They walk into landscapes that look like the end of the world and call it a workday.
Wildland firefighters remain some of the most underpaid “essential” responders, despite operating in conditions that push human limits. From smokejumpers dropping out of the sky into active fire zones, to hotshot crews carving lines through walls of flame, to helitack teams threading aircraft through smoke-choked air ~ these crews take on risks most people will never fully grasp. And yet, many start at wages around $13 to $15 an hour, often relying on grueling seasons stacked with 1,000 or more hours of overtime just to reach something resembling a livable income.
They are the quiet backbone of wildfire response. Highly skilled, relentlessly hardworking and grounded in a kind of grit that doesn’t ask for recognition, even when it deserves it most. These are not just firefighters. They are endurance athletes, problem-solvers, and protectors of land, homes, and lives.
Reader Dave Ekola sent us this great photo of a 1940s PSNH line crew that includes his dad, Herb:
My father was “Herb” Ekola, and was known by his ever-present cigar. His PSNH career ran 35 years, from 1942 to his retirement in 1977. Our family lived on their little farm in Dover, NH. I know that he worked out of the Somersworth facility for at least some of those years. He was born in 1912 and passed from this world in 2002. My father had many fond memories of his career with PSNH, his last position was foreman on a digger truck. Herb can be seen in the attached photo, in the front row, kneeling on the left. I am afraid that I do not know any of the other men.
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Note: I’m sorry if it’s so long :X I kinda got lost and enjoyed it when I wrote it. All of the admins were lost on how to begin a fiction like this. It worked out pretty well, together with admin Essie-nim. She wrote short sentence and I made it longer, way to long... I took out some parts, but it speaks for itself.
Lina is a straight A student, a typical nerd, but the worst thing is, she was always bullied in high school. She was really happy that High school was finally over, and was looking forward to her college years. It’s been a couple weeks or so that college started, and things were normal. There was no one she knew from high school which made her relived. Those idiots wouldn’t hit high grades to pass the exams here.
Lina never had a boyfriend, not held hands nor had eyes contact either, she wanted to fall in love, that side of her was very curious. Yes, she had a crush, but they always looked away with disgusting face, or they already had girlfriends.
Lina forgot her book, and had to return back to school. Grabbed the book and walked a long path back, going to the exit. It was a pretty big college, one that not everyone could succeed in enrolling into, and expensive also.
Next to the long path were, tennis courts, basketball courts and soccer fields. Each two of them, and filled with students playing against each other. Lina couldn’t bring herself to join them, she is not used to talk freely with people, or step up to them.
A round flying object came in contact with Lina, it hurt a lot. It knocked her down over and made her lose her glasses, which felt on the grass together with her, luckily. Who thought that this would change everything at that moment, history repeating himself. She couldn’t look up, but heard the nearby standing students laugh at her. Seconds later there was a person standing for her, she looked up and saw someone holding a hand out to her, offering to help her get up. It was Myungsoo, the best looking boy at college, he was the one standing in front of Lina, it made her hart flutter. But it was wrong, as handsome he was, he was also a big player. Since day one, he had like five girls surrounding him, all clingy and touchy. After school, there would always be a girl much older than him, come and pick him up, with an expensive car. You can say, that all the girls worshipped him in a creepy kind of way.
Once Lina got on her feet, she let go of his helping hand, she knew that this would be the end to her. A lot of those cliché girls were already talking about her and snitching at her. Myungsoo looked cool and stood there, he kept looking at Lina, as if he was expecting something from her, a reaction. Lina looked passed him and saw the boys on the field waiting for something too. She couldn’t make it out, and said her thanks before walking away. More like running away, as far as possible.
Lina decided to change and didn’t want to suffer from her all the time of being shy and silence. At night she would watch all kind of videos of how to talk to people and act to other mean people. Learn how to be more lady like and change her way of dressing. The moment she would hear her mother or her father come close to her room, she’d throw herself into her bed, faking to sleep.
There was a big upcoming party for the college students. Everyone was invited and could bring a partner with them. There was alcohol too, something new to Lina, she never had it before. Her parents forbid her to not even go near that cursed liquid. Lina hopes that her nightly lessons over the internet would be of some use to her. It will be her first party though, she lied to her parents that she would be studying at the library up till late in the night. Her curiosity made her lie to her parents for the first time, expect that she was getting bullied at school, it wasn’t really a lie, but she never spoke about it.
