THE GAME

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     "No ideas yet? Arrrgh! Why did I decide to work with these brainless skulls?" Mr Bill Dhoors yelled at his board members in the board room
"Sir... Sir... We need more time.!" One of them protested.
"Time? Time? You're fired!!" He yelled at the Protestant who scurried away
"There is no time! The Game Co from Russia will be here soon to see our game and what GGG can offer. We can't lose to Sun Drill!" Mr Bill said panicing.
"Calm down sir... We'll figure something out if we're calm." Another one said
"You'll figure something out without your job! You're fired!" He yelled at that one who also scurried away.
"Mr Bill! Firing these men is not the best option!" Julie Winter said.
Bill turned to her
"You're..." He stopped.
"You want to fire me too? Go ahead!.. I'll leave! You do know that GGG is nothing without me." Julie said folding her arms
"I'm sorry.." Bill replied with his head down.
"... But I'm just so frustrated right now! I don't know what to do! We have no ideas for a new and perfect game and Sun Drill already does.!" He said jealously.
Julie turned to the men in the board room ..
"You're all dismissed for today .. Tell those men that were fired that they have been... Unfired." She said and chuckled.
The board members left the board room immediately.
"Felicity... Gregory... Not you two."
Fel and Greg stayed behind and watched the others leave.
"So, what's up now?" Greg asked when everybody had evacuated the area.
"Bill, Bill, Bill... You've gone damn soft." Julie said rounding Bill
"Tell him about it... Seriously boss... What was with all those panicking?" Fel added rolling her eyes.
"It was an act, ok! I wasn't really... Panicking." Bill lied in defence.
"Yeah sure you weren't!" Fel said folding her arms.
"Fine! I may have been panicking... A little.. but why won't I?" He said looking at them.
"You shouldn't because you know how you play your games..." Greg said, sitting down on a seat.
"Great yeah but I..."
"What's this extra meeting for please?" Fel interrupted.
"It's for you to learn manners!" Bill snapped at her a bit stung by the interruption..
"No time for that Bill." Julie said.
Bill scoffed childishly.
"The Russians will be here soon..." Julie started. "We need to figure something out something new and impressive, we don't have enough time to waste or misuse"
"We've been trying so hard, they all have." Greg said in defeat.
"It's not all that easy making stuff that no one else has ever thought of up, you know." Fel added
"And I thought I was paying you so your brains could do the work." Bill grumpled.
"Not now, Mr Dhoors!" Julie said.
"As I was saying ... GGG has a legacy to keep, we are the Gamers Gaming the Game, we are swimming towards the surface but who says we shouldn't play dirty." She said with a sly smile on her face.
The remaining three of them exchanged glances...
"No no no no... I know where you're heading at, Julie... The last time we stole a game, we were almost caught and discovered." Bills argued.
"Thats because, we were not careful enough.... This time, we'll learn our lesson." Julie said
"I don't know, I .."
"Come on, Bill.. stop being a wimp!" Fel cut in.
Bill glared at her.
"You do know that I would have fired you long ago but your brain is still needed here." He commented
"Thank you very much, sir." Fel said sarcastically.
"What's the plan?" Greg asked Julie.
Julie began to Pace and strike her jaw...
"Well, of course since we can't produce our own game... We'll have to steal it..." She said and paused.
"So far... We have Sun Drill as our rival and we wouldn't want them to be preferred over us now would we?" Bill continued.
"And their game is ready." Julie continued
"Already?" Fel blurted out. Julie nodded in affirmation
"Wow... What sort of brains do they have over there." Greg said rhetorically
"Their CEO, Catlin Heather, herself is a brain.. If our CEO was a brain, we would have been quite fine." Julie said and exposed her dentition widely.
"Heeey!" Bill said in offense.
"So the plan is..." Julie continued, ignoring Bill
"We'll steal their game!" Fel completed in excitement.
"That's our motive not our plan, miss!" Julie said
"The plan is to first and foremost, the main and the only thing we need from sun drill is the file for their new game." Julie said.
"What's their new game all about?" Greg asked stupidly
Julie gave him a stupid look
"Maybe if I worked for Sun Drill, I would know." She said spreading her arms.
Greg rubbed the back of his neck nervously
"And as I was saying, we need that document, it'll prove that the game is ours and was not stolen." She continued.
"We'll have to be careful about this... It's Sun drill we're talking of not any ordinary gamers." Greg said
"Are we going to rob them?" Fel asked.
"No! If we do, their first guess will be us." Bill said reasonably.
"We need a sneak on this one." Julie added. "And I know just how to get one." She said, her mind traveling back to the sneaky girl she stalked at the hospital a day ago.