“Hey, have you heard of Composition and Vampires?”
"what?"
During the same damn chemistry class that always came around, I frowned at the friend next to me who suddenly whispered something strange. The professor already had a ton of assignments, and if I missed even one thing, I'd have to retake the class, so I turned my gaze back to the professor, pretending to be uninterested.
“There’s a rumor that there’s a vampire in the composition department!”
“What does that have to do with me... I don’t know.”
I pretended not to care, but it was still a rather interesting rumor. Thinking that the term "vampire" probably wasn't used for nothing, I quietly listened to my friend.
“There’s a senior in the composition department who recently returned to the department. He has a very pale face and even in the summer, he wears a full body cover.”
“.....That’s all that’s left for the rumor that you’re a vampire?”
“No, no, listen till the end.”
“.......”
“Last week, senior Ji-seok said he saw a vampire drinking a red liquid!!!”
“Isn’t that tomato juice? It must have just happened.”
It was really just a rumor. A vampire based on something like that...
Rumors are really scary...
“Student over there”
“...N...yes..?”
“Shall we come out and solve it?”
Miss, you're screwed.
My palms felt sweaty for no reason when the professor called me over and told me to solve the problem, as if he'd caught me doing something else. I hadn't heard a single word of the previous part, and I shouldn't have listened to my friend in the first place!!!!
I trudged down the steps, as if being dragged to a slaughterhouse. I stood in front of a large blackboard and grabbed a piece of chalk. Right next to me, a man, caught doing something else like the heroine, was writing down a formula on the blackboard with chalk.
‘That person is in the same situation as me.’
I felt a needless pity, and wiped away the tears that were still inside me. I wondered if I'd just started to write down my feelings. Then, a cold voice came, and I flinched.
“Student Min Yoongi...”
“.........”
“What are you doing? Right now.”
“........."
"yunki min..."
“I’m sorry, professor.. haa.. huh.. I.. can’t..”
"what?"
The voice was so loud that only the female lead next to me could hear it. Suddenly, the situation seemed to be getting more and more serious, so I put down the chalk and checked on her.
“Excuse me.. is it okay..”
Flinch-
Long bangs that cover her eyes, a black mask that covers her entire body even in the middle of summer, a scarf and long clothes, and contrasting white skin…
“Vampire...fire...”
It was a composition I'd just heard from a friend, and it was a vampire. Perhaps I muttered something unconsciously, but my eyes met the vampire's. The shadows cast by the sunlight made it hard to see his expression, but I could clearly see his eyes with the female protagonist's.
As soon as their eyes met, the female protagonist hurriedly lowered the classroom window curtains. Vampires... there was no way such a thing existed, but somehow, it felt necessary.
When I closed the curtain and turned around, he was already out of sight, as if he had run out of the classroom.