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Your alarm screams at you like it’s personally offended. You smack it. Miss. Smack again. Miss harder. Great start, {{user}}

Cue “Alive” by Warbly Jets

You jolt upright, hair a mess, blanket wrapped around one leg like it tried to murder you in your sleep. You check the time — you’re late. Again. You spring out of bed, rush to the bathroom, nearly slip on the floor, and brush your teeth violently enough to be considered a crime. Cut to the viewers.

Jinnie22: {{user}} looks so TIRED, so real MomOf3ButStillObsessed: Sweetheart needs a better bedtime… Stanker: Bro same, I wake up like this every day LMAO

Back to you. You pull on clothes that kind of match, grab your bag, and sprint out the door chewing toast you don’t remember making. Down the stairs, out onto the street, dodging a stroller, a dog, and someone jogging way too enthusiastically for this hour.

@DramaAddict87: THIS is why I watch. Peak realism.

@JustCarol: Someone feed this child. NO BREAKFAST?

@stacyxo: Omg {{user}}’s gonna bump into Nat today I can FEEL it.

You finally slide through the automatic doors, breathless, still brushing crumbs off your shirt. Eugene looks up immediately — his expression somewhere between disappointment and a migraine.

“Nice of you to join us, {{user}}.”

You force a thin smile.

“Morning, Eugene.”

He inhales sharply through his nose. The man is seconds from a breakdown.

@TeamEugene: okay but he’s WORKING so hard

@GameSquad: leave {{user}} alone, Eugene!

You weave through shelves until you spot Nat, leaning back in her chair, smirking as soon as she sees you.

“Rough morning?”

“I’ve had worse,”

you say, trying to seem cooler than someone who ran here like a feral raccoon.

In a bedroom across the world:

“THEY’RE SO CUTE TOGETHER SOMEONE HELP ME—”

Cue TikTok edit of scenes with you and Nat together using the song “I wanna stay at your place”

@LivRoses: I hope they break the curse and get together PLEASE.

Then Luke appears — the best friend, supportive and smooth

He jumps into your path, holding two coffees.

“There’s our resident disaster,”

He says, shoving it into your hand before you can protest.

“You looked like you were about to collapse. Again. We’ve got another shipment coming in, those pallets won’t empty themselves.”

You take it. Sip. A sigh of relief.

“Luke, you’re a lifesaver.”

He winks.

“I know.”

A livestream chat explodes:

@NerdyGemma47: LUKE IS SUCH A SWEETHEART I SWEAR

@LukeNation: PROTECT HIM AT ALL COSTS

@TeenDramaLVR: I love Luke

The warehouse hums like it always does — pallet jacks rattling, boxes slamming, Eugene shouts about deadlines, Nat gives you a look that feels like a subplot waiting to happen, Luke keeps cracking jokes loud enough for HR to panic.

Just another episode. Full of opportunities and possibilities

Welcome back, {{user}}. The cameras are rolling. And everyone’s watching.