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"Kim Taehyung, you fucking asshole!"
A high-pitched voice surprised the brunette male, also known as Kim Taehyung, who's currently working on cleaning his mother's coffee shop.
A pink haired guy entered the shop, while the brunette who's wiping the counter just smirked at his friend who looks extremely raged.
"You didn't tell me he's your brother, how dare you!" Park Jimin, the pink haired male expressed his anger toward his friend who's just laughing at him who's panicking hard.
"You didn't asked, duh. Also, did you get laid?" The brunette leaned on the counter, teasing.
Jimin just winked at him and he makes a disgusted face, making his friend burst out laughing. "Whatever, don't disturb me. Customers usually come around this time." The brunette got out of the counter and pushed his friend until the door.
"I'll tell you the details later, be prepared!" Jimjn teased more while he waves his hand. Before even Taehyung could smack him for being disgusting, Jimin ran away fast while laughing his ass out.
The brunette just shook his head while watching his friend being crazy, he immediately go back to the shop and continue his works to finally open the shop today.
Taehyung envied Jimin that time. It was a week before when Yoongi, his brother came to visit him in his dorm who accidentally met Jimin since they were hanging out that time. In the exact time where both his brother and bestfriend's eyes met, he saw how they freezed, like how they're suddenly got hypnotized and got into a whole new dimension. Jimin almost fainted that time as they both got dizzy. The sign of finally you found your own soulmate.
And in just like that, both his brother and his bestfriend found each other in warmth and shock.
In this world, everyone was bound to have a partner who'll stay with you until forever. People find their own soulmates by drowning in each other's stares at the first meet. It also comes with a dizzy feeling that will go for a few minutes. Soulmates are bound to be with each other forever, that's for sure. But not everyone has found their own partners for life. Take Taehyung for example.
Taehyung's own thoughts got interrupted as suddenly the bell chimes rang. He put aside the cloth he's using to wipe to meet the customer who walks in even though they're not open yet.
"Hi, welcome to Fluff Coffee Shop! What can--"
He found himself being absorbed into a whole new eternity. Feeling of a sudden pull in a deep ocean, being magnetized with the prettiest doe eyes he has ever seen. Time stopping and no one except him and the male who's currently wide eyes looking at him. He felt how his head was drowning in the water. He felt dizzy and suffocating yet soothing feeling.
'No way'
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Jeongguk stares at the small canvas he's holding. A tear escaped his eyes and fell directly to the teared canvas filled with different colors. His efforts were wasted and can't help but to feel down whenever he trail his eyes on the canvas.
He was supposed to pass this to his professor as this is their assignment for two weeks, but instead, he found himself in trouble as he walked into the hallways towards his class. Some people made fun of him being openly gay, and ended up ravaging his work.
"S-Stop! N-Not my work, please!" The young male begged and just watched how one of his bullies started to draw something in his canvas with a pen.
He couldn't even do anything he was being held by two guys who's definitely a year above him. He was screaming and begging for help to the other students who were passing by, but nothing came. No help came to him.
Instead he was being slammed in the wall and hears many mumurs and chuckles as he tried to stand on his feet. Before he could even do that, the canvas who's now ripped and ravaged were threw to his face.
"No. . "
Is all he could say as he saw how the random people who picked on his work and himself walked out of the scene while laughing at his state.
All before Jeongguk could know, he's already standing in a front of a Coffee Shop. Finally accepting that he could do nothing about it and would just ask his professor to give him some time to recreate his work tommorow.
'Maybe i should have some beverage to calm down.'
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"You.." Taehyung trailed as he's still in shock.
'Just a while ago, i envy Jimin because he his own soulmate and now, i found mine too? What a great day indeed.'
"Uh.. h-hi?" The young customer bowed for three times as he greet him. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't m-mean to enter w-while you're still not open and d-did you feel it too? Uhm the . . p-pull? You know, the soulmate thing? A-Are you my soulmate, perhaps? Oh no, you probably think i'm w-weird. I'm so sorry--"
"Oh gosh. Please breathe, you're not breathing!" Taehyung quickly got out of the counter and goes to the younger who's coping strategy of being nervous is blabbering.
The brunette held both of the younger's shoulders and instruct him to breathe properly."Inhale, exhale. Yes, just like that. Inhale...exhale."
Both are just lost in each other's eyes. Even though they just met, they knew better than that. They're feelings being pulled like a magnet that couldn't be helped but to collide.
By the time Jeongguk already calmed down, they were just lost in their own world. No one spoke, until the Brunette realized his hands on the younger making him panic on the inside and briught his hands down to his sides.
"Hi." Taehyung tries not to let the panic inside him eat his voice.
"H-Hello." The flustered younger said, pink tint visible in his cheeks.
