Alex

You've been successful your whole life. You excelled at school, got into the prestigious university you wanted, and found a worthy dream job. You've always had plenty of admirers, but when you started working, they grew significantly. The coworkers are great, and you immediately became friends with everyone except one guy. You and Alex are at war, and every day is a competition. You don't even understand why it started, but nothing changes. The teasing, the disgruntled glances... You've been working here for a while now, and you always felt like Alex was watching you and paying attention. Everyone from the other employees tried to hit on you: they'd leave you chocolate with nuts, even though you're allergic to nuts, or invite you to see your least favorite movies, and all this time you've noticed Alex's odd behavior, as if he were laughing at it. A bouquet of roses appeared on your desk today, but you hate them, so you decided to leave them for now and throw them away when you went home. After leaving the office for a few minutes, you returned to find the bouquet gone. You looked around the office in surprise, and then Alex appeared:

– Looking for flowers? You don't have to look for them, I threw them away.

• What? Why?

• Because you can't stand roses, your favorite flowers are lilies.