4. Thursday.
William awoke slightly later than normal. He had slept the entire night on the couch. The moment he awoke, his first thought was to put his new books in the bookcase. He picked them up - one had fallen to the floor during the night, the other which he had been reading was still open on his chest. When he stood up, the paper fell to the floor. He picked it up and gave it another look. That and a dull soreness in his hip from the trip to the sidewalk was enough evidence for William that his encounter with Angelica wasn't just a dream. The only thing that really bothered William is that the evidence didn't give him any other answers about the encounter.
William went to work on this Thursday. He wasn't really there, but he showed up. His day's work showed his distraction. Late in the afternoon, he was called to the office of Marcy, his supervisor. She didn't call him in to berate him about his work - she called him in to ask if he was feeling all right. She said she had noticed him trundling around the office all day, and wondered if he was coming down with something.
William tried to assure her that he was okay. Marcy suggested that if he felt this way tomorrow, to go ahead and take a day off. In two years with the company, William had never called in sick. She said that they would try to muddle through somehow without his otherwise perfect reports - and that the level of his work more than made up for missing one day. William thanked Marcy, but refused the offer...and told her that he would be okay by Friday.
William finished the day and went home, curious as to his performance at work. Could the thing with Angelica be affecting him that much? He decided to search out comedy programs on the TV to try and lighten his mood. He went to bed earlier than usual that night, to try and catch up on good sleep - and to further boost his body's defenses against the continuing uneasiness that was in the back of his mind, and was starting to affect him on a physical level. He went to sleep figuring that if he didn't feel better tomorrow, he would give his doctor a call.