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Thursday February 23rd 2012

When Alonzo came knocking at Cruella's door that morning she was already up.

''Come in'' she said.

Alonzo placed her tea at the table next to the window and backed slowly away.

Cruella had been up since 5 am trying to think of a way to get back in to the social side of the business. She also needed staff at the plaza, and for that she needed money. How was she going to get money? She couldn't sell all of her jewels and clothes, that was not an option. She needed to get on good terms with the top designers of the 2000's.

''EUREKA!'' she suddenly said. ''I need to host a dinner party! Invite all the top designers! Saturday I will have all the best at my table and I will convince them to invest money in my new project; Fashion Week Extravaganza!'' she said with fierceness in her eyes.

Cruella walked out the bedroom door and down the corridor. Alonzo followed her up the stairs, leading to the third floor. She opened the 5th door to the right and went in.

''Alonzo, you will sell all this old antiques to every pawn shop in england! I will be rich, once again!'' she was ecstatic and was laughing while throwing antiques at Alonzo.

''In the mean time I will stay home cleaning out the house for the dinner party. Now, I can't do it all by myself. I need someone to help me!'' she said.

She looked at Alonzo. ''Alonzo, get me ten housemaids and five construction workers. Tell them to be here at 11am sharp.'' she said and walked downstairs to her room to get a cigarette.

Cruella went into one of the other bedrooms where they had put the rest of her clothes.

The room was filled with fur coats, shoes, dresses and things of that nature. Some in bags, some on racks and some just laying about everywhere.

She found a red turtleneck mini dress with long sleeves and a red and black fur coat. She found a pair of black thigh-high matte leather stiletto boots and matching black gloves. She went into her own room to do her makeup and hair.

The clock turned 11 and she heard a ring at the door, and her day was getting started! She assigned the maids to do the kitchen, living room and tea room first and sent the construction workers outside to start fixing the damages outside the house.

Cruella went up to the room where she had all her clothes and started putting them all on racks around the room. She had two of the construction workers put all the furniture that was in there in the next room. she then put all the clothes neatly in place in the room, sweaters and pants on shelves, dresses and fur coats on racks and shoes in the closet. Before you knew it, she had a 'Walk in closet' room.

At the end of the day the workers and the maids had done a lot of work, they were almost finished with the first and second floor. Only thing missing was to wash the carpets and curtains. And buy some new furniture, she regretted letting Jasper and Horace use the house when they were working. They had ruined a lot of things that once were valuables to the De Vil family.

One hour later she heard someone driving and honking. She thought to herself that it wasn't like Alonzo to honk his horn when he was driving. She went outside to see who it was.

When she saw the red and black Panther De Ville, much like her black and white one coming up to the gate her heart stopped for a minute and she turned around and ran back in to the mansion and locked the doors.

She was freaking out. She closed all the curtains and turned off every light in the mansion.

Cruella heard knocking at the door and knew she had to be silent as the dead, or else she would hear her and force her way in to the mansion.

''I see your car parked in the driveway, Cruella, open up!'' she said.

Cruella didn't say anything and started to panic and breathing heavily. She backed off from the doors when she heard a key rustling in the lock.

She started to run up the stairs. When she reached the top of the stairs, she heard her voice more clearly.

''Cruella, darling. Where are your manners? Come down and hug your mother!''