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Beomgyu never had a lot of money.
Not while growing up, not now.
So when his old friend from high school offered him a job in Seoul he was pretty much over the moon.
Beomgyu always only had part time like jobs, like working at a waterpark during summer, selling ice cream and more simple stuff like this that didn't really give him enough money to live on his own.
He doesn't even know why no one hired him, maybe it was his long hair? He's not really sure, but that didn't matter now since he was about to have a job in freaking Seoul.
And if that wasn't good enough already, his boyfriend also lived in Seoul, so now he could see him more often.
Beomgyu was currently on a bus on his way to Seoul, he has been in here for 2 hours already.
But he didn't mind, he had his wired headphones plugged in, listened to music and occasionally texted his mum how far away from Seoul he still was.
Once he finally arrived, he stepped outside and went to the side of the bus with the rest of the people who were there with him to go get his suitcase that had pretty much all his stuff.
Once he grabbed his suitcase, he walked around for a bit and after a while, called his boyfriend to finally tell him that he arrived safely.
"Hey Beomgyu! Did you arrive already?"
"Yes I did! I am so excited to finally see you Taehyun, after god knows how long." Beomgyu cheered.
"Me too, did you finally find a place where you can stay or are you still trying to find something?"
"No not yet, I just arrived after all." Beomgyu pouted.
"Well, good luck. I have to go now, before my boss will see me on my phone, love you."
"Alright love you too!" Beomgyu giggled before hanging up.
Once he hung up, he opened his notes app with a list of all the places that he could try to rent out.
He had them ranked from most modern to least modern, now he only had to hope that they wouldn't be too expensive.
He took a new bus so he could arrive at the first complex as soon as possible, it wasn't that far away, but he really didn't want to walk all the way with his suitcase.
Once he arrived he got greeted by the salesman who was sitting at the front desk.
He walked Beomgyu to the small, 2 room "apartment" if you can even call it that.
"This looks really nice." Beomgyu said.
"It really is! Its not the best one that we have in here but I'd still say that it's really nice and modern."
Beomgyu nodded "So, how expensive is it?"
"500 000 Won."
Beomgyu almost choked on absolutely nothing.
Who did he think that Beomgyu was? Elon musk? No way that he could afford that right now.
"Oh, I see."
"I could give it to you for 480 000 Won instead if you will pay right away."
Beomgyu almost laughed at him.
"Well, how do I say this.."
The salesman waited for Beomgyu to continue, his fake smirk still visible.
"I don't really have that money on me right now, so I think that i might have to pass this."
The smirk on the salesmans face dropped immediately.
"I am sorry for wasting your time." Beomgyu apologiesd knowing that he wasn't sorry.
Seriously, 500 thousand Won for this? Absolutely not.
"No problem, you can leave now." The salesman said, not even trying to hide his clear anger anymore.
Beomgyu tried 4 more times after that.
Sure the prices kept dropping, but so did the quality of not only the rooms, but the complexes overall.
Not only was Beomgyu tired, but he was also dying out of heat, since it was really fucking hot that day.
And on top of that he was hungry.
While he was on his way to a different near bus stop, he walked past a small restaurant.
"Kimbap - 7 000 Won."
He was actually craving kimbap, now that he's thinking about it.
So he did the only logical thing.
He walked inside, immediately being hit by some cold air, due to a fan being pointed right at the front door.
He ordered kimbap and while he was waiting he looked at the list again.
2 places left.
Great.
He decided to look both of the places up on a map.
And then he saw it.
190 000 Won.
Was he hallucinating from the amount of times that he had to reject the offers even when they were giving him a discount?
He wasn't sure, but it seemed too good to be true
He immediately called the place and a voice of a lady who was most likely in either her late 40s or early 50s answered.
"Hello, I heard that yall are renting a room for 190 000 Won?"
"Oh yes, thats true! Are you interested?" She replied, her voice being full of joy.
"Yeah definitely, I'll come over soon."
"Alright then! See you soon."
"Thank you again." He hung up.
Beomgyu still couldn't belive the price, there must be a catch.
Only if Beomgyu knew that the said catch would change his life forever.
Beomgyu finished his kimbap pretty quickly, since he promised the lady that he would come over soon.
The place was 32 minutes away from where he currently was and there weren't any buses coming for the next hour.
