Life is weird.

Onodera stood at infront of the photocopying machine. He was instructed to print out copies of some materials for the team. Even a distance away, he could hear Takano's loud voice throwing orders around.

Never would he have thought he would be in this position again – being played by his own emotions.

He's been in Marukawa Shouten for around a month, and the situation felt stranger to him than anything. He quitted his job to end up in shoujo manga instead - of all departments. And of all people in Tokyo to be his boss, it had to be his sort of ex-boyfriend back in high school, who also happened to be his reclusive neighbour.

The printer splutters away while the paper slides out and goes back in.

Truthfully, Onodera felt lost deep down. It's enough that he had to learn everything about making girl's manga from scratch (literally). What was he supposed to do with the man ? He's his superior at work but then he made his advances towards him clear as well.

Casually, the editor glanced at the general direction of the team. His teammates were on the phone, either negotiating with printers or trying to convince their authors to go some work. Takano was wearing the black rimmed spectacles, doing whatever he had to do to get things done- calm among the chaos surrounding them.

How could he be so calm ?

The breakup probably didn't affect him much at all.

There was also Yokozawa San, who hated him from the moment they meet. Heck, he probably hated him before they even meet, from all the way back to his shared college days with Takano.

Why am I thinking about them?

Shaking his head, Onodera switched papers, printing another material. He tidies the hot stack of newly printed papers. He has more important things to care about.

I was probably the only one who got damaged.

The brunette tried so hard to forget about him, even moving cross the continents because the pain was too hard to bear. And never did he thought he would entertain the idea of saying '' I love you'' to someone else again. Never would he thought they would cross paths ten years later – or at all – this time with the raven as his tyrant boss.

Yet somehow, here they were, together in the same space again.

Life was indeed weird.


Hey everyone, I have a little update on work. So this was also a reflection on my part, on how unpredictable life can be. Some things which i have never imagine really did happen. But i suppose that's how it is.

Till next time !