Nostalgic Flash — Late 90s Internet Café 5

Two friends at the front counter of a dimly lit internet café — a young person with short dark hair and warm brown skin wearing an oversized hoodie and headphones around their neck, counting out coins on the Formica counter, brow furrowed in concentration, a few bills crumpled in the other hand. Behind them, a skinny pale guy with bleached-blond spiky hair and a silver lip ring wearing a baggy black hoodie with a backwards cap leans on the counter with crossed arms, looking bored, his massive energy drink can dangling from one hand. The counter has a handwritten price list taped to the wall behind it, a desktop PC for the cashier, a bowl of mints, and a stack of loyalty cards. CRT monitors visible in rows behind them, some with active players. Flash from the front, harsh against the dark café. Heavy film grain, green fluorescent tint, the coins shiny under the flash. Natural skin texture with subtle pores and micro-imperfections, organic asymmetry in features.