Chapter twenty-one

He was a hybrid. 

A hybrid who had a vampire as a mate.

He looked in the mirror one last time and went back to bed after washing his face. Guess I have to tell Jisung everything in the morning.

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A sudden weight on his back wakes Felix up. 

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! NOW HE THINKS I'M A PERV!" Jisung yells. 

Felix, who was just half-awake answers after a yawn, "What did you do this time, Ji?" 

"I didn't do anything," Jisung answers, "you woke me up in the middle of the night and then I slept in the wrong bed! It's all YOUR fault! Now he's gone and didn't even talk to me! And by the way, Minho said you were sick the other night too, why didn't you tell me?" 

oh.

I almost forgot about that.

"Ehm, Ji? About that.." 

"Yes, Lix?"

"Well, do you remember that night I went looking for that place where we're gonna hide tonight?"

"Mhm. What about that night?" Jisung asks while getting off of Felix and sitting down on his own bed.

Felix continued, with his head still in his pillow. "Something happened that I didn't tell you about."

"Did something bad happen?"

"yeah...you can put it like that...I ehm a lot of things happened. One moment I was just walking over the street and the other someone dragged me around the corner and pinned me against the wall."

"Oh my...Lix...did they-"

"No, haha, don't worry. I mean...he was ehm...sucking my neck?"

"So that's where those marks came from," Jisung says, smirking "You still hadn't told me. I found it weird already that you didn't tell me."

"mhm...so ehm...while he was...sucking?..I felt...teeth sinking in my neck?"

Jisung looks at his best friend confused. "You felt...teeth sink into your neck? How...why...why didn't you tell me before?" Felix thought his friend would be scared by the thought of him being bitten, but he looked anything but scared. 

"I did not know what to do about this either. I was confused. And since I didn't feel anything I thought all those stories were...just stories."

"Since you-

Lix? What happened last night?" Felix finally turns around and looks his friend in the eyes.

"I guess your alpha just had an update, aha ha ha?" Felix says, awkwardly laughing.

"What the peep, Felix. This is not the time. So ehm...it was a vampire?"

"Obviously."

"…And you're a...vampire too now?" Jisung hesitantly asks.

"I...yes."

Saying it out loud scared Felix. 

"Damn...so my, our alpha is a vampire now? That's a lot to take." Jisung says scraping the nape of his neck.

"I get it...but I'm still a werewolf, too! My pack member...my old pack member," Felix corrected himself, "Was always speaking about these wolves being bitten by vampires and surviving. No one believed him, because we always thought that the bite of one supernatural being was fatal to the other. He said that wasn't always correct. And that he knew some wolves who were mated to vampires, and even wanted to turn hybrid. Maybe the Moon Goddess lets it happen since she chose the two to be together?"

"Wait...so...you're telling me my best friend AKA my alpha turned a hybrid? AND is mated to the person, no, the vampire who turned him...?!" Felix could hear the disbelief in the other's voice.

"I'm sorry, Ji."

"Oh shut the fuck up, why would you be sorry. It's great that you found your mate! Do you think I care that they're a vampire? 'Cause I don't. You're my alpha, I won't leave you for your mate. And most importantly, you're my bestie. You've always been. As long as you're happy, I am too." Jisung says, patting Felix on his shoulder and getting up. Felix was still in pure shock. 

He never curses.

"Oh, and by the way," he says before leaving the room, "Too bad about your freckles. I know how much you liked them. And why." Jisung winks at his - now blushing - best friend and leaves the room for breakfast.

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The walk to campus was the same as always. Felix felt relieved that this whole situation didn't change a thing about his relationship with his beta. 

They had just had their calculus class and were now walking to the locker rooms. 

As they were walking through the hallway and passed many classrooms and other rooms, Felix felt the bite in his neck twitching. 

The bite had not healed at all. It wasn't bleeding though. It never had bled. It was just two small holes amidst a purple spot. 

Felix looks behind him and around him, holding his hand almost protectively against his wound. "What is it, Lix? Why'd you stop walking?"

"I thought I sensed something. Must've imagined it."

And with that they went to the locker room, getting ready for dance practice.

Felix had always been better than Jisung, anyone could see that. But the two didn't care about that, they enjoyed it. 

They were in the middle of class when someone walked in, "Sir? Miss Kahlon asked if you could help with the computer. The boxes aren't working and she was planning on showing a documentary for today's class."

"Okay, tell her I'm coming." Mister Whitford answers.

"I'll be helping Miss Kahlon, as you heard she has a problem with her computer. You can rest until I'm back," he informs the class.

He hadn't left or the two best friends sat down and started talking. They didn't see the long boy walking their way.

"I still don't get how you two can be friends."

"Come again?" Felix asks, standing up.

"I said that I don't get how someone like you could be friends with someone like him."

"What are you on about, Yunho? Why wouldn't we?" 

"Please," he says, almost amused by Felix's answer. "That boy can't move for shit while you're over here being the best in class."

"First of all, Jisung can dance at least as well as you, second of all there are many students better than me. Thank you." Felix announces, turning his back to Yunho.

"You may say that, but we all saw that he was two steps ahead almost the whole time just now," he doesn't let the subject fall.

"Yunho, for real man, what the fuck is your problem? " Felix snaps back, feeling a tinkle starting in his hands and feeling it all over his face. 

"My problem is that this good-for-nothing dancer is in the same class as us. Like, he keeps our whole level down. He probably keeps you down, too." 

"He fucking worked to be in this class and he's only still here because he fucking aces it. And he doesn't keep me down AT ALL, I work as hard as I do just because he's here. I wouldn't do my best if I was only with douchebags like you." Felix says,  without realising it, licking his teeth and walking closer towards Yunho. 

"Ow. So you work best when there are suckers near?" Before Felix did anything, Yunho was on the ground. 

Minho launched himself right on top of him.