Lola pushed the door to the boardroom open and stepped in. Some seats were still unoccupied as the members of the disciplinary team were not yet complete, but the members present in the room looked up at her with displeasure written on their faces. Corey’s eyes met hers and he signaled for Lola to come sit next to him which she did. The wall clock struck 12:00 pm and three more members walked in to occupy the remaining seats leaving only one empty seat at the end of the table.All together in the room, apart from Lola and Corey, there were ten Disciplinary team members present.“Miss Lola Coker?.” Mr. Darwin, the head of the disciplinary team called out.“Here I am.” Lola’s calm voice said.“Good. As I have been briefed, yesterday morning during an audition, a drug fell out from your bag and you were found guilty of having marijuana in your possession. The police were invited and you were given a warning since it was your first offense. Is this true?.” Mr. Darwin asked.All eyes fell
The bar was dimly lit and only a handful of customers remained.A slow song played as the girl sitting at a table by a corner of the room stared at the empty glasses in front of her and pouted.The bartender walked over with another shot of martini. He placed it gently on the surface of the table with a shake of his head. He had to attend to a lot of customers in a condition such as hers every week. The lot of them were ladies and they all had the same thing in common, they were all trying to get drunk to get over something or someone and he wondered what it was with her. Lola picked up the drink and downed it all in one gulp while muttering words that made no sense at all.No, she was not tipsy, she was way past her drinking limit but still did not give a single care in the world. Director Miller’s annoying face popped up in her mind and Lola let out a chain of swears. “Yas.. he’s such a pervert. A bad bad man. I should report him.” She decided before picking up her phone and dialin
Aria pulled Lola by her hand and together, they moved closer to a group of girls who were conversing excitedly. Most of them were searching for something on their phones while two of the girls still had a video playing. “Found it!.” One of the girls exclaimed and two more girls rushed to her with their phones in hand.“Really? How did you find it?.”“Use #yourdancemuse. It’s all over the Internet.”“Gosh! Who is this girl? Felt goosebumps all over just from watching her dance.” “What agency is she with?.” another girl asked.Aria and Lola exchanged a look with each other, didn’t seem to be anything much.“Let’s go,” Lola said with a smile on her face only to freeze at the next words she heard from a girl in braces. “Why is she putting on a face mask? She should at least show off her face right?” the girl said.“What’s wrong?” Aria asked only to see Lola suddenly stop walking with a curious look on her face. “Can you help me check that out? The dance video?” Lola pleaded.. she had a
You could hear the gossip get louder in the practice rooms of F.H Entertainment.All activities had halted after the shocking news they heard that morning. Slowly, even the more coordinated workers lost their composures as the agency’s workers were seen discussing in many groups with no atom of fear for their superior left in them. Director Miller Brett had always posed as a righteous man who was faithful to his wife. This news had hit them hard.“Is that all they can do? Tell them to try harder if they do not wish to lose their jobs!.” Director Miller shouted frustratedly at Lydia. Already, the agency’s reputation had been tarnished as the PR team had been unable to bring down the news no matter the amount of money they offered to the media houses. It was almost like someone was playing Godfather behind the scenes.“They have tried all they could sir, our media sources are also unreachable at the moment,” Lydia complained making Director Miller even more furious. “Listen, I don’t
“Please leave..” Chloe Gayle prayed as she peeped once again through the keyhole of the ladies’ restroom cubicle. The three women who stood in front of the mirror were gossiping as they touched up their makeup. “I’m not surprised really. I’ve always known that she’s such a whore.” One of the girls said as she ran the powder foam over her cheeks. The other girls laughed.“A kinky whore at that!. Fucking her uncle.” Another added with a chuckle.“Uncle? I heard they aren’t even related to each other in any way. Yet she goes around the agency, parading like she’s the queen of Fame Hall. It’s always hard breathing properly when she’s close by. Such a bully!.”“Right!?.. Let’s see how she dares to do that from now on. Fucking a married man. Tsk tsk.” the girl hissed as she replaced a lipstick in her bag. She smacked her lips and smiled at her reflection in the mirror before turning to follow after the others.Chloe gritted her teeth at their insulting words, partially relieved to see the
“57, 58, 59, now.” Maria Coker counted the seconds leading to 3:00 p.m. as the school’s alarm system struck to indicate closing time. She smiled when barely one second later, the double doors flew open and the elementary schoolers ran out in troops eagerly to go home. To avoid colliding with the excited kids, Maria waited until the rush was over. When the number of teenagers heading out turned fewer, she found her way into the school premises.She had a meeting with the head teacher regarding her resumption of teaching activities. Maria had missed the classroom and her hips were fully recovered now. “Miss Coker!”, A tiny voice shrieked making Maria’s heart jump in her chest. She turned in time to see Avery, her grade three class president run over to her and throw her arms around her, to her surprise. The little girl was always quiet and only spoke up when necessary. “Oh, Avery!.” Maria said as she returned the little girl’s hug which was quick and over in time. “How have you bee
It was evening outside and the dimly lit bar was starting to get more lively with customers coming inat intervals.Maria Coker sat across from Richard King with her hands gripping the glass of drink she had ordered tightly. She couldn’t bring herself to drink just yet as she was having a hard time gathering her raging emotions which threatened to spill very soon. The man in front of her was the last person she needed to see right now. The one person she had successfully hidden away from for so long... until now.Richard watched the various emotions playing out on Maria’s face nervously. All these years searching for her, he had always imagined how things might be when he found Maria. He had imagined begging her to come back to him, to live with him. But right now, having finally found her, sitting right in front of her, all the words he had planned to say eluded him. Richard realized that had no right to say such things to her anymore. Especially not when his own family had ruined h
The staff at Infinity Jewels had the most entertaining week ever. They were not only given a hot topic to discuss but were also served proof of their gossip every morning for ten straight days. Their CEO, Noah Sanchez had always been a popular topic of their gossip. Be it the rumors surrounding his sexuality, the possibility of him being gay, or the many beautiful women that had tried to get past his secretary only to get banished from being 100 meters close to Infinity Jewels forever, or was it the tiny rumors that whispered possibilities of the assumptions about Mr. Tyler Harris, the only man who was so close to the CEO to be their boss's secret gay lover.Cough!.Tyler Harris sneezed as he walked through the staff offices on the second floor after personally receiving the never-ending offering of sweet-smelling red roses, a new proposal ring, and a note from security. All meant for the CEO.* * *Noah's face reddened in displeasure as he watched Tyler walk into his office with the