Today was the day that I was going to face up to the train wreck that was now my career. The fact that it was a bank holiday, rather than a regular office day made the thought of my emails ever so slightly less daunting. Not that it would make a difference to Victoria herself. Being American, Victoria probably didn't care about the fact that it was a bank holiday to commemorate VE day. She may actually even be locked down in America for all I knew. I doubted that Olivia or Antonio would be working from home today though, and this made me feel a bit less jumpy. Once I'd faced what Victoria had to say in her email, I'd have time to digest it, knowing that I shouldn't expect any more contact from those two until Monday.
I employed all the usual avoidance tactics during the course of the morning and promised myself that I would log on before lunch. Unfortunately, as it turned out, the decision was taken away from me. I emerged from the bathroom after taking a shower, to be greeted by John; face like thunder, my phone in hand. "Antonio just called," he informed me. " I didn't think you'd mind me answering. He was worried as you hadn't replied to his messages. Said he was concerned that you might still be upset after your outburst on Monday morning."
"Oh."
"Is that all you can say, Daisy? Monday morning? It's Friday. You haven't said a word to me about it."
"Sorry."
"This is starting to become a bit of a habit, isn't it? Hiding things from me!"
"I felt bad. There's a small chance that I might have ….. lost my job. I felt like I'd let you down so I was putting it off until....."
"Lost your job? Surely it couldn't have been that bad."
"Trust me, John. I totally lost my shit with Olivia and at some point during my outburst, as Antonio calls it, Victoria joined the meeting. God only knows how much she heard!"
"So much for knowing how to handle Olivia with a bit of bullshit."
"Yeah. I lost the plot."
"Christ, Daisy! You made me look like a right idiot in front of Antonio. It was obvious that I didn't have a clue what he was on about."
"Sorry."
"When will you learn, Daisy? All that stuff with Cleo and Callum, the money that you lent to Rosie, now this! Well you know what you have to do, don't you?"
"Find a new job?"
"Are you kidding? Where would you find a job in the present climate? Unemployment's gonna be through the roof when all this is over. No Daisy. You're gonna have to try to save the job you've got. Call Antonio, apologise to Olivia and Victoria …. whatever."
"Ok. Ok. Let me fix lunch, then I'll ….."
"Now, Daisy."
John pretty much escorted me to the kitchen and made me a coffee while I logged on. He didn't exactly breathe down my neck as I was opening my email, but I felt his presence nearby and his eyes boring into my skull. I took a large swig of coffee and clicked on the email from Victoria. The contents of the email caused the contents of my mouth, to splatter over the keyboard.
"Shit! That bad?" John said, edging towards me.
"You're not gonna believe this!"
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