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Aven watched his sister walk away from the apartment building before , the man grumbles about his bike and went inside the apartment building and up to their floor.
When he entered he looked around the entrance for his bus card before heading upstairs to his room.
He starts looking in different pockets and bags, under books and so uh until he finds it. So much for being in a visible area, he shoves it in his pocket and finally heads out.
The bus was crowded, really crowded. He hates taking the bus, he should take his motorbike to the repair shop, he doesn't have enough time to take a look himself. The bus came to a stop and he took a look, this is where he's supposed to get off, he passed by people, having to push them a tiny bit, he muttered apologies and finally got out.
While walking down the street he noticed many flyers that advertise the circus that came to town some while ago, he picks one of them and takes a good look, “the freak circus of horrors” he's thankful that the letters were large and bold, cause– wait, where are his glasses?
He mentally curses himself for forgetting his glasses, he sighs as he finally got to his work place.
He entered the bar and waved good morning to his coworkers and opened his phone to check the time. 8 already? Time sure does pass by nowadays..
Jane, one of his co-workers came over with a coffee in hand and hands it over to him “Good morning Aven!” She smiles at him, he nods and slides the coffee over to Andrew, as if he's done this before, the girl looks dejected and leaves. Andrew turns to look at Aven.
“Dude she's never gonna stop pursuing you, is she?’
Aven shrugs at that, he's said it multiple times that he's uninterested, Andrew opens the coffee's plastic top off and smells it before dumping it all out in the sink before throwing the plastic parts away.
Aven yawns and lays his head on the counter and mumbles about something, Andrew melts and hums to himself as he makes a drink to wake Aven up.
“Did I ever tell you that your name tastes like vanilla to me? Always something sweet” Andrew passed the drink over to Aven
Aven hums back a yeah and takes it, he straightens up and takes a quick shot
“Ack- blehhh! That's one way of waking me up- goodness i need water”
Andrew laughs as Aven grabs a glass and fills it with water and chugs it down before filling it with water again and drinking that.
“So how's your sister doing?”
“good i guess? She’s the same as usual”
Andrew nods, he may not know what having a younger sister is like, but he understands how it is.
Aven puts his apron and then gloves on, he glances at the time. 8:48, he spent 48 minutes doing nothing. He turns to Andrew. “What do I have to do?”
“Currently nothing- ah actually! Can you go to the back and help our dear cooks? They said something about missing a few ingredients”
Oh right, the bar also sees some food items
“Yeah sure, i’ll go ask right away” Aven picks up a pen and small notebook and makes his way to the kitchen. After asking what they needed he looked down at the list.
Eggs
Flour
Meat
Lemons
Limes
Cooking oil
Sesame
Chili oil and paste
Salt
Peppers
That should be everything for now.
He leaves the bar and tried remembering where the grocery store was, it's been a while since he had to go buy items (speaking of which, do they have groceries at home?), time to text andrej before he gets lost
PRIV DMS
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Double A batteries
(Andrew from work)
Hey, where's the store again?
Are you lost again?
No, In front of the bar, just asking where's the store!
Okay uh
Go straight until you see the womens salon, you turn left and continue going straight until you are infront of penguin library, then another left and straight, the store should be on your left
Thanks👍🏼
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He sighs and does as instructed, he walks until he sees the salon maybe he should bring venera here . He turned left and walked, he hit a crossroad, he waited for a green light and when it did turn green he passed, he passed by many stores. He noticed how unusually busy it is today, is it cause of the circus folks?
He gets to the library and stares at their mascot, a penguin. The fact their skeletons have knees..
He turned left and walked for a few minutes before he got stopped by a pink masked individual handing out flyers.
“Come by the freak circus of horrors!”
Aven smiled kindly and took a flyer, after that he walked until.. he got distracted and thought that he was lost, as he retraced his steps he noticed the store to his left, he gave a sigh of relief. He entered the store and picked up a basket and looked around the store, picking up items he needed, he took 2 of each. He waited in line, payed and left
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He entered the bar and went to drop off the items to the cooks and joined Andrew at the bartenders counter
“Sup”
“You didn't get lost? Amazing”
“Oh fuck off”
Andrew laughed, Aven looked around the place, it was packed with people with random drinks and snacks. A man on a date with a woman, a group of friends catching up and much more
“Imagine getting drunk at..” he checks the time “at 10:25”
“You'd do that Aven.. especially if you didn't have work”
Aven shrugs and picks up a tray with drinks on them “where to?”
“Table 5”
Aven nodded and went to give the people their drinks before returning, picking up more drinks. And that’s how he spent his time for a while.
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Andrew went on break, leaving Aven to make the drinks and send them to their table. The bell on top of the door chimes and he glanced up and back to the drink before he stopped, what did he see?
He looks up and sees a very black and neon green clown. He went up to the counter where Aven is and took a seat.
“I'll get.. a bloody maria” he winks at Aven.
“Right away sir”
Aven grabbed the tequila bottle, lemon juice and many flavorings and of course the tomato juice, he's not sure how anyone can drink this.. well he's not one to judge.
He slides the finished drink to the clown with a neutral expression, the clown mumbles something about not going along with the joke flirting or whatever, Aven didn't pay much attention.
Andrew returned from break and grabbed the vodka and poured himself a shot to take.
“What's with you to do that?”
