Moon becomes upset after receiving ignorance from Augustus. While stepping out of the hall behind Ivan, she remembered Augustus's words again.
'𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦?' 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦.
'𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶'
'𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘥?' 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺.
'𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯.' 𝘈𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩.
Moon fiddled with her fingers trying to comprehend his words.
"Ivan, am I looking good today?" she asked while walking with him.
Ivan turned his face at her and nodded in half anger.
"Yes, pretty face"
Moon wasn't satisfied with his answer.
"No, not my face but my dressing style?"
Ivan looked at her casually and shrugged his shoulders.
"It's good. Bit old fashioned but you carry it so well"
"Thank you. But don't you think I look bad in this?"
Before Ivan opened his mouth, he saw Kai walking out with that look on his face that still held the effect of the previous moment. His gaze broke when he saw Augustus following him out and his mood changed quickly from annoyed to angry.
"Urghh, some people look bad even in the branded clothes!" Ivan huffed and turned himself away from the raven-haired.
Augustus titled his head while his hand rested on the waist. Kai gave him a look to go and talk to their man friend but Augustus was being Augustus, packed with tremendous ego and vampire instincts refusing to take initiative first.
" I will come back in a while" saying this he headed towards the washroom.
Kai sighed knowing he has to make it up for the manfriend.
Ivan wasn't in the mood to talk but the next he saw an ice cream cone held in front of him, his eyes sparkled. He smiled instantly, picked up the cone, and noticed the inked skin.
He understood it was Kai even before looking at his face and now he didn't dare to turn knowing he was standing behind him. He gulped. The heat around his air started melting the ice cream in his hand.
"Amor, ice cream is melting" he felt his breathy voice near him and the hair on his nape stood up.
He looked at the ice cream melting down on his fingers.
"Uhh, Oh, Moon do you have a tissue?"
"Wait for a minute" she rushed to get tissue paper while Ivan stood there holding the ice cream, melting at a fast pace. He didn't understand that when the place is air-conditioned, how can it melt so fast? He appeared baffled as the milky sweet cream started dripping from his hands. He hastily started licking the ice cream but it didn't help him.
Then he felt a delicate grip on his wrist. He saw Kai holding his hand and moving near to his mouth. The buff guy rolled his tongue on the creamy palm and looked elsewhere as if thinking something.
"Ummm, yum yum yum, sweet." he backed away, leaving the hold, sending his man friend into a shocking wave of amusement while still holding the cone in his hand. Ivan couldn't believe what just happened. Kai's one bold move sent him into splits of thinking.
Is it because of that accidental peck? But I did apologize to him. I think I need to talk to him again.
"Listen, Kai-"
"Yes Amor" the aforementioned lovingly said while smiling at him.
"The thing happened before,"
"What thing Amor?"
"That- when I-" he paused finding proper words," -Tripped over you and-"
"And?" Kai stared at him in anticipation.
Ivan becomes nervous to talk further. "And whatever happened between us was an accident."
"What accident happened between us, Amor?" Kai teased him a lot making the manfriend hesitant.
Urgh, this guy! Did he forget already?
"What are you two talking about?" Augustus blurted out suddenly, making Ivan jump on his place.
Kai suppressed his smile while teasing his man friend. "Ivan was talking about something that happened in the theatre"
Ivan widened his eyes at him. Augustus rolled his eyes assuming its a quarrel between them.
"What happened? Don't tell me Tiny you are still upset!" Augustus's words raised Ivan's eyebrow.
"I made a mistake inviting you two for a movie" Ivan declared blowing hot air from his nostrils.
Kai smiled, throwing his arms around him, rubbing over his shoulder to make him calm.
"Come on Ivan, he feels sorry for that" referring to the raven-haired.
"Excuse me? I am not sorry at all" Augustus remarked gazing at the angry man friend who threw arrows of fire at him through his eyes.
He walked further and tipped his finger on his red nose.
"Haven't you cooled down even after eating this stupidest coldest thing in the world?"
"Look who's talking" Moon taunted while handing tissues over to Ivan.
"Ahh, thank you Moon"
"Mention not" She smiled at him.
Augustus rolled his eyes up mumbling something under his breath and caught Ivan wiping a long tear coming out of his eye. He exhaled sharply and said, "Fine! Tonight's treat from my side. Let's go to my pub"
"What? Really?" Ivan looked flabbergasted when the mullet haired nodded seriously.
He immediately clasped his hands jumping on his place vehemently. Moon's eyes twinkled hearing the man of love taking initiative in something. Kai smiled watching excited Ivan.
"But not like this" Augustus remarked while eyeing his clothes.
"Do you mean you are taking us to shop?" Ivan blurted and he started jumping on place, "Yes, yes, yes but wait my wallet is as light as air" he sulked feeling not being rich enough as the two.
