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Donghyuck's skin is always full of drawings. He knew it was his soulmate who drew them. His mum had told when he was young that everybody had a soulmate, and certain people were so far away from each other that they needed help finding each other so they had things tying them together. Some people were born with their soulmates name, others had the same mark on the same place, Donghyuck however got his soulmates drawings on his skin.
He loved watching them show up. Sometimes they were small doodles other times they were portraits of people he had never seen before. At first he didn't notice anything different with the new one. It was just another drawing he thought, but when it started getting colours he got nervous, but at the same time excited. His mum had told him about what colours meant. His soulmate was close.
Throwing makeup over the drawing to the best of his efforts Donghyuck runs to school. He doesn't even eat breakfast. He has to see his best friend. He has to talk to him about his soulmate.
Donghyucks best friend, Jaemin, had already met his when he was young. It was the normal thing that happened to everybody else. They just knew. Donghyuck had never been jealous of Jaemin. He knew his soulmate would come too. He just never knew it would happen so quick.
Running into school he spots Jaemin immediately. He was talking to his soulmate as always. Jaemin and Jeno looked so cute together. Almost the same height they looked like twins from the back, but once you saw their faces they looked totally different. Both handsome, but still different.
"Hey Donghyuck. What's up?" Donghyuck saw in Jaemin's eyes he was worried. Well Donghyuck doesn't blame him. He would be too if Jaemin ran up to him with messy hair, makeup on his neck and his uniform hardly on his body.
"My soulmate..." Donghyuck wasn't able to say much before he was out of breath.
"Your soulmate what?" Jeno says with anticipation. Both Jaemin and Donghyuck turn to look at him shocked. Normally Jeno wouldn't say a whole lot. Jeno shakes his head snapping Donghyuck back to himself.
"My soulmate is close." Donghyuck doesn't know what makes him more worried. Jeno screaming out of happiness or Jaemin neither saying anything nor moving.
"How do you know?" Jaemin finally speaks up. His smile bigger than Donghyuck has ever seen. Except when he met Jeno, of course.
"I got a new drawing on my neck today. At first it was like every other. Beautiful, Colourless, but then it started getting colour. First green, then yellow and in the end, it turned out to be a beautiful sunflower." Donghyuck's cheeks turns crimson red as he talks. He had never talked about his soulmate like that before. So positively.
"Well let's find him." Jaemin says just as the school bell rings. "After school, then" Jeno and Donghyuck giggle with Jaemin before walking to class.
Donghyuck had almost forgotten about the sunflower on his neck, being too concentrated on the math problems in front of him. It isn't before class is over and he walks out of class and down the hallway that he sees the drawing on the floor. It's the exact replica of the drawing on his neck.
He quickly looks around himself trying to see the artist but there is nobody there. He stuffs the drawing in his pocket before running to Jaemin's locker. He arrives before Jaemin, but there is already somebody standing there.
Walking closer Donghyuck starts to tell who it is. It's Renjun. The Chinese boy. The bully. He isn't even wearing his uniform properly. He is wearing a leather jacket instead of his blazer. His hair is also not following the school rules. The rules clearly states no unnatural hair colours, and Donghyuck is pretty sure his washed out red hair isn't natural, but neither is Renjun's boyfriends blonde hair, but it's somebodies natural hair so nobody cared.
"Well look what we got here. I was just waiting for your little friend to beat up, but I guess you are better, aren't you?" Donghyuck’s body freezes. He knows Renjun is a good fighter. He might not look it but his punches are really good.
"No please don't." Donghyuck doesn't back up. He doesn't even lift his hands up. He just says the words. There isn't even any emotion behind them. Donghyuck is so scared he can't think of anything.
"Too late." Before Donghyuck could even react he is being showed into a classroom. At first he thinks it's empty but looking closer he sees there's other people there. Chenle is there and Jisung too. Jeno's younger brother. Not that anybody knew that.
"I thought we were getting the skinny boy?" It's Jisung speaking. He is eyeing him like candy, while pretending to not know who he is. Chenle on the other hand isn't even looking at him. He is playing with his phone. Not caring about what is happening.
"This one showed up first." Renjun pushes Donghyuck down on the floor as he speaks. His body hurts, but he knows he need to take it all. He can't run. He can’t fight either.
"I want to go get some chocolate milk can you hurry up?" Chenle doesn't even look up from his phone as he speaks. Donghyuck knew Chenle never touched any of the bully victims, but he never cared what happened to them. They could die for all he cares.
"Well let's start then." The first impact comes to his stomach. It was Jisungs huge boot kicking him. Donghyuck wants to scream but he doesn't. Instead he bites down as hard as he can and bears it. He knows if he is quiet they will get bored and leave.
The second impact goes to his face. His cheek more exactly. He starts to bleed but he doesn't care.
"Up." Renjun demands. It takes a little while but Donghyuck is up on his legs. It doesn't even take a second before Jisungs arms are holding Donghyucks arms behind his back and Renjun is hitting him in the stomach. One punch, two three, eight, eleven. It feels like all his ribs are broken when Renjun moves up to his face.
First his cheek then his left eye. It's bearable at first, but for each hit it becomes worse. It hurts so much. His cuts screaming and his bruises begging for Renjun to stop hitting but he doesn't.
"One last punch, shall we?" Renjun bends down and looks at Donghyucks face. It's dripping with blood, but he doesn't care. The last punch lands firmly on his nose. Breaking it.
"Can we go now?" Chenle speaks as if nothing happened.
"Sure baby." Chenle huffs at Renjun.
"You're so cheesy." And then they leave. All three of them. None of them looking at Donghyuck collapsed on the floor. He doesn't move for a while. He doesn't move as the door opens. As the handsome boy walks into the room, nor as he picks him up. Talking in hushed tones. Asking him what happened.
He doesn't move before he is placed at the bed in the nurses’ room and the stranger is about to leave.
"Please... don't leave." He hardly chocks out the words as his hand is wrapped around the strangers’ wrist. He doesn't say anything, but he nods and sits down at a chair beside the bed.
Donghyuck quickly falls asleep, letting go of the strangers’ wrist in the process, but the stranger doesn't leave. Instead he pulls out a sketchbook and starts to draw the boy in front of him. Not forgetting the sunflower tattoo on his neck. He laughs a little at himself. He just drew a sunflower this morning and now he is sitting in front of a boy with a sunflower tattoo.
When the lines start showing up at Donghyucks leg it takes a while for the stranger to notice. He's almost finished when he sees his drawing on the boys’ leg. He doesn't even think as he goes closer and looks at the drawing on his leg. It's exactly as his drawing.
"It's you." The stranger jumps at the voice. He turns and looks at the boy in the bed.
"I'm what?" The stranger looks confused, but the boy on the bed laughs.
"You're my soulmate." Donghyuck looks at the stranger as he speaks. The stranger is beautiful. His hair is blonde with curls. Definitely against the school rules, but Donghyucks doesn't care. The boy is too handsome to think about school rules.
"Well I never thought I'd meet my soulmate bloody and almost beaten to death." Both Donghyuck and the boy laughs. The boy has the most beautiful smile Donghyuck has ever seen, and the cutest laugh he has ever heard. They don't say anything for a couple minutes. They only stare at each other. Then it happens. The stranger bends down and kisses Donghyuck. Donghyuck is shocked but kisses back as soon as he realises what is happening.
"Wow you could've bought me dinner first." Donghyuck is back to joking as soon as the kiss is over.
"You loved it." The stranger hits his shoulder, but his cheeks are still a deep red.
"I did." They again laugh. Both over the moon happy.
"I'm Donghyuck by the way."
"I'm Mark."