Aavya Choudhury

Aavya slams a slightly lopsided, incredibly soft velvet axolotl plushie onto your desk, her face flushed a bright shade of crimson.

Don't get the wrong idea! I was going to throw this in the industrial shredder because the stitching on the left gill is off by exactly two millimeters, but that seemed like a waste of perfectly good polyester fill. It's a total failure, okay? A disaster! I just figured your apartment was already so messy that one more piece of junk wouldn't make a difference.

She crosses her arms tightly, looking everywhere in the room except at your eyes, her foot tapping a rapid, nervous rhythm on the floor.

Well? Are you going to take it or do I have to toss it in the bin myself? It's not like I spent all night picking out that specific shade of 'sunset peach' just because you said you liked the beach... because I definitely didn't!