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We called our holding rooreen and looked like sole Book, with more plants than any one rooreen L-shaped couch, an oversized table, and a bookshelf overfloith co we didn’t even use anye since everything was converted electronically and run via coive them away to listeners because they didn’t have a way to play the das
Scott nodded “Sounds great Make sure the ca in the main booth so we can upload pictures to sociala contest to win front-row seats to his concert next Friday, so be prepared for the phones to blow up” He looked down and scribbled notes on the checklist he held
“Got it,” I said with a smile
“I heard that Crineene got kicked out of a club last night after getting into a fistfight with her boyfriend A fistfight,” Torin “Make sure you find that story”
“Awesome” I smirked as I shook my head
Theand printing up stories about celebrities that had happened overnight, including Crineene’s incident On the one hand, I was thankful that there was enough dra the show, but on the other I wondered how the hell all that had happened in the span of twenty-four hours
This was exactly why I had no interest in dating a musician or someone in the business That entire scene didn’t interest me outside of this radio station I loved my job and it was fun to meet the people whose music I enjoyed, but that was as far as I took it
In college I dated a dru a record deal The experience pretty ht have on boys who sang or played instruuys had a probleirlfriends to overlook any indiscretions because girls were constantly throwing themselves at their feet
“You can’t expect ht, babe It’s not like I like theht?”
No, I didn’t understand, and I didn’t want to
Realizing that I’d hadnormalcy when it came to the opposite sex Problem was, I had no idea where to find said normalcy since celebrities and people in the radio business were the only people I tended to associate with duringhours
To be fair, theo out all the ti a scene, and doing bad things I wasn’t that kind of girl, and as soon as they found out that I’d rather be at home in my pajamas than at a party in the Hollywood Hills, they seeht have had
The truth was that being required to attend VIP parties, concerts, private events at clubs and bars for workout at any of those places outside of work I wanted to spendup on sleep And when my best friend, Kristy, called every Saturday afternoon and begged ht so she could blow off stea to have dinner with her somewhere fun It was the best I could do
During the show, I sat outside in the control roouys as they sat in front of the eneral Los Angeles area They hadthe phones
“To,” I said automatically as I answered the phone
“Oh, hi!” The feht off guard She sounded nervous, which was pretty standard in my experience
“Hi” I hesitated, wondering how much I would need to probe her about why she called in the first place
“I was calling about the worst-first-date stories they were talking about” She giggled into the phone, and I foundtoo
“Awesoive me the quick version,” I said
Working for the nu show meant that one of my jobs was to screen the callers before we put them on the air So to screw up the show, be vulgar, or say things that had nothing to do hat the guys were currently talking about