It was Thursday when it began to snow. It covered Yellow Wood under a light white blanket of snow over night, which let some creatures wish they had taken out their winter coats sooner. Jisung was walking on his own to school because Seungmin kind of ditched him because he said that he needed to prove something and just ran off leaving the blue-haired warlock by himself. He was kind of used to Seungmin doing this but that didn't mean he was okay with it. It sometimes really hurt to be just ditched by your best friend.

"Hello, squirrel", he heard a voice beside his ear and he immediately jumped to the side in fright. It must have been Jisung's luck because he also tripped and nearly fell onto the cold, snowy ground but someone kept him from it by grabbing his hand and pulling him up, holding him until he regained his balance. Jisung looked at the person, who had caused his fall but also saved him from hitting the ground. It was non other than Lee Minho.

"Minho-hyung you scared me and when will you stop calling me squirrel?", the warlock complained and lightly hit the older's shoulder in protest. Minho just laughed as response. It sounded sincere and honest and cute, which made Jisung seriously debate between hitting Minho again for laughing or internally dying because his laugh was adorable and he looked so much more handsome while he was laughing even though that sounded funny.

It took Jisung a little too long to decide because Minho slowly stopped laughing and started to smirk because the younger was kind of staring at him. "Like what you see, cutie?", he teased. Jisung looked away immediately. "Nope", he answered while trying very hard to hide his slowly rising blush by just walking a bit faster. He hadn't know Minho for too long but sometimes the cat hybrid called him cutie randomly and he had no idea how to react to that or even how to interpret it but the warlock also questioned why Minho managed to always catch him off guard.

"Are you blushing, squirrel?" Minho teased Jisung again, matching his faster easily. The warlock hit his shoulder again. "I'm not blushing, not even remotely", the blue-haired male denied, crossing his arms over his chest and looking to the ground. He was obviously lying but when Minho would continue teasing him he would make the cold responsible for his rosy cheeks but the cat hybrid just laughed again, which only made it harder for Jisung to hide that he was flustered.

After a while of just walking beside each other, Jisung noticed that Felix was nowhere to be seen. Normally Minho and Felix went nearly everywhere together like they were connected by the hip. "Where is Felix? Is he sick or something?", he asked Minho, looking at the older. "Oh, he caught a cold. Nothing too serious, happens every year around this time", Minho answered casually, seemingly being not very worried about his younger brother. The blue-haired warlock made an "Oh" sound. "I hope he gets well soon", he added, looking back at the way ahead but still glancing at Minho for a short moment. "Me too. A sick Felix is a very clingy Felix", Minho agreed, chuckling a little bit. Jisung couldn't help but laugh a little too.

The two continued to talk about random things until they reached the school building and had to part ways to go to their classes. If Jisung was honest with himself if Minho didn't tease him he really liked talking with the older male. It was different when he talked with Seungmin since they alway goofed around or planned a new prank but with Minho he could just talk over things that randomly came to his mind and the older would listen with an adorable little smile on his face like he was really interested in the things Jisung told him.

When Jisung arrived at the classroom Seungmin was already seated at his spot, talking with Hyunjin and Jeongin a little bit. Jisung just join them, greeting all three with a little smile while ignoring the feeling of being replaced, which loomed over his heart like a curse. Seungmin would never replace him. They had been friends for far to long.

At break Jisung, Seungmin, Hyunjin and Jeongin met up with Chan, Byungho and Minho, who were already seated at the table they usually sat at when the younger four arrived. Jisung sat down next to Minho for once because Felix wasn't here, leaving the spot to Minho's right free.

Jisung couldn't remember how but over the last two weeks he spend a lot of time with this little group and they kind of became friends or at least they became familiar with each other. Seungmin seemed to like to be friends with Hyunjin and Jeongin and didn't mind spending time with his older brother Byungho. Sometimes they were joined by Samuel too.

