To love and to be afraid

4

It's was currently 3:30 in the morning. I just came from work after sorting out all those stupid criminal records. The first thing I did was walk straight to the kitchen. I climbed on top of the counter to get some Oreos. I sat back down on the counter and pulled out my phone to check my notifications....dry.

I checked my business phone and seen that I got two notifications 1 missed call and a voicemail. I clicked on the voicemail and it played.

"Hi! This is Stacey I'm so sorry I didn't get to you. Please leave a message after the beep bye!" *beep

"Hey Stacey it's me ugh Daniel from the prison the other day... remember the guy that helped carry your box? Anyway I was hoping you were still down for some coffee tomorrow if not I understand..... Bye?"

I don't know what made me do it but I called back. It's three in the morning why couldn't I wait?!? The phone didn't even get a chance to ring and it got picked up.

"Hello?" I heard a sleepy Daniel on the phone.

"Hey Daniel it's Stacey."

"Stacey?"

"Yeah"

"At 3 in the morning Stacey really?!"I wanted to laugh at how strained out his voice was.

"I mean yeah... so I got your message. I can't get coffee tomorrow because I gotta work but maybe we can get lunch?"

I heard some muffling then he replied "yeah lunch sounds great any particular place?"

"Mmmm my tummy is telling me pizza so let's go to ray's"

"Ok 12:30 bye"

"Bye"After that I went into my bedroom to change into some pjs then went to sleep.
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3 hours later....
I woke up with the worst headache ever this tends to happen whenever I don't get enough rest. I got out of bed and quickly took a hot shower. I got dressed in some sweats a t-shirt and some crocks....don't judge me.

I had some extra clothes at work so it didn't matter what I wore.I brushed my teeth and barely fixed my hair. I went from my room to the kitchen and got a naked mango smoothie and out the door to work I went.
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I entered the department and went straight to me desk. Normally I would say hello to everyone, but I was too tired so if anyone tries to smile at me I'm ripping their head off. I sat down and made myself look busy.

Five minutes passed and I heard Mr.Gordon call my name. I looked up and saw him grinning at me. Too bad I can't rip his head off since he basically holds my whole career. He was standing awfully close to me.

"glad to see someone slept well " I mumbled.

"You ready?" He asked me. I stood up and walked past him to put some files up. Then  came back and grabbed my purse.

"yeah I'm ready" not bothering to smile I followed him to his car and we headed off.
Every now and then Mr.Gordon would look at me and laugh to himself making me more irritated. We went through a McDonald's drive through. I rolled my eyes because I just wanted to get this over with and the lunch with Daniel over with aswell I just want to go back to sleep.

"Hi welcome to McDonald's may I take your order?" The lady asked.

"I want 3 hot cakes and sausage, cinnamelts, five hash browns, and two small orange juices."Mr.Gordon looked back at me to see if I wanted something else. I ignored him and looked straight ahead.

"That'll be all" Mr.Gordon started the car up and drove to the next window.

He gave the lady his card and the she gave him our food. Mr.Gordon took off and took his hot cakes and sausage out with his two  hash browns out. He gave me the bag and I gladly took it and stuff as much food in my mouth.