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“Hi everyone! I’m Kim Seokjin, 22 years old, drama major and a food lover.”
Standing in front of the camera was Kim Seokjin and behind of it were Taehyung and a group of phycology students examining and taking notes of every one of his movements and reactions.
Taehyung was one of Seokjin’s most beloved friends. They meet at the backstage of a fashion show, where they worked as models for the same clothing brand, and since that day, they became inseparable. Even if they attended different universities their campuses were close enough for them to meet frequently to drink some coffee and talk bad about people they dislike.
In one of those meetings, Taehyung told him about an experiment that he and some of his classmates wanted to carry out. The experiment was simple, kiss a stranger while wearing a blindfold, Taehyung didn’t explain exactly what they wanted to find out, but he complained about the lack of volunteers.
“You know, everything is because of the whole soulmates business.” Tae continued. “Why you must find who your soulmate is only after kissing them? Because of that people are careful of who they kiss and is making everything so difficult… we’re so desperate that we are offering 100,000 wons to whoever shows up as a volunteer.”
“100,000 wons? You should have started by that” Seokjin interrupted him.
“What?”
“I will kiss whoever you put in front of me, just give me my 100,000 wons and I’ll be happy.”
That’s how he ended up in a studio close to the phycology building about to be kissed by a stranger that he would no be able to see but with 100,000 wons in his pocket.
“Seokjin-ssi, could you tell us how many people you have kissed before?” Taehyung was wearing a devilish smile while asking the question, that fucker was playing with him and Seokjin was not going to lose. Tae had told him they would ask some questions related to kisses to start.
“Oh… I don’t really know.” He answered laughing and everyone in the studio copied him. “I really like kissing people.”
“Girls and boys?”
“Girls and boys, on equal terms, I never say no to a kiss.”
It was not a secret that Seokjin enjoyed kissing people, it didn’t matter if they were girls or boys. For him there was no feeling like kissing someone for the first time, a single kiss could change everything, and he loved not knowing what will happen once his lips detach from the person he was kissing, will he see colours, or will everything stay the same?
Some other questions were asked just to help the students to get to know Seokjin better before they continued with the next step of the experiment.
“Well thanks for introducing yourself Seokjin-ssi, now I’m going to cover your eyes.” Said Taehyung and after Seokjin was blindfolded he whispered in his ear “ I hope you enjoy this .”
“I’m sure I will” Seokjin answered back.
Next, the stranger was taken to the studio and guided to stand in front of Seokjin. He could feel their gaze fixed on him (Tae had said that Seokjin would be the only one wearing a blindfold) and that was making him anxious, he decided to break the ice.
“Come here sweetheart, I won’t bite... unless you’re into it,” Seokjin said a playful tone and a smile that he knew that was sinful.
He felt the other person approaching, then a hand, first on his shoulder then on his neck and finally on his face. The hand, big and incredibly gentle, travelled through his features, touched his eyelids, the bridge of his nose, his lips and eventually settled up in his cheek where they started to stroke their thumb up and down. When their lips meet, Seokjin felt like he was going to explode, those plum lips knew what they were doing and Seokjin didn’t want them to stop.
Some seconds later he tilted his head looking for a better angle and after a while, he bit the stranger’s lip asking for entrance. They parted their lips and when their tongues meet Seokjin he felt a shiver running down his body and had to suppress a groan. He wanted to keep going but he remembered he didn’t know who he was kissing and that they were surrounded by cameras. He —sadly— parted away and took a long breath. Their hand was still caressing his cheek and he still could feel their heavy breathing.
“From one to ten, how much would you give to that kiss?” Asked Taehyung once Seokjin was breathing steadier.
“Ten out of ten, if they want to kiss again, I’m up for having some fun.” Seokjin wasn’t lying, he was actually wondering what else that great tongue could do.
“Judging by their face I think they would be up for another round,” Tae spoke again. “Now I’m going to take the blindfold off and you’re going to finally meet who kissed you.”
When he opened his eyes, he didn’t know what he was expecting but it definitely wasn’t that. He wasn’t expecting colours (those were supposed to colours, right?) and he definitely wasn’t expecting Namjoon, Taehyung’s older brother, to be looking at him with his eyes as big as plates. Neither of them could say a word, they just stared at each other not paying attention to what was going on in the studio.
“Guys!” Taehyung said quite loudly, he had been calling them a few times but neither of them seemed to have heard him. “Seokjin would you like to say something now you have met the person who kissed you?”
“It was a good kiss, thank you Namjoon.” Seokjin articulated in an awkward way, a lot was going on inside his head to answer to Tae’s question properly.
