Immortal Bites (Vampire Love Story) [Ongoing]

Chapter 8

[ Beneath the Surface]

Constantly throwing a bothered look on the chicken. She nibbled the strap of her watch hidden on her lab gown's spacious pocket.

The last group, led by Kiel, excelled in the process. Kiel took charge of opening the chicken's body, carefully displacing the guts into a clean container.

"Miss Zero, ikaw naman sa pagbubukas," Jeremy urged Zero.

"Don't tell me you're afraid of chickens," he added, glancing back and forth between Zero and the chicken.

Zero snapped back to her senses, staring at the lifeless chicken laying on the white chopping board, she's left with no choice. Thoughts came racing inside her head about what might happen next after opening the body of the chicken. While everyone was preoccupied by the activity, Zero in her messy hair bun placed her hand atop of the chicken's breast, trying hard to hide the shaking inside her.

Pursing her lip, she slid the metal on the animal's flesh. After a minute, time froze for Zero. She unconsciously opened her mouth a little as her eyes took in a growing little puddle of crimson blood. Her hands trembled and relinquished their tight clutch on the scalpel. All Zero saw was red: her own blood mixed with the dripping blood of the chicken.

Kiel found himself standing in front of the girl in plain white shirt tucked in a tattered jeans and a brown slightly elevated low-cut boots, holding her on her waist and shoulder.

"Hey, Zero.....Elysh--a, talk to me," he shook her in an attempt to bring Zero back to her senses.

"I'm sorry, Kiel. My vision was really blurry while cutting in the chicken. Plus, the fact that my whole system was shaking,.... haha" she replied, trying to sound nonchalant.

"It would just be easy to refuse, Zero," he said holding her tight. If he let her loose even just for a few seconds, she will collapse on the floor like an unfirm lego.

"Or you would've asked for my h-" he was interrupted when she steadied herself and looked straight to the worried eyes of the young man.

"Yes, it's easy to refuse, it's easy to just let the activity slip away. But I won't, I want to prove something, I wanted to prove something to myself, that I'm not scared anymore in this stupid simple thing" her eyes started to glitter with tears.

"Kiel, I-I'm sorry. I d-don't really know," the vice president of the class stated in his shaky voice, his hands were literally trembling, but he was shocked on the next thing that happened.

"No... I'm sorry about my attitude earlier, for acting mean" Kiel touched his hand with a sincere look in his eyes, Jeremy trembled a little more not because of fear but of disbelief. He locked his gaze on his clasped hands even after Kiel left with Zero.

Meanwhile, the tap water gushed out of the lab faucet, tardily dyed in red. Zero tried to clean her deeply cut wound, Kiel intensely watching her while keeping his grip.

Trembling. Sweats started to form on her forehead and to her button nose tip.

"Give me your hand" Kiel said with a serious face. In his mind, he muttered, "Why can't this woman listen to me?" She's under oblivion, but the touch of Kiel's warm hand took her to comfort. Blood still dripped, the woman's unstable gaze roamed around the room, desperately wanting to find a silhouette of someone, a part of her hoped that Harries will come along but that didn't happen. However, she caught the man's shadow walk out after laying a glance at her, his hands desperately covering his nose. And his eyes? They were fierce. The same reaction was displayed by Yvonne, who, in an instant followed Harries Dane.