Ardor Chap. 7

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: Ardor

Pairing: Kaisoo, implied!Chanbaek

Genre: Soul mate!AU, Romance, Fluff, Angst, Smut

Length: Series

Summary: People are going to meet their soul mate at the age of twenty. Kyungsoo thinks he has lost his soul mate even from the beginning. Jongin thinks he has found his soul mate, but turns out he has not. Weird things happen and chemistry strikes before they meet their true soul mate.













Poster by: ░ spearmint ░ graphic shop









Chapter 7



When they get back to the café, they see Chanyeol sitting across Baekhyun on one of the tables. Kyungsoo rushes into the inventory to stock up the things, ignoring the call from the newly met soul mates.

“What’s wrong?” Chanyeol asks to Sehun who has just entered the café, still having his face stern and confused with the sudden turn out of event.

Sehun shrugs. “I’m not sure myself, but I think we just met Kyungsoo’s soul mate.”

“What?” Chanyeol breathes in disbelief and Baekhyun freezes. Kyungsoo’s soul mate? Here?

“How was he? Was he good looking? What is he doing here? Why is Kyungsoo being like that? Did he—”

“I’m sorry but,” Baekhyun cuts the various questions coming from Chanyeol’s mouth, “but can I talk to Kyungsoo?”

Both Sehun and Chanyeol notice the serious tone in his voice and Sehun nods, gesturing to the door to the inventory. They just hope their boss won’t find out about them letting a customer enters the inventory.

Baekhyun nods and walks there, pushing the door open. He sees Kyungsoo’s back only, as the person is busying himself by shoving each thing he bought into the respective shelves.

“Kyungsoo,” he calls softly. Kyungsoo glances back through his shoulder. “Hey, Baekhyun. I didn’t see you before. What are you doing here? You are not supposed to be in here—”

“I heard you met Jongin?” Baekhyun cuts him off softly, successfully shutting his mouth. Kyungsoo glances down to his shoes, his hand drops down from the shelf. “Yeah. I met him just now. I don’t know why he is here though.”

“Are you okay?” Baekhyun steps closer, reaching for his arm. Kyungsoo sends him a quick smile. “Yeah. I’m okay now.”

Baekhyun gives him a long look. “I don’t know what he is doing here, but…” he trails off, “but I think you should talk to him when you meet him again.”

Kyungsoo lifts his head up. “What do you mean? He doesn’t—”

“Kyungsoo.” Baekhyun says, holding onto his shoulder to maintain their eye contact, “I’m sure you get this already but I don’t like Jongin that way. I mean, sure, we had something going on before all of this and we thought we were soul mates but we were not. We are not soul mates, Kyungsoo. It’s you who are his soul mate.”

Kyungsoo gulps. “I don’t know. He made it clear that he didn’t like me at all and he only looked at you—”

“I don’t like him!” Baekhyun raises his voice. “I have my own soul mate, Kyungsoo! I have Chanyeol now. I have always wanted to be with my own soul mate who is destined to me! Not just someone who I thought might be my soul mate. Please understand this. I’m not going to take Jongin away from you. I never meant to.”

He begs and begs, eyes getting teary and voice cracking in the end. Kyungsoo glances at him and panics because he makes Baekhyun cries again. He reaches for the other into a hug, and Baekhyun instantly sniffs into his shirt.

“I’m so sorry, Kyungsoo. I was being so insensitive towards you, but I swear I didn’t know anything at that time.” He cries softly. Kyungsoo feels so guilty because even though he doesn’t blame Baekhyun for all of those events, the other must be feeling like the wrong one here.

“Don’t apologize,” Kyungsoo whispers, patting his head, “I don’t blame you, Baekhyun. Please, nothing is your fault. We just got played by the destiny and it’s not your place to apologize to me. It should be me. I made you feel all of this.”

Baekhyun leans away, sniffing. “I didn’t know you liked Jongin. I swear. If I knew, I wouldn’t get so close to him.” He whimpers out.

