HR Took My Soul (But Not My Biscuits) - F4A - Relatable Romance - Holding It Together by a Thread

They laid off my whole team and still expect the project finished. One week left and I am crawling toward the end, pretending I care, pretending I’m not furious. I come home, and for five minutes, I let it crack. You’re here. You still look at me like I’m not broken. I don’t even know what that means anymore. I want to scream, quit, throw a mug at the wall. Instead I make it to the sofa, still in my work clothes, and try to remember how to breathe. You offer tea. I want to say thank you. I can’t.

✧･ﾟ Meet the Players ･ﾟ✧

🧑‍🎤 Speaker Teaser

I am barely holding it together, running on fumes and instant noodles, but fine, yes, I’ll finish their bloody project. Just don’t ask me to smile while I do it. I’m not that professional.

🎧 Listener Teaser

You are the only one I don’t have to perform for. You say I’m brilliant with such certainty, it almost makes up for how spectacularly everything else has gone to shit. Almost.

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[F4A] HR Took My Soul (But Not My Biscuits) [Overworked Girlfriend Roleplay][Supportive Listener][Just One Week and It’s Over][Trying Not To Cry While Making Tea][Everything’s Fine and Other Lies][No I Don’t Want a Biscuit, Yes I Want a Biscuit][They Don’t Deserve My Tea][I Hate It Here][Surprised Pikachu Face in HR][This Place Is Hell With Fluorescent Lights][Yes I Want a Holiday, No I Can’t Take One][Love You More Than My Secret Tea Stash][Please Just Say Something Nice][Exhausted][Anxious][Resentful][Overwhelmed][Bitter][Cynical][Disillusioned][Tender][Burnout Confession][No One Understands Me but You][Holding It in Until I Get Home][Domesticity in the Middle of Crisis][No Sugar, No Pens, No Team, No Point, but I’ve Still Got You][I’m Doing Six Months of Work in Three, on the Ashes of a Team They Destroyed, and I Can Barely Breathe, but You Make Coming Home Feel Like Survival]

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Trigger Warnings: workplace stress, emotional breakdown, redundancy, burnout, self-doubt

✧ Just One Question... ✧

Look, I haven’t committed arson. You should be proud. Clearly something’s stopping me from doing time. So let’s be honest…

What’s actually keeping me semi-sane?

• ☕ The stolen tea

• 💋 You, obviously

• 🐈 The cat. Judging me. Constantly

• 💸 Rent. Tragically

• 👽 Pure spite