Family Gathering

Early morning the next day Alex got up early as usually. Today he would be heading to back home to visit his family and siblings.

So he was really excited about the day ahead. He had already met with his father and older brother yesterday. However, they didn't get that much time to spend together as the were having a business meeting.

The meeting had ended on a rather odd note especially after, Alex had given his opinion on how to handle the UK division of Fire Foxx Television.

However, the Alex hadn't gotten an answer to his suggestion by his uncle and cousin. Who had a private discussion in the meeting room, after the meeting had concluded.

Noir Trending had made a splash in the stock market after their investment in various company stocks. Currently they have made a lot of profit in the stock trading market.

There weren't many big tech companies at the moment besides a few like Apple, Microsoft, Cisco and others. However, there were still many other companies and businesses that were still not public or established yet.

Thanks to Alex action as of today Noir Trending currently made about, 16 million US dollars in stocks shares profit and 9 million US dollars in revenue. It was estimated that they would reach 26 million in shares profit by the end of this month.

Alex was still working on Aladdin however, due to the limitations of technology and hardware, it wouldn't as reliable as Blackrock ten years later. Alex determined that it wouldn't be usable for at least five more years.

Well, there was very little Alex could do about this, he needed the current technology to grow and develop further. Star Horizon and Blue Star Interactive new technology division, could be the things to help him with this.

Blue Star Interactive technological development would lean more towards, the digital entertainment and hardware in the video game industry.

While Star Horizon can work on other technologies in the business sector. Thinking about it, Alex thought of turning Star Horizon into an even bigger multifaceted company.

Amazen in the pervious timeline wasn't just a online delivery service. But, was a multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence and more.

Star Horizon could be even more bigger they could create the first smart phone, the first electric vehicle and more. Hack Amazen had even entered the space race and bought up MGM establishing themselves in Hollywood.

Also Blue Star Interactive is tactical under Star Horizon as both companies were under his parents name. And Fire Foxx Television could in the future, also go under Star Horizon as a subsidiary of the company in the future.

" Hmmm... to be honest it isn't a bad idea to begin with." Mattered Alex to himself as he did his morning stretches.

Noir Trending would basically become the next Blackrock or Vanguard. This two companies were basically unknown to most of the general public.

Especially Blackrock were also the reason for all the woke propaganda that was heavily promoted later.

Well, I don't think uncle Daniel would ever become absence with social engineering. This was also not very profitable and placed many companies in deep shit. Disney being the biggest example as they tried to be politically correct and have a good ESG score.

Which was introduced and enforced by Blackrock hence, why so many big and small businesses promoted so much woke propaganda. Anyway hopefully with me here, Noir Trending shouldn't go down that path.

Alex continued to think about the future. Ending his thoughts here, Alex quickly finished his morning exercises and took a shower. Before having breakfast with the his uncle and aunt.

Alex wanted to spend most of the day back home with his family. So after breakfast he left the hotel and was driven back to his house by his attend Robert.

The gathering would be from four p.m to eight p.m. Alex left the building at nine a.m with Robert his attend, they were able to arrive at his house by nine forty-five pm.

" Thank you Robert for dropping me off today on you're day off." Apologied Alex as he got out of the car.

"It's fine master, Alexander enjoy the day with you're family. " Replied Robert through the car window as he looked at Alex with a gentle smile.

Alex than turned around to and headed towards the front door. Ringing the door bell Alex waited for a few seconds before hearing foot steps coming from inside.

After a few clanking noises the door finally opened revealing, Ashley who wore a white one piece dress. Upon both siblings seeing each other after nearly three weeks both parties smiled embracing each other in a warm hug.

Robert who was still in the driveway making sure that, Alex got into the house before he drove away. Ashley noticing Robert waved at him to which he responded with a wave of his hand as well.

Before driving off to enjoy his weekend. Alex and Ashley went into the house as they did Alex noticed Jennifer in the kitchen.

Turning towards Alex, a smile forming on her beautiful face before dropping what she was doing. Running up to Alex hugging him tightly, Alex was happy to see her but, he began feeling that the hugs were becoming too much.

It's wasn't as if he moved to another state or anything. And they could come visit him at any time. If they missed him this much, anyway once he finished with Mortal Kombat. He would be moving back to stay with his family again.

He also thought it would be a good idea to come and visit them during the weekend occasionally. After the prolonged hug the two finally separated, looking around the kitchen Alex asked were there mother was.

" Did mom and dad leave I noticed that the car wasn't parked outside. " Asked Alex.

