Awkward. Torrent

"Dude, what's going on with you today?" Jake asked, eyeing Alex's frazzled state. "You look like you've been put through a blender."

You looked terrified. Your suit jacket was bunched up on one side. You looked like a child wearing a parent’s clothes. awkward. torrent

You had to know. It was a masochistic itch. You needed to see the exact moment your voice cracked when they asked about your greatest weakness, and you said, "perfectionism," but then tried to backpedal because you knew it was a cliché, resulting in a sentence that lasted forty-five seconds and ended with you whispering, "spiders." "Dude, what's going on with you today

"Clean this up, would you?" she asked, her voice a perfect blend of frustration and amusement. You looked like a child wearing a parent’s clothes

For one perfect, silent moment, the awkwardness was no longer his alone. It had become a shared deluge. And he laughed.

"Alex, for Pete's sake! Not again!"