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yunho could see the red string of fate.
sometimes he played fate
bringing his friends to their soulmate, assigned them and watched the two strings knotted.
he believed he didn't intervene what was set in place
it's a blessing.
yunho lifted his hand and watched the red string around his wrist fluttered off into the distance.
he wondered. what was his soulmate doing? when would they meet? how would they react?
the possibility was endless
and yunho didn't stop wondering.
then he woke up with his string fade and frayed, as if got cut off by force.
bile rose to his throat and yunho retched into the toilet bowl.
tears fell.
then a sudden realization.
his soulmate gave up.
since that time he hated seeing the string.
it's a curse.
while others were bright red and disappeared to connect to their soulmate,
yunho's was fading and limp.
he believed only soulmates loved forever.
which was why when changmin confessed to him he was conflicted.
his heart screamed yes
his head said no
because he fell in love despite fated to be loveless.
he took a glance at changmin's wrist.
red and flittered in the wind to wrap around an unknown’s wrist.
he was selfish.
he wanted to love.
yunho said yes.
changmin smiled so bright that it hurt him when the younger cupped his face and kissed him softly.
one month was a bliss
the next was a despair
then it became a pain
time passed and yunho was in agony.
he couldn't keep receiving all changmin's touches and kisses
knowing changmin was belong to someone who's not him.
he couldn't do this anymore.
"we have to end this." yunho said one day, his eyes were not on changmin.
changmin stepped forward and held his hands.
yunho flinched.
"why? did i do something wrong?"
"no. it was never you. it is me."
and changmin gripped him by the sleeves, begging and pleading for yunho to tell him the reason.
any reason.
so yunho told him.
and changmin shook his head.
"forget about the string. i love you and i choose you."
when yunho woke up to changmin's pale and unraveled string he got mad.
"you shouldn't have done that."
changmin shrugged. he hugged yunho tighter and rested his chin on the older's broad shoulder.
"i love you and i choose you."
changmin grinned against his neck.
and yunho couldn’t get mad at him any longer.
time passed.
yunho professed his vow then, "i love you and i choose you."
they're on the altar, they kissed and yunho smiled into the kiss with tears in his eyes.
changmin held his hand and softly intertwined their fingers before bringing the hand up for yunho to look.
yunho saw
two pale limp strings that lead to nowhere
and yunho realized that maybe they're really meant to be.