"No, I have to walk over, after all I barely even walked today, it can't be that bad."
Well, it wasn't "that bad" for the most part, but it got really bad once he was almost there.
He really wasn't excepting to be met with a hill full of stairs.
He was already sweating so much, since he was in an all black outfit and this really wouldn't help him.
"Fuck it." He said as he picked up his suitcase and started walking up.
After probably 10 minutes, he finally arrived.
But he immediately started rethinking his decision when he saw how the building looked like from outside.
It actually didn't look that bad, but it did look really sketchy and it made him feel uneasy.
"No way, I can do better than this" he whispered to himself.
He turned around and started walking back down, dragging his suitcase with him.
Not only 5 steps in and one of the small wheels that were on his suitcase fell of due to the ground being really bumpy.
And that was probably a sign from the universe telling him that this was his faith.
The universe most likely doesn't like Beomgyu.
Beomgyu sighed and turned around to walk towards the building.
Once he stepped in he was met with even more stairs.
What was it with them and their obsession with stairs?
Thankfully they were very short, otherwise Beomgyu would probably throw a tantrum
Before he entered the floor that he was supposed to stay in, he saw even more stairs.
There was a big sign that said "women's only floor" with an arrow pointing up.
This place had a lot of rooms even though it seemed very small.
He finally opened the door.
He saw a lady sitting at a fromt desk, a thick piece of glass separating them.
There was a small window that the woman could open.. which she did.
"Are you the guy who called?" The same female voice from before being heard.
"Yeah I did. This place must have a lot of rooms if it's separated by gender."
"Oh no, no one uses the upper floor."
"Why?"
"Its under reconstruction."
"Oh, I see." Beomgyu nodded.
"Wow you're a really handsome and very tall and your voice is really attractive too, you must be attracting a lot of women."
"Uhm yeah haha.." Beomgyu laughed akwardly.
"Anyways lets talk about what's actually important right now."
The lady grabbed keys from her drawer and finally stepped out of the room.
"Let's go." The lady started walking into the hallway, Beomgyu following after her.
She opened the door of the room,
It was really small, like really small.
It was a single room, there was a bed, a desk and a chair, nothing special, but it made sense.
Still, Beomgyu couldn't quite figure out why was it so cheap.
"Are you wondering why is this room so cheap?"
It was like she read his mind.
"Actually yeah." If he wouldn't be extremely curious he would most likely reply with a simple no, but he really wanted to know.
The lady sighed and turned around, facing Beomgyu who was towering over her.
"Look I have to be honest with you, the last guy who lived in here died due to suicide.
Beomgyu's eyes widened. Did he die in this room or what? If that would be the case then he's gonna run away and return to the salesman who was trying to sell him a 2 room apartment for 500 000 Won.
"Oh dont worry he didn't do it in here, but if you want to refuse this offer now, then i can't really blame you.
Something in Beomgyu's brain switched and he immediately started reassuring her.
"Oh no no it's fine, really don't worry about it."
"Okay then!" She clapped her hands together.
"Let's go get this settled." She walked out of the room, Beomgyu once again following after her.
Only this time he bumped into a guy who was very obviously more buff than him and clearly had more experience in life than Beomgyu.
"Oh I'm sorry." Beomgyu quickly apologised.
"Hey look where you're going this place is already small enough!" The guy hissed at Beomgyu.
"Don't be so mean towards him, he hasn't even been in here for a full day." The lady stepped in.
"Whatever." The buff guy said before walking away, probably into his room.
"I am sorry about that." The lady apologiesed to Beomgyu.
"It's his last week in here anyway so you don't have to worry about him, but you're probably not planning on staying here for long either, right?"
This sounded more like her already answering to her own question rather than asking him, but whatever.
"Oh yeah don't worry."
If you don't count 6 months as a long period of time.
They walked back to the front desk and the lady started going trough her drawer.
"Hm where did I leave it.. ah here it is!" She picked up a key and handed it to Beomgyu.
"This is the only spare key that i have, so don't loose it."
Before Beomgyu could even reply, she started talking again.
"Oh yeah and also, you will have a shared bathroom with the rest of the guys who live in here, so I hope that you don't mind."
"It's fine I don't."
That's a lie, he likes to have his privacy, but he can survive this.
