Fame or Fortune - Choi Beomgyu

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April 2024

It's a little after midnight, Youngie's comfortably in bed when she hears her phone ring. It was shocking to get a call at this hour, but she was awake too.

On the other line a nervous Beomgyu curses himself for his bold decision. Amidst all the Galaxy content he'd been watching recently, Youngie had mentioned that she usually had trouble sleeping. Tonight he felt the same and thought, 'Why not?'.

"Hello?"

"Oh hey! Hi Youngie."

"Aw, hi Gyu, what are you doing up at this hour?"

"I... I'm not sure. Is it alright that I called you?"

"Yeah it's okay... You know I was thinking about you earlier." She admits, shocking him.

"You were?"

"Mhm," She hums. "I was thinking about our talk on how hard it is being the mood maker and having your teams energy rely on you. Me and Jia have been fighting for the past few weeks and I feel like it's ruining poor Mei's new idol experience."

"That's tough, but she has to know you can't be happy all the time. Hopefully someone can lift your mood so that you can go back to spreading joy."

Youngie smiled at his words. Beomgyu was truly so caring behind his crazy persona. This late night talk is just what she needed.

"Since you seem to know everything, what's the meaning of life?" Youngie jokes.

"I haven't figure that out yet." Beomgyu chuckles in response.

"I think I have an answer. I think the meaning of life, is to give life meaning. Like having something to look forward to everyday."

"Yeah? What's giving your life meaning right now?"

Youngie stays silent. The word 'you' immediately popping into her mind, but she knew she couldn't say that. 

"Maybe work? Even though it's stressful. It's weird because work causes stress and stress causes sickness, but if your sick you can't work, but you can't not work so you'll always be stressed, you know what I mean?"

"Maybe you just need to find something to destress."

"Like what?"

The boy stays quiet.

"What Gyu? Tell me!" She whines.

A blush creeps on his face from the thoughts that fill his mind before changing the subject.

"Oh I really don't know... Taehyun usually works out."

"Yeah he can have that. I'll stick to candle making."

"Right! I saw all the candles in your room backstage. You weren't there but I wanted to tell you it was really amazing! Like truly one of the most impressive things I've ever seen."

"Thank you Beomgyu." The girl rolls over to lay on her stomach, kicking her feet while holding back a giggle. "I can make you one if you want."

Beomgyu falls back in his bed, a genuine smile spread across his face.

"I'd love that."