MY CHRISTMAS MIRACLE || JIKOOK ✅

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JIMIN POV

"I know you're probably booked..." Kai hesitated.

I just closed my eyes and
waited for the but.

My neighbor owned a small candy shop in town and I already knew what was next.

He wanted me to be a freaking prop for his holiday sale.

Too cheap to get a Santa?

Just ask the resident reindeer.

Why did I have to live in a town with so many shifters?

"But I was thinking about my Black Friday sale and didn't
know if maybe you might want to hang out at the shop for a bit?"

He looked so hopeful I almost
felt bad turning him down.

Almost.

Last year I ended up doing
eight events in my hooves.

The year before, more than that.

All because one time I agreed to help a photographer friend and the photos were not only amazing, they made it to national photography magazines.

And really, that was all the photographer.

All I did was stand there and not bite the kids when they decided to pull on my antlers.

Come to think of it, that was a pretty darn amazing feat.

"I...I..."

Kai's face fell when I paused,
as if sensing the impending rejection.

If I was going to cave for anyone, it would be him.

He was a nice old man and his candy shop did have the best treats around.

Still...

"Let me look at my schedule
and see if I'll be in town."

"Thank you."

He hugged me and the guilt started to overcome me, making me agree to come and even give rides to the little ones.

"We're thinking of doing a
whole reindeer themed event
on the block."

"The block?"

If he meant the toy store and the bakery too, that was too much.

As it was, the overflow would be great but with their combined advertising power... no. Just no.

"Yes." Kai continued.

"Maybe hire a Santa and someone to take Polaroids
and have a coloring contest."

"Let me get back to you."

"I need to call my family and
see what's up."

He nodded like a bobble head, assuming my family would be
all over this and really if they were still in town politics they might be but my mom left the school board years ago and my father had been good and done with the whole mayor thing when he stopped running a few years back.

It was funny thinking about that.

We left our herd when I was a baby because my parents hated internal politics and ended up in a town where half the residents were shifters and then my folks ran for and held public office.

And of course, it was easy for them to say I should help out people at Christmas and do it "for the community" when they were white-tailed deer and I
was the recessive reindeer in the bunch. It was cool growing up.

Now that people wanted me to be Santa's helper... not so much.

I gave Kai a half wave and we parted ways.