𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟

-나는 그들의 것, 그들은 내 꺼야-

"good thing i'm not seokmin" the person whispered in my ear

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"w-what did you just say?" i stuttered out as i slowly turned my head. that sounds like myungho... but he's not coming back for a long time...

i completely turned around and i couldn't believe what i was seeing

it was myungho...

"m-myungho? am- am i dreaming?" i muttered out as tears threatened to fall from my eyes. he chuckled at my words, "no. you're very much awake. see" he pinched my cheek softly

it felt so real. his hands were as cold as i remembered

"a-are you really here?" i stuttered as tears finally started to fall from my eyes. "yes, and we aren't leaving again" he said with a bright smile as he brought up his hand to caress my cheek

i broke out into a complete sob. "y-you're back?" i said through my cries

he pulled me into his embrace and hugged me tightly

he's back...

i looked up to look at his face. he looks just the same. like he hasn't aged from the day he left. the only difference in him was his hair. he used to have shorter blonde hair, but now his hair was long, and he had a brown mullet. it suits him well

"you've grown up so much" he said to me as we wiped away some of my tears. "and you l-look the same" i stuttered out with a laugh and he laughed as well

"why don't we go see the others. they're waiting downstairs" he sat up from the bed and grabbed my hand, making me stand up

"t-they're here?" "yeah, let's go"

he dragged me downstairs, our fingers interlocked with each other's

when we reached the bottom of the stairs soonyoung was waiting there for us. he scowled at our hands, but i decided to brush it off, more exited about seeing all of them again to care

myungho kept taking me to where the others were. the anxiety growing in me, nervous to see if they were like i remembered them

soonyoung followed behind us and he grabbed my other hand

when we entered the kitchen, i froze. still not wanting to believe that they were back after so long. the disappointment would be less if i didn't believe this was happening

but if this is a dream, i might as well enjoy the thought of seeing them again

they were all there. all thirteen of them are here, in the same room after four long years

i let go of their hands and ran to jeonghan, hugging him tightly. my face on his chest, still crying my eyes out

please let this be real...

he hugged me back and i could hear his sniffling meaning he was also near tears. he smells like roses

i looked up to see his face. he no longer had long blue hair, now its shorter and blonde. (a/n blond?? how do you spell it?) his face was the same, but he had a different aura now

i turned to look at vernon who was standing next to him. he also looked different. he now had shorter ash blonde hair and his eyes looked darker as well. "areum" he said as he hugged me when i let go of jeonghan

he held me like this was the last time i was going to see him. "i missed you guys" i whispered

he used to have a musky smell to him, but now he smells like strawberries. i smiled at the scent

someone's scent says a lot about them, and i always seem to remember them without fail. they're engraved in my brain and i never forget them

i pulled away to look up at him again. "i guess you didn't grow that much" he teased me, "s-shut up" i wiped away the tears that were still coming from my eyes

"she's 5'4 now, i'm sure jihoon was worried there for a moment" soonyoung teased jihoon as he looked at him with a smirk

"shut your trap soonyoung" he said through gritted teeth. i giggled at their banter

i looked over my shoulder to look at mingyu and wonwoo standing side by side. mingyu had a smile on his face and wonwoo had the same cold expression and despite his unfriendly expression i walked up to him and hugged him without hesitation

he was surprised but he eventually encircled his arms around me and held me tight. "i missed you" i whispered as i looked up at him and looked at him with a happy smile

he held back a smile as he looked at me, "yeah, me too" he said back

his hair was dark red, and he was paler than normal. he looks as cold as always, i smiled to myself to see that he hadn't changed much

"don't forget about me" mingyu spoke next to us

i let go of wonwoo and mingyu engulfed me in his embrace. "i missed my princess" he whispered in my ear. it sent shivers down my spine and my face turned bright name at the nickname, luckily my face was in his chest and the others couldn't see my expression

he lifted my chin to look at him, he smushed my cheeks and chuckled

his hair was now short and a raven color. now i miss his chestnut hair

i shook him off, trying to stop him from continuing to tease me

and i looked all around me

"where is seungcheol?" i muttered

"i'm right here" he said with a serious voice

i turned to where he was. he was standing in the corner of the room and he was wearing the same clothes that the driver was wearing today, "c-cheol" i muttered, "it's nice to see you again" he said as he walked towards me and placed his hand on my head, patting it softly

but i didn't want a pat on the head, so i hugged him, just like the others, "i-i'm guessing you were my d-driver" i stuttered out

"yeah" he said as he hugged me back

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i kept pinching my arm, to see if i really was dreaming. but it hurt... this was real. they were really back

just when i had given up hope of seeing them again, they returned. as if nothing had happened

the last time they saw me i was a thirteen-year-old girl, now i'm about to become and adult

i spent so many nights crying myself to sleep, wanting them to come back and now they are back. the emptiness i felt when they were gone was irreplaceable, i felt so empty without them, like a piece of me was missing

and now that piece was back...

