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Hoping for the Best - NSFW
Grouping: Lifeguard!Reader x Lifeguard!Hoseok
Word Count: ~24.3k  lmao
Warnings/Themes: Friends to enemies? to lovers, SLOW burn, Descriptions of bullying, unrequited love???, Making out, Cunniligus, Fingering, Penetrative sex, Dom!Hoseok if you squint, spanking, use of the epithet brat ;), Lack of communication, Idiots who donât talk about their feelings
Summary:Â âHe knows you two are linked though. You must know it too. Itâs impossible to deny when you both reach climax at the same time during your first time, the breath leaving him like you knocked it out and your eyes rolling into the back of your head like he scratched stars there for only you to see.â
A/N: This piece is for the BSC 1000 Followers Writing Project! based off prompt 14: Pretending to drown to get a kiss from the hot lifeguard / âActually Iâm drowning please save me.â ALSO! the coffee shop joke makes a little more sense if you think about it in chinese but oh wellÂ
Even after four years of coming and going, the gentle warmth that you feel seeping into your tired bones when your shuttle returns you to your hometown every summer never seems to dull. Certainly, you will never tire of the smell of the household laundry detergent, weaved into the threads of your parentsâ clothes, after two long semesters away. The same scratch of threadbare sheets across your skin as you lay in the bed youâve had since you were 9 is always a welcome feeling to wake up to on the first morning back. The smell of porridge, a dish youâve come to appreciate, greets you as well.
âThere she is,â your father smiles at your stumbling figure over the newspaper. His eyes crinkle and he holds you in his gaze for a long few beats. Thereâs something bittersweet about the way the eye adjusts to the film that time lays over loved ones that have been away. Despite this, he can still clearly see the outline of your past self, much smaller but with the same bedhead and swinging feet at the dinner table. âThe princess has finally awakened and decided to grace us with her presence.â
âGood morning, dad,â you yawn widely.
Your mother passes you a steaming bowl of porridge and a plate of cut fruit. She sits down with the mail and begins to sort through the small mountain of bills. Half of them she waves at your father for him to appraise as well. This reminds him.
âSay, kiddo,â his tone is careful and it wakes you up from your dreamy haze quicker than you would like. âYou thinking about doing work at the marine lab again?â
âHoney, she just got back yesterday. Let her rest. You can talk about all that later, canât you?â
âTalk about what?â Pushing your bowl back, you straighten up in your chair and turn to your father. He looks a bit guilty now that youâve pinned him with your stare.
âYour mother and I were just wondering if you were going to renew your internship with them. They paid you the last couple of times andâŚIf weâre being honest, we could use a little help this summer.â
âAre you guys in trouble with the house?â Alarm colors your voice and for the first time since youâd arrived, you look around carefully.
The house doesnât look like its changed. Itâs still cozy with its warm-toned exposed wood and painted cabinets. Your parents havenât changed either. They donât look much older than they did when you were home last. Your mother wears her favorite cardigan to protect from the chill that creeps up on her when she wakes with the sun. Your father wears a simple pair of khakis and a short sleeved polo, a regular work outfit. Perhaps itâs because you havenât cast off the last vestiges of sleep that you donât immediately realize itâs odd for your father, a retired school teacher, to be working in the summer. A divot forms in between your brows and you wonder how long they planned on keeping you in the dark about money troubles while spoiling you after graduation.
âOf course not, baby.â Your mother lays a soothing hand on your shoulder and pats. âThings are just a little tight lately. Your uncle needed money again, this time a little more than usual.â
âNow that youâre all grown-up, we thought you might like to try and help out a little more around the house. Fun, right?â Despite the gravity of the subject, your father still manages to smile softly at his own joke with a deep laugh.
âI actually got an email from them a weeks ago,â you return to your porridge in hopes that itâll dislodge the tell-tail lump you get in your throat before crying. âTheyâre giving priority to the PhD students this year, so they wonât have any funding for interns not already affiliated with the college.â
âIâm sorry to hear that, dear. We both know how much you loved that place,â your father frowns and your expressions mirror one another. But while his face expresses sympathetic disappointment, yours shows resolution.
âNo. No, itâs totally fine. This is good. I should probably keep on applying to real jobs now, anyway. And I need to be able to pay rent somewhere, so I should get a summer job too.â
Itâs your motherâs turn to frown. âOh, baby, you know you could stay here, if you want. We wouldnât ever dream of charging you for rent.â
âNo, mom,â you stand up from the table, âI should start taking responsibility. Iâm gonna go out and find something simple so I can focus on job apps, but Iâll bring you whatever check I get.â
Silence falls over the room as you wash your dishes at the sink. Over just the sound of the running water, your parents exchange meaningful glances at one another. You press a kiss to both of their heads before you ascend the stairs to your room to get ready. Your fatherâs hand envelopes your motherâs. Youâve grown well.
The first thing you do after youâve finished getting ready is head over to a local coffee house. Itâs the most student-friendly place in all of your sleepy suburban town. What can only be described as an acoustic/hip-hop hybrid flows from hidden speakers, drowning out the sound of the bell on the front door tinkling when you step inside. The cafe is full of other enterprising 20-somethings, so no oneâs eyes raise to follow you as you find a seat by the shop window.
You open your laptop and pull up your resume file. Luckily, youâve been diligent and itâs been looked over and updated. Opening up a webpage, you begin to fill out applications for various companies looking for new hires. Some of them are just companies you think you could handle the workload at, but a few of them are positions for doing research to improve and preserve marine life, which is a passion of yours. Time passes you by quickly and youâre so involved in emailing your research advisors at your place of internship and professors who praised you in undergrad that you donât see the man who enters the cafe; nor do you see the way all the staff behind the counter hurry to greet him.
Jin goes to retrieve his apron from the back room before coming out again to start work. He does a visual sweep over the cafe, looking for any customers who look like theyâre not enjoying their experience, any spills, or display sets that are out of order. He walks over the small side table that houses a meticulously stacked set of shining chrome thermoses with the minimalist cafe logo embossed at the bottom. One of the containers is leaning precariously out of alignment and threatening to spill the entire arrangement on the poor girl working studiously nearby. Quietly, he walks over, making sure not to walk too loudly and startle the customer.
It takes a careful hand, but he manages to organize the display pyramid once more without too much clanking. A quick glance to the side informs him that youâre not a regular customer. Heâs come in to work every single day since the cafe open 15 months ago, and heâs certain heâs memorized all the familiar and loyal faces. Another glance tells him that you havenât bought anythingâjudging by the lack of pastry crumbs, crumpled soiled napkins, empty drinks or characteristic ring of perspiration on the table surface. But youâre clearly deep enough into your work that you canât have just arrived either. Jin shakes his head with a reminiscing smile. College students and their desperation for a place to work. He debates going over having one of the baristas tell you that loitering isnât allowed, but since youâre new and still a potential customer he leaves to go brew a cup of coffee instead of shooing you away.
The sound of a text notification from your mother inquiring about how youâre doing disrupts your tunnel vision. You finish uploading your CV onto an online application to a research facility in the nearby city and shoot her back a text telling her youâre at the new cafe in town. Her responding notification comes quickly, the first few lines asking âisnât that where your friend-â before cutting off. Before you answer her, you figure you should stretch your legs as an excuse to buy a sugary drink. You stand up and push out your chair, about to turn around and head to the counter, but your chair bumps against something. The something yelps and takes a few shuffled steps back. You turn with imploring hands already out, ready to apologize and curse yourself for being too in your own world. Youâre not expecting to see Kim Seokjin standing behind you with a takeaway coffee and fixings looking equally shocked to see you.
âJin? Oh my god, I havenât seen you in so long!â A smile splits your face and you gesture towards your table while clearing some of your stuff to the side so he has some room to put his things down.
âI know. I was wondering if you were gonna be one of those people who skips town forever after they leave for college, but I guess youâre not.â
âNo, thatâs not quite me,â you duck your head bashfully, âWhat about you? Do you work around here?â The takeaway coffee sits in front of him, steaming. He looks to be on his way out. âOr is that where youâre headed now?â
âThis is actually for you,â he chuckles. âBut if Iâd known the free-loader sitting out here without buying anything was you, I would'vr run down to a Starbucks and got you one of those candy drinks instead of this blonde roast.â
âI see youâre still a coffee snob.â You take the coffee anyway, though. A rigorous four years at college made you less discriminatory about your caffeine choices. If it would keep you up, you would drink it. That being said, you still hate the taste of plain coffee and are immediately grateful when you notice the sugar shaker and tiny cream pitcher that Jin brought to the table as well.
âI see you still have the palate of 4 year old.â His nose wrinkles as he watches you ruin the perfect coffee he made for you with too much cream and a heinous amount of sugar.
You stick your tongue out at him before taking a careful sip of the hot drink. It tastes like hot, coffee-flavored ice cream, so youâre satisfied.âIf youâre not going to work, what brings you here?â
âThis is my work. I own this place,â he says with a smirk and grand sweeping movement of his arm towards the rest of the cafe. You look at the storeâs logo printed in metallic yellow characters throughout the spaceâGoldJin Coffee. Your eyes widen and you look back down at your blonde roast. Blonde roastâŚgolden coffeeâŚGoldJin Coffee. You groan at the horrible pun and his sudden squeaking laugh tells you heâs delighted that you get the joke.
âI see your sense of humor is still terrible. Good to know,â you deadpan.
âBut the coffee is good. You gotta admit itâs good.â
âIt is,â you nod as you take another sip, eyes closing partially at the taste and partially at his awful dad-sensibility. âI guess it has to be if youâre going to found this place on such a shitty joke.â
He leans in conspiratorially, making you lean in too. âIf Iâm being honestâŚwhen I explained the joke on the company instagram page, we lost 20 followers. But the sales never dipped, so Iâm fine.â He waits until youâve put your cup down before asking, âWhat about you. Are you working?â
âYeah. Well, actually no. Iâm trying to find some work for the summer, but I was also applying for longer-term jobs before you came over.â
âI heard you were working at the BTU marine department,â he says with furrowed brows. You sigh at the mention of the internship again.
âI was, but theyâve decided to give actual BTU students priority. Which I totally understand. But I need money, so I canât really afford to do a free internship right now. Hence the frantic job applications during my precious summer break.â
âOh, well why donât you work at the country club? My dad says that they could use some help over there. He still remembers you, Iâm sure.â
âWhat kind of work?â
Although youâre fairly equal-opportunity when it comes to jobs, youâre not about to spend your break picking up after rich people, even if they produced people like your high school friend Jin. He picks up on your wary tone and laughs.
âDonât worry. Itâs nothing too degrading. They need help at the childrenâs pool. Can you still freestyle like you used to?â
He grins at you fondly, fairly sure the answer is yes given that you became friends because he recruited you himself to the swim team in your freshman year. As one of the handful of upperclassmen there, he was assigned to you as your practice and tournament mentor.Â
Memories of the smell of chlorine saturating the air and sunburns on your shoulders dance across your mindâs eye. Almost as if it were happening right then and there, you remember the sound of Jin yelling at you as you pushed your body to slice through the water faster and faster during practices. You remember the feeling of pressing a cold pack to his shoulder after he pulled a muscle training in the weight room too hard and couldnât make it to the very tournament heâd been prepping for. You remember Jin cradling your tear-stained face and laughing with you after you beat your record by more than you could have ever imagined. You remember the two of you sharing a seat and blanket on the bus during winter meets. You remember Jin sneaking into the girlâs bathroom to bring you the tampons you left in your locker only to get caught by Lisa, the girls team coach, and forced to do 50 laps.Thereâs no way you could forget any of that.
Your eyes get a little misty. âHell yeah, I do.â
âGreat,â he says after a beat. âIf you pass the lifeguard test and get picked, it pays 20 an hour and some of the parents leave tips.â
âAre you serious? Since when do people tip lifeguards?â
He shrugs. âItâs the country club. They do it because they can. Theyâre testing today at four, you know.â
You check your phone and see that you have just enough time to run back to your house to grab some swim stuff and get to the club in time for the test. Pulling out a 10 dollar bill, you thank the universe for sending Jin to you in this hour of financial need.
âHereâs a 10. I donât know how much this coffee costs, but knowing you itâs probably overpriced.â
âYou donât have to payââ he gapes before you cut him off with a smile and dismissive hand wave.
âJust take the money, Jin. Iâm going over there right now. Wish me luck.â
He can only nod, picking up the empty sugar packets and wiping down the few stray droplets of cream you left on the table while you pack. Youâre out the door before he can actually get any words of encouragement out, but heâs certain you wonât need it. Itâs not until he comes back with a spray bottle to properly clean the table and sees the 10 dollar bill that he realizes he probably should have warned you who you might see at the pool.
The pool, as it happens, has its own sector at the club and its own parking lot. Both the regular pool and the kiddie pool look onto the rolling green of the golf course that is rumored to have won national gardening competitions. The parking spaces are ample and you are glad for this. For some reason you feel it would be doing your vehicle a disservice if you were forced to park it next to what looked like a 2020 Bentley. Driving in your fatherâs two digit year-old compact car past the valet makes you realized itâs been a while since youâve been on the wealthier side of town.
You reminisce as you follow the signs that lead you to the lifeguard test. The last time you were in the area, it was for Jinâs graduation party. There had been a large, beautiful, and somehow legal bonfire in the backyard of the Kim residence. It was probably one of the most genuinely entertaining parties youâd gone to, beating out nearly all of the drunk raves youâd attended during college. Most of the guests were family friends of the Kims, but the rest were swim team members. Given that youâd all become comfortable with one another while in a near-constant state of wetness and undress, there were no awkward party jitters. You all drank from red Solo cups and bonded over stories about Jin since he was the man of the hour. It would have been a perfect party if not for one person. Almost on command, you can feel your heart-rate spike at the thought of the most annoying boy you had ever encountered. He had been invited to the party as well and spent the whole night trying to get your attention, not unlike how he behaved when you were in classes together. You try to remain calm before the swim test and force the annoying memories back to the corner of your mind. Lucky for you, he wouldnât ever bother you again.
When you finally make your way out of the winding womenâs changing room, youâre greeted by the sight of crystalline blue water ebbing gently within the large outdoor pool. A gathering of about 8 other people are chattering amongst themselves while a single lifeguard looks over a clipboard. Most of them turn as you approach and you nod a bit shyly before the lifeguard checks the time and decides to begin the test. Any other time, you would be nervous but this isnât an ordinary test environment. The only feeling swimming and being in water can give you is a sense of deep calm. This proves to give you a leg up because not even 5 minutes into the directions two people leave after the lifeguard says the pressure of the job isnât for those who freeze up while stressed. More people end up getting cut when they ask you all to tread water without using your arms for 5 minutes. Suddenly you are glad that you kept a regular swim schedule in college to maintain your stress. Your arms are burning by the time they ask you to retrieve a brick from the 10 foot portion of the pool floor, but you make it through. By the end, there are only 3 other people who have finished with you.
Youâre blotting at your skin with the towel you brought, waiting for your legs to stop feeling like lead so you can go back to the car, when the head lifeguard approaches you.
âI was paying special attention to you out there,â she says. Her voice doesnât sound indicting, but it doesnât sound laudatory either. Sheâs a stern looking woman, probably in her mid 30âs. Her nametag reads Stella, but you have a hunch thatâs not her real name. âHave you done this before?â
âYeah,â you wrap yourself protectively in your towel, her gaze making you feel transparent. âMy highschool coach used to make us take this test every year if we wanted to get on varsity and stay there. And I was the gym lifeguard during the weekends in college.â
Sheâs silent for a beat and squints, taking in your open expression. âWere you one of Sunâs pupils?â
âYeah, you know him?â
âOf course. He was my coach too. You can always tell when someone has trained under him. Itâs like their stress is water soluble or something.â She finally cracks a grin and you smile, relieved that she doesnât have a bone to pick with you. âYou know CPR?â
You nod and she smiles wider before lowering her voice to a whisper. âI like you. Iâll tell you a secret. We already had the first lifeguard picked out, but we needed a second one to meet pool standards.â You nod with understanding. Â âYou just got hired.â
âThank you so much. You wonât regret it.â Stella tosses her head back at your earnest confessions. âWhen can I start?â
âTomorrow, if you can. But first come meet the other guy that way you all can start building rapport. You might know him. Heâs another one of Sunâs kids. Small world, huh?â
She walks over to the lifeguard lounge and calls into the back.
âHey! Send Jung out, will you? We found another Sun kid for the little pool, I want them to meet.â
A few moments later a guy with bright orange hair stumbles out of the lounge, wearing the standard red trunks and a matching life vest. When heâs only a few meters away your heart plummets into your stomach. Jung Hoseokâs eyes light up in recognition and he gives you a bright smile.
âHey, long time no see,â he chirps. When you donât say anything Stella raises a brow and coughs a little awkwardly. You speak up, remembering the job at stake.
âHey, Hoseok.â Stella claps a heavy hand on your shoulders, sensing the tension in the way your voice shrinks over the syllables of his name.
âWell, clearly you kids know each other. Hoseok here can tell you about the hours and the jobs you have when youâre not on the chair. If there are any issues, come to me.â No one says anything, so she adds, âIâll leave you both to it,â before heading to the lounge.
You watch her leave to avoid making eye contact with him, but when she disappears into the lounge Hoseok pipes up.
âThis is really crazy, isnât it?â
âYeah, it really is.â A headache is building in your temples at the sound of his voice. Despite the fact that itâs deepened after nearly a decade, it still elicits the same curl of annoyance under your skin. âStella said you can tell me about the hours and stuff?â
He doesnât seem to pick up on your clipped, overly polite tone. âTotally. So, we come in at 7am, six days a week, and open up the little pool and put out the ropes.You know, stuff coach Sun would make us do if we were on our phones during practice, remember?â
You nod, eyes closed and the pinching the bridge of your nose.
âThen weâll be up in the chairs for 90 minutes at a time. If no one gets hurt, then we can take 20 minutes to swim or take sun breaks. We close 3 hours early on Sundays, though. Oh yeah! They have sunblock and water in the lounge that we can use whenever so you donât have toâwhatâs wrong? Are you ok?â
It seems easier to let him escort you to a bench by the poolside than to yell at him about personal space. Besides, under the clean scent of his deodorant, he smells like the the pool and sunscreen and sun warmed skin. The smell actually settles your nerves a bit and your migraine wanes enough for you to open your eyes.
