Switching from Medication to Meditation.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Marcus groaned, as he reached accross to stop the alarm on the clock on the nightstand. After pushing some items onto the floor including his phone, he hits the alarm mid-beep, bringing back the quiet to the room. He then stretched his upper body before slowly swinging his feet off the bed and sitting on the edge.

As he rubbed his eyes with one hand and reached for his phone with the other, his hand landed on the empty place where he phone used to be. After looking around and finding it on the floor he quickly picked it up and checked it, and saw his coworker inviting him and Alexis to a yoga session.

Hearing footsteps behind him, he looks back and sees Alexis coming from the bathroom. He returns his attention to his phone before saying....

Hey, Jerome is inviting us to a yoga session next weekend. You wanna go?

She grabbed her phone off the nightstand stand and said...

Tsk, yogo who? I mean why? I'm not getting out of my bed and it ain't a workday, besides how many of those poses I've already done for you for the week already?

He sighed heavily then he shook his head,

I really don't know why I even bother. Well, I'm going to go, but question, when was the last time you did a yoga pose for me?

She looked up from her phone at him with a blank nonchalant expression on her face, he looked at her with a steady and "matter of fact" expression before she broke the gaze by returning her attention to her phone and him leaving the room. The silence and tension in that room was bursting at the seams.

He reached to the kitchen and texted his acceptance and rsvp to Jerome, Jerome enquired about Alexis and he responded that it'll only be him coming. Him shaking his head in frustration, then he saw the bottle of ashawagandha on top of the fridge and tossed it in the garbage.

Then he put the kettle with water to boil, then grabbed his phone and left the kitchen. As he reached the bathroom, he put on some soft instrumental music then got in the shower.

While showering he had these thoughts...

What am I doing here? I don't even know how much more of this I can take. Keith keeps telling me how lucly I am to have her, but is this what luck feels like?

I need medicine to get calm and remain and maintain the calm, her looks and body isn't enough. This can't be it, it just can't!

There must be a way out, I just need to find where, how and when. And if Keith dares to rwll me how "dumb/stupid/foolish" I am for letting her go, then he can have her, as a matter of fact, they can both have each other.

In the background he heard the shower running, the music stopped, and there was a faint voice sound. The voice stopped his mind, to hear the voice more clearly, it was Alexis. She was telling him that he's going to be late for work, he asked for the time and realized he's been in there for close to 30 mins.

After coming out the shower, he checked his phone to see the message from YouTube asking if he's still watching. He closed the app and shot a quick message to his supervisor.