INEVITABLE - SEULRENE

soulmates time

joohyun's jaw slowly drops as she stares at sooyoung and seungwan standing before her very eyes. "you two are not kidding me, are you?"

sooyoung called her over for a surprise. little did she know that the surprise waiting is in the form of her ex-lover whom sooyoung addresses now as her soulmate.

her soulmate? how the hell did that happen?

"sooyoung, are you sure it's her, of all the people here in the city?" joohyun points at seungwan, internally wondering what have the spirits been up to lately.

"yah! why do you sound like you're against it!" seungwan protests.

giggling, sooyoung loops an arm through seungwan's. "i'm sure, unnie. seungwan and i have tested tugging each other. it worked every single time."

joohyun steps back, bringing a hand to her mouth.

"yah! joohyun, your reaction is offending me!" seungwan exclaims.

but joohyun doesn't seem to hear it. she looks at sooyoung. "are you aware that seungwan and i work together?"

"yes. she even told me you were ex-lovers."

"she did?" joohyun gives seungwan a knowing look.

"she even admitted that you two used to be sexually active post breakup."

"oh. she really has to tell you that, didn't she?" she glares at seungwan who sheepishly smiles at her.

"it's okay, unnie. it's all in the past now," sooyoung says. "and it won't matter anymore because once a person finds their soulmate and get to know even just their names, any affection or recollection from their previous relationships will slowly fade. they won't forget those people, but their relationship and intimacy will eventually become a distant memory."

joohyun's eyebrows rose.

oh really?

was that the reason she slowly drifted away from seungwan after she met seulgi before--only because she got her soulmate's name?

but now that they are finally together, does that mean seulgi is starting to drift away from her wife?

that thought brings an unpleasant picture in joohyun's head--the image of seulgi spending the night alone with eunae. the more she thinks about it, the more she feels a strange feeling creeping up her chest, making it hard for her to breathe.

which reminds her...

"sooyoung-ah, are you okay with this, being friends with me, your soulmate's ex-lover?"

"of course, unnie. why won't i be?"

"well, doesn't your 'soulmate radar' kind of feel threatened towards me?" joohyun quotes her fingers.

"soulmate radar?" sooyoung chuckles. "unnie, what are you saying?"

"i just thought that maybe you'd feel some sort of resentment towards me because seungwan and i used to be together."

"ahh. i know what you're talking about!" sooyoung snaps her fingers. "shamans call that occurrence as discernment. a person can identify which people can pose a threat to their relationship with their soulmate. that's normal, unnie."

"oh. so it's really normal, huh?" joohyun nods.

"does your soulmate feel like that towards seungwan?" sooyoung asks, making seungwan look at her.

"yes." joohyun folds her arms on her chest. "but how come you don't feel anything like that towards me?"

"i think it's because we met first and have already established the friendship before i even meet seungwan," sooyoung explains. "honestly, i felt something when i first you saw you by the elevator that night i moved in here. it may be related to that discernment thing. whatever it is, i decided to approach you and befriend you instead."