3rd Bite Mark

The sun was already high up in the sky and a few birds could be heard singing. It was surely around 1 p.m, but the dark-hard male was just too tired to bother standing up. He pulled his fluffy comforter over his face in order to block the annoying sun rays which were about to robe his sleep. He was so tired. The last two days were too exhausting for his taste. Studying, working and writing his bachelor thesis. Just as he was about to drift back into his dream he was violently and loudly woken up.

„YA! YOU PUNK! What are you doing in bed! You have classes today!“, he yelled and walked towards the bed the other was hiding in. „Lemme sleep, I‘m so tired. Go awayyyyyy,“ he mumbled into his comforter without even thinking about looking at his roommate.
„Lemme sleep? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! NAM WOOHYUN! Get the out of your s*itty bed.“ His roommate yelled and threw the warm comforter on the floor before he kicked his friend's . „ Gooooddd Sungyeol, why are you like this?“ Woohyun whined and rubbed his eyes. „You are the reason why I have to be like this…because your sorry arse just can‘t get out of bed I have to play your mum. Man, you have a bachelor thesis to write and classes to attend. GET OUT NOW!“Woohyun‘s roommate, best friend and nowadays substitute mum, Sungyeol, left their shared bedroom to get to the kitchen. „You used to be fun…“, Woohyun whispered defeated as he was picking up his clothes. „YAH! I heard that!“ Sungyeol screamed from the kitchen and Woohyun flinched. Damn, I thought he wouldn‘t hear it…

Nam Woohyun and Lee Sungyeol were students at one of Seoul‘s best universities: INFINITE University. Woohyun was a major music, while his best friend was busy with his acting and theater course. Since Woohyun is one year older than his friend he was already in his bachelor semester. There was not that much time left for him to complete his thesis. University itself has already been a rocky ride, but the research and work he has to invest in his bachelor are hell. He wanted nothing else than to finally finish his studying. People used to tell him „stay in school as long as you can“, before entering university he was sure that they were right, now he knew they were not. He was looking forward to years of fun, parties, and lovers. Yet his university years were filled with work, bad grades, stress, pain and negative thoughts. The parties and the fun he was promised were nowhere to be found. The only good thing about his university life was his shared dorm room with his friend. His and Sunyeols meeting was rather random, they were both looking for the same professor and none of them knew where he could be, in the end, the two thought four eyes see more than only two and decided to look for the man together. Despite their joined forces, they weren‘t able to find him, after their failed search they spent the lunch break together and from then on they kept on bumping into each other. At some point, they became friends and frequently met inside of uni and also outside. When the new dorm was allowing students to choose their roommate the two of them didn‘t need to spare another thought on who they wanted to live with.

Woohyun walked into the kitchen and the smell of lightly burned eggs filled the room. „Don‘t say a thing okay!“Sungyeol warned him, with the spatula still in his hand. Woohyun nodded and tried hard to suppress any comment or smile. Usually, he was the one to cook, he enjoyed cooking and was actually pretty good too. The only thing Sungyeol was capable of cooking is scrambled eggs but in seven out of ten cases they are slightly burned. The tall lad put the eyes on two plates and handed one to Woohyun while he kept the other. They made their way to their small coffee table aka dining table.

„So man, what have you been up to the whole weekend? I didn‘t see you at all. You do know that your house is here, do you?“ Sungyeol started nagging as he ate his burned eggs. „Just the usual, I was in the library all Friday and Saturday and working. Yeah, that‘s about it.“ Woohyun said and looked up trying to remember if he had missed something out. Before his friend even had the chance to react he looked at him with a look of surprise as he remembered this beautiful stranger. „There was something else!“ he literally screamed into his friend's face, Sungyeol was utterly perplexed. He wanted to say something but closed his mouth again to hear his excited friend out. „So you see…. Ah, wait, please don‘t judge me okay? This story will sound so strange, like really strange.“ „What the hell did you do Woohyun? The police won‘t be knocking on the door any minute from now, right?“ Sungyeol asked suspiciously and rose one of his eyebrows. „Nahhhh it‘s not that bad, but I think I came off as a creepy weirdo…“ „HAHAHHAHAH oh my god, tell me more. I love weirdo Nam stories.“
the other laughed and Woohyun started his storytelling time.

