A/N: Ok so I got inspiration for this story so I decided to give it a try. I will try to update What A Kiss Means soon, for those of you who read it, but I lost the text that told me all of the different kisses, and I'm trying to find it on the internet so that I can finish the story. Hope you like this, Review please! It's always appreciated. Thank you to those who have read my stories and reviewed, you guys are awesome!

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Mitchie Torres sighed as she looked at her computer screen. She had written yet another article on the importance of music in people's lives, the influence it played, but no one would ever read it. No one would publish it. Not if she continued to work at Chic magazine. No she would continue to be the How To columnist. Even after getting a Major in writing with a minor in music at Columbia. She would continue writing how to Get a Job, How to Lose 10 pounds, How to look like Angelina Jolie.

"Hey Mitchie, that's really good."

Mitchie turned to face one of her best friends, Caitlyn Gellar, a girl with honey blonde curly locks, who also worked with her.

"Too bad no one will see it."

"Mitchie, give it to Lindsey, she might go for it."

"She would never go for it."

Mitchie saved the file and pulled up her next How-to article. How to keep your hair, healthy and fabulous.

"Meeting in 30" Lola, another writer for the magazine came over to Caitlyn and Mitchie, and as soon as she was there, she was gone.

Mitchie and Caitlyn exchanged looks.

"Mitch, where's Ella?"

"You get the coffee, I'll go get her, it must have been Cory."

Mitchie ran out of the office and down the street. She finally got to her destination and ran up to the fourth floor. Room 3. She knocked on the door and a crying Ella opened the door. She was a beautiful Filipino with hair down to her back.

"I don't want to go to work."

Mitchie pushed her way into the apartment and dumped out a bag with a new jacket and her favorite discontinued nail polish.

"Ella, just forget Cory. There are way better guys out there."

"But Mitchie I thought he was the one."

"Ella, you only dated him for a week."

After getting Ella ready in 15 minutes we hurried over to the office where Caitlyn was waiting with Tess and they had coffee.

"Ella, I'm so sorry." Tess came over to Ella and hugged her. Caitlyn glanced over at Mitchie and they shared the same sympathetic expression.

"I thought Corey was the one, I mean, we had such a connection, but then he stopped calling, so I called, and called, and called, and he never called me back."

"Oh Ella, no wonder he didn't call you back, you were acting desperate and needy, guys hate that." Caitlyn exclaimed, trying to put it into the nicest way possible.

Ella just sobbed as we walked into the office just in time for the meeting. We sat around in the lounge getting ready to tell Lindsey our ideas for new stories and articles.

"Shoes off!" Lindsey strolled into the room and sat on the couch. "now! What new ideas do we have? Peggy!"

Peggy sat up confidently "I'm covering fashion week."

"Excellent! Caitlyn"

"I'm interviewing Leighton Meester." Caitlyn replied cautiously.

"Marvelous! Mitchie!"

Mitchie looked up and then looked at Caitlyn who nodded to her pushing her to stand up for herself.

"I want to write an article on Music"

"What about music? Are you interviewing Brittany Spears?"

"No I-"

"No buts. If it's not a celebrity, or a How To, you aren't writing it. Ella"

Ella looked up sniffling. Tess took the opportunity to speak up.

"Ella had a break up."

"Oh dear, that's horrible, I'm so sorry." Lindsey replied sounding sorry, but she always was a good actress. "Maybe someone can use this experience to write about."

"I don't want my love life as an example." Ella replied with tears falling down her cheeks.

"Well-"

Mitchie then had an idea strike her; she wasn't going to let just anyone write about this.

"Me! I will!" Mitchie's hand shot in the air as she spoke up.

Ella looked confused. "You will?"

"Yeah, I mean, some women make many mistakes in relationships, like Ella, and I think that I should do a How To in reverse. I'll date a man, then I will do everything to turn him away write about it, and it will show women, what not to do."

Lindsey smiled. "I love it. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."

Mitchie was confused. "Wait, why 10 days?"

Lindsey smiled and replied, "Well publishing is in 12 days, and 5 days would be way too soon, so 10 days."

Mitchie nodded. So now all she had to do was find a guy and get him to break up with her in 10 days. She looked over at Ella who mouthed a thank you to her. she nodded and smiled. Even though she couldn't write about music, she would continue to write, because it was her job, and she didn't want to lose that.