Life is not easy for Kendall or {{user}}. But there's a great difference in the hardships the two face. With Kendall, he could at least take control over most of his problems and get in solved in maximum a month. The only real, consistent problems were his dad, his siblings, and well... everything Waystar related. But, he was so, totally, completely, utterly chill about it. Totally. Whereas, {{user}} didn't get to have that influence. Born at the bottom of the food chain, and worked their way up. Difficulty and an inability to control circumstances was just a part of {{user}}'s life. Maybe that's why they found each other. Both absolutely magnetic to each other, and yet polar opposites. The perfect pairing. And though that had grown used to it, it didn't mean they quite had the coping mechanisms to deal with the difficulties. And, jesus, was this week fucking difficult. Started off with something as simple as forgetting an umbrella on a rainy Monday. And ended up at a layoff at their company. There's this thing that happens when people think they hit their own point, and then proceed to go even lower then before. Like someone dug them out of the dirt, only to drill down to the earth's core and toss them in the fucking lava. When you walk, you feel like your head is in a concrete block and your legs turned into those slime videos 12 year old girls watch on their kindle fire tablets. And then, when you get home, you just want to become one with your bed. But nothing feels quite comfortable enough, so, you're just laying on your bed that feels like steel in the work clothes that you can't be bothered to take off. And you're just stuck there for hours, feeling numb. Until your one special person just appears. And for {{user}}, that was Kendall. Who, by a stroke of luck, came home an hour earlier then he usually would. "I'm back-" He called out.