UP IN SMOKE
MASSIE'S APARMENT
FEBUARY 23
8:50 PM
Massie sighed with relief and kicked off her Jimmy Choo sandals before sinking into her cloud-soft crème colored couch with purple flecks. She tilted her head back and closed her eyes, trying desperately to relax and let the day's stress melt away before she let herself start to snooze off. She was just drifting off to a dream when her cell phone vibrated.
Alicia: hey mass when r u hiring mel-whatever?
Massie: can i call you later? Busy
Alicia: k sorry
Massie bit her lip and snapped her phone shut before flinging it onto the table beside her. She reached over and flicked off the light just as her home phone rang.
Massie just kicked the couch and waited for the answering machine to pick up. She breathed a sigh of relief when it wasn't Alicia, Kristen, Dylan, or Claire.
"Hello Ms. Block this is Laura from the Agency and I would like to inform you that Emmy went to that banquet last weekend and totally gained five pounds and looks like a human walrus. I know you wanted her to model for that jungle shoot- well I tried calling you at the office but Blair or something like that told me you were gone and she told me your number and I left my number with her so call me back…uh….bye? Oh- uh thank you for your time. Yeah. Bye-umm- talk to you lat- well, call me back when you get back to the office." Click.
"Ehmagawd what a nightmare," Massie murmured to herself as she drifted off to sleep.
Massie was awakened by someone shaking her shoulder. Massie wiped that hand away and shifted and moaned at how sore her back was. Someone hit her shoulder, and Massie bolted awake. "Who's there?"
The person wondered over to the table and flicked on the lamp. Massie squinted in the light and sat up on the couch. "Sasha?"
Sasha slammed her fist on the table. "Bitch."
"I fired you with good reason," Massie said. "You sucked, I found someone better. Ehmagawd get over it."
"SHUT UP!" Sasha said. She knocked over Massie's lamp. It crashed to the floor and shattered. Suddenly a flame burst from the lamp and quickly spread to the couch. Massie screamed and grabbed her Jimmy Choo's. She shoved them on her feet as she leaped over the couch. Sasha beat her to the door and slammed it in Massie's face. Massie tried to turn the handle but she couldn't. The fire was quickly spreading and Massie choked, her hands slipping from the handle……
Yap yap yap
Yap yap yap
Yap yap yap
The bark to Massie's new puppy that was her ring tone rang through and woke Massie up from her twisted dream. Massie bolted awake and looked over at her ringing cell phone only a few feet away. Massie groaned and rushed to answer it.
"H-hello?"
"Hey Massie," A voice on the other end said. "It's Claire."
"Hey. What's up?"
"Um. Well I was just wondering when you're coming to the office since we have a model crisis-"
"What are you talking about?" Massie asked.
"Well, it's eleven now but-"
"ELEVEN?" Massie screeched.
"Uh- yeah. So uh, I'll see you soon?"
Massie just hung up shocked. She sat there for a few seconds dumbfounded. Finally, she heaved her body off the couch and rubbed her sore back and stiff legs and stared at the white carpet in a daze. Finally, it hit her and she ran into the kitchen, hitting the kitchen table. She glanced wildly at the clock on the microwave. It read 11:01.
The sun was up. What the hell?
Massie hurried to the shower, and calmed herself down before preparing herself for the day.
It took her nearly an hour to come up with an outfit. She had decided on black leggings but she was in a debate. Should she wear the black Jill Stuart poly woven pleated 'Geri' skirt or the white stripe twill strapless pocket mini dress?
After much debate she ditched the leggings and went for the Tocca white silk-cotton circle tiered skirt with the white camisole and gray blazer. She slid a pair of black movie-star sunglasses over her eyes and slipped into a pair of black pumps from Oscar de la Renta.
Massie caught her image in her mirror on her way out and left her apartment confident and unstoppable as she walked to her magazine, ready for anything.
Sorry bout the short chapter but I needed to get some Massie action :-) enjoy.