A Poolside Affair

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Chanyeol spends his summer trying to woo the very handsome lifeguard at the public pool, the lifeguard thinks he's cute.

*Kokobop inspired multichapter summer AU*

Foreword

It was summer, and yet, Chanyeol, being the poor music student that he was, did not have the necessary cash for an outing to the beach. It was torture really, to think he’d gone through all those months of dark and bitter winter, looking forward to finally going to the beach, only to have spent all his cash during the winter on coffee shops and cozy sweaters. Chanyeol was broke, and he lived in a big city; unfortunately that meant that the trip to the beach was long and that housing out there was expensive.

Chanyeol barely had enough money for food.

Fortunately, though, Chanyeol wasn’t the only piss poor student that was trying to get the best out of a low budget summer.

His fellow music students, albeit vocal students specifically, Jongdae and Baekhyun who lived together, were also b with a desire for an active and fun summer, yet without the cash to realize their dreams.

Alas, all was not lost.

For the there were public pools.

Sigh.

Now, granted, Chanyeol much preferred the beach than the fenced off public pools that were situated in some of the great parks around the stupidly massive city; they were crowded, there were children, there was noise… but, one must cope.

“Beggars can’t be chooser Yeol! I don’t want to hear you whining anymore!” Baekhyun argued as he packed his bag for their outing.

“Have you even gone to a public pool before? It’s not even that bad, I used to go there tons when I was a kid.” Jongdae pointed out, already sitting with his packed bag, jet black sunglasses in his permed blonde hair and an electric fan in a cord around his neck.

“That’s the thing! He has prejudice even before he goes there!” Baekhyun complained.

Chanyeol sighed, leaned back against his backpack. “What can I say? Didn’t grow up in the city, there wasn’t really a chance to visit a public pool. Not that I would have, the beach kicks .”

Jongdae scoffed. “You and your beach privileges.”

“I think you’ll find those are ex-beach privileges.” Chanyeol pointed out, finger guns in Jongdae’s direction.

Having finally packed everything, Baekhyun turned to Chanyeol with a beaming smile. “Well! Today is the day you get to experience a part of the big city kids childhood! Isn’t it great?”

Chanyeol smiled back, suddenly turning energized and positive by Baekhyun. “As long as I can get to splash in some water and fry myself in the sun, I think we’re golden.”

“That’s my boy!” Baekhyung exclaimed. “Onwards!”

And so, with the cheapest transportation means possible (bikes), they all made their way to a newly opened public pool in a park a little ways out of town central.

 

The moment they arrived by a public pool of Jongdae’s choosing, Chanyeol was already somewhat impressed. The fence which cut off the pool from the rest of the park was adorned with tropical plants that looked scarily real (though they couldn’t be real, come on, how would they survive winter?), it was a nice concept, and there was some okay-sounding pop music, so maybe this was actually going to be a good experience.

After changing into their swimming trunks and checking themselves in the mirror a couple times, the Beagles crashed the party.

…Except of course, that the party consisted only of small children, pre-teens and older women.

Baekhyun shrugged while Jongdae stifled a laughter at Chanyeol’s reaction. “Welp, I guess it’s just like I remember it.”

“Honestly, our good looks are to waste here.” Jongdae commented as they all made their way to a spot to roll out their colorful towels.

“Mannn” Chanyeol groaned, “This , there aren’t even any hotties here. That’s like the main attraction of even going to the beach.”

“Don’t be lame Yeol.” Baekhyun told him, pulling out his own orange tinted sun glasses from his red hair and putting it on his face. “This isn’t the beach, and we’re here to cool off. Just enjoy the experience that is public pools.”

Chanyeol rolled his eyes. “Just because you guys can quench you thirst with each other. I haven’t had some since the start of winter.”

“Calm down pink princess.” Jongdae said, ruffling Chanyeol’s hair. “Well just go clubbing or something, how about that?” He asked as he moved to smear sunscreen on Baekhyun’s back.

“I’ll have you know it’s lavender, not pink. And also, with what money will we go clubbing?” He complied.

“Literally shut up Yeol, go take a swim in the pool.” Baekhyun instructed, and then he moaned not so subtly. “Wanna give me a massage Dae-bae?” he asked, and yeah okay, Chanyeol was definitely going now.

With his tropical flowers swimming trunks and his cat-eye sunglasses Chanyeol wandered over to the swimming pool, remembering to take his inflatable ring with him.

Inflating the actual thing took ing forever, but finally finally it was full. Chanyeol was more than ready to just sit in that and drift for an hour or two, or however long it took for his best friends not to be so disgusting with each other.

