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The rest of the evening was okay, Alicia supposed. Destiny was still annoying and bitchy, but Alicia was trying her hardest to ignore her.

Harry was an auror-slash-quidditch player, but everyone knew that, because he was so famous. Oliver played Quidditch for London, and was on his way to the World Cup. Fred and George still had their joke shop, of course. Katie was a teacher, one of the favorites at Hogwarts and adored by all of her students. Angelina ran Flourish and Blotts now. She was somehow related to the previous owner, and it was handed over to her when he died.

Alicia explained to them about Magic, with Destiny putting in her opinions and bragging about the "big, huge, important articles" she'd written.

Really, she was sad to see them go. "We have to get together again!" Angelina ordered, and they'd all agreed.

"Sucks that Destiny came, doesn't it?" Fred asked as he hugged Alicia good bye.

"You hate her too?" Alicia asked.

"Duh. Who doesn't? I'll yell at George one Destiny leaves."

"Thanks." Alicia gave him one last hug, and waved as he headed out the door.

He was the last to leave, other than Jen. It was late, a little past midnight, and the kitchen and living room were a mess.

Together, she and Jen whisked away all the garbage, filling up a few trash bags.

"Bye, Jen. Thanks a ton," Alicia yawned, exhausted. Jen waved just as blearily, before apparating home. Alicia fell on her bed, savoring the six hours of sleep she would get before going to work in the morning.

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"Hey, all!" Alicia said brightly as she entered the board room the next morning. She clutched a vanilla latte in one hand, and held a few folders of ideas in the other.

Last night, she'd surprised herself with how pretty she could be, and she'd decided to try it again today. Today, she was wearing soft purple robes that she didn't know she had until this morning. Her brown hair, straighter than usual, was down instead of pulled back. Shimmering purple chandelier earrings hung in her ears.

"You look great today, Alicia!" called several of her co-workers as she passed them to go to the head of the table.

"Thanks," she smiled back.

"First," she said after everyone was in the room. "Congrats on our last issue! It was the most popular so far, and we sold 20 more than usual.

She waited until the applause and cheers died down before continuing.

"But now we've got another one to do! Yay!" She laughed as everyone groaned. "I have no life whatsoever," she continued, "so I put together a ton of ideas this weekend, and I wanted to review and narrow them down with you! So I'll tell you about them, and you have to tell me what you think, okay?"

She went through her ideas quickly, and soon had her ten best ones. Alicia was having a great time. Everyone in the office was friendly and optimistic. It didn't seem anything at all like the last meeting, when everyone was complaining.

Actually, only Destiny was complaining last time, but she was so loud, it seemed like everyone. Why wasn't she complaining this time?

"So I thought we could revise this one a little and make it a - wait..." Alicia realized, pausing in the middle of her sentence. "Where's Destiny?"

She scanned the room. "Not here. I'm going to freaking fire her, I swear." She realized she'd been thinking out loud. "Um, one sec. I'm going to send Destiny a howler."

Everyone laughed. "GO ALICIA!" yelled Jen in the back.

Destiny, Alicia scribbled. WHERE THE CRAP ARE YOU? If I don't get a good reason, I MEAN IT THIS TIME, you are FIRED!

Alicia tapped the note with her wand to put the howler spell on it, and called for Lemon. "Destiny again," she sighed. Lemon nipped her finger, and flew out the window.

"Anyway, back to the ideas. "So..."

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It a few hours later when Alicia got a reply, in a howler.

"I HATE YOU, ALICIA SPINNET!" it yelled at her, in a Destiny's voice. Alicia jumped. "GEORGE BROKE UP WITH ME, AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS YELL AT ME FOR MISSING WORK! I'D LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE BREAK UP WITH YOU AND SEE HOW YOU TAKE IT! AS IF YOU COULD EVEN GET A BOYFRIEND, THOUGH!"

Alicia was dazed. She pushed the remains of the howler onto the floor and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil.

Fred,

WHAT HAPPENED? I just got a howler from Destiny. As her excuse for missing work, George broke up with her. So did you talk some sense into him, or is she lying as usual? Write back as soon as you get this! I WANT TO KNOW!
Love,

Alicia

She folded the letter and sent it with Lemon, and sighed as she continued sorting through other ideas that had been sent to her by readers.

No, she was not going to put a special "rare plants" article in. A "What summer month are you?" quiz was kind of cute, though. She added it to her sign up sheet of articles.

Jen peered around the corner. "What was that? George broke up with her? Sweet." She grinned and looked at Alicia's list. After reading through her choices, Jen signed her name next to the summer month quiz. She waved and left.

Alicia sighed again, trying to read the next suggestion. This was kind of boring. What else did she have to do?

What she really wanted was a reply from Fred, and that wasn't going to come for awhile now.

She walked down the hall to Liana's design studio. She was head of the cover design department, and Alicia wanted some ideas.

"Hey, Liana," she said. Li waved. "I'm procrastinating here... got any ideas for the cover yet?"

Liana smiled. "I'm so excited about this one! It's going to be summery. I'm thinking girls in orange bikinis, eating orange popsicles or oranges. Or maybe mangos... that would be hot and exotic. Ooh, we should have a Spanish model to go with the mangos. Or should they be making orange juice?"

Liana babbled on and on. Really, she could be so spacey!

"Okay, Liana! Thanks. Just remember to send me the cover a few days in advance, so I can make sure it's perfect. You got lucky last time."

Liana forgot things so much, she'd sent the cover to Alicia the day before, and Alicia was not happy. It was pretty enough, but there were a few things she would have changed, and Li didn't have time to change them.

She walked a slowly as she could back to her office, crossing her fingers. Letter from Fred, letter from Fred, letter from Fred... she prayed in her head.

And there it was! YES!

She unfolded it as quickly as she could.

Funny thing, Leesh, is that as soon as she was about to apparate home, he said he needed to talk to her, and HE BROKE UP WITH HER! He said she'd been too controlling, and after flirting all night with Harry, he decided he was over her.
So that's pretty much it. I just left him alone after that.

DESTINY'S GONE! YES!
Kisses, (last time I'll ever hear/say that!)

Fred

Alicia grinned. She decided to let Destiny's excuse slide, just this time. She was probably really upset, so she didn't want to kick her when she was down.

"YES!" she cried, pumping her fists.

But why was she so happy? It wasn't because she was jealous. She just didn't want her friend to date that slut, no other reason.

She hummed to herself as she finished looking at the suggestions.

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Weeee... I hope you liked that chapter! I did. I though it was kind of crappy at some parts, but oh, well.