Heaven ➳ Taegyu ✔

32. Necklace

Date: March 13th

Time: Midnight

"Happy birthday!" Corie excitedly yelled after walking into Beomgyu's hotel room. "Are you excited for lasertag? All my friends are gonna be with us too."

"Yeah, um... they aren't actual lasers, right?"

Corie's jaw was hanging open and she started laughing. "No they aren't actual lasers! You'll see. It's really fun."

He said goodbye to his parents before leaving with her and getting in her car. "Can I play music?"

"Of course. It's your birthday after all." He smiled and took the aux cord to start playing music and she looked at him for a moment. "K-Pop?"

What? He looked at her and slowly nodded. "Yeah... K-Pop. What's wrong?"

She laughed a little bit. "Nothing. I just can't understand it."

Well this is awkward.

He had a look of disbelief and scratched his head. "Uh... you know I'm Korean, right?"

Her eyes widened and she looked over at him for a second. "Wait, seriously?"

"Yeah... I live in South Korea..."

"You never told me that."

"Where did you think I was from?" He laughed and she shrugged while also chuckling.

"I don't know. America?"

"Why would my English be so slow if I lived in America?"

"I don't know!" She laughed and he was confused, but just decided to drop it and listen to the EXO thot songs that were playing.

***

"I don't know where I'm going!" Beomgyu yelled, hiding behind a black foam wall. "It's so loud in here!"

Corie started laughing while running over to him and shot someone on the red team. "That's because everyone's yelling. Including you. You'll get us caught if you yell."

"Like the LED lights on our vests aren't gonna get us caught?!" He yelled right before someone shot him.

"Told ya you would get caught if you yell."

Beomgyu sighed and walked over to an employee for them to turn his vest back on.

The rest of the game pretty much went like that. Beomgyu was either cowering the entire time or yelling until someone shot him and he had to go to the employee again and again.

Afterwards was fun though. They had pizza and talked about a lot of stuff. While Corie and her friends were talking about something with relationships, Beomgyu smiled and reached up to grab the pendant on his necklace.

Wait.

He pulled his collar forward and saw it wasn't under his shirt. It wasn't in his pockets either and they all looked at him in concern because he was visibly panicking.

"Beomgyu, what's the matter?" Corie asked.

"M-my necklace! I lost it!" He became hysterical after looking on the ground and Corie left to go ask if they could check in the lasertag room. They did. For twenty minutes. And they didn't find anything.

"Maybe it's in my car-"

"It's not! I brought it inside."

He was panicking to an overwhelming extent now and Corie hugged him. "Why don't you call him and tell him, okay?"

"He doesn't make a lot of money and I think it was expensive and-"

"Beomgyu, he won't be mad at you. If anything he'll try to cheer you up."

Trying to calm his breathing, Beomgyu nodded and went to the bathroom to call him.

"Hey babe. What's up? Are you having fun?"

Taehyun had already texted him a long birthday speech earlier before Corie got to his hotel room so they got that out of the way. "Taehyun," he whimpered, starting to sob again just from the guilt of saying his name.

"Oh my God! What happened? Are you okay?!" Taehyun was panicking now too and Beomgyu quickly shook his head even though he couldn't see it.

"I-I lost it." His words were nearly not understandable because of the sobbing, but Taehyun understood it.

"What did you lose?"

"The necklace! I don't know how! It was on my neck before lasertag and now I can't find it!"

He was really naive enough to think Taehyun was gonna be angry or disappointed.

"Beomgyu. Beomgyu, first things first, I need you to calm down, okay?" Beomgyu nodded and tried his best to calm down while Taehyun continued talking. "It's okay. If you can't find it, it's okay."

"No it's not! It was expensive!"

"That doesn't matter. What matters is what it stands for, okay? That we're together. That's all that matters."

"But it was pretty..."

"I'll buy you plenty of pretty things my love." Beomgyu smiled and wiped his tears away. "You don't have to worry about money or anything. Like I said when I first got you the necklace, if I bought it, that means I can afford to buy it. You don't have to worry about my money when I buy you something."

Beomgyu was okay for the rest of the time. And when he went to sleep and woke up, he just texted Taehyun until it was the younger's turn to sleep.