Lina was getting ready to go to the library, but her father offered to drop her off, and told her to give him a call when she was finished, because it would be to late. The fact was, Lina had stuffed a dress and her make-up bag in her bag, also matching high heels. With the pocket money her parents gave, she put it away for couple weeks, when she was still in high school. She had enough money to buy a dress and the needed stuff to finish it.
The big shy Lina will stay at the library and the hot Lina will go to the party, no matter what. After her dad pulled in front the library, Lina stepped out. She went in the building, and waited until her father left. Lina quickly run to the toilet. She called a taxi, changed her clothes, put up her make-up and loosed her hair. She has pretty dark and wavy hair was actually shine and long. Her dress was a short dress, the color was baby blue, the underside was with layers and long from the back, it was like a rose. It was a Cocktail dress. Lina loved it, she always wanted to have something like this. The taxi arrived, and she hurried her way to the exit, stepped in the taxi and was gone.
Once Lina arrived at the entrance were the party was, she felt unsure and to nervous. Should she turn around and go back? But she did all this, it would be all for nothing, her effort. She paid and said her thanks and stepped out. She walked with unpleasant eyes looking at her all the way to the entrance. She showed her invitation and deposit her belongings at the counter. She could hear the music and followed the others, it seems that no one recognized her, they were only looking at her, trying to guess who the girl with the dark, long, wavy hair was. But Lina was to lost to noticed people watching her, all she wanted was to see the party and satisfy her curiosity.
It was full of people and her classmates, light everywhere, most of them were dancing on the dance floor. It was magical for Lina, her first time at a party, it was really pretty and colorful. Just like in those college movies. While Lina was mesmerized, more eyes were looking, out of those eyes, there were known eyes that looked at her too. Lina walked to the tables and saw snacks and all kind of drinks, she grabbed a cup and filled it with a liquid she didn’t know. Took it to her mouth and took a sip, it tasted weird, but it was sweet. A boy came and stood next to Lina, he asked to dance with him. Lina was having her second cup, she felt her body temperature rise up, and felt her head spinning. Lina liked the feeling, she turned around to answer the boy who offered her for a dance, but then she saw Myungsoo. Girls around him like a tornado. Lina smiled and made her way towards an empty chair, picked it up and put in right in the middle of the dance floor. People stopped and were looking at her, some of them recognized her, and began talking and taking photos and were filming it. Most of the dancers moved away, curious of what Lina was about to do.
She located Myungsoo again and began walking again. Lina stopped right in front of him, and made her way to him by shoving the sticky girls to the side. Lina took the hand of Myungsoo, who was perplexed and was being dragged away by Lina, pushed into the chair. All eyes on Lina. She began to dance, after just only two cups, she was drunk, her way of dancing was sloppy, but entertaining to the people that were busy putting it on video.
Because Lina was lap dancing for Myungsoo. LAP DANCING!!!!
Lina was moving and touching Myungsoo, but Myungsoo didn’t do anything, he just stared at Lina, came eye in eye contact, but Lina already had lost it. She tripped and fell on Myungsoo’s lap. It didn’t take long before Lina passed out in the arms of Myungsoo, after losing her balance. The only thing that Myungsoo did was get up, put you on the chair and left.
The next morning Lina woke up to find herself in her bed. It was Saturday and 2 pm, she could hear her parents yell and scream, but it felt like they were inside her head, everything was blurry, and before she knew, she rushed out of her bedroom and was running to the bathroom. Everything from last night came out, her troth was stinging and left a bad after taste. She only had two cups, but she wasn’t used to alcohol. As if that wasn’t enough, her parents came in. they started to talk to her and began raising their voices. Lina was not focused and couldn’t listen to their nagging. She barely walked to the sink and looked at her reflection in the mirror, make-up all over her face, dark circles around her eyes, her hair was a mess. Lina tried to go back to her room, but was blocked by her parents. Lina looked lifelessly up at the two, and they finally shut up. Lina locked the door and leaned against it, took a long deep breath in and let it go. Trying to calm down, and a headache that wouldn’t stop, what happened last night at the party, Lina can’t recall it.
The best Lina could do was to take a stroll outside and calm down, get some fresh air in her lungs. She refreshed up and put on some daily clothes. Her parents could only look at her and be silence. Lina unlocked the door and left the house.
