Sweet Shop | Seventeen

Maybe In Our Next Lifetime (Hoshi/Soonyoung)

We've been stuck in this endless cycle for ages.

Reincarnating, forgetting, finding each other. When will we ever have our happily ever after?

Please, just this once. I'm begging for a happy ending.

One where we can finally be together.

Please.

Give us one more chance to be together.

-

"Hoshi, what's taking you so long?" Hoshi's younger sister was pestering him to hurry, they were already late to the party. "Put a lid on it, Hana!" He groaned, giving himself a final look-over in the mirror. "Okay, my hair looks good, and this tie colour matches my shoes.." Hoshi burst out his room door, rushing down the stairs. Hana clapped her hands together, glad they could finally leave. "Sometimes I wonder if you're the older one, or is it just me." Snorting, Hana yanked her coat off the coat rack, and slid on her heels. "There's only a year's difference, Hana."

"Besides, you've gone through more reincarnations compared to me."

Sliding into the driver's seat, Hoshi inserted the car key into it's keyhole, and started up the engine. "C'mon, Hoshi! We need to get there before some random girl starts flirting with him." Hana's manicured hand found its way into her mouth, and she nibbled on the red nail. "Stop biting your nails, those weren't cheap." Hoshi drove off, heading towards the party's location. "I don't care, I'm just so nervous.. It's been so many lifetimes since I've been able to talk to him properly.." Hana looked out the window, a sigh escaping her mouth.

"At least you've found him. I haven't seen her yet. I can't even believe we're both reincarnated with our memories instead of our partners." Hoshi kept his eyes on the road, letting Hana turn on the radio. A light melody filled the temporary silence in the car, before Hana spoke up again. "Do you remember? What happened in your first life." Nodding, the elder of the two let a bitter smile cross his face.

"Who'd forget her?"

-

"I'm so sorry, are you okay?" Gasping, Hoshi picked up the books that had scattered all over the floor. "No, it's okay. Are you hurt?" The girl reached her arms out to take the pile from him. "No, I'm totally-" Hoshi's eyes met with the girl's, and his jaw dropped. She's the one. "..Fine." Finishing his sentence, he smiled sheepishly. "Can I accompany you to your next class? These are kinda heavy, aren't they?"

The girl laughed, "I can take a hint when I see one. And yes, I'm sure we're on the same wavelength. Everyone else seems.. Different from us." Smiling, she took a couple of the books from the stack Hoshi was carrying. "I know who you are too, you're the guy who all the girls from my class keep talking about." She walked down the corridor, Hoshi by her side. She called him by the name he was given in his first birth on this planet.

"You're Kwon Soonyoung, aren't you?"

-

"Hoshi, Hoshi!" His head snapped up, his sister's voice pulling him back to reality. "That wasn't safe at all! We could've died!" Sighing deeply, she smacked his head. "Now's not the time to be thinking about her. Let's go." Blinking, Hoshi realised he had subconsciously driven to the party's location, the house of a popular jock from Hana's school. Hana had already exited the car, and was waiting impatiently for Hoshi, tapping her foot. The two finally made it to the door, and were greeted by a slightly packed house.