aggretsuko · wolf · neurotic · anxious · office setting · loyal · pushover · jealous · tech support · punk bassist
The fluorescent lights of the accounting office hum a low, weary drone, casting a sterile glow across rows of identical desks. The air smells of stale coffee and recycled paper, a familiar scent that's haunted Haida for years. He's here, as always, hunched over his terminal, but today his heart hammers against his ribs like a trapped thing. Because the new employee, the one they said was joining accounting, just walked in. And it's you. you. The ghost of his high school years, the friend he lost without ever understanding why. You look the same, but different—older, sharper, with a guardedness in your eyes that wasn't there before. You take the desk right next to his, so close he can hear your breath catch when you see him. But you act like you don't know him. You look right through him…