SOULMATE AU - LUCAS/DOYOUNG
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
A few weeks had gone by, and it was finally time for you to get your cast off.
Doyoung had offered to come with you again so your mom wouldn’t have to, but he was also planning to show you that he was your soulmate this way— instead of just telling you.
His plan was to put his wrist up next to yours right after you were freed from the cast, to surprise you.
…
“Alright, you’re good to go.” The doctor smiled, and you grinned, excited to see your soumark again for the first time in a while. “Thanks,” you reply, and she nods.
“Wait— what? It changed!!” you yell with wide eyes.
Doyoung, who had been rehearsing in his mind how he was gonna tell you, immediately got up from the chair in the corner and came over to see what you were talking about.
“Oh no, This can’t be happening--” He thought to himself, panicking.
“Woah~ you’re right. Wasn’t it neon green before?” The doctor asks in shock.
She was the same doctor who thought it’d be funny to give you the matching cast, but even she hadn’t seen anything like this before— since changing soulmarks was so rare.
“Yeah.. it’s a red heart now..” You say, breathing unevenly, trying to process what you were seeing.
“But that means..”
Doyoung’s heart shattered when he saw your new soulmark, quickly pulling up his sleeve to see if his was still there.
“It’s gone.”
Suddenly, you got up and ran out the room.
“Y/n, where are you going? Wait—” Doyoung asked, running after you.
“I have to find Lucas! He really was the one after all this time— I knew it,” you say, tearfully, with a happy smile. You just had to find him.
After hearing that, Doyoung just froze where he stood, letting you go.
Deep down he knew Lucas would win in the end. He wasn’t surprised.
“But what if I can make it change back?” He briefly thought, searching for an excuse to follow after you, but he was too late.
Once he got outside, he saw you in Lucas’ arms. “No-”
As Lucas leaned down to kiss you, Doyoung had to look away.
It wasn’t fair.
…
“Huh? You’re up at this time again? Was it another nightmare?” Mark, who had been watching tv, asks from the couch. Doyoung ignores him, slamming the door to the bathroom behind him. “Yeesh,” Mark said, scrunching his eyebrows up.
…
You didn’t see Doyoung in class this morning, and it made you worry something was wrong— since he never missed classes. (He slept through them, but never missed any).
During lunch, Ms. Thompson came by to remind you to pick up your things from the dance committee room at the end of the day— since you’d been temporarily suspended, and you nodded.
“This is stupid, I wasn’t the only one drinking at that party..” You thought to yourself in annoyance.
At the end of the day, you did as you were told, and walked down to the room the dance committee used to meet and plan things, with Aisha. “At least there’s next year, Y/n,” Aisha says, trying to cheer you up about it and you nod.
When you got to the room, you saw Yuta and Taeyong horse-playing. “Guys! Stop messing around, we still have to figure out what we’re gonna do about the decorations, and catering before Ms. Thompson gets here,” Aisha says with an annoyed expression.
Ms. Thompson had agreed to help with sound equipment, but literally everything else was on y’all-- well, not on you anymore. They still had a lot of work to do and the dance was coming up soon. Yuta, who had Taeyong in a headlock, releases him, but not before you saw his neon green soulmark.
Your eyes immediately went wide.
“Yuta.. your soulmark—” “What? Does it match yours?” He laughs, holding it out for you to see, and you get a better look at it, realizing it was different from yours. “You wish.. Is it the same color as Taeyong’s?” You ask, noticing Taeyong’s was also neon green. This was so strange. “Yeah- me and all the other guys have this neon green color, it’s kinda crazy,” he chuckles.
“Moonbin and all his friends are like that too— different soulmarks, but the same color,” Aisha adds.
“Wow.. it’s like we were all meant to be friends or something,” Taeyong says. “Yeah— except Doyoung,” Yuta laughs.
“What—”
“Right, we’re more like frenemies.” “Hold up, hold up,” you interrupt, having a mixture of a confused and shocked look on your face. “What did you mean by that? —Isn’t Doyoung’s soulmark purple?” You ask, shaking your head, and the two return the confused look, like they had no idea what you were talking about.
