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“Did you find out anything?”

I lowly whispered into my phone. I was sitting in the middle of our school's library ducking my head under my arms as I spoke. Kadie had just found out the night before that she'd be flying out to LA by the end of the week for a two week assignment. Eva, Kadie's boss, told her she'd be working with Jonah's team on a “secret” project. Apparently Jonah's company needed Darlington Co. to finalize a few details before taking the news to the presses. There were already rumors streaming through gossip news sites predicting what the announcement could be.

“Not yet” Kadie whispered back. “Eva's coming! I gotta go!” Her words were rushed as she hung up the phone.

I dropped my hands on the table and looked up at Sarah. She was sitting in front of me with her nose buried in class notes. “Sarah” I loudly whispered to get her attention. She looked up “how do you not know what's going on?”

“I'm sorry, Lynn” She pouted “My mum knows I've got a massive blabber mouth. She never tells me anything work related anymore!”

Connor was working late that night, so I decided to head back to my place. Jaime and I had been texting back and forth that day. He was working at the hospital close by to my apartment. I asked him to come over for dinner once he was done with his shift.

Once I settled in, there was a knock at my door. Jaime helped himself inside and greeted me as he walked in. “Hola mamacita!” He sang as he held up a bag of Chipotle.

We grabbed a couple of plates and plopped ourselves in the living room in front of the TV. We watched a rerun of 30 Rock as we caught up with each other.

“Jaime, you will never believe what happened..” I grabbed his arm, startling him.

“Oh my God! What?” He spoke with equal shock.

I told him all about Poppy and everything that happened between her and Adam. “...So, now she's threatening to sabotage his relationship with Kadie.”

“What the legitimate fuck?!” Jaime put down his plate and folded his arms as he thought to himself. “That girl is bad news.” He shook his head. “What is Adam planning on doing about it?”

“I don't know, but we've got to come up with something good.” I stared off into space as I thought of ideas before Jaime's voice brought be back to reality.

“So, what does Kadie think about the whole situation?” He asked as he bit into his burrito.

I put down my plate and made an are you kidding face, “Kadie has no idea. You know how she is, she'd flip shit.”

Jaime stopped in mid-bite. He covered his mouth before he cleared his throat. “Wait, I'm sorry, what?” I looked at him confused. “You two are seriously not going to tell Kadie? Lynn, do you understand the drama that's going to cause? Take it from me, I know drama...”

“I know, Jaime” I rolled my eyes, irritated. “But, if we tell her and she does something to Poppy? Eva's beloved niece? Maybe in the end she'll have Adam, but she sure as hell won't have a job. She's dreamed of working at Darlington. I can't sabotage that.”

Jaime shook his head “I don't know, Lynn.” He sighed between his thoughts, “something tells me this is gonna go terribly wrong.”

“Let's hope for the best” I sighed, defeated. Jaime shrugged his shoulder and tapped his plastic coke bottle against mine.

We finished up dinner and Jaime headed back home.

The rest of the week rolled by quicker than it came. We were at the last few weeks of our semester before summer vacation, so I was glad time was flying by.

Saturday morning Adam and I dropped off Kadie at the airport. After she safely made it past security, Adam took me back to Connor's place.

“So, what's been going on with Poppy? Any updates?” I asked as we sat in the car.

“She's pissing the shit out of me.” Adam collected himself before he continued. “She's been trying to reach out to Kadie all week. I've been having to watch her like a hawk. Which is only making it worse because now she's on to me.” He put his hand behind my head rest and turned around to back out of the parking spot.

“What do you think she's going to do? I don't know if Kadie would believe anything Poppy would say.” My conversation with Jaime earlier this week kept playing back in my head. “Maybe we should tell her?”

Adam switched the gears on his car and looked over at me. “You're kidding, right? You know Kadie idolizes Poppy. She'd believe anything. That's what I'm afraid of.”

“We've got two weeks to get rid of Poppy Leroux” Adam and I looked over at each other in agreement.

Half an hour later, we finally made it to Connor's place. I invited Adam inside for a drink. I knocked on the door, but Connor never opened it. I pulled out my spare key and opened the door. Adam helped himself on the couch while I looked around the apartment trying to find Connor. When he was no where in sight I gave him a call.

“Hey babe, where are you?” I asked as he answered the phone.

“Lynn, I'm so sorry I just got pulled into work this morning. I've been so swamped I didn't get a chance to tell you.” I could hear another doctor from his practice talking in the background and the sound of shuffling papers. Just those alone made me feel bad for him.

“That's fine. Adam dropped by, but it's okay we can do something later.”

“Wait” the sound of shuffling papers stopped. “Adam's there?”

“Yeah” I responded slowly.

“He's at my apartment, alone, with you?” Connor asked insinuating something else.

“Is there a problem? Because I really don't see one.” I replied in a stern voice.

There was a second of silence before Connor exhaled a heavy breath, “I'll see you later” his voice had quickly gone from distracted to annoyed.

Once we hung up I turned towards Adam and shook my phone. “This boy is gonna be the death of me.” I tossed it onto the couch and went into the kitchen to pour out some mimosas.

After an hour of chatting, Adam decided to go on his way. I spent majority of my day lounging around Connor's place until he'd gotten home that evening.

He walked into the apartment looking drained. His outfit was much more casual than his normal work week attire. He walked over and gave me a kiss as he greeted me. Eventually falling over on the couch, exhausted.

“Why'd you have to go in today?” I asked curiously.

“I'm working on a project with the other doctors for a charity.” Half of Connor's attention was on me and the other half on the muted TV playing the news. He furrowed his brows and turned towards me. “Why was Adam here?”

“He dropped me off after the airport. We thought you'd be home, so he came inside to see you.” I explained.

“Why didn't he leave when he saw I wasn't here?” Connor asked.

“Because I told him to stay anyway for drinks.” I looked at Connor as if he were crazy.

“Lynn, you know I don't like that sort of thing” He sat up straight as he spoke.

“I'm sorry, you don't like what? Me being friends with my best friend's boyfriend?”

“I don't like you being here, or anywhere, alone with another guy.” Connor stood up and walked to the kitchen.

“That's ridiculous” I mumbled to myself.

“What?” Connor looked over at me from where he was standing.

“Adam's a friend, Connor. I think you're being a little too paranoid.” I rolled my eyes.

Connor walked half way back to the living room. “I don't care. If you want to be friends with them, fine. But don't hang out with them alone. I said I don't like it, I don't like it.” We stood there staring at each other until he walked back into the kitchen. I decided to pick my battle and stayed quiet. By now I'd known that Connor has a short temper and I really didn't want to deal with another argument.

We spent the rest of the night watching TV in silence. Sunday morning I headed back to my apartment to get my things ready for the week.

It wasn't until Monday morning that I'd gotten a call from Kadie. She knew my schedule, so I though it was weird that she was calling me during class. I quickly ran out into the hallway to answer her call.

“K? Is everything okay?”

“Oh my God, Lynn.” Kadie sounded like she'd just ran a marathon. As she was catching her breath a Google alert went off on my phone. I had set one up in case anything was announced about Jonah's company. “You will never fucking believe this!” Kadie's voice shouted through the phone as I pulled away to see the alert.

I covered my mouth in shock as I read the headline:

LEAKED: NETWORK WILL ANNOUNCE LATE NIGHT HEAD WRITER, JONAH COHEN, TO TAKE OVER TALK SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY