87: Worth loosing a job over.

KIKI.

To say I was shocked to see these two after all that happened would be an understatement, I was flabbergasted!

The same man I had trusted, the only boyfriend I had for years who had betrayed me by sleeping with the bestfriend I thought I had who turned out to be a shameless one?

Really?

Did I do something so bad to deserve these things that keep happening to me these days?

As I watched Claire and Julian strut into the office towards Giovanni and the other man, I couldn’t stop the different questions that kept running through my mind.

What were they doing here? How could they be here?

“You’re welcome to the Callisto brand, I’m Gaston Callisto and this is my younger brother, Giovanni Callisto. We both head this branch for now and we are happy to have you here.” The man that I had been in altercation with said and my jaw fell open.

Gaston Callisto? Elder brother? Younger brother? I had just spoken in such rude manner to the eldest son of the Callisto’s?

Oh my Gosh! Why did I have to include myself in the obvious sibling feud that was happening?

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Gaston Callisto… and Mr. Giovanni Callisto. It’s really an honor to be able to meet you both. Can we get to work now?” Claire said while I rolled my eyes in total contempt.

“Come closer and start your job, kiki.” Giovanni called out to me and I found myself scurring towards him in such clumsy manner and by the time, it was all set and they were all seated, I had gotten ready too with my ipad and pen in my hands.

“So, Gaston here had told me that you’re a fast rising star in the rap music industry and its amusing.” Giovanni started.

Julian threw me a quick glance before speaking, one that I returned with a fierce glare. “Uh… yes, I am.”

“Well, we’ll be glad to make you model our new ideas and I personally am very excited cos I look forward to.this collection. Simply put, you’ll be our new ambassador which your manager here must have briefed you on already.”

Manager? Claire was his manager? Clownery at its finest.

“Yes, she did. She also mentioned that I would be paid in advance?” He questioned, going straight to what was obviously his main interest.

“Uh.. pay in advance, partly, yes.” Giovanni agreed.

“No, I was told that I would be paid in full not partly.” Julian said, adamant.

“There’s absolutely no sane business who would want to take such risk with an artist who isn’t even B-list yet, Julian.” Giovanni threw at him in the most subtle way that got me snickering no matter how hard I tired not to let it out.

I let out that little choking laugh which succeeded in gaining each of their attentions towards me.

“I’m so sorry.” I quickly apologized as I went back to acting so focused on my ipad. Giovanni and the others seemed to immediately ignore me which I was grateful for but Claire was obviously not going to let it go that easily.

“What does she find funny? Does she take us as clowns here? What is such a person doing in this corporate organisation?” She said, with do much venom underlining her voice. It would be so obvious to even little kids.

“I’m sorry, miss.” I apologized as calmly as possible even when I was trying so hard not to pounce on her.

“Well, at least you’re genuinely sorry this time.” She said with a subtle hint that everyone obviously caught, one that Giovanni waaobviously not going to ignore.

“I apologize for my Personal assistant’s attitude, Miss Claire. But what do you mean by ‘this time.’ Do you know my PA?” He asked.

“Know her? She wishes that I do, I don’t pray to, let’s just forge ahead instead of discussing such unrelevant issues.”

Claire replied in a very demeaning tone that got on my nerves further but I decided not to give her that attention that she obviously wanted from me, I’ll be the bigger person and respect the corporate organisation we were in. She’s not even worth loosing a job over.

“So, like I said, I had this idea…” Giovanni started before he was abruptly interrupted by his brother. “Yea… I decided to start a gym luxurious wear and supplies for the brand and we need models and influences for this new section I’m starting. I’ve decided to use you as the face of this new introduction and I would like you to know that you might have to be half naked and look as appealing as possible to attract the females, I would also like you to know that your partner which is a female model to model the female wears will be Hanna Black, the famous actress. I believe your body will serve as a motivation to the public given the fact that you went from unfit to ripped.”

I gauged Giovanni’s expression and I could tell that he didn’t like how his brother had taken over the situation and understood him perfectly. This project was one he had spent days and nights on and there his elder brother was taking credit for it like he had even done anything at all.

“What do you mean unfit? I was never unfit? That’s bullying.” Julian said in his pure egoistic manner. It was obvious how high he kept acting just because when had become some sort of celebrity now.

“I’m sorry, my brother worded that wrongly, he didn’t mean it that way. Anyways, we’d like to know if you are down after reading through these files, Julian. It contains all the details about this deals and what might be expected of you in the process of it, things like…”

“Will I be doing things like kissing Hanna Black? Or even sexual poses?” Julian interrupted earning a glare and elbow nudge from Claire.

“Sexual poses, yes. Kisses, absolutely not. There’s no reason for that, we aren’t making a movie.” Giovanni respndedin a savage manner that told me that he was obviously getting tired of the childish interruptions that kept coming from Julian.

I couldn’t blame him, I don’t even understand why Julian would be the person of all people for this job. Can he even strike a simple pose? Really? I could already forsee the challenges that the director of the shoot was going to go through.

“Uhm… Mr. Giovanni, how about we go for now so we can go through all of this properly and then we’ll schedule another date for us to the the contract signing and finalization, huh?” Claire said, taking over the situation that was obviously getting awkward and tense.

“Oh, that will be splendid. We don’t mind at all.” Giovanni immediately agreed as he got on his feet, Gaston, Julian and Claire followed suit.

“Oh, alright. Thank you for considering us by the way.” Claire said as she held her hand out for a handshake that Gaston immediately took ahead of Giovanni.

“Oh, that’s fine. I always trust Fiorella’s judgement when it comes to things like this, she has eye for good things and I’m glad she recommended you to us.” He said.

Oh, of course, it’s Fiorella, who else if not my witch of a sister?