“I remember seeing it— it was a devil!” You say, fully convinced that that was what you saw.
Taeyong and Yuta exchange confused looks, before finally remembering the prank they had played on Doyoung that day. “Ohh-- you thought that was real?!” Yuta busts out laughing, confusing you even more. It was even funnier to them now that they knew it actually looked believable.
“It wasn’t real?” “No, we drew that on him when he was sleeping in class,” Yuta answers in between giggles. “You actually thought that was his soulmark? This is hilarious.” “Right. I think his actual soulmark was like— ..three music notes or something like that,” Taeyong laughs.
...
Before you knew it, your legs were carrying you out the door. “Y/n— where are you going? You left all your stuff!” Aisha called after you, but you had already sprinted down the hall. You had to tell Doyoung.
As you ran, your mind flashed back to all the times you’d run into him. Everything was clicking now.
The day soulmarks came in, when he bumped into you in class.
The day after soulmarks came in, when you both fell in the grass.
(It was a blurry memory that had returned, but--) that day at the party when you’d bumped into him while you were drunk, and he caught you.
When you had bumped into each other as kids..
You were running into him for a reason.
As you ran down the many steps, exiting the building, you ran right past Lucas, who called after you. He was waiting for you to come out, so he could tell you something important.
“Y/n-- wait up,” he called after you, and you stopped in your tracks. “Lucas.. I just found out something crazy,” you say, trying to catch your breath. “Me too.. You go first,” he says, taking a seat on a step.
You sit down next to him, gathering your thoughts, before saying, “Doyoung is my soulmate.”
Lucas’ bright expression fades. He doesn’t have much of a reaction, so you lift an eyebrow at him. You’d expected at least an *eyebrows raise* or something— but he had no reaction.
“..You knew, didn’t you?” You ask, scrunching your eyebrows together.
Again, he doesn’t answer, and you stand up, pissed. “Wow. I can’t believe this,” you say, walking down the rest of the stairs, but he gets up to stop you.
“Y/n wait, I can explain—” “Explain what? How you’re allowed to have your soulmate, and i’m not?” You roll your eyes, trying to walk away again, but he steps in front of you.
You were tired of him being so possessive over you for (seemingly) no reason.
“Can you get out of my way? I don’t wanna speak to you,” you say, walking around him.
“Y/n wait— ..I didn’t tell you because I like you.” He blurts out, and you freeze in your tracks. “I mean.. I think I love you,” he corrects himself.
“How many surprises am I gonna get today?”
You wonder to yourself in shock.
“I wanted you all to myself, so I didn’t tell you he was your soulmate..” Lucas admits, and you turn back around to face him. “Why? Why now,” You ask, shaking your head with a bitter smile.
Why did he wait until *after* you got over your crush on him to tell you this?
”I didn’t know I liked you until another guy came into the picture,” he says, shrugging his shoulders. “What about Isabella?” “I’m done with her.. I found out she was the one who posted that video of you,” he says, and your eyes go wide, but you really weren’t surprised.
“Of course..”
“But I’m serious, Y/n, I ended things with her. I told her I like you,” he says, walking closer towards you. You were completely speechless.
All of this seemed to have come from out of nowhere. What happened to him thinking of you as nothing more than his best friend? You looked up at him with an unsure expression, when suddenly his lips landed on yours.
“I can’t—” you say, pushing him away.
Never in a million years did you think *you’d* be the one pushing him away, but things had obviously changed.
“..I think I like Doyoung,” you admit out loud for the first time, and Lucas glances down towards the ground, looking disappointed, but nods.
After that, there’s an awkward silence that comes over you two. “See you around,” you say before running off to find Doyoung.
Lucas nods, but decides that he won’t give up.
One thing he admired about you was your persistence with him-- you never gave up on him after all those years, even after he rejected you multiple times. So he was ready to get rejected a million times too. He just knew you’d change your mind eventually, and he wasn’t about to give up any time soon.
He just hated that he was too late.
