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And just as Lou began to walk away from the living room, the front door opened up again and revealing the person she was half expecting and half nervous to see, Ian. He started babbling, just like in high school, doing silly things and even tried pinching his self to see if she was not an apparition and spoke, "Louella Hamilton... how great it is to see you again."

Her mouth gaped as she lost all strength in her, she almost dropped the flute glass on the floor if Darren haven't rescued her and held both her elbows from behind. He knew what was happening, he had an idea who the guy standing in front of them is. Darren didn't spoke a word but she knew he meant to comfort her. She tried to sniff back the tears that are forming in her eyes as she sense the sarcasm in his words, he stood there frozen like her.

"Ahhhh you must be Ian, one of the winners. We are still on the wait for 3 more people and then the briefing will come. Here, have some champ-," But even Darren get to finish his ice breaker a younger and hipper looking girl burst in the room, filled the room with energy that was somehow opposite of James' and was as surprised to see James as Ian was to her.

"Hi, My name's Claudia but you can call me Chachi if you don't m-- James? James Mile, what are you doing here?!" The girl who called herself Chachi exclaimed. Hopefully they haven't realized the pattern just yet but then she heard James make a sarcastic comments about the odds. She tried to look at Darren with a look as if saying "help me". He nodded and tried to enter the conversation between the other two contestants when James decided to leave the room. "Well, so much for welcoming people." Darren half complained about the drama, it was after all what he wanted in his documentary.

"Miss Gonzales, I think we've worked together before. You were in that kids show I produced years ago, aren't you?" He turned towards Chachi and tried to make a conversation. Leaving her under Ian's scrutinizing looks. She gulped and looked down on her peep toed shoes, as if the baby blue nail polish on her toes were the most interesting thing in the room. He still looked like that guy who's heart she broke. Everything was the same with him since she last saw him, even the hurt look in his eyes were still there. She raised her look again, he was still there.

She wanted to comfort him but knew that the years of pain formed a huge thick wall between them. It's just like being a wildlings of Game of Thrones, I can't just climb and destroy it. She smiled weakly about her nerdy thoughts, she then realized she was giving him the weak smile and was hoping he'd positively react to it. She's just a total klutz over boys since she never had one after Ian. Dates, about a million of them, usually dates her mother fixed or when Rupert flies in from London but not a single relationship since Ian and how she missed being held under the stars.