liked being around close friends. You never liked being alone though.” He explains. I look down towards my aching feet. He’s right, I’m not one to go to parties. I would be rather playing video games than this.I decided to go out of my comfort zone ,but it clearly back fired.

“How would you know what I like anymore?” He ponders for a bit.

“I know this whole being cold and unbothered persona is a lie. You hate keeping to yourself. You used to be outgoing. You were never seen without a smile on your face. Now, you could just tell you’re masking it all.” I can feel the anger bubble inside of me. Does he not know that he’s the cause of this? That all those years of bullying and being alone didn’t have an effect on me?

“So you’re allowed to change and I can’t?” I walk around him and to the other side of the hall. His eyes follow with what looks like fascination. “I’m done with this conversation.” I make my way down the hall and down the stairs. The party seems to be more lively than before.

The thoughts of the talk with Seungcheol raced through my mind.

I was more lively back then…

Why did he and Jeonghan leaving change me? I didn’t want to change. I had to change. Me back then couldn’t handle this now, I wouldn’t be able to stand a chance back then. I rush down the rest of the stairs and towards the pool.

People were drinking and splashing about. It’s much cooler outside;The fresh air feels nice. I hear footsteps and already know who’s behind.

“___.” He calls. My shoulders slump with no hope of getting away.

“I’m sorry. That was uncalled for. I shouldn’t say things like that when I’m the one who caused you to hide.” He confesses.

I didn’t want to hear it, I just wanted to finally have a time when I didn’t have to worry about him.

“I’m sorry.” He apologizes again.

I’m tired of his apologies . I’m tired of feeling this down when I’m supposed to be having a good time.

“Then make it up to me.” I look back at him. He furrows his brows.

“What?”

“Make it up to me.” I repeat. “I'm tired of words, seungcheol. I need action. What you said was out of line, so make it up to me.” He just stares.

“Seungcheol.”

“I’ve been trying. What am I supposed to do?” He looks slightly defeated.

“Help me have a good time tonight.” I breathe. I’ve made up my mind. I must only take action instead of words. I can tell he’s thinking of what I could possibly mean by that. “These past three years have been rough. And this last week has been even worse… I want one night, just one, where I can have a good time.”

He does just what I hoped.

Instead of answering, he extends his hand out to me. Waiting for my hand to come to him.

“Then I’ll show you one.”

So I take his hand.

“I’ll make sure you have fun.” He smiles.

It was like I was blasted to the past. When we would go to haunted houses and he would grab my hand just like this. With that smile, That same toothy smile that never changed over time. Even though I found out his dark truth, I’ve never been reminded of the past as much as now, ever since I found out.

He pulls me inside towards the dance floor again. More and more people have moved in since I was here with Aki. Seungcheol does nothing but look at me just standing here.

“What? You don’t wanna dance?” He chuckles and starts to move his head to the beat. I’m skeptical of course but can’t help but try to hold back a smile at his goofy dance. He starts to move more and more and now his whole body is moving to the song. “Come on. You can’t have fun if you don’t dance!” He yells over the song. Before I know it, he takes my hand and lifts it over my head making me spin. I wobble a bit but he gently grabs my hips holding me steady. I glare at him but all he does is laugh and continue dancing. I take his hands off my hips and turn towards him. He seems nervous at my actions but when he sees my slight shimmy of my shoulders he lights up.

I start to move my body more and more. Seungcheol is pleasantly surprised as my hips move. The last time he’s ever seen me dance was in middle school at our awkward school gym dance. I remember the goofy dad dances he pulled out at the time and how we laughed the whole time. Now, of course our dancing has matured and has become more sexy than anything. I can tell he was surprised at my hip movement. He pulls me closer towards him, my back practically against his chest as we dance closely. His hands move down to my hips, holding tightly as his head rests on my shoulder. Seungcheol was always a really good dancer and it’s no surprise that he catches the attention of girls around us.

I nearly stop my movements when he busts out one of his old dad moves. Laughter bursts through me at his moves. I didn’t know you could cringe and laugh at the same time. I could tell he was trying to make me laugh, and it worked. I almost had to walk away when he pulled out the rope pull move. I can see people around staring at the most feared man on campus doing cheesy moves. He didn’t seem to care as he spun me around again, but this time I allowed it. This time he pulls me into his body. My back is on his chest again as he holds me close and sways to the music. We’re both still laughing slightly as we catch our breath.

“Having fun yet?” He asks with his face near my ear. He’s so close but yet I don’t feel like I want to push him away. It’s like the past seungcheol is with me. I just want to bask in this moment before it’s gone by the end of the night.

“Hmmm I don’t think I am yet.” I say with a playful smirk. Taking the challenge he pulls me closer.

“Ok. You asked for it.” He says and then in the blink of an eye, I'm dipped down feeling like I’ve gotten whiplash . I come back up into Seungcheol's arms and grasp onto his arms.

“Did you just almost drop me?!” I gasp but then I’m dipped again and pulled back into his arms.

“I would never do that.” He laughs and then spins us around rapidly. My legs are floating off the ground as we spin. I can’t contain my laughter as I grasp onto him for dear life. As he’s holding me in his arms, I can see from the corner of my eye Hana staring at us. She’s looking while a man is behind her grasping onto her hips as they dance. The man seems to have noticed her staring, because he looks at her and tries to distract her with his nasty dance moves.

It would have bothered me before but right now I’m actually having fun, and with someone I thought I could never be possible with. Seungcheol grabs my attention again and lowers his head to the side of my face. “You thirsty?” He asks and I nod thinking I could go for something to drink after all that dancing. He locks his arm with mine and we head towards the kitchen, and I can feel all the eyes watching.

He opens the door for me and we waddle over to the drink table. Seungcheol grabs me a coke can and himself a solo cup of whatever alcohol he could get his hands on. I take the coke can and thank him. While I sip on my drink, he decides to guzzle down his drink in seconds. I look with pure horror as he wipes the sides of his mouth.

“Are you going to live after that?!” I whisper and he just chuckles.

“I can’t get drunk.” He simply states and takes my drink and takes a sip. “I can drink all I want and nothin.” He explains. I snatch my drink back from his grasp and remember that I’m hanging out with a vampire.

“That must be nice.” He just rests against the table.

“Sure. One more thing that makes us less human…” he says as he takes another cup and sips lightly.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to-“

“I know. It’s ok, I’ve accepted it already so what can I do?” He puffs. I try to say something but two bodies bust into the kitchen causing a scene.

Hana and the random guy come in and stumble towards the table where we stand. The two are attached to the hip. Hana is almost hanging off this poor boy. I can’t help but think that they knew we were in here.

Seungcheol still rests against the table and looks like he’s not looking towards the couple, but he’s glancing over slightly. They make it to the edge of the table and right next to me, they decide on the selection. The male gets closer and closer to me as he chugs his drink down. He even bumps his elbow on my shoulder a little too hard. Seungcheol pulls me by my arms to him. His hands on my hips as he pushes me towards him protectively.

“Fucking watch it.” Seungcheol growls at the couple. The guy holds up his hands defensively at the sight of the scariest guy around.

“I’m sorry, dude.” The man apologizes and continues to hand a drink to Hana, who hasn’t stopped staring. Seungcheol could care less about her and rubs my shoulder gently. Finding this a little too close at the moment, I push myself off of him.

He has no expression as I do so.

“Think I’m good with the drinks.” I lend out my hand for him to take again. “We can go dance some more if you want?” He doesn’t answer. He just takes my hand and gives it a gentle squeeze.

I go to walk but Hana happens to walk the same time I do. Causing her and her bright red drink to collide with me. Seungcheol pulls me back away from her and she gasps. Not too convincing of a gasp either.

“Oh my- I’m so sorry,___” she grabs napkins, attempting to try and pat me down. Seungcheol grabs her wrist before she could do so. Taking the napkins from her hands and handing them to me gently.

“Good thing you're wearing a black dress. You don’t have to worry about a stain.” He comments. “But I think I have a way for you to feel better.” He gives a devilish smirk. Having a bad feeling about what he was planning, I tried to make my escape but he picked me up before I could. I squirm around his hold but he has an iron grip as we head to leave the kitchen. Before we left the room I saw a glimpse of Hana seething.

Seungcheol rushes through everyone and makes a beeline towards the back door and the pool. I can feel my heart racing. “Seungcheol you better not be thinking what I think you’re thinking.” I warn but he just gives me silence. He makes it to the edge of the pool and holds me above the water. At this point I’m screaming and yelling as he laughs at my suffering. The other pool goers looked in awe at Seungcheol. I kick my feet as He pretends to drop me into the water.

“I will kill you again so help me Seungcheol.” I threaten.

Thinking that it was enough teasing, he set me back down by the pool. My heels splash in the puddles surrounding the pool. The pool is lit by big blue lights that make the whole backyard shine. Boys and girls splashed around and drank in the hot tub.

It was a nice break from the inside. I turn to look towards Seungcheol but he’s already on the floor taking off his shoes to plop his feet in the water. I join him and slip of the torture tools they call heels and slip my hurting feet into the cool water.

“How’s your dress?” He asks suddenly.

I must have forgotten that there’s a giant wet blob on my clothes.

“It’s fine. She didn’t spill enough to get me soaking wet. I’m sure it’s not noticeable with the black though.” I reassure and he just hums, moving his feet in the water.

Seeing him like this was starting to give me a false sense of hope. Yes, he’s being nice and giving me a good time but… I know I would never get this back fully. He’s already told me he’s changed. We both have since Jeonghan left. We seem to both have these walls blocking our old selves back. I can’t blame him, I don’t know what happened in the past. I can’t imagine what it’s like being what he is now.

After tonight I know he’s still the same, but so different at the same time. He wants to be feared by others, he wants to be respected. He’s changed but he’s still giving me this side of him.

“Seungcheol…” he lifts his head at his name. I rest my hands In my lap and look towards the bottom of the pool. “I wanted to say thank you.”

“For what? You don’t have to-“

“I'm thankful for you saving me from those soccer players, twice. I’m thankful for you finding me in the tree and talking to me. And I’m thankful for you showing me a fun time even though it goes against your image now. I know it was only a little while ago when you probably would have just pushed me into the pool and left me. Today, you gave me a sliver of the past and our times together . And I’m thankful for that.” I finish, he’s clearly taken aback.

“Don’t thank me. I don’t deserve a thank you after what I’ve done.” He gulps. “But I realized after all that time of being hurt and taking it out on others, especially you, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should never be thanked… I’m sorry, but the old Seungcheol is hardly there anymore. I can’t be as naive or outgoing as I was before. I don’t know what came over me tonight but when I was with you, dancing and having fun for the first time in ages. I felt like I was someone who I could actually look at in the mirror.” He sighs.

“I’m sorry I changed….”

His fists clenched on the pool's edge. So hard that I could hear chips and cracks of the concrete.

“You’re the only person that made me feel human again…” I couldn’t help myself at this moment and threw my arms around him.

Like he didn’t bully me for years, but as if he was the boy back then. He was the boy back then but just lost. I feel the same, Even after what he did to me, I couldn’t relate more to what he’s saying. He freezes and just takes it, he doesn’t return the hug. He didn’t need to, for me to realize that he needed one.

“I’m sorry that tonight made you realize I’m not the same guy… but still someone you could look at without disgust. Even if it’s just for a night.” I shake my head and tighten my grip.

“I don’t care that you changed, now. You proved to me that you want to make it up to me. If I could be with old Seungcheol then I would have to learn to live with the new one. Even if we had a rough start.” He smiles to himself.

“I promise I won’t hurt you anymore, you don’t deserve to hurt anymore.” He ends the conversation. Thinking this conversation is a little too serious, I decide to take matters into my own hands. I make sure I have an iron grip on his form and push off the side of the pool. I was expecting us to come crashing into the water but we didn’t even move. I see Seungcheol laughing at my attempts to push him in the water.

“Nice try.” He says and stands up, my iron grip causes me to come up with him. “As much as I would love to throw you into the pool. You only have one outfit so I’ll have a rain check for this, ok?” I just roll my eyes and let go of his shoulders.

“___!” To my surprise it's Aki. To an even bigger surprise she’s with mingyu. “Thank goodness I found you. I’ve been looking for you everywhere.” She throws her arms around me, giving me a relieved sigh.

“I’m sorry. I thought you were with Hana. I should have gone looking for you.” She just shakes her head and waves it off.

“Hana was being a jerk so I decided to look for you. But I ran into mingyu and he kept me company while we waited for you to come around. He’s actually really good at mobile rhythm games.” She compliments the taller male, he just scratches the back of his head and smiles. “I guess they’re not that bad after all..” she wiggles her eyebrows. She can clearly see how close Seungcheol and I are standing to each other. I clear my throat and step away from him slightly. I couldn’t help but agree with her tonight.

“Ya… I guess they’re not.” I try to whisper to her but I know he could hear me. Seungcheol clears his throat and rests his hand on my back.

“Let’s go Inside before it gets cold.” He suggests. We all agreed to go back inside.

Aki is nearly hip and hip with Mingyu as they walk alongside us. Seungcheol is closer than before, his arms are around my waist tightly. I know it’s only for tonight. So it’s no big deal, it’ll all go back to normal tomorrow.

We decided to sit inside and just lounge around on the couch to the music. Sitting on the couch before us was a couple making out, but as soon as they got sight of Seungcheol and Mingyu they scurried away. The two males snicker at the couple. Seungcheol and I sit down first but Mingyu suggests grabbing drinks first.

“Do you want anything?” He asks Aki. Though she seems hesitant at first, she decides on a beer. I give her a skeptical look but she just shrugs.

“Are you sure? You never drank before. Plus, I don’t think Hana-“ Aki stands up abruptly.

“I don’t care what my sister has to think. She proved tonight that she doesn’t care.” She locks arms with mingyu. “Plus, I wanna try to have fun. I promise I will be safe.” She pleads. Mingyu looks away nervously as I stare at the two. I try to speak out again but Seungcheol lifts his hand, signaling just to let it go. He nods at Mingyu and Aki excitedly drags off the tall male. Watching the two leave, I just slump back into the plush couch cushions.

“If mingyu tries to do something I swear…” Seungcheol just runs his hands through his pitch black hair.

“She’ll be ok. He seems to have taken interest in her.” He points out. My jaw nearly drops to the floor at that statement. “He’s a good guy. When you’re on his good side. I trust him with my life. So don’t worry.” He pokes my forehead lightly.

“Man, if Hana couldn’t get any more mad at me.” I huff. The vampire rolls his eyes at the name.

“She’s about to become a late night meal if she keeps bothering us.” As much as I hated the threat of her becoming a meal, I couldn’t get the thought out that he said “us”. I push him lightly and he just chuckles.

“I’m joking.” He teases but his smile fades quickly at the sight of a very familiar person. “Well, speak of the devil.” He nearly groans as Hana and the boy from before come towards us. Hana of course does not look happy. I looked towards the floor because I didn’t really want to look at her burning gaze. Her heels come into my sight as I’m looking at the carpet. I look up finally to see her peering down at me on the couch. The boy behind her clearly did not want to be near us.

