Between Life & Death

13. New Moon

-Paing Pov-

I shouldn't be here.

Watching her from the woods like this before her leech comes.

I already had a mate, imprinted to Jennie, sealed by the pull. But the moment Yn came back, that bond snapped.

Quietly.

Like something ancient in me shifted. She wasn't new to me. I remembered her from Rui and Siying childhood friend.

The tribal girl with wild eyes and scraped knees who tagged along on patrol campfires.

She was eight. I was sixteen.

She was quiet, clumsy, always asking questions. Annoying as hell.

Now she's... not.

Not just older. Different. Still human, or so we think, but something in her ƒєєℓs wrong. Wιℓᴅ. Мιηє.

I keep telling myself I'm checking the woods for safety, but I always end up here. Watching her from the trees, just out of sight.

Rui doesn't know. If he did, it would кιℓℓ him. She doesn't know. If she did, it would яυιη  her.

I only come when that vampire isn't around, or hasn't arrived yet.

San-Third night.

San mutters, stepping beside me.

San-You realize how weird this looks?

Mingi joins us, silent as ever.

Min-She ƒєєℓs you.

He says.

P-She doesn't know what she ƒєєℓs.

I snap.

But I do. I feel everything. The fire. The instinct. The wrongness of wanting her.

She lifts her head looking right at the tree line. And for one breathless second, I think she sees me.

Worse...

I think she remembers me.

-Between Life & Death-

-5 Months Later-

B-Happy birthday~

I gasped my eyes snapping  open as I wake up from that nightmare.

I seen a old lady that I thought was my grandma, but really was me. I was with Roman looking all old, and wrinkled.

I sit up, the dream still weighing on me

I hear a knock on my  door and my dad enters carrying two gifts, one wrapped, one not.