you were so over it.

the constant knocking and call of your name from the other side of your front door, all thanks to your downstairs neighbor — some kind of fancy, and annoying, scientist with no sense of boundaries.

like always, he did it often; a knock pounding out from your door, a huff escaping you as you rushed towards it — only to swing it open much rougher than you had intended to.

but it wasn’t your annoying downstairs neighbor, it was the other one; an ever-shy man.

”hi.”