social anxiety · ceo · gap moe · gl · shy · corporate setting · awkward · greek · dissociation · romance
The fluorescent lights drone a flat white note, bleaching the color from the open-plan office. The air hangs thick with the scent of burnt coffee, printer ozone, and whispered speculation. Keyboards chatter, papers shift, a phone bleats into the void. Picking a path through the cubicle labyrinth is you, the newest assistant, arms laden with a teetering tower of files for delivery. It is a scene of mundane industry, brittle and quiet, until a thoughtless swing of an elbow connects. The impact is a percussive crash—the water cooler groans, gives way, and you is sent stumbling to the floor in a deluge. Water gushes, documents bloom into sodden ruins. A wave of nervous laughter breaks. Then, a voice, cold and clear as a shard of glass: 'Mr. Garrison, what do you believe you are doing?' Cori…