Emma's Move

Tricia ran to hug me as soon as she saw me at the front door. Next, she broke the bad news "I do not know what happened but Mr Josh has decided to not sponsor your future album anymore even though I completely aced the meeting. I do not know why.", she sobbed. I was so shocked. How could this have happened? He had been with me since the beginning of my music industry. How could he just ditch me like that? Out of the blue? I knew something was up and I was going to find out.

I immediately consoled Tricia and called Ian. "Find out why Mr Josh changed his mind at the last moment.", I said and hung up. Few days later, he called me back and what he said shocked me. "I just had a meeting with Mr Josh and he said that one of his closest friends called to say of another music industry in Las Vegas that is way better than yours. He likes their albums and future planning so he has decided to move to their firm.", Ian told me.

I roared immediately "Did he tell you the name of his 'close friend?'", I asked. "Your sister. Miss Marina.", he replied. I screamed at him "If what you're telling me is not true then...", I was interrupted by his sharp tone "You're welcome to confirm." I did confirm and he was telling the truth. So, that was her way of plotting revenge against me. She found out my biggest investor and made him leave my industry just to make my business decline.

It would be hard without Mr Josh as he donated a lot but I would work harder so that my business wouldn't face any problems. I couldn't believe Emma would do this just to have revenge. I was thinking of what to do when Emma phoned me and I picked the call. She laughed and said "How do you like my pay back, jerk? This is just the beginning. Just you wait and watch. I will ruin you.", and with that, she hung up. I sighed. What was wrong with her?

I immediately thought of a plan and told Tricia about it to which she agreed. Two days later, Emma phoned me and started yelling "You fool. I will get you back. I won't rest till I take everything you have away from you. My plan didn't work this time but next time, it'll be big.", and she cut the call. What had I done? Simple! I had thought of a song and had scheduled a meeting with Mr Josh. He had loved the song so much and had promised to sponsor it and not the other industry.

Later, I had booked a plane to Las Vegas and had told the music industry that Mr Josh was a very strict man and that one wrong move, their whole business would collapse. I also told them that he had anger issues and if any of them annoyed him during a meeting, there would be trouble. Then, I showed them a scar that was on my left arm. It had been there since childhood from a nail scratch. I lied to them that Mr Josh had gotten angry during one of my meetings with him and had used a knife to scratch me out of anger. I hadn't expected them to believe that lie but they actually did and had called him to say the deal was off. I felt a little bad so I got them a new investor who agreed to sponsor them though the money wouldn't be as much as Mr Josh's. When Mr Josh had received their phone call about cancelling their deal, it gave him more assurance to abandon them and come back to me.

Meanwhile, he had phoned Emma later to reprimand her for having recommended him to such a useless industry. That was when Emma had suspected something was up and had paid the industry a visit to which they had confessed what I had told them. Then, she had tried telling Mr Josh what I had done but he had paid a deaf ear to her 'accusations'.

After Emma cut the call, I laughed and celebrated with Tricia. Now, there were no more obstacles, but I had to worry about Emma saying she wouldn't rest till she got me back. I expected her to do something crazy and of course I didn't wait to long to find out what she had planned...