Day Off

Mila

I should have worked on Friday, but I took a personal day instead. The board had taken one look at me and granted me the time off.

I was exhausted. It wasn’t just lack of sleep or because I was overworked. My soul was tired.

So much had happened on my last shift and I wasn’t able to cope with it very well. I was emotionally drained.

The mother of three passing away, although she was nothing to me, had really knocked me hard. I couldn’t let go of it, and I found that I cried myself to sleep about it sometimes.

It didn’t help that my tears were already so close to the surface, thanks to Ben and what he’d done to me. It was his fault that everything else was suddenly impossible to deal with. I was always so strong, I could handle whatever came my way. Sure, sometimes it was hard. But that didn’t mean that I couldn’t do it.

Now, I felt like I was on the verge of breaking completely.

I had managed to get through work yesterday, but it had taken a toll on me. I had mulled over what Ben