Next morning we arrived at the studio early, in fact everybody was early. Danielle was greeted like a long lost friend, she told them about her holiday. We had coffee together and discussed the plan for the week. We decided to split into two teams; Cindy and John, Charlene and Cathy, Danielle and I would take any extra work. Laura would assist Kelly upstairs. At least we started with a plan.

Moira swept in with entourage just after seven thirty. She welcomed Danielle and Laura. "Jeff, you haven't RSVP'd Thursday night, every thing is okay, isn't it?" she said turning to me.

"RSVP? What RSVP."

"Danielle's media soiree, introduce her to the world, you know the drill�didn't you get the invitation?"

"No."

"You're having me on?"

"No."

"I don't have anything to wear." Laura lamented.

"We wanted to surprise you all with the invitation, they went out three weeks ago."

"Well we didn't get it."

"We invited everybody here. Nobody got them?"

I turned, "Kelly?"

"Haven't seen anything." She answered.

"What the hell has gone wrong? Can I use your phone?"

"Sure."

She dialled quickly and waited. "Jennifer��Moira�. The invitations for Thursday��. for the Starburst people, where did you send them?�.Could you check? They didn't get them." She hung on and waited for the answer. "I'm here� Arthurton? Where in the hells that? No, it's Artarmon, here in Sydney." Moira took a deep breath. "Jennifer, listen carefully, have all the Starburst invitations reprinted and couriered to me at Artarmon, here in Sydney, by twelve."

She slammed the phone down. "Can I interest you in a office junior?"

"No thanks. So what's this all about?"

"Danielle's official launch, I know it's your busiest week, but we needed to slot it in. Next week was too late."

"Surprise. Surprise. Surprise." I said in a Gomer Pyle voice.

"Don't be like that. If you got the invitations when you where meant to, this wouldn't be a surprise. Well not this close to the event anyway."

"We'll be there, don't worry."

"None of the girls will have had time to organise clothes or anything. What a mess� We'll foot the clothing and shoe bill, we'll just have to organise them to a store� Chatswood is the closest� I'll kill Jennifer for this�you know what she does?" I shrugged. "She doesn't ask questions if she's not sure, she guesses what I've said� Grr�Anyway�"

We talked through a plan. Laura and Danielle would go to head office tomorrow as planned, to meet Danielle's assistants, pick up her mobile phone and store card. When they got back, Kelly and Charlene can go to the Chatswood store to pick out an outfit, when they got back, Cindy and Cathy would take their place, then John and me. I was a little bit jealous of the girls; frankly I didn't want a new outfit, not for Jeff anyway, but Karen would love a new outfit. This explained why Danielle had been slated in for Monday, by seven that night her part of the catalogue and publicity shots had been completed. Moira was ecstatic with the outcome. Before everybody left, Moira distributed the invitations.

Tuesday morning, Moira arrived with a hire car and whisked Laura and Danielle off to head office. Three hours later they were back. Danielle had a new mobile phone; a store card and both of them had new outfits and shoes for Wednesday night. The car then took Kelly and Charlene to the Chatswood store, two hours later they returned and Cindy and Cathy took their place at Chatswood. An extra two hours that night had us caught up.

Next morning, after an early start to get in front, John and I went up to Chatswood for our clothes and returned with some smart casual gear. We managed to finish the day more or less on time.

Thursday morning, Laura, Kelly and Danielle went to have their hair and nails done at Pierre's. Unfortunately we couldn't afford any more time off for the other girls to do the same, they understood the reasons and went with the flow.

I had agonised over how to give everybody a bonus and how much since the sale of the images to Rhonda's client. Kelly and Danielle were entitled to more than the others, seeing as they had to endure themselves on billboards. After much deliberation, twenty thousand each to Danielle and Kelly, and ten thousand each to the others.

Once we were all dressed, I handed the envelopes out to them while we waited for the limousines. There were gasps of surprise, then thanks. Every body was on a high now. Once in the limos we all had a glass of champagne to relax as we were whisked off to the Fox Studios.

Danielle had a limo to herself, except for Moira and Jennifer. Moira had a big entrance planned and had been giving last minute directions with her mobile phone before we left. God help anybody who mucked this show up.

We alighted at the venue and greeted inside by Abe. It was absolutely packed with people and media. A MC started to speak and introduced Abe to the gathering. Abe gave a speech about the future of Spencers and the reason for the night, "Ladies and gentleman, I would like to introduce Miss Danielle Williams�."

Danielle entered the little stage from behind, glamorous in her new dress, aqua blue with spaghetti straps and plunging neckline, the asymmetrical hem showing off plenty of leg and her matching aqua four inch heeled sandals. She waved to the audience who applauded and she kissed Abe on the cheek. Photos were taken with Abe. Moira, Abe and Danielle then settled down for a press conference with the assembled media. The questioning took the line of unknown thrust into the limelight and nobody seemed to be too interested in where she came from.

We were being fed with finger food and drinks, whilst we watched the press conference. Once it was established her parents were here in the room, we were invited up on the stage and had our photos taken with her. Once the fashion reporters recognised me, some more questions started, mainly about me having a daughter, the confirmed bachelor. I spun a tale about Danielle coming to live with me from interstate, without trying to give too many details.

Finally we were released from our interrogation and the media moved on to take photos of the guests. A DJ started to play dance music, the champagne flowed and everybody had a good time. By midnight our group were very tired and looking for bed. It had been a big week, for everybody. There was still a few hours work tomorrow to finish for Spencers. Two o clock we dragged ourselves in to bed, and at six we were up again.

Everybody at the studio was still on a high, talking about the party. Once we had everybody sorted, Laura took me to pick up the Winnebago I had booked. With paperwork signed I headed back to Artarmon via home.

Once everything was sorted with Spencer's work, we headed off with Laura following in the Golf.

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