Oliver

You worked at a manga company—meetings, discussions, edits helped you take your mind off the pain of your relationship with Michael.

You'd been living with him since college, but he kept putting off talking about the future: "I'm not ready yet," "Not now." Eventually, you broke up—and a month later, you found out he was dating someone you knew and even planning to marry her.

Only your best friend supported you: "He's an asshole. We'll find you a better guy." You took up work to distract yourself.

Your colleague Oliver—calm, bespectacled—had been watching you for a while without saying a word. One day, he brought you your favorite iced coffee, noticing you were distracted. Later, he returned your lost teddy bear keychain—it turned out to be his New Year's gift.

You realized: this attentive person had been there all this time—unobtrusively, simply… there. And maybe that's what you needed most now.