“So you’re not gonna listen to my warning, huh?” She slurs. She’s definitely drunk because she could hardly stand straight. The only reason she’s standing is because of the poor young man holding her in place. “I told you. This sorry sack of a human isn’t someone you wanna hang around with.” She points her thumbs towards Seungcheol who happens to just stare at her with a bored expression.

“Hana. I don’t want to be involved in whatever beef you have with him. We’re just sitting together. If you think I’m gonna get tangled into something bad then think otherwise. I’m watching Aki.” I try to explain but it seems to go in one ear and out the other.

“Babe. Let’s just go back to dancing.” The boy tries to drag her away. You can see the irritation in his face when she rips her arm out of his grasp.

“I don’t care what you're doing. I know how he works. He acts all smooth and whatever, then just sleeps with you and dumps you. He’s a piece of garbage!” She hisses. Apparently that one got to Seungcheol because He tries to get up but I held him back. I rest my hand on his chest and push him slightly back down to me.

“I already warned you about you bothering me.” Seungcheol growls. I know I could never hold a vampire back for long so I try to end it.

“Hana-“

“Hana, just leave the douche bag and his stupid bitch. They’re not worth it.” The boy behind her unfortunately says. Right when that last word left his mouth, I knew that this wasn’t gonna end pretty.

I’m indeed right because In half a second, Seungcheol is already face time with the other male. His knuckles clenched, telling me he was holding back slightly.

“You wanna fucking repeat what you just said?” Seungcheol spits. The other guy seems nervous but straightens himself out. The music stops at the sight of what’s happening. The party goers' eyes look towards the four of us, even circling around the scene.

“Repeat what I said about you? Or your dumb skank?” He says and at that point I knew I had to do something before Seungcheol killed him. I lodged myself between them before Seungcheol couldn’t get his hand on him. Everyone already started chatting for a fight.

I push at seungcheol’s shoulders. “Cheol stop. He’s drunk! He doesn’t know what he’s saying!” I try to pry him away. I look to my side to see Hana staring wide eyed, then Aki and Mingyu pushing through the crowd. I know Seungcheol can only see red at this point because the only reason he hasn’t beaten this kid to a pulp is because I’m in the way. “Please!” I plead with my whole heart. The guy was still in the back of me egging on the vampire. I can see Seungcheol forcing all the restraint he has in his body.

“S.coups? He’s holding back?”

“There’s no way that’s happening.”

“If it isn’t for that chick then that guy probably would have died...”

I can hear the chattering in the crowd. Surely, this must be a sight to see. The most feared man in this small town is showing restraint. Seungcheol grabs my arm just to throw me towards mingyu. Mingyu holds me as I struggle to intervene.

“What? Not so big and bad now are you, S.coups? Does this chick have you whipped or-“ gasps leave the mouth of all the party goers as Seungcheol grabs the man by his collar with such strength that I can hear the fabric tear. The man gulps nervously as you can see Seungcheol’s pupils almost dailate. “I’ll fucking end your life right here.” Seungcheol hisses as he raises his fist.

Just as we thought the punch would come…

A bang crashes my eardrums. The sound was so loud that it caused my ears to ring painfully.

A gunshot.

My eyes immediately shoot towards seungcheol. He was standing there, but nothing was wrong. He seemed to have the same idea because he put the man down and looked towards me. Checking if I’m ok.

The ringing was still loud in my ears but nothing compared to Aki’s ear piercing Shriek. The arms holding me back weaken as I feel warmth run down my back. I feel the air leave my lungs as I look up.

Mingyu had been shot right in the heart.

Soon shrieks are bounced off the walls as party goers leave out of any possible exit. Bumping into Aki and Seungcheol on the way out. Seungcheol quickly burst into action to help his brother. Mingyu’s arms were still around me, but this time holding in for support.

“Mingyu?!” I yell and try to hold him up as people push and shove the both of us. Aki and Seungcheol support him.

“Look!” Aki points.

A figure pushes against the crowd and straight for us. A wooden mask covering his face. On the mask was a symbol scratched onto the forehead. The wooden mask is in contrast to his pitch black outfit. Cocking the gun in his hand again, he pushes towards us.

Seungcheol grabs mingyu. Throwing the giant man over one of his shoulders. “Get out of here now!” Seungcheol commands me and Aki. “Head towards the kitchen!” The two of us rush towards the kitchen and he follows close behind. Making it into the now empty kitchen, Seungcheol gently puts Mingyu against the wall. The taller male just groans in pain and slumps forward.

Seungcheol immediately rips the door handle off and throws it. “What are you just standing here for?! Run!” Seungcheol yells at the both of us. Aki is one step ahead of him and scurries for the door.

“Wait, what are you guys going to do? Mingyu is hurt! We can’t leave you!” I argue. Aki tries to yank me towards the exit but I try to stand my ground.

“___ now isn’t the time to argue with me. Leave now! I’ll be right behind you. There’s something I need to take care of first- '' before he could finish his sentence, the door was kicked off its hinges. The figure emerging from the other room. Aki and I ran out the door leading to the back yard. Luckily, there weren't any fences, just Forrest. We scurry around the house to the front yard where we see everyone zooming away in their vehicles. Taking off my heels, I grab Aki's hand, dragging her near her sister's truck. Hoping that Hana was there waiting for us. Unfortunately, as we’re running, a truck's lights nearly blind us as it zooms past.

Aki’s truck.

Aki nearly breaks down at the sight of her sister, basically leaving her for dead. I keep my head on strong as I push her to keep on running. Seungcheol and Mingyu aren’t anywhere to be seen.

“We’re dead! We’re so dead! Everyone else left and Mingyu was just killed! They’re gonna find us.” Aki cries hysterically. I couldn’t think of anything else but running. Until a buzzing in my purse goes off. The thought of calling the police never even came to mind. Slipping my phone out of my bag, I see Jeonghan's name on the screen. Answering without a second thought.

“Hello-“

“Jeonghan! Please come find us! There was a shooting, they got Mingyu! They’re gonna kill us!-“

“What?! Where are you?! I’m on my way-“

“Jeonghan please I’m scared!”

“Ok I’ll be there right now, where-“ and then the phone call disconnects. I look at my know pitch black screen with the empty battery sign. My heart nearly stops at the sight.

“Jeonghan?! Jeonghan!” I yell at the phone over and over again.

“No use in calling.” Aki’s and my head snap back instantly to see two of the masked men behind us. Before we could scream, two more appeared in front of us and slapped their hands around our mouths. I kick and flail but nothing works, these guys were insanely strong.

“Listen, you’re not who we’re after. We just want the demons. Tell us where they are and we don’t have to go back to our bosses empty handed.`` The hand uncovers my mouth.

“I don’t know who you’re talking about!” I argue. The man only laughs and steps closer.

“Oh but you do. Those two boys. The ones you were making smoochie faces at all night.”

Seungcheol and mingyu.

“I don’t know who you’re talking-“

“You want us?” Everyone turns around to see the two boys walking down the sidewalk. I couldn’t help but smile seeing that they were both ok.

“Mingyu you’re alive?!” Aki yells dumbfounded. She couldn’t believe she just saw someone get shot in the chest and walk as if nothing happened.

“Well well well , I guess we were correct. You two are monsters.” The main masked man says as his hand reaches to his side bag.

Seungcheol steps forward with a low growl. “Move and I’ll rip your lousy head off.” He threatens. Mingyu also steps forward but immediately his hand rushes towards his chest. Giving a painful hiss.

“You’re still hurt, just watch over them.” He nods towards our direction. The two guards lets us lose as they ready their weapons, we take the chance to run towards the two vampires. I grab Mingyu's wrist gently and pull him towards Aki and I. He looks surprised at this action but it’s easily taken over by more pain.

“What do you mean?! They have guns!! We need to run, not do a face off!” Aki panics. “We’ll die if we stay here.” She tries to drag us both away but Mingyu halts her movements.

“What’s the point in running if they have guns, sweetheart?” He says. Aki does nothing but gulp as she scoots closer to mingyu.

Seungcheol is still facing off with the three masked men. “I’ll warn you again. You either leave or you won’t live another day.” He hisses but the three men just laugh as they pull out the rest of their weapons. The main man pulls his gun straight towards Seungcheol's forehead.

“We’d like to see you try.” He says putting his hand on the trigger. I can’t bear to watch as I close my eyes and hear the gun go off. All I could hear was Aki's screams. I open my eyes again to see the main man on the ground with seungcheol standing above him. The man's hand that held the gun was now clean off.

“Get them out of here, now!” Mingyu doesn’t think twice before picking us both up on his shoulders and runs. The only glance I got was of seungcheol being tackled by the others as the main man screamed in agony. Aki was crying hysterically as we moved at an inhuman speed. But unfortunately, we couldn’t get too far because a whole new group of masked men cut us off.

“You have to be kidding me.” Mingyu whispers. Stepping back he notices more men behind us, having the three of us completely surrounded. They step closer as Mingyu hisses his warning. His teeth razor sharp and eyes blood red, warning them to back off.

“It’s all over, blood sucker.” They all point their weapons towards us. Mingyu puts us down before he puts us behind him.

“Kill me? I’d like to see you try.” He sneers. But the masked men stayed silent as they all put their fingers on the trigger. I look towards Aki as she cries and looks towards the ground. I reach to gently grab her hand as she sobs. I couldn’t find it in me to cry. As it would do nothing but make my final moments on this earth all the more painful.

“Let them go, they aren’t one of us.” Mingyu nodded in our direction.

“The ones who associate with monsters. Are even worse than the monsters themselves.” One of them says before giving the signal. Nothing was in my mind but the thought of regrets. I would never see Jeonghan again… I never got to say I forgave him. And Aki, I wish I could have said sorry for bringing you into this. And seungcheol…

“Ready, aim, fire!”

But, the shots never came.

A thud is heard as one of the men falls towards the ground. His spine completely ripped out of his back. A foot steps over his body as the figure throws the spine towards the middle of the circle. A lazy sigh is heard along with it.

“Mingyu, if we have to save your ass again. I’m ripping both your arms off and beating you with them.” Vernon appears suddenly. Then two more bodies fall to the ground as wonwoo rips their throats out. Luckily mingyu tries to cover our eyes from the sight.

“What are you waiting for?! Kill them” the main leader says as they aim fire but to no avail because they’re tossed 20 feet up in the air. Only to fall down with a sickening crack.

“Seems a little brutal, don’t you think?” A familiar voice says.

“Well they were about to shoot them, what the fuck did you expect.” I move Mingyu's hand to see woozi and seungkwan.

“I say it wasn’t brutal enough.” Joshua's voice came out of nowhere. He stomps on the necks of the men who survived the fall. “I think we could do a lot better.” He gives an evil smile as his eyes fade into a deep crimson. My cousin steps forward with nothing but pure anger in his eyes. As if he could murder everyone with just a stare.

They were quick to dispose of most of the men, except seokmin, who took Aki and I away to the side. Jeonghan was feral as he ripped through the poor men as if they were nothing but paper. I covered Aki’s eyes still while seokmin covered our sight with his body. I look up to see his glowing red eyes, but with his warm smile.

“It’s ok, we’re here now. You guys are safe.” He reassures the both of us as the carnage comes to an end. My roommates all come towards me and seokmin as Vernon and wonwoo go to their friend.

“__! I’m here! You’re ok!” Jeonghan pushes seokmin away and wraps me in his arms. “I sorry I wasn’t here sooner, I’m sorry-“

“It’s ok Jeonghan. You don’t have to be sorry. I’m so glad you're here. I love you, please don’t ever think I don’t love you. I don’t care what you are, I’m sorry I’ve been such a jerk.” I hugged him back. The thought of me dying with him thinking I didn’t accept him made my heart hurt. The memories of me being scared of him just haunted my brain. He’s been nothing but good to me since he’s come back. And I’ll I’ve been doing is avoiding him. “I’m sorry Jeonghan.-“

“Hey kiddo, it’s ok. I forgive you. Even though I’m the one who should be saying sorry. I love you too. I’m glad you're safe…” he whispers. “You’re not dying on my watch. Trust me, it’s not fun.” He laughs slightly before kissing the side of my head. He rubs my back gently.

But something caught my eye. Footsteps are heard just down the sidewalk. A figure slumps towards us .

I see Seungcheol walking towards the end of the street.

I gently push Jeonghan away. Making his eyes widen at my urgency. They all watch as I make my way towards his end of the street.

I couldn’t control my legs at this point. Walking turned to jogging and then sprinting towards the vampire. As I made it to him I couldn’t help but wrap my arms around him tightly. Nearly throwing myself at him as he catches me.

“You idiot! Why would you do that?! Don’t ever do that again!” I yell as I hold him tighter. He seems shocked at this reaction but does nothing but hug me just as tight. Grabbing the back of my head to bring it to his chest. This is where all the emotions of nearly dying come to play. I couldn’t help but cry as all the adrenaline leaked from my body. The thought of losing Jeonghan, the thought of losing Aki, and even the thought of losing seungcheol, plagued my head.

“I’m sorry. But I can’t say I wouldn’t do that again, baby.” He chuckles and rubs my head as I cry and wipe my snot on his nice shirt. “I’m glad you're safe. Guess I have to thank your cousin and his cheese ball friends for saving my boy too.” He frowns slightly at the thought, but continues to hold me.

“When did this happen?” Wonwoo says as he magically appears behind us.

Completely forgetting that there was a group of people watching us. I push myself away shyly. Seungcheol just chuckles and greets his brothers.

Aki takes no time engulfing me in a hug as well.

“ I don’t know what’s going on and what the hell they are, but I’m so glad we’re safe.” She sniffles. “I'm glad you’re safe.” I rub her head softly and hold her.

“Well I guess someone else knows now.” Jihoon sneers.

“Ya what are we gonna do now?” Seokmin asks Jeonghan.

“We could always kill her.” Wonwoo suggests but Mingyu and I were quick to shoot down that suggestion, to Aki’s relief as well.

“If she knows, she knows.” Jeonghan speaks. “We’ll just have to make sure she doesn’t tell anyone. Not that anyone would believe her anyway…” Jeonghan winks at her with his fangs on full display.

“She would never tell anyone.” I assure them .

Aki couldn’t find it in herself to speak considering she was surrounded by vampires. She just nodded and hid behind me.

“It’s decided then. The girl lives.” Seungcheol states and wipes the dust off his shirt. “Now I think it’s best we head out of here. Before something else comes up.” He glances at my cousin. Jeonghan clicks his tongue and grabs my shoulder.

“But before that. I have to thank you for helping mingyu. Even though it hurts doing so..” seungcheol forces out.

Jeonghan just hums and nods. “I should say the same to him. For protecting my family and her Friend.” Jeonghan smiles gently. “Thank you all for doing so.” He shoves his hands in his pockets and relaxes.

“Come on, let’s go home. And get Aki home as well.”

“Actually, is it ok if I go with ___ instead? I don’t think I’d be able to sleep tonight… or see my sister for that matter.” She says sadly, knowing that having to talk to her sister about what happened, is the last thing she wants to do.

