12.24.18 || Christopher Bang
➳ summary: Everyone is born with a specific date and initials somewhere on their body. The date indicates the day you are destined to meet your soulmate and the initials are your soulmates, well, initials. Soulmates have been around since the beginning and are never meant to be wrong. But what if the universe does make a mistake? What happens then?
➳genre: soulmate au, fluff, is this angst?
➳warnings: it’s cheesy as fuck.
➳note: this is my first au so it’s bad.
“Y/N!!!! ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS EVE!!!” I hear my best friend Nori yell as she runs into my dorm room.
Nori and I have this ‘special bond’ some may say. We both have the same soulmate mark imprinted on our right wrists. 12.24.18 HH. You would think we would be enemies since it’s seems like we have the same soulmate, right? Wrong. Us having the same soulmate made us closer than ever and we don’t even have any idea why.
“There’s still three weeks until christmas but anyways what about it?” I ask a little uninterested as I’m trying to study for university. “What about it?! WHAT ABOUT IT???!” She repeats me with a shocked expression. “Y/n we are going to meet our soulmate!!” She says basically jumping up and down.
Nori has always dreamed of the day she would meet “HH” but at the same time, dreaded the thought of them having to choose her or me. I, on the other hand, have never felt a special connection to the date or the initials. She always calls me crazy for not counting down the days, but why would i need to count? The universe has it’s ways on how it wants things to go...right?
I set down my pencil and turn to face her. “That’s amazing Nori. I’m sure you and HH will be extremely happy together. But you know something that will make me extremely happy?” I ask, staring at her, hoping she will calm down. “If you remember that I have a really important test tomorrow that i NEED to pass.” I tell her, turning back to my computer to study.
Nori sighs, standing up from her place on my bed. “Y/n? Can I ask you a question?” She asks, as she begins to walk out the door. “Mhm” I hum. “W-Why aren’t you excited to meet HH? I mean, they are the person that one of us are destined to spend the rest of our life with. But whenever we talk about it, you never seem interested.” She says, trying to focus all of her attention to the way I would react, but all she got was a simple shrug of the shoulders. “Well, good luck with your test tomorrow. Fingers crossed you pass.” She says, doing the quick motion of her fingers. “Goodnight.” She sighs, finally closing the door and leaving back to her dorm. “Night.”
“Why am I so uninterested?” I’ve been asking myself this question everyday for the past two months. The closer we get to the date, the more I want to distance myself from actually meeting them. Is it because I’m not ready? Is it because I know they are going to choose Nori instead of me and I’m just scared to get my heart broken? Or is it because the universe messed up my soulmate? I guess I’ll just have to wait to find out.
Three weeks pass. I’m walking around campus when I see Nori sitting alone at a table by the main fountain. Usually that’s a normal thing to see, students reading or drawing or something by the fountain, but Nori isn’t doing anything. She has nothing in her hands, no earbuds playing music nor anything in front of her except for her wrist. All she’s doing is staring down at it.
“Hey Nori. What are you doing?” I ask, walking up to her and sitting down at the table. She doesn’t answer nor does she even acknowledge my presence. “Nori? Are you okay?” I ask yet another question, hoping to get a response this time, but still, nothing. I look down at her wrist thinking her mark is gone or has changed, but nothing looks different. I grab her hand with my own finally breaking her gaze and getting her to look at me.
“What’s wrong?” I ask with worry in my voice once I notice that she was starting to cry. “What happens to our friendship once next week happens?” She asks as her tears star to stream down her face. I don’t know why, but her question caught me off guard. What really is going to happen? We are supposed to meet HH and he’ll have to choose one of us. What would that do to our friendship? Not knowing the answer, all I can do is stare at her. “I have to go. I’ll see you later, yeah?” She says, standing from her seat and slinging her backpack around her shoulders. “Yeah. See you later.” I lightly smile and wave her goodbye.
I get back to my dorm and all I can think about is what Nori had said. Deciding I need to distract myself, I put on Moana and get up to make some popcorn when I hear a ding from my phone. I look to see who texted me and smile when I see my brother, Kaden,’s name shining brightly on my phone.
“Hey sis! How are you?” I read the text and smile. I haven’t been able to talk to him for such a long time because he still lives in Australia and I moved to the states, so the time difference makes it hard to talk to each other. Plus our busy schedules.
“Hi Kaden!!! I’m good, just busy with school. How are you and mom?” I quickly respond, sitting back down on my bed. “We are doing really good. We just miss you.” I smile. “Awe I miss you guys too.” I relpy. “So I have a question. Are you coming back to Sydney for Christmas? Everyone is really wanting to see you.” I frown a bit apon reading this. It’s been so long since I visited home.
