•Familia•

Chapter 44: Anxiety

Roni POV
The building is finally ready! Our store looks beautiful. It's everything we've ever wanted it to be an more. It's like a dream. As much as I would like to express my admiration for the new store, I can't. I don't have time. Nessa and I both have our backs against the wall with work. It's so much of it that it's insane. We have to stick the whole store, make sure all the packages get here, hire people, work on exposure, make sure everyone is background checked, cover all insurance, and overall just get ready for opening. It's a mouthful to say, let alone do, but I believe in us.

Our main focus is hiring. If we can hire people and get them on pay roll, we can do things ten times faster. Of course Nessa and I would love to be at the store helping customers ourselves, but we can't. We have busy schedules and family outside of this. We don't want to just tend to our family that can shop at our store and not our nationwide ones. After all, without them we wouldn't be here and able to even open a store. We have to stay on top of the grind for those fans.

Nessa hasn't been feeling so well lately. This second pregnancy has really had a toll on her. I want her to rest because she needs to be healthy along with her baby. Plus she deserves it. I know she must've really tired. It is a little difficult without her sometimes. The other day I had to do her portion of work and mine to, but it's worth it. It want her to be happy and healthy and have a safe pregnancy.

"Ok, lets get this show on the road" I say as I sort out some papers. My first person comes in.

"Hi, you must be Lisa. I'm Roni" I say and shake her hand.

"This place is beautiful" She looks around.

"I know, I love it" I say. We continue with the interview. When she leaves the next person comes in. I get done with their interview and another person comes in. Person after person after person. They flock in all wanting an interview. This is going to be hard for me because I'm very indecisive and I don't want to make people feel bad. I don't know how I'm going to tell some of them that they didn't get the job, it's not in my nature.

I'm almost through the last five interviews. It was tough and it took over 8 hours to get all thirty interviews. I had fifteen minutes minutes with each of them. I wish I had of split up the time but I thought it would be easier to get it over with all at once. Boy was I wrong. It took way to long.

I'm finally done. I pack up my stuff and the evaluation forms and leave. It's only four o'clock but I'm so tired. When I get home I just wanna collapse and take a nap.

"How was it?" Aaron asks when I walk through the door.

"Long. I thought that it would be better if I got it all done at once, but I didn't have any help so it didn't work out that way." I sigh.

"I'm sorry you had a rough day" He says.

"It's ok" I sigh again. I pick up some things to feed Vi and Vinny.

"What are you doing?" Aaron asks me.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" I say "I'm going to feed the kids"

"Don't worry about that. I already did that. They're upstairs sleeping. I knew you were going to be a little tired, so I just did it before"

"Thank you" I tell him and give him a kiss. I change into some comfortable clothes and lay down to take a nap. I can't go to sleep because I have a horrible headache. I wonder what it's from. I think about it and realize I haven't eaten all day. I groan and get out of the bed.

"Back so soon?" Aaron says

"I have a headache because I haven't eaten and I can't take medicine on an empty stomach" I say.

"There's some pizza rolls if you want them. By the time you wake up dinner will be ready, we're having tacos." I don't know what I would do without Aaron. Dinner would definitely not be ready if he wasn't her because Kian, Nessa, and Alex never cook and I way to tired. We postmates to much so that wouldn't be an option.

I stuff my mouth with some pizza rolls and drink water with some advil. I'm finally able to lay down and go to sleep. I tops and turn because of all the stress I'm under. I don't know how I'm going to get through all of this. I have so much to do. When I wake up I feel like crying. When I get a text from our manger that lets us know that they need two more designs for our opening collection the tears start flowing. I just feel my anxiety getting worse.

"Hey, Hey, Hey, what's wrong?" Aaron says and rubs my back. He came to tell me that dinner was ready. I give him the run down of my anxiety. I'm melted in his arms. He rocks me back and forth. It calms me down a little.

"I'll give you all the help you need. When ever you feel overwhelmed just let me know. I'll always be there for you. You never burden me, and you never will. You don't have to worry about that." He says. It makes me feel ten times better. I just need some help, any help I can get will work. With Aaron's help I don't have to worry about burdening Nessa and I definitely don't feel like I'm burdening him. It's a win win and business will keep going smoothly. I sigh. I feel better. I won't lose the battle to anxiety.