Chapter thirty-seven
"Hey, Lix? Are you done with your activity?"
"Can I lend him for a second?" Felix asks the rest of the group, and they just nod and turn around. Beomgyu joins them in Jisung's place.
"What's up, Lix?"
"Jisung, I can't stand this no more," Felix answers while they wander away from the group.
"What do you mean?"
"Every time I feel his presence it gets worse. I was crying like a fool, Ji, and I couldn't do anything about it. Just because I felt him close and then getting further away."
"Wait, you had an attack again? Are you okay?"
"Yes, now I am."
"Lix, why are you getting all these attacks, though? I never ha- I mean shouldn't it feel good to be close to them?"
"I think it's just my body's craving. Like...He kinda did make out with my fucking neck so I guess my body just wants to, I don't know, finish it? And well...you know what he did to m-"
"Yes, I do. So what? We're gonna look for him? Right?"
"I...I don't know. It may hurt."
"Better to hurt one time real bad than to keep hurting 24/7. And besides."
"What?"
"It's not like you know another one of his kind," Well you do, but you don't know you do, "He may be able to help you. It's his fault after all."
"Ji, I don't kn-"
"GUYS!!" Jisung yells at his team, "FELIX ISN'T FEELING WELL SO IMMA GO AND TAKE CARE OF HIM! I'M SURE GYU WILL GLADLY TAKE MY PLACE!"
Minho looks questioningly at Jisung. "I'll be back before the rock climbing, promise." Minho nods at Jisung and turns back to the group.
"Wow, Ji. So what's your plan now?"
"We're gonna wander around the area."
"Wh-why though?" Felix asks confused.
"If you feel an upcoming attack we know that we're warm and that way we'll find him. Hopefully."
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As they were walking towards their next activity Hyunjin and Chris walked up to both his sides. Jake's in a conversation with his roommates and so are the two love birds.
Minho looks confused at his friends. "You look great," Hyunjin begins.
"I'm just sporting a normal pair of sweaters and a tee?"
"No, like, yOu look great?" Why the fuck are they looking at me that way?
"Your face looks great," Chris says.
"Ehm...thanks? I think that that's one of the perks of being incredibly handsome?"
Hyunjin smirks, "Maybe."
"Or maybe," Chris continues, "someone's let you drink." Chris turns his head so he's facing the smaller getting silhouettes of Felix and Jisung.
Minho looks protectively back, "No he did not."
"Oh, come on. There's no use in lying," Hyunjin says.
"We can clearly smell your scent radiating from that boy," Chris adds.
"Then check your noses." Minho shrugs, looking forward.
"The thing is," Chris starts, once again.
"The smell wasn't there yesterday evening," Hyunjin finishes
"No, it wasn't indeed," Chris says, looking overly dramatically shocked at Hyunjin, who mirrors him.
"Did you take advantage of his wounded condition," Hyunjiin says, closing both his hands over his mouth.
"Poor boy couldn't even protect himself."
"What must he have thought."
"Stop it," Minho says through gritted teeth.
"I would be scared as hell if my roommate would force himself on me and bite my neck," Hyunjin continues.
"And suck blood out of it."
"Oh my gosh, I can't believe he was able to participate in our group."
"I know right? I'd shit my pants every time I looked at those cannibalistic eyes again."
"He must have some real strong willpower."
"Most definitely. Poor boy," Chris says while shaking his head.
"I'm sure he'll rent a new house pretty soon, don't you think?"
"No, I don't think so.
I'm 100% sure he will. But then again, he has to see Minho almost daily at school."
"He must be scared as fuck," Hyunjin says with a pout
"Yes, the poor boy must hate the living shit out of him."
"He insisted!" Both his friends stopped the teasing and looked at Minho.
"He insisted?" Hyunjin questions with that puzzled look of his.
"Yes, yes he did," Minho sighs.
"Why the fuck would he?" Chris asks, rather worried than something else, "That's some suicidal thought."
"Yes," Hyunjin falls in accord, "Who would INSIST on a vampire biting them? He can't possibly trust you enough to be sure you won't kill him.
"What was going through that boy's head?"
"I was," Minho mumbles
"YOU MADE THE BOY FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU SO YOU COULD FEAST ON HIM?!" Hyunjin whisper-yells.
"What? No, of course, not!"
"Why would he trust you that much if he wasn't in love with you?"
"I didn't say he wasn't in love with me," Minho whispers back.
"Then what did you say?" Chris asks.
"That I didn't do anything to 'feast on him'. I didn't."
"Then why did he give you his blood?" Hyunjin asks.
"I told you he insisted! I didn't want to and kept telling him I couldn't. He practically forced me to!"
"He forced you to drink of him?" Hyunjin says, finding it hard to believe.
"And you did it?" Chris adds to the question.
"It was in the heat of the moment, okay? I wasn't able to think straight at all, let alone if the boy was groaning to me that I MUST bite him. Would you be able to sustain it? Don't think so."
"In the heat of what moment?" Chris asks.
"Oh my god," Hyunjin says, turning to Chris, "Are you thinking what I am?"
"You know I never do," Chris sighs.
"Urgh! The hickeys?"
"What about the hickeys?" Chris asks confused as to why Hyunjin brings that up now.
"Chris? Are you really that stupid?"
"I hope not."
"Good gracious…Those were Jisung's!"
"Why would you say that? You can't know that," Chris shrugs.
"Come on. Minho hasn't even had his first kiss. Now there's a boy walking around scenting like Minho because Minho drank of him. The boy insisted on it. And Minho says 'in the heat of the moment.' I do know, Christopher."
Chris looks shocked at Minho. "You kissed him?"
"What?" Minho answers.
"I THOUGHT SOMEONE JUST GAVE YOU HICKEYS BUT YOU ALSO KISSED THAT SOMEONE?"
"Woah. Calm down. Why are you yelling at me?" Minho hushes the older boy.
"YOU'RE NOT EVEN DENYING IT!"
"Why would I?"
"Errrrr...excuse me?" Hyunjin interferes, then he continues looking dramatically shocked, "Y'all fucked haven't you?"
"Someone's really straightforward," Minho laughs awkwardly.
"MINHO FUCKING LEE, YOU DID WHAT NOW? YESTERDAY?" Chris butts in again.
"Not necessarily."
"Oh my GOSH!" Hyunjin yells, "My besties growing up," he wipes away a fake tear. Minho chuckles at that.
"I wasn't expecting this much when Hyunjin and I came to confront you about the drinking of your roomie."
"So...by other words, two of us have claimed both the besties," Hyunjin chuckles.
"I think they did, has anyone seen him though? He should be here too right?" Chris asks.
"No, I haven't seen him yet, but I'm sure he's here somewhere." Minho says, glad that they let the previous subject fall, "It surprises me he hasn't come back for the boy yet."
"I know right," Hyunjin says, "he's the obsessive-type, and he has just seen the boy once."
"Minho?" Minho looks up and around and then it occurs to him who it was.