Another chapter....hope everyone enjoys....
"It was....my time...please do not be sad...." He weakly brought his arm up to my face. "At least I die here...in the arms of a beautiful siren." I could tell he was teasing, that he didn't really want to die. I didn't know how to save him, how to make him like me if nothing else. I had been alone for 200 years but I didn't want to wish this curse upon anyone. Tears that I didn't have were cried out as the handsome man, Kim Junsu, died in my arms. I rocked back and forth, apologizing over and over. I don't know how long I stayed there, a day or two maybe, when I heard noises and realized I should leave quickly. I got up and dressed, thinking to take another bath soon from the blood caked onto me by the man now dead on the ground. I paused before leaving. 'Should...I take him with me? Does he...have anyone like I did? A family? He was out all alone at a late time of night...' I picked him up and sped off just as some people came crashing through the brush on the other side of the river. I ran until I couldn't run anymore, until it was daylight again, and was able to find a small cave to sit in to wait for darkness so I might bury this man. I felt bad, taking him from whatever family he had, but something drew me to him. I lay my head back and sighed, feeling hungry but not wanting to leave the body for the animals to dessicrate. It was then that I heard a noise, a sort of rasping sound. I looked into the cave a little deeper to see a little racoon mother and her babies moving around. I sighed and decided to go take my bath in the river again, this time without interruptions.
As I rinsed the drired blood I ran the whole scene from three days ago in my mind. 'Is there anything I could have done different? Anything to save this man?' I was going to have to wash his body before burying him and had I been human I would have blushed. As it was I was shy for no reason, being that no humans lived around here and could see me, or hear my thoughts. I heard a noise again but decided to ignore it this time, until I felt the water move. I stiffened and didn't move or breathe. I heard no heartbeat, smelled no blood, and didn't understand why the water would just move if there was nothing to make it. I sighed and convinced myself to be breave, it was probably nothing but my imagination yet again.I turned to see a fully dressed, bloody, ALIVE, Kim Junsu staring at me and looking awfully hungry.
"How...did you....how are you alive?" He seemed to snap out of his daze for a moment, and looked at me with surprise. "Miss? What am I doing here?" He seemed to notice my nudeness and stared until I got his attention.
"My...my face is up here. Please...stop staring." For some reason the thing that bothered me the most was not that I had killed someone who was now standing before me but that the someone I had killed was staring at me while I was naked. 'Wonder how messed up that would sound to anyone I told...' I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked to see him touching me, his face incredulous. I stilled even more than I ever thought I could as his hand traced along my collar bone and touched the side of my neck in the same area as the bite I had given him, then trailed his hand and cupped my face, pulling me closer, muttering to himself.
"Must be dead...hmmm but at least I am in Heaven..." He kissed me and I became mobile again, thinking only semi-clearly. I pushed him away, unwilling to do so but knowing I had to. "You aren't dead, Junsu-sshi. You...are like me now it seems." He shook his head and seemed to notice the fact that he was fully dressed but in bloody clothing. "What...happened to me?" I pushed him gently. "Get out and let me get out and dress and I will explain what I know to you."
In the present...
I stared at Bo with my jaw on the floor. "He did WHAT? He said...ohmygod Bo...." She smiled. "I know...ok let me finish!" The others just looked on, wondering what we were talking about no doubt. I nodded. "Yeah...sorry. Go ahead, continue!"
300 years ago...in the cave...
After explaining it to him I told him I didn't eat humans.
"What about me?" I didn't look at him. "You....that was my fault. I hadn't eaten and I haven't been around humans in almost 200 years...so I wasn't used to the alluring smell." I saw him smile out of the side of my vision.
"So...you think I smell alluring?" I stared at him in surprise, stuttering in my reply to deny his comment. "A-Ani...no of course not! Just...your human blood. Yeah only the human blood smelled alluring...to me..." I trailed off in thought. 'Even though you smell even better now...' I saw a strange look on his face, staying for a second before disappearing. Then a wide grin appeared. "So..you like the way I smell? DO you like the way I look too?" I scoffed. 'What an impish grin! AISH...getting on my nerves...Kim Junsu...' He continued to tease me for a century before he understood what I meant about alluring human blood. I would never tell him that that was only part of him that allured me.
A century later...
"Kim Bo-Ho-sshi! Help me...please help!" I looked to the mouth of the cave that we had lived in for the last 100 years to see Junsu holding a man who couldn't be much older than him. He dropped the handsome man at my feet gently. I saw blood on the man's collar and sighed. I bent down and ignored Junsu in the background, explaining about the smell and why he had attacked this man. I rolled him over so he was on his back and stared into his face. 'How handsome you are...soft face and hair...black as coal and so shiny...your lips are soft looking too...you look like a sleeping angel...little dongsaeng. Poor man...to die this way.' I sighed again and stood. I noticed Junsu was silent and looked up to see a strange look on his face, different from the one 100 years ago but no less confusing.
"Do you like him? He is very attractive isn't he? Too bad I killed him, maybe I could have brought him back for you and you could have seen his eyes, surely very beautiful, as you did mine when you decided to dine." I let the hurt fill my eyes before I looked away, motioning to the man. "He is still living. Barely. And no...I find someone else attractive but that person is not meant for me and will never know. And you will never know this person either. I think...we should change him. I don't know how I did it last time but here you are so I must have done something right. I think...you should bite him once or twice more, just in case. Bite, but don't drink. He doesn't have much left in him." I started to walk out.
"And why should I? Why should I doom another to this hellish life?" The hurt panged in my chest and I breathed in deeply. "Because it will be someone for you to stay with, a man to talk with and not a woman. And because...you did this to him in the first place." I walked away and stayed away for many days, becoming a few weeks, before I came back to see what Junsu had decided, to see if he would do well without me. Even though I knew it would hurt, I wanted to make sure that whether or not he had changed that man that night, he would be alright alone. Since his existance was so hellish I would leave him be, let him wander on his own or with his new friend, whichever seemed to be the case. I didn't find him at the cave so I went to the water and there is where I found him, having a water fight with the man who he had changed, looking for all the world like two friends who were just bathing together and having fun. I could see the mans eyes and I ad to admit they were beautiful and his laugh was a nice one but I couldn't keep my eyes off of Junsu, his back glistening with drops of water. I followed one said drop as it made its way down and it hit the water just above where his butt would be before I shook myself off and jumped down from the tree I was in and started away, knowing if I had been human I would have cried, but I was crying inside anyway. 'Guess I fell for him in the 100 years since I met him...stupid Bo...with your stupid feelings....stupid Kim Junsu....with your stupid inability to see my stupid feelings...AISH!'
In the present...
"But wait Bo...he is right here! So...you stayed with him then! And...who was the man he changed?" She just smiled.
OK that is enough for now...I am confused about a story I was reading and I have no patience to write right now...mian...anyway hope you liked and please review! ^.^
