Title : Bloody Strawberry
Rating : PG-13
Pairings : KyuHyuk
Genre : Romance, angst, fluff
Warning : Gender switch
Summary : Hyukjae is a vampire who hates being one and Kyuhyun is a simply genius normal guy. Fate brings them together.
CHAPTER TEN: KYUHYUN AND HYUKJAE
Hyukjae is staring blankly to her shaking hands. She is scared, panic and confused. She didn’t know what come to her earlier. Her hands are shaking violently but then Donghae holds them in his hands. Hyukjae looks to her side to find Donghae looks at her way from his steering to the house without paying any attention to the road. Donghae gives her a nervous smile. Even Donghae is nervous and panic.
“It’s okay Hyukkie….” Donghae said silently, trying to calm the shaking Hyukjae
“Ho-how come it-it’s okay now, Hae?”
Donghae turn off the engine and turns side way to look at Hyukjae. He holds her trembling hands and raises her chin with his hand.
“Look at me..” Donghae said sweetly to Hyukjae. Hyukjae looks at him with those green scared look eyes.
“I promise you everything’s going to be allright. We have Micky and he will take care all of it”
“You promise?” Hyukjae asked childishly that makes Donghae chuckles.
“Yes. I promise Hyukkie” Donghae then rubs his thumb next to Hyukjae’s lips.
“You must not leave left over if you drink. People might catch you”
Hyukjae gasps and frantically looks at the mirror to check her face. How could she be so stupid, first she drank blood from Kyuhyun and now she even has a left over! Donghae chuckles lightly and Hyukjae’s big brown eyes are looking at him.
“I was just kidding, loosen up a bit okay”
Donghae then opens his door and comes to Hyukjae’s door. He opens it and pulls the slightly trembling Hyukjae out heading to their mansion. Hyukjae keeps her head low, feeling scared of what she might deal with her family. Donghae opens the mansion’s door quietly and finds the room is totally dark.
“Looks like nobody’s home…” Donghae mumble. Hyukaje looks up and grips Donghae’s hand tightly, asking his attention. Donghae turns his head to her.
“Are they leaving us here? Umma and Appa hate me now?”
Donghae can see for sure the fear in Hyukjae’s eyes. The same eyes that looked at him 70 years back. Hyukjae once lost her family because of him and Donghae knows by heart Hyukjae wouldn’t want that happen twice.
“CONGRATULATION!!!!”
Suddenly the house lit up with light and cheering voice from the entire family members who are jumping from the top to meet them. There are confettis trown toward Hyukjae and Junsu even has a a new year trumpet with her that is enough to make the entire town deaf.
“What’s going on here?” Donghae asked “Yah Junsu! Stop making me deaf!”.
“Congratulation Hyukkie…. I am so proud of you as your mother” Leeteuk comes and hugs her tightly. The others are congratulating Hyukjae too.
“What is it for, Umma?” Hyukjae still being oblivious.
“My daughter, you finally drinking blood. We are soooo proud of you!” Leeteuk hugs her again.
Hyukjae is being quiet, her grip on Donghae becomes tighter.
“What is it to be proud of? I feel disgusting doing so but you are all celebrating it. I almost killed my friend earlier”
The celebratory moment immediately stops. Leeteuk letting go of Hyukjae and Hyukjae is blank all the while.
“It’s just a simple bite, he won’t die Hyukkie” Junsu said trying to raise the cheerful mood once again but to no avail, Hyukjae beomes angry.
“Yes. He won’t die but he now knows who I am, who we are. I just want to be normal person and make friend but my newly found friend now is scared of me! How could you congratulate me for that?”
Hyukjae is stomping her feet on the floor and the floor is breaking. It just shows everybody how mad she is. Hyukjae goes straight to her room, can’t stand the way her family treat her. The family can hear Hyukjae breaks her bedroom’s door clearly. Donghae sighs and gives the others a glare that makes Kangin wants to punch him but he knows he can’t. Donghae follows hyukjae to her room silently.
Hyukjae lays on her bed, gritting her teeth and decide to just throw the pillow to the wall which cause the wall to break a little. Donghae walks to her bed carefully and sits on the edge of the bed.
“You ruin too many things tonight, we need to call people to fix it and you know I hate having strangers in the house, right?”
Hyukjae keeps her silence.
“You are being rude earlier Hyukkie…”
Hyukjae keeps her back facing Donghae. Donghae sighs and he moves closer to Hyukjae and lays beside her, hugging her. Hyukjae is a bit startled at first but relax bit by bit. Donghae doesn’t say a thing. He just waits for Hyukjae to open up to him, like always.
