serendipity ? p.js

"kim jungwoo? what business do you have outside of the palace?" a guard at the palace gates questioned the royal employee as he exited the parking garage with his car.

"just visiting my mother, sir," jungwoo replied shortly and received his id back from the man outside his car. a few second later the gate opened, creating a clear path to pass through.

luckily for jungwoo he had tinted windows and it was dark outside, so chaewon and jisung got through security easier than expected. in fact the two were surprised that the guard didn't even notice taeyong sitting in the passenger's seat in the car.

"jisung, your security sucks ass," taeyong said from the front seat as he typed in the address chaewon was telling him.

just like previous times, the drive to chaewon's house was incredibly short, the only time taking thing being distracting the receptionist from seeing jisung. jungwoo put on a great show, screaming about how his sick mother lived here.

the two eldest were about to leave, but chaewon stopped them by grabbing jungwoo's wrist, her eyes wide as she just realized something.

"are they checking people's wrists at yonsei? i kinda need to go back to school."

jungwoo glanced at taeyong, who said he'd have to ask johnny. he excused himself to chaewon's bedroom and came back a few minutes later. the look on his face didn't tell the result of the conversation.

"considering you go to yonsei there's obviously going to be checks there. it's unavoidable at such a large university. so there's three things you can do according to johnny, well three easy options like- anyways, either you drop ou-"

"what the hell, no!"

"yeah, okay we still have the other two options. you can sneak in with people from the palace, like jungwoo and i if we say have business there, but that's kinda risky if they tighten security..."

"what's the th-"

"jisung, let me speak. the third thing actually involves you. chaewon can go to school with you."

"he can what- ?"

"oh right, i kinda took a gap year from college but i was going to yonsei after that. how would that work though, hyung?"

"she can just hide at the back of your car if you start going to school. it's not like they can pull out security checks on you so you actually have a whole separate entrance. are you willing to start school?"

"sure. chenle's been begging me to come so we can be in the same year anyways"

for the next few minutes they discussed telling mr. lim and chenle about this plan, as well as enrolling jisung into the school. the latter was really easy, since jisung could go to any school he chose due to his high status. it was thursday, nearly the end of the week so they decided jisung and chaewon would go back to school starting next week.

soon enough, jungwoo and taeyong said their goodbyes, leaving the two soulmates to themselves.

"so you must be smart smart, since you go to yonsei," jisung said out of the blue, leaving chaewon a bit shocked that he was actually talking to her. it was still a bit difficult to comprehend the fact that jisung was starting to put in effort, no matter how little it was.

"yeah, i know i'm genius," chaewon boasted, flipping her hair with her hand, "but i have a question. why'd you take a gap year?"

jisung's face dropped at the question and he tried moving his gaze to anywhere but the girl next to him. he was stuttering as he responded.

"oh um basically i uh..."

chaewon tilted her head to the side, amused at his behavior, while he cleared his throat as quietly as possible.

"i was kinda um... scared to like meet you in like the middle of campus in front of everybody..."

"me?"

jisung found her cluelessness kind of cute, at least that what a feeling at the back corner of his heart was telling him. with his right hand, the one he had the soulmate mark on, he grabbed it's counterpart- chaewon's left.

"soulmates." he said simply.

chaewon's mouth formed an 'o' and she looked away from their connected hands. this was odd behavior from jisung's side, so she decided to just ignore it for her own peace of mind.

"oh right, my bathroom is the door across from my bedroom and i can give you blankets and stuff for sleeping. i don't care that you're royalty, i'm gonna be sleeping on my own bed. your couch may have been comfortable as fuck but there's no way my back can take that anymore."

jisung unconsciously smiled at her rambling and let her continue, for once their conversations not being surrounded in a bubble of awkwardness.

and until either of them realized nearly an hour later, their hands remained intertwined.

calm down jisung i thought you didnt like canoodling