Keep Calm And Love A Nerd (on hold)

SYNOPSIS:

DRAKE VAN JAMESTON AND SHANIRA TAYLOR ARE BOTH NEWLY APPOINTED EDITORS AT THE NEW YORK JOURNAL. THEY WENT TO SCHOOL TOGEHTER BUT DONT REMEMBER EACH OTHER VERY WELL. WELL THERE IS ONE THING THEY REMEMBER: THE H.I. (THE HALLWAY INCIDENT) IN JUNIOR YEAR. THE H.I. WAS WHEN DRAKE FELL ON SHANIRA IN A HALLWAY AND EVERY LAUGHED AT HIM. AFTER THAT HE WENT BACK TO HIS PARENTS IN A SMALL COUNTRY CALLLED CALLEDONIA. HIS PARENTS JUST HAPPEN TO BE THE KING AND QUEEN AND HE IS THE CROWN PRINCE. A YEAR LATER SHANIRA’S BOYFRIEND TRIED TO RAPE HER AND SHE WENT TO LIVE WITH ONE OF HER COUSINS IN WASHINGTON DC, BECAME A LINGERIE MODEL WHILE SHE STUDIED JOURNALISM AT NYU.

(WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF EMAILS AND IMing)

Chapter 1:

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To: Marissa Van Jameston < M.VJameston@RMService.com >

Fr: Drake Van Jameston < Drake.VJameston@thenyjournal.com >

Re: Back in NYC

It hasn’t changed since I was last here 10 years ago. I left after the girl I liked called me a freak after I fell on her, remember? Although when I think back on it I can’t blame her. I mean who would want to date a CLUMSY geek like me when they already have the captain of the junior varsity football team for a boyfriend. I didn’t believe it when ‘Mum’ called me and told me she showed up on the doorstep in the rain crying just after I left to catch my plane home, back to You and Dad. She said that Shanira had bruises all over her arms and body and that she looked like hell but it was too late for me to go back and make sure she was okay. The plane was already in the air. A week later I got a letter from cook saying that Shania was in a coma at the NYRH (New York Royal Hospital) after being beaten by said boyfriend who was thankfully sent to prison for abuse and assault and attempted rape, and then last year I saw her on the cover of a magazine wearing only lingerie and holding a notepad. The head title was something about a decision she had to make. When I read the article it said that she was now a world famous model but had accepted a job at the New York Journal and that she was going to be returning to where she grew up for a year to spend it with her family and old friends before starting the job. That was when I made up my mind, Mum, that I wasn’t going to let her slip through my fingers a second time. From that moment all I did was study, and work out and play sports hoping that she would want me if I was better than I was before.

And now here I am back in New York to apply for the sports editor position. I started a week ago but I still haven’t run into Shanira.

Love,

Drake

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To: Penelope Huntington <P.Huntington@HuntingtonPP.com>

Fr: Shanira Taylor < Shanira.Taylor@thenyjournal.com >

Re: The new job

I haven’t seen this town in 8 years. A lot has happened in those 9 years hasn’t it Penny? Someone tried to rape me, I’ve been in a coma and I became a world famous supermodel. I think that’s a lot of stuff and if some people disagree with me then that’s their problem, not mine. It’s my first day on the new job. I’m staring a week later than everyone else because I had one last shoot finish before I could go back to NY. I didn’t realize how much I missed this place and everyone here until I saw it all again yesterday. I drove into the employee parking lot a moment ago and got out of my white BMW Z4 convertible and everyone was staring at me like I’m some sort E.T.

Wish me luck and fingers crossed everything goes well.

Miss you loads,

Shanira

PS. did you remember to feed my dogs before I left for NY? I don’t want to have to worry about them and if anything happens to them tell the housekeeper or butler and they will take care of them. Be careful of the Rottweiler puppies, dont give the Husky puppies anything with fish in it, the Grey Hound and Great Dane need twice as much chewz as the others and they all need walking twice a day. Tell them I love and that I’ll pick them up to bring down on Saturday.