Jisung didn't really know how he felt about Samuel's sudden appearance since for a long time he had thought that Seungmin was the youngest one of his siblings but apparently he was wrong about that and the redhead just never talked about his younger brother. Still, the strangest thing was that Samuel was a siren and not a warlock like Seungmin and Byungho, which made Jisung question which of Seungmin's parents was a siren but then why would Seungmin be excited to have a siren like Hyunjin in his class. This was overall confusing for Jisung but over the years of being friends with Seungmin they had made this unspoken rule of not questioning the other or talk about things like family.

The young warlock lightly shook his head to finally focus on the things in front of him. He knew Seungmin was a good guy and would never harm him intentionally, so why should he worry so much about the redhead having secrets.

"Everything, alright?", he heard Minho ask quietly beside him. Jisung looked to the cat hybrid, who seemed a little bit worried, which let Jisung's chest feel unusually warm. "I am. Don't worry", he answered and smiled a little bit to show Minho that he really was okay. The cat hybrid still seemed a bit worried but didn't ask again and focused back on the main conversation of the group, which was basically Hyunjin whining because of how hard Math was.

"Chan-hyung please help", Hyunjin whined, looking at the wolf hybrid with pleading eyes. Chan seemed like he had a hard time saying no to the siren. "Please help with with math. I know you are good at it", Hyunjin continued to whine. "I'm not that good. Mr. Sohn is just an amazing teacher", the wolf hybrid argued. Byungho lightly shook his head that, sipping on his drink.

"Please can't you help me study for the next test even though we have another math teacher? I sucked at the last test and my mum will kill me if I do bad at the next one too", the siren almost begged. Chan sighed in surrender. "Alright I will help you", the wolf hybrid finally gave in. Hyunjin's eyes lit up immediately. "Thank you so much, hyung", the siren thanked the wolf hybrid and smiled brightly. Chan couldn't help but smile lightly too.

Jisung had no clue if that was really the only thing they had talked about when he spaced out but it seemed like it. The warlock let his eyes wander over the group a little bit until his eyes fell onto Seungmin, who seemed to be on the look out for someone but who?

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Seungmin looked around the cafeteria while the others talked with each other. The redhead was looking for a certain vampire. He spotted him sitting among the others vampires on their usual table.

"Is something wrong, Seungmin?" the redhead heard Jisung ask. The redhead turned his attention to Jisung. He didn't get what Jisung was saying at first but realized that his friend was worried a little bit when he looked into the warlock's blue eyes.

"I am fine, don't worry. I was just thinking about something", Seungmin responded and smiled, reassuring his best friend that he was entirely fine. He felt someone's eyes on him while he talked with Jisung. It was Jeongin. "And why were you staring at the vampires?", the kitsune asked. Seungmin turned his head to look at Jeongin who was seated beside him.

Even after just two weeks of knowing the kitsune Seungmin had noticed that Jeongin was very attentive and a good observer. It was almost scary how much he could figure out just by quietly sitting near someone but it was also somehow thrilling for Seungmin. Jeongin was probably one of the few creatures that could actually pick up on things Seungmin, who usually prided himself with seeing and knowing a lot, missed. Maybe Jeongin could even help him a little with his current problem.

Ever since Seungmin met Seo Changbin last sunday he felt like he didn't know certain things about the vampire even though he had kept an eye on him for a longer time now. He had all the vampires, who didn't belong to any group, clan etc. under complete control and always seemed to cold and untouchable, which made him to a fun target in Seungmin's opinion but now the redhead knew that there was more to the quiet vampire. The way he had interacted with Wonpil and his friends was so different from the way he behaved at school.

"I met one of the vampires last sunday and something about him seemed just over all different", Seungmin answered, honestly. "Which one exactly?", Hyunjin asked, looking over to the table of the vampires for a brief moment. "The short one with the black hair and eyes and the black leather jacket", Seungmin quickly described Changbin.

"You mean Seo Changbin? The one who is in the same class with Byungho, Minho and me?", Chan chimed in, having pick up on the conversation about the vampires. Seungmin nodded. "In which way is he different? He seems like a normal, rude and arrogant vampire to me", Minho noted and crossed his arms. Seungmin knew Minho didn't like vampires very much ever since he set a foot into Miroh High but that reaction was almost childish.

