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His shift couldn't end fast enough, it really couldn't. But now he was stuck here, until his replacement came in and it seemed said replacement was running late this morning. He just wanted to go home and catch up on some of his much needed sleep. Glancing at the computer screen's clock for the time he let out a muffled groan, it was almost 7am and he was still stuck here. His replacement should have been here half and hour ago but after glancing at the store's door and seeing no movement he figured said replacement wouldn't be making it in today. With another sigh he turned and head towards the break room, where he knew their manager's phone number was posted up. Pulling out his phone, he was just dialing said number to when he was startled out of his task at the sound of rushed footsteps and what had to be the sound of something being knocked over with a muffled curse before his replacement appeared at the break room's entrance. "Sorry, sorry! My alarm didn't go off this morning!" The other said as he rushed over to the lockers on the other end of the break room to dump his things in and pull out his required apron and name tag, before turning back to the silver haired teen as he made his way to the refrigerator to put his lunch in. "It's fine," he responded as he put his phone away and made his own way to his locker to grab his stuff, more than ready to make his leave now that his replacement had finally showed up, "I was just about to call the manager but since you showed up I'm just gonna head out," he said, grabbing his school book bag. "Okay, sorry again! Don't worry about the mess, I'll clean it up!" He heard as his response, as he'd turned around the corner back to the front of the store, walking past the knocked over boxes of cookies he exited the store and turned the in the direction of his home. Maybe the fact that he was running on little to no sleep and was somewhat dozing while he walked, that could be blamed for his lack of attention as he rounded another corner. Maybe if he'd been more awake he could have seen it coming and could have dodged or moved out of the way in time. But whatever the reason, it didn't change the outcome of what happened next. He'd just been turning the corner when he seemed to walk straight into someone's fist and stumbled back a few steps as his hand flew up to his face, covering his now hurting eye as if that would make the pain lessen.