Strawberries & Cigarettes | tk One-shots

That Beautiful Summer Day

I will begin this book with the One-shot that I wrote in 2020 for an ensemble book of author's one-shots but since it no longer exists, I'll be publishing it here as a little, cute beginning of this book.

Also, Petal was very, very loosely based on this one-shot, not completely but you'll know.

This is just a short introductory one-shot that I wanted to share with you guys for so long and now, I finally can.
The rest of the one-shots will be longer with parts.

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Ignore the mistakes plz :)

The day wasn't scorching but it was really hot. It was kind of summer month that brought sweat with it more rather than the heat. It made the days more disgusting because onw just wouldn't stop sweating.

I was doing someone else's job there. Loyal to the fucking cause, a loyal friend that i was so i just agreed. It was Hoseok's job to do it though.

He was told by his manager to paint a wall that faces the skating area and that bitch just made me do it. He came like hurricane, dumping all the instructions on me to do his work and the left as enthusiastically as he came.

It's Sunday and I have all the freedom to do whatever I want without my father calling me everytime to get my ass in the office and do my job. Like okay pops, I know I'm your son but do your own job in the office and let me be.

I don't want to! I'll do what I want. May it be wasting my time painting a damn wall. Because there's no fucking way I'm going to sit behind the screen and crave some time to sleep.

Hell no!

The sun was a bit brutal on my exposed arms, sweat formed on them also in my hair that I had tied in a bun, a cigarette between my lips. Sure you'd think a cigarette in such heat ain't ideal but it's something that never bothered me.

It was a normal, typical, summer day until it wasn't.

I remember I was about to curse at you when you bumped into me. The curse was on the tip of my tongue as I had dropped the brush because of you, the paint splattered on my shoes, they were my favourite ones too.

But I couldn't because there you were. Oh, there you were, Taehyung. Kim Taehyung.

Standing infornt of me and looking at me with those gorgeous, honey brown eyes, just like your caramel brown hair and they were wide with a silent apology in them.

I still can't explain in words the emotions I felt when I laid my eyes on you. You were just so beautiful. You still are, Taehyung.

You were like a creature of some other world. Otherworldly, I wanted to say but my mind shut down in front of your ethereal sight and I just stood there like a fool, a fool who was absolutely gone for you right at the first sight.

"I'm so sorry. I should've paid more attention who I'm walking into." You giggled. You fucking giggled and my heart started beating wildly.

It was now thrumming with a beat that laid me bare in front of you. I felt like you could see right through. I wanted you to and I think you know too that how enamoured I was with you right at that moment, I still am.

Your voice deeper than the ocean! So soft and and heartwarming. It made me want to drown in it and I wouldn't have cared if it suffocated me even.

You were the most beautiful person I had seen in my life. You still are, you always will be beautiful for me.

You knocked me off my feet and took my breath away, Kim Taehyung.

If this is how they speak of the clichés then here I was, living one with you in front of me.