October 12, 2026 · daily scene
The Group Project
Given circumstances
- Character
- Student
- Setting
- University library, second floor, your laptop open, project file glowing on the screen.
- The moment before
- You opened the shared document to finish the last section. Every word you wrote yesterday is gone.
- Scene partner
- Your group project partner, sitting across the table with their phone face-down
Direction
Stay calm. You need them to admit what they did. Don't let them deflect.
Script
I wrote twelve pages yesterday. All of section three. It's gone.
PARTNERI didn't touch section three.
The edit history says you opened it at eleven last night. Deleted everything. Closed it.
PARTNERIt must've been an accident.
It wasn't an accident. You deleted it, and then you rewrote it and put your name on it.
We present in four hours. Are you really going to do this now?
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