Chapter 1
It's pretty much normal for me to wake up so early in the morning. I'm having the shooting of my latest movie, magazine interviews and of course the weekly meeting of our company to plan another action against our biggest competitor, Snow Studios. Our studio's name is Blight Stars, and the two companies have been battling for the best studio award since they were created which was 3 years ago. I'm the new star of their upcoming movie "The Gamer". We're one step ahead of the Star Creators since they don't have a movie yet and ours is already halfway done.
"Peeta!" screams my manager, "Were going to be late again. I promised Blight that we'll be there early. He said that there is news about Snow Studios." I hastily get out of my bed and take a shower. As much as I want to wear a Polo shirt and pants I get some age appropriate clothes that will surely get the attention of fans Blight always asks me to wear these kinds of clothes because he says that he's creating the next biggest thing, and that's supposed to be me.
I go to the kitchen and look for my chef "Charlie make me some breakfast please ." I say to him and scream at the top of my lungs "Effie do you want some breakfast?"
She suddenly appears in the kitchen with her hands covering her ears "No need Peeta. And will you stop all the yelling, it's as if you're still a child."
"Effie, I'm not an adult yet I'm just 16 years old so I can scream all I want, and this is my penthouse." I say to her "And come on Effie, let me be a child sometimes, I never got the childhood I deserved, since I was…"
"Yes, I know. Since you were 5 you've been a celebrity and you never got a break." Effie says apologetically.
"Plus, my parents are usually never home. They're always somewhere around the world with my two brothers because of their music tour."
"Here you go Peeta," Charlie hands me a plate of salad, a bread basket, energy drink and water "You do know that they've done so much just so that you could end up where you are now."
"I never really wanted this. I still remember that my mom used to beat me up as a child because all I knew how to do was paint, bake and act. I was our families' mutt; I was the only one who didn't know how to sing." I say as I eat the salad.
"We know Peeta, and we're so sorry for that. But look on the bright side, if you never acted, you never would have met me or Effie and all of your friends." Charlie says
"You know what you're right. If I never did this. I wouldn't have a nice penthouse, my own designers, my friends and all of you guys."
"Add a future company to that Peeta!" Effie says giddily.
"Why?"
"Your grandfather just signed the paper work stating that you are the future owner of Mellark Enterprises. So add a billion dollar company to that list of yours." Efiie says brandishing a faxed paper work of the contract "The only thing missing is someone to share all this with."
"Yeah" I say gulping down the energy drink "I wonder when she'll come?"
"If you're done with your breakfast. You two better be going now. You don't want to miss your meeting." Charlie says while summoning a maid to clean the table.
"Alright, good-bye Charlie. I'll see you at dinner." I say as Effie leads me to my garage in the basement. We get in the gold plated elevator and make our way to the basement. There in my garage sits 2 limousines, a Ferrari my gandpa gave to me as a birthday present and 2 BMW's from my dad for my two best movies.
"Good morning Mr. Peeta." Greets John, my driver "Ms. Trinket, where are we off today?"
"To the studio, John can we take the limo with the flat screen?" I ask.
"Yes sir."
We ride the limo and make our way to the studio. I like the limo with the flat screen because it's much bigger than my other limo and this one has a fully stocked refrigerator unlike the other one that's only half full. "So Effie what am I going to do today?"
"Well I just received a text message from Blight and he says that all your interviews and shootings will be cancelled today. You've been invited to a party hosted by Snow Production and Snow himself insisted that you come. It's a formal event by the way, so I'll just ask John to get it from the penthouse and deliver it to the studio."
I don't get it. We're rival companies. Why would they invite me to their party? "Why would they want me to go to their party? "
"Maybe because you're the most famous teen star in the whole world and with your biggest movie yet to come, I think they want you on their team." Effie says while typing on her blackberry.
"Okay. When's the party?"
"Oh, it's still later tonight. You've got a lot of time to prepare yourself and your plan against Snow Production." The car stops and a guard opens my door "Out you go now. They must be in the meeting room already." I get out of the car and enter the building.