“Great, something else you want to add guys?” Asked Taehyung almost pleading.
Namjoon and Seokjin said no and left the studio, leaving Taehyung full of questions wondering what the heck happened in there. He was expecting Namjoon to not be able to speak after kissing his long-time crush, but Seokjin had really surprised him. When Seokjin had told him, he would take part in the experiment, he knew that he needed to make his older brother take part on the experiment, so he tricked Namjoon into losing a bet and made him kiss the drama major. When his brother arrived at the building and saw Seokjin there, he wanted to turn back and Taehyung had to force his brother to stay there promising that that would be the last time he would try to set them up.
Outside the building, Seokjin and Namjoon were trying to come to terms with their new finding. Few words were said. Seokjin suggested going to a quieter place to speak and they ended up going to a park nearby.
“You know I’ve been crushing on you since you met Tae” Namjoon admitted as they were walking.
“I already knew that I always felt really flattered”
“Really?” Namjoon looked half embarrassed half surprised.
“Yeah, you kept blushing and smelling really nice around me.” Forget the last paragraph, now Namjoon was 100% embarrassed and kinda wanted to die, he had bought a really nice perfume to wear whenever Seokjin was around. “But I didn’t really care about crushes, with the whole soulmates thing I believed crushes were unpractical. It easier to kiss someone and realise quickly that they aren’t your soulmate than falling for someone and ending up with heartbreak because you two are not meant to be.”
Namjoon felt relieved when he saw that they were arriving at their destination, he didn’t know how to answer. Seokjin’s words had taken him by surprise, they were... sad, that wasn’t an emotion that he’d ever associated with him. He wondered if those words had a story behind, he had so much to discover, Seokjin was so much more than a pretty face, silly jokes and great cooking skills.
They sat on the grass quite close to the river, the sun was still up in the sky. Both were wearing star-struck looks in their faces while admiring their surroundings.
“Is this green?” Asked Namjoon playing with the grass around them.
“I suppose.” Just as Namjoon, Seokjin didn’t know what colours looked like, but everyone knew that grass was green, so he said it matter-of-factly “Grass is green.”
“You’re right.” Namjoon laughed and added while moving his arms around. “This is so weird; I didn’t expect colours to be like this.”
“Me neither, there are so many they are making me dizzy and also pretty worried because I don’t think I would ever be capable of remembering all their names.”
“That’s something I’m worried about too, so many things to learn.”
“We can learn them together. It sounds like fun, let's discover what this new world looks like together.” Both of them were smiling, their cheeks hurt because they had been doing that a lot the last hour. Seokjin added, “I want to find out which colour is red.”
“Can I ask why?”
“To see if Jimin’s words are true, he said my lips look really tempting in red.” Namjoon almost chocked at the eldest words, Seokjin’s lips were tempting enough.
They spent some time chatting about anything and everything, trying to get used to the idea of a life together. It was a lot to process and they both knew they wouldn’t get used instantly, but they were happy thinking about their future ahead.
“Joon-ah look at the sky!” The sky that used to be sky-blue (it was a great reminder that the sky’s colour name had the world sky in it) was now tinted in so many beautiful colours that they couldn’t possibly name, it was breath-taking. When Seokjin turned his gaze to Namjoon, the sight surprised him.
“Hey, are you alright?” Seokjin asked when he saw a stream of tears coming out of Namjoon’s eyes. “Why are you crying?”
“You’re gonna think I’m stupid,” Namjoon said between sobs.
“Hey Joon-ah, look at me.” When he saw that the younger was not doing what he had asked, he grabbed his face and made their eyes meet “I would never think that. You’re one of the smartest, if not the smartest person I know, please tell me what’s bothering you.”
“It’s so beautiful... the sunset, I’d heard about the sky changing its colours, but I didn’t expect to be like that.” Seokjin smiled when he heard his soulmate words. “You must think I’m so pathetic”
“Stop that! I think that was really sweet and now I kinda want to kiss all your face.”
“You can do it.” When Namjoon said that his eyes, now red from crying, were full of hope waiting for Seokjin to make the first move.
He joined their lips, it was a soft kiss nothing like their first kiss, there wasn’t any rush because they knew they had a lot of time ahead of them. When they parted away slightly light-headed, they smiled and after a while kissed again.
“Namjoonie, I’m really happy that you’re my soulmate” Said Seokjin with his hands still on Namjoon’s face and their foreheads pressed together.
“I’m really happy I’m your soulmate.” Replied Namjoon before joining their lips together again. They both smiled in the kiss.