Soona awoke with a cold sweat; she searched around the darkroom for her phone.
She grabbed it off the nightstand and read the time '5AM'.
'I have to wake up in a hour, I might as well get ready.'
Soona's feet touched the cold ground, and she walked toward her bathroom; she looked down at the floor to see water.
"What's this?" She said out loud and looked toward her shower.
It looked as if it'd been used; she looked around to see a towel hanging as well.
She felt it with her fingers to feel the damp material; someone's been here? Who and how?
She felt her chest become tight, she was beginning to worry too much, her breathing is deepening.
She walked out the bathroom and turned her phone light on; she walked toward the kitchen.
She turned almost every light on in the apartment and looked around.
She checked every closet and crevice of the apartment to find no one.
"I don't remember showering.." She scratches her head and walks back to her room to get dressed.
She put her school uniform on and walked out of the room toward the kitchen to find food.
She noticed a cup besides the sink, it had a brown liquid inside that smelt of coke.
"Who's drinking my coke?" She looked quickly behind her and her eyes darted everywhere.
She rinsed the cup out and grabbed a knife from her kitchen.
"Whoever is drinking my coke! Come on!" She yelled to the air.
She heart a shuffle near her bedroom and slowly walked toward the door and kicked it open.
She looked around the room to see no one; she noticed a foot sticking out from the side of the bed on the ground.
"Who's that?" She says walking closer.
"S-Sorry." The person stood up with their hands held above their head.
"Y-Yeonjun' What the hell are you doing here?! Who let you in? Why're you drinking my coke! DID YOU USE MY SHOWER?!" She yelled out so many questions.
"Yena, let me inside; I got kicked out of my house last night. I didn't know where else to go. I didn't want to bother Beomgyu because it was late." He explained, slowly, lowering his hands back down.
"You scared me seriously. Call me next time! Wait, why did you get kicked out?" She says sitting the knife down on her dresser.
"I had an argument with my parents about college; I don't want to study abroad." He sighed sitting down on Soona's bed.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Give them time to think. Since you're already dressed let's meet with Yena and eat. Come on." She grabbed his elbow, and they walked down to Yena's door.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't tell you; I figured it would be fine." Yena laughed, seeing Soona's glare at her door.
"It's fine but I thought it was some pervert." Soona says walking inside heading straight for the fridge.
"I'll cook some eggs, Soona how about you do Bacon?" Soona nods and grabbed the bacon from the fridge.
"Can I do anything to help?" Yeonjun asks standing at the counter.
"How about invite Beomgyu to come over if he's awake. I have enough food for everyone i'll even make pancakes." Yena suggested and Yeonjun's face emitted a smile.
He immediately took his phone out and called Beomgyu, Yena smiled seeing how happy Yeonjun was.
Soona was cooking the bacon in the hot grease trying not to get hit by it.
"I'll start the eggs, Soona. Do you know how to do pancakes?"
"Yes, If I finish the bacon first i'll start them."
A knock erupted from the door, and Yeonjun happily struts over to open it; there stood a smiling Beomgyu who walked inside.
"It'll be done soon, just sit wherever!" Yena says over the sound of grease popping.
"Ouch!" Soona yelled as the grease hit her arm, making a small red mark.
"Oh? Are you okay?" Yena asked beside her, "Yeah it's just a small hit." She shook the feeling and continued cooking.
"Wow these pancakes are good!" Beomgyu says eating them quickly.
"Slow down or you'll get a stomachache." Yeonjun scolded.
"Soona cooked them; she's surprisingly good at cooking." Yena joked.
"Hey! It's not that hard you just follow instructions.."Soona says quietly.
"We have 20 minutes till we leave, let's enjoy." Yena says.
They were all four walking to school, Yena beside Soona, Beomgyu beside Soona, and Yeonjun beside Beomgyu.
Soona seemed to be walking a little faster than the three and they tried to catch up.
"Gosh! Soona, you walk so fast!" Yeonjun says.
"Sorry, It's normal for me. My legs are long!" She says, showing her legs.
"You're not that tall..." Yeonjun says quietly.
"Hm? what was that Mr.Broke into my house!" Soona yelled.
"Broke into my house?." Beomgyu questioned.
"Oh yeah last night! Soona got scared because Yeonjun slept at her house-" Soona slapped a hand over Yena's rambling mouth.
"Anyways, we are gonna be late if we keep rambling; let's go." Soona changed the topic and Beomgyu's eyebrows furrowed for a second before going back to normal.
"What was that?" Yena says shaking her head as Soona walked ahead of the rest quickly.
