tamed-dashed. - minsung

4.

minho woke up from the faint snaps of twigs and leaves a few meters away from him. he cracked his right eye open and saw jisung walking into the woods. it is still midnight, minho assumed, because the moon is still shining above them and everyone is still asleep. the campfire already died down due to the heavy breezes and all the other shifters are bundled together like a stack.

after a few minutes of jisung's disappearance into the woods, minho stood up and sniffed the air, following the faint smell of saffron quietly.

jisung's smell is a dominating saffron but with a hint of rose and jasmine, and that made it a bit more distinguishable among the other saffron fragrances.

he found himself just a few meters away from the lake and he saw jisung sitting by the lakeside. he figured that the vampire's enhanced senses are off like how it was two days ago. he couldn't understand how and why jisung's senses are a bit weird and different than the other vampires with them.

"why ... can't i die?" jisung whispered into the air but minho's ears caught it for the quietness of the place didn't give him any trouble in hearing much clearer.

"i just want to rest." minho saw jisung sighed and looked up to the moon, shining brightly above them.

"if i stab myself, you'll just heal me again and again ... but why?" then the next thing minho knew is that the vampire is sobbing.

"i can't do this anymore, i'll cause more trouble if i ... if we ... don't stop this." minho was confused if the vampire was talking to someone else or the moon.

"fuck, why are you turning much blue now?" jisung stood up and pointed at the moon and minho also shifted his gaze towards the moon and his eyes widened.

it just started getting a pale blue earlier but now it's a cute sky blue with tiny bits of neon in it. blue moon processes in three to four days, but the color that the moon shows right now should be seen at the second or third day, but it was just the first day.

meaning? the blue moon is approaching fast this time.

"fuck you, you really want to do this right now?" jisung half shouted at the moon and minho's lip corners quirked up.

he's fighting the moon, cute. the shifter thought. but why does he want to die?

"i hate this, i hate me. i hope my mate hates me too so maybe i could die and you can't do anything about it." hearing that made minho's heart to ache. he doesn't know why but those words doesn't sit well with his wolf and his heart.

"but the pull will be stronger, won't it? because of the fucking red string in me." the shifter saw how jisung stomped his feet like a kid throwing a tantrum and it's cute.

"what if i just drown myself? right here, right now? would you ... save me again? .. ah nevermind, i know you will." jisung sat down again and throw some rocks at the lake. a comfortable silence filled the void and minho noticed that the vampire had stopped crying as well.

he thought it's the right time to make his presence known, and so he carefully took his steps towards the vampire and cleared his throat. it was visible that the vampire jolted, a reaction you wouldn't get if it was a normal vampire.

"o-oh hyung, how long have you been here?" he eyed the woods and then he audibly gulped.

"just a few secs, woke up and you're not in camp, thought you ran away." minho sat down beside jisung, he didn't need to know that he was there the whole time.