When your countdown appeared on your wrist right on the morning of your eighteenth birthday, you had thought that perhaps the universe was on your side, especially since the final seconds were already ticking so soon. You just never expected to have...
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chapter vii. then we fall
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Speak now or forever hold your peace.
You have heard this line many times before spoken in some of those Western movies that you have watched in the past, mostly happening in the wedding scenes, where some random hero would then jump to their feet and say something that would later send the entire plot into motion. You have no recollection of hearing these words anywhere or anytime in real life, to ever hear them used to force someone to speak the truth or to spill any life-altering secrets in the eyes of the public that might turn someone's entire world tilting off its axis.
In all honesty, you had never truly known what these words truly meant or what they could do. Not until now, as you recount them to yourself, repeating the line in your head as many times as you need to until the words finally sink in.
Speak now.
Or forever hold your silence.
And forever keep the person you truly love in the dark about your circumstances and how your lives are going to change.
At first, you had planned to talk to Jungkook and reveal everything before the new year comes, as the thought of starting the new year with lies had made you feel like a terrible person. But your work and Jungkook's busy schedule had forced you to push the entire problem to the back of your mind, then New Year's Eve came and went, followed by the trips to visit both of your families for the New Year ceremony and the weekend you spent reuniting with your extended family. The events just kept on lining up from one to another, leaving you no chance to find the perfect time to talk and be completely honest with him about your soulmate.
And now that you have returned to Seoul, with no more obstacles coming in your way until your work schedules would start taking over your life again, it seems like you would no longer have any excuse to put this off any longer. You have no idea how he would react, but you certainly cannot imagine keeping this secret for the rest of your lives together. You have already kept this secret for far too long already as it is.
