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Bedtime Christmas Contemporary

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Lucy is facing a Christmas alone and the prospect of losing her job unless she can win a major of business from Ross Wilks.amf she was almost late for the most important meeting of her life at the company.of advertising.

There you are .

Rhea.the reception calling her and taking her coat from her.wow you look stunning no-one can look quite stunning like you for the festive season

My grandma knitted it though the sparkly wool was a nightmare to work with.she had not really been late for the office meeting as she noticed all chairs were still empty.so she let her self in to sit down .and soon the rest of the crowd arrived.and the meeting starts.

Talking about the company downsizing slowly and talked how to advertise there company for to attract more clients.in the end ad not much of any more ideas .Lucy slowly walking through the London street looking at the store windows all decorated for the season.and she suddenly spotted Arnie on the opposite street . And thinking how she owed him alot for.like him helping her with difficult times at her first job and sharing then a cuppa if cocoa .one cosy night in a restaurant .and he only wanted to pay her back for be a good hard worker who doesn't deserve to lose her job but she felt she should owe him more than just a cup of cocoa. Oh well she thought and suddenly a thought struck her how to save the company downsizing.dhe called an emergency meet the next day.

And decided to decorate there outside building of the company like the season of the Xmas spirit and all agreed soon the company was beginning to thrive up to the top with more clients for there advertising and bought in photos and photography.and on seeing Arnie then later on sitting on the doorstep.hid head in his hands .

And suddenly call the paramedic as Arnie suddenly collapse on the floor and taken to hospital..........and at the hospital he had been diagnosed with a major heart attack and died .Lucy hearing this most recent and ended traumatisedshe couldn't do her joblat the company any more so quit without telling anyone just never went back while the team of workers worry and called police on missing persons report as Lucy was nowhere to be seen or heard .but not knowing Lucy only had hybenated in her own home and didn't through the cold festive season there was a sudden snow storm .and so Lucy stuck snowed under.which took awhile for the rescue squad and the police to discover it was Lucy and her home Snowed under.so there best to.undig through the pile of built in snow from the dreadful storm.and found Lucy at last and paramedic s called and taken the frozen in Lucy to the hospital.

Her old work mate s . glad she had been saved by that warm coat her grandma knitted and still a bit of hypo thermia and doctor s and nurses managed revive her and since she didn't have a home anymore had asked to be put up in a hostel until she would be back on her feet and find another job as she didn't want to return to the same company as it would remind her of arnie.realising she had been secretly in love with him....

Months later at the hostel after more therapy she was offered a tafe uni course in phycology.. and complete ed her degree years later .she managed a loan from her bank to open up her own office and hire some employers.and slowly at first her business had been able to successfully succeed.anf of course she never married as Arnie had been her true love and not knowing .so years went by and ready to retire she moved into a retirement village where she could rest in pet as she grew older and older ....

With out any family to leave her inheritance to she put in her will that the money shall go to the hospital where her beloved Arnie died and hope a cure for heart desease shall be researched some day and help save other lives and pitty it was too late to save Arnie s heart.

Well at her retirement village she did befriend an old male who she had games of chess and polka with .and they had still no plans though to leave the villa and marry .just decided to grow and age in the comfort of the villa and died among wonderful atmost phere and ashes of Lucy scattering at the old company where she had worked with Arnie .even now the old company turned into a Little park with A little rose garden where her ashes had scattering......near the monument of Arnie.and and as for her old friend at the villa he too had been scattered his ashes in that Same park in the little rose garden. ..a nd well what happened to the rest of the ol work mates of that company of advertising since Lucy founded snowed under and survive d and refused to return to that company ...well the other worker s had been downsizing and lost there jobs there with no other woy to be tried to find so most ended up homeless on street and died from addiction s ..well what could anyone do if unable to find new work and out of money but Rob and steal from normal people in order to survive....this is the conclusion .of a once happiness and Joy and a few lose to change lives horrific tragedy way.....the end ...and by the way the same street as a more quite a bit of a street revoked and out came a new advertising company s of the technology of institution.of this twenty years went by.and forgotten past few years ago....the end and may another chapter open. .. conclusion..well the new company of institution of higher Technology came popular in the future coming of the twenty first century .of 2013 .

December 06, 2023 11:52

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Timothy Rennels
20:25 Dec 11, 2023

I would take care to have someone proof read your work. Improper punctuation and misspellings cloud the true meaning of your story.

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Rebecca Maric
03:41 Dec 09, 2023

Any person with a lost love through hard ship of work.and no time for anything else this story mainly the battle of an advertising Company through loss of money to really succeed well into the future in the cost of living and fight to go on to other employees and one though one woman survived it all even her secret true love and survived it all through a nursing home

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