Kyungsoo chuckles and reaches to wipe his tears away. “Alright, alright. No more crying or Chanyeol will question why I made you cry.”

At the mention of Chanyeol’s name, a small smile blooms on Baekhyun’s face. He nods and sniffs his tears dry. “I’m sorry again, but please, let Jongin talk to you. I’m not sure what he is planning to do but you can’t run away forever, Kyungsoo-yah.”

That’s right. Kyungsoo is still running away from all of this. It would be better if he sits down with Jongin and puts all the cards onto the table, talking about this openly instead of hiding from the problems. It could be some kind of closure, too.

“Hmm?” Baekhyun hums questioningly, asking for his response. Kyungsoo sighs and smiles, reaching to pinch Baekhyun on his pink nose. “Okay, okay. The next time I meet him.”

Baekhyun smiles and tackles him into a hug.




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Kyungsoo lies awake at night in his bed, staring up at the dark ceiling. So many thoughts are running in his head, from the meeting with Jongin until the talk with Baekhyun.

Yes, he shouldn’t run away from this anymore. At first, he ran away just because he couldn’t take it anymore and because he wanted a new start. But now he is healing, he is in the progress of healing himself, to be a better human. He shouldn’t let his dark memories to run after him again and again and dragging him back.

Maybe, if he meets Jongin again one of these days, he will let him talk. And then they can see where it will go.

“Kyungsoo?” Chanyeol’s voice is heard in the silence of the night. Kyungsoo glances to the other side of the room, trying to make out his roommate’s figure.

“Yeah?”

“You are still awake?”

Kyungsoo smiles. “And so you are.”

Chanyeol says nothing for a while and Kyungsoo thinks that the guy might be sleep talking or what, but then Chanyeol speaks again.

“I heard from Sehun that you met your soul mate in the mart?”

Kyungsoo finds himself chuckling. Of course, Chanyeol is the most curious person ever. He won’t stay still at this topic.

“Yeah, I did.”

“Is it the one you told me before?”

“Mmh.” He nods in the darkness.

“The one who didn’t like you?”

“Yeah.”

“And he liked Baekhyun?” Chanyeol asks softly.

Kyungsoo sits up straight on his bed, eyes wide in shock. “How…”

“I overheard you two talking earlier.” Chanyeol replies silently. Kyungsoo scrambles to flick the bedside light open and the room is lit dimly. He can see the side profile of Chanyeol lying on his back on his bed.

“Chanyeol…”

“Is he handsome? Your supposedly soul mate, I mean?”

“Uh,” Kyungsoo stutters. Chanyeol glances to him, “I don’t know how he looks like… but I can imagine a handsome male standing beside Baekhyun and,” he pauses, closing his eyes, “and I imagine them looking so good for one another.”

Kyungsoo chews on his lip. “Look, Chanyeol. It happened when we hadn’t found out about who our soul mate was. They had nothing between them and,”

“But you said he didn’t like you. He liked Baekhyun and he refused you because of Baekhyun. Who is my supposedly soul mate.” Chanyeol whispers softly, staring back up to the ceiling. Kyungsoo climbs down from his bed and he pads towards where his roommate is, slipping into his bed.

“Hey,” he calls softly, tapping on his arm. Chanyeol hums.

“I bet they look good together. Baekhyun is very pretty, he is beautiful and attractive. You are kinda cute, Kyungsoo, but for him to refuse you, that meant that he was head over heels with Baekhyun.”

“That’s not it…” Kyungsoo trails off, because he doesn’t know what to say next. Chanyeol glances at him, a small but sad smile hanging on his face.

“I feel like I lost.”

Kyungsoo blinks his eyes. “What?”

“Why do I feel like I lost to that guy? I close my eyes and all I can see is the sight of Baekhyun being with someone else, someone who I don’t even know the face of. I see them and I compare it when Baekhyun is being with me… the feeling is so different. I’m not good enough for Baekhyun, you know. I’m just a lanky guy who is too loud and sometimes annoying and even too clumsy for his own good.”