“Of course.” Jeonghan smiles. He guides Aki towards the rest of my roommates. I glance over to Seungcheol as he looks at me. Seeming to want to say something but a hand grabs my wrist gently.

Seungcheol quickly grabs the other person’s hand. I look up to see Joshua and Seungcheol staring each other down. Seungcheol having Joshua's wrist in a tight grip.

Joshua just smirks. “Is there a problem?” He asks seungcheol. “Can’t I walk my friend home? Why so defensive?”

Seungcheol exhales out of his nose.

“Seungcheol?” I say, wondering where this is even coming from. The rest of the boys are on edge as this goes down.

Seungcheol glances around and lastly to me. Then he slowly removes his hand from Joshua’s. “No, there is no problem.” He grunts before moving away towards his friends.

I couldn’t take my eyes off of him as he walked away. Joshua puts his hand on my shoulder taking me out of my trance. “You ready to go?” He asks gently, still his hand on my wrist.

Then I couldn’t help myself.

“Ya, actually. You guys go ahead, get Aki something to eat and drink. I think I’m gonna walk home with seungcheol…” every single one of their eyes widened. Even my best friend with her jaw nearly to the floor.

Joshua removes his hand and shoves it in his pocket. “I’ll see you at home,__. Maybe you can join us for Uno?” he smiles and joins the rest of them. Jeonghan not really liking the idea, he tries to butt in but Joshua stops him.

“Be home soon.” Was the last thing Jeonghan says before he hoists Aki on his back before they disappear almost instantly.

The five of us stand there awkwardly. Being Surrounded by dead bodies wasn't a very fun and calming mood. Seungcheol nods to his brothers as Vernon takes out his phone before dialing a number.

“Hello?ya, it’s Vernon. We need a clean up.” That was the last thing I heard before the other three run off into the woods.

Seungcheol clears his throat awkwardly before extending his arm for me to take. “Ready to head off?” He asks shyly. I take his arm in mine and we start to walk.

We walked for a while through the neighborhood.

“Why are we walking again? You don’t even have shoes on.” He brings up as he looks down to my bare feet walking on the sidewalk.

“Because, I think I had enough running today.” I chuckle. He tries to smile at the joke but he couldn’t find himself to joke about the recent events yet. We walk in silence more but I could tell he wants to get something out.

“Seung-“

“Why?” He cuts me off.

“Why what?”

“Why did you choose to walk with me? And not the other dude and your cousin.” He asks somewhat frustrated with the idea of it.

“Because we haven’t ended the night Nicely like I wanted it to.” I laugh

“Too late for that..” He looks down at me.

I shuffle my arm from his and face him. “ I chose you Because you saved me. Even after that whole spiel about you never going back to the old you. Because tonight, you showed me seungcheol. Not scoups-“

“Stop.”

“No, I won’t.” I argue. “Actually, you might be scoups now. But I'm starting to think S.coups isn’t that bad” I rant taking his colder hand in mine.

“I’m a monster, ___.” He growls. “These hands kill, with no mercy.” He brings our interlocked hands up. Squeezing a little too hard for comfort. “I’ve ripped peoples' heads off just to quench my thirst for one night. I’ve had people beg me for their lives..” he squeezes harder.

“All it takes is one bad look. And I’d have their head in my hands.” His face comes closer to mine. Pushing us against a car door. His nose almost touching mine. “ I could have you beg for mercy. I could have you cry for your life. I could end you like nothing.” His other hand grabs my jaw roughly making me look into his blood red eyes.

Our other hands are still together. I squeeze his hand a little tighter. “But you decided to save me. Not just me but my friend and mingyu-” He gives a dark laugh. I just pout and scrunch my nose at his reaction.

“Not to mention you said you’d never hurt me again. So I'm gonna take your word for it seungcheol.” He just clicks his tongue in annoyance as he knows his act didn’t play out well. He pushes off of me and continues walking down the sidewalk. Walking slowly enough to have me catch up quickly.

“You’re really something. Being away really made your head dense.” He comments with a slight joking tone.

“ And You’re rude, you have no control of your temper, and you care too much about your image.” I huff, to which he raises his brow.

“Buuuut.. you care about your brothers. And you saved me. I think that’s something I can accept , regarding you wanting to make it up to me. This isn’t the first time this week you’ve done it either. That doesn’t seem like the actions of someone who wants to kill me.”

“What am I? Your personal bodyguard now?” He questions and pushes me slightly to the side.

“No. Hopefully that’s over with. Considering I might be scarred for life after seeing you all do whatever you did back there..” I give a nervous laugh.

“Comes with the package deal of living and befriending vampires. But, I’ll be sure to make sure you see nothing like that from now on.”

“I’ll be holding you to that, S.coups.” I link my arms to his again.

He only smirks. “Nah, none of that. At this pace we won’t get you home.”

“Ok-“ I yell as he picks me up. Carrying me like a bride he starts to make his way down the street again.

“Don’t even try to argue. Ima vampire. You won’t win.” I just huff and accept it.

“It’s late. You don’t know what lurks around these parts. Let’s get you home. Also, don’t call me S.coups. That’s strictly for people who I want to fear me .” He states bluntly. I do nothing but roll my eyes and relax in his hold. “Not that I could get you to fear me anyway. Even when I said I could rip off your head.” I just huff at the comment.

“Nothing is scarier than the greasy comments.” I hissed. He looks at me surprised.

“You don’t like when I give you that kind of attention baby? Most girls would love to be pinned to a car by me. ” He smirks. I look away as my face burns up. “Oh? Did ‘little miss shy’ like when I pinned her to the car? Telling her what I could do to her?” I smack his chest and try to wiggle out of his hold.

“I'll take it back! I’ll walk home myself! You’re a perv!” He just laughs and holds me tighter. “What do you take me for?! That’s the last thing I would want you, slime ball!”

“I’m kidding!” He laughs but clears his throat “ But if I ever catch someone else saying that to you, I’d rip their spine out.” He says too seriously to be taken as a joke. My heart nearly stops at the joke. If it even was a joke.

He laughs at my worried expression.

“Kidding, again! … sorta.” I slap him again as we walk home. Or as he carries me home.

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“FUCK!” A man in all black slams his hand against the table. A long table lined with dozens of masked men sitting.

“YOU HAD ONE JOB!” He growls. “You couldn’t even kill one of them. Why do I hire you?!” The man at the end of the table rests his finger tips against his mask.

“You couldn’t do a simple job. Not to mention you got Humans involved.”

“Sir, they seemed to be associated with the vampires…” one of the huntsmen says.

“That doesn’t matter! I can’t trust you with this job anymore. The simplest of jobs you butchered….Call in my sons!!!” One of the masked henchmen scurries away.

Not much time passes as four figures walk through the door.

“You called father?” One of them asks.

“I need you to do a job for me.”

“Yes father.” They bow all day at once.

“But first.” The head leader pushes a man towards the bunch. His hand was missing and dripping blood through the bandage. “Teach him a lesson. He was the one who led this mess of a mission.”

“Yes father.” One of them steps up, taking a thin sword from his side. And before anyone could even register what happened. The man falls backwards as multiple cuts on his stomach bled.

The rest of the men stay quiet as the other screams in pain. The father of the four just hums before sitting down back at the end of the long table.

“Now that you taught him a lesson. Someone get him to the infirmary. I have better things to do with my time. You are dismissed.” They all bow and exit out the main doorway.

All that’s left are the four sons.

“Now for your mission my sons.”

They all listened but they couldn’t help but look at the poor man's wounds.

A perfectly cut star. The Infamous star shaped signature. Of one of the best supernatural hunters in the whole country.

“I know you wouldn’t let me down, Hoshi.”

“Yes father.”

#Seventeen #seventeen x reader #seventeen scenarios #seventeen fanfic #seventeen oneshot #seventeen seungcheol #seventeen hip hop unit #kpop oneshots #kpop scenarios #seventeen vampire au #vampire au #seventeen imagines #seventeen scoups #scoups x reader

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the-star-named-dowoon · 3 years

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New chapter of black dove coming up real soon???👀👀👀

Yes, indeed.

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Can I please get feet pics?

Haven’t gotten my nails done in a while tho...so don’t judge

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the-star-named-dowoon · 4 years

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Oh My God! Demon babies sounds amazing 😭 please tell me you have part two in mind 👉👈

I may or may not have have over 3k words on already 👀👀👀👀

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Do I sense demon babies in the future?👀 A part two does sound Interesting.

Cross Road

Title- Cross road (one Shot)

Genre- Demon Au & Best friends to lovers

Pairing- Demon best friend Hoshi x human reader

words- 6600+

warnings- Lots of talk about sex and baby making, virgin sacrifice, hoshi being the best, and yah

Plot- You and Soonyoung have been best friends since you were kids. You thought you knew everything there was to know about him,but little did you know your childhood crush had a surprising secret.

Masterlist

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Kwon Soonyoung.

He’s a sweet man, a funny man, and even a smart man. Well… is man really the right word? Sort of. You wouldn’t really know how to describe him. Other than being the best person you know and love.

He’s special to say the least.

But to tell that story we have to go back.

Way back.

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You were sitting on the playground during recess. It was the first day of kindergarten and kids ran around, already making new friends as the day progressed. You didn’t really pay much attention to it at the time, you just sat there. Not that you were shy or anything, but no one really came to you. You sit with your legs dangling off the edge of the playground watching other kids play tag. The boys provoke the girls to chase them around with the risk of getting cooties. As you watch , a finger taps your shoulder lightly.

“Hey you look like a sad lonely person.” You turned your head around to see a boy. He had chubby cheeks and a bright welcoming smile. You mean to say something back but you didn’t really know how to take being called a sad lonely person. “Hello? Anyone in there?” He questions and knocks his knuckles against the side of your head playfully.

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Sis, that demon hoshi scenario was everything I never knew I needed in my life

Thank you! 🥰 I kinda just wrote something random and I didn’t expect to make a whole one shot. Especially something that has demon lasagna...

#would it have horns on top?

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Thinking of ideas...

What Pokémon do you think the ateez members would have as their main? I think a Pokémon au would be cute.

#ateez x reader #ateez au

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Sis, that demon hoshi scenario was everything I never knew I needed in my life

Thank you! 🥰 I kinda just wrote something random and I didn’t expect to make a whole one shot. Especially something that has demon lasagna...

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Send this to the nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart 💖

You think I have a good heart🥺 thanks bean

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Cross Road

Title- Cross road (one Shot)

Genre- Demon Au & Best friends to lovers

Pairing- Demon best friend Hoshi x human reader

words- 6600+

warnings- Lots of talk about sex and baby making, virgin sacrifice, hoshi being the best, and yah

Plot- You and Soonyoung have been best friends since you were kids. You thought you knew everything there was to know about him,but little did you know your childhood crush had a surprising secret.

Masterlist

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Kwon Soonyoung.

He’s special to say the least.

But to tell that story we have to go back.

Way back.

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“Huh?” Was your only response. The boy nudged himself next to you.

“I’ll make sure you’re not sad and lonely anymore.” He stated as he dragged you towards the slide. He ushered you to sit down first then excitedly sat behind you. After giving a count off, he pushes you both. The weight of two kids proved to be a little much and caused you to go past the end of the slide. Both of your butts land with a thump onto the sand. Rubbing his behind, The boy helps you up before you both burst into a fit of giggles.

“My name is kwon soonyoung.” He holds out his chubby hand. You return the gesture with a high five after not really knowing that he was asking for a hand shake.

“I’m ___”

Middle school came around quickly and Again you found yourself sitting by yourself. It’s lunchtime and you sit patiently, sipping on your water bottle. Middle school was a weird time in your life, usually with growing up... comes changes. Whether that be physically or mentally. But one thing for sure that hasn’t changed is...

“Why do you look like a sad loner?” A smile made its way on your face and you turned to see your best friend already by your side. He settles in the seat next to yours at the long table.

“Can’t I be a loner for 5 minutes Soonyoung? You’re by my side all the time.” You tease. He puts his hand on his heart dramatically and pretends to be hurt. He wrapped his arms around you playfully as he fake sniffled.

“I thought you loved me!” He yells and catches the attention of the other students. You didn’t pay much attention to them because being friends with Soonyoung comes with the attention that he gets.

He’s loud to say the least. Not to mention a little heart throb to all the hormonal preteens.

“I do love you.” He grins and hops off of you and begins to dig into his lunch. As he’s turned away you couldn’t help yourself but be giddy. It’s true, you do love Soonyoung...well love but not love- love. Not yet at least. But you definitely did like-like him. He’s your best friend so you thought that he really wouldn’t like you back. Not to mention with all the attention he gets from other girls you decided it would be best to be friends.

But When you realized you had a crush on soonyoung, you never looked at him the same.

And when you both sat through sex Ed that day…

“Oh my god…” you both say I’m unison after watching the very in depth documentary on puberty.When you found out where babies come from. You were scarred enough to not even want to look at Soonyoung for a few weeks.

High school came along and this was the time when everything really changed.

Well, only because during this time is when you knew you love-loved Soonyoung. Still, you both were close and even added a few new friends to your bunch. Jun,Chan and Minghao are a few guys that wiggled into your close circle. Soonyoung met Jun and Minghao in dance class his freshman year and Chan a year later when he entered high school. They were like brothers ever since. And they definitely knew about your giant crush on Soonyoung.

“I swear she was like the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen! It’s like every girl is nothing but a sack of potatoes compared to her. ” Jun says excitedly with a bite of his sandwich still in his mouth, causing chunks of food to fly towards the other Chinese boy. Minghao blocks his face with his hand and nudges his friend harshly, glancing over to you. Jun clears his throat. “Except for ___ of course!” He explains and swallows his food,you just roll your eyes and continue to eat your slice of pizza.

“But we met at a party last night and to say we hit it off is an understatement.” He wiggles his eyebrows at the rest of the group.

“Really? She slept with you? No way.” Chan argues as he takes a bite of his apple.

“I swear! And when I say she has a nice-“

“Ok ok no need to go into details.” You cut him off. Minghao just huffs at your response.

“Really? You can’t handle this? Your best friend has the highest sex drive in the entire school.” Minghao states while shoving a napkin towards Jun’s face. He’s right, this kind of talk was normal between guys and you just so happen to be the only girl here. But Soonyoung has no shame whatsoever when I comes to talking about sex.

“Hey, we cant talk about that in front of her. She probably can stand the fact that the love her life sleeps around like it’s his job.” Jun says and results in another nudge from Minghao. “Hey you brought it up first!” Jun hisses at Minghao.

“I get your concern boys but Soonyoung can do whatever he wants. If he wants to sleep around then that’s something I have to deal with in a one sided love story. Plus, I’m his best friend, I have to handle it.” You sulk a little. The boys catch on and comfort you.

“Listen. He might be a horn dog but he still has never been in a relationship. Those girls mean nothing to him.” Chan wraps his arm around my shoulder and rubs the side of my arms.

