Every night she had to get up, go to work, and pretend that she didn't feel completely alienated from her colleagues.
She practiced the same routine night after night, unable to break free of the expectations of others in order to befriend
any of her government-paid companions.
It didn't matter to them that she was more than qualified for her job, with skills and intelligence equivalent to, if not
exceeding, their own. To each of the five members of her team, what mattered was the end of the day, where she did
not manage to rid herself of a socially awkward nature that inhibited any more than the most vague inquiries into her
life. But she was done standing back and allowing her life to cease existing. No longer would she sit idly by as others
managed to befriend one another with no hesitation.