Creative Writing

"Charlie, Charlie come back!"Helena yelled after him, but she was to late Charlie was already gone.

Charlie is a struggling adult in the heart of New York City, as many are at his age. At night he is completing his degree in architecture at the prestigious New York University, during the day he is working at Williams & Co. design firm. Williams & Co. is the most powerful design company in the nation and Charlie is the bosses assistant. A million designers would kill for his job because with the reputation of working at Williams & Co. he could land a job anywhere. Charlie was being worked to his limit, he was sent on extraneous tasks and errands that would break the normal person. Charlie was determined to last at least a year, so he wouldn't let anything stop him.



On the morning of September 8th, 2009, the boss summoned Charlie into his office. "As you know," the boss started, "the French office is having their annual design exhibition here in New York this afternoon. They are displaying these new white, gold wheels. It is the ugliest item i have ever seen but the whole exhibition is revolving around the wheels so it must be a big deal. I need you to take them, you need to sabotage that exhibit. I hate the French office! You need to hide the wheels in a place no one from the french office staff would ever look. That is all, you're dismissed."

Charlie was confused by his new task but definitely not surprised. The boss was notorious for assigning him random errands so by all means sabotaging the French exhibit wasn't out of the ordinary.

With the label as the bosses assistant at Williams & Co., Charlie had no trouble entering the exhibition during the assembly period before the opening that evening. Using his mesmerizing charm, Charlie skated right by without anyone suspecting he was up to any trouble. When the main room was empty, he quickly grabbed the wheels and walked out the same way he came in. As easy as that, he had just ruined the entire French exhibition and no one would ever know he did.

The boss was always vague with his instructions but he insured that he had all of the bases covered when giving an assignment. Charlie recalled that his boss told him to, "... hide the wheels in a place no one from the French office staff would ever look. " Charlie, being a New York veteran, knew that there was only one place that the high class French workers would never go, and that place was the subway.

Charlie made his way to the underground platform just as the next train was pulling up. He was leaning over, to place the wheels inside, when he looked up only to see the entire French staff to get off of the train. Charlie stuffed the wheels behind him to greet his co-workers at they departed the train. Then it dawned on him, the French were celebrating their environmental week which meant the use of public transportation. Charlie turned and ran away as fast as he could, pushing through crowds and stampeding up the stairs to reach the surface. One of the French worker, Helena, noticed what he was carrying and began to yell at him just as he was running through the exit of the train station.

"Well, he's gone." Helena said turning around to her workers....