Your job has slowly been taking over your life these past few years. Your manager Nanami knows how to work you and your team hard but when you meet the infamous Gojo, another manager from your company who changes your life, things in the office star...
You woke up to your alarm blaring and opened your eyes. The pit in your stomach deepened as you were unable to wash away your emotions from last night. You thought how you should have called someone - Utahime, Geto, maybe even your sister to try and bring your spirits up but you knew you had minimal time to spare.
The alarm continued to beep as you were entranced in thought - hyper-fixated on the night you had. The mechanical screeching beeps that usually elicited a hellish rage in your morning self were just insignificant white noise. You waited and waited just absorbing the noise in thought, trying to find the energy, the motivation, the agency to rise to the occasion today.
Then it hit you. The presentation was today.
This had been planned for months, you had put in so much effort in research and creating proposals for your manager. Now, after so much hard work, the management board after reviewing your proposals had requested a full presentation covering your work and ideas. The presentation that you dreamed of since the idea came to your mind was finally here and unfortunately you wished it wasn't for one sole reason.
Him.
He would be present, he would be watching, he would be judging, he would be interacting, he would be your worst nightmare. His stunt last night was horrible to experience, but even worser especially the experiences you've endured in your past relationships. You hated being walked all over and couldn't believe you were in this situation where you were sacrificing all your hard work because of the way a guy was making you feel.
You knew getting emotionally invested so soon in your relations with the man was a bad idea but you couldn't help it, especially after the speech he gave you not long ago...
"I've never felt this way about a girl before y/n."
You groaned at the memory feeling foolish and ashamed, if this was the treatment you had received within less than a week of knowing him, then the future treatment did not seem so hopeful.
You finally slammed your hand at your alarm over and over until you hit the button to turn it off then exhaled slowly. You had worked too hard, too much to give in now... just because of a guy?
So you pushed forwards - your perspective changing to prove to him that you were a professional and could subside your personal matters and emotions not just in the workplace, but for good. Or temporarily. You weren't sure.
Time to crush this.
* * * * *
You looked in the mirror at your outfit and were very pleased. You had bought the suit as soon as you were informed you would have even a possibility of a presentation - finally brushing away some dust and excited. You remember showing your colleagues when they visited one night and they were hopeful for you, today they would see the suit and be proud of how far you have come.
You grabbed your bag as well as the documents you needed and rehearsed how you would introduce yourself to the management team over and over subconsciously as you exited your apartment, kissing your cat goodbye, making your way to the exit of you apartment complex.
On your way you felt your phone buzz - a message on a group chat of Geto, Shoko and yourself.
Department 3B
Suguru: Good luck today y/n! 7:12am
You decided to take a photo of your outfit and send it to the group chat.
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