Murder The Vampire?

𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗫'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩

"I love you.." I kissed the top of his head, hoping he would feel relaxed and safe in my arms..

Hopefully, he cuddled back with me while murmuring, "I love you too..."

My heart always skips a beat whenever he says that..

"Please don't worry.." I sighed while rubbing his back in a soothing manner, "You are safe with me, love.."

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢..

"Alex.." He looked up at me, his voice was quieter than usual.

𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒..

"Yes?" I gently stroked his hair and he closed his eyes while whispering, "Aiden is a vampire.."

"A 𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 vampire." I kissed his nose gently and he chuckled, "Yeah."

"But then why doesn't that motherfucker die in the sunlight?" I sighed while petting his hair gently.

"He's..a different kind of vampire.. His powers don't work in the sunlight and he feels mild discomfort too.. That's all.." He looked down and I kissed his forehead gently, "I love you, okay?"

He nodded while looking down, "I love you too.."

"Do you really?" I teased while quickly pulling him on my lap, in order to cheer him up.

"Mhm~" he leaned against me and whispered, "Am I heavy?"

"Very very light, love." I chuckled and kissed his cheek while he wrapped his arms around my neck and said, "Alex.. about.." he lowered his gaze, "my..past.."

𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗢 . . .

"𝐻𝑚.." 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑒, "𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑠.."

"𝐻𝑢ℎ?" 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢! 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡-"

𝑆𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒.

"𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 '𝑵𝒐 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔' 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑑-𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑, "𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒! 𝑁𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡! 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑗𝑒𝑟𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢!"

𝐴 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜."

𝐼 𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝐷𝑜 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡?"

𝐻𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒, "𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒, 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒.. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒."

"𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡!" 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.

𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡..

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠.

"𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑑-𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚, "𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑖𝑡."

𝐼 𝑠𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.. "𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢.."

"𝑆ℎℎ.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒, "𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦.."

𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, "𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔."

"𝑌𝑒𝑎ℎ, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑..." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠.

𝑭𝑬𝑾 𝑾𝑬𝑬𝑲𝑺 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹. . .

"𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡'𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦."

"𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔." 𝐼 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑑, "𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠?"

"𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒.

"𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢.." 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦.

𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑.. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘.

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛, 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑓- 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑛𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒..

𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑦..

𝑳𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. . .

"𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒.." 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒.

𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠, "𝐹-𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘..𝐼-'

𝐻𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘  𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑙, "𝑁𝑜 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠"

𝐼 𝑔𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. "𝑆-𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝.."

"𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑦𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛. 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑?" 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑, 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠.

𝑊𝐻𝑌 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾 𝐴𝑀 𝐼 𝐿𝐸𝑇𝑇𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝐻𝐼𝑀 𝐷𝑂 𝑇𝐻𝐼𝑆?!

"𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘.. 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝.. 𝑎ℎℎ.." 𝐼 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑗𝑜𝑙𝑡.

"𝑁𝑜 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠.

𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡..

"𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.

"𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒.. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒. "𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢.."

𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑝 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡.

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚...

𝑰 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒎..

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛.." 𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ  𝑎 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠, "𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟?"

𝐼 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒.

"𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦." 𝐻𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑑, "𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑛𝑜𝑤.."

𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒎..

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛, 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝~" 𝐼 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠.

"𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑦.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑘.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒, 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝐺𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑝. " 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝑠𝑖𝑙ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒.

"𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠.

𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓...

𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆?

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"𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒! 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝐼 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢?! " 𝐻𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑦-𝑠𝑖𝑙ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. "𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑒?!"

"𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑚-"

𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑, "𝐷𝑜 𝑵𝑶𝑻 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢.." 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑡-𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠.

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛, 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡-"

𝐻𝑒 𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛.

"𝐴𝐼𝐷𝐸𝑁" 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒.

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦.. 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒.." 𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑦-𝑠𝑖𝑙ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑡, 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑒𝑦ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜.

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑑 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔..

𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 2 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑡, 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒..

𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙...

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛.." 𝐼 𝑠𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔, "𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑.."

𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔...

𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺 𝑮𝑶𝑻 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑺𝑬. . .

"𝑆𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑡."

"𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡?!" 𝑀𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘, "𝑁𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑦!"

"𝐵𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑦.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑠. "𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑡."

. . . 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑺𝑬

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛..𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔.." 𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠..

𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, "𝐴𝐴𝐻𝐻!!!"

𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚.

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑. 𝑀𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘.

"𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒?" 𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.." ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑡, "𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑡.."

𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑..

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠' 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.

𝐵𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑏 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑡.

𝐼 𝐻𝐴𝐷 𝑇𝑂!

𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑒!

"𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔!" 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒.

"𝐻𝐴𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻!" 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙, 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑.

𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛.. 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑...

𝑰..

𝑰 𝑾𝑨𝑺 𝑭𝑰𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑳𝒀 𝑶𝑼𝑻𝑺𝑰𝑫𝑬 𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝑴𝑨𝑵𝑺𝑰𝑶𝑵.

I realized that the ghoul was just an illusion set by Aiden.." He completed his sentence while looking down, "..maybe if I had more courage, I would have been free sooner.. Anyways... You know.. I had got full scholarship, so I just started to do a part-time to pay the rent to live somewhere.."

𝑊𝐻𝐴𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾. . .

My arms tightened around him as I tried to keep my anger in check. No words escaped my mouth as my face was blank and thoughts filled with murdering that motherfucking vampire!

With the feeling of blood boiling inside me, I tried to rub Alastor's back as gently as possible but I was about to get blind by my anger.

𝐻𝑂𝑊 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾 𝐶𝑂𝑈𝐿𝐷 𝐴𝑁𝑌 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝐷𝐼𝑆𝐺𝑈𝑆𝑇𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝑉𝐴𝑀𝑃𝐼𝑅𝐸 𝐷𝑂 𝑆𝑈𝐶𝐻 𝐴 𝑇𝐻𝐼𝑁𝐺?!

𝐼 𝐻𝐴𝑇𝐸 𝐻𝐼𝑀! 𝐼 𝐻𝐴𝑇𝐸 𝐻𝐼𝑀!

𝐼 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝑊𝐴𝑁𝑇 𝑇𝑂 𝑅𝐼𝑃 𝑂𝐹𝐹 𝐻𝐼𝑆 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝐻𝐸𝐴𝐷 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝐶𝐻𝑂𝑃 𝑂𝐹𝐹 𝐻𝐼𝑆 𝐵𝑂𝐷𝑌 𝐼𝑁 𝑀𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐼𝑂𝑁 𝑃𝐼𝐸𝐶𝐸𝑆 𝐴𝑁𝐷-

"Alex.."

"What?!" I shouted in anger but then I groaned and turned away as I tried not to show him my anger, "..what is it?"

"Please don't do anything.." He held my hand with a pleading look in his eyes.

This fucking triggered me more..

"How the FUCK am I supposed to NOT do anything?!" I couldn't fake it anymore, "That fucking motherfucker, son of a fucking horny bitch, good for nothing motherfucking piece of-"

He placed his hand over my mouth before I could finish my sentence... "Please.." He whispered again with pleading eyes.

If it was someone else, I would've broken their hands the next second.. but.. I fucking swear I didn't want to scare him with the anger that was raging inside me..

But still I fucking tried, okay?!

I squeezed his hand softly  while clenching my other fist behind my back, "I am not angry.."

From my clenched jaw and such a gaze, he could tell that I was lying..

𝑊𝐻𝐴𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾 𝐷𝑂 𝑌𝑂𝑈 𝑆𝑈𝑃𝑃𝑂𝑆𝐸 𝑀𝐸 𝑇𝑂 𝑆𝐴𝑌?!

"Alex.. Please.." As he lowered his head, I saw a spark of tears in his eyes, "I don't want you to get hurt.. He can kill anyone.."

"Hey, I will be okay.." My gaze softened after seeing his tears and I gently wiped his cheek with my thumb, "I promise.. If I get hurt, you can punish me, okay?"