“I am mad Hae….”
After a few minutes that feels like eternity for Donghae, Hyukjae finally talk and it makes Donghae smiles a little.
“Why? Because of the celebratory thing they did for you?” Donghae can see Hyukjae shakes her head.
“I am mad of my self. I am mad because I lost control of my damn stupid body. I am mad because I am lusting his blood ever since the first time I met him. I am disgusting”
Hyukjae said lowly. Donghae feels a pang on his chest hearing Hyukjae’s confession. She is lusting for Kyuhyun’s blood. She never lust for his blood before even he is her creator, she never wants anyone’s blood before. Donghae throw that thought away and focuses on Hyukjae once again. He turns Hyukjae’s body easily to face him. He looks at that sad pitch black orbs and caresses her cheek.
“You are not disgusting Hyukkie, it’s just normal for our kind to feel that way to humans. You are not the first vampire to lose control like that.” Donghae said calmly while looking to her eyes.
“He is my first true friend and I just ruin it by scaring the shit out of him. He will avoid me now and he might ask his parent to move out of this town again…”
Hyukjae said nonchalantly and Donghae just simply caresses her cold cheek trying to calm her a bit. Donghae’s smile fade a little hearing that statement.
“What are you worrying about Hyukkie? Losing your normal live here or him leaving you?”
Donghae asked calmly while Hyukjae is startled by that question, she doesn’t know the answer.
Kyuhyun’s house. 02.25 AM
Kyuhyun toss right and left on his bed, trying to fall a sleep but he just can’t. His brain keeps working and working, replaying the scene earlier. He looks at the ceiling and thinks again. Was that really happening or it’s just his mind playing a trick on him? Is what he assuming about Hyukjae when she left true or not?. He is too confused with all the drama that happens today and it gives him headache.
He decides to grab a drink downstairs.
He sits on the kitchen’s chair with a glass of water in his grip. He looks at his already bandage finger and he opens the band aid. He stares at the little wound. It’s nowhere like a bite. Of course it does not! Hyukjae didn’t bite but suck his blood from the wound. Kyuhyun think silently. He remembers it again. After Hyukjae left earlier he has no energy to scream or what ever. He felt dizzy and when his mom found him, he is pale. His mother assuming he got anemia.
“What are you doing here Kyuhyun?”
Kyuhyun is shocked and calm down after finding his mother takes a glass of strawberry juice from the refrigerator. Kyuhyun looks at the juice. Hyukjae likes strawberry and she eats it too. How come?
“Why? You are ignoring your mother now?”
“It’s not like that Umma” Kyuhyun said put on his band aid again. Heechul sits in front of her favourite son and stares at him intently.
“You are acting weird since Hyukjae left earlier. What happen? She broke up with you?”
“It’s not like that Umma. We are not even dating” Kyuhyun answered calmly, too calm and honest from his usual behavior. Heechul knows something is up.
“So you confessed and she rejected you and due to shocked you got anemia?” Heechul snickered.
“I didn’t confess and I didn’t get anemia, Umma”
“So what happen to you?”
Kyuhyun doesn’t know how to explain it to his mother. Should he tell her ‘Hey Umma, Hyukjae just sucked my blood earlier and she is a vampire. What do you think about that?’. That’s going to be just ridiculous right?
“Will you be hurry? My beauty sleep is waiting” Heechul raises her eyebrow, wanting to hear it just what exactly happened earlier that makes her son becomes so silent like this.
“Umma...” Kyuhyun slowly calls his mother, contempleting whether he should tell his mother or not.
Heechul just looks at his favourite son signaling that she is waiting for Kyuhyun to tell her whatever is bothering him.
“If appa is not someone who you think he is, what will you do?”
Heechul raises her pretty eyebrow, doesn't understand about his question.
“What kind of stupid question is that??” Heechul said nonchalantly.
Kyuhyun just shrugs his shoulder. His mother won't understand it.
“If this is about Hyukjae, then just tell me honestly Kyuhyun!” Heechul said catching Kyuhyun's eyes.
Kyuhyun just sighs and tries to look somewhere else.
“So son, what about her?”
“You don't want to know..”
“Try me..”
Kyuhyun looks at his mother's challenging eyes. He knows if he doesn't tell his mother now, the said woman will surely find out by her self with him being torture for keeping it secret.
“I don't know how to say this right..”
“Just tell me and I will make it right”
“Umma..”
