Blood Tie

Chapter 12

Rox's POV

"Uh Rox, not that I'm not flattered at the fact that you can't peel your eyes off of me but um, your eyes are glowing red right now and your fangs just popped out."

My eyes got wider at his statement and I rushed into the bathroom he had recently vacated, praying that he was just messing with me. I peered into the mirror and felt my face grow hotter than it already was. Looking back at me was me but this version of me clearly wasn't in full control. My eyes were wide and blood red and I could see my fangs poking out of my mouth. My lip looked raw as if I had been biting on it. Jungkook quietly walked into the bathroom and upon noticing his presence, my hands flew to cover my mouth and I shut my eyes quickly, remembering the frightened look he gave me the last time he saw me like this. The picture of him standing behind me in my reflection in nothing but a towel burned in my mind as I tried to focus on anything else. I jumped unexpectedly when I felt warm hands settle on my shoulders and slowly turn me around.

"Open your eyes Rox." Jungkook spoke quiet and low, making the situation seem far more intimate than it was, his voice speaking like you would whisper to a lover. I opened my eyes slowly and immediately looked down and away from him, not wanting to make him uncomfortable at the monstrous sight of me.

"Rox, look at me." I slowly raised my eyes to Jungkook, eyes brushing over his body as my gaze lifted. He still held tightly to the towel at his waist and the water had dried on his chest by now. I met his eyes and felt myself being lulled into a comfortable state as I swam in the depths of his deep brown black eyes.

Jungkook's POV

I stared at Rox with interest, gaze roaming her features, so familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time. Her long hair floated around her, almost begging me to touch it and sink my hands into it's depths. The soft black enhanced how pale she seemed, the ivory of her skin now practically glowing against her hair. Her large eyes stared at me in what appeared to be worry but quickly became replaced by peace after looking into my eyes. Her large eyes, the same as they had been this whole time, only now a glowing blood red rather than her natural blue gold color. My first time seeing her eyes red terrified me, this girl, the only one I was mildly comfortable with all of a sudden becoming a monster before my eyes, or what I thought had been a monster. Now looking at her red eyes, framed by her long, dark lashes, appeared exotic looking in the face I had grown familiar with. No longer terrifying but now making a knot twist inside me. I noticed her hands still covering her mouth and frowned to myself. I slowly reached up and took hold of both of her hands in mine, forgetting the fact that I was only covered by a towel. I lowered her hands from her face, she put up a bit of a fight but gave into my insistence in the end. She looked away from me as I inspected her features. Her fangs seemed to poke out the tiniest bit as she nibbled on her bottom lip, making me frown more as I did not enjoy the knot tightening in my chest. Her bottom lip looked raw and red from her biting it, causing it to swell just the littlest bit and making it look more full in the process. I lightly grabbed her chin between my thumb and forefinger, tilting her face up to me. Her eyes shot to me in surprise at my actions but she did not pull away. I pulled on her chin slightly, she appeared to get my hint as she parted her mouth hesitantly. She looked at me in embarrassment but seemed to understand my need to examine her vampiric features. Her eyes fluttered closed and with her mouth still parted, I gently used my thumb on my other hand to press against the tip of one of her fangs. It was sharp but not overwhelmingly so,it clearly would only draw blood with a small amount of force behind it. Her fangs did not look scary up close, much like regular human canines, just longer and sharper, not at all like the needle like teeth that are so often seen in movies. I pressed my thumb a bit harder to her fang, not fully thinking through what my actions could cause, only wrapped up in the curiosity of how much it would feel. Her eyes flew open at the extra amount of force against her fang. She quickly pulled back from me, face still in a mask of shock and disbelief. I stood frozen under her gaze as my curiosity still screamed inside me. I broke out of my frozen state and moved forward, making my ways towards her petite figure. She backed up slowly until she could go no further, hitting the vanity and stopping her from moving further away from me. I don't know what had taken over me but it's as if my body yearned to be close to hers and was being pulled against my will to do so. I tried to fight against my actions but I could not move myself away from her. At this point I stood directly in front of her, towering over her slightly as she was so small compared to me. I leaned forward and put an arm on either side of her, bracing myself against the counter and effectively trapping her in the process.

"Um Jungkook, w-what are you doing?" She stuttered cutely and her red eyes seemed to glow brighter at my closeness to her. I tilted my head in curiosity at her eyes glowing and realized in a dazed way that I may be in over my head, acting this way while she was in this state. I was just trying to understand her vampire side, right? That's why I was acting this way, because I wanted tot understand, that had to be it, what other reason could there be?

Just as I was about to answer her, explaining that I was trying, no needing to understand her, the door to the bathroom flew open.

There stood Kai, with her mouth hanging open unattractively at me, appearing to have her friend pinned against the vanity. Though that isn't all that happened, that isn't the reason I had basically signed my own death certificate. In me being wrapped up at poking around at Rox's vampiric state, I had forgotten that I was wearing only a towel around my hips. A towel that had become loose as I had been moving around. A towel that now dropped to the floor from the force of the wind from the door opening. I now stood naked in front of one girl who wanted to murder me and the other who stood trapped between the vanity and my now naked body.

Oh that was cringey to write haha