Unsurprisingly, Jung Hoseok is leaning too closely into your space, but itâs been so long that the instinct to bark at him seems to have died away. Up close you can see, from a purely objective standpoint of course, that time has been kind of him. The faded orange of his hair tells you it must have been been dyed a while ago. The water probably also took its toll on his hair judging by the way his hair waves. Clearly, heâs already spent plenty of time in the sun because his hair has somewhat natural looking, almost blond, highlights and his skin is a smooth expanse of warm brown, free of the pimples he had during adolescence.Â
The bright red life vest doesnât hide much of his upper half, which is lean and sculpted, the hint of abs visible as he curls towards you. But this is Jung Hoseok, so you quickly stop your clinical appraisal of his body and go back to politely looking at his face. The first thing you notice is that the characteristic set of braces he wore all through high school are gone and leave only a straight, white smile in its wake. You note that the little beauty mark that rests above his lip is still there. Duly noted. His face is still as annoyingly not-ugly as it has always been, though his jaw has filled out more along with everything else thatâs broadened with age. You suppose you shouldnât be surprised that Jung Hoseok had to grow up eventually. At least physically. Emotionally and mentally speaking, his growth has yet to be determined.
A water bottle suddenly appears in your face, nearly poking you in the eye. His grace, you decide, has not improved at all.
âSeems like you still get headaches if you push yourself too hard in the pool,â he says with a soft smile.
âWhat would you know about that,â you grumble, tone on the verge of impolite.
âYou always used to get them when you were trying to shave your times. It was always kinda sad to watch.â
âYeah, wellâŚâ You canât think of anything to say. Clearly, he was observant, because you were good at hiding your ailments from the team. âWhat were you saying about swim breaks?â
He starts up again, telling you about where you could order your swimsuit and where you could get free snacks in the country club and that playing with the kids was the fastest way to get tipped. Your headache lessens as you continue to drink and let him chatter on in the background. After a while he exhausts all the knowledge he acquired after being on payroll for a week and your legs feel sturdy enough that you can walk back to the car. You stand, towel forgotten until it falls at your feet revealing your bathing suit clad figure. Fortunately, you wore one of your more conservative swimsuits since this was technically a job interview of sorts, but even in your one-piece you feel exposed in front of Hoseok. Nothing is subtle about the way his gaze follow the curves of your body or the way his mouth and eyelids drop slightly while staring. When he finally makes his way back up to your face, your fiery gaze and hot cheeks are enough for him to avert his eyes quickly.
âGuess you havenât changed at all,â you mutter before pulling the towel back around you more securely and marching back to the car.
Jin has just served his last Goldilatte of the day when you coming bursting through the door. The bell alerting that a customer has arrived rattles shrilly and he curses himself for not just sending you a warning text, but he thought he had more time. He opens one eye cautiously to see you seething in front of him with dripping wet hair and a damp looking hoodie. There is still a little comfort for him, knowing that youâre not tall enough to climb over the cake display and throttle him.
âDid you or did you not know that Jung Hoseok was also taking the lifeguard position? Answer truthfully and I wonât cause an even bigger scene in the middle of your cafe.â
Knowing you, you probably wouldnât actually cause a scene but he still checks behind your shoulder cautiously and sees that some patrons have taken off their ever-present headphones to eavesdrop on the conversation. With the poise of a businessman, he silently removes his apron and comes from behind the counter to guide you to his office for some privacy. You sit back in the chair facing him, pouting at him expectantly.
âI did know. My father mentioned it while we were having dinner last week.â
âAnd you didnât think to tell me.â
âHonestlyâŚI just forgot. The cafe is busy and it had been a week since he told me, so it was kind of just old news. I certainly wasnât expecting to run into you. If you had let me know you were back in town sooner, I would have probably remembered to tell you.â
âSo this is my fault now?â
âNo, but I donât think anyone is really at fault. How bad was it? Seeing him, I mean.â
Your mouth is open and youâre ready to complain about Hoseok just like the old days, but you canât think of anything heâd actually done wrong while you were at the pool. In fact, heâd been welcoming...in his own way. Heâd always been a close talker, even in high school, and if it werenât him you wouldnât be bothered. Heâd even offered you water after noticing your headache.
âDo you remember the headaches I used to get,â you blurt out. Jin startles a bit at your outburst.
âWhat headaches?â
âI used to get really bad exertion headaches during practices.â Jinâs confused look has you brushing it off. âThat was random, sorry.â
âOkay. Well, it sounds like he didnât ask you out a million times, so maybe he grew up.â His hands spread in the air like the problem has dissipated into the atmosphere.
âB-but he still checked me out today when I dropped my towel. I had a bathing suit on and he looked like his eyes were going to fall out. What well-adjusted grown man acts like that?â You purposely leave the fact that you gave him a good look over as well. But thatâs because what you did was differentâŚ
âLook,â he says, laying a sympathetic hand on yours, âHeâs probably just going through all the feelings he had last when you were around. Iâm sure heâll get used to your presence and then realize the feelings are old and move on.â
The finality of the idea should be comforting to you, but something about the edges of it gnaws at you unpleasantly. You canât figure out what it is about the idea that bothers you so much even as you drive your car back to your house, taking the scenic routes so you have time to ruminate and can stay out with the sun a bit longer. Breaking the news about your new cushy job at the country club pool gives your mind a break from the emotional puzzle because the relief that washes over your parents when you tell them your rate of pay makes you proud. But once youâve had your fill of scrolling through social media and are tucked away in your bed, you canât stop thinking about Jung Hoseok.
It would be less confusing if hindsight wasnât 20/20. Looking back, you realize that maybe you made Hoseok out to be a bit more of a nuisance than he actually was. Youâd gone to the same elementary school once upon a time. And youâd had quite a few play dates at each otherâs houses when you were really young, but that changed when you turned 12. He moved away for middle school because his parents wanted him at a new place where he could dance. On the night before heâd moved away, youâd both cried in each otherâs arms and when your father finally came to pick you up, youâd kissed his cheek and told him not to forget you. Heâd squeezed you hard and said he wouldnât. Two years later, you were starting high school and heard rumors that he had come back and was staying. You remembered your wish and hoped then that he hadnât forgotten, but it seemed that he must have. He was a completely different person.
On the first day of each year, an assembly for all the students was held so that new students who didnât come from the local middle school could come up and be seen and welcomed.Â
Heâd been up on the stage and heâd looked so different that you almost didnât recognize him as he crossed in front of your spot on stage as one of the new student tour guides. As he passed you, he made eye contact with you, making hope bloom in your chest. After everyone was seated, each new student was asked to come up when their name was called and stand so the student body could see them. At the sound of Hoseokâs name, a deep and raucous applause coming from a few of the boys in the audience sounded. You could recognize the voices of some of the boys in the crowd, the rowdier ones that caused trouble for teachers but remained like idols in the eyes of many students. That they had taken Hoseok in surprised you. He didnât seem like their type of recruitâhe was too open and caring. The principle then asked the student tour guides to come up to the front of the stage and introduce themselves as well, and you suddenly worried youâd stutter or do something to make the kids in the audience act up again. Your clothing choice, your hairstyle, your gait all suddenly became potential areas for critique as you walked to the microphone, but it was too late then. You just had to make sure you gave a normal introduction.
âHello. I am one of the student guides. If you have any questions and you see me, donât be afraid to come up and ask.â
A false sense of security settled over you when you just got regular polite applause. It was a short introduction, and it was ordinary enough that no one could say anything. You gave a quick curtsy to the audience, as was encouraged of students when they were on stage, and a long low wolf-whistle sounded out. Blood rushed to your face and you turned quickly to find the source. Hoseok froze mid-whistle, not expecting you to turn around before he was through. At least he had the decency to look ashamed, but it didnât do anything to assuage the rolling laughter that was coming from not only the rowdy boys in the back of the auditorium, but most of the students below. With flaming cheeks, you rushed back to your seat with the other guides. One nice girl assured you that your uniform skirt more than long enough to cover anything and that you didnât actually flash anyone, but that wasnât your concern. Instead, you were dealing with the fact that your last words to Hoseok as a friend hadnât meant anything.
After the speech, he tried to find you. But he couldnât. You were lost in the sea of students leaving the assembly and his new friends were too excited about how well the joke went to let him go. He endured a few playful headlocks and punches until he made up a solid excuse about not wanting to stick around for the principal to find him. They all dispersed after that, but he never got the chance to tell you it was just a joke, that it was just what he needed to do to get into their clique. He never got the chance to apologize, to tell you that he still remembered what you told him. He was certain that if he could just get a moment alone with you, he would be able to right his wrong, but you were determined to never give him the time of day again.
Because you hadnât given your name in your introduction speech, no one really knew it was you on the first day of school who seemingly flashed the new students, but you still couldnât shake off the other conflicting feelings. It seemed that from that moment on, the universe was determined to put you near Hoseok so you could never get peace of mind. He was in so many of your classes, always trying to be desk partners, study buddies, lab mates and youâd thwarted all the offers that you could. When you couldnât avoid him, you tried your best not to chat to him. You would hiss at him if he attempted conversations, about movies you liked or music you listened to, or asked you if you still liked things he remembered from when you were both young. Every time you would shut him down, but he seemed fueled by that. He followed you everywhere. He even followed you to swimming.
Two weeks later, on the day of tryouts, you saw Hoseok sitting on the bleachers next to your recruiter and went back into the changing rooms immediately to put on a t-shirt, knowing it might slow your times and keep you from getting on the team. But it was worth the protection from him wolf-whistling or any other form of public humiliation he had for you. The shirt worked for a few laps since you were pushing yourself to go harder than usual to make up for the drag in the water, but the coach pulled you aside and told you that there was nothing to be ashamed of and that the shirt was slowing your times and there were no shirts allowed at races. Averting your eyes from the rest of the students watching the drama unfold, you pulled off your shirt and swam your heart out for the rest of the day, putting all your anger and embarrassment into the laps until you were gasping. Youâd made it onto the team, but it almost didnât feel worth it when you saw that he would also be on the team with you.
Your phone chimes, alerting you that you should go to sleep soon if you want 7 hours before getting up with the chickens the next morning for your first day of work. Sighing, you turn over in your sheets, suddenly too hot. When you wake up in the morning, you realize you dreamt of something, but the only thing you can remember is the very end. You recall being 13 and running from something in your high school hallways and into a pair of warm brown arms. The clock on your phone tells you that you have 6 more minutes of sleep, but you resist the tease of a micro nap and hop in the shower instead. Itâs not until youâre back out and clean that you realize your work uniform isnât coming until the next day and your only one-piece is still wet because you forgot to switch the laundry loads. Groaning, you hunt for your most demure suit and find some high waisted bottoms and a sportier cut top from your dresser and hope for the best.
The sun is out and high when you arrive at the little pool. Youâre already sweating in the hoodie you threw over yourself as last minute effort to cover up. On the other side of the lattice gate separating the two pools, Hoseok sees you walking in. He gives you a big wave and runs back inside to come greet you, bangs bouncing when he runs over. Heâs amazingly chipper for someone at 7 in the morning but tones it down a bit when he sees that you look like you had a rough night.
âReady to lay out the ropes?â His eyes are big and bright, and most importantly, on your face.
âSure.â
You follow him through the lounge, taking in the stacks of boxes of pools supplies and the senior lifeguards drinking coffee or dozing off since the larger pool doesnât open until a little later. Stella gives you a thumbs up from her little glass cubicle where sheâs on the phone. Hoseok jumps into the water, already in his typical red board shorts with the club logo embroidered onto them, and swims with the dividing rope across the width of the pool.
âYou should come in. The water feels great and itâll be the only time today its not filled filled with peopleâs pee.â
Trying to remember Jinâs theory, you push down the instinctual suspicion towards him wanting you to get in the pool with him. To aid some of your nerves you turn around before stripping out of your hoodie and jump quickly into the water before swimming a casual distance over to him. Not too close but not too far.
âSo, what made youââ
âAbout yesterdayââ
The corner of your mouth tugs up in spite of yourself when you both start talking at the same time. You gesture for him to go first and he looks at you a bit nervously before continuing.
âI didnât mean to make you uncomfortable.â
âItâs fine,â you assure him, focusing on the silly way his hair lays flat against his head to diffuse the tension. âItâs only natural to look at stuff for a second when it justâŚappears.â
âNo, no. I mean, thereâs no real excuse for it. I guess I stillââ
âI get it, it was a knee jerk reaction to something youâre used to doing. Itâs cool. Itâs been years. The slate is clear. Letâs just forget about it and make this not awkward.â
âBut it wasnât justââ
His cryptic speech sends you into a panic and you do the first thing that comes to mind, which is curl into fetal position so you can dunk yourself underwater. You drop a few feet to the bottom of the pool, knowing that he can still completely see you and reach you. A hand curls around your arm, surprising a few bubbles out of you, and pulls with an impressive amount of strength. At the surface you gasp out of indignation and wipe your eyes.
âShit! Sorry, that was a lot but I really would like to explainââ
âI swear to god, Jung, if you donâtââ
âI didnât forget about you,â he says suddenly with a small voice. The water around you appears to have nearly frozen in response to the tension in the air. Not even the smallest ripple dares tip the tenuous balance of the moment.
Your breath hitches and you wonder if maybe you both stayed up thinking about the same thing last night. But that couldnât be it. That would be too much of a coincidence.
Hesitation has his arm trembling as he reaches out towards your stiff form. Maybe you wonât run away this time and he can get everything out. But the movement of his arm breaks your stupor and sends you stumbling back a foot in the water. The palms of his hands come up as a sign that heâs not trying to hurt you.
âDo you remember before I left for middle school? What you said to me that night? Because I do. And I didnât break my promise, I didnât forget you.â
âYou sure about that?â
âWhat? Of course I didnât. Donât you remember all the times I tried to talk to you and start where we left off?â
âYou may not have forgotten about me,â you practically spit the words at him, âBut you broke your promise to me the minute you pulled that shit at the student assembly.â He winces and you feel emboldened. âAnd letâs not forget that stunt you pulled in the cafeteria in the front of literally everyone.â
Hoseok enters the lunchroom with his friends and automatically scans the room for you.
âYou looking for your girlfriend, Jung?â
âNo need. I already know where you mom lives,â he says lightly, still searching for your a glimpse backpack or the blue tracksuit you wore that day for the race you had later.
He finds you in the lunchline, debating between milk and water while the student in front of you haggles for an extra serving. Running over, he uses the intimidation factor of him and his two larger friendsâ presence to cut in front of the student behind you.
âYou should pick the chocolate milk. Itâs your favorite.â
He can practically see hairs on your neck stand up when you hear his voice and heâs certain that if you had claws they would be out and poking holes through the little cardboard container in your hand. You put the carton back down in its ice bucket and take a water.
âCoach said dairy will slow us down,â your answer is curt as you move forward in the line. The lunch lady loads up your tray how you ask and you run to the cash register to pay before he can even pick up the milk.
Steeling himself with determination, he follows behind, trying to make sure he doesnât lose sight of you. When he gets to the register, all he sees is your ID card where you left it in your hurry. Quickly he retrieves it and looks over the cafeteria, watching your head bob away. He finds you soon after, seated at the end of the swimming table next to Jin. His two friends follow behind more slowly, one carrying his tray.
âYou ready for the race, squirt?â Jin puts chicken strip on your plate as he usually does, worried about your protein intake.
âI think so. If I get to the gym early to stretch it should be fine,â you mutter thoughtfully around your fork.
âIâll go with you and we can do some circuits together.â You look to your left to see Hoseok smiling brightly, his braces glinting in the fluorescent lighting.
âThis table is full. Youâll have to sit with your mob boss at his table,â you snark. Jin is about to intervene and give you both the talk about team inclusivity when Hosoek playfully brandishes your ID inches away from your face.
âCome sit with us and you can have this back.â At sight of the plastic card, you pat the pockets of your suit frantically before coming up short. You stand up. Youâre sick of Jung Hoseok always bugging you.
âGive it back,â you say lowly so only he can hear.
Youâre already making a scene by standing in the middle of the cafeteria, but people donât notice just yet because the lunch period has just started and plenty of others are still getting settled.
âCome sit with me, and I will.â
âI donât want to sit with you. Just give me the card.â
âNot until you sit with me.â
The way your heartbeat picks up probably isnât healthy, but youâre so frustrated that youâre ready to burst. You try playing his own game, seeing if embarrassing him will get him to comply.
âWhy are you always following me around, huh?â Your voice cuts through most of the chatter and people quiet down to turn ans watch the two of you. âDo you have a crush on me or something?â
A hush of low murmurs runs through the room and you can hear people giggling to themselves. Even though it was supposed to target him, you face still feels hot.
âYeah, I do.â
The crowd erupts at his boldness. The same boys from the day of the assembly cheer him on. You stand there, shocked and humiliated. Being inexperienced when it came to crushes meant that you were completely unaware that all of Hoseokâs constant bothering might have been him trying to get you on his arm. Angry tears rapidly fill your waterline and you have to work hard to keep a straight face so you donât completely break down in front of the student body. You keep your face turned towards him so as not to let anyone else know that youâre crying. Hoseokâs expression goes from proud of finally confessing to you to horrified at seeing you cry. The smile he had slips off immediately and is replaced with terror and he can only look up at Jin helplessly as he comes up behind you. The upperclassman holds out his hand, in which Hoseok places your ID. Jin silently takes your tray from you and lets you bury your face in his matching tracksuit top to hide from the gossiping onlookers.
âItâs okay,â Jin says softly. Hoseok only hears a pathetic high noise leave you before youâre back at your table, clutching at Jin with your shoulders heaving from embarrassment.
His friends tug on his sleeve until they get him to stumble blindly over to their table.
âDidnât know you had it in you, Jung.â One of the boys says, eying your table with a mean smile.
âHow come you have two milks,â another asks before quickly stealing the brown carton marked âchocolateâ off his tray.
Thanks to a great deal of suppression, you hadnât thought of that fateful day in the cafeteria for years. But itâs crystal clear in your memory now. Your hands are balled up under the waterâs surface and theyâre shaking with unresolved rage and pity for your 14 year-old self.
âI can explain that too.â He runs a hand through his hair, wetting it again and turning it a deep russet.
âOf course you can. Nothing is ever your fault.â
You swim away from him before stalking to the lounge. The sound of a second set of splashes lets you know that heâs following after you, but you donât care. Stella has finished with her phone call by the time you make your way to her cubicle. You knock harshly on the glass door and several other life guards can sense something is wrong as they watch Hoseok come dripping over.
âWhat is it, kid?â Stella looks quickly between your thunderous expression and Hoseokâs defeated one.
âSomethingâs come up. I have to go. I just wanted to let you know so someone could cover my shift. Maybe I can come back some other time and cover a shift at the big pool.â You turn on your heel and leave, not even bothering to rinse off in the showers or pat yourself dry with a towel.
Stella and Hoseok watch you storm off. When the sound of your carâs engine starts, she turns to him.
âExplain yourself. Now.â
Usually, you would have your phone connected to the carâs speaker system with an aux cord to listen to some music while driving and enjoying the scenic small town roads. But bumping heads with Hoseok like old times calls for silence instead.
