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first friend | 8

everything was a blur..

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"I think this place is gonna be my favorite place by now" He drank his water, more like the blood he put in his water bottle

"why?" I stared, he looked at me and say "I don't know, I mean you're basically my first friend"

I gave him the confusion look. "Look, I've never had friends. They make fun of the white shades of my hair, an also my fangs. And one day they saw this mark on my hand, and made fun of it, they even told the teacher that I tattooed myself illegally, and with that, they dropped me out of the school.."

He said in a low voice and rolled his uniform sleeves, showing his mark on the right arm. It does looks like a tattoo, it's written "Pure" there, "What does this means tho" I said as I brushed my thumb over it softly 

"It's to signify that I was born as a vampire" I nodded my head, "if someday, I become one of you guys, what will be written on my arm?" I asked

"half-blood" my eyes widened, for god's sake that's so cool. 

"but how do you actually make a human a vampire?" curiosity dominates my mind. 

"either bite and let our poison flow in your blood, or marry them"

My jaw dropped, "so that means, all the humans who has been bitten by a vampire, is a vampire?" he disagreed, "no, biting incase of sucking their bloods, and biting incase to flow the poison, has a different way. but there are so many cases that includes accidents bcs of their cravings for blood, they accidentally let go of their poison and made that innocent human a vampire"

"wow.. so it works that way.." I mumbled to myself when I realized he started to taking off his tie and suit, he opened the 2 upper buttons of his shirt and showed me his second mark on his collar bone

"Second Prince of The White" it looks like a tattoo with a gradation of blue and white ink

"I know what this one means" I smiled widely, "but what if someone puts pressure on it? does it hurt?"

He nodded, "if that person put pressure not for the good reason, it will hurts and I will turn into my actual form. But this one has a different reaction" He said pointing at his collar bone, "If you press this, I will turn into my prince form" He said whispering

My lips formed an 'o', he chuckled, eating his cookie again. "yak, if you keeps on eating cookie, you will get fat"

"I don't care, I can just do my workout intensely for a week and I will be me again", still stuffing his mouth with cookies. 

"but, how does your prince form look like?" he smirked,

"you will see it some day"

suddenly, his phone rang, "sorry, this is a kinda private phone call, I'll be back in a second" he smiled and walked away, leaving all his things behind, I wonder what that was about, I mean, how private is it..

Jaehwa's Point Of View

why is my dad calling..

dad: "why are you not home yet?" 

J: "I'm still at the park"

dad: "who are you with?!" 

J: "I'm alone, I'll be home soon, don't worry. bye"

I said as I hung up, I looked at Hwayeong slurping her coffee, when should I tell her? I feel guilty for not telling her..

Hwayeong's Point of View

I saw Jaehwa coming back from the phone call, his lips formed a thin smile and he sat on his seat

"who was that?" I asked, "I mean, if you don't wanna tell me that's okay, since you said that it was a private call-"

"It was my dad"

I nodded, "do you have urgent things to do? do you have to go home? It's okay, I mean we can start walking now" I said as I packed my stuffs, " no, it's okay.. let's just stay here for a moment"

his voice sounded down, "are you okay?" I looked at him

He was looking down, "hey look at me, are you okay? is this related to the phone call earlier?" he looked up with tears in his eyes.

"J-jaehwa.. why are you crying??" I stood up and hugged him, "please don't cry, whatever the reason is, please don't cry.." He stood up and hugged me back without saying anything. I hugged him tightly, "please don't cry.." I said in a low voice

after a few mins, we let go of each other and I took some tissue, I wiped his tears off, "uljima", I said while smiling. "Now, smile, Mr Popular, don't be sad" I said as I pinched both of his cheeks softly

"thank you" He said, "for being my first friend.." he smiled

I ruffled his fluffy hair, "I will always be with you, don't worry" I smiled. 

he walked me home, and we said our goodbyes

Jaehwa's Point of View

we said our goodbyes and I walked home,

I arrived at my home that was just a mile away, nothing special about my house, it's just that my father stays at the castle. 

I stepped inside, it was just as quiet as it is, I envy Hwayeong for having such a lovely family, I mean, look at my house, no one has ever gotten out of their room if they feel like they doesn't have to, we have never had a family dinner or a family event.

I went straight to my room and immediately turned into my original form, it's way more comfortable this way. 

someone knocked, 100% sure it was my mom, she's kind and actually the only family member who cares about the family, I opened my door

"hi mom, whats up?" she gave me a smile and gave me some bloods stocks,

"I saw you ran out of these in your room, so I got these from the castle." she noticed my eyes and mind, "Do you have many things in mind? Take a rest, I will be in my room if you want to talk about it, okay?" I nodded, "you too, mom" she kissed me on the cheek, I smiled

she stepped out of the room, I put the bloods in my drawer. I threw myself in bed. 

"Kim...Hwayeong.. how did all these happen.." 

I closed my eyes and fell into the dream land

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uljima > don't cry in korean