Chapter Twenty One

Will You Stay Loyal?

Taehyung's POV

Walking through the schools hallways I only had one thing on my mind, Jinhwan. I know I shouldn't of fought him, but the way he was speaking was so annoying. It's like he knows he's putting on an act, but won't come clean. I was stuck and didn't know what to do about him anymore. I can't even take him to the police because not only are they able to cover his tracks again, but I'd be putting Jungnim at risk. The only thing left to do is to talk to Jinhwan, actually have a conversation with him so he can just leave us all alone. 

I walk into my first period afraid to face Sunny, luckily she wasn't there yet but of course Jinhwan was. I take a look at his face, at least the swelling went away over night. I walk towards my seat avoiding eye contact with Jinhwan, but the thoughts were bothering me. 

After I take my seat I lean over in front of me and begin to speak, "Jinhwan I know you are just as tired as I am," Jinhwan turns around and faces me. 

"About what?" He asks. Of course he's going to make this difficult. 

"This act your putting up is not fooling anybody," 

"Is this your attempt to apologize to me?" I tilt my head. 

"No, I'm not trying to apologize. I'm giving you a chance to come clean, so I don't have to for you," Jinhwan begins to shake his head.

"What did I do? You're the one sneaking around trying to figure out something you have no right doing-"

I quickly Interrupt Jinhwan offended, "I'm trying to protect Sunny-"

"Oh I'm sure Sunny can protect herself," Jinhwan quickly claps back at me, and I sit there questioning what he said. 

"You can't be around her Jinhwan," 

He rolls his eyes, "There you go again being a jealous boyfriend,"

 "What? Jealous? Jinhwan you know what this is about," I begin to lower my voice, "You killed Kyung," 

"Taehyung, I never confessed to that," 

"You got an officer to hide your case, you admitted to what you did!" The classmates looked at me once I raised my voice. 

"It's too early for you to be yelling like that," I take a deep breath. 

"Look Jinhwan, I know that you have a sketchy past. You killing Kyung, is only part of it. If I get a hold of your information, there's going to be a lot on the line for you. I'm giving you a chance right now to leave like nothing happened so we can all move on," I lean closer to Jinhwan with fierce in my voice. 

Jinhwan leaned closer to me, "It's too late for that," I sat back, "You've done too much damage just to make me forfeit. Sunny doesn't deserve you," 

"So this is about Sunny?" I questioned him.

Jinhwan adjusts his position to be more comfortable, "You're not going to take Sunny away from me, I want her," Slowly my eyes widen.

"What do you mean you want her?" I grind my teeth attempting to cool myself down. 

"Well, I have a good relationship with her. Why would I ruin that?" 

"Jinhwan I'm not allowing Sunny to be around a crazy murderer-" 

"And like I said Taehyung, I am pretty sure Sunny can take care of herself," Jinhwan lightly smirks tilting his head at me. I look up seeing Sunny outside the classroom. 

"What do you mean by that?" I look back at Jinhwan Impatient for his answer.

Jinhwan crosses his legs and folds his arms, "I mean I bet someone with those sharp teeth, and crazy strength...can protect themselves," I narrow my eyebrows. Does he know? "Those eyes say it all Taehyung," He unfolds his legs and lean over to me, "So if you try to tell Sunny anything, I wonder what the world would say about vampires roaming the streets," Sunny enters the classroom, and walks towards her desk. Before she could sit, I got up and and grabbed her wrist pulling her outside the classroom. I could hear Jinhwan laughing. 

"Yah!" Sunny releases my grip and looks me In my eyes. I could tell she was still upset. 

"Did you tell Jinhwan about what you are?!" I raised my voice at Sunny and ignored the stares people were giving me. She looked at me like I was crazy. 

"What?! Of course not," I scuffed. 

"Sunny I'm being serious," 

"I am too!" Sunny quickly gets offended and steps back from me. 

"Well he fucking knows," I watch as she gets surprised and curses to herself, "What?"

"I-I heard somebody yesterday," I crossed my arms.

"What do you mean?" Sunny looks at me with guilt in her eyes, "Did you feed?" She quickly looks away ashamed, "Sunny!" 

"I didn't think anyone was there, and it was a fresh wound on this little boy, it was hard to resist!"

"You fed on a kid!?" Sunny walks by the wall placing her head in her hands. 

"Fuck...I know I know," 

"Why didn't you call me, I could've stopped you," She turned to look at me removing her hands. 

"I was upset at you and didn't want to talk to you," I took a deep sigh, "This keeps happening when I'm upset Taehyung," 

"I know...I'm not making you happy," I rolled my eyes looking away. 

"Yeah and you know why, yet you keep doing it-" 

"I don't know how many more times I can tell you that I'm just trying to protect you!" 

