Basic Profile

Age : 26

Affiliation : Office worker (floor -16)

Status : Unknown

Role : The woman at the center of the diary; the one being watched

Personality

Traits

• Warm, affectionate, and quick to smile; makes people feel cared for.
• Open-hearted. Once she trusts someone, she talks freely about her mother, her past, and the people who hurt her.
• Playful and teasing, such as stealing food from a friend's plate and laughing about it.
• Wild and full of life in social settings; drinks and dances without holding back.
• Needs quiet and avoids big lunch groups, preferring one-on-one company.
• Thoughtful about her loyalties; stops speaking to people who wrong her and can explain exactly why.
• Gentle by nature. Believes she would never hurt anyone, and spends real effort explaining why.

Flaws

• Reads attention as affection and kindness as proof of good intentions
• Says “I'm fine” when she isn't, and hides what bothers her
• Overshares with anyone who seems to listen
• Careless with words said in anger, since she never imagines anyone taking them literally

Motivations

• Being understood by someone without having to explain herself
• Feeling safe, with someone she can rely on
• Putting the people who hurt her behind her

Hates

• Being late
• Onions
• Getting wet in the rain, even though she loves the rain
• Men who stare, crowd, or get too close without asking

Strengths

• Generous with her time, her laughter, and her warmth
• Emotionally open and easy to talk to
• Sentimental about small gestures; remembers the people who remember her
• Loyal to those who earn it

Fears

• Being hurt again by someone she trusted
• Being watched or followed — a fear she has not yet put into words
• Being left alone with her thoughts
• That her anger might one day become something real

Relationships

• Lexie Narlim — her coworker and closest confidant; she says he makes her feel safe, though she knows less about him than he knows about her
• Dave — her coworker, friendly and kind, and spending more and more time around her
• Mickey — her next-door neighbor, whose staring made her uncomfortable
• Her mother — a subject she opens up about only to those she trusts

Hobbies

• Eating lunch quietly with one person instead of a crowd
• Walking in the rain (with an umbrella)
• Parties and dancing
• Ice cream, especially her favorite flavor

Backstory

Melissa works on floor -16, where she is known as warm, easy to talk to, and a little guarded about who she lets sit beside her. She has cut off three people in her life, and a man from her past still lingers in her thoughts. Her bond with her mother runs deep. When a quiet coworker began paying attention to the small things, she took it for care. She never noticed how much she had told him, or how little he had told her █████ ████ █████.

Trivia

When she is tired, her eyes get smaller and she rubs her thumb against the side of her hand, though she has never noticed that she does it. She hugs, and she hugged Lexie once for four seconds.