"It's not about species. It's about character, power and aura. He has all the vampires sitting with him under complete control. Ever asked yourself why", Seungmin responded sassily and slightly rolled his eyes. "That's a myth. He sure as hell doesn't have Ryan under his control" Minho scoffed. Seungmin bit back a snarky comment at that.

Somehow Seungmin always managed to disagree with Minho in some way and neither could really say why. It seemed like they clashed together naturally on a daily base but it wasn't as bad as some might think. They never really argued, just often sassed each other.

The talk about Changbin and vampires carried on and at one point Seungmin noticed how Jisung became unnatural quiet. Normally the warlock was one of the louder ones, who joked a lot but right now it seemed like he had spaced out. He kept his head up by laying it onto his palm like he it was to heavy to be held up on his own. That was the point where Seungmin saw that blue sparks, which began to tingle on the warlock's fingertips and they became more and more with each passing second.

Seungmin got up immediately after realizing the state of his best friend and rushed to his side. "Minho get away from him now", the redhead demanded and for once Minho listened to Seungmin without questioning anything and did what he said.

"What's wrong?", Jisung asked, looking at Seungmin with cloudy eyes. "Look at your hands", Seungmin simply answered while he already came up with a plan on how do deal with this. Jisung looked at his hands, seeing the blue sparkles. "Not again", the warlock mumbled and almost just dropped onto the table if it wasn't for Seungmin catching his head and gently putting it down.

"What's wrong with him?", Minho asked, who was standing a little bit away from Jisung. Seungmin looked up, seeing that everyone on the table was pretty worried about the blue-haired warlock.

"He's having a vision", Seungmin explained and got away from Jisung when the warlock began to slowly get surrounded by some kind of light blue shield. Without listening to the others any further Seungmin began running around the table while mumbling the words for an illusion spell. It was a very strong one, which Seungmin had learned for situations like this. The illusion would let everybody in the cafeteria believe nothing was happening here.

"What's happening to him?", Chan asked clearly worried about the young warlock. "He is having a vision like Seungmin said", Byungho answered instead of Seungmin because the redhead was busy dealing with the illusion spell. Internally Seungmin thanked his brother for the little help. Chan looked at Byungho like he was mad.

"No warlock has visions like that", the wolf hybrid declared, gesturing to Jisung, who seemed to be in pain. He was sometimes turning his head and had a pained expression on his face. "Can we do anything to help?", Hyunjin asked, anxiously biting his nails. Byungho shook his head. "We can just wait", he said gloomily. Jisung began to hold his head and sometimes mumble something while his forehead was pressed against the surface of table.

Seungmin finished setting up the spell and looked at his best friend. The blue-haired warlock was still surrounded by the little blue shield which kept him protected from everything and everyone. Suddenly Jisung let his arms fall to his sides. Not a second after that the shield was fading and Jisung just slumped down completely, making him almost fall from the table if it wasn't for Seungmin's and Minho's quick reactions. Seungmin had grabbed the warlock's arm while Minho was holding his shoulders, letting Jisung's head lean against his chest.

Seungmin released a breath and let the illusion spell disappear too. Nobody in the cafeteria really noticed anything but there were still some mumbles like always. "We need to take him to the nurse so he can rest", Seungmin said and looked up to Minho. The cat hybrid with the light brown hair mustered Jisung's unconscious form, which he was keeping from falling by letting him lean against him, before he meet the dark eyes of the redhead. "Alright", Minho said more to himself than to Seungmin.

That was one of the few times that Seungmin really appreciated having Minho around. The redhead moved away from Jisung, so Minho could pick the warlock up. "The rest of you stays here. Too many people around means stress for him", Seungmin explained to the others who obliviously wanted to tag along. Hyunjin in particular didn't seem happy about that but he listened to Seungmin.

The redhead led Minho out of the cafeteria and to the nurse office. The nurse was a pretty and young female warlock named Shiela with light blue eyes and long silver hair, which she always wore in a bun. She already knew Seungmin and Jisung because this wasn't the first time Jisung had a vision while he was at school, which was why she instructed Minho to just lay the unconscious warlock down on one of the beds shortly after they entered.

