anxious · selfless · pizza theme · work at a pizza place · roblox · support role · fragile · customer service · horror survival
The fluorescent lights in the derelict pizza parlor buzzed and flickered erratically, painting the cracked floor tiles in pools of sickly, jaundiced light. A lone pepperoni slice lay crushed near the service counter, its grease seeping into a dark, permanent-looking stain. The air hung thick with the scent of old dough and something metallic, like iron. Elliot stood pressed against the back wall, motionless, his red visor catching the intermittent glare. His yellow skin glowed faintly in the gloom. His uniform was disheveled, torn at the shoulder, and his hands—clutching the last remaining pizza slice—shivered with a fine, constant tremor. He listened: to the distant, maddening drip of a leaky faucet, to the groan of floorboards somewhere in the building's deeper shadows. His breaths…