A Sweet Tooth For You(Kevin x Streber)

Chapter 61: Kevin

What was I doing when...it happened. Ah, right. Dealing with annoying customers..
A familiar face walked into the shop. Carmen. I almost immediately wanted to punch her.
"What would you like, ma'am?" I asked politely.
"Not you."
Thanks, the feeling's mutual. You smell like cigarette smoke, and you look like you believe in a "genuine thank you" as a tip. Even though you know damn well you have more money than everyone else in this town combined.
"Give me one of everything and double it." She demanded.
She could've just said two of everything, but I remind myself that that was probably the least annoying thing she's done.
"Ugh, okay...Rick, help me get two of everything!"
"Okay." Rick replied, in his usual monotone voice.
"And hurry up!" Carmen demanded.
Does she really think I'm going to hurry this up after everything she's done? She used to bully Streber, she gave me a 5 cent tip last time she came, and now she wanted me to do this.
Eventually, we had gotten everything and gave it to her.
She reluctantly let me borrow her credit card so she could pay.
Quickly enough, she was out of the place.
Just as she leaves, I see two kids walk in.
Skid and Pump.
"Oh no! Oh no no no no. No no no no no no no no no no no no no." I walked over to them. "No!"
"Aw, we just want a free candy can!" Pump whined.
"Not today! You bring me so much trouble!" I scolded them.
"When have we ever done that?" Skid asked, innocently.
"I got nightmares about you, you gave me 'SUGAR', got me attacked by your doll, and not too long ago, got blood all over the place that I had to clean up all day!" I exclaimed.
"Kevin, it was fake blood." Pump defended himself.
"Fake or not, you always bring me trouble!"
I looked out the window to see a tall guy in a red sweater and a red devil mask.
"See? That's trouble!" I yelled.
Wait a minute. That's Bob Velseb, the runaway serial killer. Great.
Bob walked in, and I jumped in front of the kids to protect them. Sure, I didn't like the two very much, but they're kids. I won't let them die like that. "K-k-kids? Why is he following you?" I asked.
"I don't know, he's been following us." Skid said, unbothered by the situation.
"Maybe he wants a candy can." Pump added.
Rick walked back into the shop with a box of candy, seeing me, Skid, and Pump backed into a corner by Bob, who's holding a knife, stained with a bit of blood. He dropped the box. "I quit." he announced.
"W-what? No, come back!" I tried to stop him. But he had already walked out.
I looked back at Bob, trying to figure out what to do.
In a brilliant moment of association, I ran to the gumball machine, and let a bunch of gumballs fall out, to hopefully trip him.
Did it ever occur to me that I could have just called the police? Nah. They wouldn't be here on time.
He just kicked the candy away, and made his way closer to me.
Great.
I attempted to run away, but I tripped on the gumballs.
"Kevin, are you okay?" Skid rushed to my side.
Bob ended up getting distracted by the gumballs, picking some up off the ground, eating them.
"Outside, kids. Quick!" I ordered, cautiously getting up off the ground.
The three of us rushed to the back door, shutting the door behind us.
"Kevin, we just want our candy can!" Skid exclaimed.
"Yeah we don't know why-" Pump tried to add.
I grabbed a box of candy and dropped it in front of them. "Here."
They both looked at me with beaming expressions. "Really?"
I motioned for them to leave, and they both happily said, "Thank you, Kevin!"
"You deal with this every day?" Rick asked, who I didn't even realize was still there.
"Uh..Kinda?" I admitted.
That's when I saw Bob again. I started throwing candy at him.
"Bro, woah!" He exclaimed. "Dude! Dude DUDE DUDE!" He walked out of the shadows. "What is your problem?!"
"Wait, are you gonna kill us?" I shakily asked.
"No! I just wanted to tell you that kids were stealing candy!" He yelled.
"Oh, shit!" I ran back inside to see a bunch of kids filling their bags with candy. "OUT!" I screamed.
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Once I finally dealt with all the kids, I got a call from Radford.
"Hey, Radford." I greeted. "What's up?"
His breath was shaky. "I-I have some bad news..."
He then told me something that shattered my entire world.