Professional Disaster

Chapter 14

"Mumma, can I have some money please?" Arabella rushed into the kitchen where her Mother sat at the table with Scott Phillips.

Kimberly furrowed her brows. "And what would you need money for?"

"Izzy and I wanna have a sleepover at hers, order some food, do a little shopping in the day. Girl stuff." Arabellashrugged nonchalantly.

"Hmm, okay. Do you want it on your card?" Kim pulled out her phone. Scott sat in the chair opposite, playing with the marble coasters, stacking them into a playing card tower while he waited for the two girls to finish up.

Arabella thought for a moment then nodded her head. "Okay, thanks, Mum." Ari smiled and kissed her Mum's cheek before grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl and taking a bite.

Kimberly transferred €200 into her daughter's bank account and set her phone back down on the table. "Pay for Izzy'sstuff too, her birthday is coming up."

"Okay, Mum. I'm gonna get dressed and then can you or Dad find someone to take me over there?"

"I'm gonna head over there soon anyway so I'll take you over with me." Scott offered.

"Thanks, Scotty." Ari smiled before running off to her room to get ready.

"Anyway, where were we."

"Oh yeah. Okay, so basically what I was saying, is now Arabella is fifteen are you going to be introducing her into the business life?" Scott collapsed his tower made of coasters by pushing the top down with his right palm. The marble coasters came crashing down on the round, glass table, earning a glare from Kimberly.

"Robert and I have tried but she's just uninterested, and however much I'd love for her to have a role she just seems to see it as if she isn't the boss then what's the point." Kim sighed and rubbed her forehead with her pointer finger and thumb.

"So why can't she be the boss? Because she's a girl?" Scott was secretly a hardcore feminist. But don't get it wrong, it's not as if he kept it a secret, just not many people would presume that of Scott, especially with his past with women.

"No, of course not. It's just that Jenkin is older, he's been doing it for longer, and he's taken it all so seriously since a young age while Ari wanted no involvement. We need our best men and it hurts me to say Ari isn't one of them." Kim sighed, a small frown shown on her lips.

"I guess I understand that. It is a huge shame, she's a smart kid and we all had high hopes for her with it." Scott matched Kim's sigh with his own.

"I know, I agree." She nodded. "Oh well, what can we do about it? I don't want to force her to be something she doesn't want, the same with Jay, if he told me right now he didn't want to do it anymore then I wouldn't make him. End of story."

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"I just think, you can drink in America now, why not go Vegas and get smashed?" Jackson shrugged with a grin.

"Maybe, I'm almost about to have my break from training for two weeks so maybe we can do something then." Jenkindidn't care as much for drinking as Jackson. Maybe it was because Jackson had spent more time drinking so it didn't feel as foreign to him, but the idea of being hungover every weekend massively turned jenkin off the idea.

"Good! Now, let me grab my keys and we can go grab Ethan then get some food, yeah?"

Jenkin nodded at the older boy's words. The two were in Cole and Savannah's home, they were actually in the middle of moving Jackson's things into a home of his own but decided to take a break and grab something to eat on the mainland. There was only two places to eat at the Island, and with the last four days of painting and packing, they had eaten quite enough of it.