You're a Monster | Chenji

XXII

'You sick fuck! How dare you?' Johnny yelled at the vampire in front of him while holding the corpse that was tossed at him.

'Oh, come on. Don't tell me you pity him now.'

'He's my fucking boyfriend!'

'You mean was.' Hyunwoo laughed as he saw the heartbreak in Johnny's eyes. 'Be honest, Johnny. You wanted him to die. Why would you introduce him to us otherwise?'

'Exactly. You can't show off your human pet and then expect us not to touch him.' Hyungwon said as he was licking his fingers. He still had blood in them. Taeil's blood.

The group of vampires vanished slowly and Johnny was left alone, in a dark place, with Taeil in his arms.

The human opened his eyes and stared at Johnny with a poker face. He then pushed the vampire away with an inhuman force. His wrists and ankles had scratches from the restrains that had been used to keep him from moving while Johnny's 'friends' killed him slow and painfully. His clothes were ripped and showed his mistreated skin covered in wounds.

'It's all your fault.'

'T-taeil?'

'It's your fault, Johnny.'

'Taeil, you're alive?'

'It's your fault they killed me. It's your fault for introducing me to them. It's your fault for having a human boyfriend while being a vampire.'

'Taeil, please... Don't say that...'

'You have no clue how much I suffered because of you. They bit me, and when I was dizzy from the blood loss they abused me. They raped me, Johnny. They raped me and then they tied me to that chair. They beat me up. They used a knife to carve nasty words all over my body and they licked each of those words until there wouldn't come blood from them anymore.'

'I'm sorry...' Johnny could now read the words written in red all over Taeil's stomach, thighs and chest. 'Slut.' 'Pet.' 'Toy.'

'I cried all the time. I screamed for you to come save me until the last moment, but you didn't. You came late. They killed me. They killed me, Johnny. They killed me because of you. They killed me because they're monsters, just like you. They're monsters for doing this to me and you're a monster for letting them. You're a monster! You're a disgusting monster, Johnny!'

'Johnny!'

The vampire gasped as his eyes widened.

He was dreaming.

Taeil actually never talked after being killed. He couldn't. He was dead. Taeil was dead and Johnny felt extremely guilty for it. He had learnt to ignore that and forget about that event in his life, thanks to his true friends telling him it wasn't his fault. Of course he had cut ties with the vampires who did that to the love of his life, but the remorse was still there. To make things worse, everyone around him was now reminding him of how much of a monster he was for being a blood sucker.

After spacing out for a few seconds more, he noticed Ten was on the floor, with a terrified look in his face.

'J-johnny? Why'd you push me off..?' The human's eyes started getting teary as he slowly got up, holding onto the desk for support.