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" I’m Park Jimin. "
After a look, nothing. So Jimin smiles and does the coffee for his client.
In this world where soulmate existes, there was only one way for knowing who you was destined : Talking. Because the first thing you’ll say to your soulmate will appear on your wrist.
And unfortunately for Jimin, working in a coffee shop has one advantage : He talks to so many people maybe one day he’ll found his soulmate, asking him what coffee he wanted and he’ll had a weird coffee name on his wrist for the rest of his life. Well, he can’t understand why his bestfriend said he was jealous of Jimin. Because he didn’t want to meet his soulmate like this.
Yeah, Jimin was a romantic type of person.
His parents has a cute history ; They were at the mariage of their bestfriends and they meet each others. His mother has a « You’re beautiful » on her wrist, in a little rush handwritting but very fine. And his father, in curving and elegant letters, has a « You look like a prince, you know ? ». It just took them some months for going out and not even 2 years for moving together.
It’s because of them Jimin has grew up, wanting to have a lovely story with his soulmate and telling everybody how cute it was. But no, he needed money now he was in Seoul, and this coffee has nobody who already has a soulmate. Because of that, they have a few less people than another coffeeshop, and they need to say their name in case this client is their soulmate. And he found this so neutral, having just the name of your soulmate on your wrist.
" He’s Kim Namjoon ! "
And it’s only a few weeks after Jimin met this person. Kim Namjoon. They meeted at a little friends meeting at Taehyung’s and Yoongi’s appartment. He was so shy, even if he’s one head over Jimin and he’s sure if Namjoon slapped him once, his head will fly away. Well even if he doesn’t need a slap for being at the kneels in front of the man.
When for the first time you meet Namjoon, you’ll be scared. Because he’s tall, had an impressive aura and a severe look. After you’ll be reassured, because Hoseok, his bestfriend, is always beside him and is a moving sun. Then Namjoon is cute, being all shy when the other presents him and he bows a little. Finally, you’ll pitying him. Because he can’t talk. Can’t say even one word. Can’t tell a little thing. Can’t even emit a sound.
And in a world where you can only know who your soulmate is by talking to him, it sucks.
" Your smile is really pretty. "
Namjoon has this written on his wrist. At first, everybody can tell it’s a soulmate mark. Black, handwritting, a sentence he never thought of. But he knew from who it is, because he remembers having hot cheeks for the rest of the party and was not able to look at Jimin in the eyes.
The only person who knows this mark is Hoseok. He saw it the next day and wanted to know eveything, even asking if it was this Seokjin guy he never talked to. But from then, every time he was not doing something, he’ll look at his mark with a smile.
He finally found his soulmate.
" Hyung ! I didn’t know you come here for coffee ! "
It’s how they met again. Yoongi comes here really often, but they’re stuck in their studio for a work. Namjoon can wrote, he can do anything for this project, except huming it or singing the words. He can’t record the singing part, just for having an idea and then searching someone for it. So he goes out for coffee. Yoongi said to come here, because he always has discounts. Well, now Namjoon knows why, it’s cheaper when the seller is the bestfriend of your soulmate.
So Namjoon smiles for him again, listenning at his voice. Jimin has a beautiful voice. It can be light and then deep, depends of the subject and if he uses the dialect of Busan. Maybe he can compete with Taehyung in the morning, but it’ll be a little more high. Well, being a music major and mute, Namjoon loved analyzed voices. He found them unique for each individual, can express emotions or being worked on and changing.
Sometimes he spaced out. When he finishes with a voice, he asked himself how his own can be. Maybe deep like Taehyung ? Emotional like Hoseok ? Slow lke Yoongi ? Or maybe like Jimin ?
But he can’t think now. Jimin is babbling, knowing Namjoon can’t interrupt him during the time he does his coffee. It doesn’t bother him.
Maybe, just maybe, he’s falling in love with the voice of his soulmate.
" What… ? "
Jimin is a little confused. In fact, a little is not enough. He has Namjoon’s hand in his, his eyes on the mark, brushing it with his thumb.
It’s been four months they knew each others, and it was their third date. But this one, they were just in Namjoon’s appartment, because his parents weren’t there for two weeks. They sit on the couch, watching tv and eating pizza.
And the little one wanted to conffess. During the last months, he has been liking Namjoon more and more, despite the fact he wasn’t his soulmate. But it doesn’t matter now. Yeah he wanted to have a love story competing with a movie, but he can have it with someone who isn’t his pair. It’s with this resolution he turned and took abruptly Namjoon’s wrists, looking at him in his surprised eyes.
Suddenly Jimin asks himself why he did this. He looks at his own hands, and frown a little. Oh.
Namjoon was a little distend at first when he talked about soulmate and stuff with him. Jimin asked if he found his own, and the older said no. But maybe yes. Maybe Jimin is not the person he needs. But then he can read. In little letters, he can only see the word pretty. He took off his hand away for looking at it properly. And then he stopped himself, raising his head. Oh again.
Embarassed, the cheeks of Namjoon were red, turning a little his head. He wanted to talk about it to Jimin, but when they were sure of their feelings. When they properly kiss, or something like that. But not now.And he wasn’t able to do a thing, he wasn’t able to talk or grab his pen and paper or even make a sign. He was prisoner of Jimin. But then he saw his smile and blinked.
" You’re my soulmate, aren’t you ? "
" Chim ! Let me see it !! "
Loud laughs can be hear, and Jimin was fighting a little Taehyung. His bestfriend wanted to see his wrist and tried to grab it since the beginning of the party. It’s been one year now he knew Namjoon, and for that Jimin wanted to gift him something special.
Several times they talked about soulmates. Well, Jimin babling about it and when Namjoon was able to, he write some things and laugh. But he never lets his smile go. By curiosity, he asks what Namjoon taugh when he first saw him. There were many things, like he was beautiful, cute, like an angel. But it was something else that took the heart of Jimin.
It’s why one month ago, he went to the tattoo shop of Hoseok and Yoongi. He made Namjoon wrote the phrase and then he left. He hid it as he could and after two or three weeks, wearing only long sleeves, he took Namjoon to the restaurant and let him see. And now Taehyung wanted to see it too, everybody saw it once and not him, bestfriend, platonic soulmate of Park Jimin. Their other friends laughing at that, but finally Taehyung was able to took it, and then he stopped himself for some seconds, after having the biggest smile of his smile, like when he knew Yoongi was his.
Jimin smiled too. And everytime he sees his wrist, he can’t not look at Namjoon, smiling too.
Because Namjoon was his soulmate and he was his. It was natural for him having the first thing Namjoon wanted to say to him.
I already love you.