✦ embrace the glorious mess
@jihyoxkr
The weather was particularly good that day as the cooling breeze eased down the heat brought on by the sun. Jongkook sat by the table located on the porch of the café, next to the huge tree blooming with white flowers whose petals would flutter and dance along with the light wind. There was only a handful of patrons in the café at this time of the day, while most of the people are still stuck in their work.
Jongkook belonged to that handful of patrons, as his unpredictable shift schedule as a firefighter doesn’t allow him a normal working hours routine. Sometimes he has all three shifts in a day, other times one or two shifts. Occasionally he has no shift at all, but he would still insist on coming to work to help out in case of emergency. Today was not the day though, after being forcibly thrown out of the station to take a rest by the Chief directly in charge of him, which he thought was so absurd to the point of being ridiculous, even though he knew it was for his well-being.
Sipping his drink absentmindedly through the straw, he moved his finger across the screen of his phone, looking idly endless list of pictures in the feed consisting mostly of food, selcas, artsy landscape, and some random shit. He sighed and got out from from the app, before locking his phone and looking out to the peaceful scenery in front of him instead. That was when he heard a soft crying, and thought he was imagining things until he spotted a little girl by the side of the road close to where he was seated.
A few seconds later he was by the girl’s side, trying to calm her down as he checked for any injuries. She seemed to be fine, except for her knees where the skin was lightly scraped. Probably fell and grazed against the ground. “It’s okay, uncle will help you make the pain go away, all right?” He cooed, and then almost magically, whipped out bandaids of various design ranging from cartoons, to cute animals and even superheroes. “Which one do you want? Uncle will stick them on and they can protect you,” he smiled softly.