collide ◦
yoo hyejin & kim joowon ; ghost au
she’s late. she’s late. she’s late. she’s late.
it’s like a mantra in hyejin’s head, only this one is not reassuring or calming at all but entirely stressing. there’s a cardboard cup holder with four coffee cups as well as an expensive smartphone in her one hand, and a series of files, folders and other papers in the other. like that she is making her way through the streets of the city, a little frantic and in quite the hurry.
avoiding the other people on the sidewalk as best as she can, she utters quick apologies whenever there’s a near collision, raising the coffee cups over other people’s heads at times just to be able to pass by faster.
there’s an important meeting that morning and she needs to make it on time, but of course on a day like today the trafic is shit, meaning she simply got out of the cab she’d taken to work and is now walking the rest of the way. why on earth she ever got the idea to do that, she doesn’t know either but by now it is what it is and there’s no use in trying to hail another cab - it’s not like any of the cars on the road are truly moving, after all.
when there is a moment where no one is ahead of her for a few steps, she quickly glances down at the phone to check the time, which is when her left hand seems to brush past someone else’s lightly, but she’s not in time to avoid the collision of shoulder to shoulder with the person who seems to have come out of nowhere. bumping into the man harshly, hyejin needs all her concentration and balancing skills to keep the four coffee cups and phone in her hand and upright, but it goes at the cost of the files under her arm falling to the floor.
“oh no no no no no!” she exclaims, reaching feebly after the fluttering papers with her now free hand, before she manages to come to a full stop. her first thought is for the stranger she ran into, turning on her heels to face him with an apologetic expression on her features. “i am so sorry!” she instantly states, eyes wandering over the man to make sure he’s alright. “i did not see you, i was not paying enough attention, i apologise!”
she only has the time to spare another quick look before she’s already crouching, putting the coffee cup holder down on the ground a little out of people’s way and then quickly scurrying to gather her papers and folders before they get stepped on or blown away by the breeez. “i’m so sorry, let me first just pick these up, i apologise, truly!” she meanwhile still babbles on to the victim of her inattentiveness, swallowing harshly as she is already imagining the way her boss is going to chew her out for being late.
and probably the coffee is going to be cold too by the time she manages to gather all these papers.
@dredakerwood