Accidentally in Love // z.m

Twenty Eight

*WARNING: GRAPHIC SCENES IN THIS CHAPTER (NOT SMUT)*

"Sahara are you ready?"

"Huh?" I snapped out of my little day dream to find Grace urgently hurrying me out of my office. "Ready for what?"

"The Interview with Sugarscape! Were you not paying attention at the meeting this morning?" I was completely out of it during that meeting I'm not going to lie, but given that I'd only had 2 hours of sleep I think I was handling things pretty well. Grace dragged me into the elevator and we met India down stairs. "The Sugarscape team find you girls interesting, they've received a lot of questions regarding how successful you guys became which is why they sent a journalist here to interview you guys. She's going to meet you at La Ruée café and the driver will be waiting outside for you two when you're done. Don't say anything stupid." She opened the back seat door of the black Rolls-Royce and shut it behind me without another word. I found India sitting opposite me in the back seat and before I knew it we were off. 

"You good?" India asked me as she reapplied some lipstick whilst looking at her iPhone camera. 

"Yeah just got no sleep." I rubbed my eyes before yawning.

"Well try to look alive." I ignored her and returned to looking out the window, zoning out of everything once more. Of course I had the Zayn and Perrie contract on my mind just as an idea struck me. I pulled out my phone and googled Little Mix's networth to currently be $2 million. That must mean that is the net worth in the contract stated in the contract because I doubt Janet would make the real net worth public. I knew now there was no more I could do about all this until Zayn got back to me with their real net worth but waiting was never something I was good at. I tried to distract myself by thinking about the interview we were about to have. Had this interview been scheduled before I found out about the scam, I'd probably have been excited and nervous but right now I felt absolutely no enthusiasm for it. The car ride ended after a short 20 minutes and I sighed before getting out; time to fake a smile and pretend your life isn't falling apart. Her name was Tayla, she was a little short but very pretty and youthful, fresh out of college and presumably living her dream. She greeted us at the entrance of the cafe, a little clip-board in her hand and her iPhone in the other. We walked into the cafe, were seated and got straight into it. She started with the small talk, 'How are you girls... this place is nice have you been here before?" etc. and she was constantly taking notes, pictures of the cafe and of us with her phone and recording the entire conversation on a tape recorder. 

"Ok let's get to the fashion talk ladies. So as you know our readers were really fascinated by your success. I guess you could say that you girls achieved what many people dream of, running your own lable at such a young age. How did you create such an establishment yourselves."

"Well it certainly wasn't done entirely ourselves," India started. "We were lucky in that today's day and age revolves heavily around social media. We presented most of our work on our blog, back when we were 17. It was Sahara that did most of the drawings because she was always better at it than I was but we worked on the lot of it together and when the day came where we received an email from Grace saying she was interested and wanted to meet with us, that was really when everything sky-rocketed for us."

"So what did working with Grace involve in the early days?" Tayla asked, turning to me.

"She began showing us the strings behind actually producing our own work. We'd had no experience in fashion design or production so she taught us a lot and again we were lucky that we were given such an opportunity. It was extremely tough in the beginning, we'd left everything we knew back in Melbourne, our degrees in university and our families and it was a really great risk but we took it and we certainly don't regret it."