"15.... 16....17... 18..."
Sweating, with muscles contracting through each rep, a young dark skin male with short, cornrowed hair to the back, shirtless and paired with a red beach short's, was on a brown wooden floor continuously doing reps after reps of pushups. Working out all his pent-up frustrations and dissatisfactions by destroying his body.
"19... 20...21..."
Over and over again he pushed himself working through the flash backs of the events of his day at work, plaguing and traumatizing his very core of peace of mind and tranquility.
" You make her take you for a fool."
"You're the only one she does like this..."
"If a person sees the opportunity to use someone, they are going to use them..."
His body started to ache in pain and feeling sore from the more pushups he continued to do over and over, forcing his body to accept the pain and brutal punishment to his body.
"22...23...24..."
"I hired you for a reason and place and trained you in a leadership position for a reason. But instead of you taking one step forward you've taken 10 steps backwards."
"You are a supervisor, act like one."
"You allow the staff to talk to you any and any how as if they are your friends. That's why they treat you like shit."
" If you cannot perform in the way I hired you for, maybe I should really be considering of hiring a new supervisor. Cause I'm not getting what I am paying you for."
Trembling and fighting to resist the pain his body, mind, and even down to the very fabric and constitution of his soul, he pushed forward. Continuing to do more reps of push-ups over and over... pushing himself to the breaking point, or rather more like the crumbling point.
"25... 26..... 27..."
"Sir, run your shift. I should not be telling you how to get your shift under control when you have been trained how to do your job."
"What is it with you, we have given you the training, and the necessary tools to get yourself together and manage your role as a supervisor... So why is it you continuously going backwards.?"
"Listen to me, you've been here long enough. You should know how to handle your shift, your staff, and do your job... You're walking on extremely thin ice sir... Get your act together. Fast."
Moving slowly while gritting his teeth, shaking fiercely as he forces his body to push upwards... It felt as if every blood in his body was bowling into steam, his muscles cried out for mercy, and his bones were begging for release. It's as if he was trying to workout himself towards deaths door.
"28.....29.....30..."
Forcing through his 30th rep of pushups, he suddenly collapsed on his wooden floor, breathing heavily. Every cell in his body hurts, his heart was broken, and most of all his mind was being tortured...
" Why..... Why... Why do I feel so worthless.... Am I that pathetic and stupid?... Am I this flipping Weak of a person?... Or rather, Am I really even cut out to be a supervisor... A Leader... Am I really worthy? Am I cut out for this?. I need answers God... So please... answer..."
As I lay on my wooden floor on my back talking to myself, replaying continuous traumatic replays of events that has taken place at my place of employment over the duration of time I have been serving there... The only thing I wanted to do was cry, sadly, there was no tears left to be shed.
*Knock knock*
I tilted my gaze forward towards my wooden door, standing there was a short light brown complexion of a young female, long neck length wavey but soft brown hair with hazel eyes. She gazed at me with a warm yet soft smile.
" Is my boyfriend planning to workout himself to death...?"
"Something like that Lorelei..."
" Rough day again at work today?"
"Yeah, something like that.."
"Mmm, wanna talk about it?"
"Nah, I'll be fine, I just need to clear and get the events of today off my mind as well as the previous ones."
She chuckled softly as she leaned against the door softly watching me regain my breath the longer I lay there on the floor.
"Mm well, I have a better way of getting what you're trying to do while wreaking yourself, done."
"Oh, really now? What do you have in mind?"
She turned away from me and slowly started to walk away heading towards the directions of the bathroom.
"That's for me to know, and for you to come and find out."
I lay there speechless due to all the ideas she started to make flooding my mind from her very words as she disappeared from my line of sight. I then heard her called out for me.
" Well, are you coming or what? "
I gave out a soft chuckled as I slowly got up from off the floor, following her lead towards the bathroom.
" Yeah, I'm coming babe..."