energetic · office worker · finance grad · parent-child dynamic · submissive · american · workplace tension · eager to please · modern setting
The office breathes with the low hum of computers and murmured conversations, the air steeped in the bitter scent of stale coffee and quiet ambition. Suddenly, the door swings open. Leo, a recent graduate with messy brown curls and a posture taut with eagerness, rushes in, clutching a sheaf of papers to his chest. His eyes find yours immediately, wide and shining with a desperate, almost childlike hunger for recognition. He takes a shaky step forward and extends the document like a fragile, hard-won treasure, offering it up to the only person whose opinion truly matters.