…
You were sitting under the tree, waiting to see if Doyoung would show up. You’d texted him earlier today, but got no response. “I hope he’s okay..” you think to yourself, looking around with a worried expression. The whole campus was pretty empty.
You considered walking over to his dorm, but you figured that he’d contact you when he was available. Your dad had gotten your car fixed again, and left it for you at your house this morning— leaving a note on the hood (which you crumbled up), as a goodbye/apology gift.
You were still angry with him, but you still accepted the gift. “Guess I should go..” you sigh, getting up, but when you turned around, you bumped into someone.
...
You stopped to check for your soulmark, but it still wasn’t there. Suddenly, someone behind bumped into you. “Hey, watch where—” you turned around to see that it was that quiet guy, Doyoung. “You made me drop all my stuff.” He glared at you. “Well maybe watch where you’re going next time.” You glared back.
“I don’t need your help.” He pushes your arm away, and in the process, you catch a glance at his left wrist. It was blank too. “Hmm.. that’s interesting.” You said, thinking out loud. “What?” He asked, straightening back up. “..I thought I was the only one who was still blank.”
You say with a bitter smile, pointing at his wrist.
…
“Should I find you? ..Or am I really just better off alone?” You ask your soulmark,
but your thoughts were interrupted when you accidentally ran into somebody.
Whoever it was, had been foolishly walking while reading a book, not looking where he was going, and you crashed into him. Thankfully you both landed on the grass. Well, you landed on top of him, and he landed on the grass.
“Wh— You again?” You say, leaning up to see it was Doyoung.
This was the second time you two had run into each other, and it was starting to get annoying. “Get off of me,” he says, shoving you onto the grass. “Wow, what a gentleman.” you say sarcastically, peeling yourself off of the ground.
…
As you were walking through the hallways of your new middle school, after being denied entry into the nurse’ office to see Lucas, you turned a corner and bumped into this kid who was reading a book.
After regaining your composure, you scowled at him, saying, “Watch where you’re going, bookworm!” You recognized him from your homeroom— he was always reading some book.
To your surprise, he scowls back at you and blows a raspberry in your face. “Ew— Doyoung, you’re so gross!” You complained, running off to the bathroom to go wipe your face off.
Doyoung rolled his eyes and went back to reading his book.
...
You stumbled your way back over to the kitchen to search for Lucas, but you ended up running straight into somebody else.
“Y/n?” The familiar voice said, and you looked up in a daze and smiled once you saw it was Doyoung. “We just can’t stop running into each other!” you giggle, shaking your head.
...
“Ow— ..Doyoung?” You asked, gazing up at him as if he were the most important person in the world to you. He had his hands on your arms to support you so you wouldn’t fall.
“Why do you sound so surprised? I think whenever we bump into somebody from now on, we should just assume it’s each other,” he laughs, and you slowly nod.
It was like ever since you found out he was your soulmate, you were starting to see him differently. You couldn’t stop staring.
He had been in his dorm all day, thinking about that nightmare— wondering if it would become a reality. Thankfully, Mark talked him down and convinced him that he *had* to tell you— even if the soulmarks do change, you still deserved to know.
You both had big news to share with each other, but the only thing you could seem to do was gaze into each other's eyes.
Eventually the silence broke, “..I have to tell you something-” you both said at the same time.
“Oh, you go first,” “No you--” you both continue interrupting each other. “Ok fine—” You both just end up laughing because you couldn’t stop speaking simultaneously.
Then you both decided to blurt it out.
“We’re soulmates—” “What? You knew?!” You both exclaimed. “I just found out today, Yuta and Taeyong kinda told me..” You reply, and Doyoung makes a face. “Wow.. I wanted to be the one to tell you,” “Wait- is that what you were gonna tell me at the skating rink the other day? How long did you know? When did you find out?”
“..Don’t be mad,” he says, looking nervous, and you give him a skeptical look. “..I found out the day you got your cast fixed,” “What— seriously? Why didn’t you say anything?!” “I thought you liked Lucas! So what was the point?” He says, and everything starts making sense now.
