20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2020-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Olivia

08:39

Herons Quays, East London

Olivia Harringay fiddled with the strap on her summer dress and flicked back her auburn hair. She was ready for another week of work, and this one promised to be bigger than any that had gone before it. By Friday afternoon, she should have learned if she had been successful in gaining the promotion she had applied for. Five days away from more money, more power and more opportunities. Senior Editor at AMI Music, the largest online music blog in the UK and one of the top 10 in the world.

That was the goal, and she was so close to it that she could almost reach out and touch it.

But for now, she would have to make do with reaching out and turning on her desktop monitor and beginning what she hoped would be her final week as just an Editor. It would be weird to have the Senior tag before her job title, she had thought on many occasions while pondering her potential promotion. After all, she was only twenty-nine. There was nothing senior about that part of her. But in terms of experience, she fitted the bill.

As she waited for her computer to load up, she looked around the busy office and felt pride at how far she had come. It had all started when, at sixteen, she had begun writing a personal blog about her favourite musicians, and now here she was, employed by an international company, and with the power to make or break musicians by writing one simple article.

Quite an impressive leap, she thought, contentedly.

She had always been a massive music fan. As a young girl in the nineties, she had worshipped boy bands like Take That and East 17. She had even gone to bed every night as a ten-year-old with a poster of Robbie Williams above her bed. But her favourite group had always been the Spice Girls. She had listened to their CDs on repeat for hours on end, performed all the routines in the mirror while singing into her hairbrush and had even persuaded her mum to buy her a Union Jack dress like the one Geri Halliwell wore to the Brit Awards in 1997. But her absolute favourite childhood memory was going to watch the group at Manchester Arena when she was nine. Seeing the popstars performing on the massive stage, in their incredible costumes and in a gigantic venue with 15,000 people, had well and truly blown her mind and she had known then that music would be her life.

Of course, her original dream had been to be up there on the stage herself one day, singing her heart out into a microphone to a sea of adoring fans. The plan had been to form a girl group and then, after years of success, to achieve even greater things as a solo artist. Geri had done it. Beyoncé had done it.

And Olivia Harringay was going to do it.

But, as with most childhood dreams, the problem with

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