"Do I need to ask what knocked Jisung out?", she asked and looked at Seungmin. "He had a vision again", the redhead responded with a light shake of his head. Shiela sighed at that. "Alright then he just needs a quiet room, some rest and a friend by his side", she said and got a chair from the other end of the room and placed it by the side of Jisung's bed. "But this time not you, Seungmin. You know why", she continued, looking at the redhead. Her light blue eyes had a quite stern look in them, letting Seungmin know that there was no way she would let him stay.

The last time Jisung had a vision in school and Seungmin dragged him to the nurse office he had reacted strangely to Seungmin's pure presence. He had continued to mumble "Help" and "Go away" like he was scared of his best friend. Shiela had said that it could be because of the strong magical energy that surrounded Seungmin and that it would be better if he wouldn't accompany Jisung anymore when he was going through the after effects of his vision.

Remembering all of that Seungmin nodded and looked on the ground. He wanted to stay with Jisung but knew it wasn't good for him. The nurse walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder.

"I know it's not your fault and you only want to help but you do him a favor by not staying by with him right now", Shiela comforted the boy. The redhead raised his gaze and nodded again. His eyes wandered to Minho. "You better take care of him. I will explain this mess to the rest, so see you later", Seungmin said and walked out of the room without waiting for an answer from the cat hybrid. If he had to leave Jisung in the care of someone else to keep him safe he would allow it.

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Minho didn't understand anything. What did just happen? Shiela smiled when the cat hybrid's puzzled looking eyes fell on her. "Just sit down beside the bed and react like he is awake when he starts to call out names", she said and guided Minho to the chair. "And if he reaches his hand out, take it. The warmth makes him feel like he isn't alone. I will be back in half an hour and I will excuse you and Jisung from your lessons", she added and left the room.

Now the cat hybrid was alone with Jisung. He sat down on the chair and mustered the warlock's unconscious form again. The blue-haired male seemed relaxed and peaceful like he was just sleeping. His chest rise and fell with every breath he took. Minho listened to Jisung steady breathing while he looked at the younger's face. His features looked adorable like always, especially his puffy cheeks and light red lips that contrasted his fair skin.

Suddenly Jisung grimaced like he saw something he didn't like. "Mum, no .... Seungmin", he started to mumble and turned his head around a couple of times. Minho took that as his cue to take Jisung's hand even though he hadn't reached out to him yet. "I am not Seungmin but Minho", the cat hybrid said in a soft voice, trying not to startle the warlock. Jisung's face features relaxed and he mumbled Minho's name again, which made the cat hybrid subconsciously smile a little.

"I like Minho", Jisung mumbled, which kind of surprised the older male but then he started to grin. "Oh, really? In which way?", the cat hybrid asked in a teasing way. Jisung turned his head again so it was like he was facing Minho even though he was still unconscious and had his eyes closed.

"I don't know", the warlock answered and frowned. "He is nice, kind, cute, funny, handsome, adorable, caring, sometimes sassy, wonderful ... special", he began to list some adjectives for the older but he slightly paused before he said that Minho was special. The cat hybrid was kind of stunned and just stared at Jisung. Did he mean that or was he just talking nonsense?

Minho was ripped out of his thoughts when he felt Jisung lightly squeezing his hand. He looked down at their hands. Minho's hand was a tad bigger than Jisung's and not so delicate. It seemed like he was holding a doll's hand if he looked at the fair skin and thin fingers.

"I'm scared. I want Minho to stay but what if he leaves me like everyone else?" Jisung mumbled. Minho looked back to Jisung's face again. Why would he ever leave this cute little squirrel? "I won't leave you, I promise", he promised and rubbed his thumb over the back of Jisung's hand. The young warlock smiled lazily, showing his front teeth a little bit. "Thank you", he breathed out. Jisung was silent after that but he still tightly held Minho's hand.

The cat hybrid let the few things Jisung said sink in. The thing that concerned him the most was that the young warlock felt like he was left by everybody. Minho didn't know much about the younger male's family and why Jisung seemed to even felt left by Seungmin, his best friend. Whatever his reasons were Minho wouldn't leave Jisung. Ever.

