Attraction

Part Thirty Five

Brian followed Aila out the house and down the street. He didn't say anything as he caught up to her and took her hand, fingers lanced with each other.

"I don't think I've thank you enough." She finally said after a few steps.

"I don't want you to. Because I love you."

"But you shouldn't. I.... There's a lot that happened back then. Of course I don't remember any of it but I know of it. I wasn't a good person. I...."

"Shh, I don't want to hear it. Because you were trying to be—"

"No. Brian I need you to listen to me." She stopped walking and turned around to face Brian, "please. Listen to me. I have a lot to tell you."

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"I can see you have a lot on your mind. Talk to us." Maria asked Adrian.

He had been silent and had let Maria and Antônia look after him.

"I... fucked up. Now Aila won't take me back! I came all the way here to get my wife and my family, and I just fucking... ahh!"

Adrian shouted, making both of them flinch.

"Wait it's ok. Please tell us what's going on?" Antônia reached over and held his face, seeing his eyes become glossy and red.

"They want her back! They want her! I know they do! Who am I to compete with them!"

"Adrian! Who are you taking about!? Please explain!"

"I'm talking about them! About those.... Bastards down there! They are her soulmates! They are her soulmates and I'm not!" He began to cry, feeling his heart break at the realization the love of his life has the opportunity to be with them the now.

"Wait... are you talking about Aila!?"

Both women gasped as he nodded his head yes.

"Yes! They... I don't know how but they figured out Aila is their long lost soulmate." He threw his head back, seeing how life was playing with all of them.

"After all this fucking time, they found their way back to each other and now they all know. You guys knew too right?" He asked.

Both women took deep breaths.

"Damn. This is... how..." Maria stared but couldn't say anything. What was she supposed to say. Adrian cried more and both just held onto him.

"I was a fucking asshole too! She's not going to take me back."

"Shh..... baby, I'm sure she loves you. They might have been her soulmates at a certain point but their bonds broke. All her bonds broke."

Adrian only scoffed.

"That doesn't mean shit.. I know when a man is interested in what I have.... I've seen the looks they give her, the way they seem to almost orbit and move with her. The way they look at my kids!!! Like they are the whole world!!"

Maria and Antônia glanced at each other.

"Don't tell me you haven't noticed! Even I noticed and I've only been here a couple of hours. How the hell am I supposed to fight against them?"

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**italics means it's said in Korean**

Vannozzo and Nyala left to be with the kids, leaving the seven soulmates alone.

"I still don't understand... she knew we were her soulmates?" Jungkook's sweet voice asked.

Namjoon nodded his head yes.

"Why.... Why didn't she tell us? How could she be around us like nothing?" He looked up, his big eyes shining with pain.

"Because we are nothing to her. Clearly we mean nothing to her. " Taehyung spoke, his heart breaking.

"Tae, don't say that! Didn't you pay attention to what Brian just told us! She felt her mom during chemotherapy to tour with us! Something must have happened!" Yoongi answered Taehyung.

"I couldn't be able to do what she's been doing! We have gotten so close to her! To her kids! To her family! Why would she allow this to happen so easily! And knowing who we are! She's a two-face!"

"Taehyung! Stop! I understand you're mad. And hurt. Because I feel it too. But don't say that about her! We are the ones that took it upon ourselves to take them out! We didn't even give her a choice, we just decided we were and got everything ready!" Seokjin looked at his younger soulmate.

"But Tae's right. She knew. How could she just pretend? Knowing the truth? To be so close to us? Like nothing? Did she not think we would find out? What about our feelings? Did she not see the way we look at her?" Hoseok asked.

"Hoseok, what was she supposed to do? To know what was going to happen? To figure out the only reason we decided to plan a fucking trip was because we liked her? Even when we said we weren't going to let this get between us? How was she supposed to know we would meet all these years later? Would you have believe her? If she had said something? How many times people tried to get between us? How many of those cruel assholes haven't we gotten claiming to be our soulmate through the years?" Yoongi fired all these questions at his soulmate, leaving him with no way of answering, because Yoongi was right.

How was she supposed to know they would miraculously remember she existed once?

"Guys, let's just cool down. There's a lot that needs to be talked about. Please." Namjoon told the group.

All seven stared at each other before one by one went back into the house, going separate ways.

They didn't speak to one another.

But each went over everything they knew, their minds playing every detail they could remember, staring from the party where they met Aila.

From that first time their attention had been abruptly taken by one person.

And now, they finally know why.

**** so today is Brian's / Erick's (depending on what story this character is in) birthday! June 2nd! Happy birthday to him!

I also finished my other story I started to write in the middle of this one, so I should have more time to finish.... But... if I'm being honest.... I don't know if it's going to be a good ending.

Tell what you guys think.

-B