With a frustrated groan, he threw the jacket on his bed. He loosened his tie, unbuttoned the top button, and let the airflow in. His brow tightened further as he remembered his day. The small mistake of an extra "0" cost his company the project. The loss is drastic and kills any chance of his promotion. No supervisor is dumb enough to promote a clumsy, useless, and idiotic guy like him. Adulting turned out to be a lot harder than he believed it to be. He is 21 and still lives in the room he shared with his sisters. They are doing far better than he can ever do. It's not a surprise either, as they are intelligent and beautiful beyond comparison. As his mind falls into the comfort of silence, he lies on the floor. He doesn't deserve the comfort of his soft bed after achieving nothing. The cold ground suited him after his mistake. This room looked like a teenage girl's room: a pink fan with a floral design, the glow-in-the-dark fairy painting on the wall, and strawberry-scented bedsheets. He closes his eyes tightly, wanting to escape from this room and this life. As time passed, he accepted his fate and looked at the ceiling. The pink floral fan revolved like any other day. It worked in the same cranky manner as the day he won that sports competition or when he and his sisters played pretend business. Those were such simple days, filled with fun and no worries. He wanted those days again instead of these stressful ones. These days, without the joy of silly things, gave no motivation. As he sat up, his hands moved on muscle memory and traced the lines on the wall. His sisters wrote a quote for themselves and him: "My happiness is my own responsibility." Following the words, he decides to do something very silly: chant a random concoction of words, "click-clack, clackety-clack, tic-tack, tockey-tack..." As he proceeded with this absurd method, his lips lifted unknowingly. He got up with a smile and an unknown excitement in him. He looks at his pink floral fan and believes in it. The belief that everything will be fine, like his old pink fan.
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