
1 HOUR LATER
(RIGHT AFTER THE EVENTS OF TTT: SOULMATE - EPISODE 4)
Kim Star arrives at her house after going to the filming of the upcoming season of Soulmate where she took part of.
After she parked the car to the garage, she went to the front door and knocked, waiting for someone to open it for her.
Seconds later, her sister Jisoo volunteered to open it from the inside. She greeted her older sister, who was now standing in front of her, with a colorless and blank expression on her face.
Jisoo: "Dahyun- unnie!!! What's the news? Did you... have...one...", she began to slow down her next words as she noticed that Kim Star, or should I say... Dahyun in her true name; began to lower her head in tandem with Jisoo's pronounciation speed.
She put it into a glass and handed it to her sister, who appears to be drowning her serious thoughts. Jisoo cleared her throat to reawaken her sister to reality.
She followed her sister down the home via the living room area, plumping herself lazily on the couch after gently setting her guitar to the side. Jisoo opened the refrigerator and took a pitchel of water.
She poured it down to a glass and offered it to her sister who looks like drowning herself deep thoughts. Jisoo cleared her throat to wake her sister back up to the reality.
Jisoo: "Would you like to share it still, unnie? I'm listening." Jisoo questioned Dahyun gently.
Dahyun: "I was the only the only one who never got an actual soulmate.", her older sister promptly said. The manner in which she uttered it revealed no emotion.
She took the glass and mouthed a thank you to Jisoo before drinking it, calming herself down with the coldness of the water.
Jisoo: "Really? They're too harsh. I'm so sorry, unnie.", Jisoo shared her sympathy for her devastated sister.
Dahyun: "It's fine, Jisoo. I get it. They're all young people anyways, so it was just appropriate for them not to get interested in me who's old enough to join them," Dahyun explained, explaining why she shouldn't want to make her younger sister worry about her any more, but Jisoo isn't buying it.
Jisoo: "Unnie, don't say it like that. Just because you're much older doesn't mean you don't have the rights to get along with young people like them," Jisoo retorted to Dahyun's justification. "You're just curious."
Dahyun: "Yeah, I said it earlier in the interview that I just wanted to know what do they do for fun these days.", she sighed. "So that I could prepare for that someone who'll chose me and use it as an impression. But... I guess I never got one for me.", she got flinched when she felt that one teardrop started to flow down in her cheek.
Jisoo noticed and sat next to Dahyun, pulling her into a close side hug. As a form of comfort, she rested her sisters' heads on her arms and pushed her lower chin to her forehead.
Jisoo: "It's okay, unnie. I don't know what happened, but hearing what you meant, that must've truly hurt on your part," Jisoo murmured, rocking Dahyun's body. "Especially because you're the only one who hasn't had the same ending as them," she continued.
Dahyun: "It does made me realized how unworthy I am to be loved.", she said her thoughts while wiping off the tears staining her face.
Jisoo: "You're not, okay! And we'll show you that you're wrong! You just inserted yourself into a wrong situation not really meant for you, that's why the result didn't go through well.", Jisoo said, spreading positivity to fight back and to vanish away the negatives around Dahyun's head.
"Don't worry, unnie. We'll find another way, okay?" she says as she looks her sister in the eyes. Dahyun saw the motivation and encouragement beaming through the depths of her younger sister's gaze, and all she could do to demonstrate that she saw and felt what Jisoo was attempting to do with her was to react with a nod.
Someone just entered their residence and shut the door, interrupting the two sisters' time. After taking off his shoes and placing his bag on the rack, his brother Taehyung, who had just returned home from work, noticed the drama taking place between her siblings right now.
Taehyung: "Heyyy, good even- Dahyun-noona?! Omo, what happened? Did she got..." Taehyung walked to their front and kneeled to Dahyun, swaying the disordered strands of hair that had been hiding off her eyes and face.
Jisoo: "Sadly, she didn't Tae," Jisoo remarked quietly, showing how much it hurt her to see her sister acting like this again. A woman who can't stop chasing something in this world in order to finally acquire love attention from anyone she's typing with.
