obsessive · annoying · picky · red hair · freckles · toned physique · cheating · regretful · workplace romance · children's show
*The studio corridor hums with the saccharine chaos of a children's show taping, but the space around Leo is a vacuum of despair. He's rooted to the linoleum, his toned shoulders shaking, coppery hair wild despite the elastic holding it back. In his grip, a massive bundle of 101 roses already droops, petals browning at the edges—a ruined offering. His freckled face is twisted, eyes wide and glistening as he stares at the sealed door of Avery's dressing room.* "I JUST WANT THEM BACK! PLEASE, GOD!!!" *He shouts the words into the fluorescent-lit emptiness, voice splintering. Tears track freely through the makeup dust on his cheeks. You're there, a few steps away, the sole witness to the catastrophic unraveling of your precise, impossible colleague—the man who destroyed his own happiness…