(From Ciara's perspective)
"What happened? Did she give you another extra project?" I asked.
"No , since Old Ben's not here anymore she wants our team to finish all his pending project" Old Ben was our creative director. He died of a car accident few weeks ago. Some say Mrs. Rosewood had him killed because he doesn't listen to her, obviously that wasn't true.
"And she's going to assign one of our members as the creative director" She added.
"No way babe" Jacob said as stormed inside the cabin after eavesdropping the whole time. "So one of us is going to have as fun as Old Ben huh".Old Ben did all the traveling and checking the venues for our show, at some point everyone envied him.
And Jacob is Lily's boyfriend; to be honest I've never seen a couple as strange as them. They go to balls in the morning and raves at night. Jacob is the 7th prince of a very orthodox Swedish royal family but he left them to find himself, typical teenage enthusiasm. He's the sketch artist of our team and no one can draw stuff as good as him. They met 2 years ago and at first they were just in a relationship for fun but now from the looks of it they're definitely in love.
"And who is this handsome young man?" he asked in a girly voice, typical Jacob.
"You know Peyton, you met him when we went to Florida" Lily said.
"Ohh yah I remember him, he passed out after 8 shots". Peyton's face turned red in embarrassment.
"Hey! You can't even keep down 5 shots" I said
"But there are still other like Elijah...." Lily changed the subject. "they're not going to let us be the next creative director"
"Ughhh the nerds" ranted Jacob
The name itself shows what kind of team they are, every single one of them graduated first from their classes and job opportunities were literally fed to them since they all have those rich ass high town parents. And Elijah is like their god, that guy just makes all of our blood vibrate just by introducing himself every single time like we already don't know that he is a stuck up guy who is a gay in denial.
"I'm sure you guys are way better than whoever this Elijah is..." Payton said to calm Lily down.
"That's true" said Jacob while patting Payton's back.
Kelly rushes in "Mrs. Rosewood wants all of the in the conference room in ten"
"Ohh lord now what!!!" said lily as she sighed...and sat down on her chair.
"So Payton, how's Sandra??" Asked Jacob with a disgusting smirk on his face.
"She's good, she's gonna move in with me next week" answered Payton.
I guess Sandra is the girlfriend.
"Ohh you're still with her" said Lily with a questionable expression on her face.
"I was gonna ask you the same thing" said Jacob.
It seemed like they were about to enquire Payton about a murder. He looked ashamed and his cheeks turned red. It all went silent for the next few moments.
"Hey guys we should be in the conference room now!!!!" I had to break the silence somehow and luckily a meeting with the 'skunk' was enough to distract all of them.
Lily let out a sigh and picked up the files she tossed on the table earlier and dragged Jacob to the conference room.
Like before, we were both left alone in the cabin. We peeked at each other many times before he started walking towards me. He is still very intimidating even though he isn't a mystery anymore.
"Thank you" he said with a husky voice. I assume the gratitude was for saving him from the enquiry couple.
"Well now you owe me"
"Heh, so shall we" he said as the bowed down to me to walk in front of him to the conference room.
Since he was walking behind me I was very conscious about every single one of my steps and thank god I didn't fall. We reached the room in less than 30 steps. Elijah and his minions were already there. They gave us a skeptical look when we came and fortunately Lily didn't see it because the last time she did, she gave Elijah a nosebleed.
The conference room had a huge white board where we mind map during meetings and in front of it was an 8 foot long table with design ideas and materials scattered all over. Mrs. Rosewood was sitting in the farthest chair from everyone right below the white board. Beside her stood Kelly; her assistant; holding files that were twice her size. No one sits next to Mrs. Rosewood during meeting, the closest person to her sits 3 chairs away and usually it's Jacob because she always had some kind of soft spot for him, probably because he was royalty.
I sat across Jacob and Lily and Payton sat next to me. Elijah and his minions sit the farthest from Mrs. Rosewood. Before them, sat the technical crew.
"Since everyone is here, I have a very important matter to discuss with you all" announced Mrs. Rosewood.
"I think you all know how much this company mourns the death of Benedict. He was a very hardworking member and a very good friend. Let's have a moment of silence for the loss of such a good member of our family"
We all knew she didn't mean even a single word.
(5 seconds of silence)
"So now let's get back to what I actually meant to say, since Ben is dead we will need to assign a new creative director and to make it a little bit more interesting, I thought we'll have a little competition. One of Ben's most important projects of the year is the winter fall show in Ireland. Both of the teams here will be send to organize the event in 2 weeks and you'll be given a whole month there to finish your work. After the time you were given is over Mr.Gery and myself will come over to check the progress and select the team from which the members can choose someone among them as the creative director"
A month, it takes at least a year to organize an event somewhere we've never done a show before. It took me a minute to come out of that shock but as I looked at others they were still in it except some like Jacob.
"With all due respect I'm sorry but we can't do that, a show in a month; it's impossible" said Lily
"Well then I'll wait for your team's resignation letter on my table"
"What!!" almost everyone in our team was startled.
"Well let's not jump to conclusions here, babe ill take care of it" Jacob said to Lily.
"And how exactly are you gonna do it huh, we at least need 6 months to plan all this"
"Babe I'm sure Old Ben got it all figured out" Jacob said hoping it's enough to convince Lily.
"Stop your bickering and tell me if your team is up for it" screamed Mrs. Rosewood. I'm sure deep down she also wanted our team to be involved in this project.
"Alright, well do it" said Lily.
Everyone was puzzled about how they were going to pull of something so big.
"Well then Kelly will give you the rest of the information and don't mess things up" after saying this Mrs. Rosewood stormed out of the room.
Kelly then started distributing sheets with the rest of the information. There were two pages and the second page had a form we had to fill in order to travel to Europe.
In the first page there were many details about the trip. The flight was in 10 days and the timing and place were given and housing facilities were provided too. But we should take care of transport and food after we reach there. And apparently each member could bring one person with them.
After today dose of shocking news for some reason Mrs. Rosewood asked us all to go home.
I didn't stop to talk to anyone because I was still starving and went straight to a nearby deli and got myself a ham sandwich. It tasted way better than before; I think it's because of my hunger.
I got to my apartment and my door was unlocked. I have no idea what to do. I did hear on the news there were many burglaries in the past few weeks 10 blocks away but I did not imagine it would happen to me.
I say a plastic baseball bat on the previous floor, I think its Timmy's. He's the kid that lives right below me. I picked up the bat and stood in front of my apartment door. I was terrified the whole time, shivers went down my body. I could even feel the sweat that run down my back.
I slowly opened the door and it was dark, I didn't hear anything. I decided not to turn on the light because then I can't do the sneak attack I've planned. I searched the kitchen and then I heard a sound, a flicker. I slowly tip-toed to my bedroom and I saw....