Volevo Un Gatto Nero ➳ Taegyu ✔

11. Strange Little Human

"What if the others are looking for me?" Beomgyu asked, laying under Taehyun's blankets as the vampire sat at his computer doing something.

"I told them I have you. But my phone's off right now because I do not want to get chewed out by everybody." He was wearing the glasses again, and Beomgyu smiled a bit, thinking it was adorable. "Go to sleep human. It's like..." he looked at the time on his computer. "2 a.m."

"Aren't you going to sleep too?"

Taehyun turned to look at him and shook his head. "Vampires don't sleep."

Hearing him openly admit that he was a vampire was strange. He was so secretive about it before, but now that Beomgyu knew, it was different, and it was strange.

He did end up falling asleep though, listening to the soft tapping on Taehyun's keyboard, but it only took a little while for something else to disturb him again.

"Taehyun, we can't have him here anymore," a female voice said, walking over to him. "It's too dangerous for all of us. You know that."

"It's my fault he's hurt Minjeong. He wouldn't have gone to that party if I was here."

"Where were you?"

"Dealing with my own shit."

"You never really need to take time away. What's been going on?" He shook his head and focused on his screen again, leading to her looking at Beomgyu who was still supposedly asleep. "It's because of him, isn't it? What did he say to you?"

"Minjeong..."

"What did he do?"

"He just... made me think about my past."

"When you were human?" Taehyun nodded and she sighed. "I could never know what you had to go through hundreds of years ago. You grew up in such a horrible world. But you're older now. Way older. Everything's fine now."

Taehyun shrugged, but thanked her nonetheless. She was from the 1900's, as most of them were, and he was born in 1502, and bit in 1521. So when people said he was old, they truly meant it.

Minjeong soon left and Taehyun saw through the reflection on his computer that Beomgyu was sitting up staring at him. "What is it?" Beomgyu gasped and laid back down under the blanket, making Taehyun turn to face him. "What's on your mind Gyu?"

Gyu?

Oh shit.

"N-nothing. Just sleep. Sleep is on my mind," he nervously laughed, closing in on himself when he heard Taehyun stand up.

"Good. Go to sleep," he said like he was genuinely tired of Beomgyu's shit, and the human giggled.

He walked by the bed to turn the lamp off and Beomgyu looked up at him with big brown eyes, smiling when he saw Taehyun's red ones. They weren't scary. They were really beautiful actually.

"You should go on a date with me," Beomgyu said, not knowing where he got the sudden confidence from, and Taehyun's eyes widened.

"That's the fever talking." Beomgyu shook his head. "Okay..." Taehyun sat on the edge of the bed, resting his hand on the other side of Beomgyu. "Why do you want me to?"

Beomgyu shrugged. "You seem to like me or something."

"That's very bold of you to assume." Beomgyu giggled. "Yes, I am fond of you. You're not terrified of me, which is something. But even if I was in love with you, I wouldn't act on it. Imagine how upset you'll be when you're old and I'm still in the body of a nineteen year old."

Beomgyu's smile fell and he looked away from him for a second. "What does it take for you guys to turn someone into a vampire?"

Taehyun shook his head. "We're not having this conversation."

"Wait." Beomgyu grabbed his wrist before he could get up. "Would Seonghwa be able to do it?"

"He's not gonna do it unless you're on your death bed." Beomgyu sighed and went back under the blanket, making Taehyun laugh a little bit before going back to his desk. "Good night you strange little human."