“Ya, all those girls have is being hot. You’re nothing like that” Jun blurts and it results in you and the two others looking up at him with furrowed brows. He’s quick to put his hands up. “I mean you are hot! Wait I mean pretty? You're just not their kind of hot. You’re one of the guys-“

“Shut up.” Minghao now has his palm slapped on to Jun’s mouth. “Ignore Jun. In Soonyoung’s defense,he only sleeps around with girls he doesn’t give a shit about. Those girls mean nothin.” Minghao says and jerks his hand away from Jun as jun licks his hand. “Sicko” he hisses.

“It’s ok you guys, no need to put other girls down just because you guys have a bias towards me. Who knows, maybe they’re cool..” you suggest.

“Or Maybe he just takes a while to notice what he has in front of him. I mean, he doesn’t have a father figure around to teach him this stuff. His dad lives on the other side of the world from what we know. He needs to learn things himself.” Chan reassures. You just shrug and shovel in the salad you have on your tray.

“I see what you’re saying and I really appreciate it. But it’s ok if he doesn’t like me. I’m still his best friend and always be around. Just as long as I have him in my life I don’t care what we are.” The rest of the table is quiet and continues eating in silence until a loud slap on the table is heard. You flinch your head up and see the devil himself, Soonyoung.

“Sorry I’m late guys. I had a dentist appointment and just barely got to school for the rest of the day. I had a test I couldn’t miss.Hope you didn’t miss me too much.” He says and pinches your cheek. While he’s doing that you notice his long sweater sleeve glide down his arm a bit. Smeared black lines run up the rest of his arm. Before you could ask about it, Jun goes on to tell his story about the girl he met at the party. while he tells the story again you notice that a Smokey scent emerges.

“Do you guys smell that?” You ask, cutting off Jun.

“Smell what?” Soonyoung says warily.

“It smells like something burnt, like ash or something.” You state and sniff around some more. Even sniffing Chan’s shirt. You were about to sniff Soonyoung but he shot up from his seat before you could get a whiff.

“I mean we are in the lunchroom. They probably burnt something in the kitchen. But I’m gonna go get a soda, I’ll be back.” He rushes. Thinking that he was acting weird, you chose to go check on him.

Soonyoung rushes to the vending machine outside of the cafeteria. He lifts up the neck of his shirt and gives a good sniff. He goes to lift up his arms to smell his armpits but you come out from the side of the vending machine taking him by surprise in his mid sniff.

“What are you doing?” You ask and he pretends to stretch his limbs.

“Stretching. Sitting in the dentist chair did a number on my back. You seem a little tense, maybe you should do it too.” He tries evade but you see right through him unfortunately. Lifting up his sweater you see something you didn’t really expect.

Black ink runs up all the way up to his shoulders. Symbols and pictures drawn all over his arms, a lot of them smeared away. Some parts of his arms were covered in black powder, almost like charcoal.

“Have a little art project?” You ask suspiciously and let his shirt fall down. “What is this.” You question pointing to his arm.

“It’s nothing really. Just like you said, an art project I did for fun when I was bored last night.” He says a little unnerved. “Nothing to hide.”

“Then why were you hiding it? You didn’t even think to shower?” Soonyoung seems a little stumped at the questions. So you decide to back down at his discomfort. “Never mind. I should expect weird stuff from you. Never a dull day with my Soonyoung.” You tease and walk away from the scene.

Soonyoung lets out a harsh breath and pulls out his dollar before putting it into the vending machine. Looking up at your figure walking away he smiles to himself.

“My Soonyoung?” He whispers to himself gently. “I think I like the sound of that.”

You unfortunately decided to let his strange behavior go that day, and you soon regretted it.

Ever since that day you haven’t seen Soonyoung. It’s been two weeks and not a word from him. No phone call, no texts, not even an email. It’s like he jumped off the face of the earth. Even the boys couldn’t get any word from him. You started getting worried because this had been the longest you have gone without seeing him. Not to mention you don’t know if he’s ok or not.

Something just felt wrong.

“I’m going crazy.” You say and grip your hair harshly. Letting the frustration take over.

“We get it. This is the longest you’ve gone without your boyfriend.” Minghao sasses slightly and scrolls through his messages just in case any message would appear. You almost react to his sass but you just sit back on the bench.Since you guys have been so worried you all decided to head out to the park to ease our minds. But it’s been everything but easy. You couldn’t blame Minghao for being harsh because he was going through the same thing. You were all scared.

“Im sorry,but I can’t really help but feel this horrible feeling, Hao.” He just pushed his head back and slouched on the park bench.

“Join the club sister. We all have a bad feeling. I mean we all haven’t heard from him in weeks. You think this could feel anything other than bad?” He growls. You decide to not say anything back in consideration of how he’s feeling. You knew he didn’t mean to bite like that.

The two other boys walked back from the convenient store that was a short distance away, and heard what Minghao had said.

“Easy Minghao. We’re all anxious but let’s not take it out on each other. ___ has a right to speak about how she feels, I mean, she has known Soonyoung the longest.” Chan hands you a Popsicle and sits next to you and Minghao.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to take it out on you. I know you're worried, I shouldn’t have been rude.” Minghao apologies and brings you into a side hug. You let your head rest on his shoulder as he rugs the side of your shoulder.

“It’s ok. I know you didn’t mean it. All we can do now is try our best in this situation.” You say and hug minghao tighter.

“Well, there’s not much we can do. We’ve gone to his house everyday but no answer every time. Not even his mom answered. We call and message him every hour of the day and nothing. It’s like they dropped off the face of the earth.” Jun plops down on the sidewalk in front of the bench.

“Do you think he moved?”

“No way. He would have told us. Unless...”

“That could explain why he was acting so strange.”

You just sat and listened to the boys sit and squabble. You knew that something wasn’t right. He wouldn’t hide like this, it’s not like him.

“While you guys sit and argue, I’m going to go check his house again.” You gather your things and stand from the bench. Giving Chan the half eaten Popsicle.

“Wait what? It’s getting late.” Chan says. “We know you’re worried. We all are. But maybe you should just go home and rest, it’s been stressful for you.” He argues.

“I just… I just want to check again. I have to. I care about him too much to just rest, it’s worth a shot.” The boys kept trying to get you home but you were persistent.

“Chan is right. It’s getting late. Let us walk you home.” Jun offers again but they all know it’s no use.

“Love you guys. I’ll see you later.” Those words were your goodbye as you walked towards Soonyoung’s house. Leaving the boys as they shook their heads.

The Kwon’s house was an easy house to remember. The house sat at a crossroads with no other houses around it. No one really built any houses there because of the tales of old crossroads and their associations with demons and such. There were many stories of deals being made at that very crossroad. Even a story about a woman who fell in love with a demon there. You never really believed in stuff like that anyway. Soonyoung would often tell you those crazy stories and you just chose to listen.

As you got closer to the house a chill ran up your spine. A chill strong enough to go from your head straight to your toes. Although, you never thought to be scared of his house before, today seemed a little more ominous. Various street lights towards your friends house flickered and even went out completely as you made your way down the street. The wind felt especially strong as it felt like it was almost pushing you in the opposite direction.

Determined to find your best friend, you went against your gut.

Finally, you made it to Soonyoung's house. The wood flooring on his doorstep creaked way more than usual. The porch light was on but no bugs surrounded it and the porch light barely lit the area with a faded yellow light. Almost hesitant, I knocked on the door, no answer. You knock one more time, still no answer.

“Soonyoung. It’s me ___. I came to check on you… we’re worried. Me and the boys. We’re all worried and I just thought it wasn’t like you to just leave. Please…” I rest my forehead on his front door.

“I just really want to see you.”

Then it was like the temperature in your body shot down to zero degrees. The shiver up your spine was almost painful as the hairs on the back of your neck rise. Your heart nearly drops as the porch light shatters into a million pieces. Bringing the front door to complete darkness. You turn around to see that all of the lights in the neighborhood flicker off, all except one. The one street light only lights up the crossroad in front of his house. you rest your back against his door and try to calm your breathing.

The door your resting on starts to open slowly with an ear splitting creak. Opening the door to a black hole of an entrance. Thinking this was too creepy to stick around you go to rush home but something grabs onto your wrist. A large hand holds firmly on your arm.

“Where do you think you’re going?” They whisper and drag you into the house. Feet skidding on the smooth hard floor as you try to scream but nothing comes out. Your throat felt dry and your body felt ice cold. You couldn’t see anything but pitch darkness. But soon candle light comes to you when you’re thrown on the floor. The floor from what you assumed is the living room was lit by multiple candles in a circle. The candles surrounded a giant drawing carved into the hardwood flooring. The symbols resemble some of the symbols on Soonyoung’s arm you saw before.

“I can sense a very innocent energy from you.” The voice from earlier surrounds the room. Stepping out from the darkness is a tall figure. His robe is long and dragged on the floor as he walked. He steps into the circle but not with feet but with hooves of a goat. Raising his arms, the baggy fabric of his robe falls down his forearms, exposing the scales running up his arms to his hands. His face is covered by a hood but sticking out are two long horns covered in rings of gold. “A good virgin energy.” He praises.

“W-what?” And like a ghost, he’s in front of you before you could blink. Kneeling down to where you are on the floor.

“My son. My offspring has brought me the final step of becoming what he truly is. He was hesitant at first but now since you’re here, in front of me, I know he’s ready.” He explains.

“Where’s Soonyoung?” You ask hesitantly. The creature just gives a low chuckle.

“He’ll come. And when he does and finally makes his sacrifice, he’ll be the new king of the underworld like he's supposed to!” He chants. “After all these years of collecting virgin energy and gathering up enough power to be able to withstand the demon power, I will finally be able to spend time with my love.”The demon declared, and It’s like all the air was taken out of your lungs.

Soonyoung. Your Soonyoung. Some kind of demon prince? He would never do this to you, would he? All these years, were they nothing but a trick to use you someday? No. This can’t be true.

“This can’t be true…” the tears run down your cheeks as his father's hands rests on your face gently.

“It’ll be over soon.” He says gently and gets up to walk in the center of the circle.

“I summon you, my son.” He puts his hands together and the carving lights up a bright red. Gusts of wind push out from the floorboards and blow out the candles around. “Come to me…” he chants in this demonic language as the light grows brighter and brighter. The wind is strong enough to lift the creature's robes and your hair to fly up. Loud booms sound across the room like thunder as the furniture moves with the current from the wind.

A cloud of black smoke rises from the symbols and gathers up In the middle. A twirl of black slowly taking form, making the shape of a body. Red lines and symbols traced up the figure, they shined as bright as the floor. Soon, the smoke disappears and what’s left is the boy you knew.

Soonyoung stands in the middle of the circle in front of his father. “Why did you call?” His voice was deep and Demonic. Almost like it was put through a voice modifier. He’s wearing something similar to his father and like him, he has the long horns sticking through his hair.

“You have proved to me that you are ready my son.” His father states proudly. “The virgin has been offered.” Soonyoung looks behind him. You nearly passed out as his pitch black eyes landed on you. Soonyoung’s heart stops.

“___?” He whispered surprised. Taking a step towards you, he nearly stumbles. You push yourself back in response. This wasn’t what he wanted, this was what he was trying to hide this whole time. Turning back towards his father he steps away from the circle.

“How many times do I have to tell you? I’m not going through with your stupid ritual. I couldn't care less about taking over the throne. She isn’t the virgin sacrifice, she’s my friend!” Soonyoung hisses. You glance up at him, relieved at what you just heard.

“Friend?” His father questions. But when he’s about to say something the light to the living room turns on. Soonyoung’s mother by the light switch in her bathrobe looks at the scene before her.

“Honey? What’s going on here?” She questions the demon and runs over to you. “___, I’m so sorry this happened! Please come sit down, let me get you some water.” She rambles. You did nothing but nod and accept the help from Soonyoung and his mother at the table.

“___? Oh! I’ve heard so much about you!” The demon says joyfully. You're surprised at the change of demeanor. “I’m sorry. I’m nothing without my glasses.” he explains while taking off his hood to reveal a human-like face. With the exception of scales in certain patches of his face and the horns. He had Hints of Soonyoung indeed.

“Here, my love” Soonyoung's mother hands him his glasses. He looks in your direction, his serpent like pupils focus on you.

“Oh well, would you look at that. You really are ___. My apologies.” He apologizes with a short bow. Heading over to his wife he takes a seat at the table and props his hooves up. You couldn’t make out words, just strings of mumbles. A ding from across the kitchen makes you flinch. Soonyoung’s father gleefully got up and towards the oven. “Well would you look at that! My Blood butter cookies are done.” He bubbles and pulls out the tray with his bare hands. You couldn’t comprehend this situation even if you tried.

“Ughh…” you try to speak but nothing.A pair of hands rest On your shoulders. Soonyoung grabs your attention.

“Come with me upstairs. We’ll talk in my room.” You just go along with it and head upstairs with Soonyoung and away from what you hope Is a fever dream.

You enter his room, it looks like a normal and definitely not like a hell hole.

He gently closes the door behind you. “I know you have a lot of questions.” He starts, petting the horn on his head nervously. “I’m sorry about my dad… I told him I wouldn’t sacrifice a virgin any time soon, so I guess he jumped to conclusions when he saw you.” He tried to explain. But you stand there as you try to comprehend but all that’s in your brain is white noise.

“I’m sorry I left… I just didn’t know how to deal with this whole thing. My father just shows up out of nowhere expecting me to become this prince of the underworld. I didn’t know how to break it to you that I’m a half demon spawn of the underworld. I thought you would think I’m some kind of weirdo-“

“That’s why you didn’t tell me?” You bring up. It catches him by surprise.

“Huh?”

“You didn’t tell me because you thought I would think you're weird?” You say dumbfounded.

“Ya, why else?”

“I dunno, from all the movies I’ve seen, it’s because demons are this dangerous thing, then people go out of their way to protect people from demons.” You try to explain but he just looks confused.

“Protect you? Why? I would never hurt you nor did I think I would. The underworld isn’t that crazy. I mean did you see my dad? He isn’t really the most fearsome creature. And he needs new prescription glasses.”

“He was telling me you need a sacrifice, Soonyoung!”

“Well I didn’t say all of the underworld wasn’t that crazy. Plus, did you really think I would sacrifice you? You’re my best friend.” Your shoulders slouch a bit. Feeling bad about your accusations and thoughts about him. Of course he wouldn’t.

Soonyoung notices your change in demeanor and pats the bed, signaling for you to sit down next to him. You plop yourself on his bed. “ I’m sorry. I was just surprised. I didn’t mean to think of you that way.”

“Hey. I don’t blame you. You're doing pretty well for someone who thought they were gonna be a virgin sacrifice to a demon king.” He laughs and brings you into a side hug.

“The visual effects didn’t seem to help either. You emerging from the ground was a sight to see. Must be from all the virgin energy you’ve gathered.” You tease lightly and a blush makes its way into his pale face.

“Thanks? I’ve been practicing my summoning, I was playing video games when he called me..” he explains “And He Had to tell you about virgin energy?” He sighs.

“Well I didn’t fuck anybody for energy, that’s for sure. I just so happen to gain energy from virgins. It’s a weird demon thing.” He mumbles at the end even having pink tint on his cheeks. “But there’s no need to talk about that..”

