The day when you meet your soul mate will loop constantly until you fulfill the exact conditions to meet them

"Wendy-unnie! Wendy-unnie! Over here! Wendy-unnie!"

Wendy heard her name being called again and again by a high-pitched voice. She turned her head around and looked for the owner of that voice with no result. Her bodyguards kept pushing her forward through the crowd and the voice drifted away slowly, Wendy didn't give up tough and turned her head one more time but it still had no result

She was on her way to a fan-meeting on a popular mall in Seoul but before she could even get to the stage, a huge crowd gathered around her. Since the crowd was made mostly out of teens, they hardly realized how dangerous everything was for everyone and they just kept squealing and complaining at the bodyguards for doing their job. The heat suddenly rose and the air felt heavier while Wendy struggled to get to the stage between so many people without having a panic attack

These were the times when she hated her star status so much that it was almost overwhelming. And one of them was when the security was so badly organized and her staff seemed to disappear out of nowhere, caring little to nothing about the safety of her fans…she loved being an actress and she loved appearing in all kinds of movies and dramas but not at the stake of young lives who only tried to get a little closer to their idol

She finally made it to the stage and breathed a sigh of relief while her staff shouted all kinds of instructions to the crowd piling at the front and sides of the stage.

"Wendy-unnie!" she heard a new shout "Over here!" A hand raised out of nowhere in the crowd, trying to get her attention but Wendy was still concerned about following her schedule without fail and completely ignored the pleas coming from the crowd. The noise around the stage was unbearable and frustrating so, no matter how much that person screamed her name, Wendy wouldn't budge

Soon things started to cool down. The crowd got down from their euphoria and followed the instructions carefully: Wendy would be signing photos, posters and whatever kind of memorabilia they owned. All they had to do was keep calm, queue with care and without pushing others and be respectful to the staff going back and forth between the stage and the crowd. Wendy grabbed the pen carefully placed on the table where she sat and looked up at the incredible queue going all the way from the stage to the front entrance of the mall…man, this would be one hell of a day

The event started and Wendy kept signing and signing until her hand hurt, and now (after all the mess at the start) this was the time when she loved being a star. The excited looks on her fan's faces, the high-pitched squeals or the shaky 'hi's' and 'noona you're so pretty', the little children looking up at her with their innocent eyes talking about how they dreamed of being like her one day in the future. Those moments made every hour of her time totally worth

Wendy spent two hours in the fan-meet, greeting all kinds of people. Her manager got close to her and whispered in her ear about the next event she had scheduled and that she should wrap things up in here so they could move. With a slight nod, she grabbed the mic used by the staff and spoke softly
"Everyone" the crowd quickly erupted into a loud 'Yes?' "Thank you for coming to this fan-meet. It was wonderful meeting all of you and I hope we can see each other really soon. Be careful on your way back home okay? See you"

Some fans waved goodbye while others complained and whined about how they couldn't get any autograph or even shake hands. Wendy looked one more time at the queue: it was as long as before and she felt really bad for leaving all of that people behind…this wasn't what she meant but she had to force herself to leave. Her schedule was waiting
"It can't be" Wendy heard a voice close to the stage and quickly turned her head to look at its owner. A medium-height girl (maybe around her twenties) dressed in a knee-length red sundress, held onto what looked like a present and her eyes filled with tears. Wendy felt a pang on her heart "Please Wendy-unnie, I waited so much for this"

Her manager came quickly and grabbed her forearm before pulling her out of the stage. Wendy was left looking at that girl one last time before her bodyguards kindly asked her to pay attention to the road she was walking since it was slippery and her heels could make her fall down. Wendy couldn't get rid of the crying girl image running around her mind over and over

She spent the rest of the day going around Seoul: interviews, photo shoots, more interviews, TV shows and a CF recording that lasted about five-hours thanks to the director being a complete and utter idiot with all his ‘you need to do this Wendy-ssi’ and ‘aren’t you a professional, Wendy-ssi? It doesn’t look like it”. So, at the end of the day, Wendy was completely spent as she fell on her bed, still fully clothed with her CF outfit and the heavy makeup she had to bear

In the morning, when she woke up, she realized that she was dressed in her favorite pajama set (a blue short with flower patterns and a plain white shirt). The clock next to her bed showed 6:30 A.M. and the calendar marked April 5, she immediately got out of bed and ran to the bathroom to take a shower. Wendy was sure that her manager would come soon to pick her up and start her schedule

In the middle of her hustle, she didn’t realize that she’d gone to sleep last night with makeup and the CF luxurious clothes not in pajamas.