"You can also take anything from the kitchen, if you like eggs then you're in luck, since I bring fresh eggs almost every single day."
"Yeah thank you." Beomgyu slightly smiled to not seem of as rude.
"Make yourself at home!" She yelled out even though he was already in the hallway.
He walked up to the door and tried to put the key that the lady gave him into the lock.
But for some reason it wasn't working?
Suddenly he saw a guy standing in the hallway.
He had a stripped t-shirt, his head was shaved and he was staring at Beomgyu while laughing.
"Uh hello.." Beomgyu greeted the guy.
"T-t-that's not the r-r-right d-d-door." The guy said, still laughing.
Beomgyu looked up and saw that the door had the number "302" on it.
"Oh right, thank you." Before he could thank the guy properly he was already walking away.
Weird.
He finally opened the front door, only now realising that the room was way more dirty than he thought.
He put his suitcase under the desk and his backpack on the desk.
He sat on the bed, immediately being met with a loud creak.
He sighed. The next upcoming 6 months will be very long.
His phone suddenly started vibrating.
Beomgyu's mom was calling him, he picked up and greeted her.
"Beomgyu did you arrive already? Where are you now!" His mom started talking right after he picked up.
"Oh yeah I arrived, I also found a place where I can stay."
"I am glad, we all miss you!"
Beomgyu wasn't even able to reply since someone started banging on his door.
"Wait mom I have to go now sorry." He hung up.
He opened the door and saw that the same buff guy from before was standing there.
"How can I help you?" Beomgyu asked.
"You make calls outside of the residence! Do you even realise how loud it is for others."
"Are the walls not sound proof? I am sorry about that it won't happen again."
"Yeah it better not happen again." The buff guy finished saying, turning around and walking away.
Beomgyu closed the door and sighed.
He must really stay in here as little as possible.
He grabbed his suitcase and pulled out a band t-shirt.
When he finished changing, Beomgyu decided to go to the rooftop to update Taehyun about his situation.
* * *
Once he was standing near the railing Beomgyu could probably see the whole Seoul.
The view wasn't worth the 10 minutes long walk up the stairs though.
He pulled his phone out of his jean pocket and dialled Taehyun who answered after a minute.
"Hey Taehyun!" Beomgyu smiled to himself.
"Hi Beomgyu, sorry I can't talk for long I'm still at work." Taehyun whispered.
"It's fine don't worry about it, anyway do you want to hang out today? I am so bored and I can't do anything in here."
"About that.. I only found out like a couple hours back that my boss is having a work dinner of some sort and I really have to show up."
"Oh I see.." You could hear the clear disappointment in Beomgyu's tone.
"I'm sorry I didn't know either. Plus she doesn't like me anyway, so me not showing up would probably make it worse, but I'll make sure to hang out with you as soon as possible."
"It's fine don't worry."
"Beomgyu i have to go now, talk to you later love you."
"Love you too."
Beomgyu sighed, he was really looking forward to seeing Taehyun.
He turned around about to walk out of the entrance exit.
Suddenly the lady shouted at him.
"Hey young man!"
Beomgyu looked over at her.
"I forgot to tell you, the women's floor is under reconstruction because of a fire that happened in there, so don't even think about going up there, it's very dangerous."
"Ah, I see." Beomgyu nodded.
"So will you not go in there?"
"No, I won't."
"Okay then, you can go now." She smiled.
* * *
Once Beomgyu arrived in his room, he layed on the bed and just started scrolling through his phone.
It was going fine until he heard a loud bang coming from upstairs.
What the fuck?
He stood up and started looking at the ceiling.
And then he noticed the very small hole that was in there.
They should really consider renovating this floor too.
Even though it was weird he didn't think much of it, after all the lady said that a fire happened in there so something probably just fell off.
He was about to lay back down, but he heard a bang once again.
Okay no this was weird.
But his delusional self still thought that it was nothing so he decided to stay in his room and mind his own business.
* * *
"Were you the one who called us?"
"Yes! I was!"
"So which bag is it."
"The black one." The girl who called the police said to them.
The police officer with the white hair kneeled down, took his gloves and opened the bag.
A dead cat.
Again.
The white haired guy sighed.
"This is the 10th one this month." He told the other police officer who was there with him, he had blonde hair and looked like a chick if you squinted your eyes.
