Chapter 10 And it only gets worse
After that shoulder incident things only seemed to get worse. Randy had suddenly changed into the boss from hell, actually I had dealt with hellish bosses before and so far he wasn't the worst but then again the other hellish bosses I had had, I wasn't in love with so thats what made it so bad. According to Randy everything I did was wrong, the worst part about that was, it wasn't wrong at all he just wanted to pick at my performance. He had me working sixteen hour days and four hour nights and he expected that to be done without a break. Seriously I took a five minute break so I could take a leak and he went nuts, shouting and screaming as though he had just found out I was de-frauding his company. Which I wasn't. Then there was my new dress code, I came to work wearing a singlet because it was summer and I was hot, well apparently I was dressed like a whore, so now he had me in winter gear. The office was as hot as hell and I was sweatin buckets, more than once I fainted from the heat and then he started on that like I was lazy and I never did any work. It was like he wanted me to quit so he wouldn't have to fire me. I wouldn't quit, I was many things but I was no quitter, if he wanted me gone then he would just have to grow some balls and fire me. The absolute worst thing about this was the fact that everyone in the company had noticed, of course they wouldn't say nothing but I heard them talking behind their hands. I don't know what was worse actually, Phil's physical abuse, or Randy's emotional abuse. Probably fifty-fifty. I kept on with work trying to ignore the pain in my bladder, I tried to block it out so his royal highness wouldn't scream at me again. Just to make things a little worse I started getting dizzy and a copper taste in my mouth.
"Raven!" Randy screamed at me, please don't make me get up. Too late, I got up and instantly fell down. I think I managed to get up again, I was having fainting spells so much it had became normal, they left me there until I was alright. "Raven!" He screamed again, that vein in his neck probably ready to explode. I managed to get up and with wobbly legs I made it to his office.
"Yes boss" I managed to get out, I tried to focus my eyes but it was hard, all I could see was white dots and everything just kept spinin,
"Are you alright?" Even that sounded cold and like he didn't care.
"Yes" Then I fainted, I think on the way down I hit my head on something because all I felt was blinding pain, in my skull and bladder.
When I opened my eyes again I was in hospital, a nurse next to me taking my Ob's. "Please tell me I'm dead"
"You're going to be alright as long as you start taking care of yourself" She looked at me like I was naughty child. "You have a really bad bladder infection and your over working your lungs from heat exhaustion."
So thats what was wrong with me, I just kept wondering what Randy was going to say.
"And to top it all off you cracked your head open, luckily we managed to stitch it up without any harm"
"Is she alright nurse?" Randy asked from the doorway, the look on his face was un-readable. I hoped that maybe he could see that me in hospital was his doing, if he wasn't so pissed with what I wore or when I used the bathroom I wouldn't be in hospital. I love the man but we all know where the blaming finger should be pointed.
"She'll be fine as long as she starts taking care of herself properly. I'll leave you two to talk"
Please don't leave me with him, it went from loving every hour with him to despising it. Maybe for the first time ever I should just quit, because if I didn't it just might kill me.
"How do you feel?" He asked me tightly, not looking at me. I guess he knew he was to blame as well.
"A little sore but alright other wise"
"Well you'll be discharged soon and after you've picked up your script, I want you back at work" He said coldly before just walking out on me. I let out a sigh before shuffling out of bed and looking for my stuff. Knowing the new Randy, I didn't have very long to get back to work.
"Where you off too?"
I looked up to my sister, surprised that she was even called due to Randy turning into a major fuck-head. "Hey Iziah, I'd love to chat but apparently I gotta go back to work"
"But you're sick"
I just shrugged "I gotta do what he tells me"
Iziah grabbed me and made me look at her "Whats he doing to you Raven, you're all drawn in around the face. You look like you're about to drop dead."
I barely managed to fight out of her grip, she was right working for this new Randy was slowly taking who I was. The most saddening thing was I actually needed this job, no scratch that, the saddest thing was I still loved him.