The Office

The call from Joe's phone wakes him up from his slumber. The sunlight beaming through the window shines into his eyes officially awakening him up. The ring continues until he picks up, "Joe! You're late for work, what are you doing?!"

He checks the time to see that he's 2 hours late, "I'm on my way!" He makes his tea, does his morning routine then heads downstairs to start driving when he notices his front door done. He doesn't remember if he was too drunk from last night or if someone came to rob him. There's no glass on the floor either, as if someone cleaned it up. He's not sure if it was him, but who else could've done it. He walks through it and tries to enjoy the rest of the day.

When he makes it to work, everyone is sitting in the meeting room and Danny is lecturing about their` statistics. He quietly clocks in, puts his coat on his chair in his office then makes his way to the meeting room. He sits next to Jane and tells her, "Weird, my door is gone. I don't know how that happened." Jane says, "Well, you should cover it up, anyone could get into your house don't you think?? Tell Danny, I'm sure he'll understand if you're gone today." Danny hears the two talking and interrupts, "Joe? Jane? Everything alright?"

"I think Joe needs to take a day off. Apparently someone broke into his home."

"Well, nothing was taken from my home from what I know...except I did see my lamp broken on the floor."

"Oh my.. Yeah that's totally a problem. You should've told me earlier. I would've let you stay. Go ahead, I'll email you the information for today. No biggie." As he calmly smiles. As they all calmly smile at him.

S.