randomly generated sentence starter meme // accepting !
🎲 : 7. “If I die, I’m haunting you first.”
“Spencer, can you help with this load-in?”
He’s useless, as always, during the beginning of his shift, doing everything but working, and generally as obnoxiously as possible. There is more reward in flicking day-old sliced fruit at Chansol’s head than there is at wiping down the tables he wiped down three hours ago, especially when there is a trainee and at least two other established wait staff to do it for him.
“No alcohol, remember? One kidney. Doctor’s orders.”
Though the content of his words is serious, perhaps genuinely life-or-death in nature, his tone is still playful, sing-songed, as if even a bullet through his vital organs and too much of his blood outside of his body is some kind of game. It’s how he copes, with how close he came to death, of how the hairline cracks of a heart starting to break hurt almost as much as bleeding out on The Crow’s Nest floor: humor, frivolity, a minimization of Death himself, as if it might take away his glaring powers of inevitability.
“You’re not going to get alcohol poisoning by touching a few bottles.”
She is annoyed with him, like always, he can see it on her perfectly painted face, hear it in her thinly veiled tone. She would probably threaten him with immaculately manicured fingernails if he hadn’t already nearly died in front of her, and if Jihoon weren’t feet away in some back room, counting cash and memorizing inventory. Perhaps he could get used to the collateral perks that came with his near death experience.
“That’s true,” he allows momentarily, a shit-eating grin splitting his face in half in anticipation of annoying her further, “but, if I lift anything too heavy, my wound could open up all over this squeaky clean floor and then you’ll have one less person to mop up my blood, pus, and guts from underneath table twenty-four.”
She makes a face at the vivid description, but shoves a pair of hefty unopened liquor bottles in each of his hands nonetheless.
“Okay,” Spencer concedes with a laugh, moving to assembly-line the bottle to a waiting Chansol by the bar, “but if I die, I’m haunting you first.”