Rumbling in your stomach reminds you that you skipped breakfast to get to work on timeâa bad habit that college had instilled in you. You decide to head to the grocery store and pick something fast up for lunch before heading home and taking an anger nap. Sleep probably wonât solve your problems, but your sure that about 8% of your irritation is from having gotten up so early after such a shitty nightâs sleep.
Halfway to the grocery store you see your mother walking on the sidewalk, carrying recyclable shopping bags. You honk and pull over so she can ride with you.
âWell, isnât this a nice surprise.â
âHi, mom."
The smile you give her is small, but genuine as her cheery mood lightens yours a bit. Being your mother, though, she can still tell somethingâs wrong as you drive through the narrow roads slower than normal. While playing hooky, no less.
âAre you going to tell me why youâre not at the country club for your first day of work or would you rather I talk to you about the weather?â You sigh, but decide that itâs better to rant instead of keeping everything bottled up.
âItâs nothing too big, really. Thereâs just a classmate at work that Iââ
âOh, yes! Little Jung Hoseok, right? Poor thing. I just saw his mother this morning while I was mowing the lawn and she stopped for a chat. She told me all about his-,â she stops to search for the right word, âhis rough patch when he was younger.â
You chuckle dryly. âShe told you about that?â
âYes! She told me all about the hard time he had when he moved away. I canât believe they bullied him out of the dance academy. All because they were jealous he was a presidential scholar invited from outside the district. Poor baby. Frankly, I canât believe you knew and didnât say anything all this time.â
The light changes from yellow to red faster than youâre ready for and you hit the brakes a little too hard as you process what your mother told you.
âI, uh, thought you were talking about something else. I didnât know about that part.â You try to sound as casual as possible, knowing that with the right prompting tone, your mother will let out all the secrets like a floodgate. âWhat else did Mrs. Jung say?â
âShe said that was the reason he came back to the neighborhood high school. Apparently, he would cry himself to sleep. Said he knew he couldnât do the rest of the program at the high school, but they begged him to stay for middle school. And he did, but as soon as it was over he transferred back here.â
You pull into the parking lot slowly so you donât have to devote too much attention to parking correctly and can listen to all the details.
âBut it sounds like things didnât get better right then. He fell in with some of those wild kids. I think one of them was that Kim Taehyungâs older brother. Gorgeous boy, ugh. What ever happened with him. Did he go to college?â
âMom, wait. What about Hoseok?â You drag her by the arm into the lobby of the store, carrying the basket on your other arm.
âThatâs right. Hoseok. What was I saying?â She turns to look at you after she throws some lettuce in the basket.
âYou were saying he got involved with the wrong crowd?â
âRight, right. Well she said that when he came back during the summer he started hanging around with them. At first it didnât seem so bad because she and his father were just glad he finally had friends and he didnât seem to be misbehaving much. Just following them around because he was invited. You know, stuff like that.â
She hands you the grocery list while gesticulating with the flow of the story and you scramble to grab the items from the aisle youâre in while she wanders off. You have to chase her without spilling the contents of the basket.
âBut once school started, she said he started acting out. He would get pulled out of class with those kids for being disruptive, and she said one particular student was always asking the teacher to separate them because he wouldnât leave her alone.â You blush, realizing sheâs describing you. âIf it werenât for the fact that most of the teachers knew what he was really like from elementary school, Iâm sure they would have locked him in detention for the whole four years.â
You feel sad for Hoseok, but thereâs also a pang of guilt forming in your gut. âDid she say why they didnât? Punish him, I mean.â
âI think she said something about when they asked him why he kept bothering that student, he said he was just trying to get them to remember him. They felt bad because he was trying to get his friend back. So they just gave him warnings.â
âWell,â you say, trying to keep your voice sounding light and uninvolved as you play devilâs advocate, âEven if his intentions were good, shouldnât the teacherâs have taken stricter action? Since he was making that girl uncomfortable and all?â
You mother stops her stroll through the frozen food aisle to turn back at you and fix you with an unreadable look.
âNormally, I would right there with you on that. But I remember little Hoseok when you all used to play on the rug in the living room. He would come in from outside and put the flowers he picked in your hair and tell you that you looked like the fairies in his books at home. Bullying can sure harden someone, but I donât know if it can completely change who they are. At least, it doesnât sound like thatâs what happened here. Seeing as, once he came back, he made a beeline straight for his favorite person. Every chance he got.â
She plucks the list out of your grasp and steps forward to stand in front of you. When she lays a hand on your cheek, you canât meet her gaze. Instead you look down at the way her loafers point directly towards your sneakers.
âHow is Hoseok, by the way?â She turns her back to you and looks for the frozen bags of fruit that you always use in your smoothies.
âHe seems a lot better,â you answer back honestly.
After arriving back at your house and helping your mom, your hands itch and you find yourself feeling restless. Talking things out with your mom would probably help, but you donât want to feel small and fourteen again while you do it. Jinâs work schedule is still a mystery to you, but you guess that heâs the type of boss to come in most days, if not everyday, and drive over there to see if he has time for you.
Jin takes in the way your shoulders hunch as you walk into the door and immediately starts up on a warm drink he knows will cheer you up. It involves too much milk, cocoa powder, a disgusting amount of whipped cream and chocolate shavings. He has to pull back his coffee snob persona while he makes it. But the way you immediately run a finger through the mountain of cream, eating half of it in one breath, tells him that youâre not broken beyond repair.
âWhatâs wrong?â
âDo you think thatâŚmaybe I was, I donât know, too hard on Hoseok when we were in school?â
âAbsolutely,â he says with zero hesitation. When your eyes widen with uncovered guilt and your mouth drops open, heâs quick to amend his statement. âI mean, you have every right to be mad about the times he put you on the spot. But I think thereâs things you donât know that would have made it so you both could have been friends in the end.â
âAre you talking about the bullying thing at his middle school?â
âWhat theâhe told you?â
âNo,â you whine and drop your head onto the table, covering your head with your arms. âI found out an hour ago. From my mom, of all people.â
âWow. Moms really do know everything.â
âI know. Itâs annoying.â Jin lets you sulk for a moment before steering the conversation back in the direction it needs to go.
âSo I guess you know about how he kind of fell in with the wrong crew after coming back as a protective strategy, right?â
âYeah, I meanâŚI wasnât sure? But it seemed like thatâs what that was because those kids really didnât seem like his type of friends. I could tell even back then.â You play with the little cardboard sleeve around the still warm cup. Made from 100% biodegradable materials, it reads.
âWithout giving too much awayâbecause this isnât really my secret to tellâletâs just say that they knew he wasnât like them, but they were intrigued enough and wanted to test his loyalty. So to speak.â
You prop yourself up on your elbows, gears turning. âWhat, like frat hazing or something?â
âBingo,â Jin shoots finger guns at you. âThatâs all Iâm gonna give you, though. Iâve already said too much.â He reaches forward and takes a sip of your drink before immediately spitting it back into the cup. âItâs a wonder you still have functioning tastebuds. God, thatâs disgusting. I canât believe I created a monster.â
âThat was my drink, asshole.â
âHey, at least you didnât pay good money for it.â He smirks and you roll your eyes before putting your phone and keys back in your pocket. âYouâre really leaving because of the drink?â
âNo, you narcissist. Iâm going back to work.â
âOh. Gonna go have a Nicholas Sparks moment in the middle of the kiddie pool?â
Confusion pinches at your features. âWhoâs Nicholas Sparks?â
âNo one,â he says quickly. âItâs just, uh, an old saying. Go to work.â He pushes you out of the door quickly before you can ask why he has his lying voice on.
The drive back to the pool feels completely different from the one you took this morning. You donât feel happier, necessarily, but you feel less weighed down by some invisible and perplexing force. For the first time in 48 hours you feel like you can name your feelings a little more clearly. Like you made a mistake, but you also feel like you can fix it.
You make it to the lounge before Stella ambushes you with a firm grip around your arm dragging you away from the entrance to the kiddie pool.
âI see that youâre back and Iâm not going to question you for leaving, because Iâm pretty sure I know why now. You go out there and try and do your job, and Iâll understand if itâs tough for you. But if you pull something like leaving work because itâs hard being star-crossed lovers again, I will give your job to the next person who knows what a pool looks like. Are we clear?â
âYes,â you breathe, not even bothering to correct her assumption that you and Hoseok are star-crossed lovers even though itâs not 100% true. The first step you take is a hesitant one, but when Stella doesnât say anything, you head out to the pool.
Hoseok and some other lifeguard are seated in regular pool chairs because the pool is small enough and shallow enough that they can survey the layout and the tiny swimmers without the added height of the usual chairs. Normally, Hoseok would be chatting away with his shift partner while watching the children swim, but heâs silent as he watches with a hand squishing his cheek, deep in thought. His shift partner looks so bored out of their mind that when you tap their shoulder, they donât even bother looking to see who is replacing them before running to the lounge. He turns when youâve settled and his eyes grow impressively round.
âYou came back?â
You look out to watch a mother sitting at the edge of the pool dunk her babyâs feet in the water. âI needed to talk to you. Or I guess listen and then talk.â
âSo...youâll let me explain?â Incredulity making his words come out slowly.
âYes. But you should know that, uh, your mom told my mom some stuff. And my mom told me. And then Jin from the swim team told me some stuff.â
âHow much do you know?â
âJust the vague things. I heard you had a hard time at the dance academy and that kind of sparked everything.â
âI should still probably start from the beginning, though.â You nod.
âI didnât want to leave. I wanted to continue dance, but I didnât want to leave all the people I met behind just because the school was willing to pay for my tuition. My mom thought it would be big and they convinced me that I could still have friends, while practicing, so I said okay.
But it turned out to be a boarding school thing, so I never got to see anyone from home and when I got there, the instructors treated me special. None of the students there liked that. If Iâm being honest, they kicked the shit out of me a few times. And when they werenât doing that they were putting nails in my dance shoes or locking me in supply closets and the teachers just wanted me to âuse the pain to power my dancingâ. My parents only found out because I started dropping weight really fast and wasnât sleeping enough to be able to make it through the daily practices without fainting. Of course they were mad, but they also thought it was something that would eventually go away when the other kids grew up a little. They thought that it would stop when the high school program begun, but no 12 year-old getting bullied is that patient. I made them a promise that I would wait until the middle school program ended and then I would decide. But it just got worse as time passed.â
âHoseok,â your voice breaks and you realize tears have been threatening to roll down your cheeks without even realizing, âIâm so sorry you had to go through that. I couldnât have been that brave when I was 12.â
âYeah, well, it was all thanks to you. I kept thinking that if I kept dancing, maybe I could get famous and come see you and make you proud. But obviously I didnât make it that far.â
He gives you a bitter smile thatâs so hollow and empty, you almost donât recognize him. Itâs then that you realize every smile heâd given you before this one was genuine. Even the ones he gave you when you when he was bothering you in school.
âW-what happened after the program ended?â It takes a great deal of effort to drag your eyes off his face and go back to looking after the swimmers, but you have no choice. Remembering that youâre at work, you wipe your arm across your eyes quickly so you can see clearly.
âIâd changed, I guess. I think if I stayed any longer I would be a completely different person. I got really dark and kind of mean. Sometimes I would surprise myself with the thoughts I would have, even at that age. Even when it was towards people who had done me wrong.â
âIs that why you started hanging out with those guys?â
He sighs, not proud of himself at the moment. âYeah. I knew that high school would be just as hard for me if I came back with open wounds, so to speak. But I couldnât stay and just keep rotting away. So I made myself a compromise. I would do what it took to get protection so I could eventually get better and not need it anymore. I figured...what better way to do that than to basically get myself a security team? I knew no one would mess with me if I could just find a way into that group.â
âI was wondering about that, to be honest. It didnât make sense that did a kid like you would fall in with kids like them. Like even after all you went through, you still werenât a bully like them.â
âWell, they told me that I would have to prove to them that I had the balls to be in the group. They said it had to be big. The first thing that came to mind was causing a disruption of some sort. Â At an important place.â
âA place like the center stage of the annual new student assembly,â you whisper as the pieces of the puzzle connect. Anger automatically rises at the memory of the day, but you clamp down on it with a few careful breaths. He senses your automatic reaction and winces.
âI hope you know Iâm not telling you all of this so you feel guilty, like you have to forgive me. If it makes you feel any better. Iâve never stopped hating myself for that day.â
You smile darkly. âThat doesnât really make me feel better. But tell me about it anyway.â
âWhen they realized I would be on stage that year, they wanted me to flip a girlâs uniform skirt while I was up there to prove that I could be one of them. I hated the idea. I couldnât even fathom doing it but I said yes at the start because they wouldnât budge on the idea.â
âThat...makes sense. Why me, though?â
âIt wasnât logical. I didnât think you would be up on stage, and when I saw you looking at me, I thought maybe it was worth a shot using you instead of some random girl. Somehow it seemed better to do it to someone I knew than with a stranger.â
âYouâre right. Doesnât sound logical at all,â your tone holds almost palpable annoyance. âBut I can see why that would make sense when youâre stressed and 14. I guess.â
âBut thatâs also why I couldnât go through with the whole skirt flipping thing once I realized it had to be you. I couldnât do that either. I still remember how in fourth grade you would cried every time the teacher called on you and you didnât have the answer. You hate being the center of attention.â
You hum, neither in agreement nor in disagreement. Youâre not quite ready to speak as you consider the situation from his point of view.
âIt was a huge risk. Both not pulling the whole prank and pulling the prank, but it was just enough that they let it slide and let me in. I figured that maybe I could explain it away to you right after, but I couldnât find you.â
âThatâs because I was in the bathroom. Crying my eyes out.â
âGod. Iâm so sorry. You have to at least know that.â
âNo, I know you are.â
âI thought about laying low for a while and giving you some time to cool off, but then we had so many classes together. And I was still planning on giving you some space then, but Iââ he trails off.
âThen you what?â
âThen I saw you up close for the first time in two years and I just couldnât stay away,â he says quietly.
âOh, come on. Arenât you laying it on a little thick?â You roll your eyes and sneer, ignoring the way your heartbeat picked up at the tortured rasp in his words.
âI mean it!â He turns in his seat to you but you nod your head at the pool and then heâs turning back sheepishly. âThe only reason I got through middle school was because I thought about seeing my best friend every day. It had been two years and I was so curious about you and how youâd changed. And I remember thinking how pretty you were. I felt like I was going crazy.â
âYou should have just left me alone. Iâm sure I would have gotten over it after a few days if you gave me some space and we could have talked civilly. Could have avoided all ofâŚthis,â you gesture with your hands to the tense air between you.
âI realized that a little too late, I think. When you didnât want to talk to meâwhich was completely understandable and I deserved itâI was worried you hated me. So I thought that if I just acted like we were 12 again and everything was normal, maybe it would go back to being normal. I guess even though I hadnât changed too much I did get really selfish.â
Part of you agrees that it was kind of selfish for Hoseok not to give you the space you needed. But another part of you thinks back to all the times he âbotheredâ you and you have to ask yourself if you really minded it.
âHoseok, I,â you lower your head so you donât have to face his piercing gaze, âowe you an apology as well.â
âFor what?â
âFor snapping at you. Not the first few times,â you amend. âNot when the embarrassment was still fresh. But after those first few days passed and I was still angry. I wasnât angry about the assembly then. I was angry because I wanted you to tell me sorry and why you would pull such a stupid prank on me. I think it was the waiting that made me resent you. Granted, I was waiting for an explanation you decided you didnât want to give me in the end. An explanation that you owed me.â Â
âI get that,â he says quietly. âLook, I was stupid not to realize you didnât want to talk around it.â
âItâs not all your fault. If I had just told you that I wanted to talk it, things probably wouldnât have gotten bad like they did. I shouldnât have shut you out.â
Your throat feels tight at the end of your confession as you think of all the times you must have unknowingly broken his young heart. Every time youâd denied him when he tried to carry your books. Or walk with you to your locker, to swim practice, to wait for your dad to pick you up at the end of the day. He still attempted all those things, but he did it with you turning to snap at him for doing them every step of the way. How he managed to smile brightly every morning is still a mystery to you. The good thing is that now your chest feels more open and light than it has in years. It feels good to finally understand everything and not hide your frustration. He must sense the new lightness because when he laughs this time its full of mirth, no bitterness weighing it down. Youâre secretly grateful his laugh is still the low hiccuping sound it was when you were children.
âHell, if youâd told me that you wanted the moon, I would have given it to you. If it would bring youâmy friend back to me.â
Clearly, all the issues hadnât been addressed just yet. There was still the fact that he developed a crush on you despite all your snapping during those four years. You feel awkward again, but now its because you donât know how to address his old feelings for you. It would be a shame to let that fester between you as well, so you go straight for the jugular.
âWhat about the dayââ
âIn the cafeteria?â You nod.
Heâs about to hunker down and explain when a two year old whose mother signed them in about an hour ago waddles up to your chairs wordlessly. You move to get up and try and guess which person to call from the sign in sheet but Hoseok simply scoops the child up and plops them in his lap before bouncing a foot so the child bounces with it. The kid laughs and claps, sprinkling some of the pool water dripping off them onto your arm. Despite the heavy conversation, the high, bubbly sound has both of you smiling on command. He removes his sunglasses and gives them to the child to play with.
âI was telling the truth. I knew you were trying to call my bluff, but I was being honest because it had been eating at me. Plus, I was mad, you know?â
âWhy?â
âBecause I knew you hated me. But I justâI couldnât find it in myself to leave you alone at that point. And I knew. I knew you werenât mad anymore about the assembly. I mean it had been years and I knew you didnât care about it at that point.â
âWere you mad because I didnât like you back?â
âNoâŚI really donât think so. I think I was just mad because you were becoming more and more amazing every day and I just sat there and watched. I couldnâtâcouldnât grow with you. You were pretty and athletic and studious and nice⌠when you wanted to be.â
You chuckle and let yourself look at him for a brief moment. Heâs smiling at the child who has now decided to stand in his lap. Hoseokâs orange hair baffles the baby and a chubby hand goes to grab at the strands out of curiosity. He looks handsome, you canât deny it.
In another timeline, in some alternate universe, maybe he could be your best friend and boyfriend today. Maybe seeing him interact with the little kids would have you blushing and thinking about a not too distant future together. Maybe you would be trying to earn money to save up for an apartment together in the city. Maybe this would be a regular day for the two of you and after work he would take you out to dinner and youâd buy him ice cream afterwards and then maybe after that you wouldâŚIf it werenât for everything that happened maybe you wouldâŚyou would.
âWhatâs wrong?â Concern mars his delicate features before he looks over the child to see if the problem lies with them.
âNothing! I was just thinking. Iâm kind of ready for all this to be old news.â
His smile is slow and warm, but subdued. âYouâre not just saying that because my stupid crush made you feel awkward right? Itâs okay if it did. I donât expect anything from you. I know you donât like me like that.â
A protest rises in your throat, but you clamp it down before it can leave you. Youâre not sure what youâre protesting.
