Cursed

Ch. 12

I felt something shift in my bed, and I was suddenly alert. Then something wrapped around my waist. Hesitant, I opened my eyes, for once thankful that I didn't wake up in the morning anymore. Otherwise, my headache would instantly become ten times worse.

I slowly moved my hands to the thing around my waist, and I trailed my fingers over it. It was an arm? Who else was in my bed!

I lifted up the arm, and slid off the bed, barely able to find my way to the bathroom in the darkness. I quickly closed the door and locked it, then flicked on the light, holding a hand over my eyes for a few seconds, then let them adjust slowly, not wanting to make my headache any worse than it already was.

The second I looked in the mirror, I felt like screaming bloody murder, because that is what I looked like. Blood covered the side of my neck, and it had trailed down my arm and shoulder, and the dress was stained red. As I continued to stare at the blood, I noticed that there was a difference in one of the marks on my collar bone.

Luhan's symbol was still black, and Suho's was the blue it always has been. But it was Taos that was different. Instead of the cool black it was the night before, it was a bright red violet, just like Tao's eyes when he smelled blood. Did Tao...feed off of me? How come I couldn't remember clearly?

I shook my head. I should take things one step at a time. First, I had to wash off all this blood. Now that I was more awake and focused, I could see that it was in my hair and all over the side of my face as well. I was thankful that Natasha had managed to teach me how to heal wounds, or else I was certain I would rip open the punctures.

I held my hand to my neck, but didn't touch the wounds, and focused on them. I imagined them closing up, as if I was never bitten. It took a while, since I was still a beginner, but I managed to heal myself up nicely. All that was left were two shiny dots, scars. I wasn't as good as Natasha or Lay, but I felt accomplished.

Now that I was healed up, I quickly turned on the shower and undressed, and proceeded to scrub all the dried blood off of me, also washing off the make up in the process. Once I finished with that, I turned off the water and grabbed a towel from the shelf next to the door. It took me until I finished drying myself off to realize that I didn't have any clothes to change into. Great...

I unlocked the door, and cracked it open slowly, peeking out into my room. From the bathroom door, with the help of the bathroom light that smiled across the room, I could barely see Tao passed out on my bed. Hopefully he still is a deep sleeper when he is drunk.

After building up enough courage to leave the bathroom, I quickly gathered up my clothes. I then ran back into the bathroom and got dressed, putting on a pair of shorts and a cute turtle neck. I have worn it before, so hopefully no one will suspect anything. Once I finished with getting dressed, I contemplated what to do with the blood covered dress.

Eventually, I had decided to hide the dress. After making sure Tao was still asleep, I exited the bathroom and quickly shoved the dress under my bed. I had to wait until no one was around to wash it, since the others were probably just waking up. I then got up off of the floor, only to come face to face with Tao, who looked at me with scared eyes.

"Last night..." He began, and I felt my face grow hot. I turned and walked over to my dresser, grabbing my hairbrush, and began to brush out my damp hair. I didn't want to think about what happened. Unfortunately, my mind had other plans , and all I could think about was the two of us kissing. "Do you remember what happened?" He asked. After a few seconds, I nodded, and he sighed. "I'm so sorry." Was all he could say, and it was barely even a whisper.

"Don't worry about it." I said, still blushing, and finished brushing my hair. After a few more seconds, I turned back to face him. He just looked at me. After who knows how long of a silence, he climbed off of my bed and walked over to me.