From Bad to Worse

Today I gave Liselle my notice telling her that I did not feel there was any future for me in Antiquities. She looked up briefly from her Vogue, yawned and said “Yes of course." She went back to reading and I felt quite invisible unless she too was rescuing me from her brother’s interest but I would have to exist in her world for this.

The rest of the day Gervais expressed his sorrow at my leaving and kept asking me if they could do something to change my mind, he kept calling ideas out to Liselle who would reply with a very bored “If you want", making me feel even more alienated from these aliens than I was already feeling. They certainly are aliens this weird brother/sister act as they don’t appear to communicate in normal ways yet seem to know what each other are thinking, another creepy trait from a seriously creepy family.

Later that day I went over to see Tiah who had sent me a rescue me quick message as Taryn was going into overdrive for the Opener. People were delivering all sorts of things all day and Taryn would start shouting how it was all wrong, wrong, wrong, get on the phone to Caspar who would calm her down then she would send everything away. A few minutes later a whole new bunch of things would arrive, Taryn would sprackle all over again, ring Caspar who would then calm her down. Tiah felt as if her home had turned into some sort of display area where she was not allowed to tread but you would think by now she would be used to her mother’s excesses.

Royce came upstairs and talked to us for a bit which was really nice, or at least would have been had he not reminded me of my new job at Sedero’s which made Tiah go all black and white practically accusing me of working for the enemy, which is a bit weird since her brother was best friends with the enemy and had been his entire life!. Royce enjoyed telling me how much freak boy was looking forward to showing me the ropes and I told him if Jojo freak boy Sedero so much as glanced my way I would tell his mother! Royce laughed and said Jojo was a good guy he just didn’t like the family business. I told Royce that Jojo seriously needed therapy and I would even consider paying for it myself if it stopped him from pulling those stupid faces. Maybe he could let us do a make-over and get rid of those disgusting clothes, come to think of it even Royce doesn’t really dress that well, he is always wearing that silly skate gear. Take his older brother Braith for instance, now Braith has to work for the winery and he is always nicely dressed which doesn’t hide that he has a very hot bod, not as old as Caspar but not too old, so we can get fizzy over him, well until the Jazz thingy.

Coco called Tiah while I was there but I declined to converse and instead complained about Jojo to Royce until he asked me if I had a thing for him. I gave Royce the dirtiest look I could and told him I would rather date Gervais Dubois than go anywhere near Jojo Sedero. Royce didn’t believe me, saying I talked far too much about him to hate him and I even had a cute pet name for him so I said to him, since when is calling someone freak boy a pet name? I was getting really worried by now for if Royce thinks I have a thing for Jojo he won’t notice that I like him and maybe get tangled in the clutches of Elyce. This gave me just the reply I needed to get him off that track and I said I was about as attracted to Jojo as he was to Elyce Dubois.

Royce went a bit green and agreed he got the message for Elyce Dubois is like all the other Dubois, more beautiful than everyone else and so creepy your skin would crawl. She loves to be nasty for the sake of it for Elyce is the type to break a couple up just to do it, not because she wanted the guy or anything and even Royce who is no genius is wary of Elyce and her games. After we were dragged downstairs by Taryn who made us distinguish between taupe and beige, it’s always easier to just agree with her, I went home to find Mother completely triumphant and smug. She was thrilled I was working at Sedero’s as she felt Chantal would be a good role model for me and I was so tempted to point out that sure if she wanted me to marry a cheating sleaze then she was just the role model I needed. She continued how nice it was for me to be with my school friends but there would have been not point in telling her that Jazz and I never talk anymore and I want to dong Jojo with a heavy object, nothing was going to get through that fog of self congratulation. Instead I resigned myself to a job that has me going straight from the pan into the fire.

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