“What the hell Kyuhyun! Just tell me already”
“Have you ever heard anything about vampire?”
Heechul is taken aback by that question. She is a bit confuse and anxious. How can her son know something like vampire?
Heechul chooses to snickers to that question, making Kyuhyun gives her an odd look.
“Why are you asking about that? Hyukjae is a vampire? Don't joke with me, you know it's not funny”
Kyuhyun gives her mother an it's-not-funny look, making Heechul keeps quiet and sits straight. Her son is not joking.
Kyuhyun lays his head to the table seeing his mother's expression.
“Now you regret it for beeing too curious, right umma”
Kyuhyun's tone is mocking her but Heechul gives no reaction likes usual. She is thinking and she is frowning. Hearing no reaction from his mother, Kyuhyun looks up. He raises his eyebrow, his mother is frowning, an expression he never knows his mother has.
“Umma..you are frowning..” Kyuhyun said panicly.
“My grandma had this kind of friend once…”
Heechul suddenly said making Kyuhyun more confuse.
“What are you talking about umma?”
Kyuhyun said and standing up but Heechul keeps talking, making him stop with horror.
“She was a vampire”
Kyuhyun's heart beats faster than usual and he finds a way to take a sit again.
“She? Is it Hyukjae??”
Heechul gives her suppose to be genius son a dirty look.
“How can you become this stupid? If it is Hyukjae i might recognize her because my grandma had her photo”
Kyuhyun doesn't retort back by his mother's insult, what he cares now is his mother's story.
“Yeah you are right. So what about her?”
Heechul continues her story.
“When I was 10 my grandma used to tell me this story for a bed time, although I refused and throw a fit at that time because I want to hear something like princesses but she just laughed and told me her story about her friend”
Heechul drinks her juice while Kyuhyun waits silently for her mother to continue. Heechul looks at him with that serious look which Kyuhyun didn’t know his mother has that look until today. So much surprises for him today.
“Will you be hurry Umma?” Heechul snickers a bit by her son’s comment and keeps silent making Kyuhyun raises his eye brow. Heechul suddenly has an idea and smirks.
“I won’t tell you…”
“What? Why? You already started it and I need to know…”
“What’s the benefits of me telling you these stuffs?” Heechul challenges her son and crosses her arms to her chest.
“You are asking your son a payment for this story?”
“Not money of course because you have no money and I have much money, at least do me a favor”
Kyuhyun sighs and hits the table with his fist and lays his head on the table again.
“Allright. What do you want from me this time?” Heechul smirks and Kyuhyun hates it.
“We kind of need more worker in the factory, so you might want to help me and your Appa there, right Kyuhyun?”
Kyuhyun is defeated and just ‘hmm’ to answer. Heechul smirk gets wider.
“So what kind of job? Checking the reports or sending some packge or what?”
“No Kyuhyun, your Appa is still strong and smart enough to check all the reports and we already have
our own distributor. We actually need someone to milking the cow and pick the fresh fruits”
“What?” Kyuhyun puts a disgusting look while Heechul just smiles.
“You heard me…”
“Didn’t you already have enough people? Beside Isn’t Jonghyun enough to help you with those stuff? Jonghyun loves doing it and milking cow is his special ability. I don’t want to!”
“Yeah, Jjong is always helping us while you don’t. When will you learn about our factory Kyu? It’s going to be yours and Jonghyun’s.”
“But it’s disgusting Umma…” Kyuhyun whines like a five years old.
“Fine then” Heechul starts to stand up and walks away from Kyuhyun. Kyuhyun curses and walks to his Umma fast and stops her from going.
“Allright. You win. I’ll do as you say” Heechul grins looking the defeaed looking Kyuhyun
“I know you will do it. It’s not as disgusting as you think” Kyuhyun gives her a look and back to his seat, Heechul takes a sit too.
“It’s still disgusting” Heechul laughs loudly.
“It’s just milking a cow, it’s not like you will touch my breast or even Hyukjae. Besides don’t you remember when you were a baby you were milking my breast, didn’t you feel it disgusting?”
“I can’t believe it you say it loud Umma! Just tell me about your grandma’s story!” Kyuhyun is blushing hearing his Umma’s words. His Umma is really straightforward.
“Allright…allright. Where were we?”
“Your grandma told you about her friend”
“Ah yes. They were friends when high school. My grandma always told me how beautiful she was even more beautiful than every princess on the story book. Her skin was also as cold as ice and what amazed my grandma the most was the way her eyes changing colors. As a conclusion people who didn’t know the truth called her the angel without wings”
Kyuhyun’s eyes gets wider and his jaw hang loosely hearing his mother’s description. It’s so much like Hyukjae. That’s what he thought.
