Prologue: Sadie gives Jess the idea for the apartment

"Cece, you know I love you. And the last week has been like a throw back to old school slumber parties. But…" Jess took a sip of the liquid courage floating over the ice in her glass, "… I'm having a really hard time with all the models! I need to find my own place stat." Her voice got louder at the end than she had intended it too. She had been holding on to those words for the past few days, just waiting for the right opportunity.

"I agree it has been tight quarters, and you do need to start moving on and all, but Jess they're not THAT bad. They are my friends." Cece said at first rubbing her friend's shoulder in a supportive best friend way, and then almost simultaneously pulling away and looking offended in a harmless, yet intimidating way that only Cece could pull off.

"And we are your friends too Cece. But I'm with Jess on this one. They may all be hot or whatever but they can definitely lack in the conversation department." Sadie chimed in as the third person at the table, taking on the role of referee, as she sometimes had to do when Cece got defensive about her model friends, and so she got the conversation back on track. "Now Jess, I have been thinking about your situation and the best way to close out the chapter that was 'the Spencer years'. I have been putting out the feelers for apartments for rent and I think I found one that you should look into."

Both Jess and Cece leaned further into the table looking intrigued. It had been so hard to find a good place in LA and they had both been looking everywhere. "Okay shoot partner, I'm all ears" said Jess in her old timey voice that was so uniquely hers.

"It's actually a place that belongs to an ex of an ex of mine. They posted it online a few weeks ago, but they have only had real weirdos so far. Apparently there was even some guy who showed up to interview with all his stuff, including a box with air holes that was making the strangest sounds." Sadie shuddered at the thought of the memory of the story.

"Get to the point, Sadie. We want the details. Who is this girl and where is the place?" Cece took the next round of drinks of the waiter's tray with a small 'thank you' wink and wave towards the guys a few tables down who had apparently bought them this round, almost without missing a beat.

"Well she dated my ex Julia for a while, remember Julia the lawyer?"

"Oh you mean the callous bitch who you dated for a few months last year and who never liked Jess?"

"What?! What do you mean she NEVER liked me?" Jess almost spit out her drink at Cece's nonchalant way of a description and stared wide eyed from Sadie to Cece and back to Sadie.

"It's not that she didn't like you as a person Jess. She just didn't understand you. She didn't get you like we do. Julia had just never met a legitimately nice, honest and wonderful person like you. She has always had a chip on her shoulder, that's why it didn't last with us." Jess seemed to be comforted by this and retreated back to her drink, letting her straw find its way back to her mouth. "Anyway, after me, she started dating Nicole. It didn't last for them either, not really sure why, I think Julia said she was 'too clingy'. Which I don't really get because to Julia if the person at the coffee shop remembers your order, she thought that was too 'stalky'. Man that used to really bother me. Why did we ever stay together for so long?" Sadie had started rambling to herself they way most people do when they look back on a relationship with crystal clear hindsight.

"Because you said the sex was AMAZING. Now back to the apartment. What's it like?" Cece was very direct.

"I can't believe she never liked me and you never told me." Though she said it more to herself than to Sadie, it was really starting to bother Jess that this woman who her friend dated for just a few months, over a year ago didn't get her.

"That's right! She did that thing with her thumb and her tongue that just…" Sadie started staring off, her words more and more to just herself, lost in the memory.

"Jess, don't sweat it. If I ever see her again I'll be sure to kick her ass. Now Sadie, what's the deal with the apartment? Apparently Jess needs to move out stat" Cece said the last word with bunny rabbit ear quotation marks in the air and a wink and a nudge at Jess that had a way of making Jess smile, knowing her friend truly had her back.

"Sadie! Earth to Sadie." Cece snapped her fingers in front of Sadie's face.

"Right. Sorry. Let me look at the info from Julia." Sadie shook it off and got out her phone and scanned through it. "It's a four bedroom loft style apartment. She lives with two guy friends. An old college friend, some real metrosexual guy that uses more hair product than any other straight man who has ever lived, and a childhood friend from Chicago, who used to play pro basket ball, or something. Apparently it's a great space with old school rent control and so it's really cheap. On Facebook Julia wrote that she almost stayed with Nicole despite the 'clingyness' because of how awesome the apartment was."

"So I would potentially be living with a lesbian ex of an ex of yours and two straight men." Jess just looked at both Cece and Sadie slack jawed waiting for them to support how silly it all seemed.

"I don't know Jess. It can't hurt to schedule a time to check the place out in person. Who knows, one of the straight guys might be cute." Cece gave Jess the same wink and nudge from earlier.

"Okay," Jess said throwing her hands up exacerbated. "Give me Nicole's number and I'll see what it's all about. But honestly it sounds like a sitcom waiting to happen."

"Oh, and Julia said she goes by Nic."