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{Time: 8:00am}{Date: June 7th, 2015}{Location: Glasgow Prison}

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“What the hell do you mean you’re leaving?” Matty’s voice was harsh and irritated as they sat in the private inmate visitor room. Sadie sat arms crossed as she rolled her eyes. “We are already on the verge of losing Lana and your fucking taking off? Are you kidding me Sadie.” He spat rising his voice.

Matty was Sadie’s estranged fiancée, he’d been in prison for the past few years for a number of reason and even from prison he was still abusive and controlling when it came to Sadie and what she did. Sadie wasn’t entirely sure why she even went to visit him because he was impossible to talk to. Sadie was about the only person who wasn’t scared of him, even the prison guards seem to be on edge when they dealt with him. She avoid contact for a long moment of silence between them before he slammed his cuffed hands down on the table and Sadie had enough. She stood up placing both her hands on the table, holding his eyes now.

“You think I don’t know that Matty, I’m not stupid. I’m doing this for her. Everything I’ve done is for her.” Sadie spat back never breaking contact despite the dark look in Matt’s eyes. “If I don’t do this, there’s a good chance will never see her again.” She breathed. “I have to go.” She said simply walking towards the door and as she did she could hear Matty yelling at her to come back and that he wasn’t finished but she couldn’t stop, because she knew if she stayed to long he’d talk her out of going and for once in her life she had to stop being selfish if she ever wanted a chance at getting her daughter back, no matter how much she hated the idea.

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{Time: 7:00pm}{Date: June 9th, 2015}{Location: Hotel Principe di Savoia Milan; Milan, Italy}

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Sadie was exhausted, but after a nineteen hour flight with two layovers, she’d finally arrived in Milan, Italy where she was meeting the Neroli brothers for the first time as well as the rest of the group she’d be traveling with for the next year. She wasn’t exactly nervous, nor excited. She was only doing it in the honest hope that she could get clean, get custody back of her daughter, and get the hell away from Matt. She spun her engagement ring on her finger as she sat in the conference room. she was the first to arrive and she was starting to get second thoughts about the whole thing, debating whether or not she should just leave.

The door opened and two men came into the room, whom she assumed was the Neroli brothers. Sure enough that’s exactly who it had been. They introduced themselves and told her to help herself to the refreshments as they waited on the rest of the people to get there. No more than five minutes later another girl showed up, platinum blonde hair, business suite, looking rather up tight. The Neroli brother’s gave her the name Meadow, just like they’d given Sadie the name Rainey. They weren’t supposed to use their real names. Next through the door was a guy with a thick Asian accent, Cyress was the name he’d been given.

Saide already felt out of place, because while the other two looked clean cut and seemed rather uptight. She was the complete opposite. Bleach blonde hair that hung just past her hips, covered in tattoos. She sighed as she ran her fingers through her long hair and continued to focus on her engagement ring, not really in the mood to introduce herself.

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{Time: 7:20pm}{Date: June 9th, 2015}{Location: Hotel Principe di Savoia Milan; Milan, Italy}

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Toby was excited, he’d never been outside of New York city and now he was driving through Milan, Italy on his way to a four star hotel. It was surreal for him and he couldn’t be more grateful. Toby had never been one to ask for much, nor had he every really wanted anything. He’d always been the one giving up his food for other and taking care of people, he was always putting people before himself and it was nice to finally be doing something for himself. His life had been so shitty up until this point. The sun was going down, the sky a pink yellow color, resembling sherbet ice cream and he smiled at the thought.

The information he’d gotten told him to bring only what he needed, which was just about everything he owned. He had a small backpack with exactly two shirts he’d found in the trash and managed to wash in a gas station bathroom sink, a pair of jeans he’d been wearing for the past two years, and a picture of his mom and sister. That had been the extent of his personal possessions since he’d lost his mom. In all honesty though he didn’t mind it because having nothing made him appreciate everything else a little more.

