Chapter 7

• After the school, Billy gets into the car to go to the company.
• "Young master, we have an emergency" Ray said as soon as Billy gets into the car, Billy look at Ray.
• "What emergency?" Billy asked curiously.
• "You need to go to Paris" Ray added.
• "Why did I need to go to Paris?" Billy questioned him, Ray quickly hands over the tablet in his hand to Billy so he could check then Ray continues to explain.
• "Zoey's company in Paris suddenly announce that they will be cancelling their contract with us, since then the stock has been going down" Ray told him, Billy looks at the news.
• "Why?" Billy asks still looking at the tablet.
• "When I called the company, they said the CEO does not want to work with you" Ray told him.
• "The CEO of Zoey is an old French man that believe in doing business with elders like himself, the CEO said because you are too young, he cannot do business with you that he will only do business with an elder" Ray replied slowly.
• Billy kept quiet and his countenance changed.
• "You need to meet with the CEO by tomorrow, I have already booked the tickets" Ray added.
• "Did you check why he suddenly change his mind?" Billy asks with a serious face.
• "Yes, young master, I think that someone is pulling a string behind" Ray answered.
• "Alright let's visit the old French man then" Billy said looking determined.
• "You need to get changed so we can go to the airport, I already packed everything that is needed" Ray said to Billy.
• "Alright" Billy replied.
• "Help me get all information about the CEO of Zoey and let it be ready before we take off" Billy added.
• "Okay young master" Ray replied and they drove off. Billy's phone ring then he picked the phone.
• "Grandfather" Billy said as soon as he picks the call.
• "Billy, grandfather already arrange everything for the trip, go and show the old man what you've get" Billy's grandfather said proudly.
• "If this trip is a success, it will help the company a lot and the people doubting you will have nothing say" his grandfather tells him.
• "Alright grandfather you don't have to worry" Billy reply his grandfather.
• "That is my grandson" his grandfather said and disconnect the call.
• At the same time as Betty got home that evening, she did not meet her mother but the telephone start ringing, she picks it up.
• "Hello" she said.
• "Betty, this is dad, have been trying to call your number but it was not going through, your mom called me that your brother's condition suddenly gets worse, dad is still at work and I can't leave now, go and join your mom at the hospital, I will meet you very soon" Betty's father said and disconnected the call.
• Betty sigh and quickly rush to the hospital, his father later joins them.
• "What did the doctor say?" Betty's father said facing Betty's mother as soon as he came to the hospital, when Betty's mother saw her husband, she starts crying.
• "Honey, what are we going to do? The doctor said that Ben's heart has become very weak and he might die anytime soon if they don't operation on him soon and we need to pay for the operation, we also have to get a donor" Betty's mother said crying and suddenly collapse on the floor.
• Betty's father and Betty herself quickly help her up and make her sit on the bench.
• "We will try to get the money" Betty's father said, Bet's mother looks at her husband and ask.
• "How are we going to get the money? Where will you see such money?" Then she continues to cry, Betty looks at her parent sadly and went outside the hospital with a low spirit, she bends down in a corner and begin to cry.
• "Where are we going to get two million dollars?" She laments and continues to cry, when she cried for like thirty minutes, she later went to meet her parents, but her father already leaves to look for money.
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• Inside the plane, Billy and Ray sit in the first-class section, Billy looks through information of the CEO of Zoey's company handed to him by Ray.
• "The old man looks so interesting" he said to himself and face Ray.
• "How many hours will it take us?" He asks.
• "Like eleven hours" Ray answered.
• "Let me take a nap then" the plane later land in Paris late in the night and they went to the five-star hotel that Ray already booked, the next day Billy will be meeting with the CEO of Zoey.
• The next day in the morning, Billy dress up and went to the hotel that he is to meet with the CEO of Zoey, when he and Ray got there, they met the CEO'S secretary, she is in her forties.
• "The CEO will not be able to meet with you" the secretary said.
• "Because he has an urgent matter to attend to" she added, Ray looks very upset because it seems the old French man just make excuse because he doesn’t want to meet with them, Billy look calm and smirk.
• "Alright, we will have to reschedule another appointment" Billy said and they left for their hotel, though Billy is also angry with the old French man but he also finds him interesting.
• Getting into his hotel room but look at Betty’s number, he wants to call her, to tell her he will not be in school for some days but he hesitated.
• “I miss her already” he said as he lay on the bed staring at her number.