| Fan Fiction |
by Tan Xue Lei
It took me a week to recover from the shock that vampires existed. The only person I could trust for that week was Keita as he came to visit everyday, explaining everything to me bit by bit.
In the vampire world there were special classes set for each vampire that was born into the world, from the highest rank to lowest rank, pure bloods, aristocrats, common, ex-humans and half bloods. Keita was a pure blood, he and YunHo were the only pure bloods in the entire school. A couple of aristocrats lingered in the school, and many of the rest were common vampires. And then there was little old me, the only human.
Half bloods were people who were born with half vampire blood, probably one of the parents were human and the other, vampire. The half bloods never lived long. Their life span was up to the human age of 18 before they disintegrated on their 18th birthday, what a lovely birthday present from fate.
Ex-humans, now this could take long to explain.
Keita’s father placed a curse in this school, since he hated the Jung family with passion. A curse that could cause humans to turn into vampires. This process could only happen between a vampire boy and human boy, when the two fall in love and shares a kiss within the school campus, the human will turn into a vampire.
There were also other dastardly conditions.
When a vampire boy shared a kiss with a human girl, the vampire boy would turn into a human. Not that it would be likely to happen, the campus was off limits to any girl.
When a half blood shares a kiss with a vampire, the half blood would turn into a full vampire, therefore escaping from death at the age of 18. When a half blood shares a kiss with a human, the half blood would turn into a human.
These things could only happen when the two fall deeply in love with each other.
All these rules only applied exclusively to this very school. If the kisses were shared outside of the school, even if you were a centimeter away, it would be ineffective. The status of being either human or vampire wouldn’t change.
Luckily, that kiss that I shared with Keita didn’t happen within school boundaries, or I would’ve become Yaoi High’s first ex-human.
Me and Keita were now in a relationship, a very slow one at that too.
On the day YunHo returned, after I told him that I knew he was a vampire, he was indeed shocked.
“H-How did you know?” he said as leaned back onto a table.
It was weird how YunHo got himself a tan, making him look a little darker, a little more peachier, but still had the pale side to him.
“Keita-”
“I told him.” Keita butted in as he took my hand into his, “And more importantly, he’s mine.”
YunHo stared at mines and Keita’s intertwined hands as I blushed slightly at Keita’s abrupt move, I knew Keita wanted YunHo jealous, and it was seriously working.
“Since when?” he said as his eyes pierced through mines.
“During your absence.” I said as I tore my eyes off his, looking down to the floor, too scared to even look at him.
“You like him too don’t you?” Keita mused on with a big grin, looking a bit too overly exaggerated.
“Listen here.” YunHo said roughly as he leaned towards Keita’s neck, grabbing it with his large hands, causing Keita’s hand to let go of mines. Keita was now pinned up to the wall, choking slightly as I watched in horror, “You leave ChangMin alone you bastard. How dare you make a move on him during my absence?!”
He then turned his head sharply to face me, his eyes boring onto my face, then to my neck.
“Shit. You even took a bite out of him without me here.” he said angrily when he turned back to face Keita, his hands gripping onto his neck even tighter now, “Who the fuck do you think you are?”
“YunHo let him go…” I said softly as I placed a hand on his outstretched arm, “Please…”
“What the fuck are you doing ChangMin? Can’t you see that this bastard took advantage of you for your blood?!”
“YunHo, we didn’t do that sort of thing it yet.” I replied monotonously.
“I’m surprised.”
“All we did was kiss…a couple of times…out of campus.”
“And you like this son of a bitch?”
I shuffled a bit, “Yeah…”
“Damn.” he said defeatedly as he let Keita down.
I ran over to Keita’s side, helping him nurse his neck.
“Okay I admit it, I like you ChangMin, ever since I saw you on the very first day.” he then looked down at me with a sad look, “I thought we could even be a relationship, but I guess not.” he then looked at Keita sternly, “Because of this bastard.”