“Why you so shy to talk about sex now? Didn’t have a problem before.” You state blatantly. He seems to have caught it because he looks at you Nervously.

“You ok? If I offended you, I’m sorry. Who cares if you’re a virgin-“

“It’s not that..” You say with slight frustration. “It’s the fact that you sleep… with girls.” You struggle to get the last part out.

“Would you rather I slept with women?” He asks, even more confused than he was before. “ I mean, it’s a little illegal since we’re still in high school-“

“No! That’s not what I meant!” You groan and flop the rest of your body on the bed. “That’s not what I meant…” Soonyoung gently lays down beside you.

“What do you mean? Tell me.” He takes your hand into his. Red markings cover every finger.

“I… I “

“You what?” He pushes.

“I...like you, Soonyoung. I like you a lot. No, I’ve been in love with you for years. And I’ve always been afraid to tell you-“ you’re sentence is cut off by Soonyoung's lips on yours. Your eyes widen but you kiss back anyway. Fluttering your eyes closed at what felt like pure bliss. He ends the kiss and pushes your hair out of your face.

“And why would you ever be afraid to tell me that?” He smirks. “ I fell in love with you the moment I saw you on the playground being a sad lonely person.” He confesses.

“ I just thought because you never showed any signs of liking me. And you had all these beautiful girls to be with and I was just the friend…”

“Never showed any signs?” He Scoffs. “How about wanting to be with you everyday?Wanting to have you talk to me? Wanting to have you be a part of my life forever? Are those not signs?” He asks.

“I’m sorry I never noticed…” you say shyly with a slight smile of embarrassment. He just playfully nods and brings me close.

“Also, all those girls. Sure, I fucked around. But I’ve never wanted a relationship with any of those people, and ya, they were pretty. But they weren’t you. That’s because you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve laid my eyes on, and I mean to sound cheesy.” You couldn't help but throw yourself on top of your best friend. Landing in his stomach he lets out a small “oof”.

“Although cheesy, I love it.” You confess.

“You wanna be my girlfriend? I promise you won’t regret it.” He tried to persuade but you just pretend to think for a bit before answering.

“Fine, since you asked-“

“Great! Now that you’re my girlfriend, you wanna make out?” He eagerly brings your face closer to his. You just chuckle and brush your hands through his hair slowly.

“ How about after I formally meet your dad. I don’t think we got off on the right foot- or hoof, earlier.” You say shyly. Soonyoung gets off the bed and pulls you up.

“Ya, the hooves are a shocker to everyone. I guess my mom likes them freaky. But luckily you don’t have to worry about hooves. Only the horns, but you probably dig them anyway- ouch!” He rubs his shoulder after a rough smack from you.

“Maybe a little.” You giggle. “But that was for leaving me for two weeks.” Soonyoung feels guilty but you send away that feeling with a quick kiss. “And that was for being with me for this long. I love you, Soonyoung.” You confess again.

“No, thank you for being in my life and accepting me. I love you too.”

“Good, now let's go try those cookies.”

Things did get better after that. Soonyoung officially introduced you to his father, he’s a very nice demon when he’s not trying to have you as a human sacrifice. Though he is bummed that he’ll have to stay in the underworld for a little longer until someone could take his place as king. But luckily Soonyoung’s mom finally agreed to going down with her husband finally now that their son is 18.

Soonyoung decided to finally go back to school after he learned to hide his horns and markings. So he graduated with you and the rest of the boys. Except Chan who’s a year younger.

Let’s just say the graduation party with the 5 of you ended with Soonyoung getting drunk enough to where he exposed himself to the rest of the group.

Welp, nothing else to hide.

But as the year went on, you decided to stay and study in your home town. While Soonyoung and the rest of the boys decided to open a dance studio, called Dancing with Demons. Which would become the best in the city. If only people knew they were dancing with an actual demon. Still a cute name though.

Now that you’ve graduated and have a path, you decided to move in together for college,Along with the three other boys, thinking that it was better for your college budgets. You spent even more time with your best friends and the love of your life.

And the rest is history

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“And the rest is history…” you whisper to yourself as you look over at your now sleeping husband of 3 years, 5 years in overall relationship. Sleeping on his stomach and his arms under the pillow propping his face up slightly. His big horns prevent him from sleeping on his side comfortably.

Often you would wake up in the mornings just to think about what happened 5 years ago. You would just sit and remember all the beautiful moments that lead to this. This perfect person who you plan to spend your whole life with.

“What are you thinking about?” A soft voice takes you by surprise. Your husband pats the spot next him, you scoot closer to his side and run your hand down his back. The red marking showing perfectly due to him not wearing a shirt.

“Just thinking about how I was able to get a life like this.” Soonyoung pops his head up.

“Well it only took a whole childhood and a false virgin sacrifice…” he states blatantly. “But I wouldn’t have it any other way. I still got you in the end anyway.” He kisses the side of your head.

“Well at least I don’t have to deal with the potential of being a virgin sacrifice anymore.” You laugh. Soonyoung rests his chin on his arms and gives a low hum.

“Ya, got that situated only a few months after we got together. Now you just have to deal with the thought of having a demon baby.” He says smugly. “Which if you asked, I wouldn’t have any hesitation of giving you one.” He winks. You just slap his chest gently and rise to get out of bed.

“Five years and you think you're ready to have my baby, huh?” You tease as you step out of bed and ease your way out of your pajamas. You couldn’t even get your top off before you’re squished between the wall and the demon. Your front is pressed on to the cold wall as Soonyoung’s warm chest pushes on your back. Craning his head between your neck he kisses slowly on your skin.

“Excited isn’t enough to describe, baby. If you give me the green light I would gladly give you a baby,right here, right now.” He whispers as he lifts his head to press a kiss to the side of your head. “You know how much I love you. But if you forgot then I can spend all morning showing you how much I would want to start a family with you. Hell, I could spend days showing you how much I love you.” At this point he knows he had you almost convinced to let him have you, but as much as you love the thought of entering the baby making factory, there are other plans to attend to.

You grip his hands gently as you peel them off your body they were just roaming. Having the most effort to remove the one on your butt. “As much as I would love to let you give me a family, we have plans today. We have lunch with your parents in the underworld today…” Soonyoung groans and practically throws himself back in the bed. Having a child-like tantrum as he huffed and puffed.

“Are you kidding me. Cock blocked by my own parents. Don’t they know I’m a busy demon?” He complains as he gets up and strips his clothing with a pout. “And for what reason? Because my dad made his famous demon lasagna?!” He blurts and grabs his towel, almost stomping towards the shower. You just laugh to yourself and shortly join him in the shower.

Stepping onto the steaming water, you hug his back tightly as he lets the water fall on his head. He turns around only to press you against his chest, pulling you closer so the water runs down both of your bodies. Though showering together seemed like a sexy scenario, you showered together often, sexy or not. You found it a relaxing time to spend together.

Soonyoung gently grabs your chin, bringing your lips to his. The kiss is soft, no urgency. As you both part your husband peers down at you with a loving gaze. Taking the shampoo you begin to wash his hair, going around his long horns as you do so. Soonyoung hums softly at your touch.

“You’re not mad at me are you?” You ask teasingly. The demon pouts and leans into your touch. Rinsing out his hair you let him scrub your hair and let him wash your back to his request.

“I don’t know. I haven’t decided yet. You still choosing my dad's underworld lasagna over me Making love to you all day, and a whole bunch of cuddles and kisses?” You couldn’t help but burst out laughing, he joins along and rinses you both off. Ending the shower, he wraps you up in a towel before him. As he’s drying your hair with a towel, you take this as a chance to capture his lips in a sweet kiss.

“How about a deal?” You waver. This catches the demon's attention.

“You’re making a deal with a demon? Aren’t you ballsy.” He smirks. “What are you offering?” He asks. You take a moment to look like you’re pondering.

“I was just suggesting that if you make it through a whole day of being with your parents, then I would reward you.” You slide your hands up his torso, making sure to travel along his markings, making your arms wrap around his neck at the end.

“Keep talking.” With that, You just realized that you have this demon of the underworld wrapped around your finger.

“If you make it through today without complaining and have a good time, then I’ll let you do whatever you want with me. Maybe even try for a baby-“ you couldn’t even finish your sentence before you’re pushed roughly against the wall. Your legs instinctively wrap around his hips as he kisses you passionately. Gripping your face roughly as he kisses you. You grip his hair and his horns roughly as his kisses don’t let up. After what seems like forever, he finally lets you go. Your feet come back to the wet floor but he still holds you. Having a sinister smile etched into his face.

“You seal a deal with a kiss baby. Thanks for doing business.” He plants one more kiss on your lips and walks out the bathroom as if nothing happened. You would be lying if you said you weren’t disappointed being left alone after that, but you know he was ready to give you what you wanted in due time. But for now, you can’t just think about how you couldn’t stop falling more in love with this man. Just thinking about a family with him makes you almost teary eyed. You didn’t want a family with anyone else. You’re set for life with Soonyoung.

“___! Hurry up! My parents are just getting older. We can’t keep them waiting. Or take your time, because I found a site of baby names that I can comfortably read as you get ready!” He beams from the other room.

Yup, you fell in love with a demon from the underworld.

But, you wouldn’t have it any other way.

A/N - Hope you enjoyed!

#Seventeen #seventeen scenarios #seventeen fanfic #seventeen x reader #seventeen oneshot #seventeen hoshi #seventeen hoshi x reader #demon au #seventeen au

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Black Dove (Masterlist)

Pairings- Vampire Scoups x Reader and vampire cousin Jeonghan ( Hip Hop unit and vocal Unit and more to come)

Genre- Angst, Horror,Romance, Action and Vampire Au

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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the-star-named-dowoon · 4 years

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Black Dove

Pairings- Vampire Scoups x Reader and vampire cousin Jeonghan ( Hip Hop unit and vocal Unit and more to come)

Genre- Angst, Horror,Romance, Action and Vampire Au

Words-11,000 +

Warnings- Cussing, s.coups being a flirt, wet Joshua lol

A/N- really dialogue heavy but i really like this chapter.

Chapter 2

chapter 1

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Nothing goes on in my brain. It’s just pure fight or flight when I try to step away. The body on the field just lays lifelessly as my cousin wipes the blood from his stained chin. He doesn’t seem fazed, looking as if this was normal, as if he didn’t just drain a boy’s life right out of his eyes . He just simply kicks the body from his path and it goes rolling, a distance away like it weighed nothing.

A dry gasp leaves my mouth. I can almost feel my throat closing up with how tense my body is. Every slow beat of my heart rings in my ears. Seongcheol just holds me tighter as if it would calm me down, but it only felt like I'm being suffocated. I try to push out of his grasp. I need air, I need to breathe. My fingernails dig into his skin as I claw my way out of his arms. Jeonghan approaches casually towards Seungcheol and I . Panic rushes through my body and my legs almost go numb, almost falling back into Seungcheol's arms.

“Don’t come any closer jeonghan. Can’t you see that she's scared?” Cheol decides to speak up. Jeonghan raises his hands up as if to show he’s no harm. Even stepping back a few paces.

“Why are you acting as if I will hurt her? Did you forget who her family is?” My cousin glances back to the body lying on the damp field. “Though, I guess I didn’t make the best impression. But don’t worry, he’s not dead. I’m much too full to finish anyone off right now.” He chomps his fangs playfully at seungcheol.

“After what you did. I wouldn’t trust you with anyone, cousin or not.” Cheol hisses, but he decides to let go of me finally and My knees rest on the damp grass. With Seungcheol off of me and Jeonghan a good distance away, It’s my chance to run away .

All of this is being way too much for me to handle. I can almost feel the vomit start to come up the more I think about it.

“My friend. You know I’m not the bad guy here-“

“I’m not your fucking friend! Because if you really were my friend, you wouldn’t have fucking did what you did!” Seungcheol bares his fangs at Jeonghan. The growl coming from his lips sounded almost demonic. Warning the other male if he were to just take one step closer then something bad will go down.

“I never did it to hurt you! I did what I had to do, I had no other choice.” Jeonghan explained but before he could any further, Cheol managed to grab him by his collar. He managed to lift Jeonghan a bit off the ground. Jeonghan grips Seungcheol's hands strongly, the veins on his hands showing up along with the whitening of his knuckles. His eyes were the same color that stained my cousins shirt. Jeonghan let it happen; He hung loosely from seungcheol’s grip. Not making an effort to get the man’s hands off.

“So you leave me to fend for myself?! We were in it together, jeonghan!” His grip manages to rip his uniform, allowing Jeonghan's feet to touch the floor again. Though, seungcheol still held on to the tattered fabric. “ even though you left everyone around you, I managed to survive. I found people who are better than you! People like me, who I can actually call my brothers!” Jeonghan pushes his hand off of him, causing the top part of his uniform to rip completely off.

“You know why I left.” Jeonghan says with no variation in his speech. Pushing the hair out of his eyes showing the deep red clearly.“You can’t just stand here and-“

“Can you both just shut up?!” The both of them glance towards me. Finally, finding the strength to push myself up, I’m able to stand with wobbly legs. The both of them rush towards me in an attempt to try and help me but I just push myself away. The both of them holding their hands back. “Don’t touch me. Don’t even come near me-“

“___” Jeonghan tries to speak but I rush my Hands to my ears to block him out.

“Stop talking. I don’t know what the fuck you are. But you’re definitely not who I thought you are .” I can feel my lips quiver, the palms of my hands push harder against my ears, trying to grasp any part of sanity left in my brain.

Cheol tries to speak but I’m quick to cut him off. “And you!” I point my finger towards him, his eyes widen at my sudden accusation. “Don’t even try to act like you care And that you want to protect me, because all you ever did was hurt me these past three years! All because you had some shitty beef with my cousin. I can't even look at him right now. All because he almost killed some kid. AND THEN I come to find out that all of you are… I don’t even know what the fuck you are.” I holler at the two boys along with their groups. Soon my breathing gets too unsteady and I can feel the bile come up from my throat. I quickly swallow it but I can’t stop the panic rising in my body.

Before My state gets any worse, a cold hand finds its way around my throat. My back is on the floor in a fraction of a second. Jeonghan holds me against the floor, I try to pry his hand off and attempt to kick him but he just applies more pressure. My eyes wander past him and see that the rest of my cousin’s roommates are holding back Cheol and his gang. My grip around jeonghan’s hand starts to lose strength. Black dots begin to scatter across my vision as my eyelids feel heavier.

“Shhh… I promise. This will all make Sense soon. Just know that i'm not doing this to hurt you. Sleep tight.” He whispers.

“P-ple… help..please.” I choke out but soon everything around me starts to fade. I feel my eyes slowly fall to the back of my head as darkness takes over.

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Why does my head feel like it was bashed with a hammer? The throbbing coming in waves of pain. My eyes and nose scrunch in pain. My eyes start to open slowly, revealing my bedroom. Everything looked normal and just the way I left it. After rubbing my eyes I sit up slowly gripping my head as the pounding doesn’t seem like it will stop.

Then I remember.

Anxiety rushed through my veins as the images of my cousin sucking the life out of a student's body appears in my brain. And Seungcheol, how could I forget about him. He’s the same ‘thing’ as Jeonghan and the same about all of his friends.

