chapter 2

He kept coming closer, too close, so I started backing up, and he just kept coming closer while I kept backing up.

I didn't realise the bed was now behind me and ended up falling on the bed, and he came right on top of me.

Why does he smell so good?

He kept his hands on each side, trapping me and locking his eyes on mine.

"You've got some really nice brown eyes," he says as he stares into my soul.

Just then, and suddenly, he rolled over to the side and covered me up with the comforter, also covering himself and placing a pillow between us. I should be the one doing that.

"Jalja," he says in Korea and turned off the light. What the hell does that even mean, lying in the same bed with a stranger, never thought that would ever happen, worst is that he is painfully sooo handsome and how can I just sleep in.....in...

My eyes began to feel very heavy as my migraine got worse I needed sleep, rest, and just like that I blacked out.

******Some minutes later*****

I turned over in bed and opened my eyes, only to find myself alone.

"Great! It was all a dream" I said to myself and sat up.

I was feeling thirsty. Everywhere was still dark. I took the glass beside me on the bedside table and drank some water from it, I then lay back on the bed to sleep, but just then, I felt something or someone breathing down on my neck. I froze and quickly turned, then found something lying right behind me. I could only see two red glowing dots, like someone's eyes, and perfectly in time, the moon shone through the curtains, and then I saw the black hair and knew it was a person.

I rolled off the bed immediately screaming but the person kept lying there and looking down at me. I crawled backwards trying hard not to cry but then I hit my back against someone and quickly looked up. Glowing red iris, the same person who was lying on the bed, was now standing right behind me.

I screamed and made a run for the door turning the knob but it would not open.

I turned it, shaking, pushing and banging, but it still changed nothing about it being locked.

I was scared. So scared. A stream of hot tears began flowing down my cheek. "HELP ME!!!" I screamed as more tears flowed.

I turned back, looking around the room, but then it was empty. No one was here anymore I was almost relieved till I felt that same breath against my neck again I fell and rolled under the bed covering my mouth with my trembling hands trying to at least stay hidden from whatever or whoever it was. I could hear movements around the room.

My heart was racing so fast. I was scared. I couldn’t even think straight. All I hope for is that I survive the night.

After a while, I couldn’t hear noise anymore, which means it was gone.

I took a deep breath of relief and turned to come out from under the bed but found a face inches from mine right in front of me with that same iris I screamed and tried getting up immediately forgetting I was underneath the bed and ended up hitting my head against the bed frame and blacked out. I am so dead now.

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I woke up and found myself lying down on top of the soft bed even covered with the comforter. So this means all those things that happened were only a dream?

Man, I sure have the weirdest dream. I just want to go back home to mummy and daddy.

That dream scared the hell out of me.

I looked towards the window, which was properly covered with a curtain, but I could tell it was already daytime. I wanted to get up but felt someone holding on to my hand. I turned and found that cute stranger from one of my dreams. I rubbed my eyes and realised I was not dreaming. So he really came last night.

I kept looking down at his sleeping face. He looked so handsome even while sleeping. Plus, his blossom pink lips. He was sleeping so soundly next to me, like a baby, and yet not letting go of my hand.

Wait..... we slept on the same bed yesterday.

I quickly touched my body and thighs. My underwear was still on, and I wasn't feeling any pain between my legs. I sighed, looking back at him. Surprisingly, he really didn't do anything.

Why the hell is he so cute, though? I thought but then snapped out of it and began hitting him lightly.

"Hey!!" I yelled, but he was still sleeping

"Hey!! Wake up and get out of my house!!" I yelled louder, and he finally moved, rubbing his eyes, and then opening them, looking up at me.

Look at those black, cute eyes. Jeez, God really took his sweet time creating this guy. Yeah, we saw a lot of cute Korean guys while we toured around, but man, after seeing this guy..... I don't think those other guys really deserved the "cute" we threw at them.

Ahhhhh, stop it, Angela!!

"Good morning," he said as he yawned. His still behaving like he owns where I live.

"Are you serious right now?!! shouldn't you be like...on your way out right now?" I asked, but he just covered his ear with a pillow.

"Come on, just let me sleep for a while," he said and closed his eyes.

"Ohh no, you don't," I say as I get down from the bed, walk towards the window holding on to the curtains, I open them, so that the bright morning sun won't let him sleep but instead...

"Ahhhhhhh!" I heard him yell in pain as he fell off the bed I quickly ran to the other side of the bed where he lay on the floor covering half of his face with his hands.

"What's the matter?" I asked worriedly but he wouldn’t look at me and only hid his face from me.

