A Disclosure by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2021-11-03T12:22:05+00:00

Ben and Emily are driving through the quiet, dark, south London streets. They desperately want each other. One wants to give. One wants to receive. Emily is accustomed to being wanted, Ben less so. But they both know that they need to negotiate some of their current lives, their time and energy, before they can be together in comfort. They need to figure each other out a little bit more. They are on the way to visit a homeless man who lives in a one-man tent situated on a patch of grassy, bushy wasteland behind a business park in south London. As Ben and Emily cruise along, the street lights cast ominous shadows around the interior of the very expensive Range Rover. That car is much more practical for her charity work than her favourite car, a BMW 5 Series saloon. Emily’s an unrepentant petrol head and her driving style reflects her core personality traits; she is confident, quick, and decisive. She’s a good driver but in Ben’s eyes she is a bit too good. There’s an edge to her style in the way she gives the road her one hundred per cent attention as if she is negotiating a tricky section of the racetracks of Monaco, Silverstone, or the Nürburgring. Ben doesn’t trust her one hundred per cent; there is a strange look in her eyes. She’s a little too focussed, too aware, too distant. Ben decides to try and break her concentration:

“Is this car one of yours?”

“No, it’s one of Tom’s,” said Emily with her eyes fixed on the road ahead.

“I figured you weren’t a Range Rover girl.” Emily smiles for him. “What else has he got?”

“A Bentley and a Jaguar. What have you got?”

“Just the one. It’s a Ford Focus.”

“What kind of Ford Focus?”

“I don’t know. I don’t give a toss about the boring details. I just wanted something that gets me from A to B.”

“That’s sacrilege!”

“Car-chat bores me to death.”

“But you can literally have as many great cars as you want.”

“I hardly use mine. I prefer using the Tube.”

“So you’re a billionaire with an off-peak Travelcard?”

“I wouldn’t go that far. I’m still fairly anonymous in public.”

“How are you enjoying being a fairly recent multi-billionaire?”

“I’m sort of bored.”

“What?”

“The French have got a good word for it. They call it ennui. It’s a kind of lethargy and frustration caused by boredom.”

“Ha! Poor you!”

“I know. I know I should be grateful to be in this position…but I’m not. I feel like a professional sportsman who has retired too soon. What do you do with yourself?”

“I plod along,” said Emily.

“That’s false modesty,” said Ben.

“I hate talking about myself. It’s so boring. I’d rather talk about you. You probably miss the cut-and-thrust of computer game creation.”

“I do.”

“You need a purpose in your life, and fast!”

“I’m working on it. Being around you helps. I can absorb your positive energy, your joie de vivre.”

“No pressure, then? Is it just a kind of love caused by your boredom?”

“I don’t count my chickens. I’m wise

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