Work Day

"Take their order on that table, fast!"

Shouted the manager ordering the guy to take their order. Xander who worked as a waitress taking people's order on the eatery. The manager's name was Chaesy. She's a young manager but was always angry and responsible to anything on the restaurant. After working, Xander actually take a bus as transportation since he doesn't have a vehicle to travel everywhere. What surprising was she also took the same bus with me. Its not the first time he went with her on the same bus. He also remembers where she would likely to stop and the place was her way home. The distance between my stop and her stop was nearby. He's care about this because he has a crush on her. He wanted to start taking a move but he's a shy guy so its hard for him to do it. After he went home, a police and an ambulance surrounded the road near the bridge. He knew what happened and its daily. The thing is it scares all us residents for the cases happened for almost 20 years. Its never-ending serial killer. What the purpose of that killer was to kill 100 people in 20 years. Xander's parents was also killed back then when he was 3 years old and still a kid. A pain that still remain inside his heart full of wounded past. Only can bear the recent situation. Not just that, he secretly learned a martial art to defend himself against the killer knowing how dangerous the situation could be in future. He now has reached a master level just by practicing alone in his own house. He has practiced multiple martial art with different style of fighting. Which is unbelieveable but unsure because he've never got in fight hefore. Well he learned it to protect himself sometime when his time has come for the killer and its not to fight anyone for no reason.

The time was 9PM and Xander's schedule always sleeping at 10PM so he woke up earlier to come work earlier since the restaurant was opened in early morning. He done eating his dinner alone, washing up the dish and bowl. Throwing a garbage away on a rubbish bin. When he was on his way to get inside, he realised something isn't right. He sense someone is looking at him from far away. But he doesn't find anyone at his back. He though he's just too exhausted since he have a traumatized sense on his surrounding, fear of what will happened to him later. Until he went inside, he's still fear on it. He locked the door, right the moment he went to his room. Someone knocking the door. The heartbeat raises high with a fear feeling. Then hearing a voice of a girl asking "Hello, is there anybody inside?" His fear slow down but that was still untrustable so he slowly goes near the door and asked "Who's outside there?" The girl replied with a lower voice "Open the door fast! Someone is following me and he's now gone. I need a place to stay safe." Xander obey her need just to save her life. He opened the door, she's right infront of him. She then fastly went inside his house and he closed the door immediately.

"Huh! That was scary.."

"So.. How long are you gonna stay inside my house?"

"Until.. Tomorrow?"

"Thats long! I'm leaving my house early, you know?"

"When will you leave?"

"around 5AM to 6AM"

"Oh my god, that's so early. Why did you have to wake up that early?"

"I'm working. A restaurant. It opened from 6AM to 5PM. So I have to come early to help my manager too. There is only a few employees working in her restaurant. The restarant, it was opened a months ago and my manager hardly got a new employees. So I took a chance to be her employees."

"That's... actually sweet. You help her. How old is she?"

"I don't know how old is she but she look so young. By the way, this is my first time talking so lightly with a girl.. It feels weird."

"Huh? How? Are you originally shy person?"

"Yeah. I don't know why my confidence grew more after I saved you from the killer and you're a girl.."

"Maybe I'm young too? Smile"

"How old are you?"

"Uh... 19. But I didn't go to any college. I straight up working as an employee on a company."

"Oh, okay. You're quite young. I'm on my 20s."

"Oh you're older than me. Have I being rude to you lately?"

"Um.. I don't realised that.."

"If so, I'm just afraid if I have. So in that case, I apologize to you. Sorry, sir."

"That sounds weird actually. First time being called as sir."

"Oh. Ok. You can do your thing. But first, where can I sleep?"

"On a sofa?"

"I know you gonna say that."

"Yeah, its my house, not yours"

"That's rude."

"I'm back to my old self before I'm a shy person. Only to you."

"It was nice to know you're different than now."

They stopped their conversation after a minutes later. But he then asked "By the way, what's your name?" She answered "Minnie" He then walked away and went inside his own room to sleep but before that he wish a good night to her. When he was trying ti sleep, he keep thinking how he went back to his old self since that extrovert girl appeared. He can't do nothing but let it go and sleep well. In that night at 12AM, a mysterious portal opened, a robot walked outside the portal then the portal closed immediately after that. The robot was right at the back of Xander's house. What was the robot's intention for coming to his house?

In the next morning at 5AM, Xander has put his work clothes on. He went to a bus stop and then a car showed up and the guy who drove the car was his friend, Michael. Michael was an active person who are rich and sleep at morning. His sleeping schedule was changed after he finishes school. He inherited his father's richness and only shares his money to his friend, Xander, only of it needed, knowing Xander was a nice person. Michael sent him to the restaurant, wishing him goodluck doing his job. Then there is she, working on the cafe with another employee, a guy named Gab. Xander doesn't feel jealous because he's the same as Xander, got yelled everytime by her. Gab called him to hurry help cleaning to open the restaurant. Chaesy, his manager, is cleaning inside there. He decided to help her instead of helping Gab. But Gab knows that Xander has a crush on her. So he let him choose to helo whoever and Gab already married so he don't need to chase another love.

"Oh. Hi Manager Chae."

"You're late again. Good you got a work left to do right now."

"I know... Uh.. Let me help you, Manager."

"Yeah, sure. Anyway, I heard a murder case happened last day near your house. Is everything alright last night?"

"Um.. Yeah.. Nothing bad happened.."

"I'm worried that you might get hurt and will never come back to my restaurant and work here. I only have 3 employees and will lost 1 if you gone."

"No, you don't need to worry about me. I can take care of myself."

"Whatever but don't be a murder victim and become a dead body later next day or anywhen."

She's a caring person and she's actually korean. Her real name is Lee Chae Won. She's 21 years old and her father was the owner of the reastaurant but he died after she graduated. She then become the new owner of the restaurant.

Back to Minnie on his house waking up at 8AM and then she tries to leave but she packing up her things first and checked out his house secretly. Wondering around and visit his room. "Wow. I never though a guy's room would be this neat!" She appreciated the fact that his room doesn't look messy. But she found a weird thing under his bed. She slowly step forward and checked the thing out. "What is this thing, made of an iron or metal or anything. Where did he get this. I'm curious." She then know her place and stop touching people's thing then leave the house immediately. No one knows that thing was alive. It was the robot that showed up last night. It's small and rounded shape. The things then speak itself with a robot tone.

"Processing... Earth History Data 99%... 100%. Earth's Data Download Completed..."

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