Chapter 180 - Visitor Of Night-II

Seoyeon knew what he meant and the question he laid under his words. If Jung Hwa wasn't here she thought and the Ifs had stayed in her mind for a very long time. Her eyes that looked at him was with a positive light. At their first meeting she hadn't seen Jung Hwa at a good light instead, the worse. The day after and after, she learned more about him, finding that not all about him was bad but instead, he was the person with the brightest intention for her.

"You know," Seoyeon started and when she saw Jung Hwa's eyes at her, she want to turn her eyes from him that gazed intensely to the depth of her heart. There was the light on Jung Hwa's eyes that Seoyeon find it hard to look at for a long time and she want to turn her eyes away but she couldn't. "Maybe you think it is bound to happen for me to lean on you because you are the only person I could put my faith on. But you know I wouldn't do... that just because I believe you."

When she spoke, the car suddenly stopped, surprising Seoyeon and she heard a click from Jung Hwa's side to see that he unbuckled the seatbelt. Jung Hwa leaned forward to her side, catching her hand when she was about to run.

"Where are you going?" He questioned her. Jung Hwa spoke as if he was trying to hold something back from his words and Seoyeon could tell but she didn't know what he was holding back on.

"No where, I am here, you see? In the car, the cramped place like a cage," she stated the obvious and her tone that sounded like she was trying to rescue herself couldn't help but to make Jung Hwa to chuckled.

"Brave of you to say a cage, should I cage you?" Jung Hwa questioned as if it was a question and Seoyeon's eyes snapped wide.

"Don't joke about it," she retorted and when she found his expression she put a smile, "I know you mean about fifty percent of the words you said. It's clear from your eyes."

Jung Hwa chuckled, "You have a slight mistake on your percentage, I mean about seventy five percent of my words." Was that a good thing to say? wondered Seoyeon while seeing him moving forward.

Was he going to kiss her again? Seoyeon hold tight to her skirt and loosened when she saw how close his lips were.

Yet the kiss didn't come and his voice appeared instead, "Will you continue your words from earlier? The one where you say you would not do 'it'. What wouldn't you do just because you believe in me?"

"I mean that..." Seeing the glint on his eyes, Seoyeon surrendered and replied, "The kiss. I wouldn't kiss you just because you are the only one I believe on."

"Hm, so you have other reason? Because I am handsome enough for you to kiss?" asked Jung Hwa only to see Seoyeon making an objective expression. "I don't know even if you glare at me intensely unless your pretty lips speak."

Seoyeon bit her lips while staring at his ardent glint in his eyes, "I think... I am getting close to what you are thinking." She replied and quickly say, "Will we stay here on the car the entire night? I am sleepy," her entire face was red with the embarrassment. She turned her face to the window to see the glass that had turned black and met eyes with Jung Hwa who was staring at her. His smile was stretched broad with the glee he felt.

"I am not going to let you go after saying the words," Jung Hwa stated and Seoyeon pursed her lips, "But I will do today because I know how emotional painstaking it was to hear you are not the being you are and unravel your uncle and aunt's terrible misunderstanding. Also you wouldn't taste good to be eaten if you are tired."

"I think there is plenty of blood bag for you." As much as Seoyeon appreciate Jung Hwa's help and would do the same to him, she didn't think she could offer her neck.

"I don't mean that kind of 'eat' but well, you will know it later," and with that they began to drove back home. As if knowing what kind of a rough day Seoyeon faced today, Alfred cooked up an entire table worth of food. But she knew the older man had cooked because she was feeling pleasant that someone other than Jung Hwa had stayed in the house.

While eating, unlike yesterday Jung Hwa ate with her. Seoyeon recall about his words, where he needed no food to live and know that he ate for her sake. Somewhere, she felt warmth and fuzzy with Jung Hwa's action that speak as loud as his words and sometimes louder. While she ate, from time to times, she met Jung Hwa's eyes that stared at her constantly.

Seoyeon could have told him not to stare at her but the gaze he use didn't hurt her and it bear no evil intention of a judging look. And he was eating today, making Seoyeon to feel less tensed than the day before where he only stare at her.

It was late when Seoyeon finally slept on her bed. She closed her eyes trying to fall asleep bit with the tons of information she received today, it made her hard to sleep. After tossing and turning around the bed, she pushed herself and turned the light beside her bed that was bright enough to illuminate the side of her bed and the surrounding within it.

Walking from the bed, Seoyeon took the books she received from Jung Hwa and came to take a seat on the bed. Resting her back, Seoyeon began to read the books to fill her mind in hope while she was reading she would feel drowsy.

The clock beside the lamp turn from twelve at night to one and Seoyeon being a fast reader finished the book about vampire. Like witches, vampire had no origin. They were stated to appear at some centuries in the past, meaning long before there were more vampires than now. But they were still here today, mingling with the human. "Could it be all vampires hid themselves for a reason?"

"Correct." Seoyeon heard the sudden voice and she threw the book on her hand toward where she heard the voice out of reflex, only to realize later that she had thrown a book on Jung Hwa. "I know you are passionate that I came to your room but would you not throw a book on me?"