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Jisung came back to class in the fifth lesson. He seemed absolutely fine, which was a huge relief for Hyunjin and maybe also Jeongin but he didn't show much of a reaction. Hyunjin still bombarded the warlock with questions he wasn't even fast enough to answer before he got to the next one. The young warlock remembered nothing after he blanked out from his vision and he had no idea what he said to Minho, who was the first face he saw after waking up in the nurse office.

After school the friends met at the gate to more or less walk home together. Jisung needed to walk into a different direction pretty quickly so he casually said goodbye to his friends and reassured them that he was totally fine and could walk home by himself. Even though Hyunjin and Chan protested the warlock somehow convinced them to let him go alone. Seungmin maybe helped him a little bit. After all Seungmin had dealt with Jisung's vision longer than them. The warlock was thankful that the redhead had his back in situations like that even though he could never fully tell the other why.

A little tired but thankfully by himself Jisung walked down the streets of Yellow Wood for a rather long time. He headed to a rather suspicious-looking house complex. It looked rundown and the people there also didn't look really friendly but he was used to all of it. The young warlock walked passed the people quickly without making eye contact and walked up the metallic stairs to the third floor of the run down building. He fished his keys out of his jacket pocket while walking, resulting in him nearly tripped over an empty beer bottle but he caught himself quickly enough. Jisung went up to the door of his so called home and unlocked it with his key. He entered the little flat and closed the door quietly behind him.

The flat Jisung just entered wasn't really nice to look at. Besides the room Jisung was standing in were three more. Jisung's room, his uncle's room and the little bathroom. The little kitchen was to Jisung's left and in front of the warlock was the very small living room with just a rather ugly looking couch and a little, old TV.

Jisung took off his shoes quietly and then tiptoed into his room since he really didn't want to wake his uncle or get his attention. He quietly closed his room door and then he released a breath while throwing his backpack on the chair in front of his desk before he dropped himself on his bed. It made a squeaking sound and the young warlock regretted his action instantly because his bed was really too hard for this kind of stuff but he refused to accept that, letting him repeat the same action every time he came here.

The blue-haired warlock just laid there for some time. Some pictures from his vision flashed before his inner eye but he couldn't properly register them. He hated it when he had a vision. They never did him any good. They never showed him anything useful or showed him anything clearly.

With a frustrated huff he pushed himself up again. "I need to do my homework", he thought to himself and stood up to get to his desk, which was a very simple wooden desk he had to fix multiple times over his time in school. He finally took off his scarf, hanging it over the back of the old chair, which stood in front of desk and then his coat and simply dropped it onto the bed.

He grabbed his backpack and sat down on the old chair, putting his things on his desk and started to do his homework. Maths was a pain in the ass like always but it needed to be done if you didn't want to fail the class. The potions and spells' homework was more fun to do.

Jisung had potions and spells' together with Seungmin and Jeongin because the two were also creatures with magic powers. The blue-haired male was the best with potions out of the three. He had a talent for potions but he wasn't bad at spells either, just not a "spell genius" like Seungmin and Jeongin. Sometimes it was kind of upsetting how easily Jeongin and Seungmin could learn a new spell in just one lesson while he needed to practice at home a lot.

The young warlock sighed when he was finished with his math homework and leaned back carefully, so he couldn't break his chair. Now he just needed to practice the spell they learned last time in spells and potions and then he was finished for today. Jisung just wanted to start practicing when he heard the front door being opened and the chatter of two persons. Both seemed to be older male and Jisung already recognized one as his uncle's voice.

"Just sit down. I will get him", he heard his uncle say and he instantly knew, that he meant him. Jisung's room door was opened by an older man in his mid forties with green hair, an untended beard and tired looking brown eyes. He was Jisung's uncle from his father's side, named Ro Kanho.

"There is someone I want you to meet so get out of here", his uncle said. Jisung already wanted to run away but he knew he wouldn't get far. He hesitantly got up from his chair and followed his uncle out of his room. In the small living room on the couch sat a man in a fancy suit, which was a huge contrast to the rest of the run down flat, especially the ugly couch he was sitting on.