My breathing starts to pick up again. The air is starting to feel so much thinner.

There’s just no way this could be real. Right? Maybe it was just all a dream and they’re back to being normal human beings. But the memories are just so real, there is no way that I dreamt that. I raise my hands to my neck and flinch at the soreness.

It’s true.

I have to get out of here. The room feels too stuffy now, as if there's hardly any air at all. I throw my legs out of bed and grab my shoes from the side of my bed. Passing by the mirror, I see that I’m still in my school clothes. Grass stains on my knees. From when I was in the field.

I open the door and I’m already face to face with the person I want to ignore.

My cousin stands in the door frame with a smile, as if nothing happened. In his hands is a tray with a glass of water and a Sandwich. He’s in normal clothes now and his face is clean with no sign of blood.

I slowly start to back away. My hands start to shake as I move back towards my bed .

This was a man who choked me till I passed out on a soccer field. Actually,I don’t even think he is a man anymore. After seeing me retreat back, his smile fades and a slight frown is on his face. He takes a step forward and I take one back. But before I can step back any further, my shoe catches the edge of my rug causing me to fall back. I landed with a thud on my butt. Jeonghan tries to rush over to me but I push myself further until I’m against the wall of my bedroom.

“___ stop-“

“Please don’t hurt me…” we say at the same time. My throat hurts after speaking. It feels like sandpaper every time I swallow. Jeonghan goes to his knees in front of me. Instincts kick in before I know it and my arms block my face and my legs start kicking towards him. “I promise I won’t tell! I swear-“

“Please, just stop!” My cousin says dodging my kicks. He grabs my wrists strongly and pushes them away from my face. Refusing to look into his eyes, I push my head to the side. Not having the strength in my vocal cords to scream I just let the tears stream down my face, hopefully showing that I surrender. Jeonghan seemed to have had enough and he grabs my face, not roughly, but firm enough to make me look at him.

“___ please, just look at me please.” My eyes finally met his. I was expecting anger or irritation, but Instead I saw sadness, as if my reaction had an effect on him. My knees still stay at my chest as if it will protect me in any way. My hands grip his wrist firmly as he still holds my head in place.

“Please. Calm down, I would never hurt you. Do you hear me? You’re my family, like my sister, I would never think of hurting you or anyone else I love. I know I’m asking a lot but shouldn’t be afraid of me or my roommates.” I sniffle and try to nod through my sobbing but I can’t get over what I saw. My body is telling me this is full of danger. “On the field I had to knock you out. You were freaking out but I had no intention of killing you or hurting you.” His thumbs wipe away my tears gently and he takes his hands away.

“How am I supposed to believe you?” Jeonghan’s brows furrow at my question. “How am I supposed to believe you or seungcheol after you’ve been lying to me all this time?” Jeonghan just lets his actions speak at this point, dragging me into a hug.

It’s weird, I’m conflicted,because I know I’m supposed to be scared...but this is my cousin. My own blood.

This hug feels like any other hug...how can he still feel so warm?

“You can trust me. No matter what I become, you still are important to me. Vampire or not I’ll protect you no matter what.” He confirms.

At last it’s in the air.

A vampire.

Of course, it all makes sense. I haven’t seen seungcheol and his friends eat once since high school started. And it makes sense why my cousin and his roommates haven’t been seen with food around..

And those blood red eyes that tattooed their way into my brain. Along with those razor sharp fangs.

“Here. Come sit on your bed, you’re probably hungry.” Jeonghan brings the tray that he placed on my desk earlier. Everything looks normal, but I have no appetite. I feel like if I ate anything then it will just come back up again. I sit up on my bed trying to focus on anything but him. Finding myself looking out the window and seeing the raindrops racing down from the earlier rain. A hand is placed on my shoulder and I jerk away instantly.

Jeonghans eyes widen as he takes his hand away. I can see the sadness flooding in his eyes.

“___…”

“Can you leave me alone… please?” I say having my hair fall down to cover my face. “I’m not hungry. I just need time to think. So can you please leave?” Without a word, my cousin sits up from the bed and walks out ,closing the door gently. I look at the neatly prepared sandwich and feel guilty.

Maybe he really is trying to make me feel better. And surely if he wanted to kill me he would have done it by now.

I know I’m my heart that I can trust him. But everything else says be alert. I don’t know if he really has changed or if he’s the same Jeonghan as before, but not human.

I need questions answered.

With that, I get up and rush out of my room, down the stairs and out of my front door. Jeonghan yells for me but I just keep running. Knowing exactly where I’m going. Running across the street I make it towards the house that haunted me for the past three years.

Seungcheol’s house. It looks no different since the many years I’ve seen it. It’s the same look that haunts me. Bringing back terrible memories for the past three years. Like When his friends would call at me on his front lawn when I walked home, Even sometimes spraying me with the hose one day when they were washing wonwoo’s car in the driveway. That house holds Someone that haunts me. Yet, I can’t stop myself from stepping foot on his front door step.

My fist almost makes contact with his front door. The urgency from my mind drains completely .Fortunately, everything screams at my hand to stop. My shacking knuckles hover over the wooden door. Did I really want answers so bad that I'm willing to knock on my bully’s door. Even now knowing what he is.

What am I thinking?

I pull my hand away and run across his lawn and down the street, passing my house and make my way out the neighborhood.

I need to just leave, I need to think about whether everything in my life is just a sick dream. And That I’ll wake up and Seungcheol and Jeonghan will be there like they used to be.

Knowing deep down that this isn’t. I realize that the world decided to torture me more. As if the last three years haven’t been hell.

I keep running till I meet the end of the street. The street cut off with a dead end, and further beyond is the Forest. The dark green pine going on for miles and miles.I look at the darkening sky. I would have definitely been home by now. But...I don’t know what awaits me at home anymore. Jeonghan? Four other vampires? Seungcheol? I just need to get away for a bit. What’s a half an hour in the forest? I’ll be fine, right?

I tread into the Forest. Luckily, I’m not unfamiliar with these woods, after all, I grew up here. I could use a walk right now anyways.

About half an hour passes and I pass through the various trees and bushes. I even see a few rabbits running from being startled by my footsteps. The tall trees blocked out the sun, making the path ahead way darker. The sky is also much darker than before, the moon now shining brightly. Thinking that I should probably head back home, I reach to grab my phone in my pocket but soon realize that it has nothing but a piece of lint.

“Dammit…” I hiss. Well this doesn’t feel good. How am I supposed to find my way back at night without a compass or a flashlight? I guess I should have thought of that before I decided to run off into the woods. Walking up to a sturdy tree, I climb up the branches and settle into a divide of branches just big enough for me to sit in. Because why not? I lean against the thick branches just looking up into the now pure night sky. No sunlight left.

So what the hell am I gonna do now? I don’t want to risk going back home to vampires... and I also don’t want to risk getting lost more. This seems like a good spot for now. Just me alone… with my thoughts.

This is the worst.

The night got chiller so I zip my jacket all the way. I pull harshly on my jacket strings to tighten the fabric around my freezing face. I’ve been sitting here for what seems like an hour already. Nothing to entertain me and no one to talk to. Though it’s cold and boring I can’t help but feel my eyes droop. It’s so calming out here. The wind started to pick up a while ago and the whistle of the wind and the rustle of the leaves made such a nice sound. It got much darker now that clouds have covered the moon, warning of another rain storm. Hopefully the leaves would grant me protection from the rain.

My eyes close but a sharp snap causes my eyes to burst open. Thinking it might just be a rabbit or something I nuzzle back into the tree. But alas more snaps occur but now it takes form into the sound of footsteps. This day can’t get any worse. But honestly a crazy forest murderer would be the most normal thing I could witness tonight.

I try to make myself smaller so I couldn’t possibly be found but the footsteps get closer and closer. I close my eyes hoping and praying that no one finds me here. But, the steps stop. It’s quiet again. My heartbeat seems to be the only thing loud. It’s pin drop quiet. I open one of my eyes just for a peek but before I could, I’m yanked from my branch. Arms catch me just in time before I hit the ground. I start flailing and kicking even screaming. But a hand covers my mouth.

“__ stop! It’s me!” They say. Trying to contain my arms and legs.

Seungcheol?

My head snaps up to reveal that it’s exactly who I didn’t want to see. I start to wiggle around even more, whatever it takes to get out of his grasp. I even try to lick and bite at his hand.

“__ just stop already I’m not going to hurt you!” His hand finally moves from my mouth, cringing at the saliva that covers it. He retains my arms again .

“How can I trust you?!” I scream. “Let me go!” Something might have gotten to him because he finally lets me go. So I decide to make a run for it. I try to dodge every tree and root but it’s difficult when it’s so dark. Unfortunately, the forest wins because my shoe catches onto a root and I’m sent flying. I can feel the solid ground just inches from my face but the impact never comes. I open my eyes to see that my face is hovering just an inch away from the ground.

Seungcheol who’s holding the back of my jacket pulls me up gently back to my feet. “Are you ok?” He asks gently. I just look at him, walking past him without giving him another look.

“__!” He calls out to me. “I came to bring you back.” He truly amazes me. I can’t help but feel a burning feeling in my gut. This guy can’t be serious.

With a scoff I continue walking but in half a second his hand is around my wrist. “__, I’m serious. You’re coming with me. You must be freezing-“

“Shut up!” I yell with a sudden outburst. “How do you possibly expect me to think you care about me?”

“__, you know I care about you.”

“Bull shit! Because if you really cared you wouldn’t be putting me through this right now.Or put me through the last three years. If you cared about me then you would just leave me alone!!!” I rip my hand from his grasp. Walking away again I try to make myself look tough but the tears start coming.

He starts walking shortly after me. Grasping my shoulders tightly. “I can’t leave you alone. You know things now. And you have to accept that you’re In this world now whether you like it or not. It was selfish of me to treat you like I did because of what Jeonghan did to me. It’s selfish to bring you into this world that we’re in now. But just know I never hated you.” The burning in my gut burned hotter and hotter like I swallowed hot coals.

“Yet, you still don’t apologize for what you did to me. What you’re doing to me now. You’re awful, seungcheol.”

“__…”

“You and jeonghan. I thought that you guys cared for me. But instead you let your past tear us apart. Even tearing me apart. And You torturing me and him leaving to escape it all. You’re both so selfish. He isn’t even here to come find me! He’s my cousin, dammit.” I almost hiccup.

“Instead the person who made me feel so worthless for the past three years of my life is here to ‘bring me back home’ because he’s mister goody goody now, because I know his secret. Don’t ever kid me with that ‘i never stopped caring for you’ bullshit because I won’t believe you anymore.” The tears running down my face match the rain that suddenly pours from the sky.

The thunder flashes for a split second lighting up for a moment and lights up Seungcheol's face.

“__, please stop…” his voice wavers. His hands start to become shaky.

“Why? Because I’m finally talking back to you seungcheol? Because-“

“If I can take it back, I would. I shouldn’t have treated you that way. I shouldn’t treat you this way now. I’m so stupid to let what happened to Jeonghan affect me but just know that’s not the only reason.”

“What’s the reason? Why would you do that to me, seungcheol. You were my best friend…”

“Because I was afraid of what I became! Three years ago when all this shit happened. I didn’t know that to do, I couldn’t bring you into this. All this fucked up shit that happened to me and Jeonghan, with me and Jeonghan. I admit it, I resented him so much to where it pushed on to you. I was so angry I needed to take it out on something… and it ended up being you.” He confesses.

“I guess I was some kind of emotional punching bag?” I bring up. But he just huffs.

“I’m sorry I took out on you. But that wasn’t the only reason like I said.”

“Then what else was it?”

“I wanted you to hate me. I needed you to hate me because I knew that If I came to you with this burden Jeonghan and I were damned with ,you would be in danger. I couldn’t control myself back then. I killed people… I could have hurt you.” He explains. His own lips quiver as he pours his heart out.

I’m finally getting some answers. Isn’t this supposed to make me feel better? No, it feels almost numbing now. Because I want things to be normal, like they used to, but this doesn’t fix anything.

“What about after?” I ask.

His eyes meet mine finally. “What?”

“After you learned to control yourself. When you still treated me like shit. You were able to go to school with me, walk home on the dame street but you still treated me like dirt.”

“It’s because…” his voice breaks.

“Because what, seungcheol?”

“__!” Another voice sounds throughout the dark woods. I was surprised to hear Joshua instead of my cousin running towards us. He has his phone light on and shines it towards us. After not seeing light for an hour my eyes squint at the brightness.

Seungcheol stands in front of me in the blink of an eye. Joshua halts and stands a good distance away from us. I peek behind Seungcheol's body and see Joshua looking as welcoming as ever. The same soft smile he had the moment I met him.

“what are you doing here, Joshua?” I ask, not wanting to raise my voice too much in fear of what he can do. I trust my brother's friends significantly less than my cousin and seungcheol and his group.

“Jeonghan sent me to come get you. Your aunt is expecting you home.”

“What, Jeonghan didn’t want to come get me?” I ask as Joshua just let’s out a sigh.

“He wanted to give you time, __”

Seungcheol just scoffs at Joshua. Joshua just looks at the other male for a second until his eyes meet me again.

“He said you were with your friend and that you’ll be home soon to your aunt. It’s now soon, so I came to get you.” Joshua explains but I decide to keep shut. I looked up towards Seungcheol, his jaw clamped shut and his fists clenched.

Knowing what I must do, I walk around seungcheol and towards Joshua. I can sense his eyes burning in the back of my head as I leave him and towards a stranger. Joshua smiles and gladly offers his arm towards me. But before he can say anything else I stop in front of him. Joshua raises a brow.

“Tell Jeonghan that if he wanted me to come home then he should have come himself, instead of sending off a stranger.” I look towards the other vampire who stands across from us with his hands in his pockets. Seungcheol has a confused look on his face as I start to come towards him.

“I don’t have much choice... but this is the choice I made.” I link my arm with seungcheol and he nearly chokes on air. “I’m going with seungcheol.”

Joshua’s eyes widened at my response. I’m surprised with myself as well. But it’s something I feel is right. “I’ll see you at home josh. Until then, just know. I don’t trust any of you. I hardly even want to talk to this guy but he’s my only way home that I truly know will take me back. So don’t think I’m someone who’s easily persuaded.” I stare deep into his eyes. The eyes that I thought were soft before were now just empty. I don’t know what’s become of the image I had of any of them.

Josh just smiles before turning away. “It’s ok,__. You’ll trust us soon enough and know we aren’t the bad guys fairytales make us to be. Well at least your cousin and I Aren’t.” He turns his head to the side and glances Seungcheol up and down. He continues to walk, Turing off his phone light and heads away into the darkness. Gone for now. And the rain stops.

“Finally he’s gone.” I say relieved and unhook my arm from seungcheol. “Let’s head home.” I started to walk in the direction Joshua went . But I notice Seungcheol stays put. I look back with confusion.

“Why did you choose to come with me?” He asks puzzled.

“I told him the reason…”

“No. That’s not the reason. You shouldn’t trust me the most. After everything I did to you...you still chose me, why?” He’s persistent with his questioning.