Kai couldn't see unhappy Ivan in front of him.
"So what? Today's bills on Augustus!" he announced making the other two happy except the brooding vampire friend.
"Excuse me? What bills? What shopping? When I said that?" the raven-haired threw a serious glance at the azure head.
"Just now." Kai talked further before Augustus open his mouth in protest, "The one who proposed the idea, will bear the profits and losses"
Augustus rolled his eyes marching ahead to the shopping space. The remaining three followed him getting happy.
Moon briskly walked into the women's section. After receiving criticism over her dressing sense from the man she loves, she decided to buy something good which will attract him towards her. To get noticed was her main motive and keeping in that mind she started choosing short, cocktail dresses.
Meanwhile, Ivan sauntered in the men's section along with the duplets.
There were a lot of varieties in clothes that confused him which one to choose. Kai knew what's in his mind and he came forward to help him. He took out some funky trendy shirts and handed them over to Ivan while he followed him in the row. Kai chose all of his favorite colors, imagining his man friend in shirts, tee shirts, and passing them to him.
Augustus saw them busy shopping and quietly moved around the waiting area.
He saw Ivan going into the trial room. Well, Kai practically pushed him inside to try whatever they chose. He sighed, rubbing his palms while sitting calmly, roaming his eyes around, and saw Moon's reflection in the mirror, stepping out of the trial room, wearing a black shimmery dress reaching till her thighs, showing off her long dusky legs.
The dress seemed to be fitting on her perfectly as she twirled around checking herself out. A slight smile crawled on his face seeing her grooming herself well. He smiled while looking down and shaking his head not believing in his past mistakes. Out of everyone he has to kiss Kai's sister? He always felt relieved as Kai didn't make it as a scene instead teased him. But that doesn't mean he would take it all further. He knew he couldn't break Kai's trust. For him, Moon is simply sweet and innocent when he is far away from it. He wasn't someone who would stay in one place. He lived for blood and other nights the souls fed his sanity.
He glanced around and noticed Ivan's hand peeping out of the curtains gesturing to Kai but the latter was busy wandering in the sections looking for more clothes.
The former got up and strolled towards him. He looked around and found a shirt kept on the trolley and passed it to the man's friend. But felt a strong tug on his wrist and got dragged into the trial room. His eyes widened seeing Ivan struggling hard to take out the tee-shirt that got stuck on his face while removing it.
"Help-it's suffocating"
Augustus heard his pleading and palpitating.
He tilted his head looking at the helpless human in front of him and his lips raised into a corner.
"First say please"
"WHY-Wait...arhh not you again." Ivan recognized Augustus from his voice.
"Of course it's me again! Now say please politely to earn a help"
"Fuck you, wheres's Kai?"
"Hereby you lose a golden chance to get help" Augustus blurted while turning when Ivan hastily tugged on his blazer.
"Please"
"Well, not sounding that pleasing but-"
"AUGUSTUS! IF YOU DON'T HELP ME OUT THEN FORGET WE WERE FRIENDS EVER!" Ivan chided on him and felt a pair of hands unbuttoning the collar of his tee-shirt stuck on him.
"Why do you always threaten me over friendship?" Augustus talked while releasing the buttons and saw his fierce eyes darting at him from inside, he quickly covered it with the shirt.
"Because you-" Ivan struggled as the former started pulling out his shirt. "-always test my patience"
With a strong pull, he removed the shirt off his man friend in one go, releasing Ivan from the suffocating cage of it.
Ivan breathed deeply while grabbing the shirt and tossing it over a chair, rejecting it mentally.
The brooding raven-haired witnessed something that made him gulp hard and fight with the arousing desire between his legs when he saw Ivan cluelessly wandering in front of him, only in the ripped blue jeans, flashing his smooth skin of the upper body.
He felt caught in the middle of bare-chested Ivan and his perverted mind to not ogle at him. He wetted his dried lips with his tongue and let his eyes wander over topless man friend, catching sight of his milky body, he wanted to skim his fingers over it and they won't mind playing with those pink nipples on the way, his waist to carve so many desires on it, his neck he would run his tongue endlessly, his collarbone looked inviting for a sweet assault. He felt amused thinking how it would feel to bite him?
While Ivan was busy fiddling with another pair of shirts, unbuttoning it so he could try it on him the raven-haired started feeling insane with the thought of his fangs sinking deep into that smooth skin, till he tasted the raspberry out of him. In a mere thought of tasting his manfriend's blood, his fangs appeared and a crimson shade flickered in his eyeballs. With an urge of biting crawling in his mind, he stepped towards the man friend.
"Augustus, unbutton this one please" saying this he turned at the former and his eyes widened.
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