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"Ah.. shit!"
He has his finger pinched in the knob, trying to screw it up.

The old lady responsible for his incorporation looks at him with peering looks from the side.

She absolutely avoids eye contact.
Explain things with a little amount of words and get out the room as soon she finishes her part of work leaving him by himself.
She didn't care if he would mess up things or be slow at work or if he would forget any task.
He understood that she must have heard about his background story.
He was used to this kind of treatment from his past 2 years before prison. As teenager  he used to get into fights with others for no reason. The whole district was afraid of him. He was know as THE  TROUBLE. The habitants were avoiding getting into trouble with this troublesome adolescent.

But back then he didn't care about anything at all.
As long as he was feeling mighty, everything was ok.

But now after all those years, he finally grew up and the time of imprisonment made him think about his deeds. He started to regret and learned to forgive and forget.

It's getting late...it's already 11pm.
He worked for 16 hours straight doing sanitary work like repairing toilets,  replacing lightbulbs, descale the showerheads, descale the taps, restore the bedframes....
Installation of tv's and remotes...
He managed to finish 80 rooms without  Ara's help. There will be 50 left for tomorrow.

Ara went off without saying anything to Yoongi....
No 'good work today' or even 'good night' or ' tomorrow same time'.  He would even appreciate a negative reaction from her even if he would'nt admit it.
He decided to go to bed aswell. He was tired from all hard work. Yoongi walked back to the storage room, leaving his used tools prepared for tomorrow.
After he got in his room,
he took his shower and enjoyed the luxury of his bed.

One week passed by and Yoongi would still be working on his own. Even though Ara should work with him, she distanced herself after the second day.

He got used to it...
Working alone...
Sitting alone during lunchtime...that's why he would skip meals often. To avoid their looks and talks behind his back.
No one talking to him....
He totaly was outclosured.

It hurts a little... but he would get over it very soon.
This behaviour reminded him of high school...
Only with adult people.

Seung-Gi told him yesterday to come visit him. Just to see how he is doing.
He's happy to have at least one person who cares about him.
Alice would go on a business trip in 2 days.
She told Yoongi to keep on doing stuff for the hotel and not enter the kitchen until she got back from her trip.

Yoongi would always feel like dead when falling into his bed. He worked a lot. More than the others.
But it wasn't the time to be complaining.

The other employees took advantage of him. They let him finish all the work that they were to good for.
It was so unfair.
But life is always unfair....

It's Wednesday.
The kitchen is closed exceptionally.
The Coolerroom needs to be renewed. Meat and fish products must be stored in the cellar until the new room is set up.

As is discussed who is used for this bone work, the elders looked at the two helpful chefs only. They wanted Yoongi in the team. Yoongi naming the work. He knew why the boys were in charge of him at one go.
But he just accepted by nodding.

The boys started of sorting the products out one by one throwing away everything what was close to exposure and treasure everything what was bought recently by putting into boxes and plastic bags and tagging everything by date and name.

They wouldn't alternate with Yoongi. They let him do all the hard work, carrying everything  back and forth, walk up and down ... cleaning this huge room all by himself. They were amused by his grief.
But he endured...

The evening has broke in and Yoongi has not even had a meal untill now. His coworkers left Yoongi behind, gave him another task before going home themselves.

He was so angry and upset...

They were thinking being something better than him...
They treated him like trash...
They even hold him back when he wanted a pause to drink a sip of water.
Yoongi felt like shit.
He couldn't believe what live was doing to him.
Let's say, what Seung-Gi was doing to him.

He didn't show up yet. Unbelievable.

He finished the last of him been given task and went on leaving the Coolerroom.

He wondered why the light in the cellar was still on.
He went downstairs on the end of the refrigerator where the entrance of the cellar would be open, and saw the old man trying to attach something to the ceiling by standing upon a chair.

Yoongi couldn't help it but laugh out loud.

Y: " What took you so long old man?

Where have you been those 2 weeks. I waited for you, you know?"

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