2024, September 28, 18:02 PM
After school Y/n headed to her part time job, it was the day she would get her paycheck, she had to stay until nine pm since that's when she finishes work. Luckily she worked in one of seoul's biggest department stores so it wasn't that bad. There were enough people to make her feel safe and she felt comfortable with it. She walked into the kitchen of the coffee shop and got dressed in the staff room before coming out and taking the orders of people.
"I'd like an iced Americano with no ice please" one of the first ladies on the line ordered. "So, just an Americano?" Y/n asked. "No, iced Americano without ice" the lady repeated herself but this time more loudly. 'Calm down Y/n, today is the day you get your paycheck' Y/n calmed herself down.
"Ma'am, please elaborate. Warm Americano, cold or hot?" Y/n asked nicely.
"I said ICED AMERICANO WITHOUT ICE. STOP MAKING ME REPEAT MYSELF LADY" the lady yelled. Y/n was so close to losing it. "Okay ma'am, your order will be out in five minutes" Y/n smiled at the lady. "Gosh" she scoffed and went to sit down.
Y/n took other's orders whilst the ladies order was done. She went up and called the lady over for her americano. "There you go ma'am" Y/n spoke. The lady took a sip off the americano and all of the sudden threw the cup at Y/n making a sound loud enough to get everyone's attention. The people in the shop were all shocked because of the sudden sound. "Why Is my coffee so warm!? I wanted it to cold!" The lady yelled. "Ma'am, you said without ice. So I made it without ice" Y/n tried to stay calm.
"without ice means cold! Why can't you workers do anything these days!" The lady hit Y/n with her purse. "Ma'am, I'll remake your coffee so please, stop this behavior" Y/n spoke in-between the sound of the lady's purse hitting Y/n's bruised spots."Bitches like you shouldn't be hired" the woman spoke. "I demand to speak to your manager!". Y/n wasn't upset at all, she just wanted to jump st the woman and shove her head into the trashcan while spilling her damned iced Americano on her.
"My apologies ma'am, I'll make you a new on-" as Y/n tried to apologize she was suddenly cut off by a masculine voice.
"You don't have to make another one" He spoke as Y/n looked for him while scanning the room to have a glance of him."Isn't that Chairman Hwang's son?" People started whispering. "What's he doing here?".
Y/n all of the sudden understood who it was and rolled her eyes. Hyunjin walked past the people before making it to the counter and staring deep into the lady. "Woman, what's your problem?" He glared at her, making the woman stammer as she tried to let her words out.
"Why are you defending this bitch? Isn't the customer always right?" She glanced at
Y/n. "Sir, I don't know why you're defending me but it's alright, I'll just make another one" Y/n tried solving it the easy way."No, you stay right here and call your manager" Hyunjin spoke while pointing at
Y/n's phone. Y/n's short temper was about to make the whole room shatter onto pieces, but she decided to control it and nodded before taking her phone into her hand."Ms.Shin, my apologies for the trouble but they're calling you here" Y/n spoke without a hesitation. "Another lady? Gosh, I'm getting tired of this" Her manager sighed before hanging up. They stood there for a few minutes before Y/n got to making snother Amerciano so that the lady would leave. But just before she could finish her manager walked in.
"What seems to be the problem?" She sighed before scanning the room, seeing her employee covered in coffee. "Gosh..you good Nam?" Her manager asked. She would call her by her first name since she felt more comfortable with it.
"Yeah, it's okay I've already said it a millions of times, it's okay just let her be"
Y/n tried to signal her manager that it was okay but her manager wasn't. "Get me the ban cards, I need to write down a name" Her manager sighed. Y/n just took a deep breath before going to the side to grab one of the cards."What!? You can't ban me, I'm a regular here!" The woman spoke. "Should've thought about your pride before attacking my employee" Her manager wrote down the lady's name by taking quick glances at the cup where her name was written. She handed the card to the lady and pushed her out of the store.
"I'll speak to the CEO about this, you'll regret it" she yelled before disappearing from the store in embarrassment.
Hyunjin had seen that Y/n was working here, under his father's department store, he came by due to the cup being thrown sound but ended up making a scene. Y/n glared at Hyunjin with a disgusted look on her face. Hyunjin went up to the manager and leaned on her ear. "Increase her paycheck by four times" he whispered before backing off and leaving, leaving the manager in shock. Y/n couldn't hear anything since she was busy mopping the coffee off of the ground.
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"Thanks for agreeing to work alone today, I'll make sure your to free up your schedule so you can take a break in-between" Ms.Shin confessed before taking out a small envelope and handing it to her. "Hwang's son liked your work, he asked me to triple your paycheck" her manager handed her the the envelope. Hyunjin pitying made her angry. "oh." She stood there without taking it to her hand. "Ms.Shin I thought I told you I wanted to earn my paycheck fairly. I don't need anyone pitying me" She replied which made her manager confused. "Come on, your sister's birthday is coming up. Get her something extra along with her gift" her manager forcefully placed the envelope in her hand and walked off.
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"Am I getting fucking pitied?" Y/n scoffed while walking around the mall making her way to the apple store. She looked st the envelope in her hand as she drowned her tongue inside her mouth. She went up the escalator without taking her eyes off of the envelope. "Tripled-? Hah, am I seen as poor infront of him?" Y/n muttered to herself.
She went into the apple store, walking past the phones and walking up to the counter filled phones. She took a quick glance at the 15 and 15 pro max. "She'd like it more if it was the better one right?" Y/n smiled at herself before finally choosing the phone and walking up to the counter to purchase the phone. "Could I have the 15 in white? 256 gbs" Y/n spoke while avoiding eye contact. The girl at the counter smiled at her before packing the package into a bag and keeping it on the counter. "Card or cash?" She asked Y/n. "Card" Y/n replied by handing her the card out of her wallet. The card had been swiped through and handed back to her. "Have a good day" The girl smiled at her whilst handing her the bag. Y/n didn't reply to that and just left. She has finally gotten off work and was making her steps back home.
It was ten o' thirty, it was past midnight.
Y/n doesn't like being out in the dark, even though her work finishes really late. "It's okay, the lights are still on so it's okay. I'm not scared, I'm just mad. I'm not scared. I'm not scared" she muttered to herself as she tried to get a conversation with herself to make herself less scared. "Will she like this? Obviously. She was dying to get it so yes she will like it" Y/n asked and also answered herself while staring at the bag with an apple logo on it. She complained to herself about all of the things her days were filled with, before a sudden click was heard and everything went dark, including Y/n's mind that was now blank. She stopped her steps and stood there trying not to look around. "It's okay. I have my phone" she pulled out her phone just to see the charge on six percent which angered her, but mostly scared her. The lights of the markets, the light poles and even the small lamps inside of people's house were turned off making Y/n not be able to see anything in this dark which scared her even more. She quickly turned her phone on and went to her gallery to find the brightest picture she could get her hands on. She found a picture of her sister smiling at the amusement park and quickly pressed it while turned the back of the phone against herself and using the screen as a light to see the way. "This isn't any better but..it works." She spoke to herself before flinching as she stood right infront of a tall shadow figure, clenching her jaw in so that she wouldn't scream. The figure lit up a flash out of the phone and scanned the girl. "You" A voice spoke, confused. Y/n brought up her phone closer to the figure's face revealing a concerned face of Hyunjin staring at her. "The fuck?" Y/n scoffed, all of the nightmares flashing away from her thoughts in just a second after hearing the raspy voice of Hyunjin.
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