Another Day, Another Angst

Today Caspar went out with Cameo, returned to Bianca, left, came back alone and exhausted. He sat in his office with his eyes closed and as Simon walked in from the back for the fiftieth time I told him I was tempted to call up a few more clients to come visit Caspar today! Simon chuckled and suggested that perhaps an afternoon with Ladonna might perk him up which made us laugh until we realised an afternoon with Ladonna meant Gervais would no doubt be in tow.

It was at this exact moment like the ill wind the Dubois family is, Liselle breezed in immaculate and cool as always. She gave me a sharp look which I met with a very insolent look as I was not going to be intimidated by any Dubois ever again. She wandered in to Caspar's office unannounced in true Dubois style and left with a pale Caspar in shuffling behind her. I had no sympathy for him as he made his own bed but I did however enjoy telling the forty boods who called for him that he was out with Liselle as he could deal with that fallout when he got back.

Claudia came back from a setup and thought it might be fun to make sarcastic comments about Gervais following me out back, hoping no doubt to cause me misery. Claudia’s reign of terror ended for me once I realised that the only person who had influence with Caspar was Gervais and since I was openly at war with him I no longer felt afraid of anyone else. Interrupting Claudia’s endless barbs at my expense I asked her sweetly that I didn’t know what Gervais thought so why didn’t I phone him and tell him that she wanted to know. This shut her up while Simon and Tim grinned wickedly as they might have seen the joke in my life but I could not. All this came from me accepting a job a few months ago, an innocent job dusting furniture for Liselle Dubois and now here I was trying to stop her insane family from destroying the lives of all the people I loved.

I avoided Djini’s in case it had anyone I knew at all in there and found myself back Northside having a coffee alone. It was a bit of a relief not to worry about who might come around the corner to either plague or nag me as I thought about Jojo going on his circuit. No matter what I considered I could not work out a way to be able to be with Jojo and not have Gervais withdraw his support. I just wished I knew why Gervais was so intent on tormenting me as he was going to a lot of trouble to make my life a misery and it seems too big a payback for being rude to him while I worked for Liselle.

I was concentrating so hard and I must have been frowning because I jumped when a voice said that I looked as if Gervais had dared to annoy me and I looked up to see Simon smiling down at me. I replied that he was close as I was wondering why Gervais went to so much trouble to annoy me. Simon gave me another bemused smile and said “You really don’t know?” I narrowed my eyes and said that it was not that because I had made it clear I didn’t like him at all which made Simon shrug saying people like Gervais make it their business to get what they can’t have as they like to prove their superiority by obtaining it. I told him that I would sooner set him on fire than let him anywhere near me making him lean forward intently while he asked what deal I had made with Gervais.

The conversation made me go suddenly neurotic as I was afraid Gervais might have also enlisted Simon after our little incident. I denied there was any deal and he reminded me that I had shouted about it at work, for all the world to hear just in case Gervais had not. I knew I had to say something or else the gossip would never stop so I told him the deal was that I was to be miserable the rest of my life. Simon folded his arms and went all silent again while I sat there staring miserably into my coffee. Another day, another angst.

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