Cursed Blood | Chaelisa

Chapter 14.

Finally, my seventeenth birthday arrived. Joy and Jisoo agreed to come over to my house tonight to celebrate. But now as I was concentrating on the components of human cells and chromosomes on my lab table this morning, I sensed a rush of electric wave radiating from someone sliding into the chair near me. I turned to see an angelic face that belonged to no one but Lisa.

"What are you doing here?" I asked surprisingly.

"I'm taking a biology class," she simply said with a smirk. "So how's everything?"

"Still torture," I said truthfully. "But I'm getting better at it now."

"You are," she agreed in a quiet tone.

For some reason, her approval made me smile with pride. Then, Ms. Grace, our professor appeared. She wore her usual lab coat with a lab goggle hanging around her neck. Her bright crimson lips pressed together with a serious look. Ms. Grace is the youngest professor in this school. She got her Ph.D. when she was only twenty, so I really looked up to her. Biology is the only class I take alone since Joy and Jisoo also have their favorites.

"Alright, students, bring me your homework of a banana's DNA," she said. We quickly passed our homework to her. Ms. Grace browsed through our papers with a not-so-impressed look. I was sure everyone got the same result.

"So now you know the similarity between a human's DNA and a banana's, is that correct?" She said. We all nodded silently, because 50% of our DNA is identical with a banana's, which is ridiculously true.

When Ms. Grace asked us to work with our partners on some other plants for today's activity, I turned around on my lab stool to my new partner.

"Lisa?"

"Yes?" Her voice was as smooth as silk when she wasn't mocking, and I somehow wanted to hear that again.

"Well, I'm just wondering... how about us half- bloods?" I asked her quite coyly.

"You still think about what your friend told you the other day?" she asked.

"You heard us?" I said in surprise but then I got it. "Well, of course, you heard us."

"I didn't mean to snoop, but I had to keep an eye on my newly awakened girlfriend," she shrugged.

"So do you believe in that?" I asked, ignoring her overly possessive remark.

"You mean those legends about half-blood children?" she said. "Well, no."

"Why not?"

Lisa just looked at me as if I had zero IQ.

"Does your butt look like you're missing a tail?" she asked back.

I had to bite my lip to prevent screaming at her.

"But why are there such legends about dhampires and stuff like that in the books?"

"That might be true for defective genes to occur in a human-vampire relationship," Lisa said casually. "But the same with humans and humans. You know how genetics can mess up sometimes, don't you?"

"I thought vampires couldn't have children," I admitted quietly. "Aren't they all dead people?"

"There are two types of vampires," she said. "Those who are born and those who are turned. Your father and my mother were the true-blood. They were born, not created. You said it yourself about the evolution that might have helped them just like it did to humans. Only vampires couldn't procreate as productively as humans could. They're not the fittest, so it's rare for them to have children at all. And in our case, we're the rarest."