“To be honest... Maybe it’s that stupid girl In the back I’m mind that still trusts you. The one who followed you even when you hurt me the most. The one… who still looks up to you for some reason. The girl that still thinks you’re her best friend.” My eyes couldn’t meet his. Why would I even say that? I know better than to be exposed to him. I can’t trust him, remember!

“Whatever. Let’s just go home. I’m taking a shot in the dark anyway-“ I couldn’t finish my sentence because of my face being smashed against his chest.

“I’m so sorry,__. “ he continues to hug me.

How long has it been since this has happened? I can’t remember the last time this happened. It feels just like I remember for some reason, like everything between us never happened. I have the urge to just wrap my arms around him like I did before. But I have to remember, I’m stronger than this. I push away gently. Seungcheol looks at me with sad eyes. Which I also haven’t seen in years.

“A person who cares for someone can’t just gain their trust with words, they have to gain them back with action. Show me you’re sorry for what you’ve done ,if you really are. Until then, you start at level zero. Just like my cousin. I want you to be who you really are now.”

“I promise. I’ll make it up to you.” Seungcheol walls besides me, Alamo shoulder to shoulder. “I think a man can change overnight, right.” He says half jokingly.

“I think a lot of things can happen in a short amount of time.”

“Ya, you really convinced me recently.” Seungcheol brings up with a slight grin.

“What do you mean?” Seungcheol only shrugs. Putting his hands in his pockets.

“Well, that day in the parking lot. That was the first time I’ve seen you actually fight back. Sure, I wanted you to break. I wanted to get in your skin, but that was a reaction I wasn’t expecting.” A shiver runs down my spine. Of course he wanted to see me suffer, he just admitted it. But hearing that really brought to life that he’s a scary person.

“I was angry, and got even angrier when I saw you with another one, another vampire that is.” He explains.

“I don’t know what came over me to be honest, these past two days.” I exhale heavily. “ I don’t want to Change from myself. I thought of myself as someone who stands up for people, but yet I couldn’t stand up for myself. Yes, some change is good but too much change hurts my head too much” The night seemed to have gotten colder as the dark clouds got thicker over the night sky. Soon enough sprinkles of rain start to fall. My hands creep up to my shoulders trying to gain as much warmth as I can. A bigger jacket getting placed on my shoulders takes me by surprise.

Seungcheol jerks his hands a bit at my flinch. “Here you need this more than I do.” He gently places it on my shoulder blades.

“You really don’t-“

“No, really I can handle the cold.” I just nod and wrap the jacket further around myself.

“Right, you really don’t have much body heat-“ a small Yelp leaves my mouth as I’m pushed into his chest again. Seungcheol towering over me and there’s little space between us. My breathing becomes unsteady as Seungcheol grasps my wrist bringing it up to his face slowly.

“There’s one thing I’ll tell you right now.” His face is just an inch away from mine. “Vampires don’t take well to stereotypes.” Confusion locks onto my face as he gently sets my palm against his cheeks. There wasn’t much there but there is heat. My eyes widened as the warmth of his pale cheeks touched my cold hands. I can feel it in his hands as he grips my wrist as well.

“O-oh I’m sorry… I didn’t know.” I stutter out an apology. But he just gives a light chuckle. He lets go of my wrist and steps away. Leaving the cold air to rush back on me.

“I was kidding. You don't have to apologize when that’s all you know. But, just know that what you know about vampires, isn’t always true. We do have body heat, just not much. But we can also withstand the weather. How is it possible? Hell if I know. If I thought the impossible could happen, I wouldn't be what I am today.” He laughs.

I just stand there now really knowing what else to say. I did feel dumb for assuming but I can’t blame myself. This isn’t really a normal conversation.

“Come on. We have to get you home.”

He starts to tread ahead as I still stand where he had me against him, feeling my cheeks blush at what just happened.

The rain didn’t get any heavier than the sprinkles for the whole time we walked. It wasn’t a long walk back home but I sure was a quiet one. Not much dialogue was passed around during the time.

The second we make it to my front yard we see Jeonghan stand from the bench on the front porch. I can already see seungcheol stiffen as my cousin heads over to me. I only look down at the floor once he makes his way over.

“__, is sorry for everything-“

“Jeonghan you don’t have to-“

“No, I know this is a lot for you to take in. I was selfish to show you what we’ve become but you have to know. I can’t ever keep a secret from you.” My eyes gaze over to the side where seungcheol stands and listens with his hands in his pockets again.

“Can we talk about this inside?” I ask. Seungcheol’s eyes snap towards, a frown making its way on his face. Jeonghan nods softly and makes his way back into the house. He stops at the front door looking back to see me still standing with seungcheol.

“Will you be ok?” He asks with what I couldn’t tell if it was concern or pure hatred for my cousin.

“I think I’ll be ok.” This is weird. I haven’t heard him be concerned for me in years. This change is too different right now. All of this is too difficult right now.

“I’ll see you around, seungcheol.” I say but remember to remove the jacket from my shoulders but a hand stops me.

“It’s ok. You can just give it back to me tomorrow.” I try not to think too much of it or else my cheeks would end up burning red. I just nod and walk towards my cousin who’s waiting and watching the both of us.

“Oh__!” I turn back to my old childhood friend. “The thing you said about change... maybe change isn’t always bad.” My eyebrows furrow as my neighbor walks home. What was that supposed to mean? I think to myself and make my way to where Jeonghan is waiting. His eyes follow Seungcheol slowly as he opens the front door for me.

The door closes behind us and before I can turn around and say anything, Jeonghan has his arms around me. He pulls me closer, my hands don’t know what to do as they stay by my side. It feels nice to be hugged by my cousin but I gently push away.

“__-“

“Can we sit?.” My cousin's lips seal as he ushers us towards the living room to talk. Sitting down on the living room couch I warily look around the empty house. “Where are your friends?” I ask as he makes his way to sit on the other couch.

“They went out to the movies, they were worried about you but I just told them to head off. Joshua saw I was worried and suggested that I’d let you think. So he went to go find you, thinking that it would be best. I trust Joshua with everything in me, and you seemed to be more comfortable with him than the others.” He explains. “I’m sorry I was stupid to show you like that. I’m sorry I left you when seungcheol was doing that to you. I'm sorry I left you and my mother. I’m -“

“Jeonghan.” He stops his apologies and looks at me. Tears started to form in his eyes. “Jeonghan, I want to start over.”

“W-what do you mean?” He’s confused.

“I want to start over. You clearly came back a new person. So I just want you to be here again as my family. But It’s so hard being able to think that this is my reality now, hell, even my bully apologized. But I just want to start over and learn to trust you. It’s gonna be hard for me after these three years and this, but, I’m going to try.” Jeonghan couldn’t contain the smile that stretches on his face.

Could I really live like this? Like this normal? Only time will truly tell, and I can only hope they’re telling the truth and I can trust them.

It’ll be my fault for my downfall if it doesn’t turn out good.

“That’s… that’s great to hear. I’ll do my best.” He gets up what I think is to ruffle my hair but my body jerks on it’s own. I can see the visible sadness on his face as he retracts his hand to his side. Probably taking a note to take it slow in his mind.

“I’ll see you in the morning kiddo. Good night , love you.” He says as he drags his feet up the stairs. Not looking at me.

“I love you too.” I say to myself and push myself up from the couch. “Which is why I’m deciding to give you a chance.” With that I turn off the lights down stairs and head towards my room.

As I walk down the hall the bathroom door opens and Joshua steps out of the bathroom. Steam from what was probably from the shower blows out from the door. His wet hair dripping onto his shoulders, which were barely covered by his loose button up, which only had a few buttons buttoned. Exposing his chest. With a pair of basketball shorts.

I could feel my cheeks burning a million degrees. I’ve never had another male in the house besides Jeonghan. So this is a very different experience. Not to mention he built well.

“Oh. Hey,__” he greets wrapping his towel around his neck. “Heading to bed?”

“Umm. Ya I’m heading to bed right now.” I say quickly not to look at his sleeping attire.

“Did you talk to Jeonghan?” He carries on. Clearly not taking into consideration that he’s talking to a female in his current state.

“Yes. I did and I think we’re ok now. But it’s been a long day so I’m going to bed.” I say and quickly walk past the boy. He hollers a good night before I can close my door. I close my door gently and knock my forehead Against it repeatedly.

“My life is a movie now.” I say Lowly and pick up my towel to head into the shower. After my shower I change into my pajamas. Plugging my phone on the charger on the bed side table, I look through the window to where seungcheol’s house is. The window of his bedroom is dark. Maybe signaling that he’s gone to sleep?

Does he sleep? He did say not to assume anything about vampires.

With the thoughts rolling through my head I lower the blinds and tuck myself into bed. Resting my eyes and slowly entering sleep.

A loud ring makes my eyes snap open. The early sun is now peaking into my bedroom window. I’ve woken up before my alarm clock, a whole 30 minutes before. Thinking that some extra time to get ready isn’t a bad thing, I drag myself out of bed.

After getting ready and brushing my teeth I sit in my desk chair to put on my shoes. As I’m tying my shoes I notice the drawer I put my ruined sheet music in is slightly open. Pulling the drawer open I see the horrendous sight of the blotches of ink and crumpled and water stained paper.

“Why didn’t I just write it down on my computer?” I groan, mentally slapping myself. Lucky the violin solo was still readable. The one I’ve worked the hardest on. The melody was still perfectly legible. “I guess I can save this.” I jott down the readable notes on a flash card and throw the card in my backpack.

I make my way downstairs and see my aunt eating a bowl of cereal. She looks up at me surprised, she's usually gone before I even get ready. “Hey hun, you’re up early.” She greets and pulls out another bowl. Pouring me cereal alongside her bowl.

“Ya, yesterday was a bit of a weird day. So I went to bed early.” She hums and quickly downs her bowl. Grabbing her purse she kisses me on the head.

“You can tell me about it when I get home. Love you, have a good day at school.” I give her goodbye and I’m left alone In the kitchen. I can’t help but wish that none of the boys would come down soon. But the universe loves to defy me because the next second, seokmin makes his way down. His hair is still messy and he looks quite sleepy. But he was fully dressed and ready for school.

“Morning…” he says groggily as he slowly pulls the seat out next to me. I try hard not to make any anxious movements. But my body freezes.

“Morning.” I repeat and continue eating my cereal. He rests his head on the palm of his hand, nodding off slowly and only to jerk his head up again. This does seem entertaining in the slightest, I guess vampires do sleep. And now I know they can be sleep deprived as well.

“You sleep well?” I ask not knowing why I would even engage in conversation. One of his eyes peep open to look at me.

“Uh, I wish. My stomach was acting up all night because I decided to eat half a cake.” He groans and rubs his belly slightly.

“You can eat cake?” I ask shyly. Taking seungcheol’s words into consideration. “Sorry to ask.”

“Why are you sorry? It’s normal to ask questions.” He grins, his eye smile brightening his face. “And to answer your question. Technically yes, we can. Though it has some consequences. Like stomach aches and drowsiness. But I love food too much to give it up. I couldn’t help myself…” he pouts. “Ugh and the other boys think they’re so cool because they have self control. Well they’re just party poopers.” I couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle. He giggles along with me while rubbing his tired eyes.

“Well when do they eat...or um drink?” Seokmin sits back in his chair rubbing his chin slightly.

“Well, like humans, we get hungry at the same time or different times. We try to eat-eat around the same time to keep things consistent, but of course that’s not possible. Because one might get hungry while the other is fine for another few days.” He explains. “I’m bad at explaining things. But just know, hungry or not, if there’s a cupcake in front of me, I’m eating it.”

“Note taken.” I smile and finish my bowl and head to the sink. Maybe seokmin isn’t so bad, he doesn’t seem too much like a vampire. He seems to be the most relatable so far that I’ve seen.

While I’m washing my bowl, two others come down.

Seungkwan and Jihoon come down fully dressed. “Jeez, min you look awful.” Seungkwan comments and slaps his back. Seokmin just waves his hand telling the younger male to stop patronizing him. Jihoon on the other hand sits crossing his arms.

“We told you not to eat that cake. Especially since you haven’t fed since last week.” Seungkwan says, but right after that leaves his mouth, Jihoon slaps him besides the head. His head nudging in my direction, warming the younger vampire to think about what he says.

“Ouch. What she already knows-ouch!”

“You idiot. She’s adjusting, we can’t just be talking about it like it’s a normal walk in the park.” Jihoon hisses as he grabs the back of his neck.

“I-it’s ok. Seokmin has already told me a lot.” The two boys look at the half asleep vampire with confusion.

“Are you sure it’s ok?” Jihoon asks again. Seungkwan's neck is still in his grasp.

“Ya. I th-think, I think I’m ok.” The three boys stay quiet for a while and Jihoon finally releases Seungkwan.

“Thank you for understanding.” Seokmin smiles and pats down his messy hair. The two other boys sit down at the table and mess around with their phones. Finally the two others come down. The two that I was hoping would stay up there the whole day.

Jeonghan and Joshua enter the kitchen. Joshua is dressed nicely with a tight black sweater and his hair styled. Jeonghan was dressed in his uniform of course but still had his hair styled as well.

“Good morning.” Joshua greets at the boys. But his focus stops on me. Nodding to me sweetly as he sits down with the rest of his brothers. For some reason my heart beat rises at that. I try to look away towards my cousin as he stands next to me and ruffles my hair, this time with no reaction from me. This seems to spark something in him because he grins like a mad man and hugs my shoulders.

“Morning,___. You’re looking lovely today.” He complements, I just push out a quiet thank you and he happily marches to the front door. “I’ll be heading out now. Have a good day at school.” We all say a goodbye and he waves. But he looks at me again “thank you, __. For willing to accept this. If you need anything, please call. I’ll be there in a heartbeat.” I can feel the embarrassment seep out of me. Jeonghan was always the loving type. Even before he left and had many hugs to give. Even going to the extreme to get me a bouquet of roses and a chocolate at school because I didn’t have a valentine on Valentine’s Day.

Bittersweet I should say. Though he loves he can even be sassy. Burning down anyone who dared to come after him. At least that’s the Jeonghan I remember.

He leaves out the door and it’s just me and the roomies left. I head back up stairs to fetch my stuff before I leave for school. Scurrying back down with my backpack and violin I seemed to have lost my footing because I feel the air as I tip forward into a world of pain. But someone catches me just in time. Arms wrap around my body as I crash into their chest. Joshua catches me effortlessly and even manages to grab my violin in time.

“Are you ok?” He asks with worry in his eyes. My heart nearly fell out of my ass. I fix myself quickly and rub his arms as if to dust him off, awkwardly.

Why the fuck am I always falling? This has to be a cruel joke from the universe.

“Y-ya thank you, for catching me.” I grab my violin and run around him to the bottom of the stairs where the rest of the boys are waiting. “You guys ready to go?” I ask almost frantically as I try to fix my stance. Joshua makes it down the stairs with his backpack hanging off one of his shoulders.

