"Strings can be cut off."
She's looking down on her feet but Junhoe's looking straight at her. "You know that you can always stay here. I'm sure your father will never know about it and if he finds out that you're here, we'll...we'll protect you. We can protect you, Junhoe."
Rosé looks up to him with a moistened eyes. Her gaze meets his. Junhoe's expression became soft and gave her a smile.
"Do you know about the red strings?" He suddenly asked.
"Huh?"
"The red string that connects two people who are meant for each other by it's both ends."
"W-What about it?" She asked, still weirded out by his sudden change of topic. She thought that maybe Junhoe doesn't want to talk about it anymore. About him leaving the town and her wanting him to stay. Maybe she really can't change her mind anymore.
"They said if you really are meant for each other, the red string won't be cut off even if you go far away from each other. It will connect you both until the day that you and your soulmate meet again."
Rosé let out a chuckle. She can't believe that a guy like Junhoe believes in those kind of things. "How come you know about that?"
The atmosphere between them suddenly lighten up.
Junhoe shrugs, "Books?"
Rosé just shook her head, "Then what about out red string---" She stopped. She suddenly thought that maybe it wasn't about "their" red string that he's talking about. She doesn't want to assume. She doesn't want to make him think that she's building things in her mind already especially about their relationships when there's nothing official between them yet.
"Ours is different."
"W-What do you mean by that?"
"I don't really believe that we're connected by those red strings."
Shoot. Rosé thought that she heard a glass or a vase fell to the ground. She felt disappointed...how could he even open that topic to her if he doesn't believe to it? It doesn't make sense at all.
She bite the inside of her cheek and nodded.
"Strings can be cut off."
"geez why don't you try to shut up already and stop breaking my heart???" She complains in her mind. Junhoe really has his own ways to break her heart and it's now in tiny pieces already.
She let out a fake chuckle, "Yeah. Why would we even have that stupid red string?"
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FanfictionC O M P L E T E D Rosé is a florist who owns a small flower shop just around the corner of the street where Junhoe lives. While Junhoe is that "strange guy" who always stop by at Rosé's flower shop every "poetry month" just to drop some piece of pap...
