V FOR VAMPIRE // jenlisa

Chapter 12

L.

"Why does she smell like..." Rosé starts, her nostrils flaring to my direction. Her eyes widen a little as she looks at Kai. "Kai, tell me I'm not the only one who thinks her scent is-"

Kai cuts her off, his tone sounding anxious, "It is. That's why I have been pushing since day one for her to meet us. I'm glad I'm not wrong about it. But also a little fearful." He looks at me with doubt clouding his cool blue eyes.

I narrow my eyes at them, confused.

"What about my scent?" I ask.

No one answers. Rather, Seulgi speaks up, "The Blacks have the same agenda as you did when you joined this school."

My body tenses as I stare at her, her hard eyes hinting towards knowing my secret. I clench my fists in the rage bubbling inside me as I realize she was snooping into my mind. Irene gasps as Wendy's eyes widen dramatically. Taehyung, Rosé and Kai adopt a defensive stance as they huddle against each other. Jisoo and Jennie just stare at me, confused.

"I was, yes. I am sorry about that but I had to. When Kai picked up on your scent that matches ours, and we had to make sure you weren't one of the Blacks. The first time we met, when I sat beside you, I was terrified because I thought you were one of them when I knew your agenda but then, I read more into you and it wasn't exactly a vicious intention solely, I realized." Seulgi says as I furrow my eyebrows, my anger flaring at how she's beating around the bush. Irene's stiff stance relaxes as I grow more confused.

"Can you not beat around the fucking bush and get to the point?" I say hardly and Irene places her hand on Seulgi's arm.

"You arrived here with the motive of feeding off humans, the main source, as we vampires call it..." Jennie's head snaps to me at Irene's words and she stares at me questioningly as I lower my gaze in guilt. "That is what the Blacks do. They slaughter humans, just as Namjoon, one of the Blacks that has attempted to feed on Jennie." My cold blood boils at the remembrance of the incident. "He is evil. Lisa, you are not. You had been driven by rage, by disturbing feelings of vengeance. I understand you did not want to be turned, and as form of control over a fate that has betrayed you, you tried to make yourself feel better by having the upper hand. You thought the upper hand would be accepting fate and making something you desire out of it. 'Fine, the world will face my wrath now', is what you dictated to yourself before moving into this town, having chosen it to be the disposal of your revenge." Irene finishes as my body slacks.

Fuck, I hate hearing this. It's like a mirror reflecting a distorted image of me back at me. A distinct feeling of despair settles in as I try to fight it, determined to not go back to my earlier days of being a vampire.

"Who turned you, Lisa?" Wendy asks, as I look around, everyone's expressions tight as they process everything. I must look pathetic.

"A girl at the foster home I was at. Somi." I say shortly as I hear a hiss produced by Rosé.

"I fucking hate that bitch." Jisoo spits angrily as Rosé shakes her head, her face twisted in anger as well.

"So we were right. Lisa is one of us." Kai says, his and Rosé's expressions relaxing.

"What do you mean one of us?" I ask, pretty sure that he's not talking about me being a vampire because that's been established long ago.

"The Blacks are another branch of our family, as we are Pinks. Jeon Somi, the vampire that turned you is part of the Blacks. A parasite. She feeds but her sadistic tendencies, courtesy of the Blacks, makes it that she makes sure to turn every human she sinks her teeth in. The bad guys, so to speak." Taehyung says, an undertone of anger coating his otherwise flat voice.

My eyes widen.

"Does that mean I'm...what..."

"Yes. You're part of the family now. Black or Pink, your decision, but you're still family." Seulgi says.

The disclosure of the truth settles in pretty fast. I realize I had recognized them before when I met the group in the hallway the first time. Electricity, a weird way to realize you're part of the same family.

"Pink." I say with a shrug. "I almost died, although technically not possible without something going through my heart, when Namjoon attacked Jennie. I felt so guilty and just...sick."

Jennie's hand squeezes my arm lightly as I look into her eyes, the emerald globes shining with gratitude. I smile a small smile at her, my guilt somehow dissipating.

"Good choice, sister. At least we have a common enemy now, aye." Jisoo says and pats my shoulder as I tilt my head, silently asking for an explanation. "The bitch turned her too." Rosé bites out from behind the jolly vampire as I widen my eyes.

I look at Jisoo with new-found admiration.

"Don't look at me like that, ew." She says and pretends to gag as I shake my head and shrug in disbelief.

Wow, I'd like for someone to look at me like that if I were Jisoo.

"Well, we all admire you very much at the moment. You have decided to overcome your feelings of revenge and come out as a greater person despite your terrible experience. That is utterly admirable." Seulgi says as I raise my eyebrows at her. "That's what Irene's saying. I don't talk like that anymore." Seulgi says with a smirk as I let out a chuckle and nod towards Irene who smiles at me but also hits Seulgi's arm playfully. 

"So now what do we-" I stop as my body jolts.

Everyone grows dead quiet as the air shifts.