jisoo spent the whole night worrying and almost didn't wake up when his alarm was angrily beeping at him. so, jisoo slouched around the house and lazily got ready. he had a part-time job helping his friend, kim seokjin at a daycare which would be starting in thirty minutes.
jisoo tugged on some denim jeans and a baggy white graphic shirt, all matched with his timberlands. he gathered all he needed for the day and ran out the door, the thoughts of seokmin finding his ethics book still creeping in his mind.
"sorry i'm late" jisoo panted, leaning against the door frame, his backpack almost falling off his one shoulder.
seokjin smiled and chuckled. "you're ten minutes early, jisoo"
the younger glanced down at his watch and made an o shape with his mouth. he rubbed his neck sheepishly and walked through the classroom before placing his bag inside the staff room.
he helped seokjin set up a few activities for the children to play with and also cleaned up a little bit so the children wouldn't be tempted to eat everything they saw on the floor. it was when the front doors opened that jisoo braced himself for the noise.
"hyung, hyung!" a little boy, kim taehyung bounced over to jisoo with a blinding smile the older had grown to know. "look! my tooth, it came out"
jisoo's eyes almost popped out of his head when seeing the stray tooth in the five-year-old's tiny hand with small drops of blood dripping from his mouth. quickly, jisoo ran across the classroom to snatch a fist full of tissues before cleaning up taehyung.
"when did this happen?" jisoo questioned worriedly, earning a giggle from the preschooler.
"mummy said she had to go to work very quickly so she let me walk inside by myself. i felt it wriggling a lot so i pulled it" taehyung seemed so proud of himself that jisoo couldn't help but smile at his expression.
the university student wrapped up the baby tooth in a tissue and tucked it into taehyung's pocket, taking the younger's hand in his as they walked over to seokjin to clean up his mouth.
seokjin almost screamed when seeing all the bloody tissue in jisoo's hand and thought that the child had been seriously hurt. jisoo explained the dilemma and watched as seokjin tossed his head back in relief and exhaled. the two disappeared into the staff room to wash out taehyung's mouth and to change his stained shirt.
"what's wrong with taehyungie, jisoo hyung?" jung hoseok and park jimin both pouted up at the university student, tugging at his jeans in demand of an answer. jisoo crouched down to their level and ruffled both of their coconut shaped hair.
"nothing bad, he just has to clean up a little" jisoo replied, not wanting them to freak out. "go play now"
and with that, the two friends were gone, making a straight beeline to the building blocks. jisoo smiled to himself at the sight.
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it was the end of the day and the kids were all starting to get picked up. jisoo's body ached from having to pick up children and being used as a climbing obstacle though he did have fun making macaroni art with yugyeom and bambam.
there were only a few more kids that were left, one of them being jihoon who was sat by himself, colouring in a book. jisoo smiled a little, knowing that jihoon was a bit introvert and rarely spoke unless spoken too. and so, jisoo took a seat next to him and picked up a coloured pencil. since jihoon didn't talk to the kids, he would talk to jisoo and seokjin. they were all pretty close.
"did you enjoy yourself today, jihoonie?" jisoo asked, colouring in the background with pink as the younger shrugged beside him.
"it was okay" he would mutter under his breath. jisoo nodded.
"it's getting quite late, do you know when your parents are coming?"
"my older brother's gonna pick me up"
just on cue, seokjin called jihoon over to retrieve his backpack seeing as someone had come to pick him up. jisoo helped jihoon put all his belongings together and walked with him to the front entrance of the classroom. seokjin pulled him into a small hug, saying that he would see him the next day and jisoo ruffled his hair to say goodbye.
"c'mon, jihoon, yoongi's waiting for you in the car"
jisoo looked towards the front door, seeing seokmin with his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned comfortably against the door frame. jisoo felt his cheeks heating up and brushed off his hands on his jeans and gave jihoon one last goodbye.
what he didn't notice was seokmin staring back at him, trying to figure out where or if he had seen jisoo before. it finally clicked in his head.
"hey, you're in my ethics class, right?"
the question caught jisoo off guard. not because it was obscure but because seokmin was actually acknowledging his existence. jisoo nodded shyly, countering the big smile seokmin had on his lips.
"uh, yeah" was his dumb reply.
seokmin nodded back, glancing down for a spilt-second when jihoon began tugging at the hem of his shirt. he clearly wanted to go home. seokmin fished out something from his pocket and tossed at jisoo who managed to catch it; surprisingly.
"i never gave it back to you. sorry"
jisoo looked down at the black pen in his hand. was now a good time to ask for his ethics book back? though, it would be weird to tell seokmin his book was in his bag because, how do these things happen? jisoo decided to bite the bullet and ask.
"hey, i have a-"
but seokmin and jihoon were already out the door. jisoo cut himself off and frowned a little. he really needed his book back.
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MY MISTAKE ; seoksoo
Fanfiction"crap! i thought his bag was mine, i'm totally screwed!" jisoo accidentally slips his notebook in his crush's backpack which unfortunately, is filled with confessions about his undying love for the other.
