SeoulMates | OT7 Soulmate AU

Maheun-Ilgop (마흔일곱)

Jungkook

Jin left with Ma-ri leaving me and everyone else left at the table crying in silence, stunned by Mi-kyung's revelations. I wanted to run to my girlfriend, but I couldn't move, everyone was so still that if I moved, I felt like everything around us might shatter. The loud sobbing of the devastated mother and last third of her soulmate group brought me out of my trance- she was completely distraught.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry" she chanted through her tears, and I couldn't help dropping some of my tears for her.

Taehyung pulled the woman into him, rubbing her hair, our eyes met, and I saw mixed emotions swirling within his deep chocolate pupils. I understood, Ma-ri was our soulmate but how could we not feel sorry for the woman baring her soul in front of us?

"I-" Namjoon started; his voice cracked. He licked his lips and looked around the table "Excuse me" he rose from his seat and went in the direction of Seokjin and Ma-ri

"I'm going to check on Minji-noona and Minsu-hyung," Jimin said quietly before making his exit.

"I'll go with you" Yoongi mumbled and left with the younger of them.

I felt like I needed to say something, do something but I didn't know what. We were all in an emotionally charged state and it was pretty awkward being left alone with the woman who single-handedly ruined our love's life on a massive scale. Me, Taehyung and Hoseok looked at each other with slight shrugs, Tae was still holding onto Mi-kyung, muffling her crying. Hoseok took a deep breath then rubbed his face with both hands and I moved over to be closer to him, wrapping my arm around his shoulder.

"I don't know if I have the right to say this but I will anyway" Hobi started, making her pull away from Taehyung and look at him. His face was hard and his eyes were dark, a rare look on him "You are so wrong for what you've done, I know you understand the severity of the consequences of your action, but you really fucked up, like majorly fucked up. Not only did you rob Ma-ri but you also robbed yourself, you took away your own happiness. She was eleven years old when her world staring falling apart and only fourteen when it crumbled all because you couldn't get your shit together enough to work out your personal issues with the help and support of the two people specifically created for you, the two people put on this earth to love and cherish you with every fiber of their being until life leaves them" He scoffed, poking his cheek with his tongue "Ma-ri is better than me because if I was in her shoes I can't say that I wouldn't have acted on the rage and punched you square in the fucking face"

"Hoseok!" Taehyung chided

"No, he-he's right. I missed out on having my wife and daughter with me" she replied, dragging her fingers through her tangled hair

"Why didn't you try to find her sooner? Even after her mother's death" I asked, I still had a lot of questions

"I was scared of this exact moment. I wanted to call her so many times over the years, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I was terrified of suffering the consequences but when I saw her soulmate marks, I knew I had to tell her because I didn't want her to miss out on you all, she deserved some kind of happiness in her life" Mi-kyung explained, tears still raced down her cheek from her puffy eyes

Minsu came from the back of the house with a wet towel and sat next to his mom again, grabbing her face so he could clean it. She gave him a weak smile and turned her whole body towards him, the extremely sad man kissed her forehead and patted the warm cloth under her eyes.

"I know you all might be angry at my mom, I'm very disappointed in her myself but can you try to understand that when she did these awful things she was acting from a broken state of mind. She experienced trauma of her own..." He said while never taking his eyes off of her "and it left her with a toxic way of thinking and handling her problems"