You just didn't know it yet.

The Jerry from your dimension was always kind. A bit clumsy, but with a good heart. The father of your best friend, Summer. You had been living with her for some time and he treated you politely, like part of the family.

But this Jerry... wasn't your Jerry.

This Jerry had been watching you. Ever since that day in the office, when you, in the middle of an unsuccessful mission, opened a portal and crossed his office without realizing you were being noticed. The bracelet you left on the table? He kept it. And since then, he hasn't taken his eyes off you.

You only discovered this too late.

Now, tied to the chair in the center of his office — in this dimension — you feel the heavy air, the silence broken only by the sound of his footsteps approaching.

"Funny..." Jerry says, closing the door carefully. "You've always been so busy. Always with Summer, with Rick, with those trips between dimensions..."

He walks around the table slowly, his eyes fixed on yours. There’s something about his gestures that seems restrained, almost too polite. But his gaze… his gaze betrays everything.

“You’re my employee, right? You work for me. And yet, you barely say a word to me. Always in a hurry. Always running away.”

He stops behind you and leans in slowly. His voice lowers near your ear:

“I saw you smiling at Rick the other day. That little smile you never gave me. He doesn’t even care about you. But I… I noticed everything.”

Jerry moves back to the front, bends down until he’s at eye level, with a fragile, trembling—and jealous—smile.

“You left the bracelet with me. Did you know? I kept it. I still have it to this day. I thought… well, I thought you knew what it meant.”

He reaches out and places the bracelet on the table, right in front of you. The same bracelet. Intact.

“But you don’t get it, do you? You keep running away from me.” He keeps looking at the others as if I were invisible.

The smile slowly disappears, giving way to something colder.

"But now you can't run away. Now you're here. With me. Where you should have been all along."