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Alex walked inside of the little cafeteria. It was monday, work again. Alex had on the same black sunglasses. As soon as Alex got in, he saw a short boy with a messy hair on the counter. He looked familiar. It was the same boy. The same boy he dumped into. Alex walked to the counter, smiling.

"Hey, it's you. Karl right?" Alex said behind the boy. The boy turned around, and Alex just now realised, that he was shorter than the boy.

"O- oh hi! Yes! I- i remember you" The brunette boy smiled.

"What are you doing here?" Alex asked honestly.

"O-oh! I work here! I mean- i got the job yesterday" The boy said nervously.

"Well that's cool. I also work here!" Alex smiled again, putting his keys on the table.

"Cool! Does.. anyone else work here? I haven't seen anyone" The other boy wonders.

"Oh.. yeah. I do work here too. And then umm here works a girl named Minx, and Alyssa. And then a guy named.. Schlatt" Alex said nervously.

"That's nice. W- where are they" Karl chuckled a little.

"Well Alyssa has been having a break, like 1 week now. Minx does the food, so she doesn't usually chat with others. And Schlatt doesn't have work today, since he had an extra day on saturday" Alex smiled, and left his backpack on the floor.

"Why are you wearing sunglasses? You also wore those yesterday when we dumped" The boy chuckled.

"Oh i- I like to cover my eyes" Alex said nervously.

"Yeah sure!" The brunette boy laughed and grabbed Alex's sunglasses, without letting the man speak. When Karl took off the black sunglasses, the first thing he saw was Alex's black eye. Alex's eye were half open and half closed. It had a purple, huge mark all over it.
The boy looked at Alex long enough for Alex to see the confused face.

"What happened?!" The boy screamed, as he put the sunglasses away.

"Hey it's nothing. I am fine." Alex grabbed the boy's hand.

"No no. We need to get this cleaned up" The brunette insisted and dragged Alex from his hand to the back. The boy put Alex down, sitting on the counter. He came back with a bag if ice, and started rubbing it on Alex's face.
Alex sat there awkwardly, looking at the man rubbing his fucked face. Alex could feel his cheeks slowly warm up, of the man being so close to his face.

"Thank you... " Alex said, leaving a confused voice to the end.

"Karl. You can call me Karl" The boy smiled.

Alex smiled back at him. He felt like he was really.. safe. Safe around this guy. He still didn't get the same feeling he got with Schlatt. Schlatt was different. But now if you ask, how could Alex feel safe around Schlatt.. after all of the things. It was difficult at this point.

"And there. It should be fine by now, if you don't hit it again" Karl smiled and got away from Alex.

Alex jumped off of the counter, touching his eye to feel it. He didn't feel the pain anymore.

"Thank you Karl" Alex said.

"It's all fine" Karl laughed.

The day went smoothly. There wasn't that much work to do, but Alex and Karl got time to get to know each other better. They got along really good actually. Alex finally felt this feeling of happiness. Not like Schlatt couldn't give that to him. But he never had a friend before, since Schlatt was the one he fell in love with.
The clock went faster than ever. It was already the end of work actually. The boys still wanted to clean the place up before they leave.