The Falling Out

It wasn't until morning when I got off the train, I just got the promotion so I didn't need to be late to work anymore.

Pardon me, my name is Christopher, I work as a journalist for a huge broadcast station in London and it was my dream to get promoted to Senior journalist, which meant I could travel around the world documenting and finding out about world hunger, poverty and economic crises, but what I always wanted to do was go deep in Wars and film all the action. As I went to work that day, all my dreams would come true.

"Hey Cam", I greeted my friend and colleague

"Chris, you came early today?! ", he replied as he slapped me gently on the back," I see the promotion has you up and running, eh? "

" Shut up", I replied with a smile, then suddenly my boss, Mr Vincent walked through the door and didn't glare at us,picked up the TV remote and raised the volume, the President of the United States was on

"And we try as much as possible to reduce the chances of war, we won't take any kind of bullying on our allies and soon to be as well", said the President, "Russia and Iran, we at the United States will always offer an olive branch but do not take our kindness for stupidity", then the TV turned off

"This is big", mumbled Mr. Vincent, "Very big, we need our very best journalists for this", he said stroking his chin, he paced up and down the room for a few seconds before getting back into his office and I didn't hear from him or see him again until 10:00AM when everyone was at the office. He called for a meeting with the staff, postponing all our interviews and broadcasting for a whole hour.

"The President of the United States just made a huge statement today, and it's our job to get it broadcasted, every tale, every scoop and every whisper will be important from now on, I will be recruiting 17 journalists, 6 to the United States, 5 to Russia, 4 to Iran and 2 to Ukraine ", there was a little mumble between staff as he continued," Valerie, Scott, Damon, Bryan, Thomas and Heather your all going to the United States, Marcus, Mason, Brendan, Ashley and Bradley your going to Russia, Philip, Melissa, Emma and Jacob to Iran, while Christopher and Cameron your going to Ukraine "

The silence continued for about another minute, until Mr. Vincent stood up and concluded," Come into my office for your Work permits, thank you"

I stood there stunned, I received my promotion just 5 days ago and now this, a chance to live my dream, but in Ukraine?

Ukraine was the epicenter of the climatic war between the United States and Russia, but there wasn't much to report there as,although threats of bombing of some parts of Ukraine but up until that moment it was just talk

After the meeting, I went into my cubicle and penned something down on my dairy, Cameron came calling, we headed to Mr. Vincent's office and were handed our Work permits and Visas ready for travel

"Chris, I'm so happy for you", he said with a smile, "I hope you stay out of trouble in Kyiv"

"That's the issue, Mr Vincent", I said scratching the back of my head, "I think it's better if headed to the United States or Russia, where there is more reporting"

"I'll think about it", he said with a chuckle, but he didn't, two days later Cameron and I were on a plane to Kyiv.