"Heyyyy Soona! Oh Ok!" Soobin says as Soona just walked straight past him, and his hand lowered back down from his wave.
"What's up with Soona?" He asked the other three as they approached.
"Maybe a bad sleep." Yena shrugged her shoulders.
"Class Today, we will discuss a critical matter with you all; it's been brought to my attention some of you have been, well, destroying class property. Please refrain from acting so recklessly; otherwise, actions will be taken." The teacher spoke seriously.
Soona's gaze never met the teachers as she looked out the window; she knew it was about the mess she caused. No one knew it was her, however, except Taehyun.
"Hey, You there?" Yeonjun snapped his fingers infront of Beomgyu's face.
"Oh? sorry." He blinked looking toward Yeonjun.
"Do you want this?" He handed a strawberry milk to him, Beomgyu slowly took it from his hands.
"Thank you." He smiled with a shaky hand; he felt strange today for some reason.
He glanced over to Soona who was looking out the window, he felt something was going on but wouldn't question it.
"Lunchtime Lunchtime! Let's goooo!" Yena stood you grabbing the arms of Yeonjun and Beomgyu pulling them along.
"You go ahead, I'll use the bathroom first." Soona sent Soobin ahead.
She stands up out of the desk and suddenly lost her balance, she fell toward the window. Her hands grabbed the wall to balance herself.
She felt her head start hurting, her vision becoming blackened.
"What's going on?" She tried to take a deep breathe but it only made it worse.
She felt herself become weaker; she felt her grasp loosening on the window ledge.
She tried to walk toward the classroom door, every step was wobbling.
Her knees almost gave out as she reached the classroom door.
She fell into it and grabbed the door frame to her side.
"Where's Soona?" Soobin asked noticing she hadn't came in 5 minutes.
"I don't know." Yena looked around confused.
"I'll go check the hallway." Taehyun says; he walked outside the lunchroom and down the hallway.
He saw a stumbling Soona, she was holding her head.
"Soona? What's wrong?" He asked coming closer.
Soona suddenly collapsed into him as her knees gave out, she blacked out.
"Soona? Soona!" He says as he saw her eyes closed, she wasn't reacting.
"Huh?! What's wrong with Soona?!" A worried Yena and Beomgyu came running toward them.
Soobin eventually came worried as well followed by Yeonjun.
"Um guys, Let me speak to Yena alone for a second please." They all looked at each other before walking back toward the cafeteria.
"What's wrong?" Yena bent down toward them on her knees.
"I think she's losing her cultivation."
"What? How?" Yena says with a shocked face.
"There's many ways but i'm sure of it. She just fell out for no reason, and the last few days, she's been acting strange... She even walked inside Yeonjun's house the other day. I'm glad I was watching her." He says sighing.
"Inside his home?!" She whisper yelled.
"She's acting strange; I don't exactly know why but. If we don't do something, I'm afraid it's going to get worse.."
"She needs the blood of her family that's the only way to fix this right? But that's not possible... Her family is..." Yena stops mid sentence not wanting to mention.
"What is it?"
"Her family was sent away... She grew up with my family after... I'm afraid she doesn't have any to save her.." Yena says feeling tears forming.
"Hey- Calm down. Maybe it's not the reason we think." He tried to reassure her.
"Let's just take her home for now."
"Do you think she'll wake up? It's been 2 hours now." Yena says, worried, looking at the sleeping Soona.
"If she doesn't wake up after 8 hours, then we should worry. For now, let her sleep. Hopefully, that's all it is.." He says.
Taehyun paced back and forth in the room; he was beginning to worry as hour eight approached. He hasn't slept a wink, he couldn't.
"Please wake up." He says sitting down on the bed beside her.
"Please." He says hopeful.
'She has no family'
She would die then; nothing could be done if that's the case; it was something he feared.
"Please just wake up." He says looking at her but her face was the same as before.
He even tried holding a feather from the pillow under her nose to tickle it, but nothing worked.
A crazy idea passed Taehyun's mind, a crazy one he knew likely wouldn't work.
He quickly grabbed a small knife from the kitchen and went back to sit beside her.
"Sorry." He grabbed her finger and left a small cut on the tip, the white blood slowly dripping.
He took the knife and proceeded to cut his fingertip then as well; he took his finger, which was bleeding, and held it to hers.
The white blood mixing together but a sharp pain made his finger quickly jerk away. The blood rejected each other as it wasn't related.
'I knew it wouldn't work, it was just a crazy idea.' He sighed hopelessly.
There was only one person to check left, Beomgyu. Taehyun slipped his shoes on and ran outside toward Beomgyu's house.