Mexi, I like that ending much better.
I accidentally just typed corpses instead of corporation in my story. It's scary to see that it would actually fit pretty well.
Chapter one is finished! It's 609 words long. With the prologue, I have 796 words all together.
Chapter 1: The Call
Holly Mackenzie had just gotten home from her shop when Ms April came in with the mail. She hadn't gone to get it, since she was exhausted. It was a Tuesday, so all the street racers had flooded in right before she closed.
"Here you go dear. I'll bring you some dinner, how does that sound?" Ms April set the mail down and left.
Mack didn't respond to questions like that, as she knew they were always rhetorical.
She picked up the mail and looked through it.
Bill, bill, bill, junk, scam, and a letter.
She frowned at the last one. No one ever sent her letters. Possibly a bomb, she thought. But as she looked over it carefully, she realized that it was exactly that; just a letter. She opened it and looked at the neat handwriting. She grinned as she read it.
"Ms April! I won't be needing dinner. I'm going on a business trip!"
Desmond Kingsley was just getting to his office when he got the call. The other doctor he worked with (who was his roommate and also oblivious to his love for her) relayed a message she'd just gotten for him.
"I can't afford a trip." He said, but she kept talking.
"Apparently they'll pay for it, and I checked them out; it's not a scam."
He considered it for a moment and then said,
"Well can you cover for me for a few days?"
Spencer Cassidy, a twenty-five year old Irish guy, walked into his apartment in Manhattan. He was very obviously hyper.
"Honey I'm home!" He called out in a singsong voice as he shut the door behind him. His roommate and best friend, Tobias Forde, came out looking disgruntled.
"I hate you," He muttered, "always so hyper." Spencer smirked.
"Up all night writing again? I told you not to."
Toby pushed past him into the small kitchen, where the coffee pot was. It was empty.
"You drank all that coffee, didn't you?" Toby asked Spencer, who just shrugged.
"You can make more. You're a big boy Tobes. I'ma go get the mail!"
Toby watched Spencer dart back out the door and turned to make more coffee.
A few minutes later, Spencer came back with the mail. It was mostly ads, but then there was a letter, addressed to both of them. Toby frowned when he saw both their names.
"I thought they only did that for married people."
Spencer shrugged and ripped the envelope open. He looked at the letter and gave it to Toby. He read through it quickly.
"What does it say?" Spencer asked. He was dyslexic, so Toby summarized for him. By the end of it, they were both smiling.
"We should start packing then." Spencer said happily.
Amanda Delta Rose. That was her full name, though not many knew it. She always introduced herself as Delta. Which is why she was shocked to answer the phone and hear her full name.
She was on her way home when the call had come. She didn't get many new phone calls, because she was nothing more than a twenty-four year old history teacher. She knew most of the people and numbers that called her, but this one was new. The person had addressed her as Amanda Delta Rose, and then explained the situation to her. She rushed home to pack.
A week later, on July eighteenth 2016, these five people boarded a plane to go somewhere in Europe. They were flying first-class thanks to the mysterious people at the ANGEL STARS Corporation. Oddly enough, they were the only people on board, other than the pilots and the flight attendants.