Winner Takes All || Various!JJK X Reader

1: There's Something Behind You

"Can you see me...?"

You scanned the items of the customer without missing a blink. 

"You can see me... you can see me, you can see me!" 

There wasn't a ghost in front of you breathing down your neck, nor was there another one with hanging eyeballs, swinging back and forth on the shoulders of your customer. 

"That would be ¥756," you said, not bringing your eyes up even when you took the customer's point card to swipe it.

"You can see me!" The ghost cackled. 

You didn't see anything. You can't see the way that ghost craned its nose towards your face, and you didn't hear the way two of them cackled near your ears. You were just a part-time worker in this convenience store. Just a student barely getting by.

What makes them think someone like you can see them anyway? 

Ignoring the thumping of your heart and the way tears threatened to come out of your eyes, you took the customer's money and placed it on the register.

Once the jingle of the automated front door came, and the warm wind outside the air conditioned store blasted your skin, the two ghosts decided to trail after the customer. It lost its interest in you, someone who clearly didn't see them no matter how much they jabbed their eyes and cold breath on yours. 

You thought that would be the last encounter, but you can't rest even for a second.

There's another one that crawled on all fours at the ceiling, craning its neck to look down at you. You can hear its gurgling noise, and you tried your best to not gaze up at it. 

If you act like you can't see it, then they won't bother you. 

It was always like this. You, trying not to cry and make a noise, all while ghosts loitered beside you and sometimes even on top of you. It was always like this.

But you know, it wasn't always like this.

You were once an ordinary citizen. An ordinary kid who gets into trouble from time to time because of your missed homework or going home too late. 

You were once ordinary, and you still are, but now things have changed.

On your way home, you waited for the bus to stop, checking your own phone to waste time. 

Then you looked up. You wished you didn't, but you did. And that's when you saw a creature of dark blue goo right beside you, its mouth opened wide as if it was eternally screaming inside. And it noticed you just as much as you noticed it.

It burbled a word that echoed in multiple voices, like a child and an adult speaking at the same time, and it started salivating at your attention. 

"My child... my child..."

The others paid it no mind. It was only you, and it, making eye contact with each other. You knew, just by its crooked fingers reaching out and repeated mutterings, that it found its new interest. It wasn't the shoulders of that young lady scrolling tiredly on her phone anymore—a lady who can't see the heavy monster on her body. 

It poured its attention on you instead.

You did what any normal citizen would do.

"Ah! It's gonna rain!" 

Ignore anything that can be ignored. 

You remembered shouting that in the middle of exhausted looking adults waiting for their bus ride. Their brows twitched at your sudden exclamation, and you understood it was a bad move. Nobody talks to anyone in public here. Doing so would be disrespectful of the silence that everyone sought for after a long day at work.