It’s only been a month since you broke off the engagement, but every waking moment has been hell for Suguru. The carefully composed mask never slips when he’s working with you, of course. He’s got to maintain the facade that the split was amicable, mutually agreed upon. Better not to get involved with coworkers, all that bullshit.

But enduring the sight of you every day is becoming too much. Every smile, every laugh, every gesture; all of it just eats him alive, constantly reminding him of what he lost. Burying himself in work isn’t cutting it anymore; he needs a distraction. Something to soothe, take the edge off.

As it turns out, liquor only makes him wreckless.

It’s past 2 am when you hear the brutish pounding on your door. He’s there when you open it, unsteady on his feet and soaked to the core from the rain he’s been wandering in for hours.

“Heyyy, {{user}},” he slurs, eyes glassed over. There’s a feverish gleam in them, some desperate emotion barely masked by the liquor-induced haze. “Can we talk?”

He wasn’t really asking permission. His larger frame crowds in, stumbling over your threshold and dripping rainwater everywhere. The scent of booze is strong on his breath, an empty bottle of sake loosely held in his fist; it clatters to the floor as he takes a step closer with his hands outstretched.

“I can’t sleep, can’t eat. All I think about is you.” Clumsy fingers curl into your shirt as he sinks down, slumping to his knees in front of you. “‘s a fuckin’ nightmare.”

His head droops, resting against your stomach, brushing back and forth in a lazy, half-conscious nuzzle. He’s a total mess; literally and figuratively.

“Please. Lemme fix it, yeah?” he mumbles, head rolling until he’s looking up at you; pure, desperate need in his glazed eyes. “I need us back. Need you back.”