Taehyung: "Oh shoot. I'm sorry, noona." Taehyung reacts surprisingly and apologizes in pity for her sister. "At least you tried," he remarked, a bittersweet smile on his face.
Dahyun: "You're right.", when Taehyung held her older sister's hand and comfortably massaged her palm with his thumb, Dahyun nodded and smiled faintly like his too.
Jisoo: "And that's why we'll keep trying till we succeed, you know! Don't give up, unnie!" Jisoo exclaimed, trying to make it contagious for Dahyun to take it as well.
Taehyung: "Jisoo is right, noona! You'll find the destined someone for you to be with one day!", Taehyung joins Jisoo's encouragement plan, smiling happily for Dahyun despite everything she had gone through, she still resolves to keep going and regaining hopes every time.
Dahyun: "I truly hope so.... but how? I don't have anything in mind honestly, I don't want to embarrass myself again by joining reali-," Dahyun was about to conclude when Jisoo cut her off and corrected her.
Jisoo: "No, we don't gonna do that anymore if you aren't comfortable doing it noona don't worry.", Jisoo said as she waved it off away by her hands.
Dahyun:"Okay... then what should we-" she was interrupted once more, but this time by her brother.
Taehyung: "I HAVE AN IDEA!", Taehyung exclaimed, raising up his index finger to the air as a gesture that his brilliant mind shined bright to come up with an idea.
Jisoo: "Oh okay, what is it oppa?", Jisoo questioned him.
Taehyung: "We should try setting you up to a blind date, noona!", he said, snapping his fingers loudly. Jisoo had her eyebrows raised in amaze while Dahyun's just furrowed in confusion.
Dahyun: "Blind date- wait what is that? A date with who?", she looked at Jisoo and Taehyung back and forth.
Jisoo: "Exactly. That's the point, unnie.", her grin started to grew wider.
Dahyun: "Huh?"
Jisoo: "You won't know who this is, unnie." Jisoo sought to explain the definition and purpose of the "blind date" to her in a straightforward way. "You have to get to know that unknown person instead once you meet, to test if you two can link together, thus a blind date," she remarked, spreading her arms in triumph that she had succeeded to enlighten her sister about the subject Taehyung had inserted.
Dahyun: "Ahh okay. Isn't that a little creepy?" remarked Dahyun, anxiously stroking her nape. "I mean... what if that person could do-"
Taehyung: "No worries, unnie," Taehyung said, patting the top of Dahyun's hand to relieve her tension. "I know what I'm going to pick; all you have to do is believe me," he said with a smile.
Jisoo: "Wait, you already someone in mind?", she asked Taehyung.
Taehyung: "Yup, all I have to do is to contact him and get his confirmation if he'll participate with this.", he said as he made a gesture of taking a "phone call" while having the image of the man he already planning to choose for her older sister.
Dahyun: "He? Oh, so I'm going to date a man this time?" Dahyun asked, surprised. Being on a date with a man isn't really a big deal to her... since she is bisexual, but she was just getting used to it because it was her first time doing something like this. She reasoned that at her age, this was no longer appropriate for her.
Taehyung: "Yup.", he nodded.
"But first, let us know yours unnie. Are you in with this?", he asked Dahyun, aiming for the jackpot answer he wants to hear.
Dahyun stared at her siblings again, then remembered every single failed attempt at impressing and getting other people fall in love with her.
She was nearly at this close of giving up, but thanks to the never say die spirit of her siblings that they possess, she had no other choice but to be like them too.
When they do that, it's as if all they want for her is to be ultimately happy, to be in love with someone else who she can stay by and live with till the end.
She knows that her siblings also has their own personal life now with their own family, and all they're just trying to do is for her to be same as them. It was heart fluttering for her to feel that she really was not alone at this fight and her siblings will never gonna let her be like that forever. They don't want Dahyun to be left behind out of them three.
Dahyun: "You two are the only loved ones I have in my life, and we all sticked together for how many years already. Yes, Taehyung. I trust you two for this one. I guess... I should take another try while it's not too late.", she chuckled as she finally shared her decision after a few minutes of making up her mind.
Jisoo: "Yes! I can't wait for this, it's your chance again, unnie!" said Jisoo, pleased that her sister had made the right decision.
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