Chapter One Yvonne sank into the large desk chair with a deep sigh. She was running the office on her own for the first time and she was extremely nervous. Tiffany had trained her well and had enough confidence in her to leave her alone while she spent a week on the road with Joey and the guys. She scanned the office for something to do and was disappointed to find that she had completed all of her work already that morning. Now all she could do was wait, for the phone to ring or someone to come by. She picked up the cordless phone and wandered out to the pool house, where she was living. Fixing herself a sandwich, she had just sat down to relax when the phone rang. She groaned loudly and answered it. "Visual Appeal, this is Yvonne." "Can I speak to Tiffany please?" A deep male voice asked. "She isn't in. Is there something I can help you with?" Yvonne replied, intrigued by his voice. "When will she be back?" "A week from tomorrow I believe." "I can call her cell phone then, thanks anyway." He hung up before she could reply. She sat back and wondered about the person who had called. They seemed anxious to talk to Tiffany. She knew that none of Tiffany's clients knew her yet, so she wasn't worried about him not wanting to talk to her. She retreated back to the office soon after that and the phone rang again. "Visual Appeal, this is Yvonne." "Hey, it's Tiffany. How's it going?" "Pretty good, not a lot going on. I returned all the calls you asked me to this morning and the mail has been sorted. I sent out those packages to MTV also." "Great, thanks so much! I just got a call from Kevin Richardson, do you know who that is?" "Um, no the name doesn't ring a bell. Is he the guy who just called here?" "Yeah, he needs a video put together. I told him to come by the house tomorrow around 3 ok?" "Ok, I am doing the video?" Yvonne asked shocked. "Yeah, he needs it by the end of the week. He is bringing in all the footage, all you have to do is edit it together. It's a surprise so keep it hush hush ok? Kev will explain more to you tomorrow." "Ok, sounds good, talk to you later. Bye." "Bye." Tiffany hung up and Yvonne, if possible, became even more nervous. That evening she sat going over and over what was going to happen the next day. Kevin had sounded nice on the phone, but what can you really tell from a voice. Yvonne became suddenly homesick and picked up the phone dialing her parents number. "Hello?" Her mother answered on the second ring. Yvonne sat silently the tears streaming down her face. "Hello, is anyone there?" Her mom asked. "Yvonne is that you?" Yvonne covered the mouthpiece and whispered "I love you." Before hanging up the phone. She knew that she would have to face them eventually. She just wasn't ready to take that step yet. She slept fitfully that night and woke with a terrible headache. She dressed quickly and headed for the office. There were several messages waiting for her, and a few e-mails from Tiffany. She sorted through all of it, calling a few people back and setting up appointments or giving them a number to reach Tiffany. By 2:30 she was exhausted, her headache had long since disappeared and she was ready to meet Kevin and end the day. Chapter Two Main Story Page