Thrown to the Wolves

If I thought yesterday was bad being held hostage by Jojo and Chantal then I was greatly mistaken cause that was nothing to what happened today. Mother wakes me up in the morning and tells me that for some reason Liselle Dubois called up saying I had a job and no matter how much I tried explaining to Mother that I did not apply for a job she explained that when Liselle was at the Vanderhavens Tiah asked why she had not hired Coco, Liselle replied that she was looking for a different type of person, to which Tiah put forth my name—I guess I was still paying for my lapse with her.

Early this morning my very puzzled Mother took a strange phone call from a vague Liselle and after a few minutes of attempted conversation she came up with the idea that Liselle was expecting me to start work tomorrow. Mother believing I had initiated this job agreed and said she would pass on the message, of course I sprackled until the walls shook but Mother would not be moved, she said if I accepted employment I must honour it. Since Mother had never used the J word with me at all I could not understand why she was so pleased I had got a job on my own and I tried to explain that I had nothing to do with it, that Tiah was responsible but she just waved her arms and said something like “Even if I am not charmed by your choice of employer I am very proud that you have taken this step forward in your life.”

Step forward in my life-- had she lost her mind-- does she think working anywhere near that creepy Gervais is a step anywhere but into disaster? Nothing I said could register with her and Tiah instead of helping decided to play wounded victim when I rang her and complained. This is my worst nightmare for I cannot imagine anything more terrible than being in the same place as Gervais Dubois day after day; I would rather spend my time with Jojo freak boy Sedero. If I am not going to be with creepy Gervais then I will spend the day with the ice queen Liselle what a choice, they will probably find me frozen to a spot on the floor.

What do I know about antiques to me it just looks like a shop full of old furniture that smells funny and it is probably a front for hired killers. I can see the Dubois fortune coming from being assassins after all it is not like they are these friendly normal people. I was so cranky at Tiah that I hung up on her, the first time ever. I knew there was no use calling Coco and I briefly thought about calling Chantal and begging her for a job but then I would be stuck around Tony Sedero the biggest sleaze in town and his idiot monkey boy of a son.

I was completely stuck as Mother would not let me turn it down and there was no place else I could think of for immediate employment and then my day took turn for the worse, yes it got worse than this. Coco rings up totally fizzed with excitement as she had found herself a job so I ask her if it was in the boutique and she said sort of, so I ask her which boutique and she says it’s not so much a boutique as a shop selling lots of different stuff. So I say what kind of shop is this, then she tells me it is the Skate shop where Royce is always hanging out and I had never been so angry in my life. I mean she knew—she knew I liked Royce, if she had been any sort of decent friend she would have rang me up and told me about the job. I try telling her this but Coco is having none of it and she refuses to give me the job saying that there is no way she is going to go anywhere near Gervais. Today I found myself completely friendless and thrown to the wolves sometimes it’s not even safe for a girl to go to sleep.

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