The boys one shots

5. Josh x Juicy 🧛 Part 2

Josh's POV

I ran.

I ran and I kept running.

I ran until I knew I'd lost him, because I saw him stand up and chase me from the corner or my eye before I turned out of the alley.

I could still hear him calling my name, it sounded like he was far away, but I didn't want to risk it, so I continued to run until his shouts were out of earshot.
I couldn't let him find me, for his sake.

Being a vampire was just an inconvenience, it was nothing like the movies.

No shapeshifting into a bat, no super speed or super strength, no super hearing or sight, nothing cool like that, plus I'm not allergic to sunlight. I was already pale to begin with, so not even that changed.
The only difference from before was that now I'm stuck looking and feeling the same age forever, I drank blood and couldn't eat food. If you're asking me, I see no pros on the pro's and con's list- other than the super fast body regeneration thing. -seriously, that's pretty cool- I can pull all nighters all the time because my body just heals the damage not sleeping does to my body before it affects me.

I called a cab once I was confident that Juicy wouldn't catch up to me, and I gave him the address to my house and scrolled aimlessly on the weather app on my phone so I looked busy.

He got to my house, I paid him and got out of the car, walking inside and flopping onto my bed once I made it into my bedroom.

I passed out before I even took my shoes off.

I had a dream, where I was holding his hand, he smiled at me, and I smiled at him.

Suddenly his smile vanished, and he looked at me again, tears in his eyes.

"Maybe this would work if things were different Josh." He mumbled, and I swear to god, if you could die from a broken heart in your dreams, then that's how I would have gone out. Right there. Right then.

Unfortunately that heartbreak I felt in my dream stayed with me for a long time. Days went by, then weeks, a month had passed and the pain in my heart made me bitter and distant. I stopped taking care of myself, and a week after that, I broke the precious rule I made myself two years ago.

Never be that desperate for blood again.

That was one of two easy rules to follow, and I had broken one of them.

I was walking down the street, it was late and I didn't want to go home. Not until I found good blood, I was desperate again. I smelled it. Blood that had a familiar smell to it, but I wasn't sure why.

"Yeah fuck you too I quit. Your bar's a shit show anyway!" I heard someone yell, slamming the fire exit door with a loud bang.

The boy who was yelling turned around to face me, and by the looks of it, I startled him pretty bad. It took me a minute to realize something about this boy, I knew him.

"Josh?" He gasped, hugging me.

"Hey Juicy." I mumbled, hugging him back quickly before pulling him off me so I could look at his face.

"What happened?" I asked, looking at his bloody lip.

"Some drunk prick didn't like my song so he started a fight. Boss told me there'd be security but he was lying so I fucking quit. That prick is always lying, this was the last straw though." Juicy muttered, visibly upset.

I looked at the blood, suddenly remembering how hungry I was, and my hunger made me remember how badly I wanted this boy.

"Shit, I need to leave." I said, looking at my wrist as if there was actually a watch there.

I turned around to run, but he grabbed my arm, pulling me towards him. Our faces were close together, and there was something about his eyes that made me feel something I had never felt.

Love.

I leaned forward slightly, he leaned forward before I could pull back once I realized what I was doing. Our lips connected and formed a gentle kiss, and I pulled away only slightly to lick the blood from the corner of his mouth, and he gave me a strange yet very attractive look. He held steady eye contact with me as he bit down hard on his lip, making it bleed again. I licked his lips playfully and he smiled through the kiss, but I frowned when I heard a wince when he tried to bite his lip again.

"Stop hurting yourself for me." I mumbled, pulling away and rubbing his lip gently with my finger, and he laughed.

"I'm fine don't worry." He smiled, but his smile quickly faded. and I flinched at the sudden mood change.

"What brought you back here? I thought I was never going to see you again." He said. He sounded upset that I left in the first place, and it probably didn't help that I had been gone for so long.

"Blood." I said simply, and Juicy let out a quiet 'oh' as if he was expecting me to say that I came back for him.

"Listen, I'm sorry I ran off that time. I was scared that I was going to turn you and you'd regret it. Being immortal fucking sucks, I don't want to do that to you." I explained after a deep sigh and a few silent seconds that gave me plenty of thinking space.

"It only sucks because you're living your life alone. Being mortal is just as shitty as being immortal when you're alone, so think about how I feel for once!" Juicy yelled, slamming his fist into my chest.

He was crying, and it broke my heart to know that I had been the cause.

"I'm sorry for being selfish." I said sincerely, but he still looked equally upset as before.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked, and he looked at me, confused.

I opened my mouth and sharpened my teeth on command, and he nodded, smiling.

"I'm sure Josh. I love you." He said, and with those words, my heart skipped a beat and I leaned onto him and tucked my head so it was resting on his shoulder, and I bit down.

It took a week for him to get used to being a vampire, and he was disappointed that we didn't have any powers other than healing fast, but the more I spent time with him, the more I realized, it wasn't the immortality that made my life so dull, it was the loneliness.
Once the loneliness was gone, I could truly feel like myself again. The old me of course.

The me that I missed so dearly was back, I felt just as happy as I was two years ago.

I celebrated my birthday for the first time in three years, and we've been celebrating every birthday ever since.