Everyone was quietly grinning to themselves as the limousine pulled in front of the school. Teachers were trying to usher students back to the classroom as Vince steps out and opens the rear door for Jonathon and Matilda. “Mattie” a girl around her age calls out waving to her.“Ugh” Matilda sighs, glancing at who was calling her name. “Felicity Jenkins. The biggest two-faced bitch at the school” she tells everyone in the car.Jonathon steps out of the limousine and offers his hand to help Matilda out of the car as Felicity links her arm through his and one through Matilda’s. “You two need to go to the office to be signed back in” a male teacher states to Jonathon and Matilda. “The rest of you back to class” he adds yelling at the students hovering around the pair.Jonathon turns to shrug at Matilda with a smile as they disappear inside the building. “They’ve become popular all of a sudden” Tiffany laughs as Vince shuts the door and climbs in the driver’s seat. “I hope Jonny doesn’t ig
Angela Berry was sitting in her office the following day; going over the final details for the charity auction. She had pulled a lot of strings to get the rights to manage the auction; nothing was going to stop her from her end goal. Glancing over the final numbers she clicks on the acceptances; smirking to herself. “They bought the bait” she says with a snarl on her face. “Pays to dig deep.”“Ms Berry” Chelsea says over the intercom. “Mrs Keller from Salisbury Auction House is here to see you. About the charity auction.”“Show her in” Angela answers, closing her eyes. Hearing her office door open, she opens her eyes and beams a smile at the lady walking into her office in a navy-blue skirt suit. “Mrs Keller; I’m sorry to hear about the loss of your husband. It must be tough.”“It was. Even though it was over 12 months ago. I’m still grieving” Miranda replies in a strong English accent, taking a seat in front of Angela.“That will be all” Angela looks up at Chelsea who scampers out of
Simone was sitting in her office Friday morning, going over her financial reports with Tiffany. Tia had paid for the photoshoot from the previous weekend and Tiffany had just finished transferring the money into Jonathon and Matilda’s accounts. “Do we need to hire a bookkeeper to keep on top of the bookwork?” Simone asks as Tiffany clicks off the accounting program on her laptop.“Between all the new models we just signed and invoices for photoshoots and runway shows we did; we might” Tiffany replies, getting up out of her seat. “We are busy with obtaining new gigs, let alone trying to pay everyone on time.”“I’ll ask Emmett the best way to go about hiring a new bookkeeper” Simone says as her office door swings open and Richard walks through it with Emmett and Sandy.“Ricky” Tiffany reacts, walking over to give him a hug. Vince, Tiffany and Richard spoke at the hospital. They have a better friendship now because of Richard’s reaction in the fire. They concluded they wouldn’t be best f
The auction was being held in one of the reception rooms at the Plaza Hotel. It was a secret auction, and people could place their bids with a lot number they were allocated on a card, before placing it in the box situated next to the items they wanted.“We are sitting on table 3 with Caitlyn, Lester, Rick, Jase, Sandy and Beck. I’m not sure who is taking the other two seats” Simone says, scrolling down the list of names on the seating board. “Ugh; it’s Cheryl and Paul. Of course, it is” she concludes sarcastically.“Is this someone’s idea of a joke?” Richard states coming up behind Emmett and Simone with Sandy. Jason, Rebecca, Lester and Caitlyn walk through the main door behind them.“They probably saw Peterson and decided to sit us together” Emmett responds, giving a shrug. “I won’t be acknowledging him. Everyone else can if they want.”Heading into the main reception room; the group find their table before moving their way around the items being auctioned. Emmett could feel eyes f
Taking their seats around the table; Lester leans into Caitlyn; “What took yo…” “Not now” Caitlyn says, turning to face the front as the auctioneer comes forward to the microphone.“Welcome everyone” Miranda chimes, smiling over at Emmett. “My name is Miranda Keller and I will be holding the auction today” she continues. “I want to thank Berry and Sterling Management for getting this auction organised. We have some great items donated by your local businesses. The way this auction will work; everyone should have placed your bids for what items you wish to purchase. They will go into the system and I will call out as each bid comes up on the screen. You may pay the price you stated; you may not. If there are no bids; the bidding will be opened to the room. Grab you paddles from the middle of the table and let the auction begin.”“Is it me or has she been crying?” Paul asks, grabbing his paddle as the others turn to look at Miranda.Lester looks over to Emmett; “didn’t notice” he says a
“What do you need to speak to me about?” Emmett asks, pursing his lips at Lester. Lester takes in a deep breath and relays what Caitlyn told him. Emmett’s eyes grow dark, staring at Miranda packing up her things.Storming towards her; “we need to talk” he seethes, grabbing Miranda by the wrist and heading to the back of the stage. “You came here to break Simone and myself up?” Emmett yells at her; rage coming through his words. “I didn’t think you could stoop so low, Mira. Of all people; you knew our relationship was strictly sex. Regardless things changed for you; they haven’t for me. We’re over. We were always over” he snarls, walking back out to the main reception area. “We’re leaving” he screams at Simone, grabbing her arm.“What the fuck’s going on?” Simone yells, trying to pull her arm out of Emmett’s grip.“Emmett; I’m sorry” Miranda yells, running after him; tears streaming down her face. “If I had known Simone was preg…” “It wouldn’t have made any difference. I’m sorry Nick w
The following morning; Emmett got out of bed early. He was tossing and turning all night and didn’t want to disturb Simone any more than he had. Walking into the kitchen he grabs a strong cappuccino pod from the pantry and proceeds to make himself a coffee. “What does this bitch have against Simone?” he murmurs to himself. “She caused all the issues herself because she couldn’t handle a little competition” he continues to mumble as he hears Simone come into the kitchen behind him.“Is everything ok?” She asks, putting her arms around Emmett’s waist.“No, it’s not” Emmett states, taking his coffee and walking into the loungeroom, to sit on the sofa. “I thought I knew Miranda, turns out I didn’t. For what, a bit of fun on the other side of the world before you and I were together. And I’m pissed at Angela for bringing her here, hoping I would do something behind your back or worse.”“You said Miranda’s husband was killed” Simone says, taking in a deep breath. “She was probably holding o
Monday morning, Simone and Emmett walked into the Lester Drake Media building. Emmett was meeting with Stuart and Roger with Jason and Rebecca; whilst Simone was meeting with Sonia and Raymond. Emmett had Greg fly Raymond in, especially for a combined interview with her regarding what Angela had done. She asked Electra and Mark if they would collaborate her stories and both agreed. Ashleigh was sent to Lively Design Studio to interview Mark as another journalist, Lorraine from Glory magazine was conducting a phone interview with Electra.“Come through” Simone states, ushering Sonia and Raymond to her office. “Sonia, we are now ready to disclose what issues we were having with Angela Berry. She is going to be hit hard in the media; as of today.”“What exactly did she do?” Raymond asks, taking out a voice recorder as Simone puts a finger up to indicate for him to wait a moment before hitting record.“Off the record; she pissed Drake off” she giggles, sitting down in her chair. “Now you