Leto had slept poorly that night, Rada had her awake until past midnight because of the high volume of the TV, and when the home had finally fallen silent, she couldn't stop thinking about the fight she had had with Castor. Her boyfriend insisted on them going to live together, but Leto felt she wasn't ready still, that it was too precipitate. They had been dating for a year, already, but Leto needed her time and personal space. Castor didn't seem to understand and told her she didn't love him as much as he did. That hurt Leto's feelings, and kept her awake during most of the night.
When the alarm rang, she wanted to throw the clock through the window, she hated her job, but she needed the money. Maybe that day would be one of the rare ones when nothing actually happened, and when she would not suffer any stress. Of course, it was not. As soon as she crossed the door there were three of her coworkers waiting for her, requesting her things. Probably, the sentence she heard the most that day was "Leto, could you...". Everyone seemed to need something from her, and everything had to be done at that exact moment. At one point she hid in the bathroom, wanting to punch everybody. When she got out, everyone seemed to be staring at her. She walked back to her place, sure people were whispering about her. She could hear them telling each other how a bad colleague she was, and how they should fire her. At one point the whispers turned shouts, people didn't care she could hear them, they wanted her to hear. Fed up, she ran away, crying.
Her house was empty, when she arrived teary eyed, but that was probably because Rada hated her, as her coworkers did, and as Castor did. She had to hide away somewhere no one could find her, somewhere she could not hear the hate words. She wrote Rada a note telling her she was hiding away and to not look for her, and set for the forest looking for the most hidden cave she could find.
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