“He has a name you know.” I said defensively.
“Shit, you already fallen for this jerk too deeply.” he ran his hands through his hair with a pained expression before looking back at Keita with a threatening look, “Listen here Keita Furuya, and listen well. If I ever see you treating ChangMin like shit then you have another thing coming your way.”
“Like what?” Keita said with a crooked smile.
“I’ll end your life, the Jung family way.” he replied before walking off.
Keita shivered in response. I guess whatever YunHo was going to end Keita’s life with seemed terribly bad.
A year passed, YunHo grew distant from me as me and Keita became like what a bee was to honey, we were inseparable. And during some part of that year, we did it…yes that, we had sex, outside of the school obviously when we were off on vacation. We were both drunk that day.
All I can remember from that experience was that it hurt so much that it left me paralyzed for the entire day after.
Then another year passed.
A year ago, the year where my troubles came rolling in…no I wasn’t pregnant! Keita’s old best friend came into the picture, and it happened to be a girl, a human girl.
Her name was Kim HyeWoo. They were both the best of friends back in their childhood. Apparently she was the only childhood friend Keita ever had back in Japan. Keita became a kind vampire when he met her, he completely forgot about his status as a vampire through just simply talking to her. She knew he was a vampire, a pure blood one at that, but she wasn’t scared.
She came to stay at Keita’s house as her parents died from a car accident, she had no other family members, and it just so happened that the one she could only think of staying with was Keita. So buying herself a ticket to Korea, she came over to ruin my relationship with Keita.
I remember being cautious one night before getting into bed with Keita, being worried that HyeWoo would take Keita away from me.
“Keita…you wouldn’t start falling for HyeWoo would you?” I asked plainly as I walked into the dimly lit room in my bath robe.
“Of course not.” he said before pulling me down onto bed with him, causing me to bump onto his naked chest, “I have you remember?”
“But-”
He closed off the rest of my words with his lips for the rest of the night. And for weeks I kept forgetting to ask him that same question.
A month later, I began to notice something. Keita was starting to become less clingy of me, and our nightly sessions started to die out, it turned from everyday to once a week, and eventually to whenever Keita felt like it, which was rare.
I began to feel very wary at this point.
Could it be the influence of HyeWoo?
Eventually, we began to speak less to each other, we began to see each other less, he always blamed it on his piles of ‘homework’ that his teachers sent upon him. But I knew the true reason, because HyeWoo was sick. It caused a rift in between me and Keita. Keita spent more time on looking after her than he did with me.
I felt so neglected.
One day, when we finally got together for the first time in months after HyeWoo was cured, I shot a question at Keita that I thought I would never would have the guts to say.
“Keita, can I become a vampire like you?”
I felt his hold on my stiffened before pulling me away from him slightly to face me.
“What are you talking about?” he laughed half heartedly.
“I want to kiss you in school.” I said bluntly, “I want to become a vampire like you.”
His face was expressionless at that point before he let go of me completely, backing away slightly.
“Why?” he said softly.
“Because I want to be with you forever…you vampires live longer than us humans do, so why not?”
A small grin appeared on his face as he approached me again, holding his pinky finger out.
“I promise you that you would become a vampire before we graduate.”
“Promise.” I said eagerly as I hooked his finger.
A couple of months later, that promise seemed impossible, it seemed as if it had already been broken.
Why?
Well, on a very snowy day at the hill where we shared our first kiss, I waited for Keita for our 3rd anniversary, 3 years since we had been together.
I was fidgeting around from excitement on what he would give me as a gift this year. I even especially prepared him a box of chocolates for this day, hoping that we could eat it together.
When I saw his figure come into sight, I instantly ran over and threw myself onto him. He would normally embrace me at this point, but he didn’t. Instead he just pushed me off as if he didn’t know me.
“Keita, what’s wrong?” I said with concern in my voice.