I looked towards the open curtains and ran over closing them shut, then went back to him and yet he still had half his face with his hands. But just then, I spotted some burns from behind his hands.

I was confused remembering that he never had any burns. I would know after how long I stared at him sleeping. How? How did this happen?

I pulled his hands off his face and fell backwards in fright as I looked at his heavily burned face.

Half his face was burnt so badly that u would hardly recognise him i gasp in shock as I covered my mouth.

You would think he was burned in a terrible fire accident.

"Don't! Don't look at me!" he said as he looked away.

His aura had changed from being all smart and cunning to just being in pain. I don't know how I could tell but I could.

"You weren't supposed to see me this way," he says but softly.

"I guess I had let my guard down around you" he added as he clenched his fist standing up and taking a step towards me but I unconsciously moved back.

He stopped and let out a dry laugh.

"Just say it. Call me a monster already" he says but I kept shut as I only stared at him.

My hands were trembling but I hid them. I was scared.

"Call me a monster damn it!!" he yelled making me flinch.

"Don't tell me what to do damn it!!" I yelled back angrily. He wants me to call him a monster, why?

For some reason, I felt guilty for the state he was in right now. But who would just suddenly get burnt by the sun? No human would..... wait, no human would. Does that mean he isn't human?

"Is he really an evil spirit sent to me by my village people?" I asked myself as I looked around

"That again? You have to be kidding me" I heard him say as he sat down on the bed wearing his sneakers then took off his hoodie about to leave.

"Tell me," I said as I joined the pieces together even if the possibility surely is zero.

"Are you a vampire?" I asked. Of course, vampires don't exist, they are just cooked-up stories people make up in movies and Novels to get money or audience.

They can't be real. And yet, I have read in Novels that they get burnt by sunlight.

He froze on the spot at my question but he didn't say a word.

I stood up slowly and walked towards him then stood in front of him keeping a perfect distance between us afraid that he might do something.

"You aren't a monster you are just some dumb stranger who barged into my house and got injured due to my carelessness," I said not really thinking straight but I said whatever came to mind. Regardless of him being a vampire or whatever creature he is, he still is in pain and his laugh and voice just say pain nonstop and I can't stand it.

I just have a stupidly soft heart and yeah it's annoying sometimes and it feels like a curse at times as well.

But I just can't ignore the feelings, it hurts when I try to.

He looks at me finally looking directly at me but with shock in his eyes. I stepped even closer and was finally a bit closer to him.

"Does it hurt?" I ask as I forward my hand to touch it but I remembered it would hurt him more and redrew.

"Stop it," he says as he takes a step back

"You know what, just imagine that I was never here and I am sorry for whatever trouble I had caused you it's better you don't get anymore closer or you would be putting yourself in danger."

He took some steps back and opened my door.

I stood there still thinking about what he had said till I remembered that he had just finished getting burnt and was still going out to get even worse.

I ran after him, just when he was about to open the main door, I stepped in front of him, locked the door and pushed him towards the couch. "What are you doing?" he asked almost angrily as he stopped shoving his hands out of mine.

"Do you seriously wanna mess with me? I am a Vampire" he said

"I drink human blood to survive" he added with a smirk but I rolled my eyes.

"As long as you aren't a vampire from Nigeria you think I give a damn? At least put some sunscreen on before stepping out of this house. Regardless of how you barged into my house and also not revealing your weakness before I opened up those curtains, I am still feeling very much guilty for how your face is right now"

I walked over to the shelves and found the sunscreen that Katrina had left behind. I took it and sat him down then opened it and began applying it to him.

He was quite all through. Not running his mouth like he was.

Just then he grabbed my hand stopping me from applying the cream further "Are you sure you should let your guard down like this? I am a monster after....."

His remaining words died on his lips as my lips quickly touched his giving him a quick kiss on the lip.

"see... I would never kiss a monster, and I sacrificed my first kiss just to prove it"

I continued applying the sunscreen ignoring his very shocked expression, at the same time, I was trying hard not to think about how soft his lips were on mine and how cute his reaction was when I kissed him.

His injury suddenly began to heal up and his face was suddenly back to normal. I was shocked as I watched it heal with my own eyes.

"Uhhh what's happening?" I ask

"I can heal myself of minor injuries"

Minor? he is calling half of his face being burnt sooo seriously minor? If it were a normal human being, even plastic surgery wouldn't help them.

After a while, I was done and stood up to keep the sunscreen back, but he caught my hand stopping me from walking.

"What? Did I miss any spots while applying the sunscreen to you?" I asked but he just kept staring at me.

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