Why?

Eight

Raquel POV:

I don't remember getting out of the tub or putting a shirt on before climbing into bed last night, but that was how I woke up this morning. I wasn't sure what to do with my day now that I didn't have a job, I didn't want to sit around the house either but I wanted to take a few days to myself. Maybe I could talk Sergio into going to the game tonight with me, I wanted to watch Iris play his first game of the season but I knew that I wouldn't be aloud to go by myself. When I rolled over to see the man in question I noticed that he wasn't there, reaching over to feel his side the sheets were cold, I frowned at that. I had been sleeping in his room the last few nights and when I woke he was always there, I didn't like to wake up without him next to me. Just as I was about to get out of bed Sergio walks into the room, still in his sleep pants, with a tray of food.

"Hey sleeping beauty, did you sleep ok?"

"Yes, thank you for the bath last night although I don't even remember getting out or getting dressed. The last thing that I remember is you climbing in with me and holding me until I stopped crying."

"You were pretty out of it after that, it was like your mind just shut down on you. The water was cold and you started to shiver so I wrapped you up in a towel and placed you on the bed, when I got back from letting the water out and drying myself off you were already asleep. I didn't think that you would like to sleep in the towel so I just grabbed one of my shirts and put it on for you then covered you back up. I brought you some breakfast; Carmen said this was the best "bad day" after breakfast."

"Thank you again for taking care of me, you seem to be doing that a lot lately. I'll thank Carmen for breakfast when I go down there. Are you going to work today?"

"Nope, I'm going to take the day off and spend it with you, unless you want the day to yourself then I can go in. I don't want you to just relax, you've been working for years and you always take care of everyone, you need the time off. Iris said that you started working when you were 16 or so he thought."

"Yeah I didn't want to sit around the house all day while dad was at work so I got an after school job at the library in town. The pay wasn't much but it wasn't like I went out to parties or really did much shopping with it either. Dad got mad at me one time because I used my money to buy groceries so I could make a special dinner one night, he said that the dinner was great but that if I wanted to do something like that again just to tell him that I wanted money for food he said that I didn't need to spend my money on things like that."

"That's was nice of you anyway."

"Yeah, at first dad didn't want me to get a job said that I needed to worry about my school work first. I made a deal with him that if my grades started to fall then I would quit the job. I think I did better in school because when there were no customers I would use that time to study, the boss didn't care as long as the customers were taken care of. Plus with being at the library I could use anything that I needed for research when I had too."

"Wow that's great. I'm sure your dad was happy that your grades didn't slip then, you said that you guys were close."

"Yeah we were I miss him everyday, not that I don't miss my mom too but I wasn't as close to her as I was my dad."

"What did you have planed for the day?" He asked me while taking a big bit of food, I just rolled my eyes at him typical guy, shove food into there mouth while talking.

"Nothing really, I was just going to go to Iris's game tonight. I wanted to ask if you would like to go with me, I know that Liam will be there but I kind of wanted you to go also but if you have plans it's not that big of a deal."