Here is another chapter, I have time to write ^_^! So I've been watching Ugly Betty on TV Guide Network and I seen my favorite part where Daniel punches Matt. I think Matt deserved it and I think