2003

SHE had just finished shooting a live broadcast thrice this morning, she opened her office door, closed it tightly to avoid any interruptions and slumped on her office chair. She sat thinking, she had to get ready within two hours for another live broadcast.

She would have just as well giving the job away and stuck to her weather forecasting, but Mr Arnold again challenged her to the task and Liz wasn't the type of woman that gave up on challenges.

She turned on her desktop computer and studied today's headlines while drinking a smoothy.

"Yes, come on in" she said to the person knocking at her door.

"Mrs Murphy this are the reports from Kailey and your makeup starts by 10" she smiled and left shutting the door firmly.

Liz sighed, looking at the wall clock. It was accurately a quarter to 10. She had to supervise the report quickly and get ready for her make up.

She sipped the last drink of her smoothy and took a glance at the report and on a second thought, kept it and reflected on her desktop computer. Just then, she received an email concerning a political party and opened it to surprisingly see her family's name. It was delightful. Mayhap they moved on just as she also moved on. She quickly read through to see a video, it was too tempting she had to watch the video.

"Helen" she called her secretary.

"Yes ma'am"

"Tell Kailey and the make up crews that I'll be needing another 15 minutes"

"Okay ma'am"

She dropped her telephone in the receiving end and hit play on the video.

It was a video of her family having a royal visit.

Just in the middle of all this, she received a call.

"Hello... Yes... Who's this?" She kept shut, absolutely quiet, the word felt like a bomb in her ear. She was going to ask her neighbor to repeat what she just said on the phone but didn't have the energy to do so. Her mouth couldn't move even an inch.