Lifting his arm up to touch his chest making sure not to wake anyone. His fist clenched his chest as he could feel the pain rushing and pounding in his chest. Clenching his teeth, taking slow deep breaths glancing over as Lilian was still asleep. Listening to the house as it sounded quiet another alarm called out, quickly hitting snooze. Taking one more deep breath as he shifted in bed to his side, as Rain's body was soon pressed up against his back holding onto him. Her hair over one of her eyes as she was waking up. "Are you okay?" A soft voice came from behind him. "I'll be fine." he replied quietly as he laid on his side, slowly getting out of bed as the alarm was soon sounding out once more. "You sure, you're okay?" She asked as he hit snooze again, getting up to his feet and stood in the middle of the bedroom. Putting on his clothes, "I'll be fine." He said getting ready for work while stumbling around. Every so often his speech was mumbled and slower than normal. "I can't miss any more work." 'I can't miss work.. We need the money.'
Walking out of the bedroom heading towards the bathroom. The rest of the girls were waking up and conversing with each other in the living room. A few of the girls had noticed him, "Good morning, have a good day at work." He smiled weakly waving at them, before entering into the bathroom as one of the girls followed in behind him. "Hm?" He glanced behind him seeing Sarah holding a erasable board. "Did you need something Sarah?" He asked, Sarah shook her head and scooted past him to the toilet. "Ah, okay I'll only be in here for a minute." He said at the sink making himself ready for work. A erasable board was placed on the counter with writing on it. Glancing down at the board, 'Are you okay?' was written close together. "Yes, I'll be fine." He smiled weakly before feeling more pain in his chest.
'You sure?' He nodded after reading what she wrote, "Yes, I'll be fine. I just need to take my medicine. I'll be fine." Walking out of the bathroom heading to the kitchen as his work bag was laying on the counter. Reaching inside taking out a small container holding it in his paw for a moment, 'Take one lay down and relax.. five to ten minutes. not better go to hospital. I hate the hospital, come on.. We got to do this.' Opening up the container and looked inside some of the pills had been crushed as others were missing small pieces from them. 'Well that's not good.. Oh well.' reaching inside taking out a tiny pill that was almost fully intact. Placing it under his tongue before closing the container and placed it back into his bag as the pill fizzled under his tongue.
Walking back to the living room as he sat down in his chair and reclined back grabbing his phone from his pocket and calling his work. 'I hate calling in.. Why now? We need the money dammit.. but if we do go to the hospital. Maybe work will forgive us and not put this down as a call in. stupid of course they will its a business a company. There is no heart in a company they only want to make money.' sighing softly before breathing slowly. "I'm calling work.. So please, keep it down." There was silence after he spoke, glancing around at the girls covering their mouths as he rolled his eyes. "Smart asses." His call was answered, "HR, What can I do for you?"
A females voice came from the other side of the phone, which some of the girls scooted closer to listen in. 'Hey, this is employee number 21B. I might need to call in today, I'm currently having a heart attack. I just took my medicine so I'll have to wait till it works to know if I need to go to the hospital or not.' Was what he wanted to say, but what came out was. "Employee 21B.. calling in today.. I'm having heart attack." His words were long winded, having a hard time making the words come out right. There was silence in the living room and on the phone. "Hello? This is.. Employee" He was interrupted by the female voice on the other side. "What?.. WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME?! Call an ambulance!" Pulling the phone from his ear for a moment from the yelling, "I'm suppose to call anyway.."
"That's-that's... True, thank you for calling. Do you need me to call an ambulance? Is there anyone you want me to call?" Her voice was caught off guard and a bit nervous. "No, I took my medicine. If it doesn't work. I'll go to the hospital." His speech wasn't improving as he was taking his time to remember how to pronounce the words correctly. 'Am I having a stroke too? dammit! speak! we know how!' Thinking to himself listening to HR. "...Alright, take it easy, when you get off the phone focus on breathing.. You took your medicine, okay. Rest, relaxing and call me back before office hours close. so I know if you're coming in or not." Leaning back and resting his head on the cushion of the chair. "Will do.. Focusing wall painting" Taking his phone from his ear and looked at the time office hours was going to be ending in a hour. 'If I leave soon I can still make it into work and not get a strike against me.' "Okay, hanging up bye." He added reaching up and rubbing his chest slowly to try an focus on breathing "Bye. I hope you feel better." Ending the call and placed his phone on the arm of the chair.
The girls in the living room were all staring and surrounding his chair. Staring at them all, "What?" Parts of his body began to tingle, feeling numb. "I took my medicine, I'll be fine, girls.." He stared at them some had tears in their eyes and had to leave the room. He turned his focus on a painting on the wall as the girls stayed nearby every so often glancing at him, his phone to check the time. 'That should be enough time..' It had been twenty minutes, moving his fingers around closing his paw into a fist then back stretched out, slightly wiggling his toes to get his blood pumping. The numbness had died down and the chest pains were almost gone. 'If we leave now we can still make it in besides the chest pain is about gone.' Lifting his phone up and calling his work once more. It was answered quickly, "HR, What can I for you?"
"Hey this is employee number 21B, I'll be able to make it into work today." "Oh hey.. You sure? You don't need to go to the hospital?" "I'm sure" "Alright well see you at work then. take your time." "Will do."
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Moving his arm around a bit before sitting up, taking a deep breath. Standing up for a moment moving his arms to his side. "I'll be fine, just one more day. It'll be a day off."
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