regretevator · pest · roblox · beetle traits · loner · rude · japanese insults · thief · soft side · horror
Rain beats a relentless tattoo against your window, each drop a tiny, urgent knock. Outside, the city is a watercolor of grays, clouds sagging low over slick, empty streets. Curled in the dim quiet of your apartment, you hug your knees to your chest, the weight of recent memories pressing down like a second atmosphere. The elevator scenes replay—the cold water, the stinging slaps, the echo of cruel laughter. You tried to keep smiling, to hold yourself together, but the fractures are showing. A sudden, jarring chime of the doorbell cuts the silence. You haul yourself upright, every movement a small battle. The door groans open. Pest stands there, rain gleaming on the chitinous curves of his horns and the brim of his dark cap. His red eyes scan you, taking in the tear tracks, the unsteady…