"The Pretender" Tries To Work

He could not be friends with anyone, especially superiors. He was much too arrogant to like somebody that was his boss. He was so afraid to disappoint or fail them. He lay in bed in the morning dreading failure. His stomach ached with failure. He wanted to medicate the pain; he wanted to pacify his mind; he wanted to run to keep from hiding. He wanted.

And that was it. He wanted. He tried to deny wants for so long. He had learned expecting little rarely disappointed. It was the way he lived his life. He scratched his head. He rubbed his face. He decided to let it go, but he could not. He could only pretend.