"punish..?" He looked at me with a shocked look on his face.

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠..

"Yeah.." I kissed his forehead but he lowered his gaze again and whispered, "He.. had a spanking habit.."

My hand paused on his cheek while my muscles tensed as my anger got raged again. 

𝑇𝐻𝐴𝑇... 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐸𝑅...

"A-Alex..?"

The way I was gripping the bedsheet showed how hard I was trying to control my anger against that fucker..

You have no idea how many times I've killed him in my head...

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆, the doorbell rang. . .

"WHO THE FUCK IS IT?!" I shouted with rage but Alastor held my arm with worried eyes.

"M-Mailman, sir.." The voice stuttered in fear and Alastor immediately rushed over to the door.

"Y-Yes, thank you." He said to the mailman while taking the parcel and signing whatever the fuck was needed.

"What is it?" I asked while standing behind him and took a short breath to hold back my anger.

He opened the red gift wrapper and opened the box. Then he pulled out an invitation card, "Congratulations.. You are invited to 'The Grand Birthday Party' of Maxfred Williams...? It's for tomorrow..?"

"Fuck.. Seriously?! Who the fuck gives the invitation a day before the celebration?! And why would that fucker invite you-" I couldn't help but roll my eyes, "It better not be what I am thinking.."

𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚.. 𝐴𝑁𝑌𝑂𝑁𝐸. . .

"Besides who would want to go to such a boring party." I scanned the invitation card with my eyes and rolled my eyes again, "Show off."

While he kept looking at the invitation card, I punched the wall while thinking of that motherfucking s-

"Alex! Stop!" He grabbed my wrist with wide eyes.

I groaned and clenched my fists.

It was too fucking hard for me to calm down!!

But then he leaned up on his toes and placed his lips over mine while his tears were rolling down his cheeks.

𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔...𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓...𝑚𝑒?

"Please listen to me.." He whispered against my lips while sniffling, "Calm down, please.."

Seeing him cry shattered my heart into trillion pieces and I held him very tightly in my arms while taking a deep breath.

'𝐼 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢..' 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝐴𝑙..

"Please.." He sniffled and buried his face in my neck.

"It's okay, love.. Are you hungry?" I sighed while trying to change the topic and he shook his head while sniffling.

I had trouble managing my anger but I tried..for him.

"I will make something for you. Then we sleep. Let's forget every bad thing, okay?" I rubbed his tears off cheek with my thumb.

𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦?

"Okay.." He sniffled and kept holding onto me like a fragile child who just met his long-lost mother.

I rubbed his back gently and kissed his forehead. Thoughts of my precious boy filled my mind amd heart,and I forgot that fucking vampire.

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𝗙𝗘𝗪 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥. . .

"How is it?" I asked while leaning on my hand.

"It's good."  he licked his lips while adding more syrup on his pancake.

"Al, can I ask something?"

"Ask away.." He looked at me while taking a bite of the pancakes.

𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑑...

"How..had you lived after being free from there?" I watched his face closely, hoping to not ruin things just because of my stupid curiousity.

"Well.. I did a part time zone in a library to pay my rent.. but after the house owner found out that I was a cat hybrid, she freaked out and left the house instantly." 

"So you mean.. this house was hers?" I blinked in surprise while he nodded his head.

Hopefully, the sad look wasn't on his face.

"And.. now you know my past.." Before he could lower his gaze, I gently held his chin to make him look at me, "You 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲, you 𝗮𝗿𝗲 and you 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 always be 𝗺𝘆 Alastor.. no matter what.." I gave him a reassuring kiss on his forehead and he closed his eyes.

Then I sighed and looked down at my hand.

𝑾𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘...

"I love you, Alex.." He murmured while looking down.

I couldn't help but kiss his head again, "I love you too.. Now finish your pancakes quick, I have made some hot cocoa too. Then we cuddle and sleep, okay?"

He nodded with a faint smile while looking up at me.

𝑆𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒...

"Alex... What about Max's birthd-"

"Forget it."