Those Mid-Life Blues by Caroline Campbell

Author:Caroline Campbell [Campbell, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eagle Eye Publishing
Published: 2017-05-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 7- Crisis

‘Mr Truman, there's a call for you. It’s Mr Manning. Do you wish to take the call, Mr Truman?’ Martin was engrossed in a pile of paperwork that lay scattered all over his desk.

‘Hmm, hmmm,’ Jackie coughed and then continued, ‘Do you wish to take the call Mr Truman?’

‘Sorry, did you say something?’

‘Mr Manning is on line one. Do you wish to take the call?’

‘Yes, I’ll take the call, thank you.’

‘I’m sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr Manning, putting you through now.’ Martin looked at her for a moment and thought to himself, if you smiled occasionally, Ms Bennett, you could be quite attractive.

‘Tony, buddy. How’s it going? Long-time no see but I’m so glad you called. I was going to phone, only I thought I’d give you some space. I didn’t want to push things.’

‘Martin, you don’t need to explain and you don’t need to be careful with what you say either. I won’t break, you know.’

Martin looked up at the wall clock. It was 1.15 pm, lunchtime.

‘Tony, I’m going to put you on hold for a moment. Just give me a sec. Urh, Jackie you can go for lunch now.’ Without any hesitation, she pulled out her handbag from underneath her desk. Out came the cheese and pickle sandwich, a bar of Milky Way, a can of diet coke, followed by a packet of cheese and onion crisps, an apple and a banana and a yoghurt.

Martin looked at her in absolute astonishment and wondered how on earth one person could eat all that food in one sitting and still look that slim.

‘Tony-’

‘I’m here.’

‘Yeah, how’s it going?’

‘I had my fifth session with Tara.’

‘Tara?’

‘Tara Johnson, Mark's friend, the counsellor, remember?’

‘Yeah ... Mark's friend, that’s right. Great, that’s great Tony, really good news, so how was it?’

‘It’s OK; I think it’s helping, although I still have my off days, as you know.’

‘That a boy Tony. Trust me, you’re on the road to recovery.’

‘So, what’s she like? Come on now Tony, give me figures.

34, 26, 36.’

‘The only figures I’ve been counting is the hourly rate.’

‘Yeah I bet, so buddy when are we all meeting up?’

‘Next weekend is good for me. Look, I’m sorry I’ve been out of sync the last couple of months. You know, not meeting up with you guys. Things have been difficult and I haven’t been the best company.’

‘Hey, what are friends for? I understand and besides it’ll be great to catch up.’

‘How’s Mark doing?’

‘Mark’s having a bad time.’

‘He is?’

‘Really! He had a one night stand with some girl called Beverley. It turns out the girl is some kind of fruitcake. What can I say, she’s stalking him or so he thinks.’

‘I’m sure something similar happened to him before with another girl. You might remember her? you know the one with the crooked eye, what was her name again? Monica, yeah it was Monica.’

‘It was Monica but she was into the whole bondage thing, that’s different.’

‘And I thought I was the only one with problems,’ sighed Tony.

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