𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 | 𝐋𝐓𝐌 ✔️

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Y/n's perspective

You sit in your car and messaged Aejung, also sent a picture of the thing Taemin wrote in the notebook.

┏━━━━━✦❘messages❘✦━━━━━━┓

You = He called me pretty flower

You = I think i gonna die-

Aejung = my daughter, calm down

Aejung = I wanna meet him now

You = okay and I'm going home, I need to work

┗━━━━━━━✦❘end❘✦━━━━━━━┛

But she texted you to go and check out the antique shop if Taemin is lying or not and sent me the address. You drove yourself to the antique shop, clueless. You had no idea what to do.

When you arrived you could see there was yellow police tape on the door and broken windows, but that wasn't going to stop you. Instead, you nervously pushed them aside and walked in, avoiding the glass and other sharp objects, also observing what remained of the shop. You wanted to get to the counter, see if you could find the wooden box Taemin mentioned, but you were interrupted.

"Can I help you?"

You turned to see an aged man with a broom in hand.

They didn't seem upset, just curious over your sudden presence. You apologized for trespassing and properly introduced yourself.

"What's a reporter's assistant doing here now?"

"Just looking around. I don't mean to sound rude, but why are you cleaning up this place?"

"I own it now."

"Oh, will you be reopening?"

"There's nothing of value left. Those men destroyed everything. All you see around you, going to the trash."

"I'm sorry."

"I wasn't interested in the antique business anyway, but the insurance money on this place can go into remodelling."

"What will this become?"

"I don't know."

"Oh, I wish you luck. Would you mind if I looked around a bit?"

"Be my guest, just don't hurt yourself, young lady."

"Thank you, mister."

You walked towards the counter. It was wrecked down terribly, beyond repair, but a triangle wooden box caught your attention.

You carefully picked it off the ground, the lid was gone, torn off its hooks and the box itself was empty.

Yet the inside was black foam with a perfect crater to hold a rather large diamond, certainly one that would barely fit in the palm of your hand. You took a pic of the wooden box and sent it to Aejung.

┏━━━━━━✦❘messages❘✦━━━━━━━┓

You = Aejungggg i think this is that diamond's box

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Aejung = okkk, can you ask that man regarding the box whom you were talking about earlier?

┗━━━━━━━━✦❘end❘✦━━━━━━━━┛

"Excuse me, do you know what was in here?."

"In what?." The shopkeeper came over. "What is that? pyramid shape?"

"I think it's a diamond shape. Did the previous owner sell diamonds?"

"No, they only had furniture and other trinkets, no jewellery stuff, not that I knew of. Besides, a diamond that big can't be real."

"Must have been for decoration."

You nodded and set down the box and texted her back, wondering about the diamond.

That became more obvious when you found the box lid and a broken lock next to it. The diamond was very precious to the last owner, and it had value to Taemin, but you had no idea why. At least you and Aejung knew the diamond was real, well, that the wooden box Taemin said held the diamond was, and that it did seem to hide a diamond. There wasn't much else you could get from the shop for Aejung, other than a little proof that Taemin didn't lie.

Since you had no idea what to do, You called out to the shopkeeper, thanking them for their time and letting you look around the shop. When you making your way out you saw a birdcage on the floor. It was smashed, the little door ripped off. Out of everything around, it was pretty clear someone really beat into the cage until it was nearly unrecognizable. It seemed like Taemin didn't lie about the bird either, and this was the reason he broke into the shop in the first place.

"Um, Was there a bird here?."

"What bird?"

"There's a birdcage here.."

"It was just one of those antique decoration things. I'm sure the toy bird is in pieces somewhere."

"Oh, okay. Thanks again."

You walked out of the shop, thinking where the bird might be. 'How in the world that hotstuff set that toy bird free?'. And right then you saw there was a little metal bird by the window, standing right next to the edge, looking out at the streets, free of its cage. The bird wasn't real, but it was real enough for Taemin. You picked up the little thing, glancing at its devastated cage in the shop. You chuckled.

'Taemin is so adorable.'

You decided to take da birb home as the present shop owner told you that everything is going straight to the garbage. You took the tiny metal bird in your hand, It was almost as cold as ice. You carefully walked over to your car, observing the bird in your hand. You put it in your bag before driving yourself home.

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To be continued

Edited uwu