⋆. 𐙚 ˚ “When they think i'm not looking” .𖥔 ݁ ˖

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 🪽⁞ It happened one afternoon at work.

I tend to react slower than I should; a simple "hello" takes little more than two seconds to return because my mind is simply elsewhere: in the music, the work, things i must do... And since I know people don't talk to me much, I expect it even less.

I'd guess she's thirty years older than me. She walked by and said hello. You know there's always a certain amount of time that goes into a verbal response? When that time passes, the greeting feels awkward, so I kept quiet, feeling rather embarrassed.

She sits in the front row, and my headphones were low enough that I could hear, "It cracks me up when Sayori..." as she whispered and giggled with another man. They pointed at me.

Thirty years older.﹆

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