-나는 그들의 것, 그들은 내 꺼야-

tears kept escaping my eyes as i looked at all of them. but they weren't tears of sadness, i was overcome with joy to have them back

for the rest of the day, i was clinging onto mingyu, hugging him close and never leaving his side. not for a moment

they all seemed to be the same people i knew but at the same time they acted a little different from before

for one, mingyu seemed more confident and so was myungho and seungcheol smiled much more than before. he was laughing with the rest of them. before he would watch from a distance and chuckle lightly when he thought something was funny, but now he was enjoying himself with the others

jeonghan was the same as always, charismatic, and cunning; just like loki, i chuckled at the thought

vernon was much calmer now, he just chilled along with whatever was happening

wonwoo on the other hand was the same, except that he was more expressive. smiling and chuckling at their jokes

it was nice seeing all of them together, smiling and laughing at their stories. seungkwan and seokmin kept on telling embarrassing things that had happened to me, but i didn't bother too much about it. i was just happy to see them having a good time

i missed this...

but soonyoung was acting a bit strange. he kept glaring at mingyu like he had done something wrong and wanted him to feel guilty about it

it was rather odd...

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-one week later-

i still remember the night they returned; a week has passed at it feels like everything was almost like it was four years ago in seoul. but at the same time, it was different

i'm almost an adult now and they seem to recognize that, and they respected it. but jeonghan still treated me like i was a child, he would squeeze my cheeks and coo at me. it was entertaining to watch him do that to me

but he knows where to stop, he knows to not cross the line

it was three in the morning and i was doing some work my teachers had assigned for me to do but i couldn't seem to grasp or even understand the math part of the assignment

"why is this so hard!?" i whisper yelled at myself and rubbed my temples out of frustration

"it's too late to be doing work this late, i should have done it when i got home. stupid mingyu with his cake, distracting me and making me eat it" i ranted

"i could always do it before class begins... but if i get caught i'll in trouble and i'm sure i still wouldn't understand it then, ugh" i groaned, "no, i have to do this now"

"ok areum, you can do this" i sat up straight and looked at the question again

"if that equals four then this equals twenty-eight-" my train of thought was interrupted when i heard a thud against my wall

*thud*

"what was that?" i whispered

i thought all of them were asleep at this time, i thought as i stood up from my chair, my naked feet hitting the cold ground

i grabbed the knob of the door and carefully opened it, hoping to make as little sound as possible

i opened it the slightest bit to see what was happening through a peep hole

i was surprised to say the least. it was jeonghan with a woman. my breath hitched when i fully understood what they were doing

they were making out. his lips were kissing her passionately as he moved to her neck and started leaving hickeys on her neck. she started moaning at his actions

a blush moved to my cheeks at the scene in front of me. i've never seen this side of him... i brought my hand up to my mouth so that i wouldn't make a sound

but she started to whimper at his actions and that's when i noticed he wasn't making hickeys anymore, he was biting into her neck and making her bleed

what's he doing?

i couldn't comprehend what was happening and there wasn't a moment for me to even try to understand because the girl dropped to the ground. i could feel my heart pounding in my chest and my breathing was out of control, i screamed when her head hit the ground

she was bleeding onto the floor, her blood going everywhere

jeonghan turned to look at me with a surprised expression on his face. his eyes were glowing red, and he had fangs like a vampire, the blood of the woman dripping down his chin and onto the floor

he slowly approached my figure, "areum?" he said, "let me explain-"

before he could finish his sentence, i closed the door and locked myself in my room

did he just kill that girl?

why were his eyes glowing?

w-what if he does that to me...?

my heart was beating out of control, pounding loudly enough that i think i could hear it. tears escaped my eyes uncontrollably

"areum, open the door. let me explain" he pleaded as he banged on the door, hoping for me to let him inside

i ignored him and tried to cover my ears with my hands, wanting all of this to be a dream

this can't be happening

-jeonghan's pov-

-a few hours earlier-

i decided to go to a bar to let off steam, i couldn't take it in that house much longer

she's gorgeous...

