24. Envious Vampires

"Ah shoot, I have to go next class, there's ten minutes left," you mentioned, while glancing down at your phone screen.

"Hm, that's good," Shinsou murmured as he continued to scroll through his phone, as if he had no care in the world.

"Eh, why?"

"Isn't that obvious?"

You pouted your lips slightly, before plopping a piece of salmon sushi in your mouth, chewing thoughtfully with its flavour sporadically filled the taste buds with a pleasant taste.

"Well, I sho hate yo—too!"

"Oi, don't talk when your mouth is full," he rebuked, while flickering his violet eyes to the corner, eyeing you once with a tugged smirk before averting back down to the papers.

You rolled your eyes, before gulping in the chewed food with a pleasant hum. You shifted yourself on the couch, legs criss crossed towards his direction, while he was seated per normal. "...you sure you don't want some sushi?"

"No," he curtly replied, flickering his eyes back at you. "I prefer meat, that's it."

"Oh?" you raised a brow as you snapped your eyes down at the diverse flavours of sushi, soon eyeing at one with sliced chicken in it. "Ah! How about this chicken sushi..." you looked back up with a wide grin. "...how about that one?"

He simply gave a blatant stare, averted his eyes down at the sushi. His lips formed to a frown. "...I don't like chicken."

You groaned. "Gosh, you're picky, hmm, how about the one with beef? That good?"

"No."

"But, how is your..." you lifted your finger, gently touching his pale, baby skin. "...skin so smooth? It's nearly perfect—"

"Don't touch me." He gripped on your wrist tight, causing you to jolt in place. Your eyes met his cold glare, before he looked away with small tints of red tempting to rise.

"...o-oh, sorry, Shinsou," you apologized softly, caught off guard by the hostility in his voice. "...I guess I'll just eat the sushi by myself..."

He sighed, before looking back at you with pursed red lips. "Sorry, I just...don't like being touched without my consent."

Your eyes perked up, cheeks warmed due to slight embarrassment on your part. "...I get it, sorry, I won't do it again."

His usual intense gaze was upon you, while you blatantly ignored it per usual and took ahold of a sushi with chicken slice in it. It felt strange seeing him like that, though you were kind of used to it since day one, but you thought that after a pleasant time with him earlier, you thought he'd softened up. Guess not, he was just the same as always.

You sighed softly, not knowing why you felt a pang in your heart for him to act with such momentary hostility towards you. It was understandable what you did was sort of rude, yes, but you also knew that he was also randomly touching you at times like flickering your forehead. You looked to the other side, convinced yourself to be grateful to reach at a neutral level of friendship with him.

Just before you could pop it into your mouth, he grabbed ahold of your wrist again. Your eyes widened with a curled brow at his unexpected gesture. "What are you—"

"Feed me."

"H-Hah?!"

"You wanted me to eat, don't you?"

You bit your lip in sudden nervousness, staring at those beautiful gleaming eyes under those long lashes. You lurched your eyes away, keeping your breathing as slow as possible to stop the pounding of your heart, not knowing how one look could nearly melt the anger that rose in your heart.

"...No, I was just offering some," you responded softly, before forcing a glare and looked back at him. "...What are you? A baby?"

He laughed gently, smile contorted to a playful one before he leaned your hand forward, slowly parting his cherry lips open. "...maybe I am?"

You huffed, looking away from the adorable laughter that escaped his lips, trying to rid of the sound in your mind.

Suddenly, he began to slide your fingers into his mouth, the tip of his tongue touching the sushi before he grab ahold of it and bit it off from your fingers.

You remained silent, unsure of why you felt mesmerized by the little scene. You swallowed, before you snapped your wrist off him and turned away and covered your mouth to hide your flustered demeanour.

"...I...I have to get to class," you murmured before you stood up, fist clutched to keep the flurry of butterflies under control. Shaking your head to rid of the annoyingly mesmerizing scene, almost disgusted with yourself to let him do that. Yet, you were weird enough to like it. You hated how he was making you feel like differently about him.

—

Morning classes rolled quickly, it was time for lunch.

You carried the sushi box with you and scurried your way through the canteen, unintentionally flickering your eyes over to Shinsou's table. Unfortunately, he wasn't there. You unwittingly frowned, unsure why you wanted to see him. If you were honest with yourself, you've been replaying the same scene in your mind.

You shook your head, finding it absolutely ridiculous to possibly want to see the one person you absolutely despised. Not really, but you didn't understand what you truly felt for him though.

Your eyes immediately perked up when you felt arms wrap around your waist, sending tingles down your spine, as you felt someone's head from a taller frame rest on your shoulder.

"Baby, I missed you already," Touya breathed smoothly, before you bit your lip and lurched your head to the side to spot him.

An immediate smile formed on your lips, forming to a grin before you tilted your body to face him, feeling the butterflies in your stomach burst around in excitement. "...Me too."

He flickered his eyes down at the sushi box in your hands. "Ah, got some yummy lunch ready?"

"Yep!" You beamed as you lifted your hands up to him with a cheery smile, staring at your boyfriend's beautiful sapphire eyes. "Want some?"

His eyes narrowed playfully, before his long lashes flickered down with his red lip tugged up. "...I'd love to, but..."

"But, what?" You filled in, with a pouty look.

He bit his lip before he began to slowly run his fingers through your hair with a pleasant hum. "It's yours, isn't it? I wouldn't want to take it away from you."

"Oh, that's all?" You tittered lightly with a cheerful grin. "I've eaten half of them already, I want to share them with you, no one else really wants it, I reserved it for you."

"Oh?" He smiled boyishly as he began to caress your cheek. "What a sweet doll..." he leaned in, tilting his head to meet your lips, giving it a lingered press, before looking back at you with those sly, sapphire eyes. He licked his lips carefully before speaking, "...let's go sit first and we'll eat it together, sounds good?"

