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Chapter 1
Susan hurried to school, she was late � again.
This would be the third time this week that she would be late, and she couldn�t afford that. The rule on her school was that anyone who was too late had to miss the first two hours. When she was younger she didn�t mind being late, school didn�t interests her and it wasn�t that she would fail school because she had missed classes.
But this year was different, it was her last year, the important and hardest year, every hour that you missed was a big problem, every hour you learned something what you needed on your exams.
She signed when she saw the school, everyone was still outside, she was on time. She saw her friends underneath a tree and walked to them. A minute later she heard the bell
After school
Susan walked to the bus with her books. The teachers had given her hours of homework, and she didn�t have the time to make it. Every day after school she was going to her work, she had to work till 10 o�clock, then she could go home, take a shower, eat and make her homework. If she had finished that she could go to sleep, but most of the time it was already 2 o�clock and she had to go up at 7 o�clock, meaning that she had a lack of sleep.
Her parents had died when she was only 16 years, they died in a car accident. They didn�t left her any money, and she had to take care of herself and her little brother, who had a disease, most of the year he wasn�t even home, and she had to pay for all the extra care. She had to work in all her free time to raise enough money and she had hardly enough time for school.
She was a make-up artist and had to do famous and infamous people. Most of the time she�d get the famous people, because she was one of the less people who didn�t care about their stardom.
She opened the door to the office and saw her colleague Nicole behind a desk.
� Hey�
� Hey Susan! Whassup?�
� You know, the normal stuff, anything interesting happened?�
� Did you hear the rumours?�
� What rumours?�
� They are saying that you h�
� Susan, can you come in my office?�
Erik, their boss was standing in the doorway.
� Yeah, sure�
She walked to his office, nervous about what was coming.
� Sit down please�
he pointed to a black chair in front of his desk.
� You�d probably be wondering why I asked you here�
� Yes, I�m�
� I�ve a special offer for you�
He stopped to take a look at her.
� I�ve been thinking a lot of this and I think you�re the best for this job�
With every word he said she began getting more curious.
� I want you to go on tour with a band�
� What?�
� You�d go on tour as a make-up artist, but not on�
� Wait!�
� What?�
� I can�t go on tour, I�m in my last year, I�ve to do my exams�
� I�ll get to this point later, please listen to me�
� Okay�
� As I said, you�d go on tour as a make-up artist, but not only that, I want you to write a book about the group as well.�
� What?�
� I know you can write, I�ve read some thing of you and everybody knows you love writing, besides, you�re very good�
� Yeah, I love it, but I don�t think I would be good enough to write a book�
� I think you are, and wouldn�t it be a great change to write more in the future?�
� yes, it�s�
� About your school, you�d get a private teacher with you on tour, so you can still do your exams, and believe me, you would make a lot more money then you�re doing now!�
� So let me get this right, you ask me to go on tour as a make-up artist and as a writer at the same time? That means I�ve to spend a lot of time with the group, right?�
� Yes�
� I can still take my classes and I would make more money then I do now?�
� Yes�
� How long does the tour takes?�
� About two months, listen, I want you to take the day off and think about this, then I speak you tomorrow and you let me know what you think of it, okay?�
� Yes, okay, bye�
� Bye�
When she walked out of the office she saw Nicole waiting for her, she knew that Nicole was going to ask what happened, but before she would tell anyone she wanted to think about it.
� And?�
� And what?�
� What did he want?�
� I�ll tell you tomorrow, but now I�m going home, see ya�
Susan walked to the door, when she heard Nicole again.
� Wait, Susan, please, tell me�
� I�ll � tomorrow, just wait for it, if I want to catch my bus I really have to go now, bye�
� Bye�
She knew that Nicole was angry at her now, but she didn�t really care, she didn�t like her very much, she was a nice girl, but she was sometimes a little too strange.
When she was sitting in the bus she was thinking of the job. Maybe she should do it, he was right when he said that she loved writing, but she didn�t know how he knew that. Writing was a passion for her, almost every free minute she spend writing, but writing a book about a group, would she be good enough for it? She didn�t have any experience with writing. The school wasn�t a problem, there was taken care of, and the extra money, she could use it for her brother, maybe he would finally recover from his disease.
And going on tour, that means that she was going to see new places, other country�s. She had only travelled once in her life to Paris, so this was her change to see more of the world.
How more she thought about the job, how more she began to like it, but she knew that she�d forgot one thing to ask, who was the group?
She had to spend two months with them so it was really stupid of her that she�d forgot to ask this.
Chapter 2
It�s The Things You Do
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