Vampire's Bride

Chapter One

It was strange, how the most defining parts of our lives didn't feel as important when we were about to experience them.

I could name many moments like that from various parts of my life. But the three most important ones were as followed:

The day I nearly died.

I was seven years old, onboard a boat with my friend and his father. The sea was rough, high waves crashing against us. They both said it was safe, and encouraged me to continue staying out on deck. I did, until the tallest wave yet hit and sent me flying over the railing.

With a splash, I landed in the churning waters. Although I struggled and fought, I felt like I was only being dragged further down into the depths.

That was, until I made myself go limp, and slowly but surely drifted to the top of the waves where I remained unmoving. It was scary, knowing one wrong move could kill me. But my friend got me back into the boat eventually, and I lived.

My first kiss.

It was my eight birthday, and I'd just learned about kissing. I thought that if you kissed someone, it meant true love forever. Since my parents had just gotten a divorce and never kissed, I was especially susceptible to anything remotely related to romance.

I quickly got my best friend -the boat boy-, and proposed it. We kissed -quite awkwardly- for about a minute, but when I didn't feel any different and needed to breathe, I pulled away.

What did it teach me? True love was not and would never be real. But Hoseok was a pretty good friend that day.

The day I fell in love with him.

It was the last year of high school. As it was my last first day, I decided to take a chance at making a couple of new friends. Hoseok agreed to my plan, and quickly headed off to make friends of his own.

While he immediately clicked with a group of about four or five relatively popular boys, I sat down next to the person that would end up stealing my heart completely. I don't know why I was so attracted to him immediately, or why I found him so interesting, but I did. I sat down next to him, and asked him who he was.

Then he just had to give me the most beautiful smile I had ever seen in my life, and introduced himself. I stuttered some incoherent crap about my first name and and left, splashing my face with cold water in the girls bathroom. I knew he had been confused about me since then, but after that day, I vowed to never again speak with that person.

That was also my biggest secret.

I was attracted to the biggest player in school; Park Jimin.

I didn't remember when I learned about his ability to make girls fall for him at the drop of a hat. When I did, though, it was too embarrassing to tell anyone, even Hoseok. If he knew how quickly I'd fallen in love with him, I knew he would laugh at me.

Hoseok ended up becoming one of those popular boys, and from that moment on, our friendship turned into more of a charity than anything else. We both knew he was too popular for someone like me, and after the Jimin-incident, I didn't dare talk to anybody els. and. Hoseok tried his best to still be my friend, but his new friends were his biggest priority.

Not only had Jimin stolen my heart; he and his friends had also stolen my best friend. Was I jealous? Maybe a little bit. Was I upset? Perhaps. Was I heartbroken about it? Of course I was. The only consistent person in my life wasn't there anymore.

I was alone for the first time in years.

It had been around two months since my first encounter with Park Jimin, and I felt lonelier than ever. Hoseok had been sick for two weeks and had only been back for a couple of days. The fact that he didn't even look at me made my chest ache with longing for the time before our final year.