âNo. I just want to start over again,â you say after a beat.
You go home that day with a $40 dollar tip that technically wasnât even intended for you.
Almost as soon as you both called for a truce in your near decade war, the child in Hoseokâs arms quickly started crying after realizing their mother was nowhere to be found. You deftly swept them into your arms and rocked them around the pool for the rest of your 90 minute shift, letting them whine quietly into your neck until they dozed off. While Hoseok herded the rest of the children and a few mothers out of the kiddie area, you managed to get the child to tell your their full name so you could narrow down the list of parents to call. Eventually you found the right person and handed the child back to Hoseok so he could distract them further by drawing shapes on his belly with sunscreen. The childâs mother came soon after you hung up and pulled out her wallet as soon as she saw Hoseok playing with her child. He thanked her for the tip and, once she left, went and curled the bills into the palm of your hand, saying âThat was all youâ.
The day closes off quietly. You pack up your things and go to clock out in the lounge, only to find no one else looks like theyâre leaving despite the fact that both pools had closed 20 minutes prior. When you ask what everyone elseâs plans are, Stella informs you that the staff often go to visit the people working in the kitchen to get a free meal in exchange for keeping the pool open for an hour after all the club members left. It was a nice little arrangement that took place every day during the summer.
âYouâll come, right? Itâs free food directly from the chef and his team,â Stella says as she locks her cubicle office.
âI donât know. Arenât they sick of cooking after doing it all day?â
She huffs, âThey cook after the last customer leaves anyway so they can eat too. Itâs not that much trouble to cook for us. Especially when they get to take a swim after being on their feet all day.â
Hoseok steps behind you as people begin to file out of the lounge and head to the club restaurant. âYouâre not avoiding me, are you? I thought we were friends again,â he teases good-naturedly.
âOf course not! I meant what I said, I justâŚâ He looks down at you thoughtfully when you trail off. âMy parents are probably waiting up for me, you know. They wanna know how my first day went and all that.â You say your goodbyes to everyone before heading back to the car knowing that your parents will be out late seeing a movie.
The next morning, you get there before Hoseok, but you have a key to open the gate. So you get ahead on getting the ropes set out on both pools. To kill the time still left before the kiddie pool opens, you try to remember the combination to your employee locker so you can try on the company suit you ordered. It fits well, and the red will go nicely with your skin as the summer progresses and your tan deepens. You do a little spin for the lifeguards laying around the lounge and they humor you and clap sleepily. Stella gives you a thumbs up, busy on the phone in her cubicle as she always is.
Boredom compels you to go and sit in your seat early. With the extra time still left you put on sunscreen. Very carefully. You put on a visor, then decide you donât want to deal with it if it gets wet by chance. Then you put it back on again because why not. Youâre starting to worry that youâll have to do the shift on your own when Hoseok stumbles in with a few parents coming to sign their kids in to the pool.
âSorry,â he throws himself into his seat.
An apologetic frown twists his mouth, but the plushness of his pout goes unnoticed because youâre focused on the smear of white near the hinge of his jaw. You reach out on instinct to wipe it off, but stop midway and gesture to it instead, reeling your hand back in slowly. He wipes at it roughly.
âWhy were you late?â
âGot in a fight with my mom last night. She took the car keys from me so I had to take the bus here. Were you waiting out here long?â
âKind of, yeah.â
He grimaces guiltily and looks up at the sky directly because thereâs no nice, big beach umbrella to shield your heads from the heat like there is for the guards at the adult pool.
âGeez. That must have sucked in this heat.â
âNot really. The sunâs not at its strongest yet. Maybe in a few hours Iâll get mad at you,â you joke.
âPromise?â
âNah. You thought I was mean in high school? You better hope you donât want to see me mad now. Completely different animal.â
âI donât know,â he drawls, a fox-like grin coming out. âI think, if anything, I might have developed a taste for it.â
âEyes on the pool, horndog .â The banter elicits a small smile from you. Itâs only small because youâre working to contain it. You canât believe how easy it is to be around him when youâre not at each otherâs throats.
The day passes by quickly in companionable silence until around noon, when the heat gets almost unbearable. Hoseok suggests then that you move to sit in the actual pool and watch from there. If itâs really just an excuse to watch your red-clad figure move in its entirety for a brief second, you canât tell. The next string of shifts is spent with both of you seated in adjacent corners to let the water lap at you and calm your heated skin. Occasionally a child will make their way over to one of you and youâll play with them for a bit until they get bored or their parents return. The sight of the babies climbing Hoseok to grab little fistfuls of wet, orange hair is heart warming. And the way he scoops them up to blow raspberries against their round cheeks makes something clench in your gut a little, too intense to be the fluttering wings of nervous butterflies. As a distraction you let one curious child attempt to chew on the whistle around your neck. Not like youâll be using it anyway.
âYou gonna duck out again and skip dinner today, too?â
His question comes out of nowhere and startles you from watching a young girl of around 4 years old try to doggie paddle on her back.
âI donât know. I just feel like I donât know anyone enough to be very good company while Iâm there.â
âYou donât have to be a hostess, you can just sit there and eat.â
âBut then it looks like I just came there for the food. I donât want to seem antisocial.â
âYou kind of are, though.â
âYeah, but I donât need the others to know.â
âYou could just talk to me, you know. I meanâŚit would make you look like youâre there for the social activities in addition to the food. And it would make sense if you talked mainly with me since weâre shift partners and have a, uh, history.â
âI guess when you put it like that I donât have much of a choice.â Youâre not quite sulking, but the little waves youâre making with your hands under the water nearly knock a toddler over.
âNo, you donât. Guess youâre stuck with me.â
âGuess so.â
Once the sun sets, you get out of the pool first, worried that youâll have permanently pruny fingers and toes if you sit there any longer. You donât bother toweling off and instead get to work on stuffing the tips you made in the pocket of your hoodie. Hoseok locks the pool from the inside and jogs to catch up with you as you make your way to the gathering of lifeguards and Stella.
The interior of the country club dining room is incredibly lavish and it feels like a crime to walk on the shining wood of the polished floors with some drugstore flip flops you bought and used as shower shoes for the last four years. Thereâs even a table thatâs been freshly cleaned and set that the kitchen staff has laid out for you. A lanky boy who apparently goes by the name of Namjoon comes around to take everyoneâs orders and you stiffen when you realize you donât know the menu.
âWhat are you getting,â you hiss nearly into Hoseokâs armpit as you try to remain calm. Namjoon is leisurely taking peopleâs orders and chatting people up, but you want to be ready when he gets to your end of the table.
âIâm getting the pork cutlets,â he whispers back, to which you hum thoughtfully. Meat seemed like a basic dish to get at such a fine establishment. He seemed to sense your hesitation. âYou might like their shrimp tacos. Still like seafood, right?â
âY-yeah, I do.â He smiles to himself, proud that he still remembers all these little things about you. âI donât know which to get. Shit.â
He chuckles at your frantic tone. âThereâs no need to panic. Iâlll let you have some of mine if you feel like youâre missing out.â
âThanks,â you let out a sigh, head slumping to the side and nudging his arm lightly in the process.
You tell yourself that if it werenât for the way the sun zapped your energy you would be sitting up properly. And you do once Namjoon comes around to your end of the table. You stutter out that youâd like the shrimp tacos and when he responds that thereâs only trout left, you panic and say thatâs fine instead of getting something you know will be good. Like pork cutlets.
âCalm down, I can feel you overthinking things from there,â he whispers after Namjoon returns to the kitchen with the tableâs orders.
âScrew you. Iâm not overthinking.â You burrow further into your artfully upholstered chair and look away from him.
He fixes you with a stare that tells you he doesnât believe that lie for a second. âWhatever. Have a drink and stop stressing.â
Youâre grateful as the person on your right offers to fill your cup with wine. Itâs red wine, but you canât complain because itsâ free and youâre not really drinking much anyway seeing as youâre still in possession of your dadâs car as a means of getting home. However, due to unforeseen circumstancesâthat is due to the fact that you actually donât like troutâyou follow the half taco you eat with more wine to fill your stomach. Hoseok raises an eyebrow at your wine consumption, but doesnât say anything as he carves out a healthy portion of one of his cutlets and plops it onto your plate. He follows it with generous spoonfuls of the rice and vegetables that came along with his dish to make sure your stomach is lined with a barrier if you drink more. And much to both his and your chagrin, you do drink more wine.
Once everyone has finished eating, you pour out of your seat to follow the kitchen staff and lifeguards out to the pool once more. Before you came in, there was still light in the sky that came from the last strong rays of setting sun, bathing everything in pink and orange. Now, the sun has set and everything is bathed in blue; even the lights lining the inside of the larger pool that are usually reserved for night events thrown by the country club glow a soft, pale blue.
 Although youâre tipsy, youâre still somewhat practical, so you opt to sit by a well-lit corner and dip your feet in the water. Itâs too cold and youâre too out of it to be able to swim safely or comfortably. For the few moments that youâre alone, you find peace in watching the chefs and waitstaff whoâve now changed into their swim attire frolic in the water. Someone brought a beachball and itâs being bounced around the pool. It takes all of your concentration and hand/eye coordination but you manage to give a successful volleyball inspired hit and keep the ballâs momentum. Hoseokâs feet appear next to you a beat later.
âDid you see that? That was a good spike, right?â You look up at him standing next to you. âYou look like the pillsbury dough boy from this angle,â you say, prompting him to sit down.
âIs that something youâre into?â He smiles at your profile. The dim lighting does wonders for your features and heâs secretly glad he gets to see you in what he thinks may be a rare state.
âI like bread, but not that much.â He snorts at your joke.
You turn to look at him as best you can. This is the first time in a short while that youâve gotten to really take a good look at him since youâre whole job is about looking away from him and at the children in the kiddie pool. If you squint, you can kind of see what he used to look like still there, under the surface. His cheeks were a bit rounder and softer, even when you were seniors in high school and technically âadultsâ. His hair was different too. For the majority of high school it was dark and laid flat against his foreheard. While it didnât look bad, it didnât do anything to flatter his face. It wasnât until the end when he started experimenting with product and color. Even when you were younger and hated him, you were still able to appreciate the day he came into class during one winter morning of junior year with it parted and swooped messily off his forehead and dyed a warm brown with golden highlights. You and 30 other classmates had appreciated that day very much. It suited him and the brooding badboy thing he had going on.
âThanks,â he says, surprise coloring his voice.
âW-what?â
âI didnât know you liked the brown so much.â
Sober-you would have been having a conniption at the idea that Hoseok might get even the slightest whiff of your teeny-tiny attraction for him. The wine running in your veins has you relaxed enough to just concede the compliment to him, but steer the subject away from you.
âWhat made you dye it red?â
âEhh, it was just a kind of coverup for a bad blond dye job my ex gave me last year.â
âAh, I see.â
âWhy? Do you think I should I dye it brown again?â You pause and look him over, trying to imagine the color from before on him now.
âNo. The way you are now is fine.â
Your comment makes him sit back, a little stunned. When he looks back at you, youâre eyes are drifting closed. Heâs pretty sure you drove yourself, so he lifts your arm and helps you stand up before hobbling over to Stella to let her know that heâs going to take you home.
âAlright,â she says, clearly enjoying her game of Marco Polo with the head chef. âBut you had better get her home in a condition no worse than the one sheâs in right now. And donât think I wonât ask her tomorrow what she remembers happening after she left here, Jung.â
All he can do is salute her as your head lolls forward and you try to go back to being less upright.
Taking you home is more effort than he thought it would be. First, it takes a while to get you awake again so he can tell you heâs taking you home and ask you where your stuff is. He manages to get your locker open but only after waking you several times to get each number of the combination because you were too sleepy to give it to him in full. Then, he has to get you in the car without looking like heâs kidnapping you because at that point heâs carrying your dead weight. Just heaving you over his shoulder in a firemanâs carry would be easier, but heâs worried youâll throw up down his back. Once youâre in the car, the hardest part is over. From there itâs just pestering you again to get your seatbelt on and have you remind him of your parentsâ address. Another bolt of pride shoots through him when you sleepily mumble the street and house number and itâs what he thought. After that itâs pretty smooth sailing. He finds your house with ease, the front light illuminating the number and the doorway.
Your mother comes to the door, father wandering in behind her to see why youâre coming in so late. When they see a pair of silhouettes walk across the lawn and up to the door, they quickly come out to see whatâs going on. Your dad realizes youâre the one slumped over and moves quickly to take you off the strangerâs arm. Soon he realizes that the stranger is Jung Hoseok, the boy his only child used to play with.
âDo I want to know what happened?â
âNothing bad. Thereâs just dinner for the lifeguards after the pool closes everyday and I think she filled up on wine instead of her food. I worried about her so I just drove her home. I hope thatâs okay.â
âWell, itâs not ideal, but Iâm glad it was you and not someone with an ulterior motive,â your father says with a pointed look at him.
Your mother holds the door open and looks on in sympathy at your clammy, sleepy face and ushers your father inside before ushering Hoseok in as well. As much as he would like to be able to carry you up the stairs to your bedroom like he used to when you were small, your fatherâs back canât handle that much rigor and he opts for trying to lay you out onto the couch. He accidentally drops you on your face, but itâs not a steep drop and the cushions break your fall, so he just makes sure youâre facing to the side with a foot on the floor to keep you from rolling off and hurting yourself or choking on your vomit. He moves into the kitchen to find his wife pouring Hoseok a glass of water.
âI canât thank you enough for bringing our baby home safely, Hoseok. You know, I was just thinking about you yesterday.â
âIs that so?â He politely sips at the water, very uncomfortable.
âYes. I saw your mother recently. We were talking about how both of our nests have stopped being empty for the summer,â she laughs.
âYeah, she told me she saw you.â
âItâs been a while, son,â your father says as he goes to stand next to your mother. Both of them pin Hoseok with stares filled with different emotions.
âOh, it really has. Youâre grown into such a handsome man. I suppose it makes sense, since you were such a beautiful boy.â All he can do is chuckle awkwardly before downing the last bit of water.
âWell, I better get going. I have to get up early to make it to the pool on time. It was nice to see you all.â
âIt was nice to see you too, sweetie.â Your mother hands your father the car keys. âDrive Hosoek home, honey?â
âSure.â
âItâs really no trouble, I was just gonna walk. I donât live that far away.â His eyes widen at the thought of having to spend more making awkward small-talk with your parents and no way of escaping.
âWell, I wouldnât want you to lose any more sleep than you already have. Iâll drive you and you can do us a favor and swing by and pick up our baby, alright? She probably wonât be fit to drive that day, and itâll be an opportunity for me to drive my wife to her doctorâs appointment.â
He stutters a bit, looking for a way out that wonât offend anyone, before giving up. âOkay. Thank you, sir.â
âNo problem, son.â
To say that the morning following Hoseok driving you home is the worst mornings of your life is probably an exaggeration, but itâs most likely a slight one. First, you had wake up with a bit of a hangover, which wouldnât be so bad if you could get more time to sleep it off. Instead, youâre forced to roll off the bed at the sound of your alarm and shower. Your stomach is killing you, but you know you canât skip breakfast and still make it through a whole day of sitting in the sun. The worst part of the morning by far is dragging yourself downstairs only to find Hoseok drinking coffee with your mother at the kitchen table.
His eyes brighten at the sight of you shuffling down the stairs looking half dead, but heâd much rather deal with you and your hangover than sit there and listen to your mom make thinly veiled attempts at asking him if heâd confessed to you yet. Your mother ushers both of you out the door with a fruit cup and spoon and you barely have any time to process the situation.
Five minutes into the drive to the pool is enough time for the cool early morning air and periwinkle skyline for you to wake up and take back the reigns from your lizard brain.
âWhy were you in my house?â You poke a soft piece of syrup covered peach with your spoon and lay back in your seat. Mrs. Jungâs car is newer than your fatherâs so you donât have to wind a crank to get the seat to recline.
âDo you remember last night?â
âOf course, I do.â
âWell, thatâs why.â You pout for a minute, embarrassed that Hoseok saw you in such a state even though you were only a little past tipsy.
âDid my parents put you up to this?â
âAbsolutely. As much as Iâd like to be able to get you to voluntarily ride around with me, itâs not worth having your dad drive me home and spending the morning with your mom.â You snort at his candid tone. âNo offense to your parents. Theyâre wonderful people.â
âYeah, yeah. Whatever. What did my mom say to you?â
âNothing much. She asked me how college was and if I had a job lined up. Asked me if I had a girlfriend. Asked me if you had a secret boyfriend. Then asked me why I hadnât asked you out yet. You know. The usual.â
âAre you serious?â The pieces of fruit you had been half-heartedly munching on and get stuck in your windpipe. It takes a couple firm pats on the back from Hoseok but soon youâre eyes stop watering and you are able to look at him gravely. âDid she really ask you that?â
âShe did,â he smiles self-deprecatingly, but itâs still a warm smile.
âW-what did you tell her?â At the sound of your quiet inquiry his expression sombers up quickly.
âDonât worry. I just told her I didnât want to make you uncomfortable.â
âIâm not uncomfortable, though.â
âWell, Iâm sure you would be if I was chasing you around like I used to.â
âThings are different now,â is all you can say without your face heating up too much.
He chances a look at you and the way you fiddle with your hoodie reminds him of the way you played with the hem of your school uniform whenever you were talking with guys you liked. After a few deep breaths, he decides to take a risk. The little booth where the parking lot managers sits to monitor employee traffic is visible at the end of the street once Hoseok drives past the country club gates. He drives straight past the attendant because he has an employee sticker on his car window. Thereâs a vacant spot in the far corner of the lot that he takes before parking the car so he can turn to face you.
âHow are things different?â
You find it hard not to feel warm under Hoseokâs stare. Though itâs not the first time youâve been the object of his hungry gaze, all the previous times were more diluted because he was just a young boy searching for just ounce of the comfort he once found in you as his childhood best friend. Those were the days where you were mad at him and could easily deflect the power of his stare with your own anger. Now, though, the air has been cleared, the slate wiped clean. Heâs no longer a 14 year-old boy hoping youâll forgive him. Heâs 23 and wants nothing more than to strip you of all your pretenses and get as close to you as possible simply because he wants to be able to feel all you can offer and give you all youâll accept.
When you canât meet his eyes or answer him, he squares his jaw and leans into your space. Heâs tired of this game of cat and mouse. Maybe itâs because he couldnât sit back and pretend he didnât still feel anything for you. Maybe itâs because he knows that in this situation heâs not really a cat or a mouse. He feels more like a beast with a strange amount of patience. But everyone knows patience has to run out sometime. Slowly, he brings a gentle hand to your chin and lifts your gaze towards his.