“ChangMin-ah…”
I noticed his face was covered with a pair of dark shades that covered most of his face at the top and his scarf covering the rest at the bottom. Was he putting a disguise on to run away from someone?
Laughing at his get up, I pulled the shades off and the scarf at one go revel his new skin, soft warm peach.
“Keita! What happened to you? Did you use foundation?” I laughed at his ridiculous look, it was weird how he looked human here.
“It’s not foundation.” he spoke tiredly.
I scoffed, “Yeah right!”
“ChangMin,” he said before pulling his glove off, letting his hand caress my cheek, letting me feel the eerie warmth that was given off by his hand, “I’m human…”
My eyes widened in horror, realising what this meant. If he had turn human, it could mean that he shared a kiss with someone within the school, with a girl, sharing the same feelings as her, nothing else but love.
“It was HyeWoo wasn’t it?” I stated.
He nodded as his head hung low.
“I’m sorry..” he spoke.
“And you fallen for her haven’t you?”
“I’m sorry…”
“And I’m no longer your love interest?”
“I’m sorry…”
“You gave me up for a fucking girl when you claimed that you would love me with your life?!”
“I’m sorry…”
My anger rose as I stood up to throw my arms up to the air.
“DON‘T SORRY ME YOU FUCKING BASTARD!” I yelled at my most highest note, “YUNHO WAS RIGHT! YOU ARE A SON OF A BITCH. A CUNT. A FUCKING TWAT!”
He only remained silent at my insults, taking it all in.
“Man, I feel so used!” I said through gritted teeth as I ran my hands through my hair.
I felt hot tears trying to burst out of my eyes as some managed to leak through.
He got up from the floor to approach me, placing a hand on my shoulder, “I’m-”
“FUCK OFF!” I said as I pushed him away from me before I broke into a run.
And that was the last I’ve seen of Keita Furuya before he went off to get engaged with his new lover. Not that I cared.
I ran and ran that day, through the thick snow, not caring where I ran off to until my legs gave out. I fell down onto the soft yet cold snow, oh how I longed for this temperature to return back to Keita right now, I preferred him so much more when he was a vampire.
“Keita…” I cried into the snow.
“ChangMin?”
That voice. I remember that voice.
Looking up, I saw YunHo for the first time in months, no wait, years! I swear he had been avoiding me in school watching me from the shadows maybe, not wanting to talk to me at all. And guess what? I didn’t even think about him for these past two years!
“What happened?” he asked, face filled with worry.
“YunHo!” I cried out as I leapt up onto him, hanging myself onto his shoulders, head burying deep onto his chest, “I’m sorry!”
“Huh? What for?”
“You were right. Keita is a son of a bitch! A good for nothing bastard!” I wailed into his chest, feeling the welcoming cold that radiated from him.
“What happened?!”
Ever since that day, I made up with YunHo after telling him everything about Keita. How he started off so loving towards me, who then eventually grew distant and eventually leaving me.
YunHo understood, he forgave my stupidity and instantly became my friend again, my closest one. He was someone who shared the same hatred that I had for Keita Furuya.
He told me that he no longer liked me anymore ever since Keita got his hands on me; I knew he was lying; he was never good at lying. But I wanted to keep it at that, I wanted to remain as friends, I didn’t want my past to repeat itself again.
Even if I did hate Keita after, I couldn’t help but miss his touch, voice and face everyday after, it either just popped in my head randomly or appeared in my dreams or nightmares. It left me depressed and miserable for months until I decided to hide it since YunHo grew worried sick after me.
From then on, I always wore this cheerful happy look whenever Keita was on my mind, when deep inside I was still secretly yearning for him, still wanting him to come back to me if he ever had the chance to.
There were the odd times where I forgot about him that only happened rarely until now.
I hoped that I would’ve forgotten about him completely like I did with YunHo soon enough, but it was easier said than done.
It was funny how multiple guys started hitting on me when Keita wasn’t there anymore, or YunHo, who knew I had so many admirers.