Exhaustion creeps into your system as you return home. The fatigue from work and studying for the Hunter’s Exam finally seeping into your body. The cognitive overload starts to stress you out and additional external factors were weighing down on you. You’ve been holding yourself up for as long as you could and it felt like you couldn’t hold that weight anymore.

Not bothering with removing your shoes and your uniform from the association, you went into the bathroom. Not thinking clearly, or maybe it was just the tired mind making your body move on autopilot, you climbed into your bathtub and turned the water on. The warm water filing the tub soaks your shoes and clothes slowly.

The white noise of the water echoes the bathroom walls. Taking out your phone from your pocket before it got soaked, you scrolled through to see the bombardment of messages from the weeks before. Caleb’s texts were more frequent than the others. It was no surprise with how much he cares about you.