powerpuff realness.

“mm, any rom com in particular or do i have free reign?” she laughed, using her hand to tilt rory’s chin up to look at her. “come on– i’m just teasing. honest.”

“you can have free reign, as long as it’s super cheesy,” rory said with a grin before looking at her, “fine, i trust you.”

Yuchen watched as Rory rummaged through her bag and waited for her to pull out whatever she was looking for. When he saw the small envelope, of course he was confused. As he was handed the envelope he inspected it for a few seconds before opening it to see what it held inside.

Inside was a piece of paper regarding DNA results. Yuchen’s confusion just continued to grow now as he didn’t recall taking a DNA test or anything of the sort. As he read down the page he saw a few lines saying something along the lines of ‘confirmed siblings’. Once skimming through the entire sheet, Yuchen had his suspicions of what this girl was implying but still wasn’t sure.  Was it saying he was siblings with this girl he just met?  “What exactly is this for?…”

rory hadn’t known what reaction to have had but it wasn’t that one. she’d had the letter for years, not knowing when she got it but always knowing her parents had another child. finding her brother was a big thing for her because she was letting her birth parents back into her life somehow. part of her had hoped yuchen would’ve reacted more dramatically, like the scenarios she had planned out in her head. she wasn’t looking for a big emotional reunion, but something more than suspicion.

“i’ve had it for ages,” rory said with a shrug, trying to match his mood and not wanting to seem eager. “i’ve known of the results - that you exist - for ages but i never wanted to look for you. someone told me you were here and, well, here i am.”

Yuchen had a confused look on his face as Rory stuck out her hand, but nonetheless he shook her hand anyways. He found it nothing more than coincidental that they had the last name, after all it wasn’t that uncommon for such a thing to occur.

Hearing that this stranger had some news for him just confused Yuchen even more. Tentatively, he decided to ask. “What is it?…”

After the handshake Rory quickly retracted her hand and smiled at Yuchen. With no plan on how to go about it - only herself finding out about their connection a few months back and burying it deep inside her ever since - Rory was winging it and that hadn’t been the best idea she ever had. 

“I don’t think there’s any other way to tell you but...” Slinging her bag off her shoulder, Rory rummaged through and produced a small envelope, examining it before handing it to Yuchen with a nervous smile on her face.

Unlike Rory, Yuchen was never informed by his parents that he had a sibling somewhere out there in the world. Hell at this point in his life his parents probably don’t even remember having an older child. 

Yuchen had just finished up with a lesson in Korean when he was approached by a girl who looked to be a few years older. He couldn’t tell for sure though as he was never good at guessing people’s ages. He was never good with strangers, always making a full of himself. But he managed to nod and not seem like a total moron. “Y-Yeah, why do you ask?”

Hearing the other confirm his identity only made Rory sigh in relief; she wasn’t too familiar with Radioactive artists and had to go off what a friend had said when she asked for Yuchen and she was thankful they didn’t steer her in the wrong direction.

With a smile, albeit a little awkward, Rory stuck out her hands almost instinctively. “Uh, Rory Zheng. I’ve got some news for you but I don’t quite know how to go about telling you...”

rory had known of yuchen’s existence since she was young; her adoptive mother told her and gave her the chance to make contact with him but rory always refused why would she willing write to the one her birth parents kept when she was just thrown aside and left?

since coming close to debuting and learning that he too was in seoul, she decided to make some sort of relationship, leading her to be at the radioactive building with the hopes of creating some relationship with him.

“uh,” she said, when she came face to face with ‘yuchen’ “are you zheng yuchen?”

“it probably won’t. don’t worry.”

“probably isn’t the most reassuring thing to say.”

“and you don’t?”

“that’s for the public to decide, isn’t it?”

“i’ve got netflix, so anything you want really,” madoka answered, slinging her arm around rory’s shoulders. “you’re tempting me to put on a horror flick on purpose now, you know.”

“romcom? i’m in one of those moods,” rory said, leaning into madoka’s hold, “that’d make you the worse and i’ll pout.”

“that will already have a legion of fans by the time they introduce you.”

“i guess. hopefully the legion likes me enough then.”

“you really want to have those people around anyway, though?”

“i mean they appear without being wanted.”

“breathe, rory. you’ll be a-ok.”

“yeah let’s hope so.”

“They will, they definitely will. We’ll gather fans along the way, so you’ll have the most fans out of all of us for your solo release. All you have to do is show up and be as pretty and talented as you always are and people will love you!”

“you’re too sweet. i’m glad you’re one of the first introductions of eternity the public has because you’re sweet. if it was madoka, it’d be a different story.”

“Okay, but if you genuinely have talent other than being pretty, which I would hope you do if you’re debuting, then that will show when you debut, and any talk like that will stop damn quick.”

“i’d like to think i have talent, seeing as i was close to debuting with juno but that won’t stop netizens.”

“there is no way they’re going to let you debut with a bad song. if they’re spending all their promoting all of you guys even before you debut, then they have money to give you an amazing song.”

“i mean, that’s a valid point but they might just get lazy by the end of it and throw me whatever’s left.”

“what reason do you have for getting any antis?”

“maybe they just won’t take to me like they do with the other girls.”

“you’re so sweet and likeable.”

“thanks - you too.”