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In “Le Pacte”, written by Emily Chain and Anaël Verdier, four friends promise to do everything to make their dream come true.
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Here are the episodes of the week of June 14 for those who missed them ...
Previous episodes
Episode 3 - Antoine's Rising Ambitions
Headache, pill and fruit juice, this is the combo necessary for Antoine to succeed in lifting his buttocks off the bed this morning.
Fortunately he had the good idea not to take a mission right after the birthday. The others had to get up straight away and continue their same little life… That's the big resolution, right?
Forcing yourself for a long month to make an effort and give up by promising to do it next time?
Antoine doesn't like to waste his time, so he decided not to start at all.
Save time and energy.
However Louise does not seem to want to give up her idea of taking charge of her life goals.
“This is the start of your new life.
Don't forget what I told you!
"
He sighs, his text is bursting with energy and it is already exhausting him.
Why does she always need to get up at dawn, run a half marathon before leaving to be good at her job?
And even worse, in this post, she talks about HER dream.
How to tell him that being in his apartment, facing himself, his video games, his manga and a beer, seems completely idyllic to him?
He doesn't want to marry a dream that's unlike him and loves being a temp - for the freedom it gives him.
He thought he was ready to follow them, but he was already exhausted.
Louise manages to discharge her batteries from a distance.
What is he going to be able to write to her to calm her down?
He taps a quick response:
"How could I forget it!"
"
Now he must give the change: find a dream.
Episode 4 - Obviously
Slaloming between cars on a used scooter, Louise doesn't wonder how she got there.
In her retro, she watches the glass and steel building move away where she spends her days auditing accounts.
Others ask themselves these questions.
Assane.
Antoine.
Samia too, maybe a little.
That comes from their pact, it is for them that she proposed it.
But Louise, she knows.
The time she spends in these offices prepares her future.
By parking the two-wheeler at the bottom of her building, she has already forgotten the smell of industrial detergent that leaves carpets ever softer.
In the elevator she already imagines herself, in a week, at the detective literature fair with her two authors.
How will she decorate the stand of her publishing house?
What sales goal is she aiming for?
She knows the number of which she dreams but refrains from thinking it.
Louise prefers to celebrate her victories, however humble, than mourn her ambitious defeats.
When she pushes open the door to her apartment, Aymeric is there.
At the living room table - the one they stuck to the wall for want of a better seat - he scratches on his Rhodia.
Absorbed by his work, music on his ears, he did not look back.
She makes him jump with a kiss on the neck and immediately disappears.
No time for more.
A hot bath will complete the evaporation of his first day of work.
Then she'll look at Pocahontas with a distracted eye before starting the second.
Tonight, she gives herself until midnight before going to bed.
Episode 5 - Assane's Lie.
When the pact was effective, Assane drank.
A lot.
In his defense it was a birthday, the first without Étienne.
However, alcohol must have made him grow sacred wings, since he finds himself in front of a response email from an editor whom he does not remember having contacted.
“Thank you for your suggestion.
Our submissions close at the end of April.
In view of your email, this will not be a problem.
I look forward to reading your book.
Good day to you.
"
The electronic signature below confirms that it is a collection director.
In five years of wading through the publishing world, he has never managed to have a viable contact.
Always automatic, laconic responses.
And inevitably, it is the day when he writes a heated email under the influence of alcohol that he is taken seriously.
He reads his email again, including:
“An anthology on the feelings of a professor in agreement with the agony of a generation considered miracle.
"
An entire program.
The sequel develops to what extent he assists, helplessly, in the way in which young people are designated as a solution by drowning them with injunctions.
But what could have crossed his mind!
His phone vibrates, number unknown, he picks up anyway.
- Hello?
- It's me, Louise.
I changed the number, in short, we have to talk about your finished novel, I had an idea!
His novel finished?
Didn't he also lie to his friend?
It would seem that it is.
No choice, he must finish this first novel not even started yet.
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