Later in closing the diner, Luna gathered her team once again for one important note.
"I don't know if I was awkward around those guys while ago-,"
"You're not, Luna-shi." John was the one to say.
"Wae? What happened to you?" Yoon asked.
"Well, everyone's busy and I happened to have free hands. So I waited table on those two guys a moment ago and it was so uncomfortable to me." Luna chuckled.
"Two guys?" Hoon raised.
"I noticed them staring at Kisa and Jestine since they came." John said. "So I had them attend only on female customers."
"That's a good move, John-ah. I was about to instruct the same." Luna was thankful to have a very perceptive manager in the diner.
After a while, the staff meeting was adjourned while Luna went to her own place with Yong as her companion. It was only 5:49 pm which made her walk slowly while talking to the cat alone. But when she passed by the community playground, she felt someone was staring at her that made her nape felt cold. She turned to her back and she saw only empty road. She might be imagining things and continued walking.
"How's your day without me, honey? Huh?" Luna asked the cat but its attention wasn't on her but to the playground while intently looking in a distance. Luna followed to where it was looking. "What is it, Yong-ah?"
The cat looked up to her before it meowed with its eyes burning with her own that it actually made her blink.
"Are you hungry?"
The cat meowed in anger .
"Okay! I will hurry. What is your problem?" Luna hastily walked towards her house, minding her attention to the pathway instead of paying attention to the cat who looked behind her, eyeing the two men in distance.
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Wednesday came and Luna's routine came by like those ordinary days. She went to school after checking her diner in the morning then went back to help around after school. She spent her time mostly on her office, evaluating the sales according to John's record and arranging some papers to be processed. Before she noticed it, it was already seven in the evening and the diner was already closed, leaving her alone in there with all her staffs gone to their respective places .
"I didn't notice the time." Luna stretched to her chair as her attention directed to her cat. "Yong-ah? Aren't you hungry?"
The cat meowed in bored tone while eyeing her on its nonchalant demeanor.
Luna just chuckled and stood up to get her bag , ready to live.
"I'm done for the night. Let's go, baby." she gently grabbed the cat to her arms , reaching the key to the desk. When she went to close the back door of the diner, she then proceeded into walking towards her place.
"You know, you gotta admit, Yoon and Hoon's cooking is fattening you up a little." Luna said while the cat just looked ahead of them without responding. As they went pass the playground again, she felt the goosebumps again that made her looked at her side when she felt it again.
Her heart then thumped fast when she saw two dark silhouettes near the swing. For unknown reason, she felt afraid of them that she instantly scurried away from the place in a run. She felt her hair stood up in nervousness when she saw those two followed her literally. She walked fast , ignoring how she held Yong tightly across her chest. Her bag bounced up and down while she ran so fast now, can't help but turned her head to see if she was still being followed. Her eyes widened upon confirming that those two dark silhouettes were two grown men with masks.
Just before those men could grabbed her, she was able to shut the door to their faces in which the door beeped in automatic lock She was literally standing in front of the door with wide eyes, heavily panting with nervousness and shaky hands.
After a while, she was awaken with the cat's meowing.
"Oh I'm sorry, baby." Luna let go of the cat to the floor and decided to reach for her phone to call the police when her door knob was as if being forced to be opened. Her nervousness instantly shot up to the ceiling as she looked down to her phone and dialed the emergency fast. However, just before she can hit the button, the door was forcefully open, making her screamed loudly.
Luna hastily ran up the stairs even though she knew that the men already an in inch away behind her.
"Help!" Luna screamed at the top of her lungs while running to her room. Reaching the door's knob, she stirred it open, ran inside and slammed the door close. A hand stopped it from being shut that she screamed in hysterics . Being a woman, she was overpowered with the men forcefully pushing the door from the outside. She was sprawled down the floor with a cat beside her. She immediately hugged the cat in fright and in trembling frame before she looked up to the men towering in front of her now.
Her throat dried up and her tears welled up to her eyes. "Wh-what do you want?"
The two men looked to each other before unmasking themselves now.
Two familiar men registered to her eyes now but she didn't really care as she slowly readied herself to escape from there. When she was about to run away again, she was slammed back down the floor with a man hovering her .
"NO!" Luna screamed but were muffled with a cloth. Luna felt so horrified but her attention turned to her cat when the other guy kicked it mercilessly away from them. She tried to kick the guy away from her, angry that they hurt her cat.
When the cat hit the wall, the whole place lost its light after some bulbs burst loudly to their ears that it made Luna closed her eyes firmly while her cheeks wet with tears.