Roads Less Travelled.

Prompt

Felecia sat on the sofa watching the TV screen flash through scenes of Kojak.  If she was asked she would not have been able to tell anyone what the episode was about.  The TV was company, something she needed, but the TV was not able to give her an answer and perhaps no-one could really give her an answer.

For the first time in her life she had to make a decision.  A decision to keep going to the job she had known for fifteen years or take the offered payout.  Felecia wanted the world to stay as it was, but even if she stayed at the job she knew the world was about to change.  Three of her workmates had said yes to the payout already and that was going to change the place, she would miss them.

Then there would be less work, the boss had said that was a guarantee, what he didn't say was that work might scale down to no work.  That's why her workmates had taken the money.  

She sighed, wondering if she had a choice?  "Take the payout," Bruce had said, when she phoned him to let him know what was happening.  So very simple for him, he didn't mind life on a less travelled road.  "It will be okay," he assured her. "The payout gives you a chance to look around and maybe do something different for a bit."  

She had wanted a longer conversation, but Bruce had a meeting and couldn't talk.  That was five hours ago, must be a long meeting she thought.

Her phone rang, it was Bruce, "Hi," she said.

"Felecia, take the payout, pack a bag, and be waiting for me to pick you up tomorrow afternoon.  I'm going on one of my tours and I'd like you to come with me."

Felecia was stunned, she hadn't expected that kind of offer, she wondered if it was the offer she wanted? Did she want to be with Bruce more than a changing unhappy workplace?  Seconds ticked, she crossed her fingers and decided to leap of her well travelled road "Okay," she said.  "I'd love to travel with you for a while."