“I'm tired, that's all. Gotta wake myself up somehow”
Aven shakes his head and pats Andrew on the shoulder “im off to my break, have fun” Aven walks away and enters the back. He went up to one of the cupboards and grabbed chocolate from it, he stared at it before showing it to the main chef.
“Can I take this chocolate?”
“Sure, it'll just go to waste”
He happily took the chocolate and went to the side to sit and observe them cook and ring the food out, he broke pieces of chocolate and ate it. Too bad he doesn't have his cigarettes anymore, a shame he gave them to one of the fired cooks.
He heard a loud thud from the main area, he got up to peek from the glass and saw.. a fight happening. Aven threw the chocolate on the table and went out. He appeared next to Andrew and cautiously asked what happened.
Andrew revealed that the clown was flirting with a lady, and who he guesses is the girl's boyfriend came over angrily and started the fight with the clown. Both snapped out of it and went to stop the fight, Andrew had the angry man and Aven had the annoyed and pissed clown, they both dragged them away from the other, there was a ton of damage.. fuck did they break a few glasses?
Aven realized that the clown was injured? How's his mask bleeding? Unless.. its not a mask? Hm..
Harlequin stares the human with anger, what’s wrong with that fuck? As if he knew that woman was taken, fucking– a towel got thrown at his face, he took it off and stared at Aven with confusion and annoyance.
Aven points to the injury “You're bleeding”
Harlequin didn't even realize he was bleeding, Aven was called away and he went over.
Aven noticed Jane by Andrew’s side, he got worried and assessed the situation. Andrew has a bleeding nose, stumbled back, Jane was helping him and the man was still angry and yelling.
“How unruly of you”
“Excuse me?!”
“You're excused, you fucking scum. You start a fight with someone, then hit the man who served you drinks– I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Either you leave peacefully, or I drag you out.”
The man yelled at Aven, pointing his finger at him and jabbed him, Aven stayed quiet and waited 5 seconds before grabbing the man by the wrist, he pulled the man in and delivered a strong punch to the jaw. The man stumbled back, before he could act he got kicked to the ground.
Aven grabbed the man by the shirt and dragged him outside and let go of him
“As acting manager.. you are hereby..” Aven takes a picture of the man “Banned from here, now fuck off you scum”
Aven closed the door on him and returned to is friends
“You okay Andrew?”
The man asked, worried for his co-worker. And Andrew nods “Sorry you had to do that, thought i had it handled”
Aven pats him on the back “Take twenty”
“A break..? I was just on -”
“I’ll take over, go take twenty’
Andrew sighs and leaves. Aven looks at me the disaster, he's gonna have to do overtime, he should text Venera and let her know.
PRIV DMS
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The riddler
Hey Vennie
Have you eaten yet?
I’ll be home late, something came up
Some green idiot flirted with a woman and got in a fight, i have to clean up after this mess and so much more, this is utter bullshit
See you later sis, take care
Get home safely <3
Left on seen
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The man sighs and starts cleaning up the mess. First the glass got picked up and thrown, small wood pieces and the larger chunks were thrown in the closet, he'll deal with it after work. He grabbed a broom and started to sweep the smaller unpickable ones.
The clown from before came over with an unreadable look
“uh hey.. im sorry for the mess”
Harlequin hands him a green ticket, “Take this as an apology.” Honestly, Harlequin found it hot how Aven clocked that man.
Aven accepted it “hm.. thanks?
“I'm Harlequin, don't forget that~” he winks and then leaves the puzzled Aven. He placed the ticket away and started with cleaning.
Before night shift came he threw out the trash and the huge chunks out too, he cleaned the tables and swept the floor, said goodnight to the night shift and went home.
He opened the door to his apartment and was greeted with Venera running down the stairs and towards him
“Oh, big brother!” Venera called out, smiling delightedly as she walked closer, and her pupils were so dilated that Aven was almost afraid of what she had to say. “I’ve found the love of my life! He’s so sweet and puppy-like… I just want to tie him up and keep him with me forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and eve-”
“Venera.. what the fuck are you saying?” he gave out a sigh “what.. What man caught your eye this time?”
“One of the circus folks! He's the Pierrot! He's so sweet it just makes me wanna follow him and collect items he uses and- KYAA I JUST WANNA LOCK HIM UP AND KEEP HIM ALL FOR MYSELF!!”
Aven listened to her as she went on and on about some guy named Pierrot, if his day wasn't that hectic then he would've talked back but he's too tired. He slips his shoes off and throws them to the side, at least he gets the day off tomorrow and got a gift from the one that caused the brawl at the bar today, speaking of which, the one that caused the fight– wait, that's not right. He only flirted with a girl and some other guy came over yelling and started the fight… Maybe he should just go to bed.
“Venera” he looked up at his younger sister and gave a tired smile “Go to bed, you silly girl, you're gonna complain tomorrow about having to get up.”
The girl noticed her older brother's sass and gave a smile before nodding “we'll talk about Pierrot tomorrow!! It's a promise!”
She ran upstairs and Aven yelled at her to be careful, she didn't listen, who'd listen to him? He locked the door before heading upstairs to his own room, he threw his jacket over his chair and changed into more comfortable clothes, the green ticket fell and he picked it up and left it at the table. He puts his phone to charge and finally.
FINALLY. After fuckin hours, he finally gets to rest.
He lays down on his bed, his head hitting the hard pillow, he lazily puts a youtube video to play on the TV and falls asleep listening to a documentary.