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jaden_199969 Hailey wannabe

jaden_199969 U wish u were Hailey

jaden_199969 U just wanted Joel bc of his name not him

jaden_199969 U even use Hailey quotes

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jaden_199969 Ur racist too

jaden_199969 No one likes u

Lily puts a few celery sticks in the Breville blender on the kitchen counter in the Paleys’ main house. Ana is watching from the other side of the island like she’s sure Lily’s going to cause an explosion.

It’s not Lily’s usual breakfast, but she just wants to take something to go this morning so she can head straight to the hospital and see Joel. She wants to talk to him before he’s released. She has to explain why she ignored Hailey’s call last night.

Lily likes the sound of the blaring blender. It feels like she’s letting out what’s inside of her. She’s especially agitated because, for some reason, Sam wants “Real Home” footage of Lily this morning. Sam didn’t give her a shooting schedule. She just showed up.

“I thought the fashion show was the end of filming?” Lily asks.

“We want to check in with you,” Sam says, “see how you’re doing after…” Sam waves her hands around her chest.

Lily pours the celery juice into a plastic bottle. “This really isn’t a good time, Sam.” But Platinum Triangle will not be deterred. There’s a camera, and Lily has a mic wire dropped down her back while she takes a sip of her juice.

“Seriously,” Lily pulls away. “I just called an Uber.”

The doorbell rings. Ana goes to answer it and comes back into the kitchen to tell Lily that it’s for her.

“A boy,” Ana says.

Lily can feel the camera zooming in on her. She glares at Sam. What kind of a setup is this? Lily is so not in the mood! She starts pulling out her mic-pack as she walks down the hall to see who it is. Idris? What would he want? He gave Greta the letter last night, and from what Lily has heard in her Mentions, it did not go well.

When she sees who is, in fact, standing in the middle of the Paleys’ foyer, Lily stops dead in her tracks. She lets go of her mic-pack in surprise.

“What are you doing here?”

Chris picks up a framed family photo of the Paleys from the front table, next to a fresh bouquet of flowers.

“How’d I not know you were related to Hailey Paley?” he asks. “I follow her. Think I have a shot?”

Lily’s eyes automatically land on the camera that has followed them into the foyer. Hailey is still sleeping. At least, she hasn’t come downstairs yet. Or did she have the same idea as Lily and go see Joel early? If she is home, the last thing Lily wants is for Hailey to see her with Chis and go running to Joel, making it seem like something it isn’t.

“Come with me.” Lily grabs Chris by the arm, pulling him past the camera.

“Are we on TV?” Chris asks, almost dropping the frame as he replaces it on the table.

Lily leads him out back to the pool. The camera operator tries to follow them out.

“No way!” Lily gives a warning look to Sam. “You’re not shooting this!”

“Okay, okay!” Sam holds up her hands. “We’ll back off.” Sam motions for the camera to stay inside the house. Lily sees that the camera is still filming them through the glass door and she remembers her mic-pack. But instead of pulling it out, she decides that this is her opportunity to get a recording of Chris admitting that he was behind the break-in.

“Not happy to see me?” Chris asks. “Too much of a big-shot Beverly Hills princess now?”

“Nope,” Lily says. “Still just me. The same girl who sees through you.”

Lily pulls out her phone from her jeans to check the time.

“Somewhere you need to be?” Chris asks.

Lily just slides her phone back into her pocket.

“Joel Strom?” Chris asks. “I saw the photo he posted, and deleted, last night.”

“You don’t know anything,” Lily says.

“I know that I hope it works out. You’ve got a good thing going here, babe. The last thing I want to do is mess it up for you.”

“What do you want? I already told you I’m not interested in a publicity tour.”

“Come on; you gotta help me out! I already have a record and I’m not a minor like you. I’ll probably end up serving time over that fucking sheep.”

“And? It’s what you deserve. Time for you to grow up.”

“Say it was your idea to do the Malibu house. You were the one holding the Lalanne.”

“Because you made me! I tried to shove it out the window. You’re crazy if you think I’m taking the fall for this.”

“You’ll get no more than a slap on the wrist.” Chris waves her off. “I’ve been appointed a state attorney, some jerk-off with a hundred other cases. He doesn’t give a shit about me! But you have your fancy Beverly Hills lawyer, right? Patrick Paley hooking you up or what? No way you’re going to serve time.”

“You’re a real piece of work, you know that?”

“I’m not going anywhere until you agree to help. You owe me!”

“Owe you?”

“It wasn’t exactly a satisfactory date, you know what I mean?”

“That’s it!”

Lily shoves him into the pool.

And scene.