Unexpected
Chapter 1
Sho walked in to the apartment he shared with Kei, securing the door behind him with each of the seven locks on it. A little security is always good in a place like Mallepa, especially when one is in the business of robbing major gang headquarters. Sho walked around the apartment for a moment to see if his vampiric friend was there, but sighed when he found a note on the coffee table. "Went out for a walk. Be back later. –Kei" Sho just shook his head and sighed again, crumpling the note up in his hand and tossing it into the nearest
trash can.
He knew better.
Kei hadn't fed lately, not in at least a week or so. It always tore Sho up inside to see Kei starve himself like that, but every time he brought it up he always got the same reply. "I live by taking the lives of others. Do you have any idea what that's like? Sometimes I can't bear it. So I go without… a starvation diet." Sho couldn't bear it either, but he'd rather he take a life or two than see his best friend… the man he loved, starve himself. With that thought Sho felt a little bit better, then sat down on the couch and turned on the T.V. waiting for Kei to return.
Kei couldn't stand it anymore. The hunger had finally taken over him, he needed to get out and find a poor soul with nothing left for themselves to feed on. He went straight to the only place he knew of where he could find someone like that easily. The old abandoned apartment building, in the worst area of Mallepa, had been overrun by bums and whores that had nowhere else to live. Most of them were just waiting to die anyways, so Kei thought to himself as being their savior, coming to end their miserable lives.
He slipped through the shadows, carefully observing those he came across, trying to find the right one to kill. He finally found an old man behind a dumpster, coughing up a lung. Kei saw by the moonlight how pale he was and could tell he didn't have long to live here. He quickly latched his arm around him and sunk his fangs into his neck before the man even knew what was going on. Kei slowly drained the man's sweet warm blood from his neck, and before he knew it the man had stopped struggling and fell limp.
He licked a few drops of blood from his lips before turning around to find a young girl standing against the wall across from him, just staring at him. She stood a little shorter than him, her clothes slightly dirtied and torn, her brown hair tousled. He searched her wide hazel eyes a moment before finally asking, "Aren't you afraid?" She merely shook her head, then fell to the ground in tears. "Please take my life too, I beg of you. Free me from this wretched world of nothing but pain and torture. Please!" she sobbed. Kei kneeled in front of her and took her shaking shoulders, and she looked at him with tears streaming down her face. "I could not do that to you. You're far too young, and still have a future. I would never take the life of someone so young." She shook her head and cried more. "No you don't understand. I have no future here. My family left a long time ago, and I have no money to take care of myself. When I go out into the city people stare at me strangely, and the men… the men beat me and use me as they please. I can't stand it anymore! I just want to die!" she sobbed even harder. Kei took her into his arms and pressed her against his chest, stroking her back soothingly. "I know how you feel. A long time ago I wanted to die too," he admitted to her, "but I will not take your life. I just can't do it. I'm sorry." She just cried harder into his chest, until she finally wore herself out and fell asleep in his arms.
Sho didn't even realize he had already fallen asleep until he heard the door close. Knowing it was Kei, he immediately woke up and turned from his position on the couch to greet him with a smile. "Hey Kei… umm, what's that you're carrying?" he asked, noticing Kei had something in his arms. "Shh," he replied, "She fell asleep in my arms, and I couldn't just leave her behind." Sho got up and walked towards the vampire, "Who Kei?" "I found her by the abandoned apartments. Sho, she saw me feed. She wanted me to take her life too. When I told her I couldn't she cried, and while I was trying to comfort her she fell asleep. I couldn't just leave her there, I had to do something to help her out." Sho just looked at him with a puzzled look, then Kei looked at him with pleading eyes. "Sho, do you think she could stay with us? Even if only for a little while. Just please, I can't leave her to the streets. Please Sho?" Sho just looked at him and smiled, "If you insist." Kei smiled, showing off his fangs, and kissed Sho on the cheek before carrying the girl off to put her to bed. Sho just stood there and touched his cheek before turning bright red and heading to his room for the night.
Kei laid the girl down on the futon in his room and covered her up before resigning to the horridly uncomfortable couch in the living room. As he slowly started drifting off to sleep, amidst his thoughts of the earlier events, he stopped for a moment and realized something. He kissed Sho. His only friend and companion. The man he had loved for years now, and he had just kissed him without thinking twice about it. It may have only been on the cheek, but still… it was a kiss. He blushed for a moment before finally fell asleep.
Yay! I finally started writing again! I'm sorry for not really finishing that other MC story yet... I highly doubt I will now... But yeah, whaddya think so far?