S1 | Alter ego. [PART 2]
Hybrids
I heard another groan coming from beside me. It was the nineteen one in twenty minutes.
Tzuyu was sitting beside me in English class looking as bored as ever. Her feet were popped up on the desk as she was holding her chair in two legs. Her hands were dingaling to her side and her head fell backwards so she could see behind her.
Only twenty minutes had passed in the course and Tzuyu was bored. In fact, it started the second she walked into the room. The only problem was that she was making everybody around her uncomfortable. Being in a school of mystical creatures has its perks.
Most of the students knew something was wrong with my lover the moment she stepped foot in class. The teachers were taught to notice the change in people and knew when to leave well enough alone. One glare from Tzuyu had the teacher speechless and on guard. He ignored the horrible attitude that he would normally criticize and let her be.
Twenty minutes was what it took for the teacher to kick her out and me along with her because Tzuyu had been staring at the poor girl behind her in a predatory manner for five minutes without blinking.
"Miss. Minatozaki, why don't you bring Miss. Ettore out for a walk, she looks like she needs air," The teacher said. Tzuyu raised her hand in interest. That had caught her attention.
With a sigh, I picked my books and threw them into my bag. Tzuyu was by my side within seconds. We walked out into the empty hallway and couldn't help but hear the students start breathing properly again.
"Damn," Tzuyu whined beside me, "I thought it would never end. How can you listen to that bull for so long?"
"It's interesting if you take the time to listen," I told her. She scoffed before looping her arm around mine. I was surprised by the physical touch.
"Now that the boring part is done, what are we going to do to kill the time," She grinned at me. Her smile gave an unsettling response to my stomach.
"Well," I cleared my throat, "We have dance lessons after school but if you don't want to go—"
"Of course we can go, I love dancing!"
I smiled, "All right then, how about I take you out and you can tell me about yourself and then we can go to the dance lessons afterwards?"
"Mhm, sounds like a date. I'm on, you can take me anywhere, hot stuff," She said smiling and I couldn't help but smile too.
We were sitting in front of each other in a small friendly café in the village. Coffee and pie sat on the table in front of us. I had to ask Tzuyu to keep her sunglasses on her face to keep the other customers from freaking out because she thought it would be funny. I think it will take time for me to appreciate her humor.
"So," I said trying to break the uncomfortable silence that had fallen on us.
"What do you want to know?" She asked me with a smile. I thought for a while before asking.
"Why are you so different from Chewie? And how did you come to be?"
Tzuyu laughed darkly, "Such hard questions. Don't dates usually start with some small talk and easy questions?" She cocked her head to the side as she looked at my reaction. I was not laughing. I was serious. I didn't know this girl in front of me and the only thing I have ever heard of her was negative or borderline psychotic, "Relax hot stuff, I can control myself."
"Yeah, like you controlled yourself against Yesung," I spat. I didn't mean to be judgmental but I couldn't help myself. But seeing Tzuyu's expression hardened, I should have kept my mouth shut.
"You think I'm the one who killed that vampires? Do you think so low of me, Angel?"
"I don't know what to think at all Tzuyu. I don't know anything," I replied sharply. Tzuyu took a deep breath.
"Okay, I'm psychotic but not that psychotic. The one who killed the vamps is totally out of her mind. I mean she couldn't even form a decent sentence without 'mommy said this, mistress said that',"
"Wait, what?" I asked confused. I couldn't understand a word she was saying, "There are more of you?"
Tzuyu slammed her hands on the table shutting me up quickly. She didn't look happy and I could tell she was trying to control herself. Her red eyes were darker and her barring teeth longer. I sat in silence, forcing myself to be relaxed so she wouldn't have any wrong ideas and waited until she was calm enough to talk again.
"Everybody has a dark side, and how we control that side determines who we are. If a child is taught that compassion is a good thing then those people control the dark side of themselves for the better.
When Tzuyu came into puberty, her inner beast bloomed enormously and because she was never taught how to control it, it just fed and grew until it took more than half of Tzuyu's soul. Tzuyu being a good girl never liked that part of herself so she tried to supress it and created me. My job was to help her control the beast inside us and feed it accordingly so that it does not take control. Now that would be bad," Tzuyu chuckled.
"Then, when Yesung got his hand on us, everything went haywire. Tzuyu lost the will to fight and the beast woke up more hungry than ever. Imagi
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