Simone was starting to get nervous as she sat in front of Renee; having her makeup applied. “Why am I so nervous?” she asks Renee, fidgeting in her seat. “It’s not like I haven’t done a runway show before.”“You have your gorgeous husband out there watching you” Renee remarks; applying Leona’s lipstick. “This is the first time he has seen you go down the catwalk.”“Maybe” Simone whispers as Emmett comes backstage with Josephine to wish her luck.“We have a surprise for you” Emmett states; leaning down to give her a kiss.“No kissing” Renee snaps; fixing up the smudge Emmett left on Simone’s lips. “She can see her surprise as long as it doesn’t ruin her makeup.”“What is it?” Simone asks; shifting in her seat to glance between Emmett and Josephine.Before Emmett could answer; Tiffany walks through the door with Vince, Richard, Tyrone, Lester, Phillip, Jenny, Sebastian, Linda and Cassandra. “Surprise” Josephine smiles as Cassandra runs over to Simone; wrapping her arms around her.“Baby
The following morning; Simone was up early, cooking breakfast for Emmett. She was buzzing on how successful the runway had been and what was happening later that afternoon. Humming to herself; the front doorbell chimes. “I wonder who that could be?” she says to herself heading over to the door to peak out the keyhole.“Aunty Cassie” Simone chimes, opening the door. “Where’s Aunty Josie?”“Doing official police business” Cassandra pouts, walking into the bungalow behind Simone. “I thought since she went down to the station early, I would come and see my favourite baby girl.”“Have you eaten?” Simone remarks, heading back into the kitchen to finish the bacon and eggs she was cooking. “I can make you some breakfast” she adds, pulling some more bacon and eggs out of the fridge.“I would love some breakfast” Cassandra states as Emmett walks through the kitchen doorway. “I can’t believe our babies are having a baby.”“Believe it” Emmett chimes in; taking some plates and cutlery out of the c
Josephine decided to take Tyrone with her to interview Sylvia. She had looked at his service record and found he was a good police officer. He has severe PTSD and failed psychiatric evaluation; thus, needing to leave the police force. “Do you have the PTSD under control?” Josephine asks, glancing over at Tyrone as he drives her to the prison.“You read my file?” Tyrone answers with his own question. “For the most part. It reels its ugly head from time to time” he includes to Josephine’s raised eyebrow. “Why are we interviewing Sylvia Peterson?”“I had a doctor call me with information” Josephine states, letting out a breath. “She had a stat dec from Sylvia against her father and I wanted to question her about it.”“What the fuck?” Tyrone gasps, pulling into the prison carpark.“My thoughts exactly” Josephine giggles, handing Tyrone the copy of the statutory declaration. “The date would have made Ricky about 16 and Sylvia was 35 when she fell pregnant and it was after Vicki and Lest we
Standing at the alter; “You need to calm down. She will be here” Emmett tells Lester, giving him a smirk. It wasn’t long ago Lester was telling him the same thing as he thought of the similarity of the situation. “You and Caitie wanted a small affair and not tell anyone. This is what Simone and I did; it was only fitting to use the same church.”“You didn’t need to bring Cassie with you” Lester murmurs to Emmett, glancing back to the front row seat.“What were we supposed to do?” Emmett queries, looking over at Cassandra, sitting next to Caitlyn’s stepmother, Eleanor and brother, Lincoln. “Aunty Josie is interviewing Sylvia with Ty; I couldn’t exactly leave without explaining what was happening. Her and Aunty Josie will keep quiet.”The priest steps up behind the alter; ‘I should dress up as Elvis and become a wedding chapel if these people keep doing small weddings like this’ he laughs to himself. “Are you men ready?” he asks, looking between Lester, Emmett and Jason. Lester nods as
The following morning; Josephine and Cassandra were packing in their hotel room, ready to head home. “I need to stop off at the police station before we go. I need to let the prosecutor know the outcome of my interview with Sylvia Peterson” Josephine states; placing her toothbrush and toothpaste in her suitcase.Cassandra turns to Josephine and puts her arms around her; “we can stay” she murmurs, giving her a kiss on her forehead.“You have your kinder…” “they are fine with Gretta” Cassandra interrupts as they sit down on the bed. “Emmett asked you here to help with getting Vicki and Lest’s killer. He needs you and you need me. I am not going to stop you from doing what you need to do for yourself; Emmett and Simone.”On the surface; Josephine was a hard-core police commissioner; ready to take on the world to better the country. Deep down; she was hurting for the loss of her two closest friends. She couldn’t hide her feelings from Cassandra; “Everyone except Maxwell Springfield was tr
The following morning; Simone and Emmett headed into Hunter, Hunter and Russell law firm. She was meeting with Gloria and Angela’s lawyers to settle on Simone’s defamation suit against Angela. “Do you think Angela will settle out of court?” Simone asks Emmett, trying to get an idea of what to expect.“If she knows what is best for her, she will” Emmett responds, pulling into the carpark. “You have the emails from potential clients on what she said and Mark’s email from Angela withdrawing the models. Her claim to Tina, Breanna and Kim you emailed and withdrew them didn’t happen.”“How can you prove something that doesn’t exist?” Simone responds with a smile, getting out of the car. “If I get the chance; I want to confront her about Joseph Holland too. She needs to be aware if someone has a stalker; she needs to take it seriously” she adds as the pair walk into the office.“Gloria is waiting in the conference room for you” Helen calls out as she sees Emmett and Simone walk through the
Angela was left fuming in the conference room. ‘I will bring that bitch and her bastard of a husband down, if it’s the last thing I do’ she says to herself, turning towards the door.Sensing what Angela was thinking; Gloria scoffs at Angela, picking up her paperwork to follow behind her. “Was Hannah, right?” Angela asks, stopping in her tracks as she heard Gloria behind her. She refused to look at Gloria to see her reaction.“I beg your pardon?” Gloria asks, standing up from her seat.Sucking in a deep breath; “was Hannah, right? Can Drake and Leona destroy me through the media?” Angela whispers, turning to face Gloria; keeping her face neutral of all expression.‘You’re goddamn right they can’ Gloria answers inwardly. She wasn’t prepared to say this out loud. She didn’t know Angela, but from the few dealings with Leona about her; she didn’t like or trust the woman. Shrugging her shoulders; “hard to say. Only way you will find out is if you don’t sign the paperwork. I will email it to
The next two days consisted of preparations for the career’s day. Principal Shultz emailed Simone on who was going to attend and where her area would be. ‘Dear Leona nee Simone; you will be positioned in area 12’ Simone reads, stopping to pull up the map of the auditorium. “I’m next to Lively Design Studio. That was a given” she laughs before noticing Travis was on the other side of her area.She quickly glances over the map to see where Emmett, Lester and Richard would be established. “Of course, Emmett has more than one area” she giggles, noticing he had Areas 1-3 and was next to Rocky Valley hospital representatives in Area 4. “That would be interesting” she murmurs to herself.She glanced to see Peterson Properties were established in Area 6 next to the police department on one side and Hannah Cottrell Law on the other side. ‘They are close together, Nice’ she says inwardly as Emmett comes into her office.Moving a chair to sit beside his wife he notices her computer screen; “I ha