"Who would do this to an innocent cat, so disgusting." The girl told them.
"We don't know, It's like the guy knows his way around, he always does this in a place with no cameras." The police officer who looked like a chick said.
"Well then instal some! Me and my family keep living in fear that he will go from cats to real people!"
"If we would do that then he would change his location immediately, we can't do that." The white haired police officer replied.
Honestly he did agree with the girl, but he knows that it wouldn't do them any good.
The girl sighed. "Whatever." She said before walking back into her home.
"I really wonder who keeps doing this though, who would even hurt an innocent cat in the first place!" The white haired police officer said.
"Yeah it's very disgusting." The chick one said before stepping into the driver seat.
When the white haired one sat inside he grabbed his cheek.
"Does the tooth still hurt? Seriously Kai you need to go get it checked out by a dentist." The chick police officer said.
"Yeonjun you know that I can't right now, were on duty." Kai insisted.
"Well then go after you finish working, ah I can't keep looking at you when I know that there's a tooth that you refuse to go get checked out in your mouth."
"Okay then, but only if you will drive me there."
"Seriously?"
"Yes."
Yeonjun sighed. "Well as long as you will get checked out then I don't care."
"Wait what? I was expecting you to refuse so I wouldn't have to go!"
"That's too bad, you can't take it back now."
Kai groaned and Yeonjun could only laugh at him.
* * *
"Yeonjun do I really have to go."
"We're literally almost there."
"I know but you could still turn around!"
"No."
"I hate you."
"Tell me that again once the inside of your mouth won't hurt anymore."
Once they arrived Kai stepped out of the car, still hesitant.
"I will stay in the car, be quick." Yeonjun told Kai.
"I still hate you for this."
"You will be thanking me once you step out of that building.
When Kai came into the waiting room no one was there.
Of course, why would they be there when it was already 8 pm.
He knocked on the door a nurse opened it and lead him inside.
Once he stepped inside he saw the dentist already waiting there for him.
"Good evening." Kai said.
"Good evening to you too, please take a seat." He pointed to the dentist chair.
The dentist had black hair and glasses, he had a mask on now, but Kai knows that under that mask he looks like a cute bunny.
"Also you 2 can go home now, I'll take care of this."
The 2 nurses looked at eachother, joy sparkling in their eyes.
"Really?" One of them said.
"Yeah It's fine, have a good night."
"Thank you so much." Both of them said, walking out of the room right after.
The dentist turned around to face Kai, who was currently lying down in the chair again.
"Alright I'll take a look now."
He grabbed his tools and started inspecting Kai's mouth.
"I see it, you have a Cavitie."
"Okay I will remove it right away so it won't hurt anymore." The dentist said.
"Does it hurt?" Kai asked with his mouth open, he's suprised that the dentist even understood him.
"I guess that even police officer's are scared of dentists." The dentist laughed.
"I am not scared." Kai said, his mouth still open.
"But does it hurt?"
The dentist laughed again. "I'll make sure it won't."
* * *
"Wow it really didn't hurt." Kai said once the dentist finally removed it.
"I told you that it won't."
"Again I am so sorry for calling so late, you must really want to go home already."
"It's fine, I would rather save someone from pain than be home."
"Thank you once again, I'll be going now have a good night!"
"You too."
* * *
"So, how is it now? Does it still hurt? Was i right?"
"Yeah it still hurts like crazy, I think that the tooth might even fall off."
"I am glad to hear that i was right thank you, shame that we didn't bet on something."
"I don't know about that."
* * *
After scrolling on his phone for probably an hour, Beomgyu was hungry.
He went into the shared kitchen and grabbed two bags of ramyeon.
He grabbed some eggs and started boiling the water.
Suddenly the buff guy from before came into the kitchen and Beomgyu froze in place.
"Hey are you making ramyeon?"
"Yeah, do you want some too?"
"Yes, cook 5 packs."
Beomgyu grabbed more packs and started boiling even more water.
"Were you about to put those eggs in there?" The buff guy asked.
"Uh yeah."
"Don't eat the eggs from here."
"Why not?"
"Crack one and see for yourself."
Beomgyu didn't want to belive him, but he did, his voice sounded really serious in that moment and he got kind off scared.
He cracked one of the eggs and put it in the sink.
