Hello Chicago, Goodbye Road

"Joan....Jooooooooooooan" the voice called.
I had been listening to people search for me for an hour.  I could hear their voices but couldn't bring myself to respond.  I was distraught, earlier I had learned that our company was leaving Chicago and moving on to San Francisco.  The past month had flown by, I had never been this happy before but as it always is my happiness wasn't going to last.  I could see from my hiding spot in the wings of the stage a door that I knew would lead me to the alley behind the theater, grabbing my coat I went out into the cold, leaving the search to actually do it's job.