It was that time of the year again.
Collegiate state championships were coming up in a month and Hyunjae was dead tired, body slumping against the hard plastic of the back of his chair, and a foot dangling and resting against the front edge of the steps. He got back home a little past eleven last night, coming from a late dinner with his teammates after an intensive afternoon training. The muscles on the middle left part of his back hurt, and he was careful not to move around so much. It wasn't so easy to fall asleep last night either; his fingers have stubbornly reached for his phone to check social media, mainly to assure himself that he still has a life despite everything. Hyunjae just heaved up a sigh, he was far from having a proper social life either way.
His eyes squinted against the sunlight as a slight frown etches across his face. One side of his earphones were plugged into his left ear, Trey Songz playing from his phone while he relishes under the shade of the big umbrella over his head. He kept the volume to a minimum in caution, although he decided that there is less than five percent chance that someone would happen to commit an accident. If anything, surely, an occurrence like that wouldn’t happen during his shift. Determined not to at least fall asleep, his eyes lazily scanned the vicinity of the pool. A certain group of kids caught his attention as they ran through the side of the pool, Hyunjae scrunching his nose at the sight as an uncomfortable feeling settles on his stomach. The floor was wet, the kids were still wet, they were running beside the deeper part of the pool, and everything looks so wrong, and Hyunjae’s heart nearly stopped as he saw a kid slip--
Hyunjae’s grip on his chair’s arm support tightened as he saw the kid fall to the ground, thankfully not into the water. as the kid latches onto a tall man, and Hyunjae’s eyes widened when the tall man fell into the pool.
“Shit,” He muttered under his breath, immediately pulling his earphones off as he reached for the whistle hanging around his neck and blew it once in an attempt to signal the other personnel, quickly climbing down the lifeguard chair and picking up the rescue buoy in his arms. Fortunately he was near the spot where it happened, the tall man’s arms visibly flinging about while Hyunjae hastily but cautiously neared him. He couldn’t hear anything else over the sound of his heart pumping, but all his training as a lifeguard came rushing down through him as he spoke to the man with all the voice he could muster.
“Sir,” he called out loudly to get the man’s attention, throwing the rescue buoy near the other and holding onto the other end of the string attached to it. He had been advised not to dive in yet unless the victim was totally unresponsive. He blows onto his whistle again to get the man’s attention as he continued, crouching over and holding onto the pool ladder beside him with a shout. “Sir, please get a hold of yourself! Will you hold onto this first?”
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