I added this first part in italics from chapter two to remind you of one of the characters that is coming back. Once the italics stop it picks up from the previous chapter.

"Hey," Ian said quietly as he sat down. He rested his head in his right hand, leaning on the counter facing Lucy.

"Hey," Lucy said even quieter, only looking at him briefly then wiping her eyes.

"What's wrong?"

Lucy now turned her body to face Ian, and in response Ian sat up straight and faced her. The stools were close, which forced their legs to fit together like some sort of puzzle. However, it was comfortable.

Lucy tried to gather herself in order to speak. "You know how Chris and I broke up, but it was kind of a while ago?" Ian nodded. "Well, it wasn't a good break up. Chris was really upset about it and said some nasty things to me. He even went off on Twitter, which is just embarrassing. Anyways, he bothered me for a while after we broke up, but finally he just gave up as time went by. I haven't heard from him since November, so I figured he moved on."

She paused for a minute and wiped her eyes again. "Ashley ran into him at the airport a couple days ago, and I don't blame her for saying hi because it would just be awkward if she didn't, but it's made him think of me again. He's been texting me and calling me, so I finally picked up the phone to try to tell him to stop, and he went off on me." Lucy began crying again as she continued. "He keeps saying he's going to get me back for it, and I don't know what he means. I don't think he would ever hurt me physically, but I don't know what he has in mind."

Lucy found herself drowning in coffee the next morning at 7am. She was sitting in her makeup chair half asleep preparing for the upcoming day of shooting. Today was going to be rough because they had to make up for the lost time yesterday. Lucy didn't get home until after 1am the previous night and probably wouldn't get home until that time tonight.

As she scrolled through all of her mentions on Twitter, Ashley came in and sat in the chair next to her. She let out a loud sigh to let Lucy know she was there.

"Hey Ashley," Lucy said in a monotone, her eyes not leaving her phone.

"Hey," she said, looking over briefly then looking back at the magazine in her lap.

After a minute she added, "So, how was your night?"

"It was good." Lucy looked over at Ashley. "Yeah I met the producer of Glee. It was like, a dream come true." She chuckled at her obsession. "What about you?"

Ashley went along with the small talk, trying to break down to what really happened last night; what Ashley and Shay saw from the deck at the restaurant.

"Yeah I had fun. Tyler actually got an offer from NBC on an upcoming show. They liked his…" Ashley lifted her hands to make air quotes, "Johnny Depp look."

Lucy laughed. "Yeah, who doesn't?"

She looked back down at her phone and once again it was quiet. Ashley looked around, thinking of another segue for the topic to come up.

"How do you think Ian liked it? I didn't see him much last night." She fibbed.

Lucy looked up at Ashley. "I don't think he enjoyed as much as he would've liked to. He was kind of...distracted."

Ashley assumed Lucy was hinting that she herself was his distraction and was surprised by her bold comment.

"Oh!" she responded. "By what?"

Lucy looked over her shoulder and then spoke in a lower time. "Well, his mom's sickness has been acting up and he's worried for her. I don't know if he wants people to know about it so just, keep it on the down low ok?"

Ashley, caught off guard by the serious subject, felt silly continuing to quiz Lucy about her night so she dropped it...for now.

"Yeah, no problem," she said quietly, sinking in her chair a bit and burying her head into the magazine in her lap.

*PLL*

"Ahh! Damn that hurts!" Ian yelled, rubbing his newly bare yet red chest. "I'm glad I'm not Keegan who has a shirtless scene once an episode because this is flat out painful."

Mandi, the makeup artist, took a step back and looked at Ian.

"I just hope the redness goes down by this afternoon. Other than that, you look great!" She turned her head at the sound of footsteps coming down the hall. It was Lucy heading to wardrobe.

"Hey Lucy!" Mandi called from in the room still. "Doesn't Ian look good?"

Lucy popped her head in and saw Ian facing her, shirtless. She looked him up and down with a smirk.

"Yeah, looks great."

Lucy laughed to herself as she continued down the hall. Marlene passed her and waved her down.

"Hey, Lucy, got a sec?"

"Yeah sure Marlene what's up?"

