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“FUUUUUCK”
Jungkook took out his headphones and plugged them in his phone before putting them on while looking for a song. Any song.
“What… what’s wrong with him?” Seokjin asked.
The four of them were doing homework so peacefully, everyone minding their own business until any of them had a question for either Seokjin or Jimin. But suddenly, Jungkook just screamed. Taehyung and Jimin were giggling because they usually spend a lot more of time with the youngest and were updated with his current situation.
“It’s his soulmate” Taehyung said with a wide grin. He knew that Jungkook hadn’t picked a song yet and that he was very clearly hearing. Watching him snap about his soulmate was the funniest thing ever.
“What do you mean?”
As predicted, Jungkook took off his headphones and looked at Seokjin with a pained expression.
“He’s been singing this stupid song for like… over a year” Jungkook groaned and scratched the back of his head. “At first it was great, like every time I hear him, but… Even if he like… sings the same songs a billion times… none, NONE OF THEM, HYUNG, he had sang for such a long time.”
“Oh… wow” Seokjin could see from the corner of his eye how Taehyung and Jimin were trying to not laugh out loud, they were obviously failing. It all ended when Jimin couldn’t hold in a snort, both of them just exploded into a fit of laughter, making Jungkook groan louder.
“It’s not funny!” The youngest was looking at the devil pair with a frown. And then at Seokjin as if he was searching for help, or support or whatever. “It’s not funny… I don’t even know the beat to the songs he sings! He must be an independent rapper or something because I swear to God he rarely sings something that already exists! And… I know I’ll love him, I mean… God couldn’t be that cruel to pair me with a man that I’m not going to get along with, right?” Jungkook had puppy eyes on and Seokjin wasn’t sure if he was aware of that. He complied, since he didn’t really know the answer to that question; ever since he met Namjoon he had been questioning things a lot more, which he hated deeply.
“You’re right, Kookie. Your soulmate is supposed to be perfect for you so I wouldn’t worry that much… Why don’t you sing something? Maybe you can distract him from his loop and it will be over?”
“I HAVE A SONG!” Taehyung, who was still laughing just a second ago, was now connecting his phone to Jimin’s Bluetooth speakers and searching for a song.
Jungkook sighed. “I wish you were my soulmate, Tae-hyung… At least you have a decent taste in music… and you don’t loop the same song for more than maybe a week”
“Excuse you! My taste of music is great, not ‘decent’, and you know it!” Taehyung smirked when he finally found the song he had been searching for and it began.
“OOOOOH MY GOOOOOOD!” Jungkook stood up and started moving his arms in the air, he didn’t look like the same frustrated boy he was seconds ago. Seokjin was confused again and looked at Jimin, the boy was smiling widely. When their eyes met, the lyrics started and Taehyung started rapping, Jimin giggled a bit.
“It’s their song, hyung” Jimin moved closer to the oldest, just to make sure his words were going to be heard over the loud rapping of their friends. “They’ve loved that song since… forever and they always sing it. It’s like, therapeutic for them”
Forest of Dreams was the answer for whenever either of them were feeling overwhelmed. One day, Jimin told them just how much they have sang that song since he met them and, reminiscing, they noticed that yeah… they sang that song a ton. So after a rough months where Jungkook’s soulmate wouldn’t shut up with this one particular song, Taehyung decided that Forest of Dreams was going to be a little rematch song. The logic behind that was “He sings two or three songs a lot so we are just going to sing this one song a lot more!” And it apparently helped to ease Jungkook’s nerves. It was, late at night, after Taehyung was either sleeping next to him or had left long time ago that, in the loneliness of his room, he could hear his soulmate singing that song. It would make him smile and help him get to sleep; thinking that maybe… all those years of looping songs would be worth it after meeting his soulmate that sang that very song Jungkook very hard tried to tire him with. (He convinced himself that even if he couldn’t shut up about those yet inexistent songs, he liked Forest of Dreams as well, and he could most likely, almost definitely love someone like that)
It was a therapeutic song, but not very good of a rematch song if his soulmate apparently enjoyed it as well. So later that night, when they had finished their homework and Jungkook arrived to his own apartment, he put his “To piss him off” playlist and started singing… To a bunch of Justin Bieber songs.
