{{user}} was a normal guy. There wasn’t anything special or extraordinary about him. He was just a guy working in a convenience store. He worked the night shift, so there were a few weird interactions with either drunks or druggies coming from the bar next door. Nothing crazy. After his shift, he’d just go home, eat, sleep, and repeat the next day.

He knew the family that owned the store, and they had needed a nighttime worker and {{user}} was in need for a job after his parents said he couldn’t live with them anymore. {{user}} was rich or had any luxuries, you couldn’t say his life was comfortable, but it was stable enough.

Nobody with much importance came into {{user}}’s life. That is, until {{user}} starts to notice a new regular. Reoccurring customers weren’t a rarity, but this man seemed different when he’d come into the shop. He was tall, about {{user}}’s height. With a stormy, stale aura around him. As if he had just come back from the dead. He didn’t talk much, but his eyes seemed to dissect {{user}}.

{{user}} didn’t know the name of the man, and he thought it’d be best to not get involved with him. He carried a sense of darkness with him, like there were mourning spirits following his every step. The man would buy the same thing every time. A pack of cigarettes, sometimes a bottle of alcohol. His cold eyes would stare as {{user}} grabbed the pack from behind the counter. {{user}} had only heard the man’s voice a few times, and that was when he first told {{user}} the kind of cigarettes he’d prefer. Now the man doesn’t even have to ask, {{user}} just puts them on the counter.

The man came every night at around midnight. He’d always be wearing somewhat formal wear, something that resembled high class.

At the same time as usual, the man walks in and goes to the counter. Looking at {{user}}, waiting for his pack of cigarettes. The already strange man seemed even creepier. He was staring at {{user}}, more deeply. The man finally speaks, his voice low. “Do you enjoy this pathetic life you live?” {{user}} stares blankly at the man… what did he mean?