Red Strings // JaeNoRen

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Just kidding.

Anyways, sometimes he sees strings whether he likes it or not. It's not like he can see them all the time either. It's just an on and off thing. Sometimes he'll blink and every single soulmate connection in front of him is visible. Sometimes he can't see anything, so he has to close his eyes and muster up some weird energy into his eyes for it to work.

As he's squinting in Yukhei's direction, there's no doubt at what he sees.

A red string.

It's messily spread all over the floor like many others. Whenever Renjun focuses on his power, it's like everything is black and white except for the glaringly red strings. He can't tell where Yukhei's string leads, but he's got a funny feeling he knows who it is.

Yukhei simply returns to them, flushed red.

Kun sighs, "He's hopeless."

"As hopless as your admriation for Sicheng-ge," Chenle whispers. "--AH!"

Kun slaps a hand over the youngest's mouth. His eyes are comically wide, and Renjun just gives him a knowing look. Wow, he's missed out on a lot. Renjun wonders if there's anything else he's missed on the love lives of his friends.

Sicheng looks at them weirdly as if they were speaking Greek. Apparently he didn't hear Chenle. Renjun face palms. Why is everyone hopeless?

Renjun squints at Kun's hand.

Kun's hand already had a connecting string. It was a translucent string though. The string was there, but not yet fully formed and vibrant. He was close to his partner, but since the string hasn't completely formed, they haven't truly started feeling a connection yet. Kun's string ran down to the floor and messily circled in loops as it then trailed in every which way. One thing is for sure, if it was connected to Sicheng, Renjun would've noticed by now. If Kun's string was not yet formed, Sicheng's should be the same.

Sadly, the redness circling Sicheng's finger wasn't even connected to anyone.

Sicheng just has a red band like Renjun.

Sicheng didn't have anyone to set his heart on as of now.

"Ge," Renjun pats Kun's shoulder. "You have weird taste."

"He has an old person's taste!" Chenle screeches.

Kun takes his liberty to stomp on Chenle's foot with a smile.

"Old? No, I find myself fairly refined," he says, ignoring Chenle's screaming.

Sicheng just shakes his head.

"Yukhei-ge?" Renjun turns to said guy.

Yukhei is just standing there, big goofy smile on his face.

Oh brother.

"Ge? Hello?" Renjun waves a hand. "Ge, didn't you say you would go get the car? Why are you still here?"

Yeah, so apparently Yukhei stayed in his stupid love-struck state the whole ride from the airport to where they were staying.

Renjun wonders if that Korean guy was really that cute to shut the loud giant up.

Kun eventually got tired of it and asked Chenle to offer him some water. Chenle did offer a bottle of water, but it didn't work, so Sicheng went and chucked it at his face.

Sicheng's attack was super effective.

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"Welcome to the family!" Yukhei smiles.