Chapter Twenty Eight

Gone Crazy

Taehyung's POV

I walk through the schools hallway with no one by my side, this leads to me to think about Sunny and Uni. What Namjoon said the other day stuck with me, and now that Uni and I haven't spoken since that night, I know we need to have another conversation. But to be honest I'm not sure where that'll lead to...

I turn the corner and look up to see Sunny standing in the middle of the hallway. She stops walking and looks me in the eyes. I couldn't read her expression really well, it seems like she was feeling so many things after seeing me. All I wanted to do in this moment was run to her. I wanted to hear her voice again and hold her, but after our last conversation I wasn't sure where we stood. 

I hear footsteps walking behind me but suddenly stop. I turn around curiously and notice Uni at the end of the hallway. She looks at both Sunny and I, and is left speechless. Uni doesn't know if she should walk to me, Sunny, or just leave and honestly neither do I. I know I need to talk to Uni about the other night, but I also have this chance to speak to Sunny and see where we stand, however both conversations seem very stressful and can go south easily. Do I just walk away? 

I turn back around to face Sunny and watch as she takes a deep breath before turning around and walking away. I rest my tensed shoulders, and sigh frustratedly. That feeling quickly went away once I remember Uni was behind me. I turned around to face her and she faced me. We were both hesitating to walk to each other so Uni made the choice to turn away and walk back into the hallway she was walking before. 

"Aish..." I cursed at my self, I should've just spoken up. Now I still have the same two issues to deal with. I try to shake off the thought and began walking to my next class. As I was walking I felt a harsh grip on my arm and felt myself being pulled into an empty classroom. The door quickly shuts and I watch as they turn around and face me, "Jinhwan?" He puffs at me with an angrily expression. My mind flips back to yesterday when I threatened him, was that a bad idea? Is that why he's upset? "I don't have time for you right now," I roll my eyes at Jinhwan before trying to get passed him. Instead, he pushes me back to where I was standing. I look back at him confused, "What do you wan-"

"Who told you about Kyung?" Jinhwan puffs his words out as if he's out of breath. It seems like he has been thinking about what I said non stop and now his emotions are getting the best of him.

"What?" I put my hands in my pockets impenitently. 

"Who told you about Kyung? How did you know about what I did?" I tilt my head at his response. Why is he acting scared all of a sudden?

"That's not important, what is is that you did it," 

"A-and my father-" He took a big gulp, "Who told you about that?" I stayed silent watching his mood change, "Who told you?!" 

I look around at the classroom windows to make sure no one was watching. "Jinhwan calm down," As I turn back to look at Jinhwan I see his hands roughly go into his pocket. 

"Who told you Taehyung!? " I stay silent and watch his hands form into a fist inside his pocket. I carefully watch his moves, "You think you can disturb my peace-my information, then force me to leave?" Jinhwan begins to walk towards me and I continue focusing my eyes on his hand that was in his pocket. Is he going to attack me? "I didn't do anything wrong!" Jinhwan steps closer to me and I walk behind me trying to avoid any conflict. 

"Jinhwan, why are you acting like this? You know what you did and you should be held accountable," 

He firmly shakes his head, "No I am innocent! It wasn't my fault, you-you were becoming dangerous and I needed to make sure I was looking out for myself!" He continues to yell the more I was stepping back from him. I notice the sweat building up on his face, he was nervous. Is this a disorder episode? I was so surprised by his actions, it was like over night he became crazy. 

"You murdered Kyung and Yumin! You constantly abuse your mother, and try to take Sunny away from everyone she loves-you are threatening to expose her, Jinhwan this isn't normal! You are dangerous and I'm not going to allow you to hurt the people I care about-" 

"Ahh!" I was interrupted by a shove making me hit my back onto the teachers desk. I grip onto the desk as I watch Jinhwan finally pull the item out of his pocket. It was a pocket knife. I widen my eyes remembering that this is the item he attempted to kill Kyung with. I look back at him, he was upset. A type of anger was taken upon him that I've never seen before, "I need to get rid of you Taehyung," I quickly shook my head pushing him off me. If I run out of the classroom with my vampire speed people will notice, if I use my strength on him people will notice. I was stuck, I didn't know what to do. Jinhwan is set on trying to hurt me and I can only doge my way so I don't hurt him. 

"Jinhwan put the knife down," I say as I move away from him. He ignores my words and runs at me tightly holding the knife. I doge his hit and run by the wall where he meets me. Jinhwans knife didn't hesitate to aim at my chest but I quickly grab his wrist stopping him from doing so. I bite my lip looking back at the empty hallway, the bell rung and it was officially Jinhwans time to shine with no one watching. 

"I have spend the last year trying to start over and you just couldn't help yourself, could you!?" Jinhwan applies more force to the knife, but I still hold onto his wrist. 

