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"No proble itself, thanks to er on the ca s to be in the booth?" Justin asked

"Nah," Liz said, shaking her head "I’et a closer look I reserved a front-row seat, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to sit still"

"First shindig all on your own, huh?" He fiddled with the sound equipn-related appearance on campus this season too," she told hih-waisted black skirt She had paired it with a tucked-in V-cut Carolina-blue blouse that was loose and floith little gold buttons up the front Her nude suede heels finished off the outfit She had chosen it all carefully and felt a little silly She nor…everything to do with Brady

"It’ll be fine I’ve done shit like this before Their crew tries to take over anyway You probably won’t have to do much," Justin told her

"True" She tried not to think about it all She stood as her nerves took over "Hey, will you be able to splice this for et some of it up on the website as soon as possible"

"No way Not tonight"

"Oh co her hip into the counter

Justin shrugged noncommittally "Stuff"

"Do you want rumbled They had paper resources, but she wasn’t in control of h Hayden, but since he wasn’t here…

"I ht find some free ti to leave "So difficult"

"See ya around, Liz," he said, chuckling

"Bye, Justin"

Stupid AV abilities

Liz walked out of the sound booth, frustrated with Justin She had met him in her intro journalism class fresh and had made that blatantly obvious The professor hadn’t taken his shit, though, and forced hih she had allowed hied a friendship with Justin fro in her dorm, and seemed to always be around He refused to work for the paper or the UNC news channel, even though it was obvious that they could use his skills He preferred to be freelance They hung out sometimes with mutual friends, and he could be funny when he wanted

Her heels clicked against the hard wood floor as she circled the roonized soroup of girls waved at her as she walked by She snizing her She walked purposefully to the front of the room and took her seat in the front row

She felt a bit naked without her voice recorder, but she didn’t really need it, since Justin was videoing for her She pulled a se she had mocked up She had a few questions that h event and soton had said that she wasn’t going to get to ask any questions until the close of the event, and Liz wanted to be prepared

Her stoetting an intervieith Brady after the event Could she get that close to hi for the past teeks She was a professional…despite her actions If her editor wanted her to get an interview, then she could do it It didn’t matter if it was Brady Maxwell or the President of the United States This was her job, and she was going to take it seriously She couldn’t let her sexual attraction to the man mess up her career

The buzz in the rooe She was everything Liz re blond hair, a tall, sliray skirt suit She could have been a model, and Liz wondered what had made her beco somewhere and juet to this position?

Thinking about whether or not Brady had slept with his attractive press secretary wasn’t going to get her anywhere It was only going to make her jealous

"Hello, Chapel Hill! Thank you so htly It was a completely different façade than Liz had seen fro; on the phone she had been condescending and de; now she was über-cheerful