Jae was very happy, to say the absolute least.
No one was allowed in except Bummie, so it was just the duo. Bummie had brought a kiddie pool along with an airtight hair cap that would prevent Jae from getting his hair wet. It was an old swim cap that Bummie had at home. The kiddie pool is what he put his fish in while he cleaned his pond from time to time. Both extremely convenient items that he had at the time.
Bummie got to work on setting up the supplies. He blew the small pool up and filled it with water. This took about 10 minutes.
"Here, put it on your head and make sure it covers all of your hair." Bummie handed Jae the swimmer's cap.
"Ok!" Jae studied the item before sliding it on his head.
Jae struggled while trying to tuck his hair beneath the cap.
"I'll help." Bummie walked over to Jae and began to assist him.
The lifeguard grabbed the little strands of hair and tucked them under the cap.
A giggle caused his gaze to lower. Once again, he was so close to Youngjae that their noses were probably touching. The sea creature wore that same sweet smile as always. It was killing him. How would he survive?
Bummie stumbled back.
"Um, it's good now." Bummie approved.
Jae gave a thumbs up, something he had often seen humans doing.
Bummie chuckled and watched Jae leaped into the kiddie pool.
"Careful!" He called out.
"Mhm!" Jae nodded as he observed his legs moving in the water.
"Ok, the beach will open in about an hour. There will be a lot of people and a lot of different things to do." Bummie started as he walked over to Jae.
Jae directs his attention to Bummie.
"I promise to show you a lot of new things and make sure you have an awesome first day on land. Sound good?" Bummie explains.
Jae nodded eagerly while cheering.
"Yay!"
Bummie smiled.
"Ok, the others should be on the- oh wait, here they come now." Bummie stares at the group of his colleagues walking his way.
It was the other Lifeguards.
A rowdy group of five walked down the stairs that lead onto the beach. Currently, the time was 7:48 am. This group of workers was known to be early. The five included Yugy, San, Mariah, Seo, and Jun. These five lifeguards were accustomed to their routine.
In all, there are about twenty lifeguards who work at the beach. It might seem like much, but in reality, the beach was huge and is evenly divided among the workers. The lifeguard crew was quite familiar with each other. You could even consider them a huge family. Thick as thieves, as some would say.
It was nice like that.
Yugy and San head directly towards Bummie as the rest of the group split up to go to their post. Bummie grew slightly nervous as they came closer. He almost forgot about this part.
Introducing Jae to other people.
"Hey! Who's this?" Yugy gestures to Jae.
By now Jae was out of the pool and standing near Bummie.
"This is Jae! He's a friend of mine that's visiting." Bummie states nervously.
"Cool! I'm Yugy and this is San." Yugy introduces.
San waves.
"Where are you from Jae?" Yugy says the last word with hesitance.
"I'm from the sea!" Jae smiles brightly.
Yugy furrows his brows.
Bummie panics internally.
"Overseas! He means that he just came from overseas!" Bummie tries his best to cover up Jae's mistake.
"Oh, Nice! You're older than me right?" Yugy asks Jae.
Jae stared blankly, he didn't know how to answer.
"Uh, Yeah! Jae is older." Bummie answers for the confused sea creature.
Jae smiles and nods.
Yugy chuckles and is about to open his mouth up once more, but Bummie interrupts.
"Ya know, I think it's time to go back to your pool Jae. You go ahead and I'll be there in a minute." Bummie had decided mentally that it would be safer to end the conversation there.
Jae smiled and walked off to the plastic pool.
"Why the pool?" San asks as the three watch Jae walk off.
"Oh- uh Jae really likes water, but he's scared of the ocean." Bummmie was feeling uneasy about lying so much to his friends.
"Oh," The younger lifeguards responded.
"Jae is really different, but once you start to talk to him you realize he's really sweet as well. Please, don't think much of it if he doesn't know something or acts a bit strange." Bummie pleads.
"Of course! Any friend of yours is a friend of ours!" Yugy replies enthusiastically.
"Yeah, I second that!" San agrees with a grin.
Bummie sighs in relief.
"You seem to really care about him" It was a surprise to hear these words from San.
Was he really that obvious?
"Looks like Bummie has a crush~" Yugy teases.
Bummie's face got so red, the duo laughs loudly.
"Wow! I've never seen Bummie blush!" San comes in closer to get a better look.
"I know, to think that someone has this big of an impact on Bummie." Yugy does the same.
The two continue to tease their superior.
"Ugh! Shut up and get to work!"