"You haven't changed..." Harshly I push him off me, "A bit," Jinhwan and I fill up the room with heavy breathing. He moves the pocket knife to his other hand and moves towards me. I quickly begin to walk backwards. 

"You don't know the full story to anything," He smirks, "All you know is Sunny won't love you the same and now you are going crazy," I watch him grin at his words as I grind me teeth, "Face it Taehyung, even after you deal with me, the damage you put between you two are much worse," Jinhwan laughs continuing to walk to me. We begin walking in a circle around the tables waiting for the other to make a move, "Do you really wanna waste the last couple days with her fighting with me? Am I really that important to you Taehyung?!" His laughter only gets louder. The anger builds up in my and I grab a glass that was filled with fake plants and hold onto it. I throw the plant onto the floor and chuck the glass at Jinhwan. He quickly jumps away from it and laughs harder, "She doesn't love you anymore Taehyung! Since the first day of school you have made more time for me than her, do you think she'll forget all about that-" 

"Shut up!" Jinhwans words were beginning to settle in me, and I was starting to believe them. I don't want to think about how the odds of us getting back together are bad, I wanted to deal with him. 

"Taehyung someone needs to tell you," Jinhwan runs up to me and with his free hand, attempts to throw a punch. Luckily I moved my head away. Quickly my arm wraps around his neck and turns him around where his back was touching my chest. I tighten my grip on his neck trying to make him be quiet. However with little breath he had, he continues to speak, "I'm not the one that should leave town...you are," Suddenly I felt a stab inside my stomach which made me let go of Jinhwan. He pulls the pocket knife out of me and stabs me again. I fall onto the floor from the sudden hit and Jinhwan brings the pocket knife closer to my chest. I knew I couldn't die from the knife but my body felt more week, and I close my eyes.

The door busts open and I tried to look up to see who it was, but I couldn't. My mind was still processing the stab wounds, "Taehyung!" My eyes flung open at the voice, Sunny? Her voice was enough to make me look up at the door and push myself off the ground. I hold onto my wounds so I won't bleed out too much, and watch Sunny run to me. She was stopped by Jinhwan, he drops the knife and holds onto her waists. 

"No Sunny, I'm sorry," He speaks to her. Sunny stands there in shock.

"Let go of me Jinhwan," He shakes his head holding onto her tighter. 

"I'm sorry, please don't be upset with me," Jinhwan pleads. I look at his face while he stares at Sunny. I saw the connection Uni and I were always talking about. Jinhwan feels something for Sunny. I'm not sure in what way, but he cares about her. He doesn't want her to ever be upset, that's why he doesn't want me with her? He thinks all I bring to her is pain. Jinhwans always with Sunny because she brings him joy, that's why he doesn't want her knowing about his past...because she'll leave him. Leave him...he doesn't want to be alone....Thats the reason he doesn't want to go to jail or to the hospital because he'll face his messed up passed and trauma by himself. Theres a reason he doesn't want to believe in his diagnosis, its because he's scared of it.  He's scared of the person he became, so he tries to live normally but he can't. But he feels normal with Sunny...

Finally Sunny pushes Jinhwan off of her and his face turns. His anger grows and begins to pant. Jinhwan quickly runs to sunny and pushes her onto the ground. He firmly grips the pocket knife and attempts to stab her. It alerts my attention and I use my strength to quickly get over the other side of the class room to where they were. I push Jinhwan off Sunny and picked her off the ground. Before I could attack Jinhwan, Sunny holds my arm to stop me. Jinhwan takes a look at Sunny before beginning to tear up. We watch as he looks down at his hands that had my blood on them and he drops the pocket knife. Jinhwan looks at himself disgusted before turning around and running out of the classroom. 

I felt Sunny's grip on my arm loosen before letting go. I turn to face her and place my hands on her shoulders, "Are you okay? He didn't hurt you?" I ask worriedly. She quickly shook her head and stepped back. 

"I-I'm okay Taehyung," I notice her actions and let go of her, "Are you?" Her eyes slowly move down to my stomach where my wounds were and places her hands on them, "I have to get you fixed..." I shook my head at her. 

"Aniya...I'll heal," Sunny looks up at me. 

"No, you look weak. Have you been feeding?" Sunny face was worried. It made me softly smile, I haven't gotten this affection from her in a while. Just seeing her worried about me gives me hope. 

I remember her question and slowly shook my head, "N-no..." With everything that's been going on, I haven't been putting my vampire diet as a priority. No wonder I'm still not healed. She removes her hand and grabs my wrists pulling me towards the door. 

"Come on," 

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We lock the nurses door behind us once we made sure no one was here. Sunny insisted that she takes care of my wounds and I finally gave in. I didn't realized how much weaker I've gotten until I sat on the bed and felt my whole stomach stab me with pain. 

