our delicate string | 최범규

15: "i love you."

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"ARE YOU SURE you want to set up today?" Taehyun looked down at his phone. the time was 5:00 pm and the winter formal was in two hours.

"her birthday's tomorrow and i want to take her here in the morning." Beomgyu added lights onto the rim of the roof. he had envisioned the home being lit up all along the rim, shining brightly.

"i don't mind either way, my parents were fine with it when i asked them." Taehyun said, as he began to help tidy up the outside of the beach house. Beomgyu had asked Taehyun if he could use the beach house for tomorrow. its right by the sea, it was projected to snow tonight and tomorrow.

"let me see where the other three are with decorations." Beomgyu pulled his phone from his jean pocket as he rang their number. Yeonjun offered to drive to the store with the other two and pick up some last minute decorations. the set up should only take three or so hours, so they should arrive just on time to the winter formal.

Beomgyu had placed his suit inside of the beach house while he wore comfier clothes to decorate and set up.

"what's her favorite color?" Taehyun asked as he looked through a pile of pillows to use on the deck of the beach house.

"i don't think that really matters, we're only going to  be here for an hour."

Taehyun looked up from the pillow stack. "just answer the question."

"pink." Beomgyu rolled his eyes as he continued to place fairy lights above on the roof. though he only planned on staying there for an hour tomorrow, he wanted it to look beautiful. the interior didn't matter at all, just the deck and the seafront.

Beomgyu stood on the ladder, placing the fairy lights all along the roof, feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket.

"what's up?"

"we may have run into a ... dilemma."

"oh no." Beomgyu face palmed his forehead as Taehyun, who was sitting and untangling the lights looked at the boy in fear.

"okay so you see, don't get mad at us."

"uh oh." Beomgyu placed the phone on speaker as he climbed down the ladder and planted himself onto the chair across Taehyun. "are you guys okay?"

"oh, yeah we're good."

"then, what happened?"

"so...uhm.." Hueningkai nervously chuckled. "we were driving to the stores that were on your list for decorations and gifts. as we were driving we found a hot chocolate store selling hot cocoa for half off so we stopped there and there was a long line. good news is that it only lasted like thirty minutes and then we got back in the car with our hot chocolate."

"okay, what's the problem?"

"so after we got in the car, we were driving to the first store on your list and Yeonjun made a really sharp turn" "i didn't, Hyuka just cant hold cups correctly." Yeonjun interrupted. "yeah okay whatever." Beomgyu could feel Hueningkai's eye roll from the screen. "anyways, we kinda spilled all of our hot chocolate on our bags in the car with the suits in them."

"oh my God." Taehyun shook his head. "did mine survive?"

"yeah, only Yeonjun's had hot cocoa on it—" "YEAH ALL OVER IT." Yeonjun yelled over Hueningkai. "so we pulled over and Yeonjun was really upset trying to think of a way to save the $200 suit. so we drove back to the suit shop which was like 30 minutes out of the way. Yeonjun was kind of arguing with the worker and trying to find a replacement or get a refund. he got a replacement but with an expensive fee and the argument kinda lasted an hour."