❁ཻུ۪۪ 𝙆𝙄𝘿𝙐𝙇𝙏 || 𝙎𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉

ʀᴇᴅ sᴛʀɪɴɢ | ᵉˡᵉᵛᵉⁿ

red string of fate.

there's an old story in chinese folklore about a magical connection between two people that are destined to be soulmates, called "the red string of fate". the people connected by the red thread are destined lovers, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. this magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break. the myth is similar to the western concept of soulmates.

︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶

❝ i will never forget the moment i realized i love you. ❞

︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶

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four days.

it's been four days since jisoo left jeonghan alone in that room. four days since soonyoung and seokmin stopped looking at each other. four days since jeonghan spoke a word. it took four days for everything to fall apart.

it's been four days since jisoo attempted to make contact with anyone, breaking the promise he made to his best friend.

another promise left broken.

he had been staying at a friend's house, though he doesn't really have much of those considering the people he hangs out with the most are the twelve other people in the groupchat.

jisoo usually doesn't allow his feelings to be shown in front of others. he's the type who puts others before himself, the type that refuses to ask for help and will ignore his feelings, keeping them bottled up.

it was about time he exploded.

he knew how it started, this indescribable feeling towards junhui, as much as he wanted to deny it, he knew just how much he'd fallen for the younger.

the only problem was that jisoo already had someone before junhui. someone that made things complicated.

jisoo stared at the red thread on his finger, holding it up to see what little could be shown by the moonlight. his eyes trailed down the rest of the thread, knowing that on the other side of the impossibly long string would be connected to his own soulmate.

someone he cared for deeply.

someone he loved.

the string had shown up a little over two years ago, when they first began to date. the red string was rare in soulmates, so it didn't come as a surprise when they were shocked to see it on their fingers one day. the only other person who knew about it was jeonghan, someone jisoo would tell everything to.

he knew it was wrong of him to have feelings for someone that wasn't his soulmate. someone who deserved much better than what jisoo could give him. but he didn't imagine his heart would burn so much for someone he could not have.

his vision was blurred by a pool of water, sniffling as he threw his head back, blinking rapidly in hopes of making it stop.

jisoo was never much of a crier.

maybe it was wrong of him to have such thoughts. maybe if he had met junhui earlier–if he had developed feelings for him faster, the one on the other end would be jun, and jisoo wouldn't be in this predicament.

he doubted it would stop the love he had for seungcheol anyway.

seungcheol, his true soulmate.

if jisoo was sure about anything, he knew it would be about seungcheol. that in every universe, they would find each other, and he would fall so deeply in love with the latter.