âWhy are things different now?â
âBecauseâŚyou donât make me uncomfortable anymore,â you say, knowing that youâre being overly cowardly and vague.
He knows the desperation is clear in his voice, but he really thinks heâs been correctly reading the room and the way you look at him when you think he canât see. He just wants confirmation. âWhy are you comfortable now?â
âItâs not that Iâm exactly comfortable with you,â you trail off looking for the right phrase. âI still feel like my whole body is tensed up when Iâm around you.â
âOh,â he says, trying to swallow down the sudden wave of disappointment.
âBut I like it.â
His head snaps up and suddenly heâs laughing. It sounds a bit too high and crazed to be anything other than manic laughter. You watch his shoulders shake and his hands rake through his hair before he sighs and turns to smile at you.
âCan I kiss you,â he blurts out. The surprised look on your face must be comical because he laughs more naturally this time before leaning over the center console to pin you to your seat with a softer, molten look. âCan I?â
Somewhere in the back of your head, a part of you wonders if kissing in the car is even allowed before 10 am, but you figure that the only way to know is to try. You hum affirmatively, not trusting your voice, but he shakes his head at you and retracts a little.
âNo. I want to hear you say it.â
âYes. Are you happy now,â you huff. He rewards your half-effort with a warm hand wrapping around the nape of your neck, but doesnât move any closer.
ââYesâ what?â His smile is dark and teasing. Almost mean.
âFor fuckâs sake, Jung, just kiss me.â Itâs too early for teasing and your hands come up to scrunch in the fabric of the front of his t-shirt like they have a mind of their own.
âThereâs my girl,â he whispers before swooping in and crushing his lips to yours.
Kissing Jung Hoseok is not at all like you pictured it. Then again, youâd spent the last 8 years pushing away the mere possibility that it could happen, so itâs not surprising that he passes all your expectations given that you had none. Thatâs not to say that your standards are super low and that heâs just a mediocre kisser, because heâs most certainly not. The moment your eyes close, his lips caress yours slowly and firmly. He opens your mouth with a few well-timed nips to your lower lip followed, wetting your entrance with a subtle swipes of his tongue. As he eases you open, your hands move to feel his torso and map out the planes and dips of his defined arms and toned chest. The hot glide of his tongue against yours has you reaching up to card your fingers through his hair. It feels slightly damp with the shower he must have taken before coming to pick you up and you scrape your nails lightly against his scalp as you comb through the russet waves. He groans into your mouth and presses forward, his nose brushing your cheek as he turns his head to kiss you more deeply. From there, you canât stop your hands from roaming up his arms, his sides, his back. Eventually you settle on wrapping your arms around his neck and letting one hand wriggle under the collar of his shirt so you can rest your palm against the smooth skin of his back.
The feeling of your hand on his bare skin feels hot like a brand and pushes him to work harder to draw moans from you. Soft sounds of breathing and your lips meeting again and again fill the car. The cooler temperature of the outside morning air means that the car starts to fog up quickly. His free arm doesnât stop moving. First he wraps it around your waist, then strokes your thigh before digging his fingers into the meat of it. Finally he settles on cupping your face with both hands to bring you impossibly closer as he ravishes your mouth. You let out a long breath that ends in a hitch when he decides to test out sucking kisses onto the column of your neck. His name leaves your mouth in a breathy sigh and suddenly heâs cursing and pulling back.
He looks fucked out with his hair a coppery mess from your fingers running through it, shiny, swollen lips, and a dreamy expression on his face. You drink in the picturesque curves of his profile, especially admiring the slope of his boyish smile as he grins to himself with his chest heaving. The neon numbers on the digital clock in the dashboard let you know that youâre 10 minutes behind schedule to opening up the kiddie pool.
âWeâre late,â you mumble when youâve caught your breath and the windshield isnât so foggy anymore.
âYeah, sorry about that. Listen, why donât you, uh, go in first, okay?â
Heâs still smiling but heâs hunching over himself a little strangely, hands resting unnaturally splayed out in his lap. Youâre suspicious, but nod and take your bag with you out the car to go get ready for the start of the shift. Stella and the other lifeguards are standing by the tiny coffee machine in the lounge when you come in, your hair is still a bit of a mess. Stella gives you a knowing smile after giving you a once over.
âGlad to have you back,â her voice lilts and a couple people sticker.
âUh, what do you mean? I didnât go anywhere.â Trying not to not look guilty proves difficult when you canât even manage a normal smile and can only give something thatâs 80% teeth.
âEasy, lightweight,â one guard says, âWe just didnât think youâd make it here after how gone you were yesterday. Much less on time for your morning set-up.â
âIâm not a lightweight, I just didnât end up eating any of my dinner,â you sniff, but relax the set of your shoulders a bit once you realize theyâre snickering about your tipsy antics from the night before and not your amorous behavior in the parking lot just now.
Hoseok shows up while youâre in the middle of setup and doesnât say much as he helps you with the rest of it. The kiddie pool opens like it normally does at 8am and young swimmers trickle in. Some more frequent guests waddle over to your chairs to show off their new floaties or to ask if you live at the pool. Your shift partner is still unnervingly quiet for the first few hours, not even complaining when the temperature steadily increases to an annoying high. He still doesnât say anything as you move your safety equipment to the edge of the pool so you can both dip into the shallow water for relief. Quickly, you realize that youâre rather fond of his talkative nature and snap as soon as the toddler that was repeatedly jumping into his arms gets picked up by the last parent and you can break for lunch. You say a silent goodbye to your pride and finally turn to him once the gate to the kiddie pool is closed.
âItâs really warm, huh?â
His neutral expression breaks into a private smile to himself. âYeah, I suppose it is. Youâre gonna eat lunch right?â
âYeah,â you say, still frowning at his short answers as you move to get up from the pool wall.
âDonât worry, Iâll get yours too. We can just eat out here.â
You nod for lack of anything better to say. When he comes back with one sac you remember that you didnât pack a lunch for yourself like you normally would the night before work. He sits next to you and opens his lunchbox silently.
âI forgot to bring a lunch. Iâm gonna head to the tip jar and then run to the vending machine really quick.â
âNo need,â he says, âYour mom packed this for you this morning and gave it to me.â
He hands you a plastic bag out of his own larger container before opening a hand-made sandwich and chowing down. You open the bag cautiously, not expecting the normal salad that you pack yourself usually. Instead, you find something that may be exactly the same lunch she used to pack you when you were in elementary school.
âI guess this is punishment for getting too drunk to take myself home,â you mutter down at the peanut butter and jelly sandwich and carrot sticks.
He peers into your bag.âWhatâs wrong with carrot sticks,â he pouts and holds his own container of carrot sticks and hummus.
âAt least you had the decency to pack hummus. She thinks I still eat the same way I did when I was 8.â
âIâll trade you for your fruit punch.â
âWhat are you offering,â you give him the side-eye of a seasoned businesswoman.
âJust your favorite,â he shrugs, pulling out a small cardboard carton of chocolate milk. Even at your age, you still love chocolate milk, though you donât indulge in it often. âBet you havenât seen this since we were kids.â
You nod frantically, remembering how you used to drink it whenever you could if there wasnât a race that day. âDeal.â you say, tossing the tiny bottle of fruit punch and snatching the milk like he might not keep his promise.
The two of you give each other a look and break down into laughter at your childish behavior.
âJust like old times.â Your voice and eyes are soft as you watch him open the fruit punch with a little difficulty. Huffing, you nudge his hands out of the way before snapping the no-spill opening so he can drink from it with one hand.
âAlmost.â He inches his face toward yours until you can almost count his eyelashes. His hand comes to run up your arm and lay on your shoulder blade, trying to get you closer.
You meet him halfway, turning a bit awkwardly at the waist so you can wrap your arms around him. If youâre being honest, you were worried that he was being so quiet because he regretted kissing you in the car and was trying to think of a way to take it back. But itâs clear thatâs not the case from the way he coaxes your lips open with his own so he can lick into your mouth with a slickness that has your face heating. The reminder that your coworkers could see you at any moment has you beginning to pull away, but he knows you too well to let you escape.
âNo oneâs gonna see,â he whispers against your mouth before going back in to work your lips. Your eyes flutter shut again and the worries seem to dissolve a little.
âWhat if they do, though?â Somehow one of your hands always makes it back to his hair and you give it a slight tug when he sucks lightly on your earlobe. âThis is unprofessional.â
âYeah, it is.â He grins but still pulls back after pressing a somewhat chaste kiss on your frowning lips once and then twice.
âI havenât even touched my lunch and the break is almost over,â you mumble. âGood thing thereâs dinner after the last shift.â
âDonât get drunk again,â he tosses his head back at his joke and you can only glare at him as you steal some hummus.
The rest of the day goes by without a hitch. You and Hoseok manage to keep your hands off each other during dinner. And surprisingly during the ride he gives you home, which quickly becomes a daily routine. Your parents gave you a knowing look when you told them why you would no longer need to borrow the car to get to work, but they didnât say anything.Â
The summer passes by quickly and slowly. Quickly because you have fun talking with Hoseok and time seemingly passes by faster when heâs making you laugh or smile while he plays with the babies. Slowly because he still manages to find moments to get in your face and steal a few kisses that seem to halt time itself. It seems like you blinked and then there were only two more weeks left of work at the pool left.
Thereâs about an hour before the pool closes and Hoseok has migrated over to a farther corner of the pool to engage little Jungkook, a pool regular who keeps gazing up at him with hero-worship in his eyes. You let yourself look over for a brief second before continuing your perusal of the other swimmers to make sure no one needs help. Sudden splashing gets your attention and Jungkook comes running into your field of view.
âWhatâs the matter? Did you drop your goggles again?â You let him take your hand, though you have to crouch so he can reach it.
âLifeguard Hoseok is playing dead and itâs scary,â he looks up at you with big eyes and brings you to where Hoseok is managing to float on his back despite the low level of the pool water.
âHoseok,â you put on an admonishing tone for Jungkook, âAre you playing dead and scaring the swimmers?â
He cracks an eye open at the sound of your voice and looks up at you. âActually, Iâm drowning. Please save me.â Jungkook watches him close his eyes again and stick out his tongue, imitating a body.
âHe keeps doing that scary face. Is he dead?â Jungkook squeezes your hand and you kneel down so that you can look him in the eye.
âNo, heâs just pretending.â
âMake him open his eyes, then.â You raise an eyebrow and he tacks on a âplease, Ms. Lifeguardâ.
âHoseok,â you stage-whisper to appease Jungkook, whoâs looking on with distress in his eyes, âYou need to wake up. Youâre making your friend here nervous about you.â
âThen you should save me so I can wake up. Right, Jungkook?â
âY-yeah. Give him PPR to wake him up!â
âYeah! Give me that sweet PPR, please.â
You roll your eyes. Clearly Hoseok is childish enough to know how to get actual children on his side. To make sure no funny business happens, you treat it like the training sessions youâve attended and pinch his nose closed. His eyes crack open to glare at you but stay closed for the most part like a good faker. You lower your head and place a chaste kiss on Hoseokâs waiting mouth. He springs up and gasps like all the life force he lost has entered back into his body all at once. His hands come out to clutch you to him in a fierce hug.
âThank you for saving me, Ms. Lifeguard.â He shouts into your hair, soaking your top half despite the fact that youâd managed to keep your hair dry all day until this point. âLook, Jungkook, she saved me.â
Jungkook is clearly smarter than Hosoek thinks and pouts at the two of you. âHey! You werenât really sleeping, you were just pretending so you could get a kiss!â
âHow did you know,â your mouth drops open and a genuine laugh tumbles out. Jungkook attempts to cross his little arms but the floaties heâs wearing get in the way.
âBecause my Dada always does it to trick my Papa when we go to the beach.â
âIâm sorry Hoseok tried to trick you, Jungkook. But, I hope that youâll still listen when people tell you theyâre hurting because it might be true next time.â
He nods and you reach up to ruffle his dark hair. He skips off to go play and you make sure no one is looking before you break the no-splashing rule and send a wave up at Hoseokâs face.
âWhat the hell was that?â
âWhat? Iâm bored. I just wanted to play,â he pouts at you.
âPlay later. We still have 45 minutes of work left.â
âWill you play with me,â he asks in your ear. You shiver a little at the feeling of his breath on your neck but push him away.
âFine, but later. Iâm not gonna get caught goofing off and lose this job. I really need it.â
âDid you not have a job lined up after school ended?â He sits down for real and adjusts his visor to shield his eyes.
âNo. Do you?â
âYeah. Iâm start working at a JYP Banks city branch this fall.â
âOh my god, ew. Were you an econ major?â
Itâs hard to imagine Hoseok as one of the boys who used too much hair gel, smoked too much weed on the weekends, and wore suits to their business and math classes on your former campus.
âYeah, why not? Iâm good at math.â
âSince when,â your nose wrinkles.
âSince high school. It was one of the only classes I always had without you. So I actually ended up paying attention.â
âWhatâs that supposed to mean?â
âIt means,â he gently tweaks your side, âYou werenât there at the board with your too-small uniform skirt for me to stare at.â
âToo small? Those uniforms were specially ordered for each student, asshole.â
âThat doesnât mean anything if you were a late bloomer and got the measurements taken when you were 13 and built like a grade-schooler.â
Your mouth gapes open and thereâs a lot to unpack in that statement. The fact that he called you out for being flat as a board at the end of middle school. The fact that he called you out for not suddenly having boobs and ass when you were 15 like everyone else. The fact that he had bee paying attention to you well before puberty hit you like a truck in senior year, unlike other guys.
âIâm not a stick now, though,â you say and sit up a bit straighter to confirm to yourself that no one would confuse you for a child with your figure now.
âNope,â he agrees, âYouâre certainly not.â
âWhatâs that supposed to mean?â
âAgain with this?â
âWe canât all have the same metabolism that weâve had since we were teenagers. You were skinny too, if I recall.â
âYeah and thereâs nothing wrong with that. But that old string-bean Hoseok is gone.â Heâs half joking, half serious as he brings up a tanned arm to flex, showing off a surprising sized bicep. You reach out and squeeze the swell of firm muscle. âThatâs gym and dance gains right there, baby.â
âYouâre an idiot,â you toss over your shoulder fondly as the final few parents and children leave the pool.
The two of you putter around and clean up the pool so its ready for closing. Hoseok goes ahead while you stay back to make sure none of the kids left any precious toys or swim gear behind. When you enter the lounge, the last few lifeguards are heading out towards the restaurant employee entrance while Hoseok waves to them.
âYou didnât have to wait for me, you know.â
Carefully you turn the sticky lock on your locker, trying angrily to get it open so you can put your things away and go eat. One of the chefs told you the day before that the final shipment of mango for the summer was coming and youâd be damned if someone else took some of the portions they promised to save for you.
âYou said youâd play with me,â his voice is low as he presses against you. You let him close your locker for you and turn to give him a placating kiss.
âWhat about food?â He presses wet kisses along the skin of your shoulder before sliding the strap of your suit down with his teeth. His hand runs a course down to your ass. His fingers toy with the elastic hem of your one-piece, cheekily catching against the skin there underneath.
He lifts hooded eyes up to yours. âAre you hungry right now?â
âMaybe not now,â you say as you swipe your thumbs across his cheekbones, âBut I would be by the time that they finished taking peopleâs orders. Thatâs not a super long time.â
âSo maybe we should just get food later.â His tone is reasonable and the way heâs pressing against you is distracting. If you shift the right way, you can feel him through his shorts.
âWhere are we even gonna go?â
âIt turns out,â he takes you by the hand and leads you through the other exit in the lounge, âThere isnât a view of the adult pool from the windows in the dining area. Weâre alone here.â
He hops into the water, dunking his head under before coming up right after. His hands slick back his hair and youâre suddenly disappointed that he only wanted to swim. You go in after him, electing to do a lap or two to stretch your limbs after hours in a chair. When you come back up he claps.
âNice form,â he says as you paddle over.
âIâm missing mangos for this.â
âDonât worry, I told them to save some for you. Youâve been talking about them all day.â
You beam at him, disappointment appeased now that youâre still going to get your fruit. He pats the wall of the shallow end of the pool.
âCome sit.â
You swim over and hoist yourself up on the edge. He wades up to the edge to rest his hands on your thighs. The smile on his face is wide and brilliant as he looks up at you and you canât help but card your fingers through his hair. The red is fading and youâre a bit sad to see it go.
âAre you gonna dye it back again or are you gonna let it grow out for work?â
âYeah, I think the red might have to go. But I might be able to do brown. Or even blond if itâs done well. What do you think,â he asks, laying his cheek on your knee.
âItâs up to you, I mean. I wonât even be there to see it, so you might as well do whatâs best for the office.â
With the end of the summer nearing, what would happen between you two became a common topic of conversation. But the conversations never get too far because you still havenât defined what it was that you are to each other. The idea of having split after all that youâve been through, including everything before finding one another at the pool, makes your stomach feel cold and empty. This isnât your average summer whirlwind and you both know that. But neither of you wants to be the one to end the fun.
âWho knows. You might be in the city for work. Or you could come down on the weekends. Or I could come up.â He looks up at you, eyes swimming in some emotion you canât name. âI just donât want to stop seeing you.â
âCan we not do this right now? Itâs depressing and thereâs still a little while left, anyway.â
âOkay.â
He nuzzles into the flesh of your thigh, mouthing against it even when your leg jumps up against the ticklish sensation. Leaning back, you watch him pepper your thighs with kisses in earnest. The higher up he moves, the slower they get until heâs only a few inches away from your core and your arms are protesting from holding yourself up so you can watch. You endure it because the sight of the faded auburn of his hair moving as he switches to the other knee and works his up is enticing in and of itself. His hands come to your hips and move you closer to the edge, his nose brushing against the hem of your suit.
âHere? Are you kidding me?â
âWhy not?â His voice is muffled from where his mouth moves to suck a bruise high up on your inner thigh. âDonât you think itâs a little fun? The idea that someone could see?â
âI think mini-golf is fun. Grocery shopping is also prettyâshit,â you lose your train of thought as he presses the flat of his tongue hard against the the crotch of your suit. Your thighs clamp shut on either side of him and you whip your head around to check your surroundings.
âWill you relax, please? The cleaning crew doesnât come until after 9 and theyâll be in there for at least an hour.â
âBut I smell like the pool.â
âI do too. Donât worry, baby.â He sucks a kiss onto the apex of your thighs before looking up at you through dark lashes. âIs this okay?â
You stutter for a moment before steadying yourself once more and nodding. He uses one hand to creep up to the singular strap holding your suit up and slides it down to get access to your breasts. He kneads a globe in his hand before plucking your nipple and rolling it between his fingers. The other hand rubs at you over your suit with his thumb circling around what he hopes is your clit. Eventually the friction gets you swollen enough that he can better locate it. Dampness begins to pool at your center, forming a dark spot on your suit as you cant your hips up in time with the figure eights he rubs onto you. The wet material of your suit begins to bother you and you slide the top half down further, the evening air causing your nipples to pebble. With the suit now lax, he slides the crotch to the side and inhales deeply. The scent of chlorine is there, but he can still make out your natural scent underneath. Your arousal glistens subtly in the dim light and when he runs a finger through the slick to taste, you groan.