" Oh mom left this morning to get some supplies from the store with father and Duke for the meal." Explained Jennifer as she went back to preparing herself breakfast.

" Hey, have you had breakfast yet." Asked Jennifer as she made her own.

" Yes, I have, you don't have to worry about that." Answered Alex.

Ashley begun discussing with Alex about, things were going with there uncle Daniel family. " How's everyone, is aunt Helena doing when she going to have the baby? Oh and how..."

" Everyone fine aunty Helena is likely going to have the baby any day now." Said Alex interpreting Ashley, asking a lot of questions at once.

" Hey, Alex father told us you did it, again at the meeting yesterday is that true. " Jennifer jumped into the discussion as she finished making breakfast for everyone from the large tray of food.

" Uhmm... well yes, but I just wanted to help Harry out at the time. Anyway let's not talk about work matters." Said Alex wanting to change the topic.

" What else is there to talk about were all working now and we mostly talk about work topic now a days more often." Replied Jennifer to which Ashley nodded in agreement.

Star Horizon was still growing relatively quickly and they didn't have many things to discuss about. They were all busy enough that they barely had any time for other things.

They all also had different interests, so there wasn't many topics the three of them could discuss about.

" Well, way don't we discuss about the both of your plans for the future. I think the two of you have given it a lot of thought." Suggested Alex.

However, before the two of them could reply they heard a car pull up the driveway. " That should be them we should go help them bring in the groceries." Ashley suggested.

The three of them than all walked out the house finding their parents and brother already unloading the car. As Alex stepped out Martha who was directing the two men on how to handle the groceries.

Seeing her to daughters coming and another person following behind them. Which she quickly realized it was Alex, a smile bloomed on her face.

" Alex..." Spoke Martha in a soft gentle motherly voice. That made Alex feel warm inside as he saw his mother beautiful smile. A smile couldn't help but, appear on his on face.

Harry POV

Harry was currently sitting at his desk in a room inside his apartment, as he went through some document. He was currently once again going through Fire Foxx UK television station file reports.

After the meeting yesterday he and his brother-in-law had a long private discussion together. They were yet to reach an agreement on the matter as they still needed time to think through Alex suggestions.

Basically Alex had suggested they turn Fire Foxx UK into a television channels similar to the Discovery channels. Both Harry and Daniel were familiar with the Discovery channels Alex had talked about.

Alex had than explained to them that it they should look into acquiring this network channel future. They could start by first directly competing with the channels content before that.

Obviously everyone thought, Alex idea was crazy and unnecessary at the time. But, Alex also insisted that he had ideas for shows and programs that could be implemented quickly with little cost.

Harry didn't see the reason why, Alex wanted them to buy another channel all of a sudden if they could just do the same thing. However, he did understand it would be a much simpler process than beginning to look for talent to help rebuild the station.

However, upon thinking about it more, it made sense to just aquire a channel that had similar content, to what they were going to make later on. Fire Foxx UK channel stations had less than 600 employees left which wasn't enough.

Many had already left to find other jobs before, Harry had returned to London to buy the other half of the studio. The only problem was that even though he got the channel stations.

Those snakes had already made deals behind his back losing the tennis sports deals and barely having enough stuff to run the station. Thankfully, he only payed 1.4 million euros for the whole channel which wasn't that big of a station in the first place.

With only about five different TV series and a small broadcasting news program. Harry doubted if his brother-in-law, would want to spend money on buying another television station channel.

That would likely cost more and would take much longer to settle if they wanted to go for it.

Meanwhile as Harry went through some document and thought about Alex words back. Daniel set in the living room with his wife and daughter watching television.

" Wow, daddy look at how big that shark is." Said Vanessa in her usual childish voice.

"Yes, honey it's a great white one of the biggest sharks in the ocean. " Explained Daniel.

" Hmmm... I've never seen you so interested in watching television series like this. You even recommend we watch this show in particular." Asked Helena who leaned on her husband shoulder.

" It's nothing much, it just with Harry taking charge of Fire Foxx Television. And with free time l have now a day's with the trading firm. I thought it would be good see what programming is popular now."

" So you wanted to watch Sharke Week that interesting of you to do. And don't you usually have people for this type of things."

" Yes, but it good to look at things myself. You seem like watching this types of shows and are quite familiar with it." Asked Daniel

" I and my co-workers would as always watch and liked to discuss this show. It's become quite popular ever since it debut nearly a couple of months ago." Answered Helena

" Do you just watch this show or are there any other popular programs on here. " Asked Daniel once again as he watched a shark bite into a large fish.