Kyungsoo sighs. He reaches to pinch his roommate’s cheeks, making sure to apply the strong pressure. Chanyeol yelps in pain, thumping his legs up and down on the bed to beg to be released.

“I don’t know how you are thinking so lowly about yourself and how you could even compare the two different situations but,” Kyungsoo slowly releases his cheeks. Chanyeol looks up at him.

“Baekhyun only wants you. Sure, he might have flings here and there, and he might have experiences some kind of romance with the other guy but,” he gulps slowly, “but he did that only because he thought they were soul mate. He has always said about wanting to be with his soul mate the most, and his soul mate is you, so why would you doubt yourself, Chanyeol?”

His words shut the taller guy up. Kyungsoo watches as Chanyeol’s face slowly changes, as if he is thinking so deeply. He waits until Chanyeol says something.

“You are right.” Chanyeol has said slowly. Kyungsoo waits.

“You are right. I met Baekhyun because he is my soul mate and because it’s written in our destiny. If we are not destined to be together, then I wouldn’t even meet him! Thank you, Kyungsoo! You are really a life saver!”

Chanyeol sits up on the bed, clutching Kyungsoo right into his arms and squeezing him. Kyungsoo chokes at the sudden hug, hitting his back to be released. Chanyeol doesn’t let him go but he only loosens his embrace.

“You are so nice, Kyungsoo. Whoever that guy, he is a fool to even think to refuse you.”

Kyungsoo stops moving, stuffing his face into Chanyeol’s shoulder. “What should I do, Chanyeol?”

“Hmm? What do you mean?”

“I met him and he is here. I don’t know what he is doing here. No one knows. What if he wants to talk to me?”

“Then talk.” Chanyeol pats the back of his head. Kyungsoo sighs. “If only everything is that easy.”

“It is easy, Kyungsoo. You wouldn’t know what destiny has written for you. Sure, he was mean for refusing you and all, but look! You are here for quite a long time already and now he is here too! That must mean something!”

Kyungsoo closes his eyes. “Does it?”

“Of course!”

“So, if I later meet him, I should talk to him?”

“Yeah, only if you want to. I think you should hear what he has to say.”

Kyungsoo smiles and nods. “Okay. Thanks, Chanyeol.”

“No. Thanks, Kyungsoo-yah.”

“Wait until Baekhyun knows what you were thinking earlier.”

Chanyeol chokes, his arms flailing. “Don’t tell Baekhyun!”

Kyungsoo smiles. “Who knows?”




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The next day, they find Baekhyun stomping his way into the café and pulling Chanyeol down into a bruising kiss that has the entire café staring at them. Chanyeol gapes in shock at Baekhyun’s red face.

“Don’t be stupid. I only want you.” He says threateningly, hissing at the taller guy. Chanyeol obediently nods his head.

Kyungsoo hides behind Sehun’s back while they watch the sight happening with their wide eyes.

“Is this your doing?” Sehun asks. Kyungsoo grins. “Kinda.”

They go back to work, ignoring the loud and obvious noises of lips smacking.




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“Can you please, at least, stop eating each other’s mouth?” Sehun grumbles as the four of them walk along the side street. They are heading to the barbeque restaurant to get dinner together, because they had Chanyeol promising to treat them.

“Sorry!” Chanyeol squeaks, releasing his grip from his soul mate, yet only to have Baekhyun clinging on him again.

Kyungsoo makes a face at the public display of attention. As much as he likes seeing his friends happy and in love, he has enough of them kissing for the whole day. Chanyeol even gets scolded by their boss because he keeps getting distracted.

“This is your fault.” Sehun grumbles while the two of them walk ahead from the kissing couple. Kyungsoo grins, “Why is that?”

“If only you could shut your mouth and not tell your friend about what the tall idiot was thinking, then they wouldn’t kill each other like this.”

Kyungsoo laughs. “How is this killing each other?”

“Hello? They haven’t stopped kissing like it’s going to be their last day tomorrow! No one knows how much oxygen left in their lungs? They need to breathe, you know!”

