Zhan and I were sitting in the office thinking about how to find out if Youn was really not human. We were convinced that the smell of vampire that Grandpa Xiao detected from us did not come from the two detectives. After all, they were walking around outside wearing only thin shirts, and the sun was shining brightly in the sky.

I myself know that the sun doesn't kill us vampires, but we can get a mean sunburn. And for that it is enough if the sun shines just a little bit. And neither of the detectives had even a hint of sunburn.

Somehow, it just had to be Youn. On reflection, I thought of a few things I should have questioned long ago. But somehow, I never questioned these strange habits of Youn. It never even occurred to me to question anything he said or did in any way.

And suddenly I asked myself the question, how did Youn actually know right then that I needed blood? How did he know how much blood I needed and that I could only drink it warm? How did he know that I couldn't stand the smell of normal food, which is why he only ate out?

Youn himself was also the one who told me that there are probably two kinds of vampires. The ones who make their victims will-less by mind control. And the vampires like me, who attract their victims with their pheromones like flowers attract bees. He pretended that he was only guessing. But the way he explained it to me, he really seems to have known enough what he was talking about.

Moreover, I am more than sure to have seen a hint of red eyes in Youn more than once. Not only in this nightmare. But also while I was awake. And especially when he became very angry.

I also remembered an encounter at school. A student who was known for oppressing the younger and weaker ones had once tried to threaten me. Youn immediately came running, stood in front of him, looked him deep in the eyes and said, "Get out of here now!" And the student wordlessly turned around and left.

So is Youn really a mind controlling and mind manipulating vampire?

Zhan said, "Maybe that's why he always avoided meeting me. Because he knew I could smell the scent of death on him."

"But, when you saw him in the apartment last night, you didn't smell him." I replied.

"Yes. Maybe because there was a scent of you all over the apartment. Or maybe he found something to mask his smell."

"Maybe, maybe. We should find out if he's really a vampire and how we're going to deal with him."

"Well..."

"Don't say it. You want to kill him just like that. Remember, he is still my best friend. He had always been there for me and always protected me."

"That's okay Yibo. I'm not saying we have to kill him right away. But we should find out why he hid it from you and if he used his skills of control and manipulation on you too."

"First, we should find out if he really is a vampire. And then we should question him in detail and look for a solution that doesn't necessarily involve his death."

"Well, maybe we could do it that way. If we go home, I'll go up first. Maybe if you're not there, I can smell who he really is. And you'll follow a few minutes later."

"If he really found something to mask his scent with, it won't work. His heartbeat would also be a solution. The hearts of us vampires beat much slower than those of humans."

"Yes, but one of us would have to get very close to him to do it. Otherwise, you won't be able to hear it."

"Mhhh, right."

"You once told me my blood smells and tastes better than human blood. Maybe I should cut myself in his presence and see how he reacts?"

"That only works if his last meal was a little while ago. If his stomach is full, he won't respond."

"It's worth a try."

"I don't want you to cut yourself, though. Even if it heals right away, you'll still feel pain from it."

"Sure. But Yibo, how else are we going to find out?"

"We'll do it like you said first. You go up first and try to sense its smell."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. It's better than you hurting yourself." I said.

The plan was in place. Now we just had to execute it. But first we stayed in the office. A woman came by for an initial meeting, who suspects that her husband is cheating on her with another woman and is secretly giving her money from their savings account. She said that the two of them had been saving money for a world trip for a very long time. But recently, she said, her husband has been picking up money more often without telling her.

She only noticed it because she happened to find the savings book in her husband's jacket pocket and saw that there were several large withdrawals. She said that he explained it by saying that he had to pay for several things. Like repairing the car. She called their contracted repair shop to ask what exactly had been repaired on the car, but they told her that her husband had not been there in more than 2 years.

Additionally, he had been smelling like perfume a lot lately. And a few times he insisted on washing his own clothes. "He would come home, take off his clothes and immediately put them in the washing machine and turn on the washing machine. This has happened a few times now. He wouldn't even let me sort the clothes by color or even touch and look at them first. Well, and then our savings account where there is hardly any money in it now." She explained to us.

This is indeed very suspicious. We explained to the woman how we proceed in our work, explained to her the different options and also what costs she would face if she hired us. She thought about it for a moment and then signed a contract with us. She is desperate to know what her husband is hiding from her and what he has done with the money they so bitterly saved.