“H-how did your grandma know that she was a vampire?”
“When she told her one day” Heechul said calmly while observing her newly polished nails, secretly examining Kyuhyun’s reaction.
“W-Why?” Kyuhyun stuttered, feeling chills all of sudden.
“She said she believed in my grandma and the fact that they were the best of friends couldn’t help too. She didn’t want to have anymore secrets with her best friend, that’s what she said.”
“So, what was grandma’s reaction?”
“She was shocked of course but she knew that her best friend won’t hurt her. Slowly she could accept her just like nothing happened. They shared secrets, spend the day to play together and sometimes her friend would come to sleep over at our house.”
“Accept her just like nothing happen?” Kyuhyun asked not believing it. How come his grand grandmother just accepted it like that easily? Heechul looks at her son, knowing what exactly in his
mind.
“Life is simple Kyuhyun and my grandma’s mind set was like that too. What’s wrong to be friend with someone who is different with us? A lot of people out there believe in alien, why can’t we believe in vampire too? My grandma told me it was hard for her vampire friend to live like that, cannot be called as human nor the dead. She also wanted to live normally like us too, but some dumb people cannot understand that. It’s true there are also bad vampires out there and if my grandma’s vampire friend was one of them, she might had killed my grandma and the entire people in school right? She just wanted to have friends but pople called her freaks.”
“Wow Umma…. I don’t know you can say such words” Heechul bashes Kyuhyun’s head and puts her glass to the sink.
“I don’t see Hyukjae means any harm for you and for us. She already had so many chances just to kill you and drink your blood but she holds it, it’s your own fault to tempt her with your blood. She kind of reminds me to my grandma’s friend. The angel without wings. Ahh… I remember her name now, it’s Park Jungsoo”
Kyuhyun doesn’t pay much attention to his mother now, he is really in deep thought. He even doesn’t know Heechul is already left for her beauty sleep.
Kyuhyun’s POV
My head is becoming hurt because of this thing. I can’t keep my eyes off my already band aid finger, makes me remember every single things Hyukjae said to me.
“Look Kyuhyun, I’m not what you thing I am. Next time you will regret this time when you like to pester
me and talk to me. You will hope that these days never happens and maybe hoping that you don’t know me. Just like the others.”
Yes, I know now that she is different but do I really regret it now? Do I really hope that I don’t know her?
“You have no idea what you are facing right now for interrupting my family business”
Yeah I have absolutely no idea what I am facing now. Will I deal with a furious Donghae or maybe your whole family will haunt me down?
“We are just a deathly poison, Kyuhyun”
Poison. Yeah… she gave me so many clues about her self before. How can I not realize it?? Since When I become this dumb?
‘Isn’t it obvious, genius? Since you fall for Hyukjae’
Now my inner self is insulting me. I feel really ridiculous now.
‘Well, if you start to use your head again to think and not your heart, it won’t be ridiculous anymore, dude’
Well, my inner self gets the point there. I haven’t thought properly about my own feeling actually. My feelings? Do I fall for her for sure? Can I be like grand grandma? Can my heart just stop beating like crazy everytime I think of her? Ahhh…. It’s so making me dizzy. I’ll think tomorrow, I need sleep now.
*****Mokpo’s High
Hyukjae is not coming to school again, that’s what Kyuhyun’s thought the third days after that incident. He is kind of relieved though because he won’t know what to do if he meets her this few days but he also king of miss her. She is all over his head now. Kyuhyun is exceptionally really quite today while the others are being noisy about the school’s 50 years celebratory at the end of the week.
“Yo man! So, have you found a date for this weekend?”
Yunho called Kyuhyun when Kyuhyun just take a seat next to him and ignore him. Yunho raised his eyebrow and slap him on the shoulder, making Kyuhyun turn his head to him without glaring.
Kyuhyun is just blank.
“What?” Kyuhyun slowly asked after Yunho slap him and now being quite.
“I was asking you about your date for this weekend. Are you coming with Hyukjae?” Yunho grins cheekily.
“What date? What occasion? I don’t know what you are talking about…” Kyuhyun pulls out his PSP and plays it with a boring look. Yunho just shakes his head.
“I see you won’t come to the school’s 50 years party right?”
“…”
“You know, I feel that you act different lately. What’s up man?”
“…” Yunho scratches his head.
