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I have no idea how I got here.
Youra's sighing for the fifteenth time with her fingers wrapped tightly around her gun, the same one that I was rubbing mindlessly.
Even though she'd given me one too, she should've known I'd never really use it for real.
"Look, Youra." I call, trying to lighten the heavy silence as I hold up one of the hundred candles she'd lit. When I puff my cheeks, she chews on her bottom lip.
"Unnie, this is serious." She mumbles, eyes flickering back and forth anxiously to the door in the windowless room. "Do you think they're going to come soon?"
"It's going to be fine." I say reassuringly, because I've never seen Youra looking so stressed in all my life. "Don't worry about it— I bet nothing's going to happen."
"But what if something does?" She exclaims, not refusing to set the gun down. "Did I lock the door?"
"You've checked for five times in the last ten minutes already." I say soothingly at her anxious glances. "It's locked. For sure."
As far as what Taehyung had furiously warned me before he'd become all cold and distant, the Hour started from midnight and lasted an hour until one o'clock.
12:11.
I'm sitting cross-legged on the bed, with Youra pacing the front of the door and giving me serious anxiety. My eyes blink slowly when five more minutes go by with silence.
My anemia was acting up again, wasn't it?
Fatigue loosens my alertness, and when eight more long minutes pass by without any signs of certain vampires, I carefully lie down on the bed.
I can feel her stare, which makes me smile.
"It's your anemia, isn't it?" She says, and I can hear the faint tapping of her foot as I blink my eyes open and close. "Go to sleep, unnie. When you wake up, I promise everything will be fine."
"Make sure you're fine too." I mumble as I finally relax my eyes to the gentle pulling of my fatigue, fingers tightening around the corners of the blankets.
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I wake up to a startled gasp.
My head feels cloudy and my lips feel heavy, like I've slept for more than I should've. But when I look at the clock, only twenty minutes has passed.
And a pair of bright storm-gray eyes blink at me, clutching my wide-eyed sister to his chest. Before I can even say a word, Jimin gives me a crooked grin. And then he disappears.
Taking my sister with him.
Before I can even get over the fact that we'd completely forgotten that vampires could teleport and we'd been fussing over a simple locked door, something rushes behind me.