"O-Okay. Hi again. Uh." Taehyung tries to get him to talk but also himself couldn't find the right words to talk to the praon he's talking to. He lingers his gaze on the Shop but in the end he just met the Younger's shining doe eyes looking at him. He flinched at the sudden eye contact and clears his throat.
"We should s-sit? If only, if you like to, i m-mean, to talk abou-"
" Yes!" Shock was written in the brunette's face as Jeongguk said that with much excitement than he intended to. Jeongguk then realizes it. "O-oh. I mean, yes of course." He said with an awkward laugh at the end.
"Yeah, uhm right." Taehyung rubs his nape out of awkwardness. "Let's sit here." He said and proceed to sit in the table near them. The Younger just nodded and sat across him.
'How do i do this? Oh my god, he's breathtaking. Wait, why is my stomach curling, do i have a stomachache right now? Oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing, why now?'
Taehyung was babbling inside but couldn't express his thoughts towards the Younger who's just playing with his hands beneath the table. He just look at the Younger who seems nevous as him.
'He's cute. Oh my god, he's perfect.'
The guy across him was just breathtaking for him to see this close. He really admired how godly the guy looks to the point where he thinks it's illegal for him to see the Younger, especially that he thinks that he is his soulmate.
The big round eyes which held the whole shining glaxy. The perfectly shaped nose of his. The plump pink lips that pouts perfectly. His defined jaw. Everything is just illegal. He thinks he should sue himself for seeing this unreal beauty.
"Hi again. I'm Kim Taehyung. 24. The son of the owner of this coffee shop. You?" He said still in awe while smiling a little bit to not to scare the ethereal guy in his front.
Finally, the younger looked up and felt his own breathe stopped. He gaped at the older guy who he thinks the perfection of beauty. He feels his face are getting redder as the time goes by and so is his ears.
He tries to touch both of his ears as he looked down again and introduced himself towards the amused Brunette. "H-Hello. Jeon J-Jeongguk. 22. Uh, also third year at the Uni."
"Hey. Look at me." The brunette said with a soft voice, trying no to scare the younger more, but the younger didn't even budge. "Jeongguk, look at me? Please?"
'Oh my god, since when did my name sounds so perfect. Oh god help me.'
"Jeongguk?" And finally, he looks up, taking down his hands off his ears but still doesn't look directly at Taehyung who's smiling fondly at him.
'Why's he so cute for?'
"It's okay. I don't bite. Please don't be shy, i'm getting flustered. Oh wait, why did i said that. Oh my god, i'm a mess. Wait. Please let me calm down. Uh. I'll get you a coffee first?" Taehyung babbled also.
"Americano p-please." The younger muttered but still the brunette heard it.
"Sure! Coffee is on me, by the way!" Taehyung couldn't look at the Younger as he also felt his cheeks heated up in both embarassment and in shyness.
Jeongguk softly muttered 'thank you' as Taehyung got up and walked fastly behind the counter to do the coffee both his and Jeongguk's.
Jeongguk was panicking inside as he thinks how to approach Taehyung without being awkward, but he knows it's too impossible as he is such an introvert.
"Here's the Americano for you."
Taehyung put the coffee in front of the younger without looking at him. He sat again across the Younger as he sip in his coffee.
He finally had a courage to look at the Younger after a few minutes of silence. He saw how the younger took a sip at the Americano he made. Just then, he saw how actually the right hand of the younger are full of tint. It was art. He saw how broad his shoulder is even though he's wearing a baggy jacket.
'He's buff' Taehyung gulped at the sight.
"So, hi again. How many times did i said hi? Oh don't mind that. Anyways, what are you studying?"
"I'm an arts major." The younger quietly said. The Brunette nodded, once again amused.
"I graduated two years ago in the University. I studied Engineering that time. It was hard, for real. Especially if you have the most strict professor in math. I just want to punch him since i almost didn't graduate because of him." Taehyung stated while looking at him since the younger seems interested in his story.
"Professor Lim?" He guessed, interested.
Taehyung snapped his fingers and smiled widely at him. " Bingo! That old bald man really tested my nerves! I mean, my outputs are complete and so are my exams, but he gave me the lowest score in the class! How dare he?!" Taehyung said excitedly but also horrified.
Jeongguk nodded at him, agreeing. "Last sem he gave me back my two outputs just because the paper's corner were teared and the other is because it's crumpled a little bit."
"Right?! How dare he! I remember i almost lost my patience when he scored my homework F! I was so mad that time!" Taehyung shared more.
Little did they know, time passed quickly and rain starts pouring as both of the male started warming up. Giggles and Laughter were echoing through out the whole coffee shop. All they could think about is how warm each other is and how fast their heartbeats by just looking at each other.
They are lost in each other's presence that made them tremble out of new emotion they got to feel. They are lost with both passion and motion that they couldn't help but to be just in their own world where nobody could enter. Colliding both hearts and soul making them lose control of their feelings.
It's just like magic.
-kura kura-