You nodded with a shy smile, feeling your chest burst in heat from his unexpected gesture. He began to tug his arm around your shoulder, making your way towards the usual spot you two always sat—with their siblings.

You plopped yourself on the spot, while Touya squished over and relaxed against the cushioned chair. "Ahh, what could be a better day than to end it off with my girlfriend..."

You smiled as you began to open the tray, uncovered it until it was fully exposed. "...It's not the end of the day yet, Touya, it's only the middle of the day still."

"Heh, I know," he replied, before leaning forward, arms atop of the table. He lurched his head to you, leaning forward. "Ready for the sleepover?"

"Sleepover...?"

"Yeah, we talked about it this morning, don't tell me you forgot already?"

You popped a sushi in your mouth, chewing with a cheeky smile, as you nodded your head in agreement. "...I remember."

"Sure you did," he joked, before looking down at the sushi box. "Do you have a favourite? I'd like to try what you like."

You swallowed the food, before grabbing a drink of water from your bottled water. You scanned the sushi box and thought carefully. You shrugged lightly before looking back at him. "...I don't really have a favourite, you can pick one."

"Hm, how about..." he tapped on your nose with a wry grin, as he placed his cheek to rest on his opposite hand, which was resting on the table. He finger began to slide down to your bottom lip. "...you surprise me, I'll close my eyes, feed me up, and I'll guess the flavour, sound fun?"

A burst of heat went through your head at the suggestion, almost reminding you of the time when you fed Shinsou—or more like he made you do it. "...y-yeah, sure."

He fluttered his eyes closed, smiling at his relaxed face. Before you looked down and picked the one with some sliced beef with mayonnaise. "...Ah, I got it."

On cue, Touya opened his cherry red lips, while you giggled softly and slid it on his mouth, and retracted back. He began to chew it from left to right, opened his eyes, revealing those dazzling blue eyes.

"...Is this some...kind of meat...?" He asked, while chewing thoughtfully.

You nodded with a pleasant hum. "It's beef."

"Ahh, scrumptious," he remarked, before grinning, showcasing his white teeth, spotting a piece of sushi seaweed wrap stuck in between the side of his teeth. You began to giggle.

He blinked in confusion. "...What's so funny?"

"...there's something, um, stuck in between your teeth?" You replied with a small chuckle.

"Oh? There is? Where?" He asked, as he began to lick his teeth with his tongue, making you laugh all the more at how silly he looks. Yet, quite flustered at how hot he remained.

You shifted closer to him, carefully grabbing ahold of his chin in place. "Stop moving..." you murmured as you grabbed ahold of his finger and pointed it to where it was located. "...it's right there."

"Ah, thanks my baby-doll."

You smiled contently when he finally removed it. You looked back at the sushi, grabbing ahold of another one before you flickered your eyes up, accidentally locking gaze upon a familiar, violet ones.

Your eyes widened instantly, unsure why your heart began to uproar, reminiscing of all the fun memories you had earlier, especially the latest one. His violet eyes narrowed to a relaxed one before he gave a swift wink at you with a tugged smirk.

You inhaled a huge gust of air with a cheeky smile before you bit your lip, shyly looking down to focus your eyes on the sushi with a shy, small smile.

You were tempted to look up again, and so you did. You spotted him sit across his other friends, allowing you to still be able to see his face. As if he knew you were looking, he met your eyes again, unknowingly caused another wave of red hues to burst within your cheeks.

Touya curled his brows at you, trailing his vision to where you once were looking at, causing a frown forlong his red lips in annoyance.

"Hey!" Fuyumi greeted, following suite with the other two male siblings to crowd around the table.

"Oh, hey!" You greeted back with a smile.

"Awe, [Name], you're looking so red right now, what happened while we're gone?" She asked, as she sat across you.

"Ah, it's nothing," you murmured shyly, twirling your hair at the side as you cleared your throat and sat upright.

You soon jolted in place when your boyfriend swung his arms around you, pulling you closer to him.

"It's the usual, this pretty dolly can't get enough of me," he snarled smugly, looking at you with those beautiful eyes. "...isn't that right, dolly?"

"Oh, um...right," you laughed nervously, before you placed your hands at each side of your cheeks to cool yourself down. Almost immediately, your eyes would revert back in between Fuyumi and Natsuo, in the gap where you could spot your purple-haired roommate.

Fuyumi took notice of your dazed, starry eyes, following your line of vision when she averted her eyes back to where your eyes lingered.

"...[Name], staring at something?" she asked softly.

"Oh, u-um, no!" You quickly replied, as you looked down at the sushi, not realizing that Touya was silently glaring at the one you were gazing at.

"So, we're having a sleepover tonight, right?" Natsuo filled in, while opening his lunch box.

"Mmhm," you nodded with a hum. "Any activities planned?"

"Nah, we're just gonna have a movie, and head to sleep, maybe some fun stuff if you have some to suggest," Natsuo replied nonchalantly, chewing some rice with meatballs.

"Ah, we're gonna have LOTS of fun activities planned," Touya chimed in, coolly drumming his fingers on the table, before he turned his flirtatious gaze at you. "...just the two of us."

"H-Ha...?" You blinked, unsure how your cheeks could get any redder, it did. At this point, you were sure it would explode soon. "...just us?"

"Mmhn," he hummed a nod, before leaning forward. "...and it will start with something like this..." he pressed his soft, red lips against your own, nibbling on your bottom lip, causing you to succumb and kiss pleasantly back.

Unbeknownst to you how a certain someone irked with a frown, staring deadpan at the two of you, growling softly under his breath.