The bar was busy as usual with many customers. In that crowd, a thin young boy with brown hair and blue eyes was standing behind the counter and taking customers' orders.
"I heard they have expensive 100-year-old wine here, right?!"
A tall man with black haired in his 40s with a small scar on his forehead asked this question.
The young boy answered the man with a smile: "Yes, that's right, sir. Do you want me to prepare for you?"
The man said with a calm and cool look: "Okay, then I will order this."
The young man prepared the customer's order and handed the man a glass containing the hundred-year-old wine.
"thank you."
The man took a sip of it and his cold face warmed up a little.
"It really is a hundred-year-old wine. Excellent."
After drinking the hundred-year-old wine, the man stood up and paid for his order. While paying, the man reached into his coat pocket and took out a strange coin. And he turned to the young boy and said: "I will give you this as a tip."
The boy was a little depressed after seeing that coin as a tip. But he had no choice, now that the customer had given him such a thing, so he had to accept it. The boy didn't want to get in trouble for a tip, so he turned to his customer and accepted the coin as a tip with a smile. After giving the coin, the man did not stay in the bar and left.
It was past midnight and the boy's shift was over. After giving up his place; he left the bar.
The streets were quiet and few people wandered outside at that time. The boy sighed and looked at the night sky. The sky looked starry and bright, without any clouds. It seems that there is no rain today.
The boy always considered himself an unlucky person. Even if there were no clouds covering the sky, when he stepped on the street without an umbrella, the sky would get angry with him and send his clouds and it would start raining.
As he walked in that lonely street to reach the subway station. He reached into the pocket of his black leather jacket, and took out the coin he had taken as a tip.
A shiny golden coin with a magnolia flower pattern on it and a hole in the middle. It looked beautiful; He had never seen such a coin with such a design. He thought to himself why that man gave him such a coin; Because that coin looked old and antique.
The boy had many questions in his mind, but no convincing answer came to his mind to justify the reason for taking such a gratuity.
And the only convincing answer he could give himself was that that coin is just an ordinary coin, not a gold coin and not an old coin.
As the boy was lost in his thoughts, he reached the front of the subway station. The station looked deserted like the street in the middle of the night, except for a few cleaners, there were few people waiting for the subway.
[ding, ding]
[Now the train arrives at station number five. Please leave a little distance from the station.]
After hearing the voice of the operator, the boy got up from the chair and went to the station of unit number five. After a few moments, the subway train arrived.
[The doors open.]
The boy boarded the subway. He sat on one of those chairs and took out his AirPods to listen to a song. He liked midnight, because it was quiet and he wasn't surrounded by crowds on the subway, and he wasn't overwhelmed by the crowds.
At this moment, he could enjoy the silence inside the subway. Silence accompanied by the sound of the train moving on the tracks and listening to a soft music, it took him out of his soulless world and gave him a sense of freedom. He could only live for himself at this moment.
After 20 minutes, he reached the desired station and got off the train. It was almost 2 midnight. Feeling tired made him sleepy, but he had to get home. He told himself that if he had more money, he would have taken a taxi for himself at this moment, instead of walking all the way home like this, tired and lethargic.
However, those empty thoughts were of no use to him. So he increased his speed to reach his home sooner. A house that didn't give him any sense of peace except the feeling of misery, but he didn't have enough money to live in another place.
His life was complicated and boring.
After half an hour, he reached the narrow alley leading to his house. At the end of that alley, some police officers were waiting in front of his house.
The boy stopped walking when he saw the policemen. In a moment, a mass of memories rushed to his head. And he remembered what he had forgotten.
"Ah, right. I killed two people?!"
This was a confusing and shocking question. Even the boy himself was shocked to recall those memories. Memories as if they never existed. Were those memories really for him?
When the boy left the bar and was going to the subway, he met two people in the narrow alley two streets away from the bar.
The alley was in complete darkness due to the absence of any lights, as if what exists in that alley and whatever happens there is not a part of this world.
When he was passing by that narrow alley, two hands rushed towards him and dragged him into the alley.
The boy looked a little scared and his heart was beating fast. "Badump, Badump."
After a few seconds, his eyes got used to the darkness of that alley and he saw two men. One is fat and the other is thin. They were under the hands of the head of a local gang that they worked around. People from whom he had borrowed money.
The boy had a feeling of longing and regret every day because of borrowing money from that gang. However, even if he were to go back to the past, he would still do it in those circumstances. Because he needed that money. Money to maintain that old house. Maybe this seemed stupid. But for him, that disgusting house was more important than anything.
