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The man arrived at his brother's house after a few minutes, then waited for him to open the door when he knocked. He got no response the first time so he tried again, but there was still no one.

"Joowon, I'm here." He texted him and saw that his message was read, but not answered.

The door suddenly opened, allowing the man to let himself in.

"Brother? Seokjin? Hello?" He looked around the house. There are too many rooms in Joowon's house, Seokjin could be anywhere.

Namjoon found his brother with Seokjin moments later, ending his anxiety and angst.

"Namjoon, there you are. It took you long enough." Joowon said.

"Why didn't you answer my text? I've been knocking on the door for ages." Namjoon went over to Seokjin, hugging him. In response to the embrace, the vampire pulled away and just stood by Namjoon's side without making eye contact with him.

"Seokjin..." He noticed that the vampire was keeping direct eye contact with the blank wall.

"Are you listening to me, Joon?" Joowon raised his voice, alarming Namjoon.

"Say it again." His brother passed by Seokjin and stroked his hair gently.

"Let's go to the living room. Seokjin, darling please stay here." Namjoon felt the jealousy building up inside of him by hearing Joowon give a new pet name to Seokjin as if he was his property.

They sat down. Namjoon knew he had to speak what was on his mind or it would bother him for the rest of the day.

"What's with the names? Didn't I tell you to stop doing that?" His brother nods.

"My bad. I can't restrain myself from calling him cute names. Why didn't you tell me he was a vampire?" Namjoon got up.

"That's something you didn't need to know of. Seokjin! We're leaving!"

The man shyly walked out of the room he was in, blinking frequently with confusion.

"Yes, sir." He stood far from both of the men, watching them in silence. His attitude reminded Namjoon of when he first met him, because Seokjin was acting as if they were complete strangers to each other.

"Seokjin, I'll be seeing you around." Joowon caressed Seokjin's chin. Namjoon held onto the man to keep him away from his brother.

He stayed silent as he walked with Namjoon.

"Get in." Namjoon opened the car door.

"I told you not to get mad, Joonie." The man saw Joowon standing behind him.

To prevent things from getting worse, he got away from Namjoon's brother and got in the car.

Namjoon started the engine and drove off.

"Seokjin, why did you tell Joowon that you were a vampire?"

"I told you, did I not? Joowon is your brother and I think that he should know as well."

The young man continued to drive in silence.

Seokjin didn't say anything else.

A loud warning on Namjoon's phone startled both of them. Namjoon was going to switch lanes and couldn't see what the message read, so Seokjin read it for him.

"Thunder storm warning for this afternoon ending late in the evening including: Heavy rain, strong wind gusts, thunder, and possible power outages." They both looked at each other.

"We'll stay indoors, it'll be fine." Namjoon took his eyes off of Seokjin for one minute to take a turn.

The amount of speed caused a cup of coffee to tip over and splash on top of Seokjin. He flinched at the heat of the drink. Namjoon handed him over a few napkins for him to get cleaned up. His clothes became very sticky after he was all dried.

Drops of rain began to stain the widows of the car, signalling that the storm was nearby.

Thankfully enough, they made it home just one time before it began to rain heavily. Seokjin took his shoes off before Namjoon did, and headed straight to the bathroom.

"I'm going to take a shower." Namjoon heard him from far away since he was still in the hallway outside of the living room, placing his shoes on the carpet.

"Don't take too long, it's dangerous to shower when it's thundering!" He warned. Seokjin obeyed and left.

The bathroom was cold, so the man turned the shower on before getting inside and forgot he left the blow dryer on. He usually likes to blow dry his hair after he washes it. When he got in, he felt all of his stress wash away with the warm water.

He relaxed himself for a while, pouring the body wash on him. Namjoon entered the bathroom about five minutes later.

"Seokjin, be careful. The thunderstorm is getting stronger and it could harm you to be in there for too long." Seokjin didn't seem to listen because the pressure of the showerhead was very loud and distracting.

"Did you hear me?" The lights began to flicker. Namjoon was about to leave when he noticed that a cable near his apartment had been struck by a thunderbolt.

Seokjin felt startled by the lightning, but it never stopped him from getting cleaned up in the shower. By the time the man had finished, he realized the floor of the shower was slippery and tried to clean it up by turning the water on again.

Big mistake. Just as his feet touched the water, the power went out and the house lit up from the lightening outside.

The cable of the blow dryer was slipping from the sink.

"Are you ready to come out? The power seemed to have gone out. I'm not surprised, the light is always going out with any tiny storm." Namjoon used his flashlight to see better.

He kept on hearing water drip, he was guessing it was coming from the same shower.

The blow dryer slipped and fell inside of the shower. The shower that Seokjin was still inside of.

"Get out!!" Namjoon opened the door, pulling Seokjin out of the shower.

He wrapped a towel around the man's shaking body, helping him stand up.

Seokjin couldn't stand on his own. In a matter of seconds, he was on the floor again.

Namjoon was frightened. He took the man to the living room and sat him down on the couch.

"Breathe." Seokjin coughed when the doctor put his stethoscope over his chest to hear his heart.

"Dr. Kim, I'm getting water all over the couch." The man's teeth were chattering from how cold he was.

"You're alive. That's all that matters." He put his stethoscope down, brining the man closer to him.

Seokjin refused his embrace, standing up. Namjoon watched him head back to the bathroom and followed behind him.

"I'm going to put my clothes on. They're in there." He went in the bathroom and got Seokjin's clothes for him.

"Go put them on upstairs, it's safer upstairs." Seokjin nodded, going upstairs.

"Why does he keep avoiding me?" Namjoon felt disappointed that the man kept escaping his arms whenever he wanted to give him a hug.

Something wasn't right...

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