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Mike Ross is not okay.
He works too much, sleeps too little, and keeps moving because stopping means thinking, and thinking means feeling. Eventually, the noise gets louder, so he finds other ways to cope.
Through it all, Mike is very good at pretending he's fine. At becoming whatever the people around him need him to be.
Until he isn't.
Until he becomes a liability. Something people will eventually get tired of dealing with. Something small and insignificant that will get crushed sooner or later—by the lies, the mistakes, by everything he's done and didn't do.
And Mike thinks that's what he deserves.
But there's one person he still wants to believe won't give up on him. One person he wants to notice all the things Mike desperately wants him to ignore.
Because, deep down, Mike doesn't want to end up broken and useless, like a bug on the ground. Bugs, who crawl into places they aren't supposed to be, who get underfoot, who get in the way—who keep showing up where nobody wants them.
And Mike has always been a little like that.
He just doesn't know how to stop. And he's never been particularly good at asking for help.