Living in L.A as a teenage set designer

Emi, a senior in high school, is not your average teen. Instead of having what I guess you could call a normal teenage life, with school, sports, friends, possibly a part time job, and anything else you would consider normal, she works as a set designer for movies while balancing school. She goes above and beyond for her job and works extremely hard. It is something she is very passionate about and would love to see herself doing the rest of her life. It does not come right out and say she got the job through her brother Toby but, you can infer that considering he also has a job in the movie industry and is slightly older than her. Toby does not live with Emi and their parents, instead he lives by himself in a classic L.A courtyard apartment. Although he lives by himself he’s still extremely close with Emi. They know a lot about each other, spend a lot of their time together and would do anything for each other.

Emi's best friend Charlotte is also a senior in high school. They’ve been friends for a while and would do anything for each other. She works in the movie industry as well as Emi. Part of their job is running all over the busy city of L.A to estate sales looking for items in the houses they could use for their sets. It basically comes with the job description. They both share a passion for what they do and work so hard to be where they are which is most likely why they are as close as they are. So close that even Charlotte and Toby are close. Toby decided to leave his apartment to the girls as a graduation present while he is away in Europe to shoot a film for two months. Instead of renting it out to people and making a lot of money off of it he wants Emi and Charlotte to do something “epic” with the place. He never specified exactly what because he wanted that to be up to them. Just one more thing that is most likely not happening in a normal teenager’s life.

Not long after Toby leaves for Europe, the girls find a letter from the most recent estate sale they went to that just so happened to be a recently deceased famous actor that they both admired. After trying to track down who the letter was addressed to they discovered that person was deceased as well and took it upon themselves to open the letter up to find out more about it. From reading the letter they found out it was addressed to a long lost daughter of the former actor. While trying to find the original person it was addressed to they found out she had a daughter, so naturally they want to find and track down that person to give the letter to incase it could have any meaning to her and since it was never able to reach her mother before she passed.

How would you feel living in Emi’s shoes? Would it be exciting or too much to handle at such a young age?