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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4e75912ee51e17bd27e3041154144c1c"The door opened, Liam entered followed by two unknown women and Avery. Liam took he seat at the head of the table. The first woman held a tablet in her hands. She sometimes picks Alexei's classmate Adrian up from school. On the other side of her sat a woman around the same age as Avery. She wore a flowing sundress with her hair in a high ponytail. She took off her glasses to reveal a pair of shining olive colored eyes./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="cf331ed8ebd50deb7d8c1a7881f38f89"Knight and Ace glanced at each other. Neither one of them spoke, as Liam cleared his thoart. "Noble's current projects will be complete within the next few days/weeks. While there are other projects we've already agreed to, they have no set start or finish date. These can be worked around to accalmadate the new clothing line and filming." He passed a new stack of papers to Avery. "My assissant has prepared a secondary schedule and new timelines. I'm sure this one will be to your liking."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="97750d827ae8a83864e72f8cb78b448d"So that's Rayssa. She's younger than I thought she'd be. Quartz Network or QN, is the popular website Alexei's been researching lately. Alexei still hasn't picked up my books from the library. So I spent sometime reading over his research. Quartz Network is a successful web based company, that specializes in producing oringal webseries. Several upcoming actors and actresses got their start on on./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d9c9bbef6be9cad19bac76a2dd2abef4"Poor Adrian was being asked questions a mile a mintue. He looked uncomfortable with the way Chloe draped herself over him. The girl couldn't be more obsvious with her flirting. "Let's go help a fellow model." We don't interact much with the mayor's daugher since she's in a different class. Heck, we don't know Adrian that well either. Doesn't mean we're just gonna leave him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d81e0d7a206fe9bb002b26eaf289c47b""Music is more than just catchy tunes and a nice beat!" Lyla shouted. "Lyrics, feelings, emotions, and a story. Those are important components that can help bring life to 'music'. If you've ever truly listened to any of Noble's songs you'd know this."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="468335a0142ba83bb73eaa39df5bdb35"When had she arrived? Emi stood by the enterance with Calex. They both appeared surpised by the scene. Emi whispered something to Calex, who nodded. He moved away from Emi, over to Chole and Sabrina. "Do you think Noble or Ace would want to see this." Emi shouted, gaining Lyla's attention. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7b03e662e9ccc19ae81b7aa2948c9a72""That's not true!" Those words left my lips before I could stop myself. "You told me Ace has his reasons for remaining in the background. Who's to say he doesn't enjoy watching from the sidelines how his music inspire people? Remember, Ace's songs always have emotion and meaning behind them. So do his actions."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4e75912ee51e17bd27e3041154144c1c"The door opened, Liam entered followed by two unknown women and Avery. Liam took he seat at the head of the table. The first woman held a tablet in her hands. She sometimes picks Alexei's classmate Adrian up from school. On the other side of her sat a woman around the same age as Avery. She wore a flowing sundress with her hair in a high ponytail. She took off her glasses to reveal a pair of shining olive colored eyes./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="97750d827ae8a83864e72f8cb78b448d"So that's Rayssa. She's younger than I thought she'd be. Quartz Network or QN, is the popular website Alexei's been researching lately. Alexei still hasn't picked up my books from the library. So I spent sometime reading over his research. Quartz Network is a successful web based company, that specializes in producing oringal webseries. Several upcoming actors and actresses got their start on on./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="277d1a0268d5bf4d065f0bf5fae994f0"Neither one of us spoke during the meeting. Our presence was more for show. Liam even stated it was pointless to make us go. However, the higher ups over ruled him. Apparently, their more exiected about these new projects tham Liam is. They seem to be slowly inching their way into Liam's work. Things are going to get more differcult./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="215fae913866df0e369423ee085dec04""We wanted Noble to grow, but not like this." Illya pulled out the K pendant from underneath his shirt. Liam had given him a K and me an A the day of our debut concert. It's been a constant reminder of how far we've come and how much farther we can go. "Noble's a music group. Not actors or models. We're about music and inspiring others."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d9c9bbef6be9cad19bac76a2dd2abef4"Poor Adrian was being asked questions a mile a mintue. He looked uncomfortable with the way Chloe draped herself over him. The girl couldn't be more obsvious with her flirting. "Let's go help a fellow model." We don't interact much with the mayor's daugher since she's in a different class. Heck, we don't know Adrian that well either. Doesn't mean we're just gonna leave him./p
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