âWhatâs taking you so long? Put your face in it already.â
âYou just want me to hurry up so we donât get caught.â
âMaybe. But I want you to eat me out too.â
âYes, Maâam.â
He dives in quickly, collecting all the arousal he can on his tongue. Licking from your entrance up to the top, he makes sure to hollow his cheeks, and sucks your clit into his mouth. Your leg kicks out to the side of him, splashing water up quietly. Pulling back with a smack, he maneuvers both your thighs over the broad expanse of his shoulders and moves in closer. He laughs when you whine for him puts his mouth back on you.
âIs it good so far,â he asks, carefully sliding a slender finger into you.
âMmm, itâs good. Add another finger, I can handle it.â He adds another finger and scissors them after a beat.
âYou wanna feel stretched, baby?â You bite you lip, arms quivering until you have to lie on your back. âI bet youâd rather take my dick, wouldnât you?â
âOh my god, I want it so bad.â He twitches and hardens further as he watches you reach down to fondle both your breasts roughly.
âYouâd take my dick so well, I know it. I wish I could have you bouncing on me so I could play with your tits myself. But you keep playing with them and imagine those are my hands.â
âHoseok,â you whine, âI need more. Need your mouth again too.â
Determined to make you cum hard, he adds a third finger and presses down on your pelvic floor before thrusting them into you over and over, his wrist twisting sinuously. Once you start squelching from a sudden onslaught of wetness, he assaults your clit again. With the body of his tongue, he licks shapes onto your core. A particularly hard flick of his tongue as you gasping out, back arching and pushing into his face. The change in angle causes his fingers to press harder into the spongey patch on your walls.
âFuck, just like that. Donât stop. Please!â
He crooks his fingers and grinds them into the spot as best he can while still scissoring his fingers so you feel full. Youâre a sight to behold in front of him. Your legs part to reveal the your swollen and slick center. Your back arches beautifully and your breasts spill over your suit as you shudder through the orgasm he rips out of you. He withdraws his fingers carefully and marvels at the crystalline strands that stretch between his spread fingers. He sucks them into his mouth one by one with the other hand petting your thigh comfortingly.
âHow do you feel about burgers?â
Hoseok canât stop staring at the dewy glow on your skin and his burger sits unwrapped but unbitten as he watches you pluck a curly fry from the pile in the center of the table. Your eyes seem brighter and while he supposes that having an orgasm does that to a person, but he canât help the swell of pride that rises up when he thinks that he had something to do with it.
âYour foodâs gonna get cold,â you pick up a fry and bring it to his lips. âArenât you hungry?â
His lip graze your fingers slightly when you feed him the fry. âI already ate, remember?â His wry grin makes your heart flutter a bit.
âWell, you need your strength.â When his forehead crinkles in confusion, you clarify, âFor dessert.â
âLook if you want it, Iâll give it to you, baby.âÂ
Itâs moments like these where heâs flexing in the middle of a diner and touching himself like heâs hot shit that you think itâs hard to tell if heâs being serious or not. Your phone rings, giving you an excuse to stop the show heâs giving the rest of the patrons as he grinds into the booth.
âCool your jets, Hoseok, I have a phone call. Hello? Yes, thatâs me.â
âWho is it,â he mouths.
âThe research company,â you mouth back. âYes, I could definitely do that. Within this month, even. Yes, of course, Iâll look for it. Thank you very much. You too. Goodbye.â
Your phone clatters against the table and you cradle your head in your hand, fingers of your other hand coming down to drum on the table. Hoseok looks on in worry, stooping to better read your expression.
âWhat did they say?â
âThey said that if I move out there before the month ends, I have the job.â
âYou got the job?â
âI got the job.â Your cheeks hurt from how hard youâre smiling and the relief that washes over you takes a weight off your shoulders that you didnât realize you were carrying.
âI wish I had suggested a nicer place so the rest of the dinner could be celebratory.â
âIf you hurry up and finish your burger, we can still have some fun.â
Hoseok jumps at the feeling of your foot running up his leg under the table. Rushing up, he goes to pay the bill, taking his burger with him so he can just finish it later. Once the bill is paid, you clear off the table and drag him through the parking lot, eager to get him to the car and driving to a spot where you donât have to worry about being found. This turns out to be the very back row of the huge parking lot behind the strip mall. All the big summer block busters have already come and gone, so there isnât much traffic. As soon as you park, you and Hoseok make a beeline to the back seat. To congratulate you, he tells you that heâll listen to whatever you say. Even though itâs supposed to be about you, he doesnât think he canât possibly lose in this situation.
âI want you on your back,â your eyes are dark as you shirk the clothes youâd only changed into less than an hour ago, putting them on after you showered to go to the diner.
âSounds good,â he says, lifting his hips so you can slide his shorts off.
âSo I can ride you.â you supply. You slip off your underwear.
âGreat.â Heâs already imagining the view heâll have of your ass, and his dick twitches eagerly at the thought.
âBut you canât touch me until I let you. And I might not let you.â
âWhat? Why am I being punished?â
You roll your eyes and grab his shaft a little rougher than necessary when he continues to huff about the lack of justice in the world. He quiets down when you slide down on him, still wet from the when his hand wriggled down your own shorts earlier while you were looking for a spot to park to tease you. His hands automatically come up to rest on your hips and get you started on rocking over him, but you grab both his wrists and pin them both above his head. Ignoring his pout, you use his wrists as a handhold for leverage and begin to grind your hips in slow circles. Once the rhythm is right and youâre wetter than before, you start to really lift yourself up off him and then grind back down on him.
Itâs not that he doesnât enjoy the pace youâve set, because even through a latex barrier youâre hugging him snugly and slide down him like a dream. But itâs a pace clearly set for you, helping you increase precision so you can use his pelvis as a way to massage your clit. Every time you fuck yourself down on him, you let out a little whine and squeeze his wrists. He groans and throws his head back in frustration, arms and abs flexing with the effort it takes not to wrestle his hands over to you.
âFuck, just let me use my hands, baby. I just want to make you feel good.â
âHmm, I donât know. I feel prettyâahhâgood by myself right now.â
Hesitantly, you release your grip on his wrists, giving him a look that tells him to keep them obediently pinned above his head. For a few moments you lean back and use his legs behind you as support so you can drop yourself more forcefully down onto his dick. After a while of watching him grit his teeth and letting out choked out moans, you give him a cheeky smile before turning and repositioning yourself in the opposite direction.
âBe a nice boy and bend this knee, hmm?â
Hoseok plants his foot firmly on the seat so that his knee is bent. It takes some wiggling on your part but soon youâre able to grind against his thigh as you move up and down. The moans you let out get louder and louder but your legs start to burn with exertion and eventually you have to resort to merely humping his leg. Itâs not enough and when you curse lowly he sees his chance. Heâs a good team player so heâs willing to help you out if youâll let him.
âIf you just let me use my hands again, I can help you out.â You mutter something under your breath. âWhat was that?â
âI said fine. As long as you get me off, you can see whatever limbs you want.â Your tone is somewhere between whining and snapping but the sheen of sweat coating your back and arms lets him know how tuckered out you really are.
He sits up once he has your permission. His first order of business with his hands back in use is to land a blow down on one of the globes of your ass. You let out a pained moan and clutch his thigh tighter to your core.
âDid you have fun using me like a toy?â
âI did. It was fun seeing you so mad you couldnât touch me.â He canât see your whole face, but you look back at him over your shoulder with a feline smugness in your eyes and a smile in your tone.
He spanks you again. âShould have expected this from you. Always thought you wouldnât know how to act once you finally got the fucking youâd been looking for.â You merely whine in response so he gathers your hair into a makeshift ponytail and pulls. âWhy should I let a brat like you cum, huh?â
âBecause I just got that new job in the city and youâre proud of me.â You push back on him as best you can when your legs feel like jelly.
âThatâs a good answer, baby. Iâll let it go for tonight,â he says as he peppers your shoulder and the parts of your back that he can reach with kisses. âGet on all fours. Hurry.â
You scramble forward on your hands and knees, arching your back for him. He swats your butt again just because he likes the view. He pushes in with no warning, but youâre stretched sufficiently enough that it doesnât hurt to be so full so abruptly. His hands come to grab both your hips and immediately he pistons forward and fucks you like a machine. Perhaps itâs a side effect of the blue balls heâd been harboring since work started this morning. Perhaps itâs because he has a hunch this is what you wanted the whole time. Perhaps itâs that youâre leaving to some mystery city soon and some part of him believes that if he fucks you deep enough, youâll take a piece of him with you and that will mean youâll be together again someday.
Hoseok is certain that this isnât the last time heâll see you. But he doesnât know if itâll be like this. Like a sort-of summer fling that has a long prologue and a confusing epilogue. He knows you two are linked though. You must know it too. Itâs impossible to deny when you both reach climax at the same time during your first time, the breath leaving him like you knocked it out and your eyes rolling into the back of your head like he scratched stars there for only you to see.
He turns you around carefully, so as not to slip out of you, only so he can hold you as you both come down from your respective highs. Neither of you say the words that would probably be most appropriate for a moment like this one. But your hands do automatically wind around him to play with the hair at the nape of his neck and trace secrets into his back. And the skin behind and below your ear is in fact where you smell the most like you, so he presses his nose into the spot and just breathes. Hoping for the best.
(3 months later)
Hoseok carried the habit of waking up early from his lifeguard job to his real job in the city thatâs a 2 hour drive north of his childhood town. With this extra time he likes to explore the different districts, taking a different way to work each day when he can. In doing this, heâs also able to sample all the different coffee shops that are en route to the office and pick up orders given to him by his seniors in the analytics department.
Today his phone is on the fritiz and didnât finish loading the details to the coffee shop that he was supposed to visit today. Instead, he wonders the streets, still with a bit of free time on his hands before heâs supposed to arrive. A few people have passed him now with steaming take away cups of what is presumably coffee. It takes some intuition, but eventually he makes it to a bright, butter yellow sign and laughs. GoldJin Coffee. Somewhere in the back of his head he remembers liking a tweet from Jin saying that he opened up a second branch, but it didnât register that it was in Hoseokâs new city until now. Itâs unclear whether this was the place his phone intended for him to go, but he steps inside anyway. He knows the coffee here, having come to the original location a few times. With you. As âfriendsâ.Â
Before the memory can rear itâs head, he shakes his head and moves to stand in line. Most of the other people in suits with briefcases stand in line as they wait for their liquid start of the day. The remaining few seem to be an older, graying couple deliberating over pastries while they wait their turn and another young person looking for fuel. The more he looks over the other people in line, the more Hoseokâs stare his stare lands on the other young person. They look familiar, but heâs not sure why. Theyâre not wearing a suit, so they canât be working for his company. He must know them from somewhere else.
The older couple orders their pastries, and someone in a suit orders their drink, then itâs the young personâs turn. They come up to the counter and the barista hands them a drink already made. They thank the barista and move to the side to greet the cashier. Something about the way this person moves grabs Hoseokâs attention to the point where he doesnât realize itâs his turn to order. He flashes the list of drinks at the barista, having learned from his mistake from trying to recite the flashy drink names himself. The young person moves to a table and as if their bodies are celestial ones, Hoseok gravitates towards the empty table behind them. He watches as they take out a large three ring binder and flip through it while taking sips of their drink.
âJ. Hoseok? 6 drinks for J. Hoseok,â the barista calls, shaking him out of his singular thought process.
He gets up from the table to claim his drinks, feeling a little silly for getting so invested in a stranger so rapidly. When he turns around, you stare up at him with wide eyes full of recognition. He walks over to you.
âHey, long time no see,â his voice is suddenly hoarse.
âHey, Hoseok.â
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Standing at the bar with...   Leo Saunders
We LOVE hanging out in Cotswolds pubs and recently bumped into Leo Saunders, musician, songwriter and founder of Tuneriver, a personalised song service.

Photo credit: Christopher CornwellÂ
So Leo, whatâs the drink you're getting at the bar?
Vodka and ginger ale (ale, not beer) - itâs my go-to - refreshing and a little spicy. My favourite vodka
Tito's Handmade Vodka
itâs an original craft Vodka (whatever that is?!) produced in Austin, Texas from corn instead of potatoes. My other favourite is
Crystal Head
created by Dan Aykroyd, itâs very smooth and comes in a glass skull-shaped bottle. Very rockânâroll! Haha! The ginger ale? Gotta be Fever Tree - it could be a branding thing... but it does seem to taste better!
Whatâs your favourite kind of pub? Which ones do you go to in the Cotswolds?
The Cotswolds is fantastic for the variety of pubs you can find. I often have people stay from out of town and they always love the options we have available in Cheltenham. I tend to go to a lot of the places I perform music at, as âLEO LIVEâ
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The Retreat, Harry Cookâs, The Bayshill, Smokey Joeâs, Gin & Juice/131, The Tavern. I also like the bar at Cowley Manor with the fun art on the walls, and other places outside Cheltenham - The Prince Albert in Rodborough is also an amazing place, I need to get back there sometime...
Photo: Cowley Manor
If a track came on - what would make you dance? What would make you make a swift exit?
Currently, it would be âGood As Hellâ by Lizzo. I love old-school stuff like Funkadelic and Sly Stone.If thereâs music on, Iâm unlikely to make a swift exit⌠unless itâs Nickelback, that is!
You started out on the Camden indie circuit - what lead you to that life? What was the best memory?
At the time I used the live in South-East London, but used to spend as much free-time as possible in Camden. I loved the shops, the market, music venues and general vibe of the place. It was the 90âs, and we would often bump into well-known band members in pubs like The Falcon, The Monarch, The Dublin Castle and The Underworld.
We supported FEEDER at gigs around this time. Hard to pick a âbestâ memory, but probably playing to a packed house at the infamous Water Rats in Kings Cross. The band from that time are doing a reunion gig at The Water Rats this July, so Iâm looking forward to that one!
Photo: The Water Rats
Tell us a little more about the War Songs project. How long did it take you to put it together and would you like to do something like that again?
It took around six months to pull-together. I worked on the compositions with George Moorey who is a great producer and music creator based in Gloucester. Our concept was to create 2 pieces of music from WWI poetry to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, one that was 19mins 14secs long and one 19mins 18seconds long - 19:14, 19:18 - to represent the years of the war. We attracted Heritage Lottery funding for the project and they recommended we focus on the local Gloucestershire composer and poet, Ivor Gurney.
I absolutely loved visiting the Gloucestershire Archives and having the opportunity to read Ivor Gurneyâs actual note books and letters, and then interpret his poetry into music with George. His story resonated with me having lived with my own mental health issues and challenges. So it became incredibly important to deliver a good piece of work.
We co-ordinated with local musicians and schools and community groups to perform the pieces at The Guildhall. On the night there were 99 musicians on-stage - it was wonderful to see the younger musicians enjoying and benefitting from working alongside the professional and semi-professional musicians.
Photo: Ivor Gurney/AZQuotes
We love your new venture Tuneriver - how does it work?
Thank you! In a nutshell, Tuneriver help customers to send personalised songs as gifts for various occasions - Birthday, Valentineâs, Anniversary, Motherâs Day, Congratulations, Motivation⌠the list goes on!
Through years of working in the creative-arts fields, Iâve found that music artists are paid very poorly for their work that appears on regular music-streaming services. For example, an artist can dedicate weeks and months-worth of time and pour their heart and soul into working on an EP or album. Yet, to receive just the equivalent of minimum wage for their work, they will need to achieve over a million âplays/streamsâ per month. With tuneriver.com singer-songwriters are able to get paid well for their personalised tracks with each order.
There is also a possibility for the artists to have their work promoted to an international audience and also build up a community where the artists support each other. So, each purchase made on tuneriver.com goes toward supporting the artist by paying them for their musical art and songcraft and investing in their creativity.

On the tuneriver.com site, you can review and choose a song to be personalised and have it ordered within a few minutes. After ordering, the song goes into the studio for the song personalisation to be added and within 72hrs itâs delivered as a personalised webpage with the downloadable personalised song, personalised lyric sheet and message. With some songs you can even personalise up to 40% of the song!
Weâve been receiving an amazing response from our customers, people are genuinely âwowedâ and it is so heartwarming to hear their incredible feedback.
And yes⌠weâve heard that our personalised songs have made people cry happy-tears!!

Tell us more about some of the artists that you can find on Tuneriver.
Weâre so happy to announce four new artists for 2020.
The first is Oli Gosh. Oli began her career as an actress, training at RADA and then performing roles ranging from Juliet in Romeo and Juliet to Dirty Dancing in the West End. Coming from the underground up, Oli found her true home on the dance floor of Amnesia in Ibiza where she discovered Techno, teaming up with fellow south east London producer, Naive Machine to create the track âSilvaâ which combines ethereal vocals with the raw power of flamenco stamping samples. She also worked with Danglo and their 1st release, âNever let you goâ, was picked up by Pete Tong. She now has tens of thousands of followers on Spotify and is working on songs to be featured on Tuneriver.com

Next up is blues-rocker Marc James. Marc is a gifted vocalist, guitarist, and lap steel player, worship leader and songwriter. If you like Eddie Vedderâs voice youâll love Marcâs! He is the author of many well-known songs such as âSurrenderâ. Marc is also famous for fronting the band Verra Cruz, an English blues-rock band originally from St Albans.

The next signing is our first international artist, Janet Renders (pronounced: âShanet') from The Netherlands.
She is a solo artist and singer in her band âThe First Resortâ and has performed during the international Four Days Marches in Nijmegen â an event that promotes sport and exercise. Janet is currently studying Music Therapy at the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen and would love to give a special person in your life an unforgettable gift: your unique song.

Our latest signing is Gina Larner, who I spotted singing at The Cheltenham Songwriterâs Guild at Smokey Joeâs. Gina is an up and coming folk/country artist, originally from Brighton.Â
She has been playing guitar and singing since she can remember and is just about to finish her degree in Popular Music. Gina has performed up and down the country, being a grand finalist in Open Mic UK and other major competitions, along with playing with her band consisting of double bassist, electric guitar and violin. She has released 2 singles, and continues to write new songs to perform/sell. I canât wait to have her songs featured on tuneriver.com.
Whatâs your next venture?