How is it possible that he was there in time? Are they really that fast? Could he have sensed me falling? The boys look at me with what seems like concern or confusion. But before they could ask, Joshua ushers everyone out of the house with the claim that we would be late for school.

This morning has already started with a weird start.

I spotted my locker after what seemed like the longest walk ever to school. Aki is waiting besides it scrolling through her phone with her earbuds in. She notices me and pauses her music. “Well hello there.” She greets while pulling her earbuds out and swinging them around.

“Hey.” I give back and start to unlock my locker. She rolls her eyes and rests her back against the lockers.

“Always the weakest greetings. Where’s the life in your eyes?” She says dramatically. I just grin and begin to push my stuff into my locker.

“Sorry. Just a strange morning.” Aki just sighs but her eyes widen as she taps my shoulder.

“H-hey, seungcheol heading our way.” She stumbles out. My head snaps towards the vampire and his gang heading our direction. She tries to lead me away but it’s too late because he’s already standing right by us. His hand grips the locker door above my head, almost like he’s trapping me. But this time it doesn’t feel like aggression.

He inches his face near mine. I grip the outside of my shirt nervously. I can see Aki not wanting to look at what happens next, but what does happen is not what any one expects.

Gripping my chin softly he lifts my face to look directly at him. Our noses are pretty much touching. “Morning.” He says with a smile. I can’t believe what is happening before my eyes, but everyone else is equally surprised. His member’s jaws are hanging wide open.

“M-morning.” I manage to stutter out. He just gives a low chuckle and pushes away. Pushing my hair behind my ear he gently brushed my cheek with his knuckles. I could feel myself almost choke on my saliva. I knew he said he was going to change but I wasn’t expecting this. Or at least this right away. I take that back. I wasn’t expecting this at all. Seungcheol places his hands in his pockets and starts to walk towards the other end of the hall. His brothers look back to see if that really just happened, also Leaving me and Aki to pinch each other to see if we’re dreaming.

But I know this isn't a dream. This is something the world just decided to throw at me just for the heck of it.

“I-I think w-we should head to class now.” Aki suggests and honestly I can’t think of anything better. We both scurry to the band room.

Lunch time has come around and Aki and I sit together alone at a table as far away from both groups as possible. Aki seems to be zoning out because she hasn’t said much since earlier this morning. She even missed her queues in the band practice, which she never does.

“So are we just not going to talk about it?” She brings up.

“Well, I was planning not to. So thanks for bringing it up.” I say taking a big bite of my sandwich.

“How are we not? What happened today was not normal. It’s borderline disturbing!” I swallow slowly, putting down my sandwich after not really having an appetite anymore.

“ if I knew what happened and why it happened, then I would tell you. But I don't, so we’re equally as confused.” Scratching the top of her head, she glances towards seungcheol’s table.

“He has to be a clone of some sort. There’s no way he would have done that, right?” She questioned.

“I really don’t know. I did talk to him yesterday and-“

“Wait! you actually talked to him?!” She yells a little too loudly. Causing other bystanders to look towards us. Even catching the attention of seungcheol.

“Shut up.” I hiss and cover her mouth. “Yes, I talked to him.” I look up and see seungcheol staring right at the both of us.

“What did you talk about?” She asks ,but I’m way more worried about the boy who we are talking about walking straight towards our table.

“Dammit.” I curse and try to turn my attention away as if I don’t see him coming. I pan over to my cousin's roommates table. They seem to have noticed his journey to our side and watch. Joshua seemed to be the most Intrigued because not once did his eyes leave Seungcheol's figure.

Now he’s standing right before me and Aki. He has a gentle smile on his face. Aki nods slightly and looks towards me. The look of utter confusion and fear on her face.

“Hey Ali, is it?” He asks, not expecting him to talk to her at all she tenses. Pushing up her glasses nervously.

“It’s actually Aki…” she corrects. “But if you want to call me Ali that’s fine.” She squeaks and stares at her shaking hands. Sure seungcheol has never directly bullied her, but all the time of her seeing him and his crew destroy anyone who defies them fills her veins with anxiety. The leader of the baddest kids in school was talking to her and she doesn’t want to get on his bad side.

“Aki. Ok, got it.” He corrects himself and places a hand on her shoulder. You can practically see the terror in her eyes. “Hey, can you let ___ and I talk for a minute?” She doesn’t really know what to say as he kneels down to her level on the chair. “Just for a bit, if you want you can go sit with my crew. So no one bothers you.” It was like she saw a ghost at this point. Though fear struck she quickly gathers her things and scurries away.

“They better not bother her or else.” I warn. Seungcheol gets into Aki’s seat and leans back.

“Oh ya?” He smirks. “I get that you're ‘miss defender’ but do you think you can go against three vampires? I mean you couldn’t even handle the soccer team, and one of us equals a whole soccer team in strength ” I just scoff. Who does he think he is?

“If you’re here to be a jerk then I’ll just leave.” I stand up abruptly to leave but he grabs my wrist.

“Ok ok I’m sorry. I was joking. I forgot we really aren’t on that kind of comfort level yet.” He rubs the back of his head nervously. I slowly fall back into my seat and poke at my pudding cup.

“Well you passed every boundary when you ‘greeted’ me this morning. What happened to going back to what you used to be?”

“What, you didn’t like it?” He raises a brow. Acting like he’s surprised.

“Seungcheol, that was too much. You said you Would be normal-“

“Here’s the thing. Three years have passed. Do you really think I’m the same innocent kid I was back then? Ha, if only you knew a fraction of what I do.” He slaps his hand on the table. “I sleep around. I beat the shit out of people. I get what I want. And I do whatever the fuck I want. Everyone here is scared of me. And I want to keep it that way.” At this point it’s like his eyes are burning straight into mine.

“That seems like a seungcheol I don’t want to be around-“ two hands grip the side of my face firmly.

“You said you wanted to start over. This is me now. I’m sorry if you don’t like what I’ve become over the years. I didn’t want this. You said to forget everything about us in the past. But I can’t quite do that.” He brings his face closer to mine, his grip not letting up.

“I’ve changed my ways towards you because… I’m not going to lie, you have a place in this dead heart. I meant everything I said last night. You don’t have to be scared of me anymore. But you should at least accept me now since you’re choosing to forgive me.” He gives a sinister smile before letting go of my face. I rub my cheeks after the heavy pressure was released.

“What about the guy in the Forest last night?” I ask remembering that he acted completely different the night before. He just hums.

“Like I said, you have a soft spot in my heart. The last few days have been a wake up call for me. The things that happened were never your fault. I’m going to make it up to you like I said.” He puts his arms behind his head to rest back. “I won’t let anything hurt you anymore. You deserve a break after 3 years.”

“Seungcheol-“

“You know if anyone else called me that name while we’re at school, I would have already punched their face in. But you, you can call my name all you want. I like it, it makes me feel like the good old days. I would say it almost makes my heart skip a beat.” He says. Not expecting him to be so forward I choke slightly on my pudding that I was eating . He pats my back lightly and seconds later the bell rings telling the students that it’s time for class. Seungcheol pushes his seat out and stands up. I also get up, I begin to shovel in my lunch stuff back into my lunch box. My hand reaches out for my bag but Seungcheol grabs my hand and intertwines his fingers with mine. Grabbing my bag and slinging it over his shoulder.

I try to pull my hand out of his. He turns around to face me again. “What I was gonna walk you to class ,baby.” He explains. Hearing that name come out of his lips caused a shiver to go down my spine.

“I can walk with Aki.” I retort. His eyes roll and he pushes the small of my back gently to guide me through the lunch room.

“Aki seems to have left with my boys. She’ll be fine-“

“I’ll walk alone. You have to go to class too. I’ll be fine.” I tug my backpack off his shoulder and quickly walk away. Leaving him behind with his hands in his pockets like always.

I try to walk through the halls without bumping into people. My mind is way too far from this world because I’ve already almost ran into countless students. The memories of seungcheol years ago compared to last night, and even compared to now, they also seem like different people. I could clearly see the old seungcheol in him yesterday but now I can see that I really don’t know him anymore. Am I dumb to think that he would stay the same after dying and becoming a vampire? Is he really the fuck boy jerk of the whole school now?

The rest of the day flew by. I couldn’t really focus throughout class. I could barely remember the conversation between Aki and I about her lunch experience with seungcheol’s goons. Something about wonwoo staring her down the whole time.

I headed to my locker alone after school. My violin swinging back and forth as I walk down the empty hallway. I didn't see Jeonghan's friends so I assume I’m walking home alone. As I’m passing through the halls I come across the soccer team. They are bunched around with beat up faces and bruised bodies. Some rubbing their sore limbs as they grab their stuff for practice. But what caught my attention was the captain looking roughed up, but normal.

“I’m telling you guys. I don’t know how I passed out. But when I woke up my neck was killing me.” He explains as he rubs his sore neck. They seem to notice me. The captain’s eyes narrow towards my direction. The rest of the team tries to look away but the captain is seething.

“Hey violin bitch!” He calls out to me. I try to ignore him but he jogs towards me. His team mates stay back nervously as their team mate confronts the girl who got them beat up. Probably thinking it’s not a good idea to be messing with me after what happened.

“Can I help you?” I say in a fake polite voice. But that seems to piss him off more.

“You’re lucky that your boyfriend was there to save your ass because if he wasn’t then you would have been done.” He growls and right after rubbing his neck from straining it.

“Ok but why are you talking to me? Didn’t you learn your lesson not to be a prick by now, considering your teammates are messed up.” I bite back and try to walk away again but he steps in front of me.

“Like your boyfriend is any better. S.coups is the worst of us all.” He denounces.

Who the heck is S.coups?

“I wish i knew who this S.coups is, but sorry to inform you but he’s not my boyfriend.” The boy looks like he wants to say something but his eyes widen and the color drains from his face.

“Ouch you’re hurting my heart, baby.” I turn back to see Seungcheol and his friends behind me. The three others seem to be glaring at the rest of the team. Warning them if they are ever to take a step closer it would be trouble. “Is he bothering you sweetheart?” Seungcheol asks me and pulls me to his chest.

“S-s.coups, this is a misunderstanding-“

“Was I fucking talking to you?!” Seungcheol snarls at the poor scared boy. He looks towards me again but his features go soft. Also rubbing my shoulders softly. “Just tell me baby…” he grips my face like earlier before so it’s only his face I can see. “And I’ll end him right here.” His eyes go blood red at the end of his sentence. His nice teeth now razor sharp with the fangs I saw threaten my cousin yesterday day. But this time he has an evil grin on his face.

I can feel my knees go wobbly. But I push through and pull my face from his hands and pull his sleeve. “Let’s go. He was just asking me about a history test, he wasn’t doing anything.” I try to explain and lead him away from the poor terrified boys. Luckily, he decides to follow.

The five of us exit the campus and go towards mine and seungcheol’s neighborhood. I tread ahead of the boys while they stay behind and chat. Well except for seungcheol. He walks quietly behind but doesn’t engage in the conversation between his friends. It was like that the rest of the way until we reached our houses. Seungcheol tells his friends to wait at his house and that he’ll catch up soon.

“I could tell you were lying.” Is the first thing he says. I stop walking but keep my back to him. “You’re a terrible liar.”

“ your point?” I say and turn my head slightly to look at him.

“Why?” He asks.

“I didn’t want violence-“

“Bullshit.” I turn fully towards him. He stands the same stupid way with his same stupid hands in his pockets.

“I don’t have to tell you anything.” He lets out a sigh.

“Fine. Don’t tell me anything.” He huffs. Thinking that the conversation was done I walk towards my house again but he’s quick to follow.

“Why are you following me? Aren’t your friends waiting for you?” I say not looking behind at the boy. He snorts and jogs next to me.

“They can wait. Can’t I walk you home like old times?”

“It’s not like old times, remember? And I don’t think your friends are very fond of you being all nice to me all of a sudden. Doesn’t it taint your image?”

“Well they’ll have to deal with it. And do you think I’m someone who gives a fuck about my image?” He must be joking. The biggest bully in school, the one who beats up anyone who disrespects him, doesn’t care about his image. Very funny.

“I don’t know s.coups, do you?” I say sarcastically. “What kind of a name is that anyway? All of your goons have normal names.” I say.

“ well, seungcheol isn’t really a name I identify with anymore. And that’s just because I left him behind three years ago after shit hit the fan... It’s almost an insult now.”

“Not once have you ever corrected me for saying seungcheol…” I state. It’s true I never even heard of his nickname until today.

“That’s because only people I really know call me that. My brothers and you. It’s not much of anything when you say it…like I said. It brings back the old memories. I like when you say it...” I don’t really pay him any attention but when he wraps his arms around my shoulders and rests his chin on my shoulder, he makes us come to a stop. “ in fact, I like it a little too much. Makes me think of other ways you can say my name...or maybe scream it-“

“Fuck off!” I push his arms off me. “What the hell is wrong with you?” I wish it didn’t have any effect on me but I can’t help the redness that burns on my face. Countless shivers run down my spine with embarrassment.

“What? I was joking.” He grins. “If you can’t take a joke like that then your innocence hasn’t changed at all.” He says, but instead of saying anything back I just flip him the bird and walk in my front yard path. Seungcheol chases after me blurting out little apologies.

Finally I’m able to make it to my porch. And to my surprise I see Seungkwan and Joshua playing a round of uno. Alongside them is seokmin eating a bag of chips while watching videos on his phone. The three of them turn towards the two of us. Joshua sets his cards face down and turns in his seat to face us.

“Hey. Glad you made it back okay. We didn’t see you after school.” Joshua pushes his hair back and lays back on the chair he’s sitting in.

“I had something come up for the orchestra.” I lie. “Seungcheol just so happened to be walking home around the same time I was.” Joshua didn’t seem to be suspicious about my lie and picked up his cards again, throwing down a draw four on Seungkwan. Which resulted in him throwing his cards down in frustration.

“Ok, thanks for walking me home seungcheol, you can go now.” I press while pushing him down the steps of my porch.

“Wow wow wow. You’re not gonna invite me over?” He asks.

“No.” I retort and twist around towards my door, passing the three boys that sat on the porch. Leaving the four boys surprised.Slamming the front door, I zoom into the kitchen to take out an apple from the fridge and start eating angrily. “Stupid seungcheol and his stupid face and his stupid attitude and his stupid-“

“Hey,__!” Jeonghan waltzes into the kitchen with Jihoon. “Glad you made it home alright.”

“Ya. It’s been a long day.” I let out a sigh. “Also did you know your friends are attempting to play uno with only two people?” I comment and Jeonghan just chuckles.

“Ya, I was playing with them but I decided that I found Seungkwan annoying, so I left before I could strangle him.” Jihoon huffs before Turning around and heading outside to where the rest of the boys are. Jeonghan nods to me and heads to the front as well, probably to make sure Jihoon doesn’t kill anyone.

I finish my apple and throw it in the trash. But just as I’m about to head upstairs but my phone goes off in my pocket. Aki’s contact comes up on the screen. I slide the answer button and put my phone up to my ear.

“Hello?”

“Get ready. We’re going to a party.”

To be continued..

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A/N- i know it took me a while but here it is. i really like this story and i love writing it.

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