'You don't know how much you scared me, Park!' Baekhyun had taken the knife out of Jisung and was now wiping the blood off his back.
'I-i'm sorry...' He apologized to the older. Baekhyun was holding his tears in.
'I-i don't want you to die... like your brother...' The older hugged Jisung once his back was clean of blood and completely healed.
Jisung was spying on him like every day, with the only difference that he made a mistake that day.
He was observing the kid, who was on a walk. He didn't realise Chenle was in front of a car and that car... reflected his image.
Chenle saw him through the reflection and immediately turned around, too fast for Jisung to react since he was too busy staring. He waved at Jisung, making him come back to reality.
The human approached him. Jisung could just wait for him to talk to him, running away would be way too suspicious now that he had been caught.
'What's your name?'
'I... I'm Ji. What about you?'
'I'm Chenle! Let's be friends, Ji!'
Jisung already knew his name, but he didn't want Chenle to realise he'd been spying on him for months.
'Okay!'
'Do you like ice cream?'
'I... Uhm... Not really...'
'Why not? Everyone likes ice cream!'
Jisung stared at the floor shyly.
'I... I'm a vampire so I... don't really know what it tastes like...'
'Aww it's okay! I don't mind if you're a vampire. You still want to be my friend, right?'
They started being friends because of a small mistake, and they stopped being friends because of a huge mistake. Both of them made by the one and only Park Jisung.
When will you stop messing things up, Park?
Saying he was desperate would be an understatement. Jisung took his phone right after Baekhyun left his room.
He sighed out of relief as he realised he wasn't blocked. It was late at night, but he was determined to talk to him.
'Chenle..?'
'Hmmm?'
'It's me, Jisung.'
'...'
'Wait! Don't hang up!'
'Fine. You have exactly two minutes.'
'I'm really sorry for what happened before... I think at this point you've already realised... I... I'm the vampire you met years ago... And let me tell you, I'm really sorry I did that. I... It wasn't my intention to hurt you, it never was I swear... I just want to tell you that I've changed. I changed. I learnt. I swear I won't make the same mistake. So please, let me make it up to you... I know you probably don't want to forgive me but-'
'Meet me tomorrow at 6:43 pm, exactly, in the address I'll send you right now. If you're late, I'll leave.'
Chenle hung up and, as he promised, sent an address to Jisung's phone.
Jeno heard the whole conversation. Being a pure blooded vampire had its perks. He was with Jaemin in front of Jisung's door. Baekhyun had called them a few minutes ago, explaining what happened with Chenle.
Instead of knocking, Jeno changed his opinion and he and his boyfriend left, heading to someone else's house.
'What?' Jaehyun was at the front door, talking to Jeno. The younger had just showed up and Jaehyun couldn't believe what he was hearing.
'Where is Taeyong?' Jeno asked a while after. He was surprised as he could hear Doyoung inside the house but he was certain no one else was in there.
'We... had a fight and he's still sulky about it...'
'I see... couple problems... It's okay, I know you'll figure it out.'
'I don't know man, sometimes I think he has more pride than heart...'
'I can't fucking believe he's alive...'
'Yeah, didn't you say you killed him?'
'I swear to God I stabbed him and used one of those knives to kill him! I don't know how on earth he's still alive...'
Yukhei and Chenle were having a loud conversation. Dejun was coincidentally passing by and heard them. Something didn't feel right... If what Chenle said was true the vampire should be dead by then... If he was alive that meant there was something wrong. What happened then?
'I will ask you one last time. Who is TY?'
'I don't know.' Mark said once again. He was in the interrogation room, being interrogated by Chittaphon's 'lawyer' who turned out not to be a true lawyer but a professional interrogator.
'You know. I can see it in your face. Should we ask Johnny instead? I bet he'll tell me right away. Ten has him well domesticated.'
'Why do you always threaten me with him?'
'Why do you never cooperate?'
'I don't fucking want to. If I don't want to, I won't tell you who TY is.'
'Oh, so you admit you know who he is.'
'I-'
'Come on, Mark. I'm asking a simple question. Who is TY? You know him. How difficult is it for you to understand I want his real name?'
'I won't expose him!'
'So it's a guy.'
'I never said that-'
'You used masculine pronouns and didn't correct me when I used them too. Why are you so interested in protecting him? Is he a friend? Is he more important than Johnny? Is that why you're willing to sacrifice Johnny for him?'
'I never said that! Of course Johnny matters more than TY, it's just that I don't want to expose him.'
'I told you if you didn't respond I would ask Johnny. You didn't respond, so I take that as permission to ask Johnny instead. In other words, you'd rather have Johnny say it than you. Why is that? You'd rather let him be the traitor? Is that it? You don't want to feel guilty so you wait for him to say it instead.'
'He won't tell you shit!'
'Do you not know him? What kind of best friend are you?'
'I know him better than you do.'
'It doesn't look like it to me.'
'Then what does it look like?'
'You look like one of those 'I call you best friend but I actually don't know what you're like and I'm not aware of the fact that you're in love with someone else and will prefer them before me.'
'Johnny would never choose Ten over me.'
'Are you sure about it?'
'Completely.'
'And what if he does?'
'He won't.'
'How do you know?'
'Because-'
'You don't know. You're doubting your own best friend. I see it in your eyes.'
Covering Taeyong was costing Mark his sanity.
You better thank me for that, TY.