Wendy brushed her teeth, ran a comb through her hair and dressed in comfortable clothes. She heard the ringing of her phone really soon, her manager was already waiting outside her apartment so they could start the day. Before leaving home, Wendy could see that the clock read 7:20 A.M.

"What will we do today, oppa?" the actress asked as she sat comfortably in the backseat of the car that the company provided.

"Well, first we'll go to a photo shoot for the new drama you're recording, that shouldn’t take more than half a day, after that you have a fan-meet in the mall at the center of the city"

Wendy raised an eyebrow

"Another fan meet? But I just made one"

"Huh?" now it was her manager who looked at her with a raised eyebrow "What are you talking about? The last time you did a fan-meet was six months ago"

The actress squinted, doubtful. Maybe she was too tired to remember many things but she would never forget such an important event like that, much less when it’d taken so much time of her day and it had been so messy for everyone

"Oppa, please" she complained again "I'm sure the last fan-meet I made was yesterday at the mall, try to remember. The queue was huge! It went from the stage to the entrance of the mall"

"Wendy... I think too much work is frying your brain"

"Oppa!"

"I'm not lying to you, woman! Yesterday was your day off, ok? You didn’t have a single fan-meet or anything"

Wendy tried to test the waters once more, only to confirm that her brain wasn’t really frying (or that she’d dreamed everything she experienced the day before). She leaned forward, resting between the driver's and passenger seat so she could take a better look at the sheet of paper with her printed schedule

"Do I have to shoot a CF in the afternoon?"

Her manager turned his head to look at her with surprise, apparently he was already beginning to suspect the same thing that Wendy or he was thinking how could he lock her up in an asylum without raising to much attention from the media

"Yes, a makeup commercial, at 7 o'clock. Wendy, what the hell is wrong with you? How are you guessing all this?"

"It's nothing, oppa, just a guess. I swear"

But Wendy was sure that she already lived this and it definitely wasn’t product of a deja vu.

She was about to scream when she reached the mall and a tide of people approached her trying to say hello. Her bodyguards immediately prevented everyone from getting close and she felt the air getting squished out of her lungs as she made her way to the previously set stage. Now she was completely sure that this was all a repetition of the previous day but how could that happen? No matter how much she tried to explain herself, those things just didn’t match

And maybe she was panicking for nothing, maybe she really had to do a fan-meet in the same place at the same hour with the same kind of reaction…maybe, just maybe

"Wendy-unnie! Wendy-unnie! Over here! Wendy-unnie!"

That high-pitched voice calling her again…where did it came from? Wendy turned her head to one side: some kids were trying to make their way to her but the bodyguards kept pushing back. She did the same motion now to the opposite way and saw someone raising a hand above everyone in the crowd

"Wendy-unnie! Over here!"

“Miss Son, please don’t stop. Keep walking forward or you could get hurt” one of her bodyguards said and she obeyed, too afraid of falling down and putting her life at risk

She reached the stage. The crowd piled up at the sides and the front. Her staff shouted instructions and her manager went back and forth over and over again

Wendy finally realized what was happening: it was a loop

That meant her soul mate was around the place, looking for her and trying to communicate in one way or another. But how could she find them? Where could it be? So many questions and so little answers…she couldn’t tell a single word of this to her manager or the event will be canceled and she could lose all chance to meet her soul mate

Wendy grabbed the pen carefully placed on the table where she sat and looked up, the queue had the same length as yesterday (or was it today? She couldn’t tell now). The actress now had a slight guest about her soul mate maybe she had to meet them at the end of the event and, due to her heavy-packed schedule, things just didn’t go their way.

Maybe if they speed up the event…

So Wendy tried to be brief with every fan, signing and giving them a small handshake before getting to the next one. Right at the middle of the event, she looked up again. The queue just got a little bit longer man, at this rate they wouldn’t end the event again she felt slightly helpless

After a long time, her manager climbed the stairs up to the stage and got closer to her ear whispering his orders

“You have to wrap this up, we have an interview waiting”

Wendy looked at him with wide eyes
“An interview? Really?”

