The Universe Makes Mistakes Sometimes - Touch

What is a soulmate?

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Also, the titles of the chapters that are different mean the chapters are special chapters (a big thing happens that changes the plot)
Chapters with titles including couples (like Yuta and Sicheng) means it's about that couple

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Yukhei played with Jungwoo's hair as he snored peacefully. The dyed-silver stands were soft as silk.

After Yukhei had been able to drag Jungwoo home, the elder had fell asleep straight away on Yukhei's double bed. Yukhei was too exhausted to take out the air-bed and sleeping on the sofa was crippling.

He'd decided to slide into bed right next to his soulmate, hoping it didn't make him too uncomfortable.

Jungwoo could nap along as he wanted, Yukhei didn't care. As long as he was safe.

His chest rose and fell as he breathed, his pink lips parting to let carbon dioxide escape.

Yukhei wanted to kiss those lips.

Ever since he'd accepted that okay, he was a little bit gay, Yukhei's feelings had suddenly multiplied, becoming overwhelming.

He wanted to kiss him, he wanted to mark him, he wanted to love him the way no one else could.

But he wouldn't force himself of Jungwoo. He would never do something like that to anyone on the planet.

But he was lying if he said he didn't want to do anything to Jungwoo. He'd seen his milky-white skin when he'd changed his shirt and he wanted nothing more than to mark that skin.

Yukhei traced the soulmark on Jungwoo's wrist.

It was so, so pretty.

He was just going to have to wait to make Jungwoo his.

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Jungwoo woke up with a pounding headache. The skin around his right eye was sore and his body felt weak.

He didn't recognise the room he was in. Anime posters, the soft double bed, the painted-blue walls...where was he?

Suddenly, the door opened and in waltzed a figure...

Wong Yukhei.

"Yukhei?" Jungwoo looked up with wide eyes.

Yukhei had a fluffy white towel wrapped around his waist, revealing his bare torso. Across his chest and stomach were patches of red and purple, blossoming like flowers.

W-were they hickies?!?!

Did Jungwoo do that?!?!

"Yukhei what happened last night?" The elder asked, jumping up off the bed.

Yukhei looked at him quizzically.

"Y-you...don't remember?

"Yukhei, I'm sorry, but whatever we did was just a one-time thing. I get we're supposed to be soulmates and all, but I have a fiancé and I love him-"

Yukhei chuckled drily, though the words made his heart ache.

"God, I hope it was just a one-time thing," he said.

Jungwoo paused, raising his eyebrow.

What?

What?

Yukhei had gotten the chance to experience the whole Jungwoo™ and he wasn't begging for more?

What bullshittery is this?

"Excuse me? I know for a goddamned fact I'm good in bed, what do you mean you hope it was a one time thing? Jesus, I have a great mouth and don't even get me started on my ass-"

"Stop, stop! We didn't have sex last night!" Yukhei didn't want Jungwoo to embarrass himself any further. That, and he was getting a hard on.

"O-oh," Jungwoo murmured, his cheeks lighting up with a blush, "Why didn't you tell me that in the first place!"

This shy, bashful Jungwoo was completely different to the confident, sure-of-himself Yukhei had just experienced.

Oh God he's adorable.

"T-then what did we do? And those m-marks on your chest...what are they?"

Now that it came to it, Yukhei didn't want to tell Jungwoo about what happened last night. Maybe he should've let Jungwoo think he cheated on Taeho. Maybe it would've been easier that way.

"You should look in a mirror first."

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"No no no. Taeho could never do this. You're wrong, he'd never hurt me," Jungwoo shook his head in the mirror, watching the purple bruise around his eye.

Taeho would never hit him. Jungwoo was sure of that.

"I'm telling  you the truth, Wo-Jungwoo," Yukhei stopped himself before he called Jungwoo by his nickname.

"Where else would I have gotten this marks from?"

"I dunno," Jungwoo shrugged, "Maybe you cheated on one of your side bitches and she got mad. I don't know, I don't care. All I do know is that Taeho didn't do this."

Yukhei knew that Jungwoo was upset. He was upset and that's why he said he didn't care. 

'Cause Jungwoo was Yukhei's soulmate and he had to care right?

Right?

It was all Taeho. Taeho was the one corrupting Jungwoo, Taeho was the one who had beat them up. Taeho was the one who proposed.

"Why? Why would I tell you that Taeho hurt you if it wasn't true? I'm your soulmate, I wouldn't lie to you."

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Soulmate. Soulmate.

'I'm your soulmate'

That word have never meant more to Jungwoo. Never.

Jungwoo was a mess.

His bestfriend Doyoung hated him, he was pretty sure Yukhei was telling the truth about Taeho, and all his friend were busy loving their significant others - apart from the younger group, or the 'Dreamies' as they were nicknamed (but they all had crushes on each other anyway). Jungwoo's family was miles away and, quite honestly, Jungwoo didn't want to tell his mother of his uncle or his cousin about the mess that was his life. The only person he had was his soulmate, Wong Yukhei.

What is a soulmate?

Just like a normal spouse: someone you love but keep secrets from and cheat on (if you're anything like Jungwoo's father).

A bestfriend: someone you told all your secrets, someone who you could always trust and would always trust you?

A honeymoon lover: someone that you loved unconditionally, like you were in the honeymoon phase. Every kiss, every hug, ever 'I love you' meant the world to you. Is that was a soulmate was?

Was a soulmate something else or all of them put together?

Jungwoo wasn't sure, but he wanted to find out.

Without thinking, he marched up to Yukhei.

And kissed him.