Stranded With a Vampire - 5. Chapter 5

"Uhm…okay? But then why the hell are you staring at me like that?" Caden asked, slightly creeped out by the other man's expressions but he just shrugged and said that he enjoyed watching him eat.

That's fucking weird, but I guess if he has been on the island for a while, it's kinda understandable. Caden rationalized and stuffed another piece of meat into his mouth. While chewing his roasted bird, the redhead imagined how he would fare if he were all on his own for weeks or, hell, even months. I would probably lose my goddamn mind.

The memory of last night's encounter with the undead monster suddenly flooded his mind, making him almost choke on his food. It seemed so unreal and yet he just couldn't deny what he had seen. A rotting corpse, with glowing purple eyes and rags that looked like it had crawled out of its grave just moments before.

Caden knew that it sounded insane but he still couldn't suppress the urge to ask his new company about it. "By the way, when you picked me up from where I had blacked out, did you see something weird… like a zombie or something?" The redhead hesitantly questioned, halfway expecting the other man to laugh at him for even asking something so outlandish.

But to his surprise the blue eyed man didn’t laugh at all, he actually just seemed somewhat confused by the question. "A Zombie?"

"I know it sounds weird but I kinda think there was one. I mean it definitely looked like it."

"What did it look like?" The dark-haired man asked, seemingly still very confused about what Caden was even talking about. Slightly frustrated, the redhead rolled his eyes and tried to explain what he meant, "Like a Zombie! You know those undead, brain-eating monsters?! Do you know what I mean?"

At first, he only got a blank stare from the blue eyed man but then he slowly nodded.

"Yes I do, but for your information, I don't eat brains. That's disgusting."

Now it was Caden's turn to be confused about what the other guy was talking about. He studied the beautiful face of the man across the campfire, hoping that he could figure out if it all was just a joke, but he just couldn't. With how blank his expression was and how deadpan he had said it, Caden was at a loss.

"Well I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about that hideous, undead thing I saw last night." He awkwardly laughed and admitted that he had been even more terrified when it ran after him.

"That was me."