So that’s exactly what Chanyeol did.

Really, the music wasn’t even that bad, and he only got splashed about 20 times from kids playing water games, and pushed away about 10 times for drifting right into someone’s conversation.

Okay, so Chanyeol may or may not have been growing exceptionally angry and time passed.

But it was okay, it was okay.

Then suddenly Chanyeol could feel a shadow above him as his ring bumped into the side of the pool. A little startled, Chanyeol opened his eyes to identify where he was and what was casting a rude shadow over him.

When he looked up, he saw a sight that was more than just a little okay, and he realized blatantly, that he was staring at the life guard, perched atop his seat.

Honestly, no one looked good from the angle Chanyeol was looking from, not even the model wannabe Baekhyun. And yet, this guy had the audacity to look ing gorgeous, even from down here.

His jawline was magnificent, not deathly sharp nor rounded, his arms toned but not too big. He was wearing a black atop his head and was wearing what Chanyeol was discovering was the very nice, very attractive, lifeguard uniform.

But what made Chanyeol’s jaw drop, was the man’s gaze. His face was so expressive and beautiful and wow, he should really consider a career as an actor.

Finally, the man noticed Chanyeol’s very blatant staring and looked down at the other. Chanyeol in a breath, being beneath the other’s strong gaze was even more amazing.

Stupidly, Chanyeol let out an embarrassing “hello”, complete with an awkward wave. But then, despite Chanyeol wanting to drown himself in embarrassment, the most amazing thing happened.

The lifeguard smirked at him.

 

Holy .

Chanyeol was in love.

 

~

 

In a great big panic, Chanyeol had dropped into the pool to cool his overheating head, not even caring the chlorine in the water definitely wasn’t good for his purple and fragile hair. He arrived back to his favorite beagles who looked much snobbier than they had the money to pose as, and shook himself like a great big dog to get their attention.

“What the Yeol!” Baekhyun exclaimed.

“AH, WHY CHANYEOL?!” Jongdae whined dramatically.

“Guys, shut up!” he told them, sitting back down on his towel and racking his hand through his hair. “There’s a hot guy here.”

“What! No way! Where??” Baekhyun asked, ever thirsty for some eye candy, even going as far as too pushing his sunglasses down his nose bridge and doing a quick scan of the pool.

“Don’t be so obvious, damn it!” Chanyeol complained, urging Baekhyun to put his sunglasses back on properly.

“You seem a hell of a lot more obvious than we do though.” Jongdae, the bastard, pointed out.

Chanyeol instantly got his cool back then, scratching the back of his head nonchalantly, he told them: “The lifeguard”

“Oh, you mean the guy making his way over?” Baekhyun asked quietly,

and Chanyeol let out an instinctive “WHAT?!” before turning around and clapping a hand over his mouth as he saw the life guard standing right across from him.

“Uhh, am I interrupting something?” He asked casually, but looking more than a little surprised at Chanyeol’s outburst.

“OH! No, not at all!” Chanyeol said. “What do you um – er, that is – hi, what c-can I do for you? Um, today?”

The lifeguard quirked an eyebrow at that, and the earthshattering crooked smirk was back. “Right.” He said, before presenting something in the palm of his hand. Those were.. oh! Weren’t those Chanyeol’s sunglasses? “Some kid found this at the bottom of the deep end pool, I remembered seeing you wearing these.”

When Chanyeol was still just staring at the lifeguard, he continued cautiously. “It… is your sunglasses, right?”

When Jongdae finally elbowed him sharply, Chanyeol was able to nod dumbly, and now, God have mercy on Chanyeol, he’d gotten the life guard to chuckle.

He bent down and placed the cheap sunglasses in Chanyeol’s hand. “Those are pretty cool, haven’t seen many sport these kind of sunglasses before.” Then he stood up again and walked on back to his post, but not before telling the boys: “Have a good one guys.”

Once Chanyeol had somehow composed himself, he silently put on his sunglasses, still wet from the pool, and laid  to rest atop his towel, both Baekhyun and Jongdae looking at him as if he’d gone mental.

“I have to woo that guy.” He announced to the world, and the world (Jongdae and Baekhyun), groaned before laying down at their towels; each grumbling something along the lines of

“stupid romantic idiot Chanyeol.”

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I'm excited to hear what you all think! It's my first time on this site as well as my first time writing kpop fanfiction, I hope I'm keeping the boys at least a little IC.
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lufyaa
#1
Haha!! Yeol!! Why so cute??!! Eeyy...author nim...I want more~~ this is a good one!!
TheRealDKS
#2
This story seems interesting. I would love to read it!