Iâm looking for a piano player that I can team up with to create a duo. I had a band before called The Holy Sinners. We used to put on events titled âSongs of Intimacy, Romance and Doomâ (!) and Iâd like to put on some evenings at places like Chapel Arts. Songs by Nina Simone, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, with some jazz and swing.
What are you going to be eating after your pub drink?
Iâm a sucker for sticky chicken wings and sweet potato fries, it makes me feel like Iâm back in New Orleans.
Where do you go in the Cotswolds to unwind?
There are some wonderful walks. I like Cleeve Common, Leckhampton Hill, Robinswood Hill and Painswick Beacon. There are also wonderful parks in Cheltenham: Sandford and Pitville and my faves. Lunch or brunch at Baker & Graze in the Suffolks is also one of my favourite places. I also love the steam railway that runs from the racecourse to Broadway.
I studied Ancient History/Classical Civilisation at school and university, so I love visiting historic Roman sites and the Corinium Museum. To fully unwind I usually go to a local jam-night, like the one at The Bayshill, though... and Iâve starting singing some blues in The Berkeley Arms in Tewkesbury on a Monday night with Bryn Thomas, Roger Petley, Nathan Thomas and Stef Stevens, that really helps me unwind!

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Some SEO professionals also advise that anchor textual content should be varied as several pages linking to one web page using the same anchor textual content may look suspicious to look motors. SEO trickery such because keyword âstuffing' in irrelevant written content simply won't cut it inside the current day, with Google's algorithm taking over 200 components to ensure that it's ratings provide results with valid plus authoritative sites, it is next to on impossible to perform anything some other than work with the lookup engines to make sure top rated quality SEO results. From a SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION perspective, the principal keyword need to be at the beginning implemented by the other relevant key phrases. The sensible strategy for SEO would certainly still appear to be in order to reduce Googlebot crawl expectations plus consolidate ranking equity & possible in high-quality canonical pages plus you do that by reducing duplicate or near-duplicate content. This can take a LONG period for a site to recuperate from using black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION tactics and fixing the difficulties will never necessarily bring organic visitors back as it was prior to a penalty. The particular best SEO Guide is right here to dispel those myths, plus give you all you require to know about SEO in order to show up online and additional search engines, and ultimately make use of SEO to grow your company. > > Upon Page Optimization: On-page SEO will be the act of optimizing single pages with a specific finish goal to rank higher plus acquire more important movement within web crawlers. There are numerous websites providing pertinent information regarding SEO and online marketing, and you could learn from them. But it's perplexing why some businesses don't consider harder with analysis, revisions, plus new content with their SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION online marketing strategy. An effective SEO strategy will certainly be made up of a variety of elements that ensure your web site is trusted by both people as well as the look for engines. By taking their particular marketing needs online and employing confer with an experienced SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION agency, a business will be able to achieve thousands, or even millions associated with people that they would have got not been able to usually. Given that research engines have complex algorithms that will power their technology and our marketing needs are unique, jooxie is unable to provide specific SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION advice to our customers. We all think SEO in 2019 will discover a shift to focusing much more on user intent, problem resolving, and hyper locality in purchase to capitalize on the ongoing rise of voice search. Private demographic information would come in a great deal handier in 2019 as significantly as the ranking of key phrases is concerned. Links are one of the particular most important SEO ranking elements. However, more advanced that will readers will recognize the reduced quality of sites employing dark hat SEO at the expenditure from the reader experience, which usually will reduce the site's visitors and page rank over period. So - THERE IS SIMPLY NO BEST PRACTICE AMOUNT OF FIGURES any SEO could lay down since exact best practice to GUARANTEE a title may display, in full in Search engines, at least, because the search little title, on every device. While getting as many pages listed in Google was historically the priority for an SEO, Search engines is now rating the high quality of pages on the site plus the type of pages this really is indexing. Jerrika Scott, Digital Marketing Specialist with Archway Cards Ltd, also thinks in voice being the tendency of 2019 rather than 2018. Today, regardless of all the hype about regardless of whether SEO is dead, we discover that organic search is nevertheless one of the highest RETURN ON INVESTMENT digital marketing channels. We cover every topic within the digital marketing sphere which includes SEO, technical SEO, local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION, PPC, SEM, content marketing, CRO, analytics, backlink, marketing strategy, cellular marketing, social media marketing and even much more. Any SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION company has to be capable to create high quality content material on an ongoing basis. SEO is the treatment for making changes to the website to be able in order to improve its position in the particular search engines like google. Robert feels that by 2019 most cellular searches will be conducted simply by voice by mobile devices or even virtual assistants in fact this is very important to obtain your positioning in the lookup engine ranking positions as quickly as possible. As the particular factors search engines like Search engines, Bing, and Yahoo use in order to rank sites are kept magic formula and change frequently, we construct all known SEO best methods into every Squarespace site. Black hat SEO may get you to the best of SERP in a brief time, however, search engines such as google will most probably punish and ban the website more rapidly or later. If might read from the beginning, a person know that links are the key SEO ranking factor. Generally there are 2 types of lookup engine optimization or SEO. Now, pay shut attention to the components that will make up on-page SEO, since this is where non-SEO professionals will be able to help to make the most meaningful impact in their search engine rankings. With internet customers who use their mobiles in order to search on the increase, since an SEO consultant it can make sense to get a look at the particular effects SEO marketing is putting on search engine optimization. The sole purpose of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Services is to improve your own search engine ranking. Make sure redirected domains redirect through the canonical redirect and this too offers any chains minimised, although Produce sure to audit the backlink user profile for any redirects you stage at a page just such as reward comes punishment if these backlinks are toxic (another type of Google opening up the particular war which is technical seo on a front it's not really, and in fact is speak, to building backlinks to your own site). In order to smoothen out the software system interface problem, the web developing team as well as the particular SEO specialist work together in order to build the major search motors friendly programs and code that may be easily integrated into the client's website. They will possess to find SEO expert internet sites, who will help the company owner's site have many clients in internet marketing. This is due to the fact they are not SEO helpful and can affect your rank significantly. These SEO crawler programs are similar to Google's own crawlers and will provide you an overview showing exactly how your page will perform within SEO rankings. Google is making certain it takes longer to discover results from black and white hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, and intent on ensuring the flux in its SERPs centered largely on where the searcher is in the world during the particular time of the search, plus where the business is situated near to that searcher. SEO organizations are able to track almost every aspect of their technique, like increases in rankings, visitors and conversions. The strategies which were the simplest (reciprocal links or directory submissions) perform not work anymore, therefore the particular SEOs spend a lot associated with time trying different approaches. The particular Moz Pro is another place of Tools that check the particular important factors related to your own website's search ranking. Selection of key phrases or phrases plays an essential component in an SEO campaign considering that it saves you the pictures in the dark. In 2019 the particular digital marketing companies can anticipate a lot of voice lookups, and by 2020, about 50 percent of the searches will become either voice searches or image-based searches. Read our Mobile SEO 2019 Checklist before you decide in order to implement. Typically What's So Trendy About SEO 2019 That Everyone Went Crazy Over It? the first element of optimizing images will be including your keywords in typically the image file name (seo_guide. jpg). The inevitable modifications that will occur in SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION in the near future are usually abolition of keywords stuffing plus spam backlinks, real-time personalized customer support by online marketers, improvement within the quality of visual content material as a result of advancement of video SEO, optimization associated with websites with conversational keywords plus generating massive quantity of current data. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION remains one of the lengthy term marketing strategies that function best for companies that are usually looking to improve their on the web visibility. Keep in mind that will links, content, and user encounter are all major SEO rating factors. Could holistic approach will ultimately eliminate a lot of the particular issues created by some SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION practitioners over the years, I actually suspect that search engines' designers will initially overestimate the accuracy of their AI, resulting within Penguin-level collateral damage. SEO (Search Motor Optimization) is the process associated with making a website more noticeable in search results, also called improving search rankings. Siteimprove SEO furthermore provides in-tool tips on where to start as well as how to get the most out associated with your keyword research and supervising. We've already been operating in the SEO plus content marketing industry since last year and know how search motors work. Presently there are a great number associated with resources out there surrounding competing link analysis (and a great deal that have been authored simply by me! ) but whenever I actually speak with people that are usually working on SEO projects, really always one of those "yeah, I realize I should do this more" tasks. Amy Kilvington, Marketing Executive at Custom Drapes, believes that SEOs are heading to have to optimize social networking more as Google indexes this and prioritizes it over their own sites' pages. Social media is definitely the easiest and most efficient way to push out the SEO-based content. However, presently there are some easy adjustments that will you can make to the particular search engine optimization (SEO) component of it, which will ideally enable you to get fantastic results.
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10 Common Myths About SEO 2019
What are the suggestions to SEO writing? Businesses with multiple websites and SEO-agencies can set up report themes. Its search engine marketing group provides expertise in Pay-per-click marketing services, organic SEO and sociable media optimisation. The particular ads that you often notice on various web pages proven and those that also show up on the rightmost side associated with search engine results are inorganic SEO examples. While I nevertheless see this trend in have fun with with many enterprises still within the midst of their electronic transformation, the convergence in the particular MarTech space is creating numerous synergies and opportunities and this particular should be seen as the welcome development for brands plus agencies who are looking regarding an edge in regards in order to their SEO driven content marketing and advertising or outreach strategies. Along with the only complete certainty that SEO's, Website owners may have a lot of adjustments to make to internet sites under their care in the particular mobile and voice search scenery. The basics of GOOD SEO hasn't changed for years - although effectiveness of particular elements offers certainly narrowed or changed within type of usefulness - a person should still be focusing upon building a simple site making use of VERY simple SEO best practices - don't perspiration the small stuff, while all-the-time paying attention to the essential stuff - add plenty of unique PAGE TITLES and lots associated with new ORIGINAL CONTENT. Keyword research is usually THE first step of any kind of SEO campaign. Google My Business is Google's business directory and, thus, extremely essential to your local SEO Outlined businesses with all the best SEO will certainly appear in the Local 3-Pack, the batch of 3 showcased businesses nearest you that show up when you do a pertinent local search. Fire up Visibility recently released SEO: The particular Movie â. This 40-minute movie covers a brief history associated with search engine optimization portrayed by means of the experiences of some associated with the biggest names within the particular SEO industry. In addition to producing content accessible to search engines, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION also helps boost rankings therefore that content will be positioned where searchers will more easily believe it is. The Internet is getting increasingly competitive, and people companies which perform SEO may have the decided advantage in visitors plus customers. Unfortunately, SEO - and lookup in general - is usually soloed into focusing on The particular Googleâ and not really regarded as for other tactics. This means website owners plus SEO experts will need in order to be on top of their particular game when it comes in order to keyword research and keeping the particular context of their site related to users. Varvy's SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Overview tool audits your web site for key parameters like domain name strength, links, image SEO, interpersonal counts, on-page SEO, technical position, page speed, loading time plus more. Typically the trouble is that SEO rating factors have changed a good deal over the years (find away how in our keyword analysis guide ). That means the particular search engine optimization techniques that will worked 5 in years past won't take flight today. Based on SEO software program company Moz's bi-yearly survey upon search engine ranking factors, the particular titles on your page are usually one of the nine almost all important considerations a search motor makes. Having an SEO approach that effectively promotes your digital photography business, driving new traffic plus taking into consideration the requires of the site visitors even though you concentrate on perfecting your current art is a really strong tool. SEO is Research Engine Optimization and it is definitely required for make a web site view-able. And you may see the section on exactly where to use keywords for even more information on integrating these key phrases into your SEO content technique. 22. Use social media in order to boost local SEO. SEO is the acronym for Seo. Even though certain techniques of SEO articles remain the same, like not really compromising on quality; there are usually definitely techniques which have developed from the past and a person should find out whether your own SEO articles writing services are usually very well aware of that will or not. SEO service suppliers are specialized in increasing the particular traffic to your site simply by increasing your position in the particular search engine ranking positions. Appeal to international people to your web sites with these SEO tips. The top challenges within organic SEO are link creating (easy-to-get links no more have got much value) and keyword study (the low-hanging fruit is lengthy gone). For instance, the phrase âSEO tips' is furthermore included inside the less competing phrase âSEO tips 2019', which usually is searched for too. You may generally see outcomes of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION efforts once the webpage proceeds to be crawled and listed by a internet search motor. Most likely the best form of cultural media to pay attention in order to when turning to SEO will be Google Plus. One particular of the most successful techniques to ensure your clients locate your photography business is by means of implementing an SEO strategy, this specific is more than just producing it to number 1 upon Google, it means ensuring the fact that a varied and steady steady stream of traffic is heading to your site, over in addition to above that of your opponents. If you are usually willing to improvise your web site search and boost up your own Google ranking, but do not really have time or resources regarding doing that, hire an SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION specialist for the same objective. Mobile SEO is definitely mobile search engine optimization or even optimizing content for a much better search ranking. Titles on pages and explanations affect what people see within search results, so it's important to check these out within any SEO audit. Search motors give some guidelines for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, but big search engines maintain result ranking as a industry secret. Along with $80 billion forecast to turn out to be spent annually on SEO â and content marketing set for you to be considered a $300+ billion industry by means of 2019 â it might end up being tempting for stakeholders to notice SEO and content marketing since cost centers rather than profits centers. While that will theory is sound (when concentrated on a single page, when the particular intent is to deliver electricity content to a Google user) using old school SEO strategies on especially a large web site spread out across many web pages seems to amplify site high quality problems, after recent algorithm adjustments, and so this type associated with optimisation without keeping track associated with overall site quality is self-defeating in the long run. Since her business, web traffic, plus customer base grow, Sue will certainly require some outside support regarding keeping her SEO on trail so she can certainly still sell this best shoes on the stop. Whilst links continue to be essential and it's incredibly difficult in order to rank well without links through other websites, content and on-page SEO has become increasingly essential. For businesses searching to raise their search ranks, what this means is that will a comprehensive social media technique could be in order - within addition to all of the particular usual SEO tactics. Because of criteria changes and the trend in order to more local searches, it actually is no longer an massive cost to implement good SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Whether you're killing it along with SEO, or struggling to break What You Know About SEO 2019 And What You Don't Know About SEO 2019 the very first page, a good SEO audit may help give your own rankings a shot within the particular arm. According to web marketing experts, the impact associated with AI and Voice Browse SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION can be expected in 2019 after that. Gowns it. If you'd like in order to speak to us about a good SEO campaign, or even multilingual SEO marketing and keyword study then get in touch associated with just start a live conversation if we're around. Moreover, Google will keep on to elevate the importance associated with usability and technical SEO aspects, for example site security, page acceleration, mobile friendliness, and navigability. As a consultant, he or she has helped many different businessesâincluding, Lonely Planet, Zillow, Tower Information, and literally countless medium plus small businessesâwith SEO and online-marketing advice. Generally there are a few fundamentals that will can help boost the technique, but SEO, or seo, will be hardly ever considered. While employing the services of a great SEO agency can get a person good marketing copy for the particular website and an effective make use of of the related keywords, getting a brilliantly designed website can help a lot when this comes to attracting people plus even the search engines in order to your website. You are able to get into important SEO-related data like the particular page title, description, and key phrases for every page or a person can have the system instantly populate this data depending upon a document name or various other fields. SEO has become broadly adopted as an online advertising strategy due to its effectiveness. Creating high-quality content along with SEO in your mind through the beginning boosts search presence. In contrast, dark hat SEO is about attempting to take shortcuts and sport search engines. You may also use Google Analytics in order to find SEO keywords for content material optimization. Keyword research is the particular process SEOs value to discover what search queries consumers get into into a search engine regarding a given topic. Within today's rapidly shifting world, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques can change on the dimeâand the worst part is usually that you might not actually know it. Hacks that can have won you a front-page result as recently as 2016 are not only obsolete today, but they may even harm your website's rankings. All of us wished to look at a large group that included businesses of just about all sizes and in all industrial sectors so we could really notice how SEO traffic increased whenever the only common denominator was incorporating reviews to their site. In reality, this is portion of the SEO technique we have used to gradually grow our organic traffic throughout the last 12 months right here at SnapApp: #3. Mobile will certainly account for 72% of ALL OF US digital ad spend by 2019. This workshop will be designed to help business proprietors implement Digital Marketing techniques regarding their business including social mass media, organic SEO as well since paid channels. The Beginner's Guide in order to SEO continues to be go through over 3 million times plus offers comprehensive information you require to get on the road to professional quality Search Motor Optimization, or SEO. Whether it's using web analytics for carrying out research or even conversion tools that monitor plus report the usage of essential keywords, SEO agencies know just how and where you can obtain the information they need in order to save time furthermore lessen your in-house price. Generally there is probably no more fundamental strategy for SEO than the particular integration of internal links directly into your site - it is definitely an easy way to enhance traffic to individual pages, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Consult says. SEO SERVICES Generally there are a number of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION services which can help enhance the organic search engine search positions of a website. A few search engines have also offered to the SEO industry, plus are frequent sponsors and visitors at SEO conferences, webchats, plus seminars. If a person have a website that a person want to become easily discovered by a search engine, you should increase your site rank via SEO as well. Some SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION companies focus on link buildingâ and increasing the authority associated with their clients' websites. Through an SEO perspective, we had been introduced to RankBrain nearly 2 years ago, a machine-learning synthetic intelligence that Google's been making use of to process an extremely huge proportion of search results. Specifically, you'll notice exactly how to make use of advanced on-page SEO strategies (like Bucket Brigadesâ) to get higher Google ranks and more organic traffic. Search engines has introduced (at least) the âpercieved' risk to publishing a lot of lower-quality pages on your own site to in order in order to curb production of old-style SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION friendly content based on manipulating early search engine algorithms. Grey hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is entirely centered on enhancing search engine rankings. There are various aspects to SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, from the words on your own page to the way additional sites link to you upon the web. So, rather than viewing SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING as an umbrella term covering SEO, it's more accurate in order to view SEM (paid search) plus SEO (organic search) as individual entities to use as section of your Search Marketing arsenal. Siteimprove SEO incorporates sixty six unique SEO checks, including tests for missing meta descriptions, punctuational mistakes, broken links, outdated documents, poor readability, and links in order to unsafe domains. But in the event that we're looking for a larger trend it's that SEO plus what we call real marketingâ will continue to blur the particular lines between them as the particular job of the SEO turns into that of a traditional online marketer - having to understand the particular user, the competitors, the industry and also the implementation part. Thanks for going to the world of Search Motor