Alluvion's Water Lily

Chapter 8 - Glass Shoes by Fromis_9

A/N: See after this chapter for author's note. (I was being lazy and just copy and pasted the one from Legion of Dionysus. So, if you already read that one there is no need to read this one as well.)

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Posted 7/17/22

October 23rd

It's been five days since I received my marks. Five days since I learned the possibility that I might have five Internationally famous soulmates. And, unfortunately, five days without any kind of news about Alluvion potentially having received their own soulmate marks. If my soulmates were the members of Alluvion I thought that I would have heard something due to how fast celebrity news travels via social media, but I've heard nothing. True I don't peruse social media much myself, nor do I worry or pay attention to celebrity gossip but I have two friends that do. Perhaps it was my own fault to have silently agreed to rely on them to be my resource to inform me of the potential news. However, they have shared nothing in the past five days which I can only assume is because there was nothing newsworthy yet for them to share. I guess I should have searched through social media myself at this point, but since I am essentially social media illiterate I wouldn't even know where to begin. I'd probably stumble across some fanfiction filled with falsities, and unintentionally assume they were facts.

On the flipside there were also several potential reasons why there might not have been any news reported. The first being that their record company, Essentials Music, was trying to keep the information exceptionally hush hush and whichever member had received the mark on his neck had been wearing extremely high collars like I have been for the past few days in effort to do so. The second possibility is that they simply hadn't channeled somnium venereum since the moment my own serum injection had been activated. Jiseong would have received his own injection most recently and he became of age about two years ago. (I did my research and learned the legal age for the injection was twenty in South Korean.) Due to the wait they might not have even considered trying to channel somnium venereum recently. At least I knew that if my soulmates were Alluvion that they all had received the injection. After all, I wouldn't have the same number of marks as members had that not been the case. The third possibility, the one I dreaded the most was the possibility that Raina, Carson, and I were completely and utterly wrong and the members of Alluvion weren't actually my soulmates after all. I should have never taken it to heart to start believing it was a possibility. I was already feeling crestfallen and that was only due to the lack of news. I couldn't imagine how I would feel if I received irrefutable facts that would prove they weren't my soulmates at all.

I frown as I continue wiping down the tables until I can clearly see my own reflection shining back from the glossy, finished surface. Honestly right now I was beyond thankful to have two jobs that kept me busy enough I could keep my mind occupied. I just didn't have that much time to myself to dwell on the lack of news while I served customers. I probably was doting on my customers far more than normal to be honest. I was going above and beyond customer service by making sure everything was practically perfect and if they had any complaints that I took care of them right away. The problem was that aside from helping customers there were also those few down time moments where customers would come in at a snail's pace, and the only thing I had left to do was make sure everything was sterilized, clean, and tidy. That kind of work didn't occupy my mind like waiting on customers did. It instead gave me time to drown in my growing depressing thoughts and concerns in response to the lack of news.