"From what?! Jinhwan? Fine you want me to stay away from him? You want to control my friendships?" I stepped away from Sunny and put my hands up.

"I'm not doing this with you right now, no I'm not," I turn around and begin walking away down the hallway. I hear Sunny walking down behind me, "Sunny I need space," 

"And I need you Taehyung," I paused and stopped walking. Damn it. I turn around and walk up to Sunny. 

"I am done fighting with you Sunny. I am done. I know you are upset, I know you don't like what I am doing. But I've been a vampire way longer than you have and I know what I need to do right now, so trust me. Trust that I am not trying to hurt you, and that everything I am putting myself through right now is for you," Sunny slowly shakes her head and takes a step towards me. 

"Your words don't cut it anymore," She whispers. 

I take a sigh before responding, "That's all I can give you," I quickly turn around trying to not face  her. I can't look at her right now there's too much going on in my head. 

I walk out of the school doors and drive home.

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I drive back to school to pick Sunny up. I wanted to talk to her, give her some type of closure. I don't want to lose Sunny, I love her, and I understand how confused and betrayed she must feel but I can't risk my relationship right now. If Sunny is feeding because of stress, I need to help her. I need to teach her to control herself, and I can't give up that time for Jinhwan. I can deal with him later. 

As I pull into the schools parking lot, I wait for Sunny to come out. I rest my head on the seat and close my eyes only to hear someone knocking on my window. I open my eyes and look to my right seeing Uni wave at me. I roll down the window confused. 

"Uh hey," I say confused. 

"Whats up!" I think Uni got a little too comfortable after The other night, we normally don't talk at school. 

"Nothing, have you seen Sunny?" She shakes her head. 

"I didn't see her during lunch, but I just saw her leave," I hit my head on the seat upset. 

"Damn it..." 

"I tried to invite her to my place but she seemed pretty upset," I turned my head to face Uni. 

"So what are you doing here?" 

"Well, you think you could give me a ride? My walking buddy is gone, and lei didn't come to school today," I stare at Uni without response, and she starts to pout. "Pleaseeeee?" She puts her hands together, rubbing them. 

"Aish, okay okay," Quickly the passenger door opens and she takes a seat before closing the door. 

As we drive to Uni's place I was silent thinking of Sunny. I should've looked for her, why am I taking this dog butt to her place right now...

"Hey, are you okay?" Uni breaks the silence, and asks being concerned. 

"Are we still not talking about Sunny and Jinhwan?" Uni chuckles remembering the other night. 

"You can vent if you need to Taehyung," I sighed and shook my head., "Tae..." Theres always something about Uni's voice that makes it so easy to talk to lately. 

"Jinhwan knows Sunny is a vampire...he threatened to expose her if Sunny finds out anything about Kyung," 

Uni throws her head at the seat upset with the news, "This man is really getting on my nerves, can't you just hurt him? I mean you are a vampire," 

"I don't live violently Uni," I glance at her, "In a life or death situation, fine. But I'm not going to risk being exposed, my father will be upset," Uni nods understanding.

"It's weird, I think the fact that Jinhwan is her scent is creating such an emotional connection that she won't even believe when we tell her he's dangerous," 

"Cause her mind wants a reason to stay with him..." I rub my head with my hands at the realization, "I don't know what to do," 

"Turn right here," Uni points to the block on our right.

I park in front of her house, and Uni starts to gather her things before she stops and looks up at me, "Do you want to come in for a little? Get your mind off of it," Did she just invite me In her home? 

"Um," Uni chuckles stepping out of the car. 

"Come on, I was planning on cooking anyways. Let me treat you to a meal for giving me a ride," I tilt my head and her response, but gave in. 

"Okay, sure." I open my door and got out. Uni was waiting for me by her door shuffling through her keys. By the time I got to the door she finally found the key and opened the door. Uni's house wasn't too big or small, It was very cozy and warm. We put our shoes aside, and walk into the kitchen. I look at the walls which had her baby pictures printed out while she sets her bag aside. 

"Don't look at those," She chuckles embarrassed at the photos, "I was like seven," Uni walks over to the sink and begins to wash her hands. 

"It's adorable," I continue to look at the pictures on the wall and make it to her living room. 

"You don't have any of your family?" I shook my head. 

"My family were never close. I lost my mother soon after I turned, my brother and sister never speak, and you already know the situation with my father," Uni turned and looked at me while drying her hands, my eyes were still appreciating the picture in the frames. 

"So you were pretty much alone when you moved here," I nodded.

"Yeah, my dad forced me to come to find my scent and well, "

"Kill them," Uni chuckles. I turn around and walk back into he kitchen nodding. 

"Yeah," I remove my jacket and place it on the chair, "I never really spent a healthy childhood with my family..." Uni looks at me with guilt in her eyes, "What?"