Optimization (SEO). For example, we regularly produce content on the topic associated with "SEO, " but it's nevertheless very hard to rank nicely on Google for such the popular topic on this acronym alone. What can modern-day industry shifts show about the particular future of SEO and content material marketing? Search engine optimisation (SEO) is on a move. Whether a person are an SEO Professional, Electronic Marketing Agency, SMB or Brand name, looking to increase your visitors or to monitor your web site's evolution, this SEO software may provide you with best within class digital marketing strategy evaluation and insights for your company. Their expertise is usually incredibly valuable because there will be plenty of science to SEO, plus it is constantly changing because search engines like Google keep on to update their algorithms. From a content viewpoint, I'd say one of the particular best ways to get SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION value out of video will be to focus your efforts upon addressing your customer's pain factors. forty five. Use Google Analytics to determine social SEO factors like the particular number of owned and beneficial results. The common SEO issue for e-commerce sites is that product evaluation functionality tends to rely upon AJAX, iframes, or subdomains, which usually make it very hard, or even even impossible, for search motors to complement product reviews with item pages. Local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is an effective way in order to market your business online. Intended for more on Squarespace's SEO-friendly features plus how to use them, go to Increasing your site's visibility in order to search engines. For Ecommerce websites, SEO agencies can see which usually paths users take in purchase to complete a sale, most the way down to which usually keyword they used to research for you prior to buying. Continue to increase your SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION to develop business and drive traffic plus rank for more terms. SEO refers in order to the process of gaining a good impressive rank in search motor listings. Organic SEO will be also less costly long-term when you establish search credibility, as very long as you maintain it along with the consistent creation of high quality content and social media use. Within the 6th section of our SEO for newcomers guide, we will discuss hyperlink building - one of the particular most important aspects of lookup engine optimization. Search engine optimization can furthermore be known as SEO plus it is defined as the technique or procedure for customization the website within an efficient and efficient way in purchase to make a good existence on major search engines. There will be no magic wand in your own hands to regulate or manage your competitors' strategies or administration, Google analytics update, or user's behavior communicate business but a person can manage your SEO. In this particular new environment, the digital marketing expert who views SEO in the broader context will surely come out there ahead of the competition within 2018 and beyond. Good SEO textbooks explain in detail how greatest to use keywords and exactly how to structure your entire internet site to attract the attention associated with search engine spiders and associated with human visitors, and a posting such as this cannot perform the topic justice. While businesses begin on an SEO advertising marketing campaign, they should realize that a good entire marketing campaign can drop flat on its face in case a business is unable in order to reach the masses, that will be, their target audience. If your own pages were designed to obtain the most out of Search engines, with commonly known and today outdated SEO techniques chances are usually Google has identified this plus is throttling your rankings within some way. Several business people find keeping upward with the "moving target" associated with SEO distracts them from everyday priorities more than they actually imagined, so it's good in order to appear closely at what can make sense for every business. The app process for the SocialSEO Electronic Marketing and SEO Scholarship will be done 100% electronically and demands the next list of materials. Getting SEO right can easily influence your business hugely because you start to build natural traffic to your site which in turn will naturally grow without typically the need for any underhanded SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION tactics or even spending a lot of money on perfectly successful but pricey solutions such because Pay Per Click or deluxe ads. Searchmetrics is very pleased to have this partnership along with Elephate, a leading content plus SEO agency with years associated with invaluable experience. However, the particular webmasters can grasp search motor optimization SEO through websites. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION offers incredible opportunity and entry (it's an inherently free marketing and advertising channel) to inbound traffic, yet it can be hard in order to know where to start plus what advice to follow. Video can end up being an important contributor to your own overall SEO and digital advertising strategy, but it's important in order to be superior on how movie is going to help a person achieve your marketing and SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION goals. If you possess ever been into black-hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, spam, and un-natural links, Search engines will never forgive you plus you will be penalized by google at any time. As mentioned earlier, SEO firms are usually the most certified in working with various verticals of online marketing, mainly credited to the nature of their own work. Monitoring: Often overlooked, but one associated with the most important areas associated with successful SEO, this section strolls through how you can monitor your success and tie your own efforts back to real visitors and business, which gives a person the chance to future fine-tune and optimize your programs. SEO is really the shortened phrase for search motor optimization. I believe SEO within 2019 will largely be such as SEO in 2018, with the particular exception of some bigâ Search engines update that wipes out sufficient websites to make people think the algorithms have grown significantly smarter. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION works by optimizing a cyberspace pages, conducting keyword research, plus earning inbound links. The business offers excellent SEO packages that will help rank the clients' internet site within top three pages associated with search engine pages. That can make SEO an ideal lead era tool, because when searchers adhere to links back to your web site, you have the chance in order to convert them to leads, plus later make sales. Whenever asked to point out principles that are unique towards the particular web, most people will arrive up with two main types: SEO and social media. How many links do a person need for good off-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION? If you are carrying Blog9T out a professional SEO audit for the actual business, you are going in order to have to think like the Google Search Quality Rater And also a Google search engineer to supply real long-term value to the client. 44. Give your own social media profiles an SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION boost. 10% of our experts believe that will there's likely to be the lot of focus on cellular in 2019, as older SEOs realize optimizing for desktop is definitely pointless. White hat SEO is not really just about following guidelines, yet is about ensuring that the particular content the search engines indexes and consequently ranks may be the same content the user will see. Keep in mind that will links, content, and user knowledge are all major SEO position factors. Could holistic approach will ultimately eliminate a lot of the particular issues created by some SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION practitioners over the years, I actually suspect that search engines' technicians will initially overestimate the accuracy of their AI, resulting within Penguin-level collateral damage. SEO (Search Motor Optimization) is the process associated with making a website more noticeable in search results, also called improving search rankings. Siteimprove SEO furthermore provides in-tool tips on where to start and the way to get the most out associated with your keyword research and supervising. We've already been operating in the SEO plus content marketing industry since last year and know how search motors work. Presently there are a great number associated with resources out there surrounding competing link analysis (and a great deal that have been authored simply by me! ) but whenever I actually speak with people that are usually working on SEO projects, really always one of those "yeah, I am aware I should do this more" tasks. Amy Kilvington, Marketing Executive at Custom Drapes, believes that SEOs are heading to have to optimize social media marketing more as Google indexes this and prioritizes it over their particular sites' pages. Social media is usually the easiest and most efficient way to push the SEO-based content. However, right now there are some easy adjustments that will you can make to the particular search engine optimization (SEO) component of it, which will ideally provide you with fantastic results. Ultimately, simply by the end of 2018 or even mid-2019, we'll see a golf swing back to naturalâ content created by real humans who may produce valuable content that in fact provides value. Hiring experienced SEO experts may ensure that your website climbs the search engine ranks without having using any illegal practices or even short cuts that could create temporary spikes in the cyberspace ranking, but eventually lead in order to your website having to spend penalties. Official Site Associated with BlowFish SEO - Professional Search Motor Optimization Services operated by Robert DiSalvo SEO Located in Hand Beach Gardens, Florida. The takeaway here will be that if you might have got LOTS of location pages offering A SINGLE business in one particular location, then those are really probably classed as some type of doorway pages, and possibly old-school SEO techniques for these types of type of pages will notice them classed as lower-quality : or even - spammy webpages. CRAWL this, like Google does, with (for example) Screaming Frog SEO spider, plus fix malformed links or issues that result in server errors (500), broken links (400+) and needless redirects (300+). SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION gives you a go at rank for the terms which your own customers use, so you may do better business. The job of the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is to create high-quality articles after which win the attention, the particular love as well as the particular link from a blogger or even editor. The keyword difficulty or even keyword SEO difficulty is the very useful metric for key phrase research.
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Exclusive Insider's Guide - Kindle Scout Campaign Promotional Services Recommendations List (Paid and Free)
Here is a list of all of the various promotional options I've compiled over running all of my campaigns, and hopefully some of them will come in handy for you (or at least the ones that you end up using).
If there is one blog post of mine that you are going to read to find out everything you want to know about promoting your kindle scout campaign, then this is the one. However, if you're interested in finding out a lot about each of these programs and how the worked out for me, then you might want to go through the blog posts and my guidebook to figure out what will work best for you.
So, without further ado, let's begin!
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Best Indie Press - This one was new for me, and up front I didn't really think it would be ideal. For one thing, It is incredibly expensive ($250, though you can get $50 off with coupon code 'TS50' when you sign up). However, one thing they do is direct traffic to both your campaign page and a facebook post to get signups, and I've gotten a fairly large number of people to view my book trailer and like my page on facebook from their service. All told, the cost per click came to about 15-20 cents per click (counting the facebook clicks) so it isn't cheap, but I would definitely consider them to be high value clicks and on the days my campaign ran I saw a noticeable uptick in all sorts of web traffic. You can check it out here.
Online Book Club - I've used OBC for a while now and I've had really good luck with their services. The only initial problem is that they are incredibly expensive. This ad ran over one day and generated a trackable external click load of 600 (and It ended up being my second highest campaign day altogether). That being said, the clicks were fairly expensive, but what you get in addition to clicks is targeted advertising across a lot of platforms. For example, they share on twitter, facebook, pinterest, instagram, linkedin, and other places to drive clicks to your campaign, and it ends up generating a lot of action. They also have a built in giveaway that people can sign up for and you can share. All told, it's about $300 dollars for a book of the day package, but I'm hoping to talk the owner into designing a better Kindle Scout package for authors to trickle nominations in.
Author Shout - This site builds a landing page for your campaign and then drives traffic to it using links. I discussed it in quite a bit more depth in an earlier blog post from my The Everett Exorcism campaign, and I was please with how well they performed. They drove a fair number of traffic to my campaign, and it trickles in instead of all at once which makes it the perfect supplementary Kindle Scout promotion. Definitely make sure to sign up early in the campaign because it is designed to run all 30 days! Check it out here!
Melanie Rockett - This one was new for me as well with my most recent campaign, and like the previous resource Author Shout it makes a perfect supplement. Melanie does a good job building some custom links and shares throughout the campaign to quite a few followers, and it serves to keep a steady trickle of nominations. She also worked extremely fast, which was another plus, and has multiple tiered packages. You can find her on Fiverr, and I would recommend getting the 30 day package (the 15 day seems sort of pointless in the grand scheme of things). Check out her offerings here.
Just Kindle Books - This is a fairly well established site with a decent following, and they offer a direct Kindle Scout promotion for only about thirty dollars. Quick responses and a lot of professionalism, and they have a coupon code (PAIDAUTHOR) which might get you $5 dollars off. Check that one out here.
Readper - This one was from a friend of mine named Jaxon Reed and he blasts out to his newsletter on your behalf. Super cheap with some solid results. Check it out here.
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Author Ad Network - I ran this ad one time, and never again. It was incredibly expensive and completely not worth it. I could hardly believe it performed so poorly considering the price, but it was in the range of 100 clicks and came out to around a dollar per click. They are certainly in the business of making money off of authors with a lot of flash but don't have the marketing muscle to back it up. I won't even link to it, so you'll have to jump back on google if you want to find it.Â
Goodreads Ads - I only don't recommend this one because it isn't worth spending time on. All in all, it isn't terrible and they are high value clicks, but my daily impressions were so low while bidding $1.20 per click that it just wasn't worth the effort. You have to load money in advance, and the clicks cost so much that it is a double negative: you'll spend a fortune per click and still take forever to get them. Just not worth it.
BookBub Ads - I would recommend this one because of how valuable the clicks can be, but again they are extremely expensive. For example, on Reddit you can get 1,000 impressions for about 40 cents, whereas on BookBub that would cost about $4 dollars. So, 10x as many impressions, which would make it nearly impossible for BookBub to compete. On top of that, you have to get invited into the program to be able to run ads at all, which is a huge negative in my opinion. In general, I just can't recommend it when there are options out there with considerably cheaper clicks. Still, it might be worth requesting an invite to the program and playing around with it, because outside of Kindle Scout it can still be incredibly valuable.
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Books Butterfly - I used to recommend this one, and in some cases it is good, but it is just too hit-and-miss for me to want to stand firmly by it. You can run the free promotion (gold level is $100) and get a fair number of nominations out of it, but the problem is inconsistency. I've run it and gotten a huge burst (900+) of clicks, and then on another day you might get 100. Definitely worth checking out if you want to hit a mid-campaign boost, but use at your own risk. You can find it here.
Scout Boost - This one barely (BARELY!) made it out of the not-recommended section, because it is expensive and just performed so-so. You can use a coupon code for 25% off (25%-OFF-NOW) which makes it almost worthwhile, but the results were incredibly mediocre. The thing is, I could have spent that money going deeper into ad platforms and gotten as good, if not better, results out of it. Use it at your own risk here.
Twitter Ads - A lot of people hate twitter ads, and sometimes I can really see why. They can be incredibly useless clicks, and if you aren't careful they can quickly balloon your costs. If you run a twitter ad, make sure you use cards, have good ad content (do not spam hashtags in ads) and run with incredibly low bids. What sort of annoys me is: they recommend I bid about $2 per click, but when I say 'nope' and bid .07 cents, I still end up spending my entire budget. That means that they would gladly charge me over twenty times the minimum price of a click if I'm willing to pay it. That's the biggest reason I won't strongly recommend them, because you have to pay more attention than most other places.
StumbleUpon Ads - Very easy to use beginner platform, but it doesn't register pageviews quite how I would like. The problem is, they use embedded forms to bring a webpage INTO their webpage, so you stay on stumbleupon but you are fed content from outside. To be honest, it is a little too clever for its own good, because the source website isn't tracking credit quite how it should, and a LOT of websites (Amazon, for example) add code that stops this sort of embedding from happening. It's a tool used by a lot of hackers and bad actors to steal data or passwords, so that sort of limits the functionality of this website. Still, it is nifty and you can get fairly cheap clicks (plus, they 'reward' you for running ads) so it isn't too bad. Also, the fact that it is clean and easy to use is a huge benefit for beginners.
Pinterest Ads - You have to be careful and make sure to bid low here, which also means results will come slowly. It isn't a bad place to play around with some money and has a pretty huge audience, you just can't use it as a staple platform.
Reddit Ads - As mentioned above, you pay by impression and can get quite a few fairly cheap. Then, it just comes down to luck of the draw. The problem is, even though you get impressions cheaply you have to pay a fair amount daily as a requirement, and when you say "spend $5 dollars" they often spend $6 or $7. Not a terrible place for clicks, but be careful. Also, another thing to note: reddit has some pretty ugly corners to it, and you might need to be careful about limiting certain subreddits so that they don't get your ad.
Gleam Giveaway - This can get expensive, but it has powerful clickthrough if you make your campaign visit a required action. Giving away bigger prizes draws way more people, and you can customize to also get shares of the giveaway, following on social media, or visiting other places on your website for additional entries. Gleam is fun to play around with, people love winning stuff, so it is a win-win. That being said, this can quickly become a very expensive option.
Bing Ads - Just like google with a much smaller audience and payment required up front. Also, clicks are going to default to more expensive, which is a negative. Still, it isn't terrible and if you like google this is very similar.
Book Trailer - This can be a lot of fun (and I talk a lot about this option here) but it doesn't directly get your clicks. Sure, there are some cool parts attached to it, but all in all I would say there are better places to spend your money. However, if you don't make it Kindle Scout campaign centric, then you can always re-use it for promotions months and years down the line. In the mentioned post you can find some information about how I made my trailer.
Handouts - I printed off some handouts and passed them out, but this takes a lot of effort and time to leave them at places and drive around. If you're looking for an interpersonal campaign, then this is perfect, but for me it is easier to do most of my work online in my spare time (I don't have hours to spare driving around to bookstores and libraries). If you do go this route, uprinting is pretty cheap for making handouts (bookmarks, in my case) and I made them open ended so that after my campaign ends I can just direct the traffic to a new promotion. It just spares me from having to worry about not getting them out fast enough.
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Headtalker - This is a great platform for building up shares on social media. Basically, you sign up for an account and then build a campaign. Fill in some details, run it through a vetting process, and then voila it is ready to go. How it works: on the day/hour you pick everyone who signs up will send out the exact same tweet/facebook message/linkedIn post/tumblr share. It also tracks how much 'reach' your team of supporters have (and it is cool to see that 1,000,000 plus people are going to get your post). However, keep in mind one HUGE detail: they are posting it, not retweeting, so if you put a message that says: "Check out my new Kindle Scout entry..." then THEY are posting that message as if it is THEIRS. The trick is to write things in the third person: "Nominate this Kindle Scout entry and get a free copy...". I won't support campaigns anymore that personalize the message because then I get confused readers wondering if I have a new campaign or a new book coming out. It is just bad practice. A couple of links you'll need: headtalker and then a facebook group that trades support. Join the group and then share/post and cross-promote!
Posting on Social Media -  Do this, but don't overdo it. Don't spam people or hit them too hard with hourly posts. I've heard of authors sending out newsletters every couple of hours (a huge no-no) and people scheduling twitter posts for ten times a day. Don't overdo it. Invite people to your stuff, keep up a new post every couple of days, but also post about other stuff (what you're working on next, things you think are interesting). Share with your fans, don't deluge them, and social media can be a hugely beneficial way to get nominations.
Goodreads - Join groups, meet people, and find places where they invite authors to promote. Leave links to your campaign, and people will click them. This generally gets me a handful of clicks over the life of a campaign, so I can certainly recommend this. There are a lot of things I don't like about Goodreads, but it is a solid community of readers and as long as you aren't spammy and overbearing you can find places that are receptive to your message.
KBoards - If you aren't on Kboards, then that is the first thing you need to do. Signup and jump in. It's a very active forum with some incredible information available from the savvy authors who chat there. There is also a dedicated thread over there just for Kindle Scout campaigns. You can share your link, nominate some campaigns, and when your campaign is about to end you'll bump up the list to receive nominations from the other board members. The benefit of this is people can nominate and support, but the thread is centralized around promoting campaigns and talking shop, not just 'nominate me...no nominate ME' posts.
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Thunderclap - This is just like headtalker, except the minimum required is for 100 people to sign up. I would recommend it, except there is plain and simply a better option out there already. If you are considering using this, then just use Headtalker instead.
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Hopefully some of this information was helpful for you in making up your mind about what to do with your Kindle Scout campaign. I'll keep updating it with new options and add new services as I find them. If I missed any that you want me to test out or mention then link them in the comments below. If/when I run more campaigns I'll make sure to test them out and add them to the list!
Let me know in the comments if you agree/disagree with my assessments and what your experience has been with some of these programs. Also, check out my Kindle Scout Guidebook for more information about the basics of running a campaign and for more tips and tricks not mentioned here!
I also have an indepth look at the Hot & Trending list and how pageviews work in the guidebook, so that might help you understand better how those work.
What comes next?
Now I'm turning to new projects. Will I put more books on Kindle Scout? Most likely. Who knows what the future holds, but keep an eye on my blog (or join my newsletter) to see what is next in my world!
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You should think about buying a pre-paid debit cards and packing it when you would like to buy things. This will help avoid using credit or credit rating profiles which have a big equilibrium. If someone has got the prepaid cards information and facts, you will see nothing at all on the greeting card to enable them to acquire.
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