chapter one

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3 days. That's how long I had until this soulmate journey started. In 3 days I turn 21 and I'll receive my soul mark. I've been dreaming of this day since I was first able to understand what soulmates were. In just 3 days I was gonna find out what my soulmate was passionate about and hopefully that'll lead me to the right places to find him.

"OH MY FUCKING GOD" I hear my best friend scream, breaking me away from my thoughts. "No way no way no way" Malia repeats to herself. I hear her jump off her bed and come running to me in the kitchen.

"Fucking shit" I mumbled shaking my hand. The steam from the boiling water and noodles that I was stirring burning my hand as I come out of my daydream. "What!" I yell slightly annoyed that I not only hurt myself but that Malia is yelling so freaking loud.

"Taylorrrrrr!" She comes barreling into the kitchen almost crashing into me and making me drop the hot pot I was holding over the sink.

"Be careful! Why are you screaming? The entire Guam can hear you right now" I said moving her to the other side of our kitchen island. She is clumsy as fuck and would have definitely burned herself on the pot if she keeps up with this level of excitement.

"The entire Guam SHOULD hear this. You'll never guess what - Oh what're you making?" She said, getting immediately distracted by me moving around to continue my work in the kitchen.

"You're so annoying" I said while laughing at her. She started to pout, so I continued trying not to laugh harder "Chicken Alfredo, now what the hell were you screaming about?"

"Oh! Have you checked your phone?! BTS announced their tour dates! Tickets go on sale tomorrow" She started yelling again

"STOP! What time do they go live?" I said starting to scream with her

"3, are you off? Does it even matter? Take off, we have to get these tickets" She said while hitting me

"I'm off tomorrow, stop hitting me. The food is ready, let's eat and talk about it"

So that's how we ended up in my room till 1am, looking at tour dates and cities. Finally settling on going to Los Angeles because we had been wanting to go on a girls vacay for so long so this was basically killing two birds with one stone.

Malia and I had always talked about meeting BTS or at least seeing them in concert before we died. We had been so obsessed with them for about 4 years now. Her sister introduced Malia to them in 2018 when the Love Yourself album came out. The song that got her into BTS more was Fake Love and so naturally being best friends for our entire lives, she couldn't shut up about them and eventually I was hooked. Probably more than she is at this point. It was addicting. Watching them, listening to them talk and sing, seeing their success. I was so taken by them that in 4 years time I was able to learn how to understand and speak Korean. Writing it and reading it are still very difficult for me, but watching all their In The Soop and Run BTS videos definitely helped with understanding. I also took a lot of classes to help with my speaking and because I swore that if I ever got the chance to meet them, I would not want a language barrier between us.

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