yugyeom walked into the pizzeria, cheesing brightly at the sight of the prize counter and the confetti tiled floor. it all excited him but there was something more he wanted. he then ran towards the party room, feeling like he was on top of the world. he was hoping it was there, he knew it had to be there. and to his luck, it was. he stopped in amazement as he saw his favorite animatronic band, singing and whirring as they were praised by every kid in the room. the room smelled of pizza and birthday candle and every kid jumped and danced to the music. even yugyeom himself was so invested in the environment of the room and the animatronics that he didn't even realize there were kids trying to talk to him.
"hello! hello! you there?" a small boy asked, waving his hands in yugyeom's face
yugyeom immediately snapped out of his trance and stared at the boy. the boy was close in height with yugyeom, with a bandaid on his face and a toothy smile, he wore a peach tone sweater with some nice jeans and a blue party hat.
"are you here for my birthday party? i'm turning 9 today!" he asked, beaming
yugyeom gasped. "you're having a party today?!"
"yes! my mom invited lots of friends from school. what's your name?"
"my name is yugyeom"
"thats such a cool name! my name is bambam but everyone calls me bammie!" he said, sticking his tiny hand out
"my dad calls me gyeomie!"
bammie laughed. "do you wanna meet my other friends?"
yugyeom jumped with excitement. "yes!"
bammie grabbed yugyeom by the hand as he dragged him towards his friend circle.
as yugyeom was being dragged he turned around. he felt like something was wrong. like someone was staring at them. as soon as he looked back he saw a tall young man staring at him in the corner. he looked like staff but something about him made yugyeom's expression change real quick. he tried to brush it off as he was greeted by bammie's friends.
"i don't have many friends but these are the ones that i do have" bammie said, looking down at the ground
sana jumped out, wearing a pretty pink dress with a coat covering her shoulders.
"hi im sana! i'm 8" she waved at him
"i'm mark and i'm 11!" he said waving with a face full of star stickers and frosting on his black shirt
yugyeom then noticed there was two boys standing right infront of the animatronic show
"that's youngjae and jackson" mark replied, knowing exactly what you're thinking. "the yellow beanie is jackson, he's 10 and the blue hair is youngjae he's 8. they're brothers and youngjae can't be anywhere without him, it makes him anxious" mark continued sucking on a lollipop. yugyeom looked back towards them again as he noticed youngjae had both arms wrapped around jackson's one arm, slightly tucking his head into jackson.
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"a-alright, thank you so much, thank you"
and like that, the convo was done.
"also gyeomie where do you wanna ea-"
"gyeomie?"
jinyoung turned around him and looked behind him.
yugyeom was gone. fear and panic rushed through every part of jinyoung's body. because he was so careless, he lost his child. he than ran to any nearby stores hoping he'd find his little one but he was unsuccessful. tired, he then scanned his surroundings, and then it hit him. "of course." he mumbled. "why wouldn't i have thought to look there."
