"Hey, Si? Are you done with your activity?"
"Can I lend him for a second?" Silas asks the rest of the group, and they just nod and turn around. Samuel joins them in Jiwon's place.
"What's up, Si?"
"Jiwon, I can't stand this no more," Silas answers while they wander away from the group.
"What do you mean?"
"Every time I feel his presence it gets worse. I was crying like a fool, Ji, and I couldn't do anything about it. Just because I felt him close and then getting further away."
"Wait, you had an attack again? Are you okay?"
"Yes, now I am."
"Si, why are you getting all these attacks, though? I never ha- I mean shouldn't it feel good to be close to them?"
"I think it's just my body's craving. Like...He kinda did make out with my fucking neck so I guess my body just wants to, I don't know, finish it? And well...you know what he did to m-"
"Yes, I do. So what? We're gonna look for him? Right?"
"I...I don't know. It may hurt."
"Better to hurt one time real bad than to keep hurting 24/7. And besides."
"What?"
"It's not like you know another one of his kind," Well you do, but you don't know you do, "He may be able to help you. It's his fault after all."
"Ji, I don't kn-"
"GUYS!!" Jiwon yells at his team, "FELIX ISN'T FEELING WELL SO IMMA GO AND TAKE CARE OF HIM! I'M SURE SOMEONE WILL GLADLY TAKE MY PLACE!"
Minseok looks questioningly at Jiwon. "I'll be back before rock climbing, promise." Minseok nods at Jiwon and turns back to the group.
"Wow, Ji. So what's your plan now?"
"We're gonna wander around the area."
"Wh-why though?" Silas asks, confused.
"If you feel an upcoming attack we know that we're warm and that way we'll find him. Hopefully."
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As they were walking towards their next activity Dorian and Chris walked up to both his sides. Jake's in a conversation with his roommates and so were the two love birds.
Minseok looks confused at his friends. "You look great," Dorian begins.
"I'm just sporting a normal pair of sweaters and a tee?"
"No, like, yOu look great?" Why the fuck are they looking at me that way?
"Your face looks great," Chris says.
"Ehm...thanks? I think that that's one of the perks of being incredibly handsome."
Dorian smirks, "Maybe."
"Or maybe," Chris continues, "someone's let you drink." Chris turns his head so he's facing the smaller getting silhouettes of Silas and Jiwon. Minseok looks protectively back, "No he did not."
"Oh, come on. There's no use in lying," Dorian says.
"We can clearly smell your scent radiating from that boy," Chris adds.
"Then check your noses." Minseok shrugs, looking forward.
"The thing is," Chris starts, once again.
"The smell wasn't there yesterday evening," Dorian finishes
"No, it wasn't indeed," Chris says, looking overly dramatically shocked at Dorian, who mirrors him.
"Did you take advantage of his wounded condition," Hyunjiin says, closing both his hands over his mouth.
"Poor boy couldn't even protect himself."
"What must he have thought?"
"Stop it," Minseok says through gritted teeth.
"I would be scared as hell if my roommate would force himself on me and bite my neck."
"And suck blood out of it."
"Oh my gosh, I can't believe he was able to participate in our group."
"I know right? I'd shit my pants every time I looked at those cannibalistic eyes again."
"He must have some real strong willpower."
"Most definitely. Poor boy."
"I'm sure he'll rent a new house pretty soon, don't you think?"
"No, I don't think so.
I'm 100% sure he will. But then again, he has to see Minseok almost daily at school."
"He must be scared as fuck."
"Yes, the poor boy must hate the living shit out of him."
"He insisted!" Both his friends stopped the teasing and looked at Minseok.
"He insisted?" Dorian questions with that puzzled look of his.
"Yes, yes he did," Minseok sighs.
"Why the fuck would he?" Chris asks, rather worried than something else, "That's some suicidal thought."
"Yes," Dorian falls in accord, "Who would INSIST on a vampire biting them? He can't possibly trust you enough to be sure you won't kill him.
"What was going through that boy's head?"
"I was."
"YOU MADE THE BOY FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU SO YOU COULD FEAST ON HIM?!" Dorian whisper-yells.
"What? No, of course, not."
"Why would he trust you that much if he wasn't in love with you?"
"I didn't say he wasn't in love with me."
"Then what did you say?" Chris asks.
"That I didn't do anything to 'feast on him'. I didn't"
"Then why did he give you his blood?"
"I told you he insisted! I didn't want to and kept telling him I couldn't. He practically forced me to."
"He forced you to drink of him?" Dorian says, finding it hard to believe.
"And you did it?" Chris adds to the question.
"It was in the heat of the moment, okay? I wasn't able to think straight at all, let alone if the boy's groaning to me that I MUST bite him. Would you be able to sustain it? Don't think so."
"In the heat of what moment?" Chris asks.
"Oh my god," Dorian says, turning to Chris, "Are you thinking what I am?"
"You know I never do."
"Urgh! The hickeys?"
"What about the hickeys?" Chris asks, confused as to why Dorian brings that up now.
"Chris? Are you really that stupid?"
"I hope not."
"Good gracious- Those were Jiwon's."
"Why would you say that? You can't know that."
"Come on. Minseok hasn't even had his first kiss. Now there's a boy walking around scenting like Minseok, because Minseok drank of him. The boy insisted on it. And Minseok says 'in the heat of the moment.' I do know, Christopher."
Chris looks shocked at Minseok. "You kissed him?"
"What?" Minseok answers.
"I THOUGHT SOMEONE JUST GAVE YOU HICKEYS BUT YOU ALSO KISSED THAT SOMEONE?"
"Woah. Calm down. Why are you yelling at me?"
"YOU'RE NOT EVEN DENYING IT!"
"Why would I?"
"Errrrr...excuse me?" Dorian interferes, then he continues looking dramatically shocked, "Y'all fucked haven't you?"
"Someone's really straightforward," Minseok laughs awkwardly.
"MINSEOK FUCKING HELL, YOU DID WHAT NOW? YESTERDAY?"
"Not necessarily."
"Oh my GOSH!" Dorian yells, "My besties growing up," he fakes to wipe away a tear. Minseok chuckles at that.
"I wasn't expecting this much when Dorian and I came to confront you about drinking of your roomie."
"So...in other words, two of us have claimed both the besties," Dorian chuckles.
"I think they did, has anyone seen him though? He should be here too, right?" Chris asks.
"No, I haven't seen him yet, but I'm sure he's here somewhere." Minseok says, glad that they let the previous subject fall, "It surprises me he hasn't come back for the boy yet."
"I know right," Dorian says, "he's the obsessing-type, and he has just seen the boy once."
"Minseok?"
Minseok looks up and around and then it occurs to him who it was.