When the distraught woman left, Zhan locked the door of the office while I filed the contract in my folder and printed out the picture the woman sent me of her husband on my cell phone.

Zhan then sat down on the sofa and read another article in today's newspaper. I walked over to him and stood in front of him. "ZhanZhan?"

"Mhm? What is it?"

"Are you giving me a hug?"

"You want a hug?"

"Yes. And a kiss too, please."

"Okay, anything else?"

"Mhhh..."

"Are you hungry Yibo?"

"Mhm."

"And you want to drink from me?"

"Yes."

"So you want a hug, a kiss and my blood?"

"Mn."

"Then come here to me on my lap."

"Yeah." I replied and sat down wide-legged on Zhan's lap. He wrapped his arms around me, kissed me, and then let me drink from his blood. "So yummy." I said and licked even the last drop of his precious blood from my lips.

"I'm glad my blood tastes so good to you."

"It does. Very much so. Um, ZhanZhan?"

"Yes?"

"Do you want to play a game before we get out of here?"

"What kind of game?"

"The good one and the bad one."

"And how do you play that?"

"Well, you see me and you're dying to make me yours. But I refuse and say I'm not one of those and play hard to get. That makes you mad and you just fall all over me and take me. You just make me yours."

"That sounds like..."

"No not like that. It should be fun for me too."

"Ah yes. So a role play in which I force you to submit to me?"

"Exactly. The big bad wolf pounces on the innocent good vampire."

"Sounds familiar."

"Haha to me too. What is it? Do you feel like it? Well I'm in the mood. Great desire for it." I said.

Zhan grinned, grabbed me and threw me on the sofa next to him. He bent over me and while I pretended not to want that, he undressed me and fell all over me. Hah, that had been nice. If only we could spend every day so free and carefree.

An hour after our game, we drove home. And as we had planned, Zhan went upstairs first. I followed him a few minutes later. But when I got upstairs, Zhan was alone. Youn had not yet returned.

But that gave us a new opportunity. We went to his room and just as we opened the door, Zhan wrinkled his nose. And it got worse for Zhan when we went into the room and squatted in front of the two open suitcases. "The stench is unbearable." Said Zhan and ran out of the room.

"What is it?" I asked him as I followed him.

"Your best friend is definitely a vampire! And not a weak one that's for sure."

"No doubt?"

"No. Absolutely no doubt."

"What are we going to do Zhan?"

"I don't know. Let him come home later first and then we'll see. It's best to talk to him directly about it and see what he says."

"Okay. As long as we don't kill him right away, I'm good with that."

"What are you going to do if he's not a good vampire? What if he's been controlling and manipulating you for years?"

"I don't know. Of course the thought makes me angry. But you know, I think there's something human left in him. Look at his relationship with Wooseok. If he was an evil vampire, he would just kill him, wouldn't he?"

Zhan took a deep breath and exhaled. He nodded, even if he only did it to reassure me. "Yibo, I promise, if it can be avoided, I won't kill him. If there's really any good left in him, then let him live."

I went to Zhan and he wrapped me in his arms. "Thank you ZhanZhan. And I promise, if there's nothing good left in him, we'll kill him together." And I meant it.

Without any real evidence of his misdeeds, I can't and won't kill Youn. Everyone is innocent until proven otherwise. And I stick to that. And should Youn really have controlled and manipulated me all these years, then he will receive an appropriate punishment for it.

But that evening we waited for Youn in vain. He wrote me a text message later, saying that he had met an acquaintance and that the two of them had been in a bar and that he was now going to spend the night at the acquaintance's place.

What did I think of his message? Well, this was not new to me with him. That happened quite often. But now with the knowledge that he is a vampire, I wonder if he was really just too drunk to make it back here? Was he perhaps lying every time he said he was too drunk to make it back here? I don't know.

I think I have to come to terms with the fact that he is also a vampire and hid that from me. Even after I became a vampire myself. What reason would he have to hide that from me? I can't understand it. But I will ask him about it.

For today, however, Zhan and I have decided to take a shower together and then lie down in our bed, play a little bit with Yizhan and then play a little bit with each other before we go to sleep.