Shimaya's throat was hung on her chest as she opened the door to the event. The light beat playing in the air by the DJ was futile in raising her spirits. The news she had just received was dire and she needed her boss to know immediately.
She scanned the hall for the prettiest and most lavishly dressed female and it wasn't hard to find her at the edge of the stage. She was on a call and Shimaya could see her smiling.
On other days when her boss, Ariana, smiled, she always thought about how beautiful she looked but today, her stomach dropped as she moved down the busy hall.
Staff moving boxes and making the final arrangements moved past her in a whirl, not knowing how dreadful she felt at the moment.
She got close to Ariana and her heartbeat picked up as a thousand scenarios of how she would react flashed through her mind. Tonight was going to be a disaster, and that wasn't even a prediction, it was a certainty.
