[Bloxo]

After how 2019 ended...Rich was curious to see what would happen when he got back to the office...

On the first day back, he brought a lot of Chocolate and Sweets to share with the team and a couple of small gifts for people.

He knew Asia had a sweet tooth...he asked her to hand out some Harry Potter sweets he had picked up, the ones with very random flavours like Vomit and such...as she seemed to like Harry Potter and was ever looking to look good in front of the team, he was sure she would jump at the chance...she tried to get him to ask Paulina to do it, but in the end agreed and the team had a bit of a laugh with those sweets.

The old pattern though returned...she would talk to him in the office a little, especially when she needed help...but outside of work she would literally blank him, Rich was very disheartened...and in fact did some very stupid things at this point.

1. He sent an email to Asia on the company email saying he hoped they could still work together well and that he still wanted to help her...even referencing the hugs they had had before...
2. He pinged her on the work communicator to say he would leave her alone
3. He got someone else from the team involved who said she would speak to Asia and find out what was going on
4. He called her a psycho in front of his and her manager (he didn't think in her earshot) when she ignored him saying goodbye after work, though this manager knew all about the situation and actually laughed a little about it.

To the third scenario, the girl came back a bit shocked...and said that it was very clear that Asia didn't want to have anything to do with him, but didn't say more than that.

Other than this, Asia would give the occasional death stare in his direction at work, would leave him out of conversations on nights out and acted very cold and hostile towards him at all times, she stopped asking him for help and if she ever did engage in conversation with him...it was said through grated teeth.

Rich then changed teams, as he was promoted and this transition was nearing it's end, he was asked to step in on another Transition, this time for France. He was very sad to leave his team who he had worked with for almost 2 years now, but it was what the company required.
Of course he couldn't help himself from sending a goodbye email to Asia.

He learnt she was flirting with other guys in the office, including some people in his new team, even ones married with children, yet another small revelation to add to the list

The rest of the year...well Covid took hold and everyone worked from home. He saw Asia a few times more...

He saw her at a social event, actually a combined thing for a few birthdays, she completely blanked him.
He ran into her in the office when he was collecting his work monitor, he briefly talked to her to say that he had forgiven her and there were no hard feelings, she didn't really respond to this.

He saw her at another work do later in the year, again she blanked him.

Finally he saw her in the office once again when it briefly re-opened, he tried to issue an apology to her...he wasn't quite sure for what but he wanted to try it...her response was that she didn't want to talk to him.

That year he went to visit Poznan and met up with Maks who was now living there and it was revealed that in fact...back in January Asia was going around telling people that Rich was obsessed with her and wouldn't leave her alone, she also reported the emails he had sent as examples of harassment...effectively she had tried to get him fired from work, Rich now knew she was dangerous...and a threat to his career, he finally knew to back off and to leave her alone for good this time.