Beep Beep Beep
The noise rips his head war like into a semi-lucent cloud like state.
His son sleeps beside him almost angelic no, different from the day he was born.
He kind of glows in his sleep, beautiful at rest, smiling because he can.
Ben wants to stay in this world and just sleep with his son.
While aimlessly calculating how many minutes until the alarm clock rips out a part his mind, a gloom surrounded him like early morning fog where the clouds hinted at rain or just cover for the day. The thought of going to his place of employment had drained him for has long has can remember. It always lurked at the back of his mind, like the alarm clock that once again pounded his already aching head.
Suddenly the kids were up and about and house was a whirl wind of activity. Books were loudly carried down the wooden stairs and his son came pounding down the steps three stairs at a time. The house shook with chaos but on this morning he loved the smell of his house, the faint smell of a fire lit the previous night to smell of mango in his daughters hair as she bounced down the her proclaiming her self ready to go to school. Her hair glistened from the underside as this morning's early light refracted the light brilliantly, touching his eye lids perfectly, butterfly like. The simple pleasures of home, he just wanted to enjoy them. He wanted to enjoy raising his children's without the burden of parent hood and raise them with the same vigor he attached to his first baseball game as a kid.
Be he sat at his desk, mindlessly cruising the Internet, the harrowing thought of the unscheduled 11:00 meeting on his calender just crushed his mind into useless pieces. Ben had been on sudden probation ,with the company he has been with the last ten years, as they have recently deemed his work not suitable. This unexpected blatantly bad review of his job performance set him wheeling emotionally. He could feel his heart racing and weight of the world on his shoulders, like no other time in his life.
His boss walked into the room with steely, efficient resolve. His starched white shirt commanded attention. His boss described a task that must be done. This is what is required of us. We all must take an on line ethics exam. His boss paced the room like he was too busy and detached for this meeting. He described taking the exam him self just minutes before. He said he had two computer session going and he had simply looked up the answers on one session and taken the test on the other session.
"So you are asking me to cheat on an ethics exam?.
He responded curtly "No I am asking you to be more efficient".
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