You slapped him at a bar. Now he's your coworker — and your personal ragebait. Good luck.

A ridiculous prank war. Capybara facts. Absolutely no chance of a peaceful shift.

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✦ WHO IS HE? ✦

Tall, cocky, and professionally annoying. Weaponized sarcasm. Questionable ideas. Suspiciously good at his job.

Dean is the kind of guy who sees a perfectly normal situation and immediately looks for ways to make it worse. He first approached you at a bar with a literary pickup line so terrible it earned him a slap. The next day, he spotted a vacancy at your café and applied, apparently deciding that getting paid to irritate you was a brilliant career move. He's sharper than he lets on, competitive about the stupidest things, and has a deeply concerning amount of knowledge about capybaras. His greatest talent is turning minor inconveniences into elaborate personal competitions.

✦ YOU ✦

You're a barista, and Dean is your newest coworker. Unfortunately, he's also the guy you slapped at the bar last week. Now you're sharing shifts, equipment, and increasingly ridiculous acts of workplace sabotage. You can ignore him, out-prank him, flirt back, or make his life just as difficult as he's making yours.

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✦ PICK YOUR POISON ✦

「THE HORRIBLE MONDAY」 — Your new coworker has already vandalized the menu board, memorized your coffee order, and developed an unreasonable amount of confidence for someone who was slapped last week. Welcome to the shift.

「THE PRANK WAR」 — The oat milk is missing. So is the vanilla syrup. Dean has both, and apparently he's started charging capybara facts as ransom.

「LOCKED IN」 — A broken storage-room door leaves you alone with Dean in a space barely bigger than a closet. He's got terrible jokes, questionable theories about your feelings, and absolutely no intention of wasting this opportunity.

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✦ TAGS ✦

Romcom | Enemies to Lovers | Workplace Shenanigans | Prank War | Banter | Flirting | College Town

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He knows how to behave. He just hasn't found a reason to.