“Something happen between you and Hyukjae? By the way I didn’t see her this few days. Where is she?”
“…”
“Aish this kid! Fine I won’t ask more..” Yunho pulls out his handphone and go texting Changmin, leaving Kyuhyun alone thinking about Hyukjae again and again.
Kyuhyun is also not even paying much attention to the lesson that makes him getting this dirty look from his teachers but he doesn’t mind it. As long as he can answer the teachr\er’s question about the lesson, they won’t bug him any further.
Junsu and Yoochun are attending school like usual and it makes Kyuhyun is nervous everytime the meet or in the same class. He can feel it that Junsu and Yoochun are staring at him but he doesn’t have want to face them now. He also meets Minho on his way to his History class but not like usual, Minho doesn’t serve him a glare. It’s just like they don’t know each other. It’s different with Taemin, she still gives him a warm smile when she walks pass him in the hall way. He just smiles back, doesn’t even have time to even say hai to her or asking about Hyukjae.
The lunch time is the making Kyuhyun more nervous. It is because he might meet the whole siblings there without Hyukjaae which is more dangerous for him because Donghae might be there and nobody is going to stop him from killing Kyuhyun. When Kyuhyun step in the dining hall with Changmin and Yunho, he immediately can feel it. They are staring at him again and Donghae is there too, staring intently to him but there is no more glaring this time.
Kyuhyun let out a relieve breath, without Changmin who is busy eating and Yunho flirting with one of the girls named Jaejoong realize it. Kyuhyun cannot eat his meal today eventhough he already gets some foods and strawberry milk for the drink. Yes strawberry milk, he doesn’t know why the hell he choose the milk instead of the cappuccino today. It reminds him much to Hyukjae. Hyukjae is missing again just like the other time. He wants to speak to her actually, asking her the truth but she is not there.
***** Kyuhyun is losing his patience now, Hyukjae is making him really crazy and there is nothing he wants but seeing her now. That’s why he walks fast and furiously to Donghae’s car when the last bell rings on the fourth day Hyukjae missing. Donghae has sensed his coming and closes his car’s door.
They are standing in front of each other, staring intently while Minho and the other just stare at them from the side.
“Let’s talk somewhere else” Donghae said, breaking their eye contact to calm him self from not punching Kyuhyun’s face.
“Where?”
“Just follow us” Donghae said and he is in his way getting into his Ferrari. Kyuhyun just quirks his eye brow but heads to his bike to follow Donghae.
“Be fast Oppa, Donghae Oppa is fast…” Taemin said sweetly with a smile to Kyuhyun and Kyuhyun just smiles at her.
*****“Shit!” Kyuhyun curses loudly and hits the handlebar of his motorbike. He loses track of Donghae and Minho. Taemin was not joking about they are being fast. They are not fast but super fast, is it one of vampire’s ability too maybe, that’s what Kyuhyun’s thought.
He is frustrated and now he loses his chance to talk to them. That’s when his phone vibrates, signaling a new message. Kyuhyun opens it and it’s from unknown number.
From: Unknown
To: Kyuhyun
You are so slow Oppa. I told you, Donghae Oppa is fast. But he is being generous to you. Hurry meet us at the park near the wood. Come quick before Donghae Oppa changes his mind -Taeminnie^^
It’s from Taemin and Kyuhyun doesn’t have time to think of how she gets his number. He takes no time to come to the park Taemin said in her text with full speed. Not long after that, he stops at the said park.
Kyuhyun parks his motor bike next to Donghae’s car and he walks to the sibling’s direction. Taemin and Junsu are playing with the swing while Minho and Yoochun push the swing slightly. Donghae is standing not so far away from them, watching them smiling. Donghae turns his head towars Kyuhyun and the others follow suit. Taemin and Junsu even stop playing the swings. Kyuhyun is tensed for a bit. Who doesn’t? He is surrounding by five vampires at time and there are no more people at the almost abandoned park.
Kyuhyun stands not so far away from Donghae, at loss of words.
“Even if I hate doing this and it’s against my will, I need to talk to you about Hyukjae, about my family”
******
A/N:
Anneyong….
It’s been a long time I do not update. I am sorry…. I am being lazy and busy lately. And worst I have this writer block problem.
Not much KyuHyuk right? I’m so sorry. By the way do I torture hae to much?
This is only part A and I’m working on part B right now. I hope I can update it soon, maybe at the end of this week. This is not the chapter I want so I will understand many of you, fellow readers will be disappointed with this.
I promise to fix it on part B…
Share your thoughts with me, ne?