Because I Love You [NCT][Jaeyong]

Vanilla

He put the glass with the sickeningly sweet fluid inside away. Sure, the sweetness was only there because of some vanilla aroma, but that's exactly how he loved it.

Vanilla had always been his favorite.

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"Hey, Ten, could you hand me those papers, please?" Taeyong asked while gesturing to some sheets of paper laying on a chair.

"Here you go," Ten smiled back at him and went to leave the office of his boyfriend, who was saying thanks to him.

Taeyong had met Ten two years ago when he had started working as a banker. They both hadn't been paying attention and ran into each other, just to blush, exchange phone numbers and become boyfriends around six months later.

They loved each other.

Well, they were close to true love.

Ten knew about Taeyong's past with his ex-boyfriend Jaehyun, who had disappeared around five years ago, when Taeyong was 19 and Jaehyun was 18 years old. Taeyong had told Ten everything the day they had become boyfriends.

Well, Jaehyun and Taeyong had never officially broken up since Jaehyun had just disappeared, a letter being the last sign of him. Not even his parents or anyone else had heard from him since that day.

It was as if he had been swallowed by the ground.

Right after Taeyong had graduated, he had moved to Seoul, where he had met Ten. Ten was his first boyfriend after Jaehyun; he had never even looked at someone after Jaehyun had left before. Ten was just too captivating for him to resist, though.

He loved many things about Ten. His looks, his perfume, his personality, his obsession with dancing. He was simply perfect.

Still, he had never completely forgotten about Jaehyun.

The letter was still laying in his bedside drawer; he didn't dare to put it anywhere else. Jaehyun had put it there five years ago, and Taeyong had read it every day since then and still did, but he never even thought of placing the letter somewhere else.

That was when he snapped out of his thoughts and got back to work.

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"Thank you, Taeil," Jaehyun said as he received the letters Taeil had gotten out of the mailbox. They were mostly from business partners, the same as every week.

Ever since Jaehyun had basically fled to Seoul, he had been running his own company with his best friends Taeil and Kun. Sure, their business wasn't official, but pretty well-known and the biggest one in South Korea when it came to selling blood conserves.

They all were vampires, after all.

He flipped through the letters while sipping on his vanilla-flavored blood, but suddenly, he stopped in his tracks, this close to crashing the glass in his hand.

"Kun, Taeil, please come here!" he shouted, making sure they'd hear him even if they were in the basement. He didn't have to worry about other people hearing him, though, since all the others were currently on vacation (sponsored by Jaehyun, Taeil and Kun, of course).

They both entered his office, confusedly taking a seat and asking what was wrong.

"Who is this letter from?" he asked, giving the letter to them.

They both examined the envelope; even read the letter. There wasn't a signature, but there was an address on the back of the envelope.

"Let me check this address real quick," Kun offered, then left the office.

"I'll examine the letter further, maybe there's a message behind it," Taeil said, then also left, taking the letter with him. The confusing thing about the letter was that the message written in it didn't seem to make any sense at all.

I have liked cats all the time.
Love them now, thanks to you.
You have shown me how graceful they are.