But someone was standing in front her house, a familiar face. It was Myungsoo, he was leaning against a car and looking at Lina with a sly grin on his face.
‘ Hi, party beast, did you sleep well? ‘ Myungsoo was enjoying the situation pretty fine, while Lina was getting annoyed. ‘ Prepare yourself for school Monday, it was sensational yesterday. I assume that you can’t remember of what happened at the party.’ Myungsoo popped out his phone and waved with it. Lina rushed to Myungsoo and snapped it out of his hand. Fine, it had a lock. ‘ If you let me kiss you, I’ll let it see you.’
‘ Is that all you can think of, dirty bastard, playing with me. I hate you.’ Lina was so full and emotional, that tears rolled over her cheeks. She dropped on the ground and started to cry harder. ‘ I know I must have done something embarrassing, but how can you keep rubbing it in the moment you see me. it was my first time going to a party, I didn’t know what to do, I don’t even have a friend to look after me. I hate myself…I hate.. ‘
Myungsoo crouched besides Lina and brought her in his arms. Myungsoo didn’t know what to do, why is she having a big impact on Myungsoo, he felt for the first time useless towards a girl.
The hug was making Lina calm down, she broke loose of Myungsoo’s grip and tried to get up. ‘ Again, I did something embarrassing. I remember now what I did yesterday. I’m going to transfer to another school and forget the stupid incident. ‘ Lina smiled bitter and looked at Myungsoo. ‘ Thank you for making me at ease, Bye.’
But Myungsoo out of reflex grabbed the arm of Lina. ‘ If you transfer, I’ll come with you.’ What are you saying, idiot. Stop it. ‘ I’ll make sure, that nothing will happen, don’t worry. Just stay.’ She is nothing to you, get a hold of yourself!
Lina didn’t turn to Myungsoo and broke loose, she went inside and closed the door behind her. Her head was burning, she won’t let Myungsoo see her face like this.
It was Monday, school was going to be hell, until Lina was transferred. She leaned and glared to the school building from a corner, fighting inside her, if she would go in or not. Breath in , breath out. There she stood, at the gate of the school. Everyone was looking at her, whispering and more whispers. But then she came in eyes contact with Myungsoo, who was straight ahead walking to her. He grabbed Lina’s hand and deeply kissed her in front of everyone. Lina’s eyes widen and looked at Myungsoo. Lina tiered up, and Myungsoo lost it again, the first thing he found himself doing was hugging her again. Myungsoo has a weakness towards her, especially when Lina cries. He smiled and whipped her tears. Lina returned the hug, which made Myungsoo hug her even tighter.
Note: Woogyu like to hear what happened after the tweet.
a short fic.
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*Meanwhile after the tweets, on the couch.*
Sunggyu hit the back of Woohyun with his left hand. That made Woohyun look at Sunggyu for an explanation, for his hit.
' Why do you have to tweet something like that? What will the fans think of that tweet. Hoya and Myungsoo are the main here. ' He said with a strong voice.
Leaning against the table, Sunggyu wanted to re-watch it again. But Woohyun pouted, starting to get bored. They watched it two minutes ago, why watch it again? So he also came forward and grabbed Sunggyu’s hand. The only thing Sunggyu did was turn to Woohyun to stare at him, trying to figure out what he was doing.
' Say it or be silent.’
’ Why do we have to watch it again? It just finished.’
' I am going to re-watch it. Do whatever you like. ', then Sunggyu faced the TV.
Woohyun got hurt because of Sunggyu’s choice of words. He stood up and left the living room to grab some juice out of the fridge, before going to his room. Sunggyu didn’t turn to look at Woohyun for once.
*Inside the head of idiot Kim Sunggyu*
What’s up with him. Walking off like that. Maybe I was to harsh on him. He already tweeted it. I’m the one being an ass.*
He let out a big sigh, while looking for his phone, that was lying on the couch next to him. He unlocked his phone and typed something.
The door of Woohyun’s room opened with a crack, and he stepped out. He had a big smile on his face, his usual thick lips curved so that they were now flat. He walked to the living room towards the couch back to his old seat. After sitting, he turned to Sunggyu.
' Do you mean it, or are you joking with me. Are you really going to do it? '
Woohyun leaned in and their shoulders came into contact. It made Sunggyu look up to Woohyun as he came closer and closer. The exited Woohyun couldn’t contain his excitement. But Sunggyu was obnoxious about the situation, unlike Woohyun who was eagerly waiting.
