The Staggering Fall of Youth (sequel to SBA)

10 - Meaningful Conversations

"So, I think I got a lead on Zitao," Luhan told Yifan later in the evening, the two of them standing in the hallway. "Back in the stronghold in Taiwan, Mark Tuan says that they sense a new intense feeling of magic and they have reasons to suspect it might be him."

Yifan leaned against the wall behind him, sighing. "I just want to give rid of this motherfucker and just be done with it," he muttered, running his hand through his hair. "I'm so tired all the damn time."

Luhan rolled his eyes. Yifan was always talking about being tired and complaining he was going to die a premature death despite being immortal and not aging. "It's just something we have to do, you know," he reminded him. "Or else he's just going to be threatening everyone here."

"Pfft, tell that to Sehun," Yifan mumbled. "Like he wasn't trying to kill Zitao when they first met in the first place."

"Zitao was a nice person back then," Luhan said.

He remembers how when Zitao and Sehun first became known to the group of them. Zitao always talked about his young werewolf friend, a guy named Minseok, but Luhan never met him personally until a few years ago when he accidentally tried to kill him, thinking he was trespassing. Not the best way to meet your imprinted soulmate, but...

Honestly, he thought it was so weird. Technically, he's imprinted twice before, and aren't you only supposed to imprint once? The second time he didn't give it much thought, not knowing he imprinted the first time, but now that he knew, it was very weird.

Yifan shrugged. "Back then being the key word, Luhan. You know people and relationships change over time."

Luhan wanted to be offended, thinking that Yifan was talking about him and Minseok, but then he remembered how in the past few days, Yifan had not mentioned anything about Junmyeon.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he decided to say, not wanting to pick a fight with Yifan. "What are you implying?"

"Nothing in particular, just in general," Yifan explained, cracking his fingers. "So who are we picking to go to Taiwan, you want to go?"

Luhan shrugged. "Yeah, I'll go I guess, been in the mood for some Taiwanese food lately."

"You're just gonna end up eating ramen like Jonghyun and Wonho," Yifan pointed out.

"Don't attack me, vampire."

***

Minseok tried the best he could to try to find some research on Junmyeon and angels in general, but there just wasn't much known about demi angels.

He felt bad for discouraging Junmyeon though. He knew that ever since the latter had found out his true origin that he had been curious for a lot of stuff, and unfortunately, Minseok just hasn't been alive that long compared to other immortals here. He hasn't even had that much experience to other paranormals if he was honest; he lived for twenty years a normal teen life with his mom.

Minseok then had gotten turned, and then for a few months with Zitao and his mother until she passed away. Not long after, Zitao had died too, and then Hamyeon, Junmyeon's mother, died and Minseok followed to where Junmyeon's grandparents lived to be nearby in case something happened to him. And all of this occurred in a span of two years.

Yeah, Minseok has not had time to learn about this type of world.

Most of what he knew had been from teachers from Zitao or when he met Luhan, Yifan and Chanyeol in that bunker of theirs. Anything else had been whenever he had run ins with other individuals while he watched Junmyeon from afar, and those had not been pleasant ones at all.