" There six shows I find quite interesting most being documentary and reality shows. It's actually a every educational channel if I have to be honest." Answered Helena as she stared at the tv screen.

Educational, this was the same word Alex had used when describing his vision for the television station. Thought Daniel as he looked at his wife and daughter watching the sharks swimming in the ocean.

Meanwhile, back with Alex and the rest of his family, began preparations for the gest that would soon be arriving. It's was already two thirty and all the guest invited would soon be arriving.

There would be a total of twelve guest coming over, including David and Damien family. These were all their very close friends and were considered part of their family.

" Hey, wait where did Duke, run of to?" Asked Alex as he noticed that his brother had disappeared sometime ago. As he made some lemonade and punch juice.

" Oh, you're uncle David, called to ask if he could go pick up Gabriella at.. Uhmm " Martha paused mid sentence, while taking out a stake of plates from the upper kitchen cabinet. As she tried to remember the name of the medical school her niece attended.

Thankfully, Ashley stepped in to answer, "SUNY Downstate Medical School." As she mashed the potatoes, using the newly bought handheld blender.

" Thank you sweetie, gosh I've been so busy, that I haven't been checking on how she doing. " Martha lamented, with a sad expression. As she placed the stack of plates on the kitchen table.

She been so busy lately that she even got the name of school her niece's now attends. " It's okey mum, that why we're all having this gathering for right." Comforted, Ashley noticing her mother sad expression at for the name of the school Gabriella went to.

This seemed to cheer up, Martha as a smile appeared on her face again. Alex on the other hand was a little embarrassed to admit that he, himself had absolutely no idea that Gabriella is now attending medical school.

It's wasn't something that he, ever thought of asking after coming out of his coma. He now flet utterly ashamed that someone who would, always come over to see him during his recovery period after the accident.

While he hadn't taken the time to inquire about, how she was doing. Entering medical school isn't easy, and things only got harder as one continued on. He hadn't even congratulated her, on getting into medical school.

Alex, suggestion about having a family gathering at least once a month seemed even more important to him now. " Alex?"

" Ah, Yes. " Replied Alex, to his mother's call. Drawing him out of his thoughts, as she gave him an disapproving look.

" Whats, going on inside your head, you're father's calling you outside. Now go." Martha spoke unhappy at Alex for not answering Oliver call.

" Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention I'll see him right away. " Apologied Alex before he hurriedly left to go see his dad outside.

Leaning over to Ashley, Jennifer said something that surprised Ashley, " I think, Alex was surprised at hearing that Gabriella got into medical school. "

"Ah.. Hey, keep your voice down, voice down what if mum hears you." Spoke Ashley in a soft voice, not wanting her mother to overhear what Jennifer just said.

Hearing Ashley harsh yet, soft tone Jennifer couldn't help but, chuckle " What are you worried mums going to get out the blet, if she finds out. " Jennifer said, with a mischievous smile.

" Hey, what are the two of you gossiping over there." Asked Martha looking at the two girls who seemed to have been startled at her words. "Sorry, mum." Replied Jennifer and Ashley at the same time.

The two quickly went back to preparing the food, Jennifer cutting up vegetables to be cooked. While Martha went back to taking out the plates and utensils cleaning them before, their guests started arriving.

Meanwhile, as the rest of his family were busy getting things ready at home. Duke was driving in his father Toyota land cruiser to SUNY Downstate Medical School. To pick up Gabriella on behalf of his uncle who seemed to be running late.

The school was several minutes away, from way they all lived. After driving for a 30 minutes Duke finally arrived at the school campus, finding Gabriella sitting on a bunch.

Duke hanked on the car stirring wheel, Gabriella attention who than noticed Duke, through the open car window. Grabbing her bag she walked towards the old Toyota land cruiser.

Walking around to the other side of the car opening the car door, and entering into the passenger seat. " What are you doing, at school on a weekend. " Asked Duke, as he looked at Gabriella who entered the car.

" Oh, I'm fine thank you very much for asking. And how was your day." Said Gabriella sarcastically, as she looked at Duke who was dressed casually. In a black sleeveless t-shirt that revealed his well toned arms. As she took a quick glance, she settled into a seat.

" My apologies, for not greeting you first." Duke apologized as he realizing he forgot to greet his cousin first.

" Apologie accepted, and for your information I have a test on Monday, so that why." Said Gabriella, while looking away from Duke. As she tried not to stare at his well toned arms, his you're cousins Gabriella keep it together.

Duke thinking that he had upset her, flet a little bad taking a quick glance at her beautiful face, he turned his attention back to the stirring wheel and drove off.