I woke up in the morning as the sun was already up over the horizon. My headache was gone and the bruises on my stomach have disappeared. My neck didn't feel the soreness from the bite that happen just last night.
Looking over my shoulder, Shuu quietly slept behind me with his music in and without a shirt. His face was still stern looking even when he slept. But his facial features are physically beautiful. I couldn't stop staring at him in awe. I then lightly brush his hair out of his face and run it down the side of his face. His breathing suddenly became ragged and he mumbles something in his sleep.
"Edgar…"
"Edgar?" I tilt my head in confusion as he began to clench the sheets around him. "Shuu."
His eyelids shot open and his blue eyes shook in fear, from a nightmare. His breathing completely stopped and his eyes darted around the room until they met mine. He closes his eyes again and sighs.
"Sorry." He apologizes before sitting up in bed.
I also sit up with him and set my hand on his arm. "Who's Edgar?" Shuu doesn't say anything as he looks the opposite way from me and out the balcony.
"He..." He began to speak but hesitates before completing. "He was an old friend. But…. He died in a fire."
"I'm sorry. Must have been hard."
"I tried to save him but…. He made me wait for him. He wanted to go and save his parents. But… he just ran off... into the fire…"
Shuu began to shake as he finished speaking as though he was remembering that day. It must have been hard on him. His old friend risking his life to kill himself for his parents. Shuu tried to save him but he didn't. I slowly wrap my arms around his shoulders and lean in to press my lips against his temple. We stood like that in silence for a minute before I lean my face into his neck and I smelt a little hint of lavender.
"You're the first person I have ever told." Shuu confirms out of the blue, making me look up at him and seeing him looking down at me with a blank expression. "Guessing you really do make a big affect on people." I smile up to him, triggering a small smile to spread on his face. Leaning down, he kisses me deeply on the lips, causing me to gasp.
"Shuu, we have to go down to get breakfast." I tell him.
"I think I already have my breakfast in front of me." A grin appears on his face as he crawls on top of me and continues to kiss me harder and deeper.
~*~*~*~ Call Me Sane ~*~*~*~
"So you do this most of the school day?" I ask Shuu as we sat on the staircase leading to the third floor.
"Yes. But sometimes if I like the class then I would hang out there for a while. But if it's chaotic, then I would usually go to the music room." He replies to me as he sat on a step down from where I was sitting.
We were both leaning against the purple wall of the stairway leading to the third floor of the school. Shuu suggested that I should just skip today with him, but I was reluctant because I actually like school, to be honest. I don't think I have ever missed or skipped a day.
"Oh. I heard about that. Someone told me that you claimed the music room."
"I'm a second year senior. No one could do anything about me not getting what I want."
"Hm." I nod before I leaned my head back and relaxed to Shuu's music.
"Hey!" Then suddenly hearing an annoyed voice coming from the bottom of the steps, I turn my head to see a tall man with hair up in a messy ponytail. He wore the uniform quite messily and had the uniform jacket hanging from his elbows.
"Just ignore him." Shuu quietly whispers to me.
"Hey, you stupid NEET!" He walks up to him and gets into Shuu's face. "You're in my way."
"I can sit here if I want." He calmly replies.
"What?" The man finally notices me and stares at me with a strange look on his face. Without saying another word, we broke eye contact and he steps over Shuu's legs and continues up the stairs.
"Who's he?" I ask Shuu as I saw him leave my sights.
"Yuma Mukami." He answers. "Third eldest of four. Ruki, Kou, and Azusa."
"He has a… strange scent to himself." I look to the direction where Yuma walked and sniffed the air.
"Well, have you never smelt a half-human before?"
"Half-human?" I ask.
"The Mukami brothers are all half-vampires and half-mortals."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"That's interesting about him. But I was thinking about something else."