"So this is little Jisungie?", the man said and smiled, showing two rows of perfect white teeth along with two long vampire fangs. Jisung's uncle nodded and slightly pushed the young male into the direction of the man. The man just whistled when he mustered the young male, making Jisung feel like a goddamned animal in a zoo.

"He really has a lot of similarities with his mother especially the dark blue hair and sky blue eyes", the man complimented. Jisung protectively crossed his arms over his chest and looked away from the man. Why was he suddenly compared to his mother? The only memory the young warlock had of her was how she walked out of the door of their former flat and slammed said door into his face. Where this man knew his mother from was a mystery to the young warlock but he didn't really care. He thought his mother didn't want him, so why should he care who she was and which people she knew? And his father wasn't better. He ignored his son ever since he was born and in the end gave him to his brother shortly after Jisung's mother left him to go somewhere else with his new girlfriend.

"Yeah my brother has a really good taste in women", Jisung's uncle laughed. "Can I go now? I need to finish my homework", Jisung mumbled, hoping that maybe his uncle would let him go for today. He felt overall uncomfortable, was tired and just wanted to be left alone.

"Well I would like to talk a little bit more with you, Jisungie", the unknown vampire said and smiled again, showing his white fangs. Jisung ran a cold shiver down his spine. The way the man used a nickname to refer to him and the way he smiled so wide that his fangs were showing, made Jisung feel like that the man hid something terrible. He just wanted to go back into his room.

"Yeah. You can do your homework later. Your grades are good anyway", his uncle agreed and something in his tone told Jisung to keep his mouth shut. His uncle guided the young warlock to the couch and sat him down beside the man, who was still smiling, before he went into the kitchen to get drinks. Jisung just wanted to get far away from this man but he knew better than to disobey his uncle.

"So, are you a good student?", the man started to small talk and looked at Jisung like he was expecting something. "Average", Jisung answered shortly, mentally making a humorless joke about the fact that his uncle had no idea how he was doing in school. He never cared to ask.

Kanho came back from the kitchen with three glasses. Two were filled with beer and one with water. Of course Jisung got the water, that was the little bit of responsibility his uncle felt towards him.

"Average doesn't sound so bad, does it?", the man said and patted Jisung's thigh. Jisung hated it. He hated it so much. Jisung's uncle just laughed along with the other man while he got himself a chair to sit and drank his beer.

The man let his hand rest on Jisung's thigh. Jisung felt the coldness of the man's hand sicker through the fabric of his pants, making him feel even more uneasy but neither of the two older men took notice of that, so Jisung decided to try to speak up.

"Could you take your hand off my thigh, please? It's making me feel uncomfortable", Jisung said in a unintentional quiet voice while he griped the glass of water in his hands a little harder. He asked this really politely to hopefully not anger the two men but his voice seemed so small it made him sound weak. The two men looked at Jisung. Jisung's uncle looked almost angry but he said nothing, probably waiting for his guest's reply.

"Well I guess we don't want little Jisung to feel uncomfortable do we?", the man said and took his hand off Jisung's thigh. The young warlock felt relived, being glad it didn't end badly. The two men continued to talk to each other. Jisung listened halfheartedly to their conversation while sometimes sipping on his water out of boredom.

After a while Jisung felt kind of dizzy and sleepy. Maybe another after effect from his vision? But that wouldn't make sense and he knew from experience that this shouldn't happen.

"What's wrong, Jisung?", he heard his uncle ask. "I just feel dizzy and sleepy", the young male answered truthfully. Jisung felt his eyelids getting heavier by each passing minute. "Oh no", he heard the man beside him say and again Jisung felt the coldness of the man's hand on his thigh.

The way the man said that was enough to let something in Jisung's head click. Something was in the water. This was planned. Jisung dropped his glass and tried to get up but his body wasn't listening to him anymore. He was now at the mercy of his uncle and the vampire in the suit whose name he still didn't know. The eyes of the warlock forcefully fell shut and he was beyond scared.