Fated | Enhypen x Fem! Reader

Chapter 4

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At least the last class today is my favorite class, baking.

I let out a silent sigh of relief knowing that this class wasn't going to be stressful in the slightest and that my baking partner, even if we weren't close, was reliable and always helpful in the kitchen. In a strange way I always managed to unintentionally look forward to this class because of how much I got to relax and enjoy it. The tension I'd been holding in my shoulders releases at the thought of whatever delicious dessert the teacher had planned for us to create today. I'll consider it my own little birthday treat. Yet what I'm met with when I open the door to the food lab catches me off guard. My teacher grins from ear to ear, holding a fish bowl full of tiny folded papers and shakes the bowl in my direction enthusiastically.

"Today is a special day!" She exclaims and I nervously smile back feeling overwhelmed by her screaming excitement directed right at me, "we're changing partners!"

"W-What?" I question in disbelief as I had just gotten comfortable around my partner and now to have them changed all of a sudden, a feeling of irritation crawls up my skin like pesky bugs that you can't seem to flick off. And just when I thought this would be a relaxing class.

"Don't worry! It's only for the next month or so," she reasons, pushing the bowl towards my direction again impatiently waiting for me to slip my hand inside, "now pick a piece of paper and that'll be who your new partner is!"

I stare at her wide-eyed but my classmates trickling in behind me causes my anxiety to spike from the eyes of my peers looking between my teacher and I. It's okay, just pick one. It isn't that hard. I reluctantly stick my hand into the bowl, cursing my teacher out on the inside for making us switch partners mid-semester but still grab a slip of paper between my fingers nonetheless. She practically snatches the paper from my fingers happily before I can even read it and reads out the name with a large grin, "Sunoo will be your new baking partner!"

I felt as if my brain short circuits from his name being called out and I could feel my breath stop short. Really? I can just imagine the face of the fangirls when they hear news of this. If anyone was looking at it, they could've sworn I'd seen a ghost from the look of shock on my face. No words seem to form in my disbelief knowing I'm with yet another one of Jake's soulmates hence why I cautiously asked, "are you sure?"

"Don't worry, Y/n! I promise I'm the best partner you're ever gonna have," Sunoo says smiling when gesturing over to the station he always worked at with his previous partner who seemed to be glaring at me from the other side of the room. I awkwardly laugh not knowing how else to react in this situation but the looming gazes of his 'fangirls' send an uncomfortable chill down my spine. It's like the universe is working against me in every way possible today of all days.

I follow Sunoo to his station quietly, not wanting to attract anymore attention yet he's just as bubbly as usual putting my rising nerves somewhat at ease, "so I heard from Jake that it was your birthday?"

"What?" I ask in surprise at the fact that Jake had even said something about it or even mentioned such an insignificant thing to his soulmates, of all people.

"Is it not true?" he questions with a bit of a pout and I had to stop myself from internally squealing at how cute he looked at that moment. His soulmates sure are lucky people. I don't know how they're able to handle this ball of sunshine every day without wanting to smother him with love.

"No, no it is. I'm just surprised he even would bother to mention it," I say honestly, letting my gaze linger over to the group of students by the door of the classroom slowly dispersing in groups of two and heading off towards the other kitchen stations, "it's not that big a deal."