I woke up soaked in sweat. Sweat was dripping from my forehead and I was heavily panting, and also felt a sharp pain on the left side of my head.
I looked at my alarm watch and it was 4:30 am, I cursed myself under my breath and got up, went in the washroom and took the pills for headache. I came back on the bed knowing that I still had 1 hour of sleep left. I tried to sleep but was horrified to see what I saw again.
And the worst part was I couldn't remember what I saw in my nightmare. It was like it was hiding somewhere in my mind but was too blurred for me to clearly remember. But sure enough whatever I saw spooked me out.
Unfortunately I didn't got my 1 hour sleep anymore. I got up took a shower and got ready for the hectic day. Same thing different day.....I told to myself with a sigh.
I packed my bag and was about to leave when Yewean came out of the kitchen handing me a sandwich wrapped in foil and a glass of orange juice and went upstairs to continue his sleep in his bed.
I smiled looking at him as he went up without saying a word. He was probably in deep sleep and he didn't even got up to my alarm noice today, but probably came down anyway to give me my breakfast. I could have never thanked him enough for this extensive care I got from him.
Have a good day.....I said to myself sighing so as to console myself even after knowing that the day was gonna be the same as always.
Today, I was a bit more confident and got less annoyed with the attention as I had to get habituated with that and the attention will reduce eventually anyway. I was not that much scared of Mrs.Smith today, as she didn't show up last night and also I had Haneul and Yewean to support me no matter what.
I entered the shop for my first job. "Hey Mr.Clumsy" Jaehyun called out.
I got a few steps back and supported myself by the counter as Jaehyun pounced on me and hugged me. I smiled at him.
"So how did your first day went by?"
"It was great" I lied, "....except"
"except what?" Jaehyun asked tilting his head to the side in a suspicious way.
"did you got detention? or did anyone bullied you? OMG tell me and I will cut those bullies into pieces and feed it to my sugar gliders I swear" I laughed at his childish protectiveness. "No hyung no one bullied me, its just I hated the attention I got but I hated more when someone was being beautifully rude to me" I said gritting my teeth in a bit of anger not realizing what just came out of my mouth.
But as soon as I saw Jaehyun's eyes get wider I face palmed scolding myself in my mind knowing what Jaehyun was about to say.
And just as I knew, he literally jumped like a baby clapping his hands and said "My little Namchan is falling in love" elbowing me.
I sighed at his childish behavior and said "Not in a million years atleast not in the university untill I get a proper stable job to support my family, huyng.
"Yeah, but you can always date or maybe have a little crush" he said giving an expected smirk.
"Not before I have a job....and that's final" I said turning on my heels and going to the store room to restock the products that were sold out.
Jaehyun kept following me ranting about me liking someone and atleast go on a date. Jaehyun knew me very well as he used to be my one year senior since I started my middle school and he knew I had never dated anyone. So he always wanted me to atleast experience what it's like to be on a date.
I was getting annoyed with his rant at this point when finally our working hours started but for some unlucky reason today's morning shift was much lighter and there was almost no crowd for the first 1 hour and oviously Jaehyun sneak out times to come to annoy me.
During one such annoying conversation my eyes caught a glimpse of a pretty similar eyes for a moment and I was frozed in my place for a hot second.