You're a Monster | Chenji

XXI

'Morning! How is my favourite vampire?' Dejun cheerfully got into his lab and unlocked Johnny's cage. The vampire looked at him unamused.

If that's what you do to your favourite vampire, I don't want to know what would happen to your least favourite one...

'The others are busy with the shop, so today I don't have anyone to be my bodyguard. I hope you'll behave, otherwise I'll have to change my methods.'

'The shop?' Johnny asked as Dejun placed a collar around his neck. It was made of a black material.

'Yeah, we're opening a perfume shop! Isn't that amazing?'

Johnny touched the collar he was wearing.

'Don't even bother taking it off. You can't. Plus, if it breaks your skin will burn and you'll die.'

Dejun knew that wasn't true. The collar was actually made of an elastic material that could easily be broken by a vampire if they tried hard enough. However, the vampire's mind and will had been bent with the time he'd been with them.

'Sit here.' Johnny felt like he was being treated like an animal. In fact, he was being treated like an animal, with the only difference that they let him wear pants. He was topless, with a collar that made him look like a damn pet, an eye patch and being bossed around like a slave.

Johnny sat on the chair Dejun placed him front of him. The human approached him and gripped his jaw to study his face better. He forced his healthy eye open. 'Don't worry, I'm not taking this one out.'

He used a flashlight to illuminate his eye which almost made him cry due to the intensity of the light. Then, he took his eye patch off and carefully looked at it. 'You know, your other eye has surprisingly healed.' Dejun showed him a recipient with his other eye floating in it, completely healed.

The next thing Dejun did was open Johnny's mouth and look inside it. 'Show me your tongue.' Johnny did as he asked and Dejun examined his tongue. The human took a cotton ball and rubbed it against Johnny's tongue. 'You drank blood, didn't you?'

The vampire didn't answer. He didn't want Ten to get in trouble because of him.

'Your breath stinks. I'll clean your mouth.' Dejun took a toothbrush out of nowhere and put toothpaste on it. He then brushed Johnny's teeth, leaving the vampire confused. The toothpaste tasted horrible to Johnny, he wanted to puke, but he endured it.

'Kun left for some business. That means I'll have to organise all this for now.' Chittaphon announced to Chenle, Yukhei and Yangyang. 'We have to paint all this local. Here you have the paint.'

They covered the floor together and started painting. Yukhei was painting the ceiling with a paint roller with a long handle as he was the tallest one. Chenle was on a ladder painting the superior part of the walls and Yangyang was painting the lower part and the doors.

They weren't really good at it, in no time the floor was covered in paint stains. Chenle put the ladder on a place that had a huge stain, Yukhei wasn't paying much attention to where he was going while painting so he accidentally pushed Chenle's ladder and made it slip on the paint. Chenle landed on his butt milliseconds after and the ladder fell on him, leaving his body bruised and his ass sore.

'yUKHEI YOU BITCH-' He groaned as he got up with Yangyang's help. Much to their luck, a paint bucket had fallen down and spilled the paint all over the place. Yangyang slipped while helping the younger and they both fell on the paint mess that was on the floor.

The taller, instead of helping his friends, started laughing at them. He dipped his finger in some paint and booped their noses so that they both had a pastel purple nose. The two shorties (according to Yukhei) grabbed his wrists and pulled him with them, kicking his kneecap to make him fall on the paint mess.

'Dejun, I'll take him as a secretary.' Chittaphon had interrupted his 'session' with the vampire.

'Why? To feed him?'

'What do you mean?'

'The vampire had blood in his mouth. You fed him, didn't you? That could have potentially affected the experiment if I hadn't known.' Dejun pulled him closer and uncovered his neck, slightly touching the mark that was left when Johnny bit him.

'Look, I'm doing this for our sake. I'll make sure he doesn't leave. Leave that to me, yeah? You know I'm good at keeping people.'

Dejun finally allowed him to use the vampire and let Chittaphon into his lab.

'Johnny, come with me.'

'Huh?'

'You heard me. Come. You'll be my temporary secretary.'

Ten grabbed Johnny's wrist and dragged him to his office. The vampire obeyed and followed him, otherwise Ten wouldn't be able to physically drag him since he's not strong enough.

'Sit here.' Ten pointed at the office chair that was in front of a computer. Johnny hesitantly sat down and watched as Ten sat on his lap.

'Why did you-'

'I just wanted to be with you. Anything wrong with it?' Ten said in a sweet manner. Johnny didn't answer. Instead, stayed quiet and watched as Ten sent a few mails and completed some documents on his computer.