"Every child deserves a healthy childhood," I look at the ground a little shy, "I'm sorry you didn't get one,"

Uni begins to cut some vetebales to prepare a meal that I wasn't sure of. I roll my sleeves and looked around trying to find some way to help. She notices me and speaks, "Can you prepare the rice? Theres some left over in the fridge," I nod and make my way towards the fridge. 

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After dinner is prepared, Uni and I sit in front of the TV enjoying the meal and a couple episodes of a drama. I have to admit, Uni's cooking is really good, and being treated to a meal kind of made me happy. I look over my right shoulder noticing Uni was almost done with her bowl, then I slowly looked up to at her face. Why am I so happy right now? I mean, I'm still frustrated with the situation at school, but Uni is always able to comfort me so easily. I never really looked at her like this before, but I start to appreciate her and smile looking down at my bowl. 

Uni notices and looks at me, "Is the drama making you that happy?" Uni chuckles at me setting her empty bowl on the table. 

"Huh?" I look up at Uni, "Yeah the drama is pretty nice," I watch as Uni grabs a light blanket that was next to her and starts to unfold it. After, she lays it out on her legs and mine. 

"There ya go..." Uni fixes the blanket before leaning back on the couch next to me, I couldn't help but look at her. She ends up looking at me and pouted, "Don't tell me you need to vent more," 

I chuckle shaking my head, "No..." Uni tilts her head confused, "Uh the food is nice," I look down at my bowl which was only half way done. 

"You barely ate though," Uni pouts at my bowl before grabbing my chopsticks and feeding herself, "My parents always told me to never waste food," She speaks with her mouth full. 

"Aish! Close your mouth when you talk Uni," Uni laughs setting my bowl down for me. 

"Oh! The episode ended," Uni reaches for the remote that is on the table and exits from the show, "This show is really problematic," she comments to herself. 

"I've already watched it, "

"Huh?! Why didn't you say anything? We could've watched something else," I chuckle. 

"I'm fine with anything," 

Uni studied my face before responding, "You know, when I first met you I thought you had like no emotions," I raised my eyebrows at her comment, "But who knew you had all of those feelings inside..." 

"Just because I'm a vampire doesn't mean I don't have emotions," Uni chuckles a bit as she nods. 

"I know, you just seemed all too perfect to deal with anything," Perfect?

"Perfect?" Uni shyly looks down at the blanket. 

"Y-yea, perfect. Maybe because you were so quiet it didn't seem like you were dealing with anything which made me think your life was perfect," I leaned back to the couch and rested my right arm on the couch. 

"I'm far from perfect, trust me," 

"I think you're pretty good," Uni and I look at each other for a while. I wasn't sure what to say back to her, so I just looked at her, "You're a good person," Uni's hand slowly left her thy and began playing with part of the blanket that was on my side. Her hand made me feel a shriver through my body, but I let her. 

"You're a pretty good person too, Uni," I rested my head on my hand that was on the couch, giving all my attention to Uni, "You've been strong, probably stronger than me," She laughs laying her head on the couch. 

"No no, I haven't, " Without me realizing, I bring my hand to her face and tuck back the piece of hair that was in her way. 

I whisper, "You have," Uni looks up at me in shock, but doesn't say anything. Instead, she sits back up scooting a little closer to me as my hand stayed on her face cupping her cheek. I couldn't think through what I was doing. Maybe because I needed some validation? Or just really wanted to get my mind off of Sunny. Either way, this felt...right. 

I looked into Uni's eyes which made my stomach turn. My hands slowly move down to her jawline softly placing it in my hand. As I move my hand, she scoots her face closer to mine and I start to lean in. Without hesitation, Uni brings her lips to mine and kisses me. She kisses me passionately while bringing her body closer to mine. Her arms wraps around my neck pulling me deeper into the kiss, which I easily did. I move my hands down to her waist pulling her closer to my body. 

A couple seconds later, I quickly move my lips away from hers realizing what we are doing. She says nothing and lets me catch my breath, "Uni..." With her hand, she gently strokes my hair looking into my eyes. 

"We can stop..." She whispers. But I don't want to, I wanted to feel her lips one more time, I wanted her hand to stay through my hair. I slowly lower my eyes to her lips and lean into them. She meets me, and continue to kiss each other. Without hesitation, I wrap her legs around my waist picking her up, and walk her to the room that was next to us. Luckily it was her room, and we fall onto the bed. 

As I lay on top of her, I feel her hands slide under my shirt bringing it to my chest. I sat up quickly taking off the shirt and begin unbuttoning hers. Our heavy breathing fills up the room as more clothes come off each other. Next thing I know Uni moves on top on me, and I softly stroke her naked back with my hands. Her hands slowly moves down my chest and to my pants before looking up at me and whispers. 

"Are you sure?" 

(I am so sorry guys >_<)