Until You

Mindy

"Sandy, could you book this young lady?" I asked as Trish was in the back waxing another customer. We were very busy today. One customer after another and everything was running smoothly.

I tried to call Tony a few times but his phone when straight to voicemail. Hmm, that's odd. He couldn't be sleeping all day?

By the time it was time to close up, I tried one more time. Still no answer. And then I became worried. I raced home and ran to the door. "Tony!" I called, but no answer. I looked in the bedroom and there he was, fast asleep. I shook his good arm to wake him up. "Tony!"

"Hmmm." He replied as he started to open his eyes. "What time is it?" 

"Its 6 o clock, at night." I added. He looked around suddenly.

"What? I slept all day?" He blurted out.

"That's exactly what I wanted to know, you mean to tell me you slept from all the way this morning when I left?" He nodded his head.

"Looks like it." And he laughed. He thought this was funny!

"Look you can rest to heal, but you sleeping the whole day is not good." I went to hang up my jacket. "You won't be able to sleep tonight now." 

"Yea I will." He said. He was real short with me.

"You want anything to eat? I got your food already made in the fridge. A tuna salad sandwich on Rye." I went and grabbed it. I came back and he was starting to slump back again. "Tony!" He shot up in alert. I gave him the food and he ate it. But slowly.

"Are you sure you are alright? Why are you so tired? And I see you got your truck back." I said. He nodded.

"I had an Uber take me to get it." He said slowly. What the heck was wrong with him?

"You didn't drink today did you?" I asked. I needed to know these things if they were to happen. He definitely wasn't my Tony right now.

"Hell no." He smiled and kept chewing. I undressed and got into the shower and headed into bed with him. He was out by the time I reached the bed. This was odd! And frankly it was scaring me.

When the morning came he was still asleep and I went and knocked on Mikes door. He answered on the second knock. "Hey Mike, are you working today? Can you keep an eye on Tony, he had a bad fall the other day at work and they are keeping him home until he heals his arm?" Mike looked at me dumbfounded.

"No way! He broke his arm at work?" He asked and I nodded. 

"He slept all day yesterday and he just seemed out of it. I thought he was drinking but I didn't smell it." I added. He just stared at me.

"Really?" Something told me he knew something but I was too late for work to ask.

"Just please check on him for me please?" I begged.

"Sure no problem, I got the night shift, I'll check on him for you throughout the day." He answered.

"Oh thank you so much!" I ran to the car and headed to work. I was going to call Tony in an hour to check on him, if not I could call Mike.

The shop was open and we only had two customers so far. I ran in to put my things away. "Thank you for opening up!" I yelled to Trish. She smiled and got up.

"Um, there was someone here to see you." She grabbed my bag for me and locked it up with the others. "It's that same guy that came in before, Jake?" I froze. He did not come back to my job! 

"What did he want?" I asked.

"He was standing outside right when we were opening up and asked to speak with you. I told him you wouldn't be in until an hour and he said that he'd come back." Shit!