When the taxi cab finally stopped in front of the hotel he climbed out and looked up at the large, beautiful detail of the building and for the first time he realized that this was really happening. It wasn’t just a dream. He pushed through the expensive glass door, adjusting the strap of his backpack on his shoulder. He didn’t look awful, he’d managed to put together a decent enough outfit to make him look a little less homeless and a little more put together. The front desk pointed him in the direction of the conference room. He made his way down the expensive looking corridors of the hotel before pausing in front of a door the had a piece of paper titled [i]“The Wanderlust Project”[/b]

He reached for the door only someone opened it before he had the chance. “You must be Toby.” A man spoke in his thick Italian accent and Toby knew by the accent and the way he was dressed that he was one of the Neroli brothers. Toby nodded with a shy smile. “Great, well, You’ll be going by River, Martin is inside, go ahead and get settled were waiting for two others.” He explained as he opened the door gesturing for Toby to go inside and he hesitated for a moment before he finally ducked into the room.

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As Sadie and the other’s waited for the rest of the group to show up, Sadie wasn’t really paying much attention to the others. They’d introduced themselves by the given name from the two brother, however after that, Sadie had tuned their bickering out. She hadn’t realized how much she loved her daughter until she was thousands of miles away from her, the idea of not seeing her for an entire year was agonizing, not to mention she was already having withdrawals. A bottle of vodka and a couple lines of coke sounded really damn good right about now.

Soon enough the rest of the group had showed up, one more girl who was quite beautiful actually and a guy who looked like a beach bum and Sadie just sighed. She listened as the brother’s went on amount the rules. They weren’t allowed phones and had to give them up, they weren’t allowed to use their real names at any point, hence their given names, and lastly there was no giving up and going home unless injured or ill.

Finally they’d been given the itinerary. They’d spend their first night in the fancy hotel and tomorrow would be a day for them to relax and get to know each other, then it was all camping, cameras in their faces and living life to the fullest after that.

“Alright so seeing as this is a project to push you out of your comfort zones, rooms will be boy/girl instead of girl/girl, boy/boy.” Angelo said with a small smile in his Italian accent. Sadie scoffed rolling her eyes she pitted whatever guy had to room with her, they’d hate her by morning. “So Meadow and Cyress. You’ll be rooming together. River and Promise you’ll be in another room, which leaves Ziggy and Rainey.” Angelo said passing out one room key to each group, so as to force the group of two to stay together. “Will see you all tomorrow afternoon.” Angelo said before him and Martin disappeared for the room.

Sadie didn’t bother saying anything, simply grabbed the key that sat in front of her and glanced to the shaggy haired guy with a smirk on her lips and she looked at him over the top of her sunglasses. “Let’s go surfer boy.” She breathed sarcastically in her thick Scottish accent as she pulled her bleach blonde hip length hair to one side, she didn’t bother waiting for him as she slipped out the door, ready to get to their room and get settled. She lit herself a cigarette, despite the several “No Smoking” signs as she headed towards the elevator, wondering if Ziggy would catch up to her, but not really caring either way.

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Toby was surprised at the outcome of participants, they were all so different. Another girl stepped into the room, she was beautiful and he suddenly felt out of place, because he was beginning to realize just how fortunate everyone else was, but he wasn’t going to let it get him down, it was way too damn early. His eyes followed her as she sat down and pulled out her DS and he couldn’t help but smirk.

Finally once the final participant showed up, the brother’s started the orientation. They went over everything in depth, the rules and what they would and wouldn’t be filming and as they talked about it Toby couldn’t help but get excited. It seemed the a completely life changing journey and he was looking forward to it. He also couldn’t help but keep his eyes from flicking to the golden haired girl, whom they’d introduced as Promise.

Eventually after a long hour or so of interdictions, rules, regulations, and schedules they were told that they’d be sharing a room with the opposite sex which seemed to irritate the girl covered in tattoos and Cyruss who seemed to think he should have his own room. Toby didn’t complain, he’d gotten paired with Promise, the beautiful girl on the DS.

The first people to file out of the room were Cyress, Meadow, and Rainey. He turned his attention to his roommate. “Looks like we only have one key.” He said picking it up “A some free time.” He said offering a friendly smile. “You wanna grab a bite to eat? We might as well start getting to know each other know.” He shrugged.

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