“Come on Wendy. Just tell them you’re busy or something. We have to go”

Oh man…this wasn’t the way things were supposed to be

With a slight nod, she grabbed the mic used by the staff and spoke softly

"Everyone" the crowd quickly erupted into a loud 'Yes?' "Thank you for coming to this fan-meet. It was wonderful meeting all of you and I hope we can see each other really soon. Be careful on your way back home okay? See you"

She waved goodbye even after hearing the complaints from some fans and watching her body guards getting ready to keep her safe again. So the loop didn’t stop, that meant only two things: either her actions were wrong by speeding up the signing or her soul mate was waiting for her at the other side of the city in an interview, photo shoot or TV show

“No way” a voice sounded behind her back. Wendy turned around and the same girl of the knee-length sundress looked at her with teary eyes and a present held in her hands “This can’t be happening. I waited so much for this”

“I’m so sorry” Wendy answered “I have to go now”
Her manager yanked her from the forearm and brought her out of the stage with the bodyguards following close until she finally left the mall and got inside the van. Wendy felt terribly bad for the girl at the meeting and, just like the previous day, she couldn’t get her teary eyes out of her mind.

The actress had hope of ending the loop
Interviews, photo shoots, more interviews, TV shows and a CF recording that lasted about five-hours thanks to the director being a complete and utter idiot. One more time. Wendy went to sleep in full make up and CF luxurious clothes.

At morning, the first thing she looked at was the clock beside her bed. 6:30 A.M. She took another look at the calendar: April 5.

The loop continued

“Oh my god!” she screamed while pulling at her own hair but got out of bed anyways, rushing to brush her teeth and get ready for her manager calling so they could start the schedule…one more time

Went she went outside, the clock read 7:20 A.M. The loop began its new turn again

“Today we have a photo shoot for the new drama you're recording, that shouldn’t take more than half a day, after that you have a fan-meet in the mall at the center of the city”

Wendy didn’t even ask why this time. She just rolled with her manager instructions.

Everything repeated again

From the crowd going all mental on her bodyguards to the sigh of relief that left her lips as soon as she reached the stage. The signing went just fine one more time, the queue got longer and longer and her manager whispered to her ear about wrapping things up and going to an interview somewhere at the outskirts of the city

Wendy waved goodbye again. The fans complained again

And she saw the sundress girl one more time

But something seemed different

“Every time” the girl whispered, her eyes teary and her hands balling into fists as she held onto the present “No matter what I do, you go away every time”

The actress looked at her with half-lidded eyes before feeling the hand of her manager pulling at her forearm and making her walk out of the stage. And so her schedule went just like the other times with the huge exception that the CF lasted about six-hours this time, the director wasn’t the one to blame, this time it was her fault. She couldn’t stop thinking about the girl

The loop started again

“What the should I do?!” Wendy screamed as soon as she saw the clock beside her bed with the big, red ‘6:30 A.M.’ etched on it “Who the is my soul mate?!”

The fan-meet started again. The swarm of people took her breath away, literally and figuratively. Her body guards pushed and there was that high-pitched voice screaming her name over and over and over again. Even when she reached the stage, she didn’t felt relief. Her eyes scanned the whole mall anxiously, searching for any clue, looking for any person that was completely different from the others but she had no result and so the signing went on

“You have to wrap this up, we have an interview waiting” her manager whispered, she nodded and grabbed the mic to say goodbye without letting her mood get the best out of her smile and the love for her fans

The sundress girl appeared one more time

“Please, make it stop” she said this time with her eyes closed and her hands clasped together like she was praying at any god that existed. Wendy found her behavior rather unusual. Out of all the people on the loop, she was the only one who had a different set of actions every time “Don’t go away this time, please”

The hand of her manager yanked her away
And then she realized everything, she mentally face palmed herself

The sundress girl was her soul mate

Wendy broke away from her manager grasp and climbed the stairs up the stage again, ignoring the bodyguard’s pleas and the excited screams from the fans. The sundress girl was crying as she held onto the present, she turned around about to leave Wendy was quick enough to grab her shoulder and spun her around, looking directly at her eyes

“Is you isn’t it?” Wendy said in a barely audible whisper “What’s your name?”

