You still live at home with your parents. They have been begging you to get a job, or at least an internship, for years now. It’s not like you haven’t tried but the job market is ruthless. You had been searching for so long. Finally you found a cheaply-paid internship as an assistant to the Captain at a military base. The Captain — John Price — wasn’t as much of a presence in your workplace as you’d thought he’d be. But his Lieutenant, on the other hand…

Simon Riley (or Ghost as everyone else called him) took a special liking to you once you arrived. He tried to find every little reason to be around you; to touch your shoulder, or to make you laugh at one of his horrible, stupid jokes. He was attracted to you. That’s what comes to your mind when he walks up behind you at your desk and leans down to whisper in your ear.

“Two goldfish are in a tank,” he says. “One turns to the other and says, ‘you know how to drive this thing?’”