Author's Note: Ok, wow, thanks for the response guys. It was quick and great. I know there isn't much Devil in it yet btw, but there will be, when we finally meet Connie's boss, not in this chapter. As for Julie/Adam, I'll try. I make no promises. I do love the pairing.

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything. Sucks don't it?

Chapter 2: The perfect reaction

Ok, so I can do this. I can do this. I mean, sure we never officially said good-bye, and sure he was the love of my life, well I thought he was the love of my life, you know until Alex came along, and sure we haven't spoken in what two, three years? But I can do this. I am a strong, independent, intelligent woman, I am not a ten-year-old girl any more, I can do this.

Connie picked up the receiver of her phone in her cubicle. One of the joys of magazine journalism was that you could blow off entire days making personal phone calls and get paid for it, as long as you didn't get caught. She dialed, it rang, and she heard the other end pick up.

"Hello?" There it was, his voice. She had heard it in her head a million times, but to hear it again for real freaked her out a little bit.

"Hi Guy." She said quietly. She didn't mean it to sound so breathy.

"Connie?" He said on the other end, completely thrown for a loop. "What's going on? Did someone die?"

"No!" She said exasperated. "Why do people keep asking me that?"

"What?" He asked still confused. "What are you talking about?"

"I talked to Julie earlier, she said the exact same thing!" She said exasperated. "A person can't just call some old friends?"

"A person can," Guy said calmly, "but well, none of us have heard from you in like two years. So if no one's dead what's the deal?"

"Guy, I'm getting married." There it was out there. "I thought you should hear it from me."

"Oh, OK," He said, sounding rather unimpressed.

"OK?" She said. "That's it?"

"What?" He laughed. "Connie, we broke up two years ago. I'm way over you."

"I know but…"

"Look, I didn't exactly sit around pining for you for the past two years OK?" He said confidently. "I think it's great. Who is it some one from work?"

"No he's a lawyer." She said dumbfounded by his response. "I met him through a friend."

"Cool." Guy said. "Well, I gotta get going, I have work too, but uh thanks for calling. Have a nice wedding." He hung up. She sat there, dumbfounded, and stood up. She walked over to Lizzie's cubicle and leaned her head in.

"I just told my ex boyfriend that I'm engaged." Connie said.

"This soon?" Lizzie stopped typing. "You are good."

"Well, Duck gossip travels fast." She shrugged.

"Excuse me?" Lizzie said. "Ducks?"

"My old hockey team, anyway," Connie said exasperated, "he just blew it off, like it was no big deal to him. He didn't sound in the least bit upset."

"Didn't you two break up before you came to New York?" Lizzie said, not getting the point.

"Right after." Connie sighed.

"Whatever, so it was almost three years ago," Lizzie said, "I should hope he moved on."

"I know, but it's just" She stopped, "Whatever, who cares? He's OK with it, that's what's important right? I mean who knows maybe after the wedding he and Alex will even be friends."

"Yeah OK, whatever," Lizzie said. "Now get back to work! Or you know calling the other geese."

"Ducks." Connie corrected.

"Whatever!" Lizzie flipped her hand.

Right, this is a good thing. This is a good thing.

"Julie that Cat!" Guy said bursting into her apartment, waking her from her sleep. "Dude, what the hell?"

"What, no!" She shouted. "Get out!"

"No! You get up!" Guy walked into her room.

"Fuck you!" She said, giving him the finger.

"UP!" He flipped her mattress.

"I take it she called you then," Julie said once they had moved to the kitchen where Guy was making coffee.

"Yeah," He shouted, "She's getting married, Julie."

"I know," Julie nodded her head. "I'm her fucking maid of honor."

"You're what?" He said. "After what she did to me? To us?"

"Guy, I'm on two hours of sleep right now, which is all I've gotten in two days! Could we do this later?" Julie whined.

"You could have tipped me off you know!" He said, "Called me first, let me know what was coming. I mean, this is Connie. I love her, and now she's gonna marry some lawyer from New York. Not to mention the last time I talked to her she was all 'I need to be me right now, live my life.' Which I got, and I respected, but seriously in three years she's lived her life! I seriously doubt it?"

"I thought you would want to hear it from her," Julie sighed. "Now put my mattress back so I can go to sleep."

"Why would you think that?" He said pouring her a cup of coffee.

"Because I haven't slept in forty eight fucking hours!" Julie shouted hit him on the head. "Now please, go away, and I'll call you in a few hours and you can yell at me all you want."

"Fine!" He said going to the bedroom and straightening the bed. "But this is not over, by any means."

"Whatever." Julie said crawling into bed.

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