The girl looked like a deer caught in the headlights but soon her surprised expression vanished and turned into the most beautiful eye-smile Wendy had ever seen in her whole twenty-four years of life.

“Seulgi”

Everything made sense now. The high-pitched voice chanting her name like a mantra, the hand rising above the crowd…all this time, her soul mate was right before her eyes and she couldn’t see a single thing. Wendy felt completely stupid and guilty. She couldn’t imagine how that girl felt on the last few days (or hours…ugh, she really couldn’t tell) and how horrible must’ve been waking up to the same sad scenario over and over again

Wendy quickly engulfed ‘Seulgi’ into a tight hug. The fans screamed and the actress heard a loud roaring of cameras flashing around the place. Seulgi wrapped her arms around her back and held tight, like she was afraid of losing her again

“Wendy!” her manager shouted “What the hell are you doing?! Come on!”

“Come with me” Wendy said to Seulgi and took her hand, dragging her out of the stage just like her manager did so many times ago

Interviews, photo shoots, more interviews, TV shows and a CF recording that lasted about five-hours thanks to the director being a complete and utter idiot…she did all of this again, this time with Seulgi watching everything like a kid on a candy store. The day went by, and soon they had to say their goodbyes. Wendy asked her manager to drop them both at ‘the sundress girl’ home and then she would take a cab to her own department

“So, Seulgi” Wendy said as she took the girl’s hands between her own, swinging them up and down “Did you had fun today?”

“Yeah!” she answered with excitement “You’re amazing Wendy-unnie”

“Drop the ‘unnie’ thingy. Even if you’re younger, I don’t want you using that honorific with me okay? I’m Wendy and that’s it”

“All right” Seulgi said, smiling at her one more time and making Wendy’s heart melt “Wendy, then”

“Good” the actress smirked sideways and sighed “I guess is time to go now. I’m sure your parents must be dead worried by now…you’re getting your grounded and it’s my entire fault”

Seulgi laughed out loud

“Don’t worry. It was worth every loop”

“Heh” Wendy chuckled and crossed her arms “You’re really something…well then! See you soon Seulgi! Have fun in your room for the next two weeks!”

Wendy turned around and was about to leave when Seulgi shouted her name. Wendy looked at her with a raised eyebrow, the girl then reached inside a small pocket of her dress pulling out a silver necklace with a flower pendant on it

“This is for you” she said with another of her eye-smiles

The actress reached for it and immediately put it on, looking at the present with a smile

“Look at this! This is great but you didn’t have to buy me something, you know? Now I feel even more damn stupid…I’ll get you something pretty next time okay? Expect it”

Seulgi nodded and waved at her. Wendy did the same and they parted ways

The next day Seulgi woke up at 10:00 A.M. with the calendar marking April 6. The loud ringing of her phone made an echo on her room, her parents scolded her last night and grounded her into her room but they didn’t took away her phone which was a huge relief. Groaning at the sound, she picked up and answered with a hoarse voice

“Hello?”

“Seulgi-ah!” someone shouted behind the speaker. Seulgi then recognized the voice as Yeri, one of her best friends “You have to turn on your TV! Quick, Channel 10!”

Seulgi did just what Yeri asked while she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and yawned. Channel 10 was transmitting their most famous morning show and, according to the announcers, they had one hell of a guest with them.

Seulgi felt a smile tug at the corner of her lips when she saw the so called guest

“The actress Son Wendy is with us today!” one of the announcers shouted. Wendy waved at the camera and then picked the necklace hanging around her neck

“I’m wearing your necklace, Seulgi! Is pretty right? Have a great day at your room!” the actress blew a kiss onto the screen

And Seulgi smiled widely

She was surely making the headlines of every gossip TV show

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A/N: So I'm really into Soulmates lately, I just really love writing Soulmates AU, they're ing great...still I have the worst writer block ever: I have three drafts halfway done but no inspiration to finish even ONE. I'm sure I can get a little motivation if I set myself a goal so…please vote in the poll down below and help this sorry excuse of a writer to keep going!