person lines for this internet-popular ya writer who works at the antique store in town! some family (siblings or cousins, either works!), childhood neighbors in north hill, friends from north hs and nighthill university, a plethora of former coworkers from his job hopping days, the high school sweetheart who hasn't forgiven him for 'ghosting' them for a week (meanwhile he was abducted by aliens, or so he think), other exes or past flings of either gender, regulars at his mom's yoga studio, people who hate him for accidentally unleashing a curse on the town via a haunted antique, the spiritualist he's forced his boss to hire to come cleanse the store once a week since the aforementioned incident