Chapter 2
Chaewon and Yena would consider themselves good people, well minus the whole immortal and part wolf thing they had going on, but nevertheless Chaewon and Yena were good. Maybe that’s why they were always so surprised that they were the center of Enozi’s gossip.
“There’s a new witch that arrived today” Yena suddenly said, Chaewon rolled to her side and propped herself up onto her arm “Yeah? I knew I could smell new blood”, Yena huffed in response “Ok Count Dracula.”
The two were currently laying down in one of the many small clearings scattered throughout the school’s woods. It was calmer there, quieter, a place where the two could just be themselves, unfortunately, part of being the school’s hottest gossip/couple came with an abundance of popularity and expectations.
People expected Yena to be strong and aggressive, she was the school’s alpha after all, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Sure, Yena was strong and a great leader but she was also funny and sensitive, at least she was when she was with Chaewon.
Chaewon, the second representative vampire, truly should have been the head representative based on power alone but her lack of social skills and motivation prevented her from that role. To anyone else Chaewon would seem aloof and cold but to Yena she was sunshine and warmth, she would move mountains for Yena if asked to.
Chaewon, who was still propped up on her arm, looked down at her girlfriend with admiration in her eyes “Have I ever told you how much I love you?” she asked. Yena hummed “I think you might have mentioned it once or twice, but I could use a reminder.” the older of the two whispered as she pulled Chaewon down into a soft kiss. The two were cut off when they heard Chaeyeon yell from the edge of the woods “Chae! Yen! It’s almost Afternoon Check-In!”.
Chaeyeon was a close friend of both girls and always seemed to have their back, that’s why when Chaewon and Yena started losing track of time in the woods Chaeyeon came up with an easy solution. Using the couple’s heightened hearing ability Chaeyeon was able to transfer any message to the two simply by yelling from the front edge of the forest.
The two girls grumbled as they stood up to head back towards the school, Yena’s hand quickly finding Chaewon’s. They filled their walk back in comfortable silence, sometimes Yena would make a joke or Chaewon would make a comment about hating her history professor but there was never a need for constant conversation between the two, they were just content being with each other.
It was after one of Yena’s jokes when they had finally arrived at the edge of the forest, the school and all its expectations only sat around two fields lengths away. Suddenly Chaewon stopped laughing, “Do you hear that?” she asked Yena, the older paused and listened before responding “Barely, I guess Hitomi got a hold of the new girl”.
“Now take that information and add it to the Yena Chaewon roommate situation, it doesn’t make sense right?”
Chaewon looked up and easily spotted the window of Hitomi’s room, perks of having vampire vision, Yena quickly followed her girlfriend’s gaze and smirked “Why don’t we give them something to talk about”.
By the time the words left her mouth Yena already had Chaewon pushed up against the nearest tree, the older leaned in closely and whispered, “Come on Chae, let’s give them a show.”
Yena started to slowly place kisses along Chaewon’s neck, “You’re evil” the younger whispered out “But I think we can do better than this.” She tilted her head upwards to give Yena more access “Oh, look who’s watching.”
Chaewon smirked, now looking dead into the new girl’s eyes, she could sense the unnamed girl’s heart rate increase as she quickly broke eye contact with the couple. Chaewon laughed out as she pulled Yena away from her neck and into a quick kiss, “Mission accomplished.”
The two then headed toward the school, hand-in-hand as if nothing had happened.
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Afternoon Check-In’s may or may not have been started because of Yena and Yujin, one of the other members of Yena’s pack, she was one of the youngest pack members and Yena really bonded with her when she first arrived at Enozi.
Unlike vampires, who were turned by another vampire, witches and wolves carried a certain rare recessive gene. Witch genes were pretty straightforward, there were originally six main witch bloodlines but as time passed the gene became more watered down and it became more common for “new generation” witches to suddenly pop up from human parents whose genes had been dormant throughout centuries.
Wolf genes were slightly more complex, of course like any recessive gene both parents had to possess a form of it no matter how small. However, unlike witches whose powers normally develop with age, wolf genes have to be activated. Wolf genes can be activated in one of two ways, the first and most common way is through a bite of a fully realized wolf, the second way is mostly referred to as “the survival method”. The survival method occurs when someone that possesses the werewolf gene goes through severe trauma and their “inner wolf” is shocked into awakening to protect their human body. Those who go through the survival method are often more feral in their wolf form and harder to socialize with while human.
Yujin, like most of the wolves at Enozi activated their wolf gene through a bite, truthfully there was only one wolf in the Enozi history that was awoken by the survival method; Yena.