‘Stop it, don’t get too close like that. Let me get in the mood.’ Sunggyu closed his eyes, but he felt something warm, a fluffy feeling touching his lips. He opened his eyes to find Woohyun driven away by his kissing. It was getting hot and Sunggyu felt like he couldn’t tolerate it. He pushed Woohyun gently over the couch. Woohyun was glowing so much that Sunggyu couldn’t keep his eyes away from him, he slide his pale fingers over Woohyun’s cheek. Sunggyu minimized the distance between them, it was his turn now as he brought his lips to Woohyun’s neck. Woohyun closed his eyes and let out a little moan. His blood rushed through his body like a mad man. Sunggyu was about to undress Woohyun but the doorbell made him stop in his tracks. They both looked at each other, dumfounded. Who could it be at this hour, it was too early for the others to come home. The door got unlocked and Gonam manager came in.
Both quickly changed their positions, Sunggyu rewinding the drama on the interactive TV and Woohyun pouting next to him on the couch. Gonam manager walked to the kitchen. Sunggyu gave Woohyun a quick kiss on the cheek.
‘We’ll finish it next time, I’ll promise, okay?’ He whispered with a deep voice. It made Woohyun shiver, this time his whole face became red.
The first and the second year students are going on a field trip to Busan.
It was time to leave so everyone was goin back to the bus. With all the hopes you had left in order not to ruin your day. After getting on the bus as the last passenger, you found your seat was already taken by another boy, who looked pretty irritated. The pervert next had a disappointed look on his face to the point that it made me somewhat relieved. The problem is, where do I have to sit now!
With awkward steps moving to the back and found an empty seat next to another boy, this one looks better than the last on, actually it was Kim Myungsoo, the famous good looking guy in the whole school. You shoved the thoughts away and sat down next him. He didn’t look in your direction, which you found it quite rude of him. The atmosphere in the bus increased, that it became like a kids daycare. Myungsoo started to shift in his seat, you found it pretty annoying to the point that you looked at him. He was looking back at you. Whispering so only I could hear:
‘ Uhhm, hi. You probably don’t know who I am…, I’m Kim Myungsoo a second year student….’
Well duhh only I am from the first year and the chick sitting up in the front. But why is he talking to me all of a sudden. ‘ Hi….’
‘ This may sound weird, but you don’t look like the other girls, my eyes have been following you all the time. I tried not to fall for you when I saw you for the first time, but I couldn’t help it. Would you be my girlfriend? You’d make me the happiest man alive.’
You got stunned and spaced out, not knowing what to say. How do you respond back in such a situation, to a boy you practically don’t know anything of.
‘ You don’t have to answer back right away, I’ll wait.’ With that he popped out some black earplugs and stuck it in his ears and turned back to his side, starring out of the window again. He was embarrassed of what he did.
The famous Myungsoo confessed to you, the hot upperclassmen Myungsoo said he likes you, the best looking boy wants to go out with you. You got perplexed, just the thought of it.
The entire bus trip moved on in silence, surrounding the two with noises from around them. With the yell of the female teacher, the most of the second year students calmed down and started to whisper. Two hours later they finally arrived at the wanted destination. The seaside of Busan.
One by one did the students exit the bus. You got up and made your way and stood between others in the row, while Myungsoo stayed back still sitting in his seat. He then got up and did the same, there were six people between the two of you. All he did was look at you, fixed his graze on you, not moving it for a second. You could feel your back burning up, you knew he was looking at you until you got off the bus. The first years were standing at the parking lot in front. You walked to the girls from your class and they started talking to you, why you were late and missed the bus.
The teachers formed the groups and everyone went to play. It was time to head off and see the nature. Everyone was making photos with their phones or cameras at the seaside, some were playing and running around, while others went to eat and shop. Myungsoo rushes out and was standing somewhere up in distance. All the girls looking into his direction, as he was looking gloomy up to the sky.
Your group and the group of Myungsoo stayed at the seaside most of the time. The girls in your group stayed as close as they could to only watch Myungsoo. When the boys left to go and get food, two girls of your group would tail behind them.
