Another Type of Jail

Today at work I did my best to keep Simon at bay but he was having none of it and went about his work cheerfully keeping a stream of steady conversation going each time he came out from the back. After the glare of Gervais last night nervous could not even begin to describe how I felt and Caspar must have had a scary phone call from Gervais because he spent the entire day wandering aimlessly about my desk as if he was too disturbed to let me out of his sight.

Every time Simon came in from the back Caspar would stare at him in horror while Simon walked by whistling unconcerned when Caspar was distracted by a phone call Simon instantly appeared beside my desk telling me we would leave at one for lunch and before I could open my mouth to say anything in reply he disappeared out the back. I know I wanted to annoy Gervais and I told Liselle I was going to do whatever I liked but I really didn’t want to involve Simon in this mess. He is a nice guy and having Gervais pissed at him would be a crap thing to do to him so I decided that at lunch I would explain to Simon that as much fun as he is I was not in a position to spend any more time with him.

Jazz interrupted the drama at work with a little gossip of her own as it seems that Jago Vanderhaven had come into Sedero’s for lunch with none other than Lynx Garcelle and she was all over Jago with him doing nothing to stop it. Chantal sat in the kitchen laughing and Jazz said she was so mortified that she hid out as she couldn’t call Braith to tell him and Tiah was out of the question for her to call so would I call Braith and warn him that Taryn was about to sprackle the roof off their house. I didn’t want to as I was getting a bit fed up with the Vanderhaven’s but because Jazz was my friend again so I said I would. I sat for a minute wondering what to say to Braith but nothing really came to mind.

How do you call someone and tell them “Oh, by the way your Dad is whoring around again.” I wished I had turned Jazz down cause I was not really up to doing this as I didn’t know how to talk to Braith anymore cause what he did to Jazz was so wrong I didn’t think I liked him anymore but Jazz still loves him, that much is obvious to anyone as here she is trying to protect him from his Dad’s idiocy. Out of friendship I dialed the Vanderhaven’s phone, got Taryn and she was not pleased that I had called the house and told me to ring Braith on his mobile phone then hung up. It was just like Taryn to be rude to the people she didn’t consider important and she often talked to Coco and me like this. It was one of the reason’s we never liked going up to visit Tiah if her mother was in as Tiah didn’t notice how her mother treated other people and sometimes acted so much like her it was ugly.

I called Jazz to get Braith’s number after complaining about Taryn and she told me that Taryn would call her ‘that Sedero’ right to her face and I considered it a miracle she had stuck it out with Braith so long. After a deep breath I called Braith and he was surprised to hear from me for we are not that close so when I told him that we thought he should know that Jago and Lynx were being public in Sedero’s he grabbed onto the we part and asked who we were. I tried to avoid it but he cornered me until I finally admitted that the we part was really Jazz warning him and the minute I mentioned her name his voice became all quiet and tight and I knew he still loves her. Even though it wasn’t any of my business I had to ask him why he was so stupid but all he told me was that there was no way to explain this and to please take care of Jazz. He sounded so sad when he hung up I wanted to ring Jazz to call him but I knew that was a dumb idea as neither of them was ready to talk, not just yet.

Caspar’s hovering around me was interrupted by Bianca swooping in and dragging him into his office as she wanted his company and was not about to take no for an answer. The minute his door closed Simon appeared and ushered me out the door for lunch and we drove Northside to a small restaurant I had never been to before with rustic tables set in a proper garden and I liked having flowers all around while we ate. I had a good time chatting to Simon and knew I was going to miss his company but there was nothing I could do for I was not going to expose him to Gervais and then there was also the vague hope I could get back with Jojo which meant I could not start flirting with other guys even if they were tall, handsome and nice.

As we had coffee I told Simon that lunch was wonderful but I couldn’t do it anymore but the only response I got was a cheeky grin, a part of him I had not seen before and I realised there was a lot more to Simon than I thought. He shook his head and said if it’s about Gervais then he had heard enough to understand that we made some sort of idiot deal and I foolishly was sticking to it. I told him that I was not going to get him mixed up in a war between Gervais and me which made him sigh and ask how did I get it into my head that Gervais was so dangerous, that there were people who could deal with the likes of him and not to put myself in a self imposed jail. I knew Simon thought he could deal with Gervais, everyone did until they got stung by him and wound up losing what they valued most. I really liked Simon, he was calm and friendly, really hot to look at and there was something comforting in just sitting beside him, Simon makes you feel like the world is a great place. I wasn’t about to let Gervais take that from him so I took a deep breath and told him that there was more, there was someone else. I could see Simon close up again, become that self-contained guy who didn’t talk to anyone. He gave me a careful look and said “Jojo?” I nodded and those were our last words that day.

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