cursed by you┊. ➶ ˚lee felix

ten

Ara couldn't stop crying. 

She didn't care whether she died now, because she had a feeling that was how she would end up.

She watched Jungwon drop her phone and step on it, cracking the screen. 

She cried even harder, because now her brother couldn't find her, or her parents. 

She was lost unless Felix came. 

He would come, right?

He did. Quite fast, actually.

Felix came in two minutes. 

"Ara!" He ran in as two of the guys grabbed his arm, "what the hell do you think you're doing!?" He jerked his arms out of their grip and ran towards Ara. 

Jungwon held up his hand, and suddenly Felix was frozen.

Magic?

Jungwon walked over to Felix and smiled, taking out the little red vial from his pocket.

"Thanks, you made my job a lot easier," he smiled, opening the red vial. 

Felix unfroze, and fell to the floor clutching his chest in pain. 

"What do you want with her?" Felix asked Sunghoon. 

He gave the knife to Jungwon, ignoring him.

Jungwon pulled out some kind of stone, placed it on the floor then cut his palm.

 He poured the red liquid onto the cut, mixing his blood with it and letting it drip onto the strange stone.

Ara watched as the stone glowed, and she saw the others shuffle in closer.

"It doesn't matter what I want with her," Jungwon finally answered Felix, "this was your plan, after all."

Ara glared at Felix, looking at him with betrayal. "Is that true? Say it isn't true!" She pleaded, wishing he'd say something. 

But the stone finished doing whatever it was doing, then let out a burst of light. 

For a second, everything stopped- the rain, her vision, and the pain on her cheek.

And suddenly, she wasn't in the old garage anymore. 

Ara blinked, staring up at the unfamiliar blue sky. 

She was sitting on the floor with her hands tied behind her back, and she was on some kind of stage. 

There were other people next to her, lined up on the stage.

 In front of them was a crowd, and she realised she was at some kind of marketplace. 

She had to be in Seoul somehow, because everyone looked Korean.

He wasn't kidding when he said he sold humans, she thought, noticing Enhypen were standing behind them asking the crowd to quiet down. 

"Good day to you, my fellow buyers," Jungwon said, tapping on the microphone, "the auction will begin shortly."

What the hell? They were putting her up for auction? 

And where was Felix? 

He was here a second ago. 

Did she really teleport? 

To where, then? 

Did Felix not teleport with them?

Did he really... set this up? 

Ara glanced at the people next to her. 

She was at the very left of the stage, and next to her were about twelve other girls and boys.

They all looked about her age. 

She looked back at the crowd. 

They were all vampires. 

I shouldn't be worrying about Felix right now, shit. I'm about to be sold to a vampire. How did this happen!?

Ara noticed that every one of the people next to her had a number on them. Ara looked down at her number. 

She was number 12, the very end of the line. 

Jungwon started calling out numbers, and the crowd erupted as they placed their bids. 

She watched as the buyer for each one of the captives placed a bag of gold coins into Enhypen's hands (she guessed that was the currency, since no one was calling it 'won').  

Then one of them would sedate the person, throw them into a sack and put them in the buyer's car.

Like they were groceries. 

Half the people on the stage were gone. 

Ara's turn was nearing fast.

She'd lost the will to escape, however because it seemed impossible, with Enhypen watching them like eagles. 

Let's just hope my buyer has mercy on me.

It was Ara's turn now.

"Number 12!" Jungwon called, "starting at 10 gold coins!" 

The crowd screamed, waving their riches in the air.

"20 gold coins!"

"25!"

"30!"

Ara rolled her eyes.

 She'd never thought being wanted would feel this terrible. 

The crowd was raising the price higher and higher, then suddenly someone came in and silenced them.

"500 gold coins."

Everybody's mouths dropped open. Ara guessed that was a big price, because the crowd started murmuring.

Her eyes drifted towards the person who had named the price. He was otherworldly handsome, with black hair and dark brown eyes. 

For a second she thought it was the crown Prince before someone else said otherwise.

"That's the crown prince's assistant!" they said as he walked through the crowd. 

No one else named a price, so Jungwon announced number 12 as "SOLD," and walked over to Ara. 

She saw the man hand over five bags of gold which she guessed had a hundred coins each. 

"Buying for the crown prince, sir?" Sunghoon asked the man. He nodded, then walked over to Ara.

She felt the needle poke her skin and the sedative enter her system, as the man knelt down and looked at her eyes that were losing consciousness.

"Sleep well, child. Your life will be hell from the moment you wake up."