The only thing you did was look at Myungsoo from a distance, he wouldn’t look back at you, but the way he stands and talks, it’s like looking at the TV. It never occurred to you how handsome he is actually. The more you look the more he shines, but not once did he look back to you. It made you feel vexing
It was getting late, so everyone had to gather for departure. But Myungsoo was not there and you noticed it, you turned around to look for him and no one was there. You decide to go look for him as you slipped your way out of the group. After a short search you found him stuck on the showcase of a mall, looking for cameras. You went next to him and stood there not making a sound, he turns around to see you looking at him, which made him jump back and fall on his butt. You helped him get up on his feet, but the moment he got on his feet, he let go of your hand cautiously. You did not leave his eyes, but surprisingly he was looking back, that it made you uncomfortable. You were so mesmerized by his stare that looking away was not an option, because he didn’t let you look away. You broke the silence
‘ We should go back, they are……’ He broke your sentence.
‘ Does this mean that you accept my confession? ’ He didn’t change his position and was waited for an answer this time. You wandered of and dropped your head facing the ground, then lifted it up again to find Myungsoo in a morose mood.
You put your hands up and waved them. ‘ No I just.. it’s my first time someone said something like this to me, I just wanted to let it sink into me, and yes it felt weird at first. ‘ And silence reigned over again, but the face of Myungsoo was back to normal again. He looked relieved and chuckled. And there it goes, your heart melted only by this little smile. A feeling you never flet before, and not regretting it either, which gave you instant red cheeks. He gave you a pet over your head as he grabbed your hand and started to walk. ‘ I’ll hold it till the others get visible, I won’t give you a hard time I promise.’
We got closer and he let go of my hand. It felt so short, you eagerly wanted to hold hands more. ‘ You go first, I’ll follow you.’ He stood with his hands in his pocket. ‘ Now they are getting cold. ‘ At that, your heart skipped a beat as you looked away, trying to calm your heartbeat.
‘ Late again I see. ‘ The same teacher that was standing at the door with the second years was there again. You smiled and went in. Up in the distance was Myungsoo strolling as if nothing happened. ‘ The ladies were holding me teacher, they were quite flashy. ‘ He smiled at the teacher, and made a photo camera with his hands. The female teacher laughed and showed her white teethes to Myungsoo.
Myungsoo walked and saw that the seats didn’t change. There she was, sitting, next to the empty seat waiting for him. He quietly dropped down next to you. You felt something warm touching your hand and looked down to find Myungsoo holding it, and hide it between his thighs. You were just stunned of his action and swung your hand and broke of the tie, with big eyes that threw daggers at him, flashing out your phone and starting to type. “ What are you doing holding my hand between your thighs, what if someone saw it, IDIOT! “
Myungsoo pouted, and the second meltdown began. You stripped off your vest and grabbed his hand, laid it between the two of you and covered it with the vest.
After some time, everyone fell asleep. Myungsoo woke up and saw that everyone was sleeping, and they were still holding hands. He looked around and leaned in to kiss the sleeping you.
“click”
‘ You own me one, do you know that. If not I’ll post the picture to everyone, buddy.’ The boy that Myungsoo forcefully shoved to make him sit next to the pervert. ‘ You know, he was so bored that he started to touch me too. I for a moment doubting if I was a girl or to attractive to him. Feels like I made him come out the closet with my outstanding beauty ‘ Myungsoo almost kicked him but he jumped back, and Myungsoo couldn’t reach him while holding your hand. ‘ If you speak up, I’ll kick you when we arrive you know that. What do you want. ‘
While waving the phone in his hands ‘ How can you kick your childhood friend.’
‘ How can you blackmail a childhood friend.’ Myungsoo spoke in a calm and eerily voice.
The boy looked for a quite long time until Myungsoo got what he wants to have. ‘ I’ll help you, but I can’t promise for a happy ending bro. ‘
‘But you know that I like her, don’t you.’ He saw that Myungsoo was getting irritated. ‘ Ok, we will talk about it later. ‘ He gave a thumps up and flashed a wink, which made Myungsoo shiver, while judging his friend.
You moaned and shifted your head and it fell on Myungsoo’s shoulder. He pet over your head and fell in sleep again with a smile.
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That’s right, we have a child. He is 4 years old. We are still students. The stupid you were back then. You got married to the player of the school, the way he used you and played with your feelings. You fell for him for his temptation, for his charm. He was nice and always helping me, sweet words every day, a helping hand for everyone. Your ideal type of a man. Until you got to know his real self. What a player he was.