she has beautiful hair, delicate features, beautiful eyes. she's matured, mentally and physically. she's a woman now...

i need to calm down

what he was wearing:

(a/n this legendary look)

i casually entered a bar. the last time i was here was 1995, time really does change things, nobody should recognize me, i thought looking around and finding a seat

the bar was dimly lit and had an old rustic feel to it, the wall behind the counter that had all the drinks were lit from behind and created warm feeling. since it was late at night it was almost full and there were people everywhere; some were laughing loudly, and others were quietly sipping their drinks alone

i sat down at an empty seat, "can i get some vodka?" i asked the older man at the other side of the bar

i took the drink in my hand and took a long sip, the warm liquid going down my throat, creating heat inside of me

vampires have a cold disposition meaning we don't produce much heat, so our bodies are always cold as if we were cold blooded animals

i sat there and thought about what has happened the last few years, the atrocities that we had to commit to leave the mafia world. the countless people we had to compel to forget of our existence and the many more we had to kill

and all so that we could keep areum safe

but i think it was all worth it and it wasn't like we were killing people that were innocent, they themselves committed heinous things like us, and after all that torture i got to see her again

it was worth it. to me at least

"she's grown into a beautiful woman" i chuckled

a young lady suddenly came up to me and sat by my side, "hello, i'm esmée" she said as she extended a hand to me. i took it and shook her hand, "i'm jeonghan" i responded in the same tongue she spoke it. french is a beautiful language, the language of love really

"mind if i buy you another drink?" she asked me, confidence in her voice

"you seem very confident" i chuckled as i looked at her in the eyes. she had soft and kind blue eyes and dirty blonde hair

"yes, well that's the kind of person i am" she smirked, "okay, buy me a drink then" i returned the smirk, oh darling it was a terrible decision to talk to me, my bloodlust isn't the best today. i'm sure you'll be delicious, i thought to myself

for the rest of the night, we kept flirting and we eventually started making out

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i wasn't sure how we reached the mansion, but we eventually made it into the hallway

we stumbled our way upstairs and continued our messy make out session, being very loud in the process as we banged into walls

i pinned her up against the wall of areum's room by accident, so i pulled her away and a little deeper into the hall, hoping i didn't wake her up from her slumber

i kissed her lips passionately

i felt a little guilty that i was imagining areum instead of her as i kissed her lips

my lips made their way to her neck as i decorated her body with hickeys. i could feel the blood pumping through her veins as i kissed her

and that's when i started to bite into her neck

she whined at my actions. it was painful for her, but the pain will subside in a moment

but before that could happen, she collapsed. she couldn't handle the pain

i watched as she fell to the floor, her blood going everywhere, that's going to be a pain to clean up

but i stopped in my tracks when i heard a scream

i froze

i didn't want to believe it. i turned to look at the owner of the voice and my worst fear came true

it was areum and she saw everything...

"areum" i cautiously walked towards her, "let me explain-" before i could even finish speaking she slammed the door and locked it

no... no this can't be happening... i panicked. if i compel her, she won't remember this happened, i need to do that...

but... we said we would never compel her when she found out. if she ever found out. god damn it!

tears formed in my eyes, no no, please no

she shouldn't find out like this!

"areum" i whispered as i put my fists on the door, "areum, open the door. let me explain" this time i spoke louder than before, begging her to let me explain. i banged on the door, desperate

tears started falling down my cheeks as i stopped banging on her door, and i fell to the floor

i could hear how fast her heart was pounding and how she was losing control of her breathing

-seungcheol's pov-

"what's with the banging? what's going on?" i muttered as i rose from my bed. the banging woke me up and i'm sure it must have woken up the others as well

i opened my door and there was a girl lying on the floor, she was bleeding out. "what the-"

i turned my head to see jeonghan on the floor crying in front of areum's room, "what happened?" i muttered as i approached him

and that's when it hit me

"don't tell me... don't tell me that she saw you?" i said through gritted teeth, my hands turned into fists, my knuckles turning white

-jeonghan's pov-

he started approaching me but then he paused, "she saw you, didn't she?"  he growled as he stood there, frozen

"i'm sorry" i muttered through my cries; it was all i could say. i couldn't even look up at him, disgusted at the monster i was forced to become 670 years ago. please let this be some horrible dream...

i heard seungkwan come running to where we were, "what happened?" he asked as he looked at the woman on the ground

