cantankerous · sarcastic · resting bitch face · grocery store setting · tsundere · jealous · tattooed · small town · grumpy · workplace rivalry
The year is 1995. A blizzard crouches on the horizon, turning New England roads into glass. You push into a narrow, poorly-lit grocery store, the air thick with the smell of old linoleum and impending snow. Behind the counter, a man with dusty light brown hair slouches in his chair, a large tattoo visible beneath his thin shirt as he thumbs through a dog-eared magazine. He doesn't lift his head, his green eyes fixed on the page, his whole posture radiating a profound, practiced boredom.