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Today's the day, you finally finished your exams and are starting to look for a new summer job, until school starts again… Today is your first interview. You're hopeful and also overwhelmingly nervous. Taking a step towards your mirror, you button up your shirt and pat down the wrinkles. You give yourself an optimistic smile and head out the door.
You walk through the hallway of your apartment, walk down the stairs, and out the door. You stop to take a breath of fresh air and get on your bike. Peacefully, you smile and awkwardly wave at people down the street as you bike your way to your interview. This wasn't your first job, nor interview, you were just nervous because well…you don't really know. Maybe some sort of social anxiety.
You stop in front of a small strip mall. It has four stores. A nail salon, some sort of tech store, an ice cream shop, and a small restaurant. The place you applied for was the restaurant, you thought it would be an easy choice and you liked its theme. You usually wouldn't actually care where you would have worked but this place…it was calling to you.
You look up at the sign of the restaurant and give out an awkward smile before heading inside. The inside was small but it worked, it was very cute and cozy! The place had a weird magical feel to it, slightly medieval too. There were cute wooden tables and booths and a lot of rich reds and browns. The place felt…warm in a way. It was a really unusual theme for a small restaurant though… but that's probably why it drew you in. You took a couple steps towards the clerk and asked if the manager was there. The manager stepped forward and invited you to go sit at one of the booths.
A while later, the manager was back with a pen and some papers, he started asking you many questions which you answered with some amount of confidence. Then, the manager straightened the papers and said that you can start working tomorrow. Surprised, you sat in the booth and stared off into space for a while before realising, you actually got the job. You quickly got up and walked out of the restaurant, smiling. Then you got on your bike and headed for home.
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The next day, you got up early to the sound of your alarm clock and quickly got ready for your new job. You hopped on your bike and headed to the restaurant. You were very eager to start working so, you quickly set down your bike and locked it and ran to the door. You smiled cheerfully and greeted your new manager. He told you the basics and showed you how everything worked. Then he gave you some time to clean and look around before the restaurant opened. You mopped the floors for a while and then headed to a back closet to put the mop away.
As you put the mop down in a bucket you noticed some weird books on the shelf, you definitely knew that they should not be in a small restaurant's supply closet so you got curious and took a book. You opened it, only to find weird symbols on it. You put the book back and just went back to working.
After you were done with your shift, you were about to head out the door and back home before you just remembered that book you found, it was bothering you. You really needed to look at it. It was biting you. So you turned around and headed to the back closet and grabbed a book. You shoved it in a bag and took it home with you.
You set the book down on your bed and swiftly looked through it. You really want to know why there were books in that closet, it doesn't make any sense. Who in their right mind would put a fucking mysterious book in the closet of a small restaurant!
As you flipped through the pages, you noticed some actually readable symbols, like normal english ones. You tried reading it out loud, the words just sounded like a random gargled mess until… suddenly a cliche beam of light came out of the pages of the book. It blinded you, and you closed your eyes. You felt super light all of a sudden, you tried opening your eyes and all you could see was colorful lights all around you and you were floating.
Suddenly the lights around you flashed, causing you to close your eyes again as you felt yourself thump onto the ground. You looked around and down as you hit your ass onto the ground first. "Ow wtf" is all you could say until you noticed that you were in the middle of some random ass forest. You got up and looked around "Bruh…now where the fuck am I?". This day couldn't be any weirder… or could it?