Honey it’s time to wake up, or we will be late for school. ’ Hhunn, alright mommy. ’ Said Jaegyu as he got out of bed. You putted his school uniform on as he was still yawning and rubbing his little eyes. With a smile you said ’ Good boy, mommy will prepare breakfast, while you wash your face.’
As you are about to make your way to the kitchen to get breakfast done. Sunggyu was standing with is arms crossed and glaring at you, waiting for you to say something. You did not bother nor look at him and passed by him. Not wanting to give him what he wants to.
Sunggyu had Jaegyu in his arms as they were playing. He sat down Jaegyu in his chair and took a place next to him. While they were eating, you looked at how happy those two were playing with each other and let out a smile.
Both of the boys got in the car as you locked the front door before leaving for school. You opened the back door and sat next to Jaegyu. Sunggyu was watching you through the mirror as you sat down and was ready.
Jaegyu was skipping happily to his class and sat down on his own chair. He waved at you to come. You walked towards him and he wanted you to bend down. The moment you got down to his level, he putted his little hands on your cheek and kissed you on the forehead. ‘ I saw appa doing this to you, and it made you happy. I want mommy to be happy and not sad, alright,’
You just had to kiss him back and hug him, tears were about to fall down your cheeks, but you whipped it away to not let him see your teary face. You waved your hands and exited the classroom.
It was dead silence in the car. The only thing what could be heard was the engines of the car on the roads. As always, he stopped at a distance. The truth was that no one knew that you were married to each other. You got out of the car and started to walk towards the school gates. He drove pass by you and parked it in the school grounds parking lot. The moment he got out of the car, all the girls were surrounding him like a swarm of insects. You could easily count 9 girls skipping, jumping and chirping around him to get his attention. He let out a weak smile and walked towards the entrance of the school building with the girls behind him.
You followed from behind cursing under your breath. ‘ It’s like he has honey stuck up on his ass.’ The scene in front of you made you want to puke. You held your hands up to your mouth.
Most of the students were sitting on their chair, waiting for the teacher to arrive. You got up to your desk and put the books that were needed on table. A moment later the teacher came. All the students sat proper as the teacher began with the lesson. The school building had a U shape, so the other classrooms could be seen. As you turned your head to look at the outside and look up to the sky, but something couth your eyes. One of the girls was bending towards Sunggyu that her bra was visible. You shoot up and glared at them. ‘ Miss Lee, is there a problem?’ The teacher and all of the rest of the students were watching her as Linda sat back on her chair. ‘ N.. no, nothing sir. I just saw an annoying bee.’ You felt you cheeks become red. ‘ Since we are inside, please leave it inside. Don’t get distracted from the outside miss Lee.’ The teacher was irritated that his lesson was disturbed. Linda looked again to see all the students including Sunggyu to look at her with a blank expression. she wanted to burry herself in the ground right now.
At that moment Sunggyu let out a little smile. ‘ Why are you laughing, it wasn’t that funny, you know.’ The girl in front of him saw the way he looked at Linda and got jealous of it. She grabbed Sunggyu’s chin and turned it towards her. She grabbed it so hard that it screeched and Sunggyu let out a cry. He pushed her hand away and got up. Staring daggers ‘ Behave yourself and button up.’ He got up and left the classroom. The teacher was not giving a damn about the class. ‘ Uhhhh, got rejected. Disserves her right.’ The girls were enjoying the scene to much. ‘Shut up bitches.’ She snitched at them and went back to her seat as she button her uniform.
It was recess and everyone left the class. You put your head on the table and closed your eyes for a minute. ‘ Linda, why are you here by yourself? Let’s go to the cafeteria.’ A boy student was waiting at the door leaning against the doorframe. He waited till Linda got up from her seat. She smiled and headed towards the exit.
It was as crowded as always. The boy next to Linda put his arm around her to get her close in, so that no one would bump into her.
Sunggyu was sleeping on the roof as he heard the bell. He decide to go down. Just as he was about to enter the cafeteria. He saw Linda being to close to someone. He had his arm around her. Sunggyu felt his blood rush faster. The veins popped out and were visible as he made his hands into fists. The moment he decided to walk up at the boy, he saw that Linda distanced herself from him with an awkward smile and stepped back. ‘ Hyung, WHY THE KILLER FACE. YOUR VEINS ARE GOING TO POP OUT.’ A figure appeared behind Sunggyu and hit him on the back. He was so loud that the whole cafeteria was looking at them, but his eyes were only fixed at one person. Linda looked at Sunggyu who was standing at the entrance of the cafeteria. Sunggyu closed his eyes, turned around and walked away as he relaxed his body ‘You’re to loud Dongwoo.’
