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If there was one thing that you would want to know about Huang Renjun, you would definitely want to know how much he loves anything to do with romance. Romcom movies on Friday nights by himself? Reading romance books? Acting in romantic plays? Renjun did every single one of those. To put it shortly, Renjun is fascinated by the idea of love. He loves the way books and movies perceive every emotion, good and bad, he loves that everything always works out no matter the situation; it gives him hope. Renjun is a very, very, very, hopeless romantic.
“Injunnnnnnnn,” Renjun heard a groan from across the couch, “How many more times are we going to watch Love, Simon? I’m almost certain we’ve watched this movie 7 times together.”
“That’s not a lot Hyuck.” Renjun looked over at the boy, who’s head was cocked to the side, giving him a death stare from under his fluffy blanket.
“I don’t even want to know how many times you’ve watched this movie on your own.” He said rolling his eyes.
“I love spending time with you and all Jun, but you need to get out more. These romantic comedies aren’t going to fulfill your need for social interaction.”
“But look it’s my favorite part! Simon looks at Blue and notices that he likes Halloween Oreos!”
He felt a pillow hit him.
“Ow…” Renjun said, throwing the pillow onto the floor.
“Come on Renjun, you have to realize that cooping yourself up like this isn’t healthy.”
“But what if I want to stay on my couch with a fluffy blanket and eat snacks all night.” Renjun says, knowing he’s clearly losing this battle.
Donghyuck gets up from his comfy position in the corner of Renjun’s couch, and climbs over to him, and takes his hands in his own. He looks at Renjun, with his disheveled dirty blonde hair, big round glasses that make him look like he’s from Harry Potter, and an oversized sweatshirt. Renjun looks at him like a pouting puppy.
“Renjun I know you don’t actually want to sit inside all night every night. I know you better than you know yourself, I’m practically your brother. If you ever want to have a love story like they do in the movies-“ He stops, and points to the t.v., “-then you have to go out and find it.” Hyuck moved Renjun’s long hair out of his eyes.
“You’ll find your soulmate I promise.” He watched as Renjun looked up to him.
“Do you think so?” He said, feeling unsure.
“Of course Junnie! Who wouldn’t love your cute face!!” Hyuck cooed, pinching Renjun’s cheeks no matter how much he tried to pull away.
The two ended up wrestling each other and rolling off the couch, getting tangled in fluffy blankets and comfy oversized sweatshirts, and giggling the entire way through.
Renjun couldn’t be more thankful to his best friend.
Every day of the next week, Renjun tried to get out of the house more. Studying at coffee shops, inviting Donghyuck and Chenle to go places, even hang out with his brother Sicheng, and his boyfriend Yuta. It was enough to get Donghyuck to stop nagging him about engaging in social interaction, and to Renjun, that was a win.
No matter how much Renjun just wanted to go home, jump into his bed and wrap himself in his blankets, he knew deep down Donghyuck was right. So he decided every Tuesday and Thursday he would do his homework at the library rather than curling up in his bed and doing it in the dark.
Renjun was at the library for about 2 hours before he got distracted. He was doing his history homework, and this section was on soulmates. Soulmates always sparked an interest in Renjun, he loves learning how people met them, and how their voices sounded in their head.
He always got different responses from people of when they started hearing their soulmates voice in their head, but the average time span was about a week, some for even two weeks. Renjun always wondered when his soulmates voice would start talking in his head. He was excited to hear if it was a girl or boys’ voice, whether their voice was high pitched or deep, smooth or rough tone, he was curious about all of it.
He always seemed to fall in love with the idea of soulmates and just couldn’t wait to be able to finally hear his own speak in his head. Almost everyone hears it when they’re 16-18 years old.
In a way, this worried Renjun. He was 18, and still hadn't heard his soulmates voice. It’s September, his birthday is March 23, and to say the least he's terrified that he won't ever find his soulmate.
He's scared that he won't hear the heavenly voice in his head, that he will never be able to have the relationships with someone like they do in the movies, that his entire life he's spent reading romance novels and everything to do with romance, was all a waste. Renjun wasn't even sure he could live without someone loving him. Was it even possible?
Renjun picked up his phone to getting texts (Correction: spam texts*) from Hyuck, and 3 missed phone calls. He opened his phone and went to his texts.
The 3 Losers
HyuckGotLuck: GUYS
HyuckGotLuck: GUYS
HyuckGotLuck: GET ONLINE NOW
HyuckGotLuck: YALL GET YOUR TINY BUTTS ON YOUR PHONES RIGHT NOW BEFORE I COME TO WHERE YOU BOTH LIVE AND PERSONALLY BEAT YOU BOTH UP
LeLeavemealone: What do you want hyuck I’m trying to do homework
Renjunvenated: ^^^^
HyuckGotLuck: meet me at our park in 5 I have news :)
Leleavemealone: Hyuck I swear if this is another one of those pranks you pulled a few years ago where you lured us to the park and pelted us with water balloons and freezing cold hose water I want no part of it
HyuckGotLuck: I promise it’s not!! It’s serious business
Renjunvenated: Okay, Ill be there in 5
Leleavemealone: me too^
Renjun pulled up to the park and parked his car. He wondered what was going on, if it was actually serious as Hyuck says, or something light hearted and stupid, which was usually the case with him. He shrugged it off and tried not to get too worried about it. He got out of the car and locked it, and walked into the gates to see Hyuck and Chenle swinging on the swings together, waiting for Renjun to arrive.
Renjun walks over to the wood chips on the ground and approaches the swings, and finds one on the other side of Hyuck. He sits down and they sit in silence for a few seconds.
“Guys I can hear my soulmate!!!!!” Hyuck said giddily. Chenle immediately squealed, but Renjun’s jaw had dropped.
“Really?” Chenle said, eyes wide with wonder.
“Yes! He kind of sounds like a loser, but a really cute loser and his personality already seems so sweet and I’m literally in love with him already and its only been an hour since I started hearing him!!”
He wasn’t going to admit he was jealous. No, he was going to pretend he was happy. This is Hyuck he’s thinking about. The selfless Hyuck that did everything for everyone. The one who gave up anything and everything to make sure everyone around him was okay and happy, and then would focus on himself. Why couldn’t he be like that? Why couldn’t he be happy for the boy? He wanted to, he really did. They’ve been friends since they were practically in the womb for Gods sake! But for some reason his brain just wouldn’t let him.
“I cant wait to meet him next week!!!” Hyuck squealed.
“Hyuck thats amazing! I’m so happy for you!!” Chenle yelled, jumping off his swing and running over to Hyuck to hug him.
Renjun got up as well to hug him, but he genuinely couldn’t feel happy. He wanted to hear his soulmates voice, and feel happy. He wanted to feel like everyone else. Chenle had started hearing his soulmates voice a few days ago, and at this point they both knew how it felt to be in love with someones voice. To be able to hear the voice of the person that they will spend the rest of their life with.
Renjun just wanted someone to hug him, and hold him close, and he was only reminded of it on that cold September night in the park sitting on the freezing swings, listening to his friends talk about how he couldn’t wait to meet his soulmate.