Working at Aldi with Giovanni Potage, Epithet Erased (y/n x giovanni - platonic)

The Day of Reckoning

[Nearly a month after the prologue]

Y/N was doing their general job at the till. Scanning items and saying prices. At some point a customer's card declined on a packet of ramen. Y/N just let them have it for free. Broke student solidarity.

Eventually they were allowed a break. Y/N's break typically lined up with Giovanni's, granting the two a few minutes of hang out time.
Over the course of the past two weeks, the pair had gotten used to eachother, even considering eachother work friends (look it hasn't been THAT long)

As Y/N walked out the back exit, a cold gust of wind hit them in the face. Pulling back their fringe. They held their hair down after fixing it, as a safety precaution of course.

"Why the hair restraining Y/N?? Is it some new trend?" Inquired Giovanni as Y/N approached him.

"More like the weather." Y/N let go. The wind proceeded to toss the previously held back hair in all the directions of a DDR pad.
Giovanni was trying his best not to giggle at the sight. His colleague looked utterly ridiculous with their wacky waving bangs.

After a good chat about why so many random people propose to Giovanni while he's on the job, the two go back to business, walking back into the shop together.

as soon as they re-entered however, a sense of dread could be felt.. entitlement drifted the air, babies were crying and essential oils could be smelled.

"Oh god.." Giovanni's face turned pale.
"What's up?" Y/N was naive to their situation, unaware of the oncoming migraine
"It's.. him"

Approaching rapidly was a man with a barcode for hair. He had glasses sat on the end of his nose, although they looked as if they were being forced to stay there based on how fast he was moving.

"YOU TWO!" He barked.

"Ohhhh shit" muttered Giovanni
"who exactly is him?"
"Arnold."

He stops. 1 foot away from the two employees. 1 foot of safety. 1 foot away from their doom. Arnold was seething with rage. Y/N couldn't help but mentally brace for impact as he began to speak

"CAN YOU BOTH EXPLAIN WHY ONLY ONE CHECK-OUT WAS OPEN??? HM??? AND WHY OF ALL PEOPLE WAS IT RAN BY A CAT HOLDING A SHOTGUN? ISN'T THAT INAPPROPRIATE BUSINESS PRACTICES?"

Giovanni, with every drop of joy being raptured out of him by the second, simply said "sir. sir this aldi has only got 3 employees."

"Why though"

"I don't know ask the author"

No fuckin clue guys im just lazy maybe I'll add some more we'll see.

"That is a truly idiotic reason" said Arnold.

"Dont bother questioning it" Y/N said, trying to be helpful

"WAIT you two had me distracted. ANYWAY that MOGGIE would not accept any of my coupons! None! Disgraceful"

Y/N tried to present the ridiculousness of the situation they're in. A thing unheard of to the people of this universe, "Sir you are talking about a cat with a gu-"

"SILENCE WENCH"

Y/N was confused. They had no idea people still used that word

"HEY!!!" Yelled Giovanni, looking up from his phone after googling the word, "HOW DARE YOU!"

"how dare i what?"
"Yea dude its just a wo-" Giovanni showed Y/N the definition, "oh."

"Yea."
"So like he just called me a whore in ye olde talk?"
"Pretty much"
"Well then."

Arnold was furtherly enraged by the fact he wasn't the centre of attention.
"PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!"
"No." They both said, turning their attention to memes on Giovanni's phone.
"I want to see the manager"

The cursed words were uttered. Ramsey was in his office. He felt them though. They flow through his blood and deep into his skin. An Omen. He rises from his mahogany desk. Pushing the black leather chair he was seated on backwards. Realising how unnecessarily fancy his office was to be a building inside of an aldi before moving forward with his life.

He opened the door. Greeted by the kevin and his victims.

"...why does he look like that" asked Arnold. Expecting someone who did not look like a homeless gerbil to answer his cries and whines.

"I could say the say to you, chump," Ramsey turns his attention to his employees, "You two ok? Did he throw any hits or punches?"

"Nah we're fine" responded Y/N and Gio in near perfect unison
"Y/N got called a wench though!"

"Oh perfect an excuse." Ramsey snaps back around to Arnold. "Hey can I see those coupons of yours, I wanna see if I can get you a better deal."

Arnold was confused but happily obliged, pulling them out and presenting them with a sense of pride and glee.

Ramsey took a good look at them "Yea I can raise the value of these."

And promptly turned them all to gold (LOOK HE DID THE TJING WE REFERENCED THE SOURCE GUYS WHOOOOOOOOOOOO)
"Now they're 24 karat. You're rich. Too rich for aldi. Get out."

Arnold realised he was defeated, and ran off crying over his coupons like a little piss baby.
The group just burst out laughing. A moment of pure triumphant joy
"You kids wanna get taco bell or something?"
The kids gave their rat king boss an enthusiastic nod. Leaving the bu- BANG

THEY SHIFT THEIR COLLECTIVE ATTENTION TOWARDS THE SOUND ONLY TO SEE THAT THE CAT WITH A GUN HAS SHOT A CUSTOMER. OH GOD.
It's silence for a while before Y/N chimes in

"We should probably hide that"
And they do. They spend their afternoon hiding a body. How nice

_________ Authors Note!!!! _________

Hey!! It's me again! Sorry this chapter took a while to drop (this apology goes out to the 1 person who has read this fic)

I do not have an excuse and I'm just autistic and unable to commit to projects that involve writing things apparently.
Thanks for checking this fic out though, and tune in next time for more Aldi epithet erased shenanigans!!!

- Elias ❤🥫, 30/7/22