35 Exhausting diva

Wednesday, October 22nd

07h15am

In Mrs. Clifford's driveway, in front of Meg's car, Adam looks at his mother who is holding her emotions back. Yesterday, he was as honest as he could when he told her he wanted to continue living with Meg. His mother expected it, she contents to smile as she could, she accepted his choice, but made him do the promise to come and see her as often as he could and not to spend several more months without giving her any news.

"Well, Meg, Adam is tall but he's still very young in his head, like all men. They're all stupid, immature and, oh, I'm repeating myself again. All that to say is that you have to keep a close eye on him. As for you, my son. Don't eat anything suspicious, brush your teeth well, don't go out with wet hair and mumumu."

Adam feels very uncomfortable when he sees his mother crying. He is aware that women are weaker than men when it comes to separation, but still, this situation is not very serious. "Mommy doesn't cry, it's not goodbye, just a short separation."

A slap lands on Adam's hand as he simply wanted to take his mother in his arms to comfort her and two angry eyes land on him. "You have the nerve to tell me it's only a short separation after you've been gone for so long. How can I even trust you. Forget it, we don't have time to talk this morning. Come give me a hug, little Meg, and go ahead."

Adam feels that this is all a little unfair. His mother kisses his girlfriend tenderly but she slams the hand of her son who has a very good heart. Adam Still sulking, which has been very common since her return to his mother's house, Meg takes his bruised hand that he looks with chagrin, to lead him near the passenger side door, before getting into the car. When the little sporty Alpha Romeo disappears around the corner, Mrs. Clifford runs to the next house and rings the bell without delay. A handsome man, between 40 and 45 years old, opens and with a deep kiss, he consoles Mrs. Clifford when she throws herself into his arms.

10:30am Newark-Liberty Airport

In the boarding lounge, Sitting waiting to board the plane, a huge smile floats on Adam's lips as he imagines how his flight will be. Colourful cocktails at will and beautiful women in very short skirts, smiling, at his entire disposal and ready to do anything to satisfy him, Adam begins to drool, while a silly laugh resounds in the hall. Earlier, he and Meg made a brief stop at the agency to pick up the tickets, after which a car drove them here. When Adam opened the envelope containing the tickets in the car, he was breathless. For a few months, he had to travel abroad a few times but this ticket is different. According to Adam, they have the smell of the professional success.

Meg laughs low in front of this slightly agitated kid and very happy that his agency has reserved a first class for him. This trip is effectively different from the others, this time, in addition to simply representing the agency, Adam will sign a significant contract and appearances are essential.

"Adam, don't get too used to this luxury because it won't always be the case, unless you make them a lot of money. For the moment, they are very satisfied with you and they see you as someone in whom they should invest. Prove them right and you can then have the chance to make every flight first class."

At these words Adam suddenly feels that his ambition has taken him to a new level. He is neither greedy for money nor materialistic, but Adam likes the little attentions he receives, it flatters his ego and always motivates him to do better. Just as you can tame a wild animal by offering it food day after day, Adam is not so different and his agency has understood it well. When they recruited him, they were a little concerned about his stubbornness to keep his current agent and his blatant lack of motivation.

The young man's agent turned out to be doing a good job and one day, by chance, they offered an advertising t-shirt to the young man given as a gift by the client with whom he was going to work. In front of Adam's usually un-expressive face that shone before their eyes and his spontaneous promise not to disappoint them, they understood that they were holding something. Since then, Meg has a little overflowed. Adam is like his mother. Her apartment has now been transformed into a garage sale full of advertising ashtrays, promotional posters and other trinkets that were offered to Adam by his agency.

Wednesday, October 22nd

07h00pm - New York time

Thursday, October 23rd

01h00am- Paris time

Paris Charles De Gaulles Airport

"Adam doesn't make that face. Okay, you slept through the whole flight, but what would you have done if you were awake anyway? Ah, there's our car."

Again Adam is dissatisfied. Contract with a fashion designer, first class flight, he is Roy April after all and he already imagined travelling the streets of Paris in a very luxurious car but he understands that he has overvalued himself and that, he has a lot of difficulty to accept it.

"Meg, can't we book a better range car? I have nothing against Nissan but I would have preferred a comfortable German or an Italian one full of style, not this miniature pseudo 4x4."

Today, Meg is exhausted by her work but above all, Adam who starts playing the diva and grumbles for everything, for the first time, is unbearable. She explained to him 100 times that only by working hard, by getting investing and proving himself will he be given the credit he wishes , but the current Adam seems to have forgotten every word. Meg who after a time difference does not want to fight in public, gets in the car.

"Our daily car rental fixed priceis $156/day. This makes this car the most upscale we can afford. In addition, I remind you that the keys were given to me by the airport staff and that AVIS closes at 00:00pm, which means that even if you want another car now it is impossible. I would add that, this car has already been settled for a period of 5 days. Now if the star has no more complaints, I still have to drive to our hotel and I'm exhausted, so you shut up, get in that car and pretend to be satisfied with what you have."

Did Meg scold him? More than being shocked, Adam really enjoyed watching Meg get angry. He actually finds her very cute when she looks like a sergeant. Eager to be reprimanded again, Adam throws himself into the car, then nibbled Meg's ear voraciously, as she burst out laughing and struggled unconvincingly.

"Scold me again and if you want to spank me, you have my permission. Hey Meg, did you see that? It's very dark outside, the windows of this car are tinted and the back seat is big."

After all these months of living together, Adam knows Meg's weak points well, who under his petty attacks slips her tongue along her lips and starts to breathe quickly. "Adam, you're really very annoying today. Since we're at this point, I'm going to erase the traces that this girl left on your body by applying my own prints. Get this off me, it's really not practical in a car."