Noah took the camera around his neck, snapping off the black neckline from the camera sides, and placed them both into her hand that she wrapped her fingers around only for Rowan to come and tackle him on the side eliciting a smile from Noah which brightened Alice, glad to see that he wasn't too beat up about the saddening situation.
Noah seemed to be a guy who was always kicking trouble in the room but not in the sense of a troublemaker. Instead, it seemed to gravitate toward him leading to deal with the aftermath all on his own. It wasn't her business to continue prodding in, so she was going to leave it be.
Alice went back to her post on the ground next to Claudia to begin to upload all the files from the camera to her laptop. She didn't know what to do next, but Claudia had already placed the cable wire that she needed on top of the laptop which she thanked Claudia for as she plugged them into each other to start the downloading process.
"Want to go play some video games?" Rowan asked. "Leave them to do their own thing?"
"We can hear you," Claudia muttered. "At least get out of the room if you're going to talk over our shoulders."
"I'm kidding, Claudia. I would never," Rowan said slowly trying to get a rise out of Claudia. "I wouldn't need to go out of the room to speak over your shoulder, because I would say it right to your face."
Claudia's jaw dropped, and Alice waved her hands in front of Claudia's face to try and take her attention off of Rowan knowing that Claudia could take the joke, but they needed to end it before it escalated further to the point no one would get their work done.
Noah shoved Rowan off. "Right now? We should save it for later."
"Sure, sure," Rowan agreed.
"Hey, y'all can't try to escape from doing your duties," Claudia yelled despite the boys only being five feet away from them.
Rowan pulled at his sweater uniform. "We can do the editing process later."
Claudia rolled her eyes. "Just come over here. We can start clipping now."
"Give me a sec to change," Rowan said as he ran off into the next hallway making Claudia give a tired sigh.
"What are we going to do?" Claudia groaned making Alice laugh.
"Hey, we're not in a bad position. Let's get all the videos uploaded first before we start trimming them to put on the slides."
Rowan returned in a graphic t-shirt with his uniform slacks still on, and Noah was sitting on the couch behind Claudia and Alice, watching from above as they got all the work done. They divided up the work quickly, making sure that everyone was working at the same pace and the same amount of work.
With the French doors right beside them, the sun outside was shifting down rapidly now as they reached the evening time. The golden sunlight breached the room and flashed inside as they lounged about getting the slides put together at the pace of the snail.
Noah would cut the videos before sending them over to Rowan who would edit them to make the videos more compact. Claudia was putting the fresh videos into the slide where Alice was writing down the commentary to the side in bullet points.
The template that Alice was working with was a clean white slate with some silver and pink stickers that Claudia placed in to add more color which Alice did appreciate more than she thought.
Alice replayed the videos numerous times to the point where Claudia got sick of it. She patted Alice's shoulder when she didn't get the hint. "Okay, I'm good. I'm done hearing the audio. I'm so tired."
Claudia stretched her arms above her head and let out a gust of wind. "How long have we been working on this?"
Alice slid her glance over to the glass reflector clock on the peninsula. "About three hours. I'd say we got a lot done in a little amount of time."
Noah stretched out on the couch with his long legs spanning the whole length. "Let's go over the slides one more time before we all turn it in."
Rowan pulled up the final model on his laptop and placed it in the center of the coffee table for all to see, and he clicked through every slide slowly so that they could read as they went on.
As the slides came to a close with the meticulously placed videos and wording along with the random stickers for life, Alice placed her hands together.
"It looks perfect," Claudia sang. "Ready to submit?"
Alice fiddled with some of the buttons on her keyboard. "Let's do it."
She took the finalized files and placed them into the submission slot before looking behind her shoulder at Noah which he dipped his chin towards as she pressed the confirm button.
The submission went through, and Alice sighed as she leaned back to the feet of the sofa for a moment of rest after all of the hard work they put through.
Realistically, they got through everything fast for the three hours that they put into it, and Alice tilted her head to the side as she surveyed the group. "Good job, team."