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Mud, chocolate, tree trunks, and coffee.
All of these things had something in common; They were some of the only things Changbin could see in color. At one point he had even dyed his hair brown just to savour the little bit of color he had in his dark world. But the now the boy hated the color.
He dyed it black once again.
Brown was just a reminder that he hadn’t found his soulmate yet. Every time he looked at his cappuccino in the morning, every time he saw a puddle of mud on a rainy day on his way to school, it served as a reminder to him that he still hadn’t found his other half that he had been searching for so long.
After a long restless night of sleep, the dreaded sound of his alarm woke him. It was reminding him that he had to get up and go to school, no matter how bad the insomnia was that he had the night before. Changbin groaned and rolled over to turn off the damn thing off, throwing himself back onto his bed with a distressed sigh after. Knowing that if he laid there any longer he would be late, he threw himself out of bed, quickly got dressed and grabbed his bag and phone. He stopped at his mirror, shades of gray surrounding him with just his eyes standing out in his reflection. Changbin turned away disappointed, and headed downstairs to leave for school. It was sunny, but it wasn’t like that made any difference. He couldn’t see the sun, couldn’t see the ‘blue sky’ that everyone described; to him it was just warm. But at least it’s better than it being cold or rainy, he thought, attempting to cheer himself up slightly. He put his headphones on, looking around at the gray world with the exceptions of the brown accents that Changbin decided that he hated.
The walk to his bus stop wasn’t a long one, so he reached it in just a few minutes and met up with his best friend, Hyunjin.
“Binnie !” he heard younger call, grin on his face waving happily. Changbin couldn’t help but smile; his best friend being one of the few things that could cheer him up. He removed an earbud.
“Hey Jinnie” he said waving back as he reached the bus stop, “How was your weekend?” “It was good! Hey, did you hear that there’s apparently a new kid?” Hyunjin said excitedly. “I heard from Seungmin that he’s from Australia!”
Ah yes, Seungmin; Hyunjin’s soulmate and another one of Changbin’s friends. “Well that’s cool I guess Jinnie, but where exactly did Seungmin get that information from?”
“So you know Chan-hyung? Well apparently this kid is Channie--hyung’s cousin! So Seungmin heard from him that his cousin was moving here and he told me because apparently he’s in Seungmin’s grade,” Hyunjin replied. Seungmin was in the year below Hyunjin and Changbin, meaning that both the new kid and Seungmin were sophomores. The bus pulled up and everyone was piling on as Hyunjin continued babbling on about Seungmin, which made Changbin start to tune his best friend out. As much as he loved Hyunjin, soulmates were a hard topic for him and he couldn’t help but feel jealous. Changbin stared out the window as the bus drove by the gray landscapes, Hyunjin still talking.
“So then Seungmin; Changbin are you even listening to me?” Hyunjin growled with a pout on his face.
Changbin quickly faced his best friend, “Huh? Yeah I’m totally listening,” he said. “Then what did I say idiot?” Hyunjin inquired, right as the bus pulled into the school.
“Oh would you look at that, we’re here! Sorry Jinnie, gotta go!” Changbin hurried off the bus, stuffing his headphones back into his ears and abandoning Hyunjin even though he knew the younger would be mad at him later for leaving him. Changbin just couldn’t stand to hear about how lucky Hyunjin is to have his soulmate and how much he loooves Seungmin. He shook the thoughts off, focusing on the music blasting in his ears and making his way through the crowd and to his class. Luckily, he made it right as the bell rang and made his way to his seat while putting his headphones in his bag. Changbin then subjecting his ears to the teacher droning on about linear and non-linear equations.
Finally, after what felt like hours, the bell that marked the end of first period rang, and the teen made his way to his locker to grab his English textbook and throw his notebook full of equations into the mess that is his locker.
He slammed the door whilst a boy standing behind the door who looked like a lost puppy staring at his schedule. Startled, Changbin asked the boy “Can I help you?”
“Um, what was that?” The small blonde boy asked in broken Korean, still looking down at his schedule. The deep voice that came from the soft looking boy startled Changbin even more than before, not expecting such a silky deep voice coming out of such a soft small boy.
“I asked if you needed any help?” Changbin questioned, tilting his head at the confused boy.
“Oh! Um, sorry! I don’t have the greatest Korean, I just moved here ” the blonde said sheepishly, still studying his schedule with great concentration and not looking Changbin in the eye. “I was wondering if you knew where room 864-” the small boy started finally looking up at Changbin.
“Holy shit” Changbin cursed staring at the new kid, the blonde boy just looking at the native with his mouth gaping in surprise, beautiful brown eyes wide. The two boys smiled at one another, happiness bubbling up within them.
Because now, the world was full of color.
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