au where you find out who your soulmate is when you turn twenty, and taehyung and yoongi grew up together and taehyung was SURE yoongi was his soulmate but during the older’s bday, yoongi pulls tae aside and says his soulmate is someone named jung hoseok

and taehyung is devastated but he hides it and is supportive when yoongi stresses about how he is supposed to meet this ‘hoseok’ down the line? and what if he isn’t good enough? and taehyung just puts his emotions aside and offers to help yoongi be prepared and calm down.

and yoongi gets a number through the folder he’s issued with his soulmate’s information when hoseok turns 20, and yoongi asks taehyung if he should text or not, panicked, and tae says there’s nothing to be nervous about. says anyone would be lucky to have him as his soulmate..

and yoongi just tugs taehyung’s ear gently in an affectionate habit he’s done over the years and taehyung’s heart blisters and breaks even more when he witnesses how giddy yoongi becomes when jung hoseok finally responds

and taehyung spends the next few months wallowing, noticing yoongi has drifted apart now that he’s in the initial highs of soulmate introductions. itd been bad when yoongi was given a name but now they’ve actually met and yoongi doesn’t need taehyung anymore

and somehow that hurts worse than when he found out he wasn’t yoongi’s soulmate. he and yoongi remain friends but it’s different now. taehyung is too in love, too invested in years and years of loving his hyung. even hobi, who taehyung has grown to love and admire as well, knows.

hoseok gives him pitying looks sometimes, tries to assure how much yoongi adores him, but it’s too painful taehyung thinks. and it comes to a head one night when taehyung gets his folder in the mail. his soulmate.

park jimin.

taehyung gets drunk and calls yoongi. he confesses.

it’s after the messages he wakes up to, simple and heartbreaking all the same,

‘tae

idk what to say...

pls answer your phone?’
Sent at 00:44

it’s that morning that taehyung leaves. he just packs his things, books a flight, and goes to paris. doesn’t tell a single soul..