Her Rules Ended Our Underground Love
Before we're transferred to the branch office, the headquarters holds a farewell party for everyone who's leaving.
When it's time to take the group photo, I quietly make my way toward my secret girlfriend, Claire Brooks, hoping to get a picture with her that we can look back on someday. But just as I'm about to take my place beside her, Claire frowns and hurries over to stand to the left of my close friend, Charles Lawson.
Seeing that, everyone else subtly shifts away from me, leaving me alone in the corner. I swallow my hurt and take the only spot left without saying a word.
After that, we don't speak to each other again for the rest of the party, all in the name of maintaining profes