"Ah..." Sunny looks at me and sighs before walking over to where the ointment, bandaids, and towels were. She grabbed them all and brought it to me. Gently, she sets them aside before looking up at me. 

"Um...can you please take off your shirt..." I awkwardly nodded before grabbing onto the bottom of my shirt and trying to pull it up. I was having trouble removing it from the pain, and I felt Sunny grab onto the shirt and pull it off me. My hair fell back on my head and she look me in my eyes. I gaze back at her but she quickly breaks the eye contact. I lean back to give her a better look at the two stab wounds that I had, "I don't have any materials to stitch it, so I'll just treat it and let it heal on it's own, okay?" I nod softly smiling at her. 

I watch her her grab the towel and dab on the first wound to remove the blood, "Sunny...are you okay?" She doesn't look at me and continues dabbing the towel on my skin, "I just want to know you're okay," Sunny stays quiet, "I saw that connection...I saw the way he feels for you," I heard her take a sigh as she sets the towel down and grabs the ointment. I felt it sting as she applies it on the wound, and I jump a little from the pain. This makes her look up at me.

Sunny speaks in a quiet tone, "It hurts?" 

"It's okay, Sun..." She looks at me longer hearing her nickname, "It's okay if I still call you that?" 

"It's only yours to claim..." I smile at her response, but before I could comment she speaks again, "Is Jinhwan always like that?" Sunny removes the ointment and grabs the bandaid from besides her. She begins to open it and put it on the wound, "Since I don't really know who he is..."

"Jinhwan acts out sometimes, sudden bursts of anger...I haven't seen him get like this, but It's not his first time trying to kill someone with a pocket knife at school," Sunny looks up to me. 

"Kyung?" I nod in response, "Can you please tell me everything?" I nod again and begin to speak as she starts working on the other wound. 

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After I tell Sunny the rest of the stories she didn't know about Jinhwan, she has already finished cleaning me up and is sitting besides me. She looks up at me with her eyes widen by the news and bites her lip nervously. I reach for my shirt that was next to me and I start to put it over my head. 

"If he has already tried to kill you once, won't he just try again?" Sunny asks gazing down at my body before I cover it up. She quickly looks back up to me once I noticed. 

I ignored where her eyes were looking and responded to her, "He didn't stop until he killed Kyung and Yumin, so maybe," Sunny bites her lip worried about my safety, "But he doesn't know I'm a vampire so he can't kill me...I just need to make sure you're safe, he knows about you," I raise my hand to Sunny's face and tuck a strand of hair behind her ear. She watches me carefully as I do, "Sunny, can we please talk ab-" 

"What are we going to do about Jinhwan then? I can't have him having the thought of killing anyone," I sigh at her dogging the conversation and remove my hand from her face. 

"I don't know Sunny, I already threaten him to leave town and look how that ended up..." Sunny turns to the ground thinking, "Maybe Namjoon could speak to him? He doesn't seem to hate anyone but me, and you're in danger so maybe he could get some sense into him," I look at Sunny waiting for her to respond, but she doesn't. She just continues to look at the ground thinking to her self, "Okay maybe not...I mean should we leave town? Our whole existence is on the line, but if we go back to vampire world I'd have to face my father...I can't do that," Sunny still doesn't speak, "Okay you might not want to go there, and that's cool too...should we just let the situation die off-" 

"I'll kill him," Sunny finally speaks and looks up at me. I narrow my eyebrows at her, registering what she said.

"You'll do what?" 

"I'll kill him," I scoot a little further from Sunny by her response and tilt my head. 

"Sunny you're not killing anyone, do you know what that'll do to you?" 

She grabs onto the bottom of her shirt and begin fidgeting with it, "Taehyung we're at a dead end-"

"So we'll figure something out," I argue harshly, "Sunny you aren't ready to feed on your scent," 

"But that's the thing, he's my scent. It's my job to kill him whether that's now or later. I might as well get it over with and do it now," I shook my head disagreeing. 

"You can't go through that, you guys have an emotional connection it'll be too much stress on you," Sunny shrugs hopelessly. 

"Taehyung, there is nothing else to do. If he goes to jail or wherever, I'm going to end up finding him and killing him still. Jinhwan won't live as long as I know where he is. This is the only way to stop him from hurting anyone...let me do what I need to do," Sunny looks into my eyes in a way I haven't seen in a while. She was asking me to put my trust in her, to believe in her. But I can't bare that guilt if she kills him, and I know she can't as well. If Sunny kills Jinhwan she won't be the same, and I'll risk loosing her, something I can't afford. 

"Sun..." She places her hand over mine begging for my support. She knew If I don't agree the others won't. 

"Just trust me," I couldn't respond to her, "I'll be okay," Finally she gives me the reassurance I've been waiting for this whole time. I take a deep sigh before responding. 

"Okay..."