heartbeat

the day he found out

Summer is over for the college students of Tech and Arts Private College (TAPC), the residents who attend the private academy are flooding back into the school campus after the months spent with they're family or friends. Two college residents, childhood friends, Kang Jaehyung and Luka Torres had made it back to they're college with two close friends, Maeun and Tyler, a week before summer had ended.

The day before summer had ended, Jaehyung, Luka, and Tyler had a not-so-calm conversation in the dorms.

See, soulmates are a thing, literally. Not just calling your best friend or lover your supposedly "soulmate," no, life decides who your soulmate is. Finding your soulmate is normally easy, you gain feelings and your soulmates birthdate pops up on your body, right? Rarely people have no soulmate, no matter how hard they try, finding your soulmate is a no go. That's what Jae thought he was, a solo, like his younger sister Maeun. Surprisingly, Luka and Tyler had thought they were soulmates, just thought that reality was late to confirm. Apparently, Jaehyung had realized his hidden feelings for his childhood best friend the day they left to their college again. Instead of me, the narrator, talk about how he found out, let's just show you.

The day Jaehyung found out

"Jae, can you pass me my lip gloss?" The younger boy had requested his temporary roommate to hand him his thing. Yet, it looked like Jae was completely spaced out. Luka turned around just to see Jae staring at nowhere, literally just a wall. He giggled and ducked down, jumping in front of him. It was easy to scare him like that, he was a shortie. "Jae-Jae!" He teased him with the childhood name he had given him.

Jae quickly snapped out of his own world to look down to see Luka's big smile and hands out. That's when it hit him, his face started to heat up, his heart was beating like crazy, and his throat had seemed to lock up. He had quickly said something in Korean under his breath.

"Ha! Look! Your finally paying attention to me now, yet you're not scared," Luka sighed, his smile still glued to his face, "I guess I'll get my own lip glass since you were in your own world."

Jae had quickly calmed down, he took a deep breath as his chest rose and laid flat as he exhaled, "you scared me, idiot," Jae had flashed a quick smile at Luka as he was pulled down by his jacket. Luka reached to his face and pulled his cheeks, they were always squishy. "Can't call me an idiot when you look like a nerd with those Harry Potter glasses," he giggled and walked back to his bag of clothes and useless things he didn't need but felt like he just had to bring.

Now that you're caught up, let's go back to the not-so-calm conversation between the boyfriend and childhood friend.

Luka was confused, he knew it had to be for real, obviously, reality made Jae and his family move in his neighbourhood for a reason. Reality had made Luka fall off that swing, made Jae spin the bottle and it had landed on him. Reality made sure Jae and Luka would fall for each other without realizing. Yet even though he knew, he was furious, angry at his best friend. He already knew a week beforehand and Jae didn't tell?

Tyler, on the other hand, his boyfriend, had a feeling this would come down to it. Jae and Luka are usually the ones doing couple things without realizing it, they would hold hands as they walked, playfully pushed each other to the side of the sidewalk. Tyler had even seen Jae quickly pull his hand away from the upcoming traffic, which Luka wasn't looking at. Get off your phones when walking!

"So let's get this straight, Jae. You knew all along, that I, your best-childhood friend was YOUR soulmate?!" Luka had raised his voice, his mind running on millions of memories they had shared. See, Luka doesn't have a good head when it comes to these things. His temper is off the charts when he's confused. More or less, Jae was never going to get the end of it.

"I found out the week we had come back onto campus, Luka! I didn't know what to do!" Jae had said back to him, he was desperate. He didn't know what to do in this situation, he hadn't thought about finding a soulmate. He wouldn't think his soulmate would be in front of him, furious with his boyfriend beside him, speechless. "I-I didn't think I would ever get a soulmate! I thought me and Mae would be solos forever and you would live a happy life with Tyler!"

"Still, you should have told me! You should have told me the day you found out. You made it worse covering up your arm so I wouldn't find out! I thought you had done something to yourself!" Luka started to yell, his head rushing with memories of them together. "I'm not mad that we're soulmates! I'm mad you made me worry!"

Jae opened his mouth to say something back, trying his hardest to defend himself. That was his flaw, he wouldn't back down, not for anything.

"Luka you have to think about what he thought, he probably thought it would ruin us, he probably thought it would ruin you two as friends. Finding your soulmate is such a huge thing and this situation definitely didn't help," Tyler had spoken for the first time during this whole fight. They were all just hanging out in Tyler's dorm until Jae had to hide his arm in a pillow. That's how it all started.

"I.." Luka was speechless, finally, his boyfriend had said something and it was actually reasonable. At this point, Jae had tears in his eyes that were falling at the speed of the anger that Luka gained. Jae was usually the one to cry, he would cry over subtle situations but hide it. Luka was the only person to see him crying.

"I'm sorry for worrying you so much Luka," Jae had wiped away his tears for the younger with his sweatshirt. He didn't know what to say else than sorry, he was scared if that was the only word to describe it.

"Tyler can you give us some alone time?" Luka had asked his boyfriend calmly as he stared at the older man who was a complete wreck. He didn't expect Jae, the guy who would always do it alone or his own way. The tall, 6'2, 19 year old to start crying over him.

Tyler quickly left.

Luka breathed, his chest had risen and laid down multiple times. A few minutes had gone by, it was dead silent. Luka sat on the bed, that of course, a dorm would have. "Jae, stop being Jay and sit beside me," Luka had spoken up, his eyes now laying on Jae who was standing there, just, standing there until Luka had called him over.

The sound of another person jumping on a bed filled the dead silent room. Jae had looked over to Luka, just to look at his face. He smiled, Luka's face made him happy. Maybe it was all the memories they had shared, or maybe it was because of his feelings for him. None the less, Jae looked over at Luka's arm to see his birth date printed on his tan and freckled wrist. They both started to laugh, they're fights were always over dumb reasons Luka couldn't handle or Jae would do without knowing.

"We're so dumb. It was totally obvious we were soulmates!" Luka groaned and exclaimed his arms out then falling on his back onto the bed. "I mean you literally kissed me once how are we THAT stupid?!"

Jae smiled at his words, he had opened his mouth to say one more thing before the door had been pushed open by Mae, her eyes scattering everywhere, her posture bent, and obviously shaken up. "A kid just found someone dead on campus you two!" She had basically screamed at them.

(ill be updating the book on ao3 first and then after like an hour or some shit ill post it here lol)