“Vampires are real?” I heard Bomi’s mind and it took me a hundred deep breaths before I decided to come in and talk to her. This’ll be a very long night.

“Yes. Yes, vampires are real and you’re facing one.” I paused to watch her reaction then continued, “Are you scared?” I told her and I saw not confusion but curiosity in her eyes.

“I’m not but.. h-how?” Bomi asked, not taking her eyes away from me as she looks at my whole body, scanning it as if looking for something different, something significant that tells I’m a vampire. 

I’m glad that she is not scared but I wonder which ‘how’ is she asking about, is it ‘how I knew what’s on her head’ or ‘how do we exist’? I don’t know which but I’m sure that I will have to fill her in. It’s now or never.

“I know there’s bravery in you, I’m glad I didn’t scare you Bbom-ah.” I cut my sentence and moved closer to her, sat beside her wanting to feel her warmth that I don’t know if I’ll ever get to feel again after tonight. After seeing tears and fear in her eyes back to that old factory, I’m really glad that it’s not me, or the kind of a person I am, that she’s scared of. It really did pull the torn stuck in my heart. “If you’re wondering how I knew your questions about vampires without you saying it.. it’s because I can read minds. We purebloods can.”

“Pureblood?” This is not going well, there’s so much to say but so little time to tell because we have to make a decision right before dawn. 

I feel sorry for getting Bomi into this whole realisations about myths being true, I never intended for her to know so much since it’s nothing but trouble. Not just for our kind but for her as well.

“Yes. Just know that there are pure vampires and there are some who’s not. Ask me any questions and I’ll answer everything, I promise. I owe them to you.”

I pause to listen to her mind but it’s a mess. She’s thinking so many things at once that listening is like being in a courtroom where every one has something to say and both parties are planning their next argument.

“Why did the bad vampires took me and Meung? Did I do something wrong to them?” It’s cute. She already classified the vampires to good and bad. But now’s not the time to dwell on admiring Bomi but to tell her the things she needs to know.

“It’s because of me. They’re trying to get revenge to my family and you.. you being the most important person in my life is the reason why they chose to attacked you.”

“Me? Most important person? Wait. We just met a few weeks ago how is this possible?” It’s never easy to tell how the world works. It usually take days of learning before most humans actually gets to understand everything, sink everything in their mind.

There’s no other way I see to tell everything in an easier way but to put everything in a story line, “Okay let me tell you a story. I once had this relationship with a human-”

“Which is me?”

“Yes, it’s you. I fell in love, hard, for that human to the point that every lifetime I wait for her to be reincarnated.” I paused and look at Bomi in her eyes. I don’t know if she’s actually buying any of it but it’s not her call. It’s the truth she needs to know. “And my family, we once had a fight with the bad vampire’s family and end up killing their leader for the good of our kind.”

“Okay so you’re saying that they wanted to kill me to get back to you?”

“Yes.”

“We were dating?!” Cute.

“Yes.”

“No wonder why I feel so attracted to you.” Bomi thought and I don’t know how to feel about this. I didn’t expect that she’ll focus on that one instead of how much of a mess we’re actually in. “To be honest.. I was listening to you guys talking downstairs..” Bomi confessed. And I urge her to say more as I placed my hand on top of hers and nod for her to continue talking. “The girl you’re talking to said that I know so much and this will be my last lifetime.”

“You did hear everything.”

“And.. I don’t know if I wanted that one.” Bomi said and it got me all confused on what ‘one’ is she talking about so I asked,

“Wanted what?”

“You erasing my memory.” Now it’s Bomi’s turn to hold my hand, intertwined them making it harder for me to be this close to her as all I wanted it to run away. Run away from everything and give Bomi whatever she wanted which is far from what I’m planning to do. “As silly as it may sound.. I wanted to choose you, be with you.” 

And there she goes, saying the words I know that will only make me choose all the wrong decisions. I’m not gonna lie saying that I didn’t expect Bomi to react like this. 

The bond we had, this lifetime and then have always been something deeper than the daily dinner dates. I’ve always believed that we are destined to be together and I’ve already proven that for the fourth time now. Bomi will always choose me.

“Are you sure about this? Bomi, it’s a decision you need to think about. What about your family? If you come with me, you will have to leave them.” I told her. Because if we choose this path, we have to move places and never come back to this town, we have to change our identities and live in a different place, with a different name.

Bomi didn’t answer me, but I can always read her mind. She’s thinking about leaving her mom and it pains me to hear how weak the voice in her head is. 

“I told you that I can read your mind right? You still have a life to live Bomi, without me.” I reminded her in case she’s forgetting that there’s no use in not answering me.

“I also told you that I don’t wan