If the lack of customers is an annoyance, the creaking of the coffee house's door is an added annoyance. Off isn't sure what annoys him more, the absence of customers or their presence. The former is not conducive for the economy of his coffee house and the latter is not conducive for his own emotional state.
Two hushed voices come from the direction of the kitchen. He guesses Arm and Tay might be coming up with an elaborate plan on how to survive the day.
He has already sensed Arm and Tay walking on egg shells when they are around him, his ever worrying idiotic friends who think their world revolves around one person called Off Jumpol.
Most of the time he is torn between the urge to snap and the urge to pretend that everything's fine. He's fine. But is it true though, can he ever be fine again? At least he could pretend.
Pretending to be fine. Pretending that he's a hospitable owner of this bloody coffee house which could run better without him.
That's easy until…………….
Every ounce of hospitality is thrown out of the window when he sees the face of the person who threw open the door and slammed it shut with more force than necessary.
Dim walks in with the same expression of rage and disgust that never left his face ever since his sister's death. An unfortunate incident that he holds Off responsible for.
"I see you are doing fantastic'' Dim eyes Off never bothering to hide the venom in his voice.
"What do you want Dim?''
"Nothing. This is just an occasional reminder that you are a murderer. You seem to forget that often.'' Dim scowls.
Off sighs. He's quite used to this accusation. If only Rin was here, she would have defended him against Dim,her own brother. She would have smiled at him. She would have..
If only she were alive…
"That's enough Dim. Stop harassing Off every single time.'' Arm never gets used to this constant harrasment.
"Yes. Can you just leave.'' Tay insists.
Seeing that he's outnumbered, Dim decides to walk away but his purpose has been served anyway.
"Don't you ever forget. It's you. You let her die.'' Dim pounces like a tiger towards the door making an innocent customer who happened to choose this wrong time to enter the coffee house startle and stumble.
The innocent customer blinks at the chaos before him. Off finds himself on the edge, ready to throw himself into burning fire. He leaves unable to control his meltdown.
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Rain to Sea
FanfictionGun is dealing with the grief of his sister, Emma's untimely death and in this process he discovers one of her guarded secrets that turns his life upside down. Off, on the other hand, is very much absorbed in grief. The guilt of losing his childho...
