The year someone turns 18 they have the opportunity to be injected with a serum that will produce a soulmate mark somewhere on their body. This serum is costly and the procedure to get the injection is not covered by insurance.
A rare illness cropp...
I doubt it will happen this weekend but once I hate 10,000 votes I will be doing a extra chapter. I'm currently under 9.4k.
Edited 7/22/20 because I made a mistake. I'll point out where that mistake was after the chapter.
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I'm frowning at Tae. I'm not upset, but I am borderline annoyed, and I hate that it's being directed at him (unintentional or not). I really do. But I am not getting this at all. "Why does there have to be two sets of numbers? As if this language doesn't have me confused enough half the time."
He attempts to soothe me with a hand in my hair at the base of my skull. His skilled fingers massage at my scalp, which in turn does make me feel a bit better. It doesn't make me any less frustrated though. "The native numbers are used for numbering items and age. The Sino-Korean numbers are used for dates, money, addresses, phone numbers. There also isn't much counting beyond 100 in Native Korean. The numbers for one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred million, and one trillion exist though."
I frown up at him again. "Tae, I love you. But that isn't helping me." I frown. "Honestly, I think I am starting to get a headache." A headache that should either be soothed by his ministrations or at least be kept at bay by them.
He frowns at me which has my own frown growing wider in response. I hate to see him frown. I hate to see any of them frown but there is something exceptionally gut wrenching about seeing someone so full of joy, like Tae, frown like that.
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Luckily I don't have to see that frown for long. He takes it away with him when he promptly gets up and starts shuffling in my bathroom for something. I'm honestly not surprised that he is surely trying to find something to make me feel better. I imagine they have probably stored all kinds of necessities in the cabinets and drawers that I haven't thought to look for yet. He comes back with a couple of pills, luckily I already have a bottle of water sitting on the side table. "Okay, we will postpone counting in Korean for now."