He told his friend how he was actually only on his way home from the library and spontaneously decided to take a shortcut which led to a little park. Sungyeol nodded along with his story, interestedly listening.
„And then I saw somebody sitting on a bench. Sure, one usually wouldn‘t meddle with other peoples business, but as soon as my eyes landed on him, my feed walked by themselves. A guy, I think around our age, was sitting on the bench only wearing a t-shirt. But Yeol, you wouldn‘t believe me just how beautiful he was!“ „Dude, did you change sides? I‘ve got nothing against gays, don‘t get me wrong. But I thought you are the womanizer number one.“ „ I don‘t know! I never felt like this before! Not even with a woman, I think I have never seen such a stunning being. Anyways, from here on things only got worse. I think I have scared him for life,“ Woohyun whined and Sungyeol couldn‘t help, but start laughing. „You are amazing, go on, I wanna hear the end of your failed love story.“

„So you see, I thought he would catch a cold, that‘s why I woke him up. He was scared as hell. I only made it worse with my urge to touch him. Yeah, he ended up being so scared that he fell off the bench. I did catch him though! We chatted a bit and after we said goodbye I did the overkill…“ „You asked for his number? That would at least be of use.“ „Nooooo, I wished I had done that! I don‘t even know his name…“ „Oh no, what did you creepy little idiot do?“ „I …I ran back and wrapped my scarf around his neck,“ Woohyun mumbled and hid his face inside of his hands. „Man, what is wrong with you? Sure it is kinda cute? I guess? But man, I would be so creeped out if some stranger would give me his scarf you know.“ „I know I just wanna die. But before I die, I wanna see him again.“

„Aww, Namu is love stuck~ Maybe I‘ll spot him somewhere. How does he look like? And the description „beautiful“ or „breath-taking" is no help. I can tell him that that creeper dude from Friday night is my best friend and that he would like your phone number“, his friend explained and Woohyun was actually just about to use these words. „Can you read minds?“ „No, you are just stupid.“ „Oh okay. He was a tad bit taller than me, and has super light skin, he has quite small eyes, heart-shaped lips, and his hair is grey,“ Woohyun wasn‘t yet done with listing Sunggyu‘s features but was interrupted by Sungyeol. „What grey hair?! I saw him! I‘m sure!“ „NO WAY! When and where?!“ Woohyun couldn‘t believe it. „During part-time, man you were in the store as well! But I think you weren‘t at the counter, but in the back preparing the coffee beans. I told you about that weird dude that stared holes into our menu and then dashed off. God you two are both weirdos - perfect for each other.“ „No! From now on I‘ll always stay at the counter or the cashier desk! You are responsible for the coffee making! I will not miss him again!“

Not only do the two live and study together, but they also work together. They work in a small fancy coffee shop called NIT CAFÉ. Both of them needed the money for their accommodation as well as for food - nothing in this world is for free.

***

After another night of sleep, Sunggyu was dead set on leaving his house again. He has overcome the fear that was lingering inside him ever since he saw this distant glow in his eyes. He spent a full day at home. Thinking and sleeping. He thought about his last night in the vampire world. This last ceremony he was part of. The shocked faces of his fellow vampires and the pill he was given to swallow. If Sunggyu was totally honest with himself, that night, he wasn‘t sure if he would survive it. Never did a vampire decide to live with humans rather than with their friends and family. They were taught in school that if a vampire decides to leave the vampire world they would get a pill that would turn them into half-human, half-vampire. The teacher never explained how that would work, but it was said that these pills were made by vampires which were able to use magic. Sunggyu had never seen one of them though. He only heard once that these are vampires which had a witch as a mother.

Therefore when the moment of truth arrived, Sunggyu was seemingly nervous. He told the oldest vampire, who held the ceremony, about his wish. He only nodded and excused himself to go into a hidden room which was situated underneath his office inside the city hall. Once he returned he had a golden bowl in his hand in which a little red pill was. He told Sunggyu to swallow it. And the later wasn‘t sure whether this pill would really turn him into a half-human or whether it would burn him into ashes. He didn‘t care. If he would die that would have been okay. Better dying while trying to achieve his dream than living in this hell. In the end, everything turned out just fine.

And now after his body has completely adjusted to his new lifestyle he was also mentally prepared to become a functioning part of his new society. He wanted to work, he wanted to make friends and he wanted to fall in love. This hope of finding this person his soul was living in was still present in his mind, but he would be okay with only falling in love with someone. This will be hard enough as it is, he thought.

„Another day, another chance! Today‘s agenda is tea! This time I‘m really going to drink one!“ Sunggyu exclaimed happily and left his apartment. He had his wallet in his hand and his new favorite piece of clothing around his neck - the stranger's white scarf.

He walked towards the coffee shop he wanted to visit last time and took a deep breath before the shop was in his line of sight. „Pull your self together Sunggyu. It was only the sun!“ he encouraged himself and crossed the street. He was already able to see the coffee shop and he could also smell this alluring scent. His heart started beating faster, Sunggyu thought it was his nervousness getting his best. He was right in front of the shop and his heart was beating so strong that he thought it would break out of its cage. A heartbeat was something entirely new to Sunggyu. He used to be without one. The first few day in the human world his heart was still as hard as stone, but ever since he met that stranger it was beating.