What the fuck.
Was this some kind of prank that they were playing on him?
Before Beomgyu could even react the buff guy started talking again.
"Blood, right?"
Beomgyu looked at him and nodded.
"I don't know where she brings those from, but never eat them if you wanna live at least a little bit longer."
It got silent after that.
Once the ramyeon finished cooking he brought it up to the table where the buff guy was waiting.
He gave him a bowl and he immediately started eating, Beomgyu eating only after he started.
"How old are you again?" The guy asked Beomgyu.
"25."
"Wow you're much younger than me. I'll be honest with you, if you want to look so full of life for a long time then don't stay in here for long. I am leaving in 5 days, I'll be going back into my home town. I don't exactly know what I want to do there, but it will be better than whatever this hell hole is."
Why did everyone keep telling Beomgyu to not stay in here for a long time?
"I see." Beomgyu nodded.
"Also you make really good ramyeon."
"Thank you."
* * *
After he finished eating and washing the dishes he went back into his room to grab some sweatpants and a t-shirt and then went to the bathroom.
The bathroom was very open.
Anyone could see what you got going down there if they were perverted enough to look.
It was only him and the guy with the shaved head in the bathroom.
Beomgyu stepped into the shower and granbed his toothbrush.
He tried to squeeze some toothpaste out of the tube, but nothing came out.
And the guy with the shaved head was probably the pervert that Beomgyu was talking about, because he noticed immediately.
"You can borrow my toothpaste." The guy insisted.
"Oh thank you." Beomgyu grabbed the toothpaste out of his hand and put only a little bit on his toothbrush
"Since you borrowed my toothpaste can I borrow that?" He said while pointing at the shampoo.
"Uh yeah sure" he handed both the toothpaste and the shampoo to the guy.
He started brushing his teeth and then he realised.
Why was he not laughing anymore.
Weird.
The guy handed the shampoo back to Beomgyu.
When he looked up he saw that the guy had probably half of the shampoo on his head.
Why was everyone in here so weird?
"Thank you."
It was silent after that.
* * *
Once he finished showering he came back into his room.
He immediately laid on the bed and fell asleep pretty fast even though the bed was extremely uncomfortable.
He slept for probably 2 hours, but he got woken up by the sudden yelling in the hallway.
He opened the door and saw the buff guy pinning the guy with the shaved head on the wall.
"What were you doing in my room!" The buff guy yelled out while smacking his head.
"I wasn't in your room!"
"Really? Then why were the small balls from your gun toy in my room!"
"Do you want to bet your leg on me being the person who was in there."
Suddenly he heard laughter coming from the other side of the hallway.
Beomgyu looked behind him and saw not only the guy with the shaved head, but also the other guy who lived in there, the other guy was also a weirdo, when Beomgyu walked past his room that had the door wide open, he saw a wall full of half naked women.
He quickly walkwd away since he didn't want him to notice Beomgyu.
But that's not important right now.
The guy with the shaved head started laughing.
Wait so there is two of them?
Makes sense why the other one wasn't laughing in the bathroom.
The one who was laughing was holding the toy gun that the buff guy was talking about.
"See it wasn't me, now you have to give me your leg." The guy with the shaved head, who was pinned against the wall started saying.
The buff guy let go of him and started screaming at both of them.
"What were you doing in my room! I don't care which one of you it was! What did you take!"
He kept yelling at both of them, when suddenly a guy who had medium loong hair, a white button up shirt and some black pants came in.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"He was accusing me of going into his room!" The guy who was pinned against the wall started saying.
"Did anyone see him enter the room?"
"Hey who do you think you are!" The buff guy hissed.
"I see that no one saw him, so why do you think that it was him?"
"Is this some kikd of prank that everyone in here is playing on me!"
"Do you know what he took?"
"Why are you acting like you own the place!"
"We really shouldn't be yelling like this, especially since we have a new neighbour." He smiled and looked at Beomgyu.
The smile was so fucking creepy.
"Now, we should all go to our rooms and try to get some rest, it's a Monday tomorrow after all." The guy said.
But he was mostly looking at Beomgyu.
Beomgyu actually did listen though, he went back into his room and locked his door.
What was that?
No, actually who was that guy.
Was he like those bugs that only come out during the night or what.
Whatever, he will just try to get some sleep.