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"Careful, big bro, Anymore pacing and you might just burn up my Parisian rug," Katie said sarcastically as she watched him out of the corner of her eye, while she furiously tapped her phone.

"I'm sorry, okay? It's just, I'm nervous. It's finally happening, Katie−"

"The NHL, I know. You've only said it about a hundred times in the last hour." Katie stood up and pushed her brother down onto the couch. "Relax, you're going to be fine. You've been going to practices for a week, they know who you are. The only difference now is that you officially have the title of Assistant Coach."

Kendall nodded his head. "Right, right. I can do this." He gave a chuckle of disbelief. "Why am I so worried? I have this in the bag. I'm Kendall Knight!"

Katie meshed her eyebrows together. "You're starting to sound like James."

"Well, maybe if you didn't have him over here like every night, then I wouldn't be so influenced."

Katie smacked her brother's head, "You've lived with him for like a decade. Stop trying to find faults in our relationship."

"I'm not trying to find faults," Kendall replied, widening his bright green eyes. "It just happens." He frowned at Katie's incessant tapping. "Who in the world are you texting?"

Kendall watched as his sister threw her hands in the air in frustration. "It's Carlos. He's on set right now with Marka and complaining about how he can't stand her, as if we didn't already know that." She huffed and stood up.

"Where are you going?"

"Down to the studio. I have to make sure that my clients don't kill one another before they finish filming the movie. Wish me luck," she shouted over her shoulders, slamming the door to their shared condo.

A few seconds later, Kendall felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He pulled it and looked at the display in confusion. "Katie? Why are you calling me?" Kendall listened with slowly growing amusement as Katie told him how she forgot to tell him about dinner at James' place that night. Kendall smiled, "I thought managers were supposed to be organized, but, whatever, I'll see you tonight."

Kendall hung up and decided that he might as well head over to James' place early. James' mansion was decidedly much roomier and more entertaining than Katie's condo. He hummed to himself as he got down to street level. Having just settled back in Los Angeles for a couple of weeks, Kendall had yet to get around to buying a car. He pulled out his phone and made a note to himself to do so. Too busy tapping the screen while still keeping his feet moving, Kendall had little warning when he bumped into someone, knocking both of them down.

"Ow! Watch where you're going, would you!" An indignant voice called out, as the girl grabbed at her head.

Kendall hastily got to his feet and helped pull the girl up. "Sorry! I wasn't looking where I wa−Lucy?"

Lucy had dropped her hands in the middle of his apology, revealing her familiar dark, and angry eyes. She widened them upon recognition.

"Kendall?" She broke out in a smile. "Hey! What are you doing in L.A.?"

Kendall studied the petite woman, barely recognizing his ex-girlfriend without her usual red streaks of hair."

"Wow, Lucy. I didn't even recognize you."

Lucy grinned and rubbed her pixie haircut, "I know, I look a lot different. So what are you doing here?" She asked again. "I thought Camille said that you moved back to Minnesota?"

Kendall thanked his lucky stars that most of his break-ups in Hollywood were relatively amicable. He never thought that he'd run into his old flames again, but here he was.

"I did, but I recently moved back." He gave the details of his most recent endeavours.

"Congratulations! Oh wait, sorry, got to take this," she explained as her phone began ringing. "Hey, Ryan. I'm sorry, I'm late. I'll be there soon, okay? Love you!"

Lucy flashed Kendall a guilty look. "Sorry, I really got to go."

Kendall nodded his head in understanding. "Boyfriend?"

She smiled warmly, "Son, actually. Ryan's two. His father was a mistake, but he's my little blessing."

"You're a mom! Sorry, I didn't mean for it to come out that way," Kendall backtracked, hoping that she knew that he said that only in the state of shock.

Lucy giggled, "It's fine, but I really got to go pick him up from daycare. We should catch up some time, yeah?"

"Absolutely." He reached around her for a hug, which she returned.

Lucy headed to her car, "Camille has my number. Just call me."

"Hey, Camille, how come you never mentioned that Lucy had a son?" Kendall questioned the curly haired woman seated beside him.

Camille shrugged, biting into her spaghetti. "It never came up. How do you know about Ryan, anyway?"

"I ran into her today. Can I get her number from you?"

While Camille nodded, Kendall spotted Katie giving him a suspicious look. "It's nothing! We're just getting together to catch up. It's completely platonic."

James snorted from beside Katie, causing Kendall to raise an eyebrow in annoyance. James rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, every time you say it's platonic, it always ends becoming a relationship with you. Remember that girl at your university? Hyena?"

"Gia," Kendall hissed between his teeth.

Carlos slapped his knee in remembrance. "Oh! That girl. Man, she had a hideous, I mean, unique laugh," he corrected himself, sensing the hostility from Kendall.

"Gia was nice. It was different with her. We were in the same study group and one thing led to another."

"Okay, then what about Iesha?" James inquired, pointing his fork at Kendall.

Carlos suddenly sobered. "Wait, what? You dated Iesha?"

Iesha was one of Carlos' close friends in college. Kendall had met her at one of Carlos' birthday parties. He had not intended to start a relationship, but with weeks of flirty texting, they had decided to take it to the next level.

Kendall sighed, "I didn't tell you because it didn't last very long, and we didn't want it to be weird for you in case we broke up, which we did. We weren't long distant daters."

"I still can't believe you didn't tell me. I'm supposed to be one of your best friends. Besides, isn't there a rule or something that states that friends can't date other people's friends?"

Camille quirked an eyebrow. "Carlos, you do realize that many relationships start by friendly association? People meet their partners through their friends and friends of friends. Besides," she casted a pointed look at James and Katie.

Katie raised her hand. "Hey, leave us out of this."

James wrapped his arm around Katie and quickly concurred. "Yeah, leave us out of this."

Kendall watched as Katie glanced up at him and shrugged off James' arm. Kendall smirked to himself, happy that his sister still cared enough about him to realize that he had yet to get use to seeing the two of them be affectionate around each other. That wasn't to say that Katie avoided all forms of PDA around him. Sometimes, he believed that she would purposely have a make-out session with James in front of him, just in spite.

"Listen," Kendall started, "I know that there's nothing that's going to happen between me and Lucy."

Camille rolled her eyes before returning her gaze at Katie. "So, I heard that you're stopping by the set tomorrow. Any reason why you're meeting with the producers of my show? I'm not getting canned, am I?"

Kendall knew that Camille was just being paranoid. Her t.v. show, The Criteria, he had heard, was increasing in ratings every week partly due to Camille's story arc on the show. He always believed that Camille was an incredibly talented actress and was finally glad that it was her time to shine.

Katie shook her head, grinning. "Nope. Nothing like that. In fact," her smile widened considerably, "your producers want to submit you for consideration for an Emmy nomination!"

Camille dropped her fork onto her plate and raised her hands to her mouth.

"Congratulations!" Kendall said as he patted the actress on the back.

"Oh my goodness," Camille breathed out. She quickly got to her feet, "I have to tell Logan." She ran out of the room to make the phone call to her boyfriend. If luck was on her side, Logan was hopefully in the on-call room trying to catch a few minutes of sleep.

For a relationship that was technically in re-bloom, Camille and Logan were facing the difficult challenge of working their relationship around their chaotic schedules. Kendall hoped that it would work out permanently this time for his friends; he had never seen Logan as happy as he was when he was with Camille.

"Well, with Camille up for an Emmy, that means that you guys are sitting with a small-screen nominee and a big-screen nominee," James added smugly.

"Way to not make this about yourself, James." Katie stated sarcastically.

Though he would never admit it out loud, it was moments like these when he knew that James and Katie were perfect for each other. They didn't have to change who they were in order to please one another. James was still egocentric and Katie wouldn't put up with it.

"Besides, you said it," Carlos piped in, "you're just an Oscar nominee. You didn't actually win the award."

Kendall flinched as he saw James' smile drop. Katie slapped Carlos in the back of the head for his inconsideration. She turned to her boyfriend.

"There are definitely way more opportunities for you win one of those golden babies in the future," she placed her hand on his, and smiled reassuringly.

"Yeah, if my manager would find me some decent projects, or any project for that matter," James pouted.

"That's something that you have to discuss with Jack. How many times have I told you this?" Katie rolled her eyes.

Before leaving for her vacation, Katie had made Jack, one of her business associates, James' temporary manager. However, after coming back, the couple had mutually decided that they should keep their personal and professional lives separate so that they wouldn't step on each other's toes.

"You know he doesn't listen to me."

"Maybe he would if you stopped leaving stink-bombs in his office," Katie sighed in exasperation, returning to her dinner.

Kendall knew that James was still miffed about how Jack had tried to ask Katie out when they first met. To appease his friend's frustration, Kendall and the guys had been taking turns leaving homemade stink-bombs in Jack's office.

Kendall and Carlos awkwardly coughed into their hands. It was one thing to actually pull the prank on Jack, and another to let his sister find out that they had been helping James with it.

"So, I've been thinking about buying a car. Anyone want to help me choose one?" Kendall asked, trying to change the subject.

"I would!" Carlos grinned, but slumped down in his seat, right after. "But, I can't. I have to go to set and work with stupid Marka."

"Carlos, I told you. Marka was having a bad day. She apologized for throwing that chair at you, didn't she?" Katie groaned, setting her fork down again. "Just go home tonight, get some sleep, and tomorrow will be a better day."

Carlos scoffed, "Well, I would, but you and James keep me up with all your−"

"Who wants peas?" James shouted, interrupting Carlos.

Kendall raised an eyebrow. "We're eating spaghetti." He watched as Katie's face lit up like a burning flame, before it finally clicked in. He pushed his plate away. "Okay, I think I'm done, here."

A/N: Just a reminder that this story is AU and follows the Kucy relationship mentioned in Hollywood Management. Unlike the show, Lucy and Kendall did actually have time to foster their relationship. Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong supporter of Jendall, but I really feel that Lucy completely got the short end of the stick. She finally gets the guy only to lose him, quite literally, two seconds later.

Also, I had a hard time deciding who to bring back into Kendall's life between Jo and Lucy, but after considering his relationship with both, I wanted to branch off from my usual pairing of "first love=true love," so therefore, no Jo.

Like always, please share your thoughts with me and review! ;)

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Dawnindanite