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Time flies, but not at the 'Internetocity'. Jisoo always felt time to be ticking annoyingly slow at her work place which was the only cyber café in town. Even right now, it couldn't be going any slower.
When she had initially moved to the place, the thought of getting a job was out of the question. After all she had moved there just for her research project's purpose. But over time Jisoo realized how bored she was getting in that humongous house and zero social interactions. It was her father, actually who had suggested for her to get a job. And the newly opened cyber cafe at the time seemed like the perfect employment opportunity for her.
The owner of the internet accessing café was one of the most hilariously notorious character ever. Doh Kyungsoo was sixteen when he discovered his 'natural' adept at humor. He realized how funny his pranks and jokes were and was kind of disappointed at no one had ever pointed out this phenomenal talent of his before.
Anyways, the intensity of his pranks and jokes kept growing and people around him started to get a little fed up with it. Nobody ever told him about how lame and actually, crude his jokes were because of how happy he used to get telling them. But it started getting a little out of hand.
Kyungsoo was twenty something when one of his friends invited him over to the inauguration of her new business. It was a private ceremony and Nayeon thought inviting her friend, Kyungsoo would be great. The poor woman was proved wrong as she watched in horror the brand new cash register being thrown onto the floor by the dark haired man, who was laughing hysterically. The joke, apparently was how absurd the debris of the machine looked.
It was safe to say that since then, Kyungsoo had toned down his jokes a bit as he had to cough up four hundred thousand wons. That taught him a lesson but unfortunately, also gave him a idea. To open up a business where he could be his silly 'jester' self and also because his employees would HAVE to laugh at his jokes.
Jisoo looked up from her front desk to take in the current state of the café. It was mostly vacant, with barely any customers as it was still pretty early in the day. Sighing heavily, the tawny haired checked her muted phone in hopes of killing time. But instead, the number of notifications nearly killed her.
A total of about 70 text messages and several calls were left on her phone and aghast plastered itself over Jisoo's face. All of them were from one particular contact, no surprise about that. She had handed the alien her old phone which she always had kept in her messenger bag for no particular reason actually.
Scrolling through the messages, the tawny haired finally reached the start of the message thread and started reading through.
'Ji'
'Gud diy'
'Comig beck?'
*photo attached*
She could tell it was taken by accident (maybe) because it was just a blur blob which if you'd look closely, be decoded out to be Taehyung's chocolate brown eyes. Jisoo knew she shouldn't be worries, maybe he was just trying to figure the gadget out. But fuck her anxious mind as it ran to some quite far fetched ideas.
'What if someone found him? Maybe that's why he's desperately trying to contact me?'
'Oh no, it must be Mrs Na. She's definitely take him to the authorities.'
'No no no, what if they take him away to-'
"NOO"
"Damn I just thought to take my lunch break a little early Jisoo, no need to be so dramatic." said Jimin, her co worker who also happened to be quite the annoyance in her life. The business major just shot him a dirty look and went back to freaking out over the texts and decided to call the hazel haired once, before sprinting her way back home.
*Ring*
*Ring*
*Ring*
*Ring*
'The number you've dialed is not-'
Fuck.
Mr Doh would understand her taking a leave today, she hoped as she grabbed her bag and hurriedly removed her badge and cap, purposefully bumping into Jimin and getting a middle finger in return before she rushed out of the café. Just one small problem.
Mr Doh was standing right in front of her.
"My favorite employee!"
"Uh morning Mr Doh"
"Please, I've told you to call me Kyungsoo. It's good that I met you here itself." Jisoo cursed under her breath, luck was clearly not on her side.
"I was thinking of closing up early today." Ok maybe luck was on her side after all.
"As, of course you'd be aware, today being my birthday."
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"This is weird. I don't wanna wear this."
"Well, this is all I could find at the thrift store. Stop whining and get ready stupid."
After being forcefully invited to her boss's birthday party, she had raced back home on her unstable bike and it turned out that the man merely fell asleep after all the gadget exploration. Jisoo had screamed in frustration which had woken up the sleeping being and after an hour's worth lecture of 'the appropriate times to spam', the two were now getting ready to go to the party of the evening.
Jisoo had decided not to leave him behind as her anxiety would just kill her and so, after an awkward call with her boss asking if she could bring someone along and him just laughing without any proper answer, she was helping Taehyung to get properly instructed and dressed for the event.
"Birthday my ass, he must be having no date for valentine's and has called us all forcefully just to not be alone and sad."
"What's Valentine's?" Jisoo sighed, not knowing what definitive answer was there to that question. She ushered him to go into the bathroom to change and before he could turn aorund and pout at the lack of response, she spoke.
"Well, it's a stupid day on which people spend money on corny shit like chocolates and dinner dates and be with their significant others." Yep that was a good summarization.
"Hmm, sounds a lot like Liberation Day of my planet." Oh so that was what their planet's liberation day meant. Being liberated by love?
"Yeah yeah now go get dressed. We have to leave in like ten minutes."
"Jisoo, are you not celebrating Valentine's? Don't you have a significant other?"
"STOP ASKING SUCH STUPID QUESTIONS!"
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A/N - didn't have time to proof read this sorry ;-;