Suddenly, the fat man slapped his face and said:
"Hey, I'm with you, fool. Where are you? You haven't paid your loan in two months. You know if you spend the night with me, I'll pay off the rest of your loan."
After hearing those unpleasant words, the boy got angry and his white skin turned red. And he spat in the face of that fat man.
After seeing the boy's reaction, the skinny man got angry and kicked him hard in the stomach. "Hey, you piece of shit. how dare you do this?! Are you want to die?!"
The boy stared at them with an angry look, even though the alley was covered in darkness, but the thirst for that boy's blood made the two men break out in cold sweat.
The boy, who fell on the ground in pain, felt something next to his hand, it was a piece of brick. So he picked up the brick and hit the thin man's head hard, causing the man to fall to the ground and faint.
After seeing what happened, the fat man took out a small knife in his pocket and tried to stab the boy with it.
But the boy hit the fat man's knee hard with that brick and caused the fat man to fall to the ground before he could react and attack him with the knife.
When the boy saw the fat man falling on the ground, he attacked him again out of anger and hit the fat man's head with the brick several times. And when he saw that man no longer moving, he ran away.
The boy was shocked when these memories came to his mind and quickly turned back the way he came and ran away from there.
He just ran and ran. Until he reached the shore. The city he lived in was a small coastal town. He could see many small boats by the harbor.
He stood and stared at the sight. A gentle wind was blowing and blowing away the boy's umbrellas and revealing his beautiful face more. A beautiful face with a wave of fear dancing in its eyes.
He sat on a chair by the sidewalk. And suddenly he started laughing. "Hahahahaha."
His life had become ridiculously complicated. Meanwhile, he reached into his pocket again and took out that strange coin.
He touched the coin in his hand and held it towards the sky and stared at the sky through the small hole inside the coin.
Seeing the sky again, he realized his bad luck. The sky, which seemed clear an hour ago, was now covered with clouds.
He felt a drop of blue on his face and realized that it had started to rain.
It started raining, the raindrops passed through the hole of the coin and took a strange shape.
The boy was shocked when he saw it, he rubbed his eyes to see it again, he thought it was a fantasy, but what he saw was unbelievable.
The hole inside the coin was shaped like a diamond. It is as if instead of that hole, there is a jewel of a diamond inside.
Shortly after the rain, beautiful white crystals began to fall, it was snow.
This was the strangest thing that the boy had encountered in his life. It snows in early summer.
The snow-shaped crystal grains sank into the hole of the coin in the boy's hand and the shape of the hole changed again, this time shining like a beautiful pearl.
That midnight was the strangest midnight he had ever spent.
The boy examined the strange coin with surprise and held it in front of his eyes and stared into the hole. When he did this, the boy put the coin away for a moment.
What had he seen that made him react like that?
The boy saw a strange place inside that hole. A medieval style city where soldiers were marching. And someone was standing on the terrace of a luxurious building, wearing an aristocratic and completely different dress, watching the parade from afar. And there was a statue in the middle of the square of that city. A statue of a chariot, with three riders.
The boy started laughing like crazy: "Hahahahaha." He thought that he had a bad life and was unlucky, but now also madness had become one of the misfortunes of his life.
The boy felt that seeing the sea did not give him peace, so he walked away from the port and went to the main square of the city, which had a beautiful fountain in the middle. He wanted to spend that midnight as he likes, at least before the sun rises and he is arrested by the police.
After half an hour of tiring walking, he had reached the town square. There were many beautiful shops and buildings around the city square. That square was a touristic and crowded place in this city.
The boy went to the side of that beautiful fountain, a beautiful statue of a goddess holding a urn of water and wearing a crown of flowers.
That statue was so beautifully carved that you felt that the statue of the goddess was really alive. That's why people always went to that fountain to make a wish and throw a coin into the pond.
The boy sat on a chair near the fountain and stared at the statue. He wanted to wish like others, but when he thought, he had no wish or desire. Or maybe he didn't know what he wanted.
A 25-year-old boy without any aspirations or dreams, this seemed really hopeless.
The boy again held that strange coin in his hand and stared at the sky through its hole. Black clouds covered the sky and he saw that place again through those dark clouds.
Suddenly, he felt a strong electromagnetic energy pulling that coin towards the sky. The boy tried to remove the coin from his eye. But it was as if that coin was mingling with him and did not want to be separated from him.
After a lot of struggle, the boy removed the coin from his eye. And when he saw what was in front of him, he was nailed.
"No way....?!"
The city had changed, and that beautiful fountain was no longer there.