Once was... || Lost In Translation FF

Chapter 1:

VERSION 1.0



Jaewon

A few days later...

August 23, 20XX

I slowly opened my eyes expecting to meet my tan cold dull ceiling but instead get blinded by the bright shine of the sun, feeling little to no pain but temporary blindness as my eyes couldn't adjust to the sudden brightness difference, I quickly closed my eyes to prevent any more eye damage and turned away from the window before looking at my dark room.

The air is cold and stuffy with tiny little clumps of dust slowly flowing around the air where the sun shines causing them to inherit a glow to them. I quietly gaze in awe as they dance around in the air before looking for my phone. My boss always sends a text at the crack of dawn saying if I need to go to work or not since our work days are randomized. I sort of like this system because I didn't have to wake up in the morning for five continuous days and could just sleep in every two to three days.

I slightly raise my head and stared at the night stand, the light from the window barely illuminated the tiny little table. Several figures dotted the top of the nightstand, all of them look like unidentifiable dark blobs and none of them took the shape of my phone, I tiredly raise my hand and moved it until it was above the table and slapped it trying to distinguish the texture and surface of my phone from everything else.

I quickly narrowed down the choices until there is one blob that I haven't slapped yet sitting on the edge, farthest from me teetering precariously on the corner, I leaned over the edge of my bed and watch as my fingers drew closer and closer to my phone until I felt nothing below me supporting my weight.

It all happened in a blur, a rush of air, the crashing and breaking of several objects one of them being a glass that doused me in half a glass of water before breaking into a thousand pieces in front of me and finally the familiar thump of my phone that somehow turned itself on as my body collided on the cold lifeless and now damp wooden floor.

'that's definitely gonna damage the wood...' I thought to myself.

I glance at the now illuminating phone and notice the text from my boss, the lettering was too small for me to distinguish words and the letters seemingly combined into a bunch of thin black blobs. I carefully reached my hand out lightly placing it down on the floor making sure there isn't glass there and somehow moved my body until I was able to reach my phone.

The cafe will be closed for the entire day again due to the flu epidemic going around. Stay safe!

The flu has been unusually bad this year after several reports came out stating that this was becoming the worst flu outbreak in years.

Like every other year rumors are being spread that this year's flu season is an entirely different more deadly disease and this is 'the beginning of the end' but the people spreading the rumors are the same people that said that frogs are going to be our overlords so it's now become media's new comedic punch bag.

Many schools are apparently seeing dropping attendance with one school apparently only had thirty seven kids show up!

The good thing about this whole ordeal is that there is less likely to be random interactions with people so I can stay in my thoughts longer than usual.

I yawned and stretched my arms out to try and wake up my tired body. I let out a grunt as my body that yearns for sleep finally begins to wake up. I had to work all day until 2AM this morning to make up the lost revenue from all the days we've been closed.

He wasn't happy when all of his workers didn't want to work a twenty one hour shift and decided to randomly pick who would work the shift by placing little slips of paper with the names of the workers on them and randomly choosing five of them to work, we couldn't do anything about it because if we did we faced the possibility of being fired which no one wanted to consider how well this job pays for a cafe worker.