“I don’t… I just work here,” she whispered.
“Excuse me,” he said. His voice was quiet, like radio static. marks head bobbers serina
Serina felt the familiar tension in her cervical spine. The easy escape. Just bob. Just nod. Send him on his way. But the word mourning rattled in her chest. She thought of her drawings, locked in her phone. The wolves. The flowers. The words she never said. “I don’t… I just work here,” she whispered
Her only escape was the stockroom. A concrete box of stacked pallets and the industrial hum of the walk-in fridge. She’d take off her visor, lean against a tower of Percy Pig plushies, and pull out her phone. On the screen was her other life: SerinaDraws . A digital artist. Her world was filled with soft, melancholic women with flowers growing from their eyes and wolves sleeping in their ribcages. She had twelve followers. One of them was her mum. Serina felt the familiar tension in her cervical spine
“It is to me,” he said. “And you’re the only one who might understand. Because I see you, Serina. When you nod, you’re not agreeing. You’re mourning. Every bob is a little grave you dig for your own words.”
“I’m looking for something that’s out of stock.”