A/N: 23.02.19

Okay, so I read that some people are disgusted by Hawaiian pizzas (pizza with pineapple and ham as a topping).

Are you guys:

1. team pineapple

2. Team no way, absolutely not, go away.

I'm probably going to get a lot of hate, but I love Hawaiian pizzas 😂 #justiceforpineapples

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Nov 7th, 2021: author from the future

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"Aleksei!" shouted Issa, banging on Aleksei's dorm room door. "Aleksei! Rise and shine butterfly, you have an order from Nyx!"

Aleksei remained on his bed, his eyes peacefully closed. He was lying on his back, facing the ceiling, and his hands were resting over his waist, the way a corpse would be placed in its coffin.

"Alek, I know you can hear me!" Sighed Issa, banging louder and waking up all the other boys on the floor except for one. "Don't make me go in there and tickle you!"

Issa turned towards Roman who was leaning against the wall, his arms crossed over his broad chest. Roman's eyes were closed and Issa quickly put his hand against his face, slapping him awake.

Issa was the shortest amongst them. Aleksei and Roman were twice his height, so he always had to step on his tiptoes just to reach their faces.

Well, Roman's face anyway. Aleksei would probably snap his neck in half before he could even touch him.

"Hey, hey, don't you fall asleep on me either!" Hissed Issa, waking Roman up. "What is wrong with you boys?! You're supposed to sleep when the moon is up! You guys are vamps, not god damn werewolves!"

Roman opened his eyes, his thin, blond lashes revealing two light-blue, almost grey pupils. They glistened brightly, cold and metallic, rivaling the most excellently polished suit of armor. His skin was pale, as white as snow, making his eyes pop and even brighter.

"I haven't hunted for a while," he growled hoarsely.

"Yeah, I can tell. You look like a mess, and that's saying a lot, especially for someone as gorgeous as you," snorted Issa, taking the extra hair tie around his wrist and handing it to Roman. Issa's had short, chestnut brown hair but always carried a hair tie for Roman, whose long, silver hair went up to his shoulders.

"Thanks," he mumbled, taking it and tying his hair back into a knotted ponytail, before closing his eyes and falling back asleep. Standing.

Issa's mouth dropped open and he let out a loud groan.

"You two sleep like corpses!" he cried in despair, knocking on Aleksei's door again. "Wake up, Alek! ALEKSEI GRIFFON, YOU BETTER WAKE UP BEFORE I GO IN THERE AND WHOOP YOUR..."

Roman's ears twitched as he heard Aleksei's footsteps. He could sense his friend's irritated aura and look towards Issa who was still waking up the entire building. Roman quickly grabbed Issa's arm and pulled him aside right before the door pushed violently open.

It would have hit Issa and squashed him like a fly against the wall if Roman hadn't saved him in time. Issa staggered sidewards, his back hitting Roman's rock hard chest. They both looked towards Aleksei who cocked an annoyed brow at Roman.

"You should have let me knock him out," he growled. Issa blinked blankly, looking at Aleksei before Roman, and then back towards Aleksei.

"Knock who out?" Issa asked cluelessly.

Roman cleared his voice before Aleksei could answer. "I've got an order from Nyx."

Issa looked at him, eager to know what the orders were about. Unlike Roman and Aleksei, Issa was human, which was why they never let him in on the top-secret activities that went on in their gang.

Roman glanced towards Issa. "Plug your ears and sing a song," he ordered. Issa pouted.

"But I want to know," he sulked. "I promise I won't tell anyone, my lips are zipped and locked!"

Issa pretending to zip his lips, pulling an imaginary zipper across his lips and throwing the key far away. He then put his over his forehead and squinted his eyes, pretending to look for the key, before turning towards Roman and giving him a thumbs up to indicate that the key was gone.

Roman gave him a smile small. "Sorry, Issa, that's not how it works. You know the drill."

Issa frowned, his lips drooping closer towards his chin.

"Issa, plug your ears and sing a fucking song, I'm not in the mood to be third wheeling right now," snapped Aleksei in a harsh tone.

Issa sniffled, his lips still sealed. He turned around and plugged his ears, loudly humming a song so that he couldn't overhear their conversation.

"For the sake of Satan, why do you bring this guy around all the time?" sighed Aleksei.

"Humans make great company," said Roman. Aleksei looked towards Issa who was now wiggling his butt to the song that he was singing, glancing back towards Roman with a raised brow.

"As I said, great company," smiled Roman. "Just because you have a hard time being around them, doesn't mean that I have to avoid them."

"What does the Nyx want?" sighed Aleksei, clearly not in the mood to have this conversation again.

"He wants you to hunt for him tonight."

"Tell him to go hunting himself," growled Aleksei, running a hand through his unruly brown hair. Issa studied Aleksei's face from the corner of his eyes, wondering how and why vampires looked so flawless even after waking up.

All Aleksei's hair did was give it more volume, reflecting the daylight in waves of darkened honey and brightened oak. His face was smooth and flawless, his jaw carved so sharp and his cheekbones defined in perfect symmetry. And his eyes, oh his beautiful ocean blue eyes...

"He has business elsewhere."

"Bullshit," snorted Aleksei. "He just wants me to break my fasting. Tell him that I'm not interested in drinking with him. Not now, not ever."

"Alek, you can't keep sucking animal blood. It'll only slow the process, but you'll end up growing hungry eventually."

"I'm doing perfectly fine with my deer blood, but thank you for your concern."

"You'll die," he said, in a more serious tone. A cynical grin grew on Aleksei's face.

"Been there, done that," he snorted.

"Aleksei, Nyx is serious this time. He wants a body tonight, and who knows what the Hell he'll do if he doesn't get it. If you can't kill, then at least give him something unconscious, or a fresh body part that he can suck on," said Roman.

Aleksei knew that he wasn't going to get out of this one so easily. He didn't have a problem hurting humans or ripping off a limb, the only thing he refused to do was drink from one. "Fine. I'll get him an arm, maybe a leg if he's lucky."

"Good," said Roman, still not entirely content. "His request was quite precise this time though. He said that two new transfer students have arrived today and that they're most likely with the FBI. Nyx requested that you bring him at least one of them."

"And I'll be sure to welcome them warmly," said Aleksei. "You know, break a few of their bones and rip a limb, the usual welcoming ritual."

Roman sighed. "Alek, it's who we are, you can't keep hating yourself for wanting something that's in your nature. And I can't keep finding loopholes for you. He wants you back, the boss wants the real you back, and not the deer sucking you."

Aleksei glanced towards Issa who was now jamming to Rihanna.

"Right, but don't you think you're being a bit too heartless saying that when he's right next to us?" he asked. Aleksei winked, knowing that he hit Roman where it hurt, before leaning forward and clapping his friend on the shoulder. "I wonder how you sleep at night."

Before Roman could answer, Aleksei returned to his room and closed the door behind him. Roman sighed, looking towards Issa who was now dabbing violently, switching one arm to the other.

"That's the problem," he grumbled to himself. "I don't."

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