the eclipse thread • oneus

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While all of the tension was happening between Youngjo, Jihoon and Yonghoon, Dongmi placed herself in Gunmin's arms after they got outside with Lucy, Areum, Dongju and Dongmyeong. "I wonder who Jihoonie will choose." Dongmi mumbled as she messed with Gunmin's fingers.

"Do you think she will even choose Youngjo?" Areum spoke, she moved her curly black hair from the ponytail it was in, letting it cascade down her back.

"I think she will, after all she only had a small crush on Yonghoon." Dongmi said, her boyfriend chimes in behind her.

"Youngjo and her have the same tattoo, I don't know how neither of them noticed they were soulmates."

"Because they never touched each other, their bond is only found when you and your soulmate physically touch one another, everytime something happens to her, Hyungu would always catch her, or grab her before Youngjo could." Dongju said.

Dongmyeong rubbed his neck trying to think of something. "We should all do something, since Areum and Lucy are back."

Everybody looked at him confused, "Like what? If you haven't noticed dingdong there's people out there trying to kill us." Dongju mumbled, narrowing his eyes at his brother.

"I mean like, we could go out to the lake and have a day to ourselves, with mom and dad too, wouldn't that be fun, the DingDingDong group with our small group here. We wouldn't have to worry about anything bad, there would be three monarchs with us anyway." Dongmyeong explains, placing his hands on his hips acting sassy, "besides, I can fight too, so there are four of us." The keyboardist said happily with a wide smile.

"Don't call us the 'DingDingDong group' ever again." Dongju sighed, his eyes glaring into his brother's soul.

"I like the idea, let's do it." Dongmi said.

"It would be good for us to take a break but what about the others?" Gunmin asked.

"They could do whatever they want that day." Dongju shrugged.

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A few days later the group was now sitting in a boat with the siblings mom as their dad backed the boat into the water. Loud yelling and laughing from the three couples erupted, Dongmyeong and Dongju goofing off, by chunking floaties and water toys at each other, Dongmi was scolding them as she was applying sunscreen to Gunmin's back. Lucy and Areum were watching the two boys act silly. "You two sit down." Mrs. Son said, scolding her boys, who frowned and sat on the boat. It was quite a big bot for the eight of them, Dongju and Lucy were sitting at the very front of the boat laughing together happily, also in the front was Gunmin and Dongmi who were having a rap battle with each other, Dongmyeong was sitting in the back with his parents and Areum.

"Did you not want to join them up there?" Dongmyeong asked, facing his girlfriend.

"M-me? No no... I'm fine back here." Areum said softly, moving some of her now dyed blonde hair from her eyes. Dongmyeong stared at her intensely leaning in close to her, he smiled softly and pulled back.

"Okay, just let me know if you want to." He held her hand in his as they rode around the lake.

Not much later, Areum's light blue eyes scanned the water, the group had come to a stop to play around in the water, Areum stayed in the boat. A painful memory danced in her head,

"She's done it again! Yang Areum has won her 5th swim race!" An announcer said, from the stands a loud roar of cheers pierced the girls ears, one of them happened to be Dongmyeong. Areum was standing near the pool she was swimming in, she smiled widely and waved at people in the crowd. Areum smiled sheepishly making eye contact with Dongmyeong, blushing. A competitor came up to Areum to talk to her for a few, while they talked a different one came up beside Areum and pushed her into the water. Shocked and unexpected she took in a lot of water, choking for air.