"I didn't do it intentionally, I was surprised," Seoyeon explained, feeling sorry that she had thrown the book even though it wasn't her fault.

"I will be hurt if you do," Jung Hwa said as he walked toward where Seoyeon was sitting at, the shadows over his body slowly disappeared when he came closer. On one of his hand was the book Seoyeon had thrown that he caught in time effortlessly.

"What are you doing in my room?" Seoyeon pressed the word 'my'. Jung Hwa had really surprised her! She could still feel her loud heartbeat thumping in her chest. When she heard a sudden voice in her room, she thought it was ghost of some sort after seeing the fortune teller whispering alone.

"To sleep," after admiring Seoyeon's cat like eyes that frowned on him Jung Hwa chuckled, "I came to check on you. I don't think after hearing the fortune teller's words today you could fall asleep easily and I hit the nail on the mark. What were you reading?"

"The vampire's story," answered Seoyeon while Jung Hwa turning his head to look at the book on his hand that was titled 'Vampires'. Seeing Jung Hwa here, she felt less unsettled like when she was alone surrounded by the dark. "I don't know if the book is completed but reading it only raise more questions in my head."

"I don't like the book much myself, but this is the basic I think you deserve to know," replied Jung Hwa and he took a seat near her leg, on the side of the bed. "I feel like the writer is trying to make a point by being subtle about it," Seoyeon questioned in her mind whether it was true when he continued, "I know some people could write rubbish about witches, vampires, and hunters but the author of the book is alluding their words to say something but can't be clear about it."

Seoyeon with her curiously asked, "Did you find out what they are trying to say?" While reading the books she does feel puzzles in it but she didn't caught the slightest impression the writer was going to summarized something subtly.

"Only a few, I didn't put much thought when searching for the clues," answered Jung Hwa.

"Tell me about it," Seoyeon gave him a look of curiosity. Jung Hwa couldn't help but feel delight that Seoyeon had talked with him and asked him of questions. It would be better if he know everything. That way, Seoyeon would only have him as her only source of answer.

"A few such as, witches came before vampire," Jung Hwa shifted his eyes to read the book on his hand, opening the pages aimlessly.

"How do you know that?" After reading two volumes, Seoyeon didn't found anything that say witches came before vampire. She thought that vampire appeared at the same time as humans, meaning they were the last.

"The volume order and the choose of words. The writers chose vampire in the middle and hunters at the last because hunters appear far later than vampires; they were created to put an end to hollowed vampires and even vampires at the time, including witches." Seoyeon didn't thought the clues would start from the order of the volume and she looked amazed on Jung Hwa. "Don't you notice how the author use the word vampire 'appear' while witches born at the same time of humans?"

"Then the witches born at the same time humans were and vampires appear after. There is no proof vampires are born at the same time of humans," Seoyeon summarized.

"Yes if they were born at the same time, the author could have wrote the three of the, born at the same time. I think vampires are hiding something about their own birth," said Jung Hwa as if he wasn't a vampire himself. "Do you want to know more?"

Seoyeon nodded, "Do you know more?"

"Yes but in exchange, I will get a kiss on every question you ask," Jung Hwa met Seoyeon's eyes with a serious look as if he was haggling fruits on the market.

"I think I can sleep now," saying this, Seoyeon rest on her bed, pushing the book on the desk beside her and pulled the blanket.

"Good night," Jung Hwa wished her but he didn't move from the side of her bed and Seoyeon held the hem of the blanket near her chin while looking at his gentle expression while reading the book on his hand.

"You will not leave?" she asked with a hesitation. Truthfully having Jung Hwa beside her, make her ten folds in ease than being alone.

Jung Hwa tear his gaze from the book, his eyes softly looking at Seoyeon who was sleeping on a bed, very close for him to push but on the condition she was, he didn't want to do anything on her. "I will leave once you fell asleep. Just dream of a good memories," saying the words, Jung Hwa reached out his hand toward her eyes to close her eyelids.

Somewhere there was the warmth on Jung Hwa's hand that make Seoyeon to feel familiar. The drowsiness she didn't feel creep to her body and her eyes closed to fall asleep.

Jung Hwa stared at her expression, closing the book with one hand. After Seoyeon had fallen to a deep sleep, his eyes stared at Seoyeon who had fallen asleep peacefully and his smile appeared. Jung Hwa got up from the bed, pulling the blanket to cover her, he carefully brush her hair from her forehead and kiss the temple of her head without waking her up.

Catching the sign of life outside the room even though Alfred had left the house, Jung Hwa went out from the room, walking to the living room. He saw how the lights that were switched on had turned off to leave the room in pitch darkness.

He stood there languidly, "I was thinking when you will come out, hunter." On his words, a sharp gleam of the end of a sword came against Jung Hwa's neck. Regardless of the predicament he was in, Jung Hwa appeared to be at ease. "What is your business to be in my home late at night?"

Jung Hwa's eyes dipped to red color and his eyes stared at the mirror that showed the appearance of the man who was holding daggers next to his neck.

"Shut up, vampire!" The moonlight passed from the curtain, showing the youthful face of the young man who had come with the intention of killing.. "Give me back my sister!" he demanded.