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FIRST AID AT FIRST SIGHT
“Hey, hey! What the heck! Stop right there!” “Darn it! Someone stop him!”
Y/n got a bit startled and glanced towards the direction of the hue and cry. A man carrying a wallet was running towards her, and another one chasing him at a distance. These purse-snatchers are so brazen! Y/n quickly moved to the side to let the purse-snatcher pass, because he looked intimidating - or so HE thought, before he tripped over (courtesy Y/n's sneaky moves) and fell on his face. Y/n proceeded to tackle him. Eventually she was thrown off to one side after a short scuffle. The purse-snatcher got up and fled. The man who was chasing him stopped by her, glanced at the purse-snatcher fleeing, and gave out a short sigh. He then squatted beside Y/n and looked at her with concern.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Ah yes, I’m okay,” she reassured him. “And oh, here’s your wallet.”
The man stared at Y/n in amazement. And then at his wallet. And again at Y/n. He finally found his voice. “Oh? Wow. How? Uh, thanks! But –“
Y/n chuckled. “You’re welcome.” She handed him his wallet. Her eyes took in the brown hair, puppy eyes and a boopable nose. This guy is cute, she thought.
The man helped her up. Suddenly his eyebrows furrowed. He held up her arm. “You aren’t okay. Look, your elbow is bleeding. I’ll get first-aid. Sit here and wait.” He led her to an empty bench on the sidewalk and rushed to the pharmacy nearby before Y/n could say anything.
Within minutes the guy was back with Band-Aids and wound disinfectant. He plopped down beside Y/n, gently took her arm in his hand and started dressing her wound. His eyes full of concentration. His dainty fingers carefully handling her wound. Now, Y/n, stop inspecting his hands and focus on your wound. She blinked her eyes and looked at her wound which was covered by Band-Aids now.
"There. It's done. Is it uncomfortable?"
Y/n folded and unfolded her elbow twice. "No, it's quite comfortable. Thanks for the first aid, mister...?"
"Baekhyun. Baekhyun Byun. Umm it's the least I could do, after all it was my fault that you are injured." Gosh! his puppy eyes look guilty.
"Oh no, not your fault at all," Y/n spoke up hastily. "It was that thief's fault. Had I managed to hold on to him until you reached, we could have knocked him down, but you see he was such a big fellow," she grinned, "I couldn't handle him alone."
Baekhyun broke into a chuckle. Hum! His smile is pretty too. Y/n, get a grip, don't stare at him like that. Baekhyun is asking you something.
She broke out of her reverie.
"By the way, shouldn't you also tell me your name?" asked he.
Y/n facepalmed. "Oh! Oh, I forgot to. I'm Y/n."
"Y/n," Baekhyun repeated after her. "The name is pretty."
"Ah, thanks... to my parents," Y/n chuckled.
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There was a comfortable silence between them. After a while, Y/n spotted a bus coming towards their direction and stood up.
"Umm, I'll be off then. My bus is here. Bye." Y/n waved at him before climbing the stairs of the bus. "And thanks for this," she showed off her elbow as if that was some sort of trophy.
Baekhyun beamed and waved back.
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Y/n sighed after settling down on her seat. "Well, there goes another one with whom I'll probably never cross paths again. I'll miss you beautiful stranger."
The passenger sitting behind her was playing a Taylor Swift song, and Y/n heard one of her favourite lyrics : "
"I just wanna know you better, know you better, know you better now,
I just wanna know you, know you, know you,
All I know is we said, "Hello"
Your eyes look like comin' home..."