Gemotions

The faint sound of clicking keys, a familiar noise, caught Leo’s attention. He entered the home office to find Sarah, his partner, engrossed in something on her laptop. He knew what it was. Sarah had shown nothing but derision for his love of the Japanese language. Now, there was a website open, filled with katakana.

He stood in the doorway, arms crossed. "Everything alright?" he asked, his voice carefully controlled.

Sarah flinched and quickly closed the laptop. “Just… working,” she said, her voice a little too high.

He nodded slowly. "You know," he said, his gaze fixed on the closed laptop, "I've been thinking. I might apply for that job in Tokyo. It pays well. You won’t need to work so hard." He let the implications hang in the air.