All those times he’d mentioned not wanting to tell his soulmate because she liked her best friend.. He was talking about you.
Suddenly you began to feel guilty, remembering how you’d said you’d definitely pick Lucas over your soulmate. It wasn’t your fault— it was true at the time, and you had no idea you were actually speaking to your soulmate, but now you just felt bad for saying that to him.
“No wonder I always see him and Lucas giving each other dirty looks..”
You briefly think back to Lucas kissing you- deciding not to mention that.
“My head hurts..”
Doyoung watches as your expression changes from hurt to sad, trying to figure out what you’re thinking about.
“Can I see it?” You ask all of a sudden, and he nods, holding out his wrist. He pulls down the sleeve, revealing the neon green music notes.
Your eyes go wide, even though you already knew he was your soulmate. It was just crazy actually seeing it— the exact same one you had, only on his wrist.
“So I really did see it that day..” you mumble to yourself in shock, as tears start forming in your eyes. You weren’t sad-- you were just grateful you’d finally found him.
You take his hand in yours and light brush your thumb over the music notes.
Even though you were teary-eyed, a bright smile came across your face. You’d finally found him, when you thought you never would.
You had been waiting for this moment your entire life— ever since you found out what soulmarks were.
You looked up at him, still holding onto his hand, and he had the same expression of happiness and almost relief on his face. He was grateful you didn’t react in the way he thought you would.
He kept thinking back to that day you’d told him the soulmark you got wasn’t the one you wanted, but now it seemed like it actually *was*.
“It was you this whole time, huh?” You say, breaking the silence. He nods, and you let go of his hand, watching his expression change.
“What?” “..I’m scared,” he admits nervously, and you let out a small laugh. “I thought you said you don’t get scared?” “This is different! We’re *soulmates*,” he says defensively, but he smiles too. “Yeah.. I’m scared too,” you admit as well.
This was new territory for you two.
You’d never even had a boyfriend before this.
(Besides Lucas, in your mind.)
“Let’s just promise not to hurt each other.. Okay?” You say, holding your pinky out. Doyoung raises an eyebrow, skeptically, and you roll your eyes. “Just do it.” “Alright, alright,” he says, wrapping his pinky around yours. “I promise.”
...
You knew it was getting late and that you should probably start heading back home before you were late for dinner, but you just could take your eyes off of Doyoung for some reason.
It was the same for him, so you two were just gazing into each other's eyes for what seemed like forever— until you both started leaning in closer.
You closed your eyes and felt his nose lightly brush against yours, but suddenly he moved back. He couldn’t get the image of you with Lucas out of his head. “Y/n.. you don’t still like Lucas, do you?” He asks, with a sad, yet worried expression on his face.
You open your eyes back up, looking surprised he asked that all of a sudden.
You hesitate to answer, looking down at the ground. Lucas had stirred up some old feelings by confessing to you earlier, but you didn’t know how to tell him that.
“I can’t tell him what happened..” You shake your head, saying, “No.. I think my crush is gone.” Doyoung furrows his eyebrows, like he’s thinking, making you wonder if you sounded believable enough. “I really wanna believe you,” he says quietly.
“..But you don’t?”
“I dunno..” He answers honestly.
…
After that conversation you went home, and on his way back to his dorm, Doyoung ran into Lucas (not literally). He was just going to ignore him and continue on his way, but Lucas called out to him. “Hey— you know Y/n knows your secret now, right?” He says, but Doyoung keeps walking. “Yup. She told me.”
“Oh really? Well did she tell you that we kissed too, or did she leave that part out?” Lucas says, and Doyoung freezes in his tracks.
His fears were already coming true.
“Look man, I know she’s your soulmate, but she’s liked me for longer, so you might as well just give up. You know I’ll win in the end.” Lucas says, trying to sound intimidating, but Doyoung decides to just keep on walking.
Continuing this conversation would just be pointless.
In the end— it was *your* decision who you wanted to be with, not Lucas’, so he just kept moving and didn’t let what Lucas said bother him.
He wasn’t mad at you, but he was definitely gonna confront you about this later.