*
Yoongi was starting to get annoyed. He was trying really hard to make his song better and it was late at night already. He got the message when his soulmate started singing to Forest of Dreams and got a break (he wasn’t stupid, whenever he had been working on a song for a long time, his soulmate would just start singing that song in a loop as if he was trying to show him what he had to endure, Yoongi got it), but just as he was getting ready to keep working again, a voice filled his brain fully and he was currently softly humming to a song he hated.
She’s got my attention… She’s confident, oh no no, oh no no. She’s confident.
He was sure his soulmate was punishing him. But “Oh, sorry for trying to make my music good enough!”
Honestly, he would punish himself too if he were his soulmate. He’s been stuck with this mixtape and he knows. He knows he’s been rapping and writing nonstop for a long, long period of time. But it was going to be worth it. He just needed a bit more of time and a little patience from his soulmate, he was going to be content with this song in little no time and then we all could move on… to the next one.
He knew he was being a little piece of shit but he loved his music and he was determined on making it sound good.
I know that I let you down. Is it too late to say I’m sorry now?
The song sounded fitting at the moment.
Yoongi decided that trying to work with Justin Bieber as background noise was going to lead him nowhere, so he was calling it a day.
Soulmate 1 – 0 Yoongi
*
Jungkook had been happy these days. A little worried, of course, but relieved.
His soulmate had been quiet for two days now and he was having it as a little vacation; maybe, he considered, his soulmate was just taking a small break and then coming back at it at full force. That’s another reason of why Jungkook was making the most of it as he could. He was going to enjoy the days that were given to him without listening about spelling and tongue technologies.
He was currently sitting on the train with his friends. They were being loud but since the train was almost empty, none of them really cared. Recently, Taehyung had discovered a singer named Halsey that had a voice the three of them loved very much and they had been dedicating their times into covering her songs. Mostly without recording them, but the ones they got down sounded really good.
“This one! This one you’re going to like, Kookie” Taehyung laughed and played the song. When the vocals started, Jungkook could tell it was a cover from Justin’s Love Yourself and he frowned slightly when Jimin won in singing the first part of the song.
He was getting to the chorus when it happened “ ‘Cause if you like the way you look that much, oh baby, you should go and lo—“
Fuck yourself, Halsey sang over an impressed Jimin whose mouth formed a big O when he heard the lyrics.
The three of them laughed and Jungkook started singing to the next part of the song, actually dying to use those lyrics instead of Justin’s. It was fun and refreshing, her voice and that little change made it an entirely new song and to say that Jungkook had been singing Justin’s version of the song a lot, was little in comparison to reality. He wasn’t even trying to annoy his soulmate this time. He just liked the song that much.
“And when you told me that you hated my friends…!” Jungkook was really feeling the song. His voice was loud and he was not trying to hold back.
The three of them were paying that much attention to their singing, that none of them noticed when a figure walked to them, Jungkook only did when he was tapped on the shoulder. He turned to see the person without stopping singing.
“Oh baby! You should go and fuck your…self…” The volume in his voice decreased when he realized what he was doing. He had just kind of cursed the man that he was facing now.
The man was maybe around Jimin’s height but the black circles under his eyes and his confident posture made him feel intimidated. He gulped.
“You’ve been singing that song a lot, don’t you think?”
*
Yoongi was waiting for his train to arrive. He have had zero inspiration these days, Hoseok noticed and invited him over to watch a movie and drink a little, they could even make it a pizza, drinks and movie night. Yoongi had no complains, if he remained stuck in his studio with the little to none inspiration he had it would probably, most definitely, just piss him off. Besides, maybe a little of fresh air and a fun night with his friend was all he needed to get rid of this stupid block of his.
