Shouta Aizawa has inherited his parents' teahouse and is having trouble finding new staff. Y/N has quit her job and is about to end her life, when she sees the poster about the open position and decides to give life another chance.
TW: themes of sui...
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It took Y/N a while to remember where she was and what she was doing here, when she first woke up. She felt pretty terrible. Her throat was sore and her limbs were hurting, she was cold and her head hurt. Her eyes felt a little strange, as if they were still kind of swollen from crying.
Y/N couldn't believe that Shouta had actually found her sobbing outside the teahouse. Just thinking back to it made her feel pretty embarrassed, especially since after getting some sleep... well, things still seemed bad, but Y/N just kind of felt numb about them right now. It all didn't feel as intensely painful as last night.
But what was freaking her out right now was the fact that she'd have to explain everything to Shouta. Even if he didn't ask her about what was going on last night, he would want an explanation today. And Y/N did owe him one, even if he wasn't outright asking for one. And she had no idea what to tell him. She didn't even know exactly why she had been that sad last night.
It was a bit of everything, Y/N supposed. And right now she was too tired to piece everything together. Plus, she didn't want to do the same thing again - having a sobbing breakdown in front of Shouta. She felt embarrassed enough the first time it happened last night. But she was really glad that he had taken her in, because she wasn't sure whether she'd have made it home alive.
Y/N got up from the futon and stood up, looking down on herself. The yukata Shouta had given her was way too long on her, nevermind it being a men's yukata. She was still wearing his pullover on top of it, which meant she was warm and covered up properly, but there was no way she could work in those clothes. She'd just trip over the material and fall constantly. There was no point.
She'd have to take the day off and that meant that Shouta would be all alone today and Y/N felt pretty bad about that. Maybe she could see if her clothes were at least somewhat dry, so she could head home, get changed and work for the afternoon at least? But that would take incredibly long... and Y/N really wasn't sure whether she was up for it. She'd have to ask Shouta.
Why did she have to do this? Why couldn't she sit somewhere else to start crying like that? She just had to be at the teahouse where anyone could find her, didn't she? But then maybe she wanted to be found. Y/N didn't know. Why couldn't she just get herself together and stop being so damn sad all the time? She didn't even have much reason to be this depressed. Her life wasn't too bad, right?
Sure, she was about to become homeless, but she had a job. She was doing alright on her own. Sort of. She had been fired from her old job, but she had found a new one and she was enjoying it. And she'd find a place to stay at some point, right? Even though she only had a little bit of time left. Other people had it worse, right? Sure, there was also that thing, back when she was 16... but she didn't like thinking about it and she was over it. She was over it. It was in the past.
And she certainly wasn't going to talk about it. She knew she'd just feel bad again if she did. But Y/N really just wanted to know when she'd stop getting so randomly overwhelmed with things. And she really wanted to get her housing problem sorted. And she had no idea where to even start with that. At least it was pretty obvious that she should work on not becoming homeless first, but that was all she got so far. Maybe she should talk to Shouta about that.
