After Hours

Yumeko Kawamoto never planned on falling in love-especially not during her first month as a trainee in a BPO she was still learning to survive.

At twenty, she juggles graveyard shifts, aching pointe shoes, and the quiet pressure of proving herself at Aurora Tech Philippines-a place where calls never stop, sleep is borrowed, and dreams are postponed between log-ins. By day, she is a ballerina chasing discipline and grace.

Then there is Kira Timurov.

Twenty-four. Tall. Poised in the way only someone who has climbed the corporate ladder can be. An Engagement and Internal Communications Specialist who no longer takes calls-but still works the same hours, still walks the same halls, still feels untouchably distant. Kira notices Yumeko during a class visit she wasn't even supposed to attend. A rest day sacrificed. A glance held for half a second too long.

aka. the YumeKira workplace AU you never asked for.