Sunggyu wasn‘t really sure what that meant, but he thought his heart also needed time to adjust and to start working like a human one. Never did he thought that a vampire's heart starts beating as soon as they find their human counterpart, their other half- their missing part of their soul.

He closed his eyes, placed his cold hand on the door handle and opened the door with a big swing. The smell that hit his nose was overwhelming.

**

After Woohyun‘s exhausting and quite boring music theory class was at its end it was time for his part-time job. Today he and Sungyeol had the same shift, just like on Saturday. He went straight to the NIT CAFÈ after university and met Sungyeol in the changing room of their workplace.

„How was class?“ asked his best friend while changing into his work gear. „Okay, could have been more interesting. I‘m not that much into the theory. I like doing things. Composing, singing etc. but theory and praxis go hand in hand,“ he sighed and his friend only nodded.  

„You‘ll be doing counter only right?“ Sungyeol grinned, Woohyun nodded shyly and quickly received a thumbs-up from his friend. „Mister beautiful better come today.“ „I really hope so.“

Work was nothing different from usual. A few regulars, a few new customers. But not the one person he wanted to see. He only had about half an hour of work left for the day and decided that he should go to the restroom. The other wouldn‘t turn up in his last bit of shift anyways. „I gonna go to the restroom, okay? Can you go to the counter?“ „Sure thing man, but why now? You only have like 30 minutes left?“ „I know, but I have been suppressing for five hours I really have to go to the bathroom now,“ Woohyun laughed and put his apron next to Sungyeol.

Sungyeol was taking a pretty girls order and was captivated by her looks. Yet, once he looked at the entrance of their shop the pen in his hand slipped and hit the floor. He couldn‘t believe it, now of all times, Woohyun‘s beauty decided to come. He was between a hard place and a rock. He kept on looking at the pretty girl, the love interest of his friend and the door which led to the service room in which the restrooms where. „, he better love me for the rest of his life,“ Sungyeol breathed out and quickly bowed to the girl, missing out on his chance to get her number, and ran to the service room. „WOOHYUN! Come out! He‘s here! Quick before he leaves again!“ Sungyeol yelled and just as he wanted to run out again, Woohyun had already dashed out. „ I know I could feel his presence!“ He said while running and Sungyeol couldn‘t comprehend what his friend just said. „Haaaa? What?“

Woohyun was back at the counter and saw Sunggyu. He looked still as stunning as before, maybe even better with the sunlight hitting his face. Woohyun couldn‘t help, but smile as soon as he noticed the white piece of cloth on the other's neck. It took less than a second for their eyes to meet.

Woohyun smiled his trademark smile and waved Sunggyu to come to him. Sunggyu automatically followed. „I‘ll help you order. What would you like?“ Woohyun asked sweetly and Sunggyu didn‘t know what to say. He was so shocked that this young man was the source of this unbelievable smell and then it hit Sunggyu, he still had his scarf. And he was even wearing it. His hands immediately reached the scarf and touched it lightly while looking at the smiling Woohyun. „Oh no keep it! It suits you much better! I‘m Woohyun, Nam Woohyun,“ Woohyun said before Sunggyu could even voice the question. A smile made its way on Sunggyu‘s face and this was 100 times better than any scarf. „Thank you,“ Sunggyu smiled loving and nuzzled his face into the scarf. „Oh and I‘m Sunggyu.“ „It‘s a pleasure to meet you.“

„What can I bring you? Coffee? Tea?“ Woohyun asked and observed Sunggyu‘s reactions. His eyes literally lit up by the mentioning of tea. „So tea it is, right?“Woohyun chuckled and Sunggyu was stunned. How did he know? „Do you have strawberry tea?“ the vampire asked and Woohyun nodded. „Then I‘d like one of them!Please.“ Sunggyu was so excited, it was almost embarrassing. Woohyun excused himself to make the tea and told Sunggyu to take a seat at a table since he would bring him the tea. Woohyun was about to walk to Sunggyu‘s table as he was stopped by his friend. „I‘ll cover your last 20 minutes. Get the boy.“ Sungyeol grinned and nudged his best friend. Woohyun immediately took off his apron and walked over to Sunggyu, now with two cups of tea.

„Would it be okay with you if we drink tea together?“ Woohyun asked sweetly and hoped his nervousness couldn‘t be heard. Sunggyu nodded eager and pointed to the chair in front of him. „Please take a seat.“

Hi my Lovelyz how have you been ?

I do have to admit that the uni part is like my own experince, but I'm still two semesters away from my bachelor thesis, but I already know it'll be hell xD

The person to tell me to "stay as long as possible in school" was my ma, thanks x.D

I hope you like this chapter~ I know I was supposed to write a sassy Sunggyu, but I looooovvveee cutie Sunggyu so much OTL

Mr. Sass is Sungyeol this time around