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Roman Orlov, A Long Day

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Today had been a long day for Roman Orlov, a long day indeed. He’d been in the office since eight this morning. Unable to sleep well recently had taken a toll on his appearance, spending much longer with the make-up artist today than usual. The same had happened yesterday too. This was becoming extremely awkward as he’d only slept with Emilia, the make-up artist, a few weeks prior. Maybe I should have called her.
He strolled down the corridors of Zvezda wondering whether Emilia had a word with his wardrobe stylist who’d handed him an awfully bright purple shirt and grey felt-looking trousers to wear for tonight’s show. He drained another coffee down his throat, knowing the caffeine would probably affect his slumber tonight.
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As he entered the studio door he was greeted by one of the assistants, a young man with much potential, Marc.
“Some of the script’s being thrown out. Breaking news has hit.” He beamed at Roman.
Roman rolled his eyes. He hated when breaking news came in. The tedious time of trudging through the papers and scouting the internet for the current news converted to wasted hours.
Marc handed him a few notes, but Roman would have the teleprompter to save the day.
“Thanks. Get me some coffee.” Roman demanded as he walked off to his place on set.
As he approached the desk he sat behind every night, Roman spotted Anna, his attractive co-host who was sitting down sipping her coffee and reading her notes.
“Anna.” Roman said in a playful manner as he sat in his chair giving her his best wink.
“Roman, I don’t have time to talk. You got the new script, right?” Her voice was flat. Her eyes never left the papers scattered in front of her. Roman thought she must be having an affair with one of the producers or was a lesbian as his charms had never worked on her.
She flirted with him on camera but only for the show, humouring their audience. Once they were off air she went back to her aloof self.
Roman couldn’t say he was particularly hurt, but he did wish he could kiss those sensuous lips of hers.
He hated looking at the scripts. Anna was fine, she was involved in all the exciting news and even wrote most her own stuff. Roman, on the

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