“I would love to come back, but I don’t have the money for a plane ticket right now. Especially on such short notice.” I sit cris cross and wait for a response. “I can take care of that for you. Just please say yes.” He begs. “That’s a lot of money Kaden.” I argue. “Oh please, I spend more money on you when we go shopping, this plane ticket is nothing.” I laugh reading this. “Okay. Looks like I’m coming back home.” I smile. “Yay! I’ll let mom know.” He quickly replies. “Okay just tell me when the flight is.” I stand up to check my calendar. “It’s on the 21st. This Friday.” I check and see and luckily I’m not busy. “Okay. I’ll see you then. You’ll pick me up from the airport right?” I ask. “Of course. We can’t wait to see you!” He replies. “I can’t wait to see you guys too!” I respond back with a smile on my face. “I have to go now. Have a good week and stay safe. See you on Friday. Love you.” He finalizes the conversation. “Yep. Love you too.”
The week passes and I had to tell Nori that I was going back to Sydney for the holiday. Of course she freaked out because we wouldn’t be together when we meet HH but maybe that was a good thing. I had to explain to her that maybe our marks where the same but our soulmates where different. She eventually agreed to let me go. She even drove me to the airport. She walked me to TSA and went in to give me a hug. “Nori why aren’t you coming to Sydney too? Your family still lives there right?” I ask into the hug. “Some of them but my dad actually moved to Seattle a couple of months ago so I’m going to spend Christmas with him.” She pulls away. I nod and smile at her before turning and going to the checking area.
After the long flight, I arrive at the Sydney airport and am greeted by Kaden. Smiling, I run up to him and give him a hug. “Hey lil sis.” He chuckles. “Hey big bro.” I pull away and grab my suitcase again. “Ready to go?” He asks taking my suitcase for me. “Yep.” I follow him as he starts walking to his car. The car ride back home was full of laughter and obviously loud singing. We arrive at home and I catch up with family and old friends. Then the days past and the day finally comes. December 24th. Christmas Eve. The day I supposedly meet HH. Just thinking that I’m going to meet my soulmate today makes my stomach drop.
Every year my mom throws an annual party to celebrate the holiday and invites family and close family friends. This year is no different.
“Hey honey. How are you feeling?” My mother asks as she leans against the door frame to my bathroom. She knows about my mark, well of course she does, she’s my mom. I breath deeply and turn to face her. “I’m nervous.” I reply looking down at my hands. She turns me around to face the mirror again and moves the hair out of my face. “Well, that’s normal. I was nervous when I met your father but look, everything went perfectly.” She smiles at me. I smile back at her. “But what about Nori?” I ask, suddenly feeling guilty for leaving. Mom sighs. “Well, maybe you both do have different soulmates.” She looks at me sympathetically. I sigh and smile back at her. “I’ll let you finish getting ready.” She kisses the back of my head and walks out the door.
About 15 minutes later, I’m done getting ready and the first couple of people have arrived. I suddenly get a shooting pain throughout my right wrist where my mark is. It then starts to tingle and I hear my phone ding. I grab my phone with my right hand and massage my wrist with my other hand. I look down to see that Nori had texted me.
“Y/n!! I met him!!!” My heart stops as soon as I read this knowing exactly who she was talking about. “Really?! What’s his name?” I shakily reply. “Hwang Hyunjin.” She replies. “I’ll explain everything tonight okay? I have to go right now though. I miss you and I can’t wait till you come back.” I don’t respond. I don’t really know how to. That’s when I look down at my wrist to see my mark slowly fading way. I knew this was going to happen though, Nori was the one that actually wanted to be with him. Tears softly fall from my eyes but I quickly wipe them away and stand up, fixing my face. I sigh and go downstairs to join the party, putting on a fake smile to hide my sadness.
As the night goes on and more people arrive, I’m slowly losing energy and decide that I should relax on the couch. Just as I’m walking to the couch though, my mom call my name and motions me over. “Y/n come here. I want you to meet someone.” She motions me with her hand. I walk over and put on yet another fake smile. I stand next to her and look at the people infront of me and my heart skips a beat. There is a beautiful lady in a red dress that looks around my moms age and a man in a casual striped button up and black jeans that looks around my age.
“Y/n, this is Karen Bang and her son Christopher. Karen and I were best friends in high school.” She smiles. I smile and extend my arm to shake their hands. The second my hand meet’s Chris’s, though, my wrist starts to tingle once again, but more intensely. Both Chris and I quickly pull away and look at our wrists. “M-mom, my mark is...changing?” I say in confusion. She grabs my wrist and looks at it with wide eyes, same as Karen with Chris. My mom then grabs Chris’s wrist and Karen grabs mine. Chris and I stare at each other.
The mark has the same date just different initials. I then see Chris’s wrist.
