Is the Future Really Now!?

Mental Health Day

Date: July 19th. 

Time: 10:00 AM

I scramble out of bed thinking it's time for me to head to my shift, but then I realize I'm here at the space center already! I then realize I am 30 minutes late to my shift! I quickly wake up Damien to alert him that we are tardy. Damien just shuts his eyes and says "Hey, you should just rest up today y'know? Yesterday took a lot out of you. So just relax." I then looked at him shocked and then think to myself, does he know that we are late!? Or is he just playing a trick on me?

Our boss Ellery comes into my office and that is what sends me into a cold sweat. But instead of being angry, he says to me "You're so funny Sophocles. I heard all of the commotion coming from outside and I think you have forgotten that you have a mental health day! So go and take care of yourself. Just relax." I look at Ellery and sigh a sigh of relief. It is true. I had forgotten that Ellery had been kind enough to give me a day after remembering something traumatic so I could take a day to mentally prepare for future things that could happen while I work this job. 

I go down the hall to the lounge room to make myself a cup of morning coffee. Although, I already see Kyle there. Kyle then says to me, "Hey, have you forgotten that you are at a work facility? Not a psych ward for weirdos like you belong. So get yourself cleaned up and get to work." Hurt by this comment, I still manage to make a comeback. I get right back at him and tell him that I have a mental health day today. Ellery had given it to me to recover from yesterday's minior release.

Kyle is still super confused and he says "Mental health? Ha! How the hell can someone like you, a grown man, have mental health days! You just want an excuse to be lazy the entire day..It's not like you have any trauma at all!" With all of the words coming out of his mouth being completely untrue, I almost think about telling him about the whole minior death thing that happened when I was a child. But if I did that, that would cause me to tear up and would cause him to ridicule me even more, so after he says all that I just decide to keep to myself and get my cup of coffee.

I walk back to my office gripping the handle of my coffee mug so hard that it almost looks like I will break it if I put anymore pressure on it. I'm just sick of that damn man Kyle, commenting on everything that I do and making me seem like a tiny baby over a chronic phobia that I was unfortunately blessed with from the heavens above. So screw me for being different from the other people I guess... This isn't helping me at all. I thought today was supposed to be a day where I was going to take some time to feel better from yesterday's incident. If anything, it's just making matters worse on me. I arrive to my office and I look like I am on the verge of tears again.

Damien sees this, and he almost flips out. I almost drop my cup of coffee because I'm shaking so hard. Mainly because I am anguished and depressed. When Damien sees me shaking so hard, he takes the cup of coffee and sets it on my desk in case if I were to faint. He doesn't want me to spill piping hot coffee on me in case if I fall unconscious. (Like any civil person would) Damien asks me If I am okay. My skin is pale from shock, I am on the verge of tears, I look like I'm about to collapse any second. Does it look like I'm okay there Damien!? 

But then unfortunately, before I know it, the shock makes me fall to the ground. I faint. I didn't want it to happen like this but it's the way things had to be I guess. This was supposed to be a day where I could help recover from negative mental things, not make them worse. It's all because of Kyle. He thinks playing around with me like that and saying insensitive stuff to someone with a chronic phobia at his grown age is some kind of cruel joke when it's really not. 

Next thing I know, I wake up in my bed at home. What happened? Was I transported home by an ambulance? I finally have enough strength to stand but then I see Damien's car out of my apartment window. No. He couldn't have... Did Damien seriously drop me off at my house? I then hear something coming from the kitchen. If you guessed it was Damien making me some good gourmet meal for me after I woke up and to regain my strength, you were right.

He treats me as if we are boyfriend and boyfriend! I can't stop thinking like that! My face blushes at the thought of that actually being a thing... But then, when Damien sits down and hands me the plate of curry that he made for me, (It looked absolutely scrumptious I can't wait to eat it!) He goes quiet for a moment. Before I know it, he says something I never thought he would ever say, yet it was something I was waiting to hear for a long time.