Chapter 10

*Delia's POV*

I sat in the conference room with Joey by my side. The previous night had gone great, but now we had to battle it out. Joey had his laptop with him. A finished presentation on it that would hopefully keep our museum open. I carried in my hand, a rolled up copy of our comic book. I slapped it nervously on my leg, hoping we wouldn't be next to present. These people had some really good presentations. I hadn't even seen the one Joey made. That's pretty pathetic, but I didn't have the time. I just hoped it was good enough.

Joey and I made our way to the front of the room to present. All of the other presentations had been good, but not that convincing.

*Joey's POV*

We got this in the bag. The other representatives didn't have a viseo game nerd on their side. If I know anything, it's my way around a computer, and our presentation was going to blow the competion away.

*Delia's POV*

"I knew we had it in the bag," Joey said, as we confidently left the building.

"I didn't know you could do that!" I said. "That was mind-blowing!"

"Why thank you," Joey replied. "You want a ride back to the hotel?"

"Sure," I agreed, and we got in the car. "So, what are we going to do after I go back to Chicago?"

"I don't know," he replied. "I've never had a long distance relationship."

"Since I have to leave tomorrow, we can't do the comic book together in person. I was thinking we could do it by sending ideas back and forth," I suggested.

"Good idea," he replied. We arrived at the hotel shortly later.

"Here's my number," I said, scrawling it on a piece of paper.

"And mine," Joey said, doing the same. We exchanged the slips of paper and I made my way to the front of the hotel.

"Bye!" I called, as Joey pulled away.

"Bye!" he called from the window.

*Liv's POV*

On my way back home to Hollywood, I stopped by Mom and Dad's house to say goodbye. My plane left pretty early, so I had to set out early in the morning. I unlocked the door and went in. It didn't look like anyone was up yet. I wrote a note on a piece of paper and left it on the table.

"Mom, Dad, Joey and Parker,

Hi, I came in to say goodbye but nobody was awake. By the time you read this I'm probably long out of town and on my way home. I've had a great time here these past few days but I have to get back to Hollywood.

XOXO, Liv.

I quietly made my way back to the door and slipped out, locking the door behind me.

*Maddie's POV*

Diggie and I arrived back at our apartment. I headed into the bedroom and began to unpack. We had only been in a few minutes when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Hey, Mads," Liv said on the other end.

"Hi, Liv," I replied, flopping on my back on the bed.

"You just get home?" she asked.

"Yeah," I replied.

"How was the ride back?" she asked.

"Good," I told her

"How's the baby?" she asked.

"Good," I sighed. I was tired of people asking me that. I grabbed the basketball from the nightstand and shot it into the net on the opposite side of the room.

"Oh, I gotta go," Liv said. "Call on the other line."

"Alright, bye," I said.

"Bye," Liv replied, and I hung up.