drivethru [nct dream]

s1e2

jisung looked up at the revolving sign before him. it was saturday morning, which would be his first day working. from then on, it was three days a week: tuesday, wednesday, and saturday.

he picked up his feet, walking  into the building. as soon as he walked in, he saw a boy come out from behind  the counter with roller-skates. the boy made his way to one of the booths, still not noticing jisung.

"hey, um..." he tried speaking up to get the boy's attention. but that didn't work. he heard him mumble under his breath how hard it was to get the roller-skates on.
he cleared his throat to try again, and this time, the boy looked up.

"oh? who are you?"

"i... work here..."

the boy nodded. "ah, so you're our new employee."
he finished tying his last lace, carefully standing up.
"about time someone applied. all those applications were collecting dust."

the boy started chuckling. "i'm jaemin by the way."
he skated on over to the new employee, bringing his hand out to shake.

he hesitantly shook his hand. "j-jisung..."
he replied.
"do we, uh, get... you know, uniforms? and do we have to sign in?"

"yeah, follow me."
the boy named jaemin glided towards the counter, and then behind it.
he led the new employee to the backroom, where one other person sat playing on their phone.

jisung noticed the other person's skeptical gaze on him, which made him feel uneasy.

"so this,"
jaemin said, pointing to a clipboard that hung on the door. taped to it was a pen tied to a string.
"this is where you write your hours. your name might not be on the sheet yet, so you can write it at the bottom."

"o-okay..."

"when the week is over, you write the total amount of hours you did for the week right here,"
he said, pointing to an empty slot under one of the names.
"now, let's get your shirts..."

jaemin glided over to a set of boxes next to the stranger on his phone.
"hey, hyuck." jaemin greeted.

"uh huh..." the stranger replied, not looking up from his phone. "who's he?"

jisung shifted uncomfortably where he stood, as jaemin opened one of the boxes.

"he's the new employee doyoung hired."
jaemin looked back at jisung.
"jisung, this is donghyuck."

he took his hand out for donghyuck to shake.
"nice to meet you..."
but he retracted the hand when he realized donghyuck stopped paying attention to the two.

"what size are you, jisung?"
jaemin asked.

"oh, i'll just take an extra large."
he replied.

"alrighty..."
he dug to the bottom of the box, pulling out two sonic t-shirts.
"i'm just gonna give you two, okay?"
jaemin glided back to the doorway, handing jisung the shirts.

"doyoung's gonna get here soon. he'll let you know where you'll be working."
he skated on past jisung.
"good luck, kiddo."

jisung looked down at his two shirts. he then looked around the back room. he noticed that the other person named donghyuck, got up and left the room.
jisung exhaled shakily. he folded one of the shirts carefully, shuffled over to one of the chairs, and placed it on the chair.

he went to the door, closing it gently before putting on his new shirt that'd be wearing for a while, now.