The Game

Chapter One - Two Months [Edited 1]

AN: All characters appear in this story are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, are purely coincidental.  

© 2012 by Alex A. Ratiu (Iamfromwinterfell)

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Also, you'll come accross titles with [Edited x] that is just a personal note to myself so I know which ones I should start editing first.

Chapter One – Two Months

“Good morning everyone.” Nate Greebe, a tall, middle-aged man with black hair and brown eyes wearing a black suit, greeted everyone at the meeting room of the “Blue Edge Gaming” headquarters. He waited for everyone to sit down before he started. He had a pleasant smile on his face; he looked at all of the future employees of the company. All of them seemed very young. “First, welcome to Blue Edge...” he looked at his assistant, Claire; she was looking at the people sitting around the table, her arms wrapped around a notepad. The sunlight coming from the wide windows of the room shined on her blue hair. He looked back at the future employees.

This was his first time greeting the new employees. It was his father’s job before him. His father, the founder of the company, died, leaving Nate in charge. Two months has passed since his death and now Nate was handling the company well. He used to join all of his father’s meetings, so he pretty much knew what to do, but he still was nervous.

“I am Nate. My father, Robert Greebe, is the founder of this company and after his death it is my job to carry on the company,” he told the young faces looking at him, his smile slowly fading. “Here at Blue Edge we try to be like a big family and it's great to see new faces join our family. So, the person on my right introduce yourself and then the one next to him do the same and, let's know each other a little bit.” he smiled and sat down on the big black leather chair at the end of the table.

The first person on the right got to his feet smiling nervously “Hi, um... I'm Bill.” he started, his forehead started to sweat. His round glasses made his brown eyes look huge and his brown hair was cut military style. “Bill Connors, I'm from New York. Um... I grew up playing Blue Edge games like “Black Island”. Actually, I think, it was the first game I played and since then I wanted to work on this company.” He sat down wiping his forehead with the back of his hand.

The kid next to him got up, he was more confident, he had dark skin, that made his eyes shine. “Hello, everyone.” He said calmly. He had no accent, not that Nate could notice. “My name is Ted. I am from Johannesburg, well, my family moved to America when I was two, but still. I wanted to be a game designer after I wrote one of the fan story-lines for the game “Shine”.” He smiled and sat down.

The person next to Ted was the only girl to join this month, she got up and smiled looking down “I'm Jane.” she had long black hair going down straightly, it was hard for Nate to see her face because she was looking down. “I got here with my best friend Derek.” she nodded at the blonde haired boy at her right “We grew up together, we wrote our own scripts and made short animations together, and we hope to join to the graphics section of the company, and game designing.” she got back to her seat.

Derek got on his feet; after he was done it was the turn of a kid named Jordan, then Mike, Jack, Lee, Tim, Ronald...

“Claire will escort you to where you will work,” Nate finished the meeting, when everyone was done introducing themselves and asking their questions “and, again, welcome to the Blue Edge Family.”

Everyone slowly left the room after Claire. Everyone except Nate. He was still sitting on his chair staring at the empty room, smiling. After sometime he got to his feet and left the room, entering the main corridor of the second floor. The headquarters had seven floors and his office was at the seventh. The corridor, like every other corridor at every other floor, had lots of doors at the sides, most of them meeting rooms and the rest was the legal department. The corridor, again, like others, had lots of posters of the Blue Edge games. Almost all of them were Nate's father’s ideas; he was a man with great imagination. Nate arrived at the elevators and pressed the button to go up.