He didn’t want to blame nobody… but if he had to he would say that ever since his soulmate started with the Justin Bieber covers, he wasn’t able to focus that much. He didn’t hate Justin’s music, even less when it was sang by such an angelic voice as his soulmate’s, but the lyrics and the beats where very, very sticky and distracting on their own put aside the way soulmates worked.
Right now he had Love Yourself stuck in his head.
The train arrived and he got in.
He heard someone singing and some other laughing. He stopped on his tracks when he noticed. It was kind of weird and it made chills run down his spine.
The voice he had been hearing in his head ever since he can remember… he was now hearing it with his own ears. It was a little disorienting and for a second he couldn’t tell where the voice was coming from, his heart started beating fast and he couldn’t tell if he was nervous or if that red bull plus coffee drink he prepared to himself that morning was now kicking in full force.
Once his dizziness passed, we gazed through the train and noticed. Three teens were seated not so far away from the door and one of them was singing. The voice came from him. From that young man with a bunny smile, so noisy and happy… Yoongi didn’t even told his legs to move towards him, his body acted on instinct.
And before he knew it, before his brain registered what had to be done, he was already tapping that man on the shoulder; without a plan, without a catch line, without anything but the first thing that came to his mind at the moment, the thing that got him out of his house and studio on the first place.
“You’ve been singing that song a lot, don’t you think?”
Congratulations, Min Yoongi, master of seduction and good first impressions.
*
The image of the man standing in front of them was enough to silence not only him completely, but Jimin and Taehyung as well. But what really made his heart skip a beat was the voice.
He recognized that voice.
Being unable to hold himself together if he kept on sitting there, Jungkook jumped off his seat to stand up, forcing the man to step backwards a bit. “Oh… my… God!”
Jungkook wasn’t sure what impressed him more. The fact that he had just cursed the man in front of him, the embarrassing way they had met or the fact that his soulmate was so tiny. He could even call him cute if it weren’t for the tired aspect he had. He looked like someone who didn’t get much sleep on a daily basis. Nevertheless, Jungkook thought he was pretty good looking. Beautiful even.
They stood in front of each other and Jungkook could feel the questioning gazes of his friends on his back, but he couldn’t care less! The man that had been the cause of his constant humming to songs he didn’t even know the tone to, was right now in front of him! His soulmate!
And it clicked.
“Wait, what? I have been singing that song a lot?! Are you sure you have the right to tell me that?” Jungkook saw his soulmate waver a little.
“I am… sorry? I can be harsh with myself when it comes to music. I just want it to sound perfect” His soulmate looked determined and confident. So he was right, his soulmate was indeed and independent rapper and the youngest didn’t know if he really wanted to ask to hear one of his songs, he already knew them all by memory after all. Jungkook smiled at him. He was feeling so many emotions right now. Like, he wanted to yell at him and to hug him.
Finally, he decided on the latter.
It took his soulmate by surprise, being a little tense at first when he felt Jungkook strong arms wrap around him, almost lifting him from the floor. However, after a moment of hesitation, he wrapped his arms around Jungkook as well and relaxed into the hug. The youngest smiled fondly when he felt his soulmate sigh in content.
“Uhm… Kookie?” Jungkook didn’t want to let go, but Jimin’s voice sounded confused enough; he forced himself to break the hug to look at his friends.
“Hyungs. I want you to meet… uhm…”
“Min Yoongi” The man spoke from behind him.
“Min Yoongi” His name tasted like clouds and warm spring mornings on his tongue. “I… He’s my soulmate”
"Oh..." Jimin said, still shocked to say the least.
"Oh!" Taehyung leaned closer to Jungkook and Yoongi, almost shouting "The one with the STD and the tongue technology?!"
"HYUNG!"