"areum saw him feeding" seungcheol responded. i wasn't looking at him, but i knew he was glaring at me like he would kill me

"what..." he let out softly, he came to where i was, grabbed me by the collar and lifted my up, "you idiot! how could you do this!?" he growled

he was enraged... i would be too

one by one the rest of them came. they all screamed at me, i'm sure areum could hear them through the other side of the door. soonyoung was even angry enough that he punched me, and i didn't blame him, i deserved it

i could hear her crying through the other side of the door. i hate to hear her cry

mingyu pushed me aside and went up to her door, softly knocking on it. "areum, please open the door. let us explain" he said in a soft voice, hoping to convince her

"areum, please" he said, begging for her to open. but still nothing

-areum's pov-

"let us explain" he said

so... it isn't just jeonghan? all of them?

i don't want to be in this house right now. i don't want to be close to them right now. he basically killed that woman... he murdered her like a monster

i just got them back and now i learn this...

let this be some torturous dream and when i wake up everything will be back to normal... please

have they always been murderers...? have i ever been in danger of them?

but the way he killed her... it was like he was a vampire. but vampires don't exist

we live in the real world, vampires aren't real

was it all a hallucination?

these were the thoughts that were running through my head all night. i was overthinking and i felt like i was losing my mind

at one point i even started having a panic attack. it was hard to breathe, and i felt like i was going to die

i spent the rest of the night crying

they kept begging me to open the door, but i kept ignoring them

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i woke up with red, swollen eyes and i had lost my voice. i cried so much i couldn't open my eyes properly

the light that came from the large windows didn't feel warm, it didn't feel nice. all the light did was burn my eyes

the day seemed to mirror my feelings; it was cloudy and there was a drizzle hitting the windows

i sat down at the edge of my bed, using the blankets to cover up from the morning cold

the room i had lived in for three years felt like a place i had never been in before. i was in danger of them for all these years... my entire life. i felt like i didn't know them anymore

i felt like i wanted to cry, but nothing left from my eyes

i had cried too much to continue

i'll become dehydrated soon if i continue to cry like this

they spent a few hours knocking on my door, but they eventually gave up and left. i assumed they wanted to give me some space

i sat up from my bed to look out the window, i stumbled on the way. "what a cruel world... i have them back again and now it turns out they... they- they" i couldn't even say it, i covered my mouth

i reluctantly walked to my bathroom. but before i could even get close to it there was a knock at my door

i froze on the spot

"areum, are you awake?" jeonghan said in a soft voice, "if you are, come downstairs so that we can have breakfast and i can explain, please" his voice cracked as he spoke. he must have been crying as well

i didn't answer his plead

and i heard him reluctantly walk away form my door and i let out a sigh of relief i didn't know i was holding

"i can't do that... not right now at least" i whispered as i gulped

i stumbled to my bathroom and looked in the mirror. i looked worse than normal

i washed up and changed into some clothes

i looked outside my bedroom window again

this time joshua and vernon were down there and they were looking right at me. i accidently made eye contact and i looked away quickly

they're everywhere... i suppose it is their house

i laid down on my bed, motionless... there's nothing i can do. i have no options other than to face them and i can't do that

"i'm a little hungry" i mumbled what i was thinking

my mind was mostly blank, i felt numb and that's the only thought that came to my mind. hunger

"then why don't you come downstairs" someone said through the other side of the door

i froze just like when jeonghan was at my door

"areum, you need to eat. if you want, i can bring you your food" he said

it was mingyu. his voice was soft and gentle like he didn't want to scare me

i hesitantly got up and slowly walked to the door, "areum, are you there?" he asked

"y-yeah" i mustered out in a whisper

"i'm scared" i whispered out as tears welled up in my eyes

"you know... so am i" he responded with a bitter chuckle, "ever since the day you arrived at the mansion in seoul, i've been afraid of how you would react to us... that you would react like this" he said, "so please just open the door and let us explain" he begged

"how do i know you w-won't hurt me?" i stuttered out, afraid of what he could do to me

"because we've been with you since you were a baby. why would we hurt you now?"

i didn't know how to respond

should i open the door? my hands tremble as i brought my hands out to hold the doorknob

"just open the door, trust me please"

i unlocked it and within moments he opened the door without hesitating

his eyes were red from crying and his hair was a mess, he pulled me into a hug, but i just stood there not knowing how to respond

"i'm sorry you had to find out like this" he whispered in my ear

but... what did i even find out...

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