A Variety Of Truths

I spent today fielding another barrage of phone calls from the outlandish mind of Ladonna while Caspar avoided her like the plague. I asked him what to do with all her ideas and he just said to take them down and forward to his computer. That resulted in me spending my entire day talking to her on the phone for she would hang up and ring back ten minutes later with a different idea. Finally I suggested that she write down all her ideas as she had so many good ones and then decide which ones still appealed to her at the end of the day and this shut her up for a few hours.

Caspar took off for lunch with Cameo Larsen of all people and if the old boods knew that the people they thought were enemies were not such big enemies, it makes you wonder how much they manipulate the boods out of their money. After a long day of being left to cope with the maniacs who call and want Caspar I went home and lay on my bed exhausted but my stressful day was not yet over. My house phone rang and Mother called out it was for me, which was a bit odd as I usually only give my phone number out not the house phone as I leave that for mother and her boods to burn the wires. I went downstairs praying it was not Gervais with one of his little surprises for me and was completely zipped to find Jazz on the phone.

Now it’s not like Jazz is a stranger to me as we were best friends when younger, until I went to high school and got really stupid over Royce Vanderhaven. Then we sort of drifted apart until I caught her kissing Braith and that brought us a bit closer together but we still weren’t exactly chatty friends either. She must have got my number from personnel records because that’s what I gave Chantal. Jazz sort of fussed a bit and then said she would like to meet me maybe at Djini’s for a coffee but I didn’t go back into town after just coming back from it, as Jazz was rather vague and it was unusual for her to call me, I said yes. She seemed reluctant to discuss anything on the phone so I left it at that and grabbed my purse and ran out the door.

Mother tried to call me back in but once I said I was having coffee with Jazz she was all smiling and nodding. I drove back to Djini’s with a million questions going through my mind as I could not work out a single reason why Jazz would bother to talk to me now everyone knew about her engagement. I found her looking all pale and worried so my first thought was that she and Braith had broken up but then I remembered how he fussed with Taryn over her dinner so I gave that idea up quick. Jazz thanked me for coming down right away and I asked her what was so urgent she couldn’t tell me on the phone.

She turned her eyes, dark with worry towards me asking if I had seen Jojo lately and I replied I tried to avoid being anywhere that he was as his display with Lynx was disgusting. She gave me an odd look and said she didn’t understand why I was so angry at him and I shut up as it was too humiliating to reveal to his sister how I felt about him and waited for her to go on. She said that Lynx had dumped Jojo, done it in a text message on the phone and he had disappeared so she was frantic about finding him.

At first I was overjoyed that Lynx had dumped him but then my heart sank when Jazz said he had disappeared. I still didn’t want her to know I cared about him so I asked her why she was asking me about him as why would I know or care where he was. Jazz said because I was the only one that Jojo had ever had proper conversations with and she had hoped maybe he had called me or contacted me in some way when I told her he hadn’t, she looked so sad I wanted to hug her. She gave me this look and said she didn’t understand why women kept dumping Jojo and I asked her what she meant, Lynx was the only woman I had seen Jojo with then she nodded at me and said well, I had dumped him. This made me mad as hell, as I did not dumb him, I let her know that Jojo dumped me, he did it publicly with that soap whore and let everyone know how substandard I was. Her face got all red and she snapped that everyone in the world knew that Jojo was in love with me but I was too busy telling him how useless he was and rejecting him after he kissed me. So she knew about the kiss now I wonder what else Jojo had told her.

I explained that Jojo absconded at work every second leaving me to do everything, he dressed like he was a mental patient and he spent his life doing sports that were more suitable for a ten year old boy. I wanted him to grow up that was all and I did not leave him, I was in love with her stupid brother only he was too stupid to notice. The last bit I had shouted at her and the entire café stopped talking and stared at me. Now the entire town was going to know by morning and Gervais probably already heard it.

Jazz shook her head and said we were both too stubborn for our own good as she explained that Jojo kept absconding as he was about to sign a big contract that would give him his own business and he wanted no one to know until he had done it. But after I had dumped him he lost all interest in work and then Lynx got her claws into him. The topic of Lynx was a raw nerve to me, I told her that he looked like he enjoyed every second of it which made her sigh and say that it was mostly for my benefit, to punish me for leaving him. Before I knew it I had tears were running down my face and I told her that he had broken my heart, that I had never left him and I will never forgive him for what he did with Lynx, never! I could not sit through her blaming me for his stupid ideas and I left her with that and drove home crying. It was the crap end to a crap day.

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