You're a Monster | Chenji

XXIII

Mark couldn't believe his eyes.

Johnny was right in front of him... wearing a leash and behaving like a fucking dog.

Not literally, but almost. The older was kneeling down so that a shorter human could feed him with human food.

'Johnny~ open your mouth~'

And the vampire did. He ate human food.

'Johnny! Stop! Don't eat that! You know it's bad for your health!'

Mark wanted to go to his best friend, but metallic bars prevented him from doing so. He then realised he was in a cage. A fucking cage. And next to him was an open cage that he guessed was Johnny's.

Johnny completely ignored what his best friend was telling him and ate the human food. It tasted horribly and made him want to throw up. Mark saw Johnny forcing himself to swallow the food.

'Good boy!' The human said as he petted Johnny's head.

Definitely, Johnny was being treated like a dog.

'J-johnny... What are you doing? Why are you letting that human treat you like a fucking pet?!'

'Mark, please. Don't scream. He likes it, doesn't he?' The human answered as he held Johnny's jaw and looked at him lovingly. He placed a kiss on the vampire's nose and kept feeding him.

'Johnny! We have to run away! There's just a human in this room, you know we can get out! We HAVE to get out!'

'Johnny, tell your noisy friend to shut up! His yells are bothering us...'

And much to his surprise, Johnny turned around to face him.

'Mark, shut up.'

'What the fuck?! Johnny, what are you doing? Why are you obeying him?!'

Johnny got up and walked slowly towards him.

'W-what did they do to you, Johnny? Johnny! What did they do to you?!'

'Mark, stop yelling, will you?' The vampire woke up when he felt a hard slap against his cheek.

'H-huh?'

'You fell asleep and you've been yelling for a few minutes.' Taeyong was the one to wake him up from that nightmare.

'W-what did I say..?'

'I don't know, your words didn't make sense at all.'

Mark got up and rubbed his eyes. He was embarrassed, Jungwoo and Donghyuck were in the room as well.

They were supposed to sleep for a few hours at Taeyong's, but with the concert Mark's yells had made, he was sure everyone else (even the neighbors) was awake.

'What was the dream about?' Jungwoo asked with a worried tone. He placed a hand on Mark's shoulder and rubbed gently.

'Were you dreaming of Johnny getting a boyfriend that's not you?' Donghyuck said in a salty tone. Mark scoffed.

'I don't like Johnny that way.'

'It doesn't look like it, though. You've been talking about him nonstop since he went missing.'

'Donghyuck, stop. Let him talk.' Jungwoo interrupted Donghyuck for Mark to tell them about the dream that had him screaming like he was physically being dragged to hell.

'Donghyuck is... partially right. I dreamt Johnny was kept as a pet... by a human. I saw that human somewhere else, I think he worked in the police station when I went to report-'

'You what?' Taeyong started to get impatient as Mark had stopped mid sentence.

'I reported Johnny was missing...'

'Pffft... As if the police will do something about it. What are you, 3? Do you, for real, still trust the police? Come on, Mark. You know you can give them a bunch of bills and they'll let you commit genocide.' Donghyuck laughed at Mark.

'Why are you so-'

'So what?'

'Ugh. Nevermind. You're always behaving like a fucking child. I can't with you.' Mark left the room and slammed the door shut, making Jungwoo flinch and Taeyong sigh. Donghyuck, however, remained still as his fist clenched tightly.

Chittaphon showed up in the living room where Yukhei, Yangyang and Chenle were having breakfast.

'Guys, I checked the local and you did a pretty good job. Now you just have to arrange the furniture and put the perfumes Sicheng, Kunhang and Dejun have made on the shelves.'

The three guys nodded and headed to the local as soon as they finished their breakfast.

Yukhei was carrying the cabinets and the wood planks that would work as shelves and started placing them where Yangyang told him. Chenle had gone to the labs to get the boxes with perfumes.

Once Chenle arrived with the first boxes, Yangyang opened them and placed the perfume bottles carefully on the shelves and cabinets.

'I don't really like making perfumes, to he honest.'

'Me neither.'

Kunhang and Dejun were complaining about their job. They didn't like the idea of having to make perfumes from time to time to sell in that shop one bit.

Sicheng arrived a few minutes later, after finishing up his last perfume and bottling it. Sicheng was, by far, the one who'd made the most perfumes. He didn't waste time on complaining like the other two and he actually enjoyed it, chemistry was his speciality, in the end.

'Kunhang, why do you smell so strongly of... flowers and tropical fruit?' Sicheng asked as he covered his nose. The smell was practically making him dizzy.

'He wanted to smell nice so he spilled the essential oils all over himself.' Dejun joked as he ruffled Kunhang's hair.

'hEy it was an accident!'

'Yeah I know, I'm actually surprised you didn't break any perfume bottles. You're dangerous when you have something made of glass within a two meter radius.'

'And I'll be even more dangerous if you don't shut up!' Kunhang jokingly said as he grabbed Dejun's collar and pulled him closer. However, he didn't calculate the strength he needed to pull Dejun properly and he ended up pulling too hard, making Dejun lose his balance. Dejun tripped, he put his hand on Kunhang's chest for support and landed on him instead, making the taller fall backwards. The result: Kunhang landed on his butt and Dejun on him, their faces awfully close.

'Just get married already, you two.' Sicheng muffled his laughter as he saw the two's widened eyes and red faces as they realised in which position they ended up.