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Alexa

All I was asking for was five more minutes of sleep, but ht and was blinging and blonging off the hook I wasn’t the type of person who had many friends, and my parents were traditionally farevery second of every day, so I couldn’t figure out for the life of et a hold of

I kept my eyes closed and just waited for it to settle its incessant chirping Maybe if I just wished and prayed to the gods of ‘fivea fewout of control, so I snuggled down a little further intoconsciousness fall over me I was nearly back on a beach with Chris Heain

“What?” I screah there was anyone else in the room but me

I flipped over and grabbed htstand next to me and unlocked it There were no texts or phone calls at all, just tons and tons of notifications about some major television network that had lost the head anchor of their news channel after allegations of drug abuse I clicked one of the first notifications and when I saw the face in the thumbnail for the news story, my heart turned to stone

“No…”

A casually dressed journalist on one of those YouTube news channels was standing in front of an obvious green screen with the frozen ie of a pair of oosebumps at the pair of familiar faces

Harley and Huxley Foxx God spare me any more torture You took me away from Thor for this?

“Scandal broke today as Foxx Media fired Felicity Quitte for gross misconduct and abuse of co habit Owner and CEO Richard Foxx took to social ravely disappointed in Quitte’s actions, but is sure that his boys will be able to find a new anchor quickly By ‘boys’ he is of course referring to his twin sons Huxley and Harley who run the media company in their father’s stead We tried to reach out to the young entrepreneurs to see if they have any leads, but was told they would not be co on that at this time”

I scoffed at my phone as I turned it to silent I was a journalist myself, and an old mentor of mine had toldnews As a result I had set all ofnews in the world, and certainly the sudden opening of one of the highest salaried positions in journalis it was, interested I was not I was one of the few people in the world who knew that it was the Foxx twins thes They were brash, rude, and belittling I had the prestige “honor” of going to college with the several courses, and what little interaction I had with them was too much

It wasn’t just that they were unpleasant people, but there was a ru the school that the Foxx brothers shared woether with just one woman, and had even seen them both out on dates with the same one woman They never seeant and weird sexual traits? They were trouble with a capital ‘T,’ and I could only ie, I was ain

“God protect whichever poor sap ends up with that gig,” Imy phone back down on the table

Realizing I probably wasn’t going to be getting anymore sleep for the day, I flipped off ed into my kitchen and tried to decide what to make otten back fro an independent exposé on the recent upset to the royal faland I didn’t work for any company in particular Instead, I’d made a name for myself as an independent journalist and different news companies would pay me for my stories It wasn’t the best way to make money in the field, and could be inconsistent, but it put food on the table and I got to travel the world at my leisure Just like in school, I’d staunchly avoided the Foxx’s network, not that they’d be interested even if I hadn’t