At last ‘A life’
By Julie D Cole
Chapter 15 Lunch with Sis

All I could say was ‘What’s wrong…what’s happened?’ to which Julie put her hand on mine and said ‘Don’t worry it’s just something that happened this morning.’

I was at a loose end after I dropped you at work since mum decided I didn’t need to take her to town so I called in at the Health club for a coffee and to read the newspapers until the shops opened. Who should come in but Rachel Atkinson. Remember she used to fancy you at school but you were too shy to notice. I denied this of course.
‘Well she sat with me and then asked how you were. She smiled as she was saying it so I just said he’s OK thanks. Then she said ‘ Don’t you mean she’s OK.’ I was taken aback for a moment or too but then said ‘Pardon’.

Then she said she’d met Jessica Walker from your office on Sunday night after you left the pub and she was a bit drunk. She told her that you’d been on a Hen Night together and that she’d taken a fancy to you and had to stop someone from beating you up. She told Rachel that you were working for her and that she’d been persuaded to agree that you go to Birmingham with her and some friends. She thought you’d make a fool of yourself but you didn’t. Rachel says that she is jealous of Sally and she’s thinking of kicking her out of her apartment because of her relationship with you.

I was not surprised with some of the information but I felt concerned for Sally because she doesn’t need this hassle just now. I felt that Jessica was very two faced and was nice as pie one minute then Little Miss Nasty the next. I said ‘She’d be devastated and I can’t stand by and let this happen’. I don’t know what has poisoned Jessica that she could be so jealous and Sally is so nice that nobody can fall out with her.

Julie said that there was more because Jessica also said that you’d got a new gay boyfriend so Rachel should be relieved that you’d not responded to her attempts to attract you. She said that he had a crazy girlfriend who was a lesbian and that she’d had to give her a spanking for attacking you before the police arrested her. ‘Is all this true?

I said ‘ Of course it’s not true….well some of it is true.’ I didn’t like to hear that I was being talked about behind my back and asked Julie if this was common knowledge. She said she couldn’t see Rachel saying too much to people but then she wasn’t keeping it secret either. All I could say was ’Mmm…I think I’ll have to talk with Jessica to sort this out.’ Julie I can’t talk much now but I do know that James is bisexual and that his mum is worried about him so that’s part of the reason he asked me and Sally to stay with him and his friend next weekend’.

James had soon had his suspicions about all of us since we went to a gay club and he’d seen Sally and I dancing together and also thought that Jessica fancied me and that Liz and Lisa were together. I’d told him that I wasn’t a lesbian but he didn’t believe me so I’d kissed him and then he became exited. The trouble was I also became exited as we danced and then he touched me and smiled. ‘I swear that never said anything and he didn’t say anything to me either.’ We just separated and the the next thing I knew was the fracas started when the Wicked Witch through water at me.’

That’s why he waited for me and let his friends go risking getting into trouble with the police. He tried to explain that he had mixed feelings and that his former girlfriend had a high sex drive that he couldn’t handle. She liked to humiliate him in front of people to force him to be more aggressive but it made him more impotent. So he’d asked me if I was gay and if I was a transsexual. I’d told him didn’t think I was gay and that I had feelings for Sally as a woman but I wasn’t sure if this was sexual or not.

His brothers were giving him a hard time and he felt that he’d been attracted to me as a woman and not as a boy in a dress. He was sure that he was misunderstood and was glad to be rid of his girlfriend whose name is Becky. I’d said yes ‘Becky the Bovver Causer a nut case!!’ So he refers to as BB now if we talk about her.

By now it was almost 1-30pm so I had to rush back to work. I blew Jules a kiss and said sorry if I embarrassed her. She just laughed and said ‘Get lost Sis go do some deals!’.

It was a relief to be back in the office before Kate got back and I just sat down as she called me. She wanted me to prepare several sets of documents and take them to the Company lawyers for signature. I had to proof read the documents and eliminate any errors and check the financials and she was expecting no mistakes.

It took me 45 minutes and then I printed off the documents and took them to the 3rd floor to Ms Parkinson our legal officer. I just got back in time to greet Kate at the door with Mr Johnson and told her that she’d have the documents back in an hour. So Kate took Mr Johnson for a tour of the building.

I couldn’t see Peter Frampton or Katie and supposedly they’d gone ahead to another appointment. I didn’t miss him since he did make me feel awkward.

When I got back to my desk there was a message on my mobile phone.

Hi Gorgeous what you doing later? Please meet me on floor 3 at 4pm. I didn’t recognize the number.

To be continued…..