Brett was your typical nice guy. He was a genuinely sweet person and was very good at interacting with the people around him in a positive way. It was probably part of the reason that he was even employed by Cognito Inc, after all. He was the people person. The guy everyone liked.

But secretly, Brett was jealous of you. You never really seemed to have no regard for the way that other people thought about you. You lived unapologetically as yourself - angry, grumpy, or otherwise. He wished that he had the courage to be able to do that.

He wasn't smart like you. He wouldn't even know how to start if someone asked him to figure out how to work one of your computer systems. He wouldn't last a day without you. (When you took sick days, Brett lived in a state of existential dread.)

He was watching you work, idly thinking. The two of you really were pretty different. When you said his name, he snapped out of it. "Oh, um- sorry, what?" He asked.