🎃 Love/Hate - Cameron Sanderson 🎃
Murderer/Serial Killer!Jung Wooyoung
WARNING(S): Implied descriptions of blood, Minor Cursing
Jung Wooyoung was the epitome of sweet temptation and impish desires wrapped up in a pleasant daydream.
A man who was known by many as a social butterfly who had the most unusual connections and a typical reputation of being the eyecandy of many hopeless romantics. Despite these attempts to connect with everyone, an air of mystery always followed Wooyoung wherever he went. It wasn’t troublesome, but given his social nature, it was quite peculiar.
Or perhaps, that was you reading too much into his character.
It was one of the many mysteries that surrounded Wooyoung for you always remained focused on work and school. Experiencing romance had always fallen low on the list of priorities in life for you. You never complained nor felt guilty for being straightforward with your intentions. You were simply a college student drowning in student debt and working a basic part-time job that barely gave you enough hours to cover for basic necessities. Romance wasn’t exactly in your schedule.
Wooyoung’s care-free nature and your disciplined front clashed, but here you were; taking the dive and being blinded by Wooyoung’s affection.
His smile, sweet as the sugar mixed in a stolen spoonful of cookie dough and warm like the sunshine in the early morning hours never failed to bring about a spur of butterflies in your stomach each and every time you were able to catch a glimpse of it. His playfulness was contagious, always succeeding in distracting you from the stressfulness of life. Couple that smile with his melodic laughter and you were completely smittened—blinded even, in the illusion of love that the two of you managed to create over a short period of time. Oh, how foolish you were to let your guard down the moment you deemed it was safe to do so. Perhaps that’s when your unfortunate fate was sealed.
Perhaps, it was the moment you fell in love with Jung Wooyoung. For that feeling of your heart swelling with admiration and desire was all that was needed to keep you from noticing the dark future that awaited you.
You were convinced, however, like the lovestruck fool that you were, that this was all some nightmare that you were stuck in. A bad dream that will end the moment you take your final breath and ultimately wake up with Wooyoung’s arms wrapped tightly around your waist, protecting you from the little monsters that roam at night and terrorize those in dreamland.
Yet, here you were instead, staring up at the same face that you fell in love with as he loomed over you with the moonlight illuminating his figure as if he is some fallen angel waiting for that very moment you hoped would reveal a better fate.
The air, as thick as it was with the scent of iron, was cool. It was the only thing that brought you comfort as the feeling of life in your body seeped away. The wound to your side throbbed violently with each passing moment, but you couldn’t manage to put enough pressure on it and therefore, left your body to lay on the concrete, waiting patiently for Wooyoung to cut the last thread you were desperately hanging on to.
“Sweetheart,” Wooyoung hummed as he crouched down.
Your chapped lips remained tightly pressed together, not daring to say anything to the man you once called your lover.
“You were so close,” he sighed as his hand reached out for one of your own. His fingers grazed the inside of your cold palm. “Just a few more steps and you would have been free.”
You swallowed the hard lump that had formed in your throat as you glared at the man above you.
“Fuck you, Jung Wooyoung,” you cursed.
No words left Wooyoung’s mouth. All he gave in response was a simple shrug of the shoulders before he sat down right next to you. He broke his gaze away from your piercing one and glanced up at the night sky above you two.
“It won’t be long now, [Name],” he chuckled softly. “You still have a few hours before Halloween ends and then maybe, you’ll be able to escape your little nightmare.”
A little nightmare. That’s all this is, after all, you thought as you sucked in a shaky breath. Like the fool you were, you still tried to convince yourself just that. However, it felt like time was not on your side as each breath you took seemed to take every bit of energy you had. Your heart refused to speed up its tempo, dragging every beat out for as long as it can. Eventually, you turned your own eyes up towards the sky in an attempt to bury the bitterness that clouded your mind deep down in your soul. This is it, you thought, staring at the moon above. I’ll die with the moon as my only witness.
Only silence came as an answer as Wooyoung turned to look back at your sprawled figure. The rosy hue that once decorated your warm cheeks now formed a bloody puddle underneath your body. Your breath, often wasted in muttered curses directed towards your assignments and work, was now shallow— almost too shallow for Wooyoung’s liking.
“It’ll be okay,” Wooyoung murmured softly as he brushed a few stray strands of hair off your sweat-covered forehead.
“I’ll wake you up a little later. Just sleep this bad dream away for now.”