“So… much…. Paperwork!” A young man complained as he pulled files and folders from his car and set them on his hood. Running his hand through his messy black hair, his caramel eyes squinted down at the sun reflecting on the black hood, as if to make all the papers all the more displeasing to look at. [i]Gray we need you to do this, Gray give your input on that, read over these and sign them, Gray blah blah blah.[/i] The young man’s life had turned into an insane rat race ever sense he joined his father’s company.

Gray Yin is the son of a famous software engineer and recently graduated from Harvard University with his PHD in software engineering ready to take over his father’s business. While he would much rather be working on his own things, as the up-and-coming CEO of the company when his father retires in the fall he had been charged with a lot of different things he was now required to look at. 

Why do you live in such a rundown apartment building? People would ask him whenever they would come over to visit. Well, I haven’t found a house yet and no one would ever guess I’d have so many electronics inside. Was always his reasoning and it wasn’t far from the truth. He was just waiting for the right house to come on the market, or until he decided what plot of land he wanted to purchase so he could build his own. As he thought about his so called ‘friends’ he really missed Monica, his friend from high school, she was always a lot more level-headed than he was and also seemed to have his best interests at heart. He missed her a lot and couldn’t help but wonder what happened to her after all this time. He even still had some of their childhood photos hanging up on the wall. But that was a thought for another time.

Stacking his folders and papers onto a box of yet more papers and documents to look over, he struggled to get it into his arms and it blocked most of his line of sight. Quickly he hurried into the building before hearing the elevator. “Wait!” He called out in desperation as he hurried towards the elevator. Sticking his foot in, he saw walls retract and he nearly tumbled inside. “Phew!” Relief filled him as he didn’t have to wait for the elevator to take the stairs with all this stuff. “Can… can you hit the top floor button for me please?” He asked the individual blocked by all the boxes and papers. Please, please let this person be nice!