Linda pushed the door to the roof and walked to where Sunggyu was lying down. She had bread and strawberry milk with her. Sunggyu opened his eyes and sat up. Linda took place next to him. She looked up and saw that there was a scratch on his face, so she tilled her hands and touched the place where is was red/ pinkish. Sunggyu jolted and looked at Linda with big eyes that it made Linda pull back her hand and offered the things she had brought. She got up and was about to leave. Without Sunggyu realizing it he had grabbed her wrist. Linda turned around and saw how Sunggyu looked lost at her, at the same time the school bell went off. The door got kicked in and Dongwoo was calling Sunggyu. ‘ Gyuzizi, it’s time get up you lazy hamster. Oh, hi noonim. Bad timing I see.’ As he bowed to Linda. Linda smiled back to Dongwoo. Sunggyu let go of her wrist.
De day ended like that. Is was time to go and pick up Jaegyu, since it was now almost 4pm. By the time Linda was there, it would be 20 minutes later. Sunggyu was out with his play mates as usually. As Linda was in the bus almost there. She got a call.
“ Uhhmm, miss Lee… I don’t know what to say. It’s just… it .. Jaegyu is not at school. We can’t find him. He left a note on his desk, but the handwriting. We can’t find it out. We tried to call the dad, but he didn’t answer his phone. ”
Linda dropped the phone and everything was slowing down, she couldn’t hear anything, her vision became blurry because of the tears. Calm down, calm down as she said to herself. Where can a little kid like him go, how far can he be. But then all kind of things came into her mind, she tried to shake it off. Just wait till you arrive, don’t break down please.
Linda run towards the kindergarten and saw the teacher waiting in front of the school building. There was no sign of Jaegyu anywhere and it was also becoming dark. Linda dropped her back pack and started to run and look around. He can’t be that far away. She looked and searched all over the place. She got further and further out. The kindergarten building was out of sight. The tears, it became more and more, till she couldn’t see what was in front of her. Linda lost her balance and tripped over and fell on the ground. Her voice, she lost it, not a single noise came out of her mouth.
At that moment she heard footsteps behind her. Sunggyu was breathing heavy and kneelt to the ground for Linda but she was not looking at him. Sunggyu got closer and took her in his arms. ‘ I found him, so don’t cry. ‘
Sunggyu was distracted and was held back by Dongwoo. He looked at his phone, it was 4:10 pm. He knew that Linda was gone already. He got in the car and left Dongwoo behind.
He left his phone In the car and got out. The first thing he heard when he came to pick up Jaegyu was:
“ Uhhmm, miss Lee… I don’t know what to say. It’s just… it .. Jaegyu is not at school. We can’t find him. He …….
He rushed like a madman and was looking for Jaegyu. Hide and seek… Hide and seek was all he thought. He looked at all the little places he saw and found. He went to the local playground. To the nearby shops. After the fourth shop, it stopped. He was there. Sunggyu found him.
Jaegyu was yelling at Linda ‘ Mommy, mommy look I found a dog. See, he looks like daddy. Can we keep him, uuhh please, hu huu.’
Jaegyu had all dirt on him and a running nose. Linda released herself from Sunggyu and grabbed Jaegyu and hugged him and finally her voice came out. She started to cry more and more.
At the way back home, Linda didn’t let go of Jaegyu. Sunggyu watched both of them through the mirror. When they arrived home. Jaegyu needed to take a shower and was put to bed. Linda lied down next to Jaegyu and fell asleep. Sunggyu lifted Linda and brought her back to their bedroom. When he put her on the bed, she opened her eyes. The first thing Sunggyu did was kiss her on her forehead. That made Linda open her eyes more wide. Sunggyu smiled and put her hair behind her ear. ‘ I’m going to tell the whole school that my wife is my life. I’ll be a good husband and a dad. From now on no more crying, alright. And I’m sorry for my bad actions. I’m a fake person in your eyes and I lied to make you mine, and I’m not sorry for that. I love you.’ Sunggyu leaned in as both of their lips came in contact.
‘I love you too.’
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