Kyungsoo stifles a chuckle. “Don’t tell me you are jealous, Sehun?”

Sehun scoffs in disbelief. “Are you seriously saying that to me?”

“You can be. No one knows what it is inside of your thick head.” Kyungsoo reaches up to knock on his skull. Sehun grumbles and shoves his hand away, making him laughs at him.

“But,” Sehun starts softly when his laughter dies down, “it’s nice to see Chanyeol being so happy. I didn’t know he managed to overhear you guys talking yesterday. I was confused at why he suddenly went all bad mood.”

Kyungsoo nods his head, “Yeah. It’s weird to see Chanyeol not being happy. I’m happy too that the both of them can make up and understand each other. We don’t need another breaking soul mate pairing.” He jokes bitterly.

Sehun glances down at him. “How about you?”

“What about me?” Kyungsoo stares up. Sehun rolls his eyes. “Don’t act stupid, or you will become stupid for real.”

Kyungsoo sticks his tongue out at him. Sehun makes a face. “You hang out around Chanyeol way too much.”

“It’s fun. He is fun, while you are boring as hell, Sehun.” He jokes.

Sehun scoffs, throwing an arm around his shoulder to pull him closer. “I dare you to say it again!”

“You are boring!” Kyungsoo says in between his laughs. Sehun grits his teeth, tightening his hold around his neck. Kyungsoo chokes loudly, laughing like a fool.

“But seriously, what about you?” Sehun asks again. “The guy from before is your soul mate, right?”

Kyungsoo smiles, somber. “Yeah.”

“Do you have a plan on what to do?”

Kyungsoo takes a deep breath. “I don’t know how he could find me and what he is actually doing here but… after the talk with Baekhyun and also with Chanyeol last night, I think I’m ready to meet and to talk to him.”

“That’s good.” Sehun says silently, using his other hand to ruffle Kyungsoo on his head. Kyungsoo shoves his hand away. “I just hope that whatever the talk is about, it will turn out well. I don’t want to end up in a bad term with him. I had run away for quite a long time and I think it’s time for me to face him.”

“You grow up so fast,” Sehun fakes a sob, wiping his nonexistent tears. Kyungsoo laughs, pinching his waist.

“Not funny, Sehun.”

“Well, you are funny now. I guess hanging around Chanyeol has the good perk for you. You are no longer that stuttering, timid boy.”

Kyungsoo rolls his eyes. “Shut up.” He laughs softly.

They glance back, trying to guess on why they don’t hear any voice from Chanyeol. Well, they find out that Chanyeol is hugging onto Baekhyun in the middle of the street, having a serene looking face while being so happy.

Sehun snorts, shaking his head at them. “They are hopeless.”

Kyungsoo smiles. “Just let them be! They have been waiting for this moment for so long. It’s only right that we let them feel this happiness while they are still fresh like this.”

Sehun nods, looking bored. “Sure. Whatever. Can we go ahead then? I’m hungry. We can order a lot and let Chanyeol pays for everything!”

His words make Kyungsoo grins so widely. He winds an arm around Sehun’s ribs while Sehun keeps his arm around his neck. “Okay! Let’s go and—”

Kyungsoo yelps when he feels his other hand is grabbed by something or rather someone, and he is pulled away from under Sehun’s grasp, coming in contact with something else. He looks up, blinking when he sees it’s someone’s back and someone’s hair.

“What…?” He whispers in confusion.

“Don’t touch him!” The person gripping onto his wrist says, obviously towards a still surprised Sehun.

Kyungsoo shudders in shock, finding himself drowned at how familiar this low voice is.

And it’s not helping that when he glances to the side street, he can see the familiar mint color in his eyes on the reflection of the shop window. The one’s gripping him has the same eye color.

“Jongin.” He calls breathlessly, unable to believe that they meet again this soon.









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A/N: Should we let Jongin get his happiness soon or let him try hard again...? Hehehe thanks for reading! ^^