"We've casted some new characters for some upcoming episodes and there a few that just you will mainly be working with. I was wondering if you could come over to Lot B this afternoon and give us your opinion. The roles are basically all figured out already but I still wanted to see what you thought."

"Oh! Sure Marlene no problem sounds fun. Is it like, a love interest or an enemy or...?"

Marlene gave a sly smile and began to walk away.

"You'll see."

*PLL*

"Ok so here's what we're looking for. We want you guys to get into a heated argument, like really get into it. Lucy, I want tears. And then just when you would think the fight would escalate to a point where one of you storm away, drop your line Lucy, and Ian you pull her into a passionate kiss. Keep going until we call cut and then we'll go into the next part. Sound good?"

Lucy looked at Ian standing across from her and raised her eyebrow, asking if he was ready without the words. When he smiled in return, Lucy turned back to face Marlene.

"Got it."

Marlene walked out of camera range.

"Alright we're rolling in 3, 2,..."

It was easiest time Lucy ever had creating tears and truly getting into character. It was her life; wanting to be with someone but life was in the way. Lucy wanted to be with Ian and she knew he wanted to be with her, but reciting her lines made her think about the consequences of them being together. Compared to her previous relationships, Ian was someone she could see herself getting serious with, falling fast and falling hard for him. She didn't trust herself that she was ready for this kind of relationship yet. Not to mention what would happen to them if it didn't work out. She had to think about her and Ian as coworkers and how that would affect their work.

But everything Ezra said to Aria made her previous thoughts go out the window, and what the crew thought was great acting was Lucy simply reacting to the words coming out of Ian's mouth. When Ezra pulled Aria into a kiss, Lucy was so far wrapped into the romance that when they pulled apart, she realized not only how hard it would be to walk away at this point, but how much harder it would be if they waited any longer. However, she wasn't ready to make that decision.

Lucy had to quickly get to into her next scene with Ashley and Troian right after she finished her scene with Ian. As the directors were setting up, the girls sat down on what is known as Spencer's bed. They were quiet because they were tired, focusing on their phones they stashed under the pillows between takes.

Ashley, forgetting about the concerns she had this morning, was ready to drop another hint to Lucy about her and Ian. She and Troian were waiting with Marlene when Lucy was filming with Ian, so she saw everything.

"So," Ashley began, breaking the silence. "Ian looks good doesn't he?"

Lucy was caught off guard by that comment.

"What?" She said almost nervously.

"Well he's been working out, hasn't he? I mean, you could tell when he just had his shirt off...couldn't you?"

"Oh...um yeah, you can tell," replied Lucy.

What is she getting at, she thought.

Marlene cut them off. "Ok let's get this scene rolling!"

Thank god, Lucy thought.

*PLL*

Marlene walked over to the girls who were grabbing a bite during their break.

"Hey Lucy, the actor who I wanted you to meet is here, do you want to meet him now?"

"Yeah sure."

"Great! Follow me."

Lucy followed Marlene over to a golf cart and hopped in. As she drove down to the opposite side of the lot, she told Lucy a little about the guy.

"He's been in other ABC Family productions, that's how we got his name. We think the audience will like him because he's likeable and has that bad boy look to him. We usually like to use actors who have been in the system so people get familiar with them. It could lead them to bigger projects in the network, you know?"

"Yeah, sounds like a good pick, Mar."

They stopped the golf cart outside one of the buildings and headed inside. Straight ahead was the backside of the actor talking to Oliver, the other producer. His body language looked strangely familiar to Lucy, and suddenly she began to panic.

"Marlene," she said in a soft voice. "What did you say his name was again?"

But she didn't have time to respond, because once Oliver made a gesture to Marlene and Lucy walking in, the actor turned around to greet his new costar.

The actor was Chris.

Sorry I always take longer to update than I plan! Ok so yes, this Chris guy is based off of a true ex-boyfriend of Lucy's and this idea made me a little uncomfortable. I almost changed his name because what he is going to do in my story has nothing to do with his true self, so I didn't want people to think he's some bad guy (although from what I'm aware of, not many Lucy fans were fond of him).

What do you think, should I change his name to make him more fictional or would that be too confusing at this point? Let me know!

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