Take Me Back || 니키

Memoria III

Take Me Back
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Letting out a loud, tired yawn, your eyes kept opening and closing. It felt as your lips began to pucker up, making it seem as if your were pouting.

You were there, working your job at the gas station, yet you weren't actually there.

Your neck steadily began to move towards the side, as you began to feel comfortable, until a familiar sound immediately woke you up.

The sound of the door opening, the sound of a customer walking in.

Barely opening your eyes, you gave them a mumbled greeting, as you tried your best to wake yourself up, rubbing your eyes profoundly. You still felt as if you were going to fall asleep any minute now.

You then noticed that the person had already found their items, so you decided to ring them up, checking each object one by one. They were first normal things you'd buy in a place like this, but they then began to turn stranger and stranger.

A bunch of clothing that hadn't been sold in about three years, a lighter, a pocket knife...?

"Why are you even buying clothing from a gas station? The last time I sold one of those t-shirts...was when I first started working." you snickered, slowly looking up to meet the person's eyes and once you did, you instantly regretted it.

It was him, it was the customer you didn't give their order too...

It was Mr. E.

You felt as your eyes widened, trying to hold back the shocked expression on your face. You honestly thought you'd never see him again.

"Oh um...is that all?" you awkwardly asked, trying to not even look at him in the eye. It felt embarrassing to know that a customer from your job at the cafe also became your customer at the gas station...but out of all of the customers, did it really have to be him?

He gave you a small nod, giving you his credit card before you both realized something scary, actually screw that, something terrifying as F*CK.

Mr. E's hand was basically covered in blood.

Now, you were not the type to overreact in these situations, as you had been in plenty of sticky situations before...but come on!! It's was past midnight, a customer came in that you knew recognized you and vice versa, a customer that absolutely NO ONE knew the name of and on top of that, had blood on his hand?

You had seen too many murder mysteries to know where this was going.

"O-oh...I cut myself...by accident." you lifted one eyebrow up, not believing a single word that was coming out of the guy's mouth. This is exactly how people die in movies, for believing the guy with a charming smile.

Never trust the charmer.

He pulled his sleeve up, revealing a terrible wound close that was close to his wrist and as soon as he did, you let out a sigh of relief.

"Sh*t, I almost thought I was going to be-"

"Yea, I'm sorry." you could tell that he just wanted to leave as quickly as possible and you honestly felt sorry for him. You didn't want to accuse him as murderer or something like that...but no one could deny that it looked extremely suspicious.

And when you were about to ring up the last item, the opened revealing someone who you SERIOUSLY didn't expect.

If you didn't expect Mr. E to come by the gas station, then you seriously wouldn't have expected your own boss, the one you had only seen two times, when you were hired and this exact moment, with a furious face.

"How dare you show your face here!! I told you not to come back, you f*cking delinquent!!" you let out a small gasp as he grabbed Mr. E's collar and began to drag him towards the front door.

"Mr. Choi?! What are you doing here?! What on earth is going on?!" Rei was definitely going to enjoy hearing this.

"Yeonjun...are you seriously going to keep that grudge forever? When are you going to let it go?" the way he said his name with such ease, even though you knew that Mr. Choi didn't like anyone younger than him call him "Yeonjun" and you were sure this "Mr. E" guy was younger than him.

He looked right around your age, actually.

"For the last time, I wasn't the one who did it!!!"

"Don't lie to me!! I bet you only came here to steal my stuff, didn't you?!"

"You." he turned his attention towards you, who was just innocently watching this go down, wondering what would happen next and how you were going to tell Rei all of this in one day without her head absolutely exploding.

"Did you see him steal anything?! Did you see him doing anything suspicious?!"

"No...?" other than the random wound and the fact of him willingly paying for such ugly clothing, of course.

He began to walk towards the desk, pulling loads of dollar bills from the cash register and holding it all in front of his face in a threatening manner.

"Is this why you came here?! Is this what you want from me?!" Beomgyu, a close friend of yours and someone who is extremely close to Mr. Choi's, told you he was pretty insane and strict when it came to handling his dad's gas station..but you didn't think he was a borderline lunatic!!

"Woah, woah, woah!! Can't we just calm down for a second?!" you were trying your best to make sure a fight wouldn't break lose inside of the gas station, all because of someone who forgot to take their meds.

"Mr. Choi, I promise you, he wasn't planning to steal or cause any sort of damage. Although I don't know what type of history you two have, I suggest it you leave it behind for just a moment and realize he wasn't doing anything wrong."

"He didn't do anything because I stopped him before he could even have a chance!!" you were honestly starting to get tired of listening to this, feeling especially sorry for the guy who was just there to buy some ugly a*s clothes!!

He had the right to have an ugly fashion sense!!

"Y/N how could you even defend someone like him?! Do you even know what he's done to me?! Are you working for him instead?!"

"Just...JUST GET OUT!! GET OUT BOTH OF YOU!!"

"Fine!! If you're going to continue with blaming us for doing absolutely nothing, then maybe it's best if we just leave!!" you grabbed onto Mr. E's hand and just walked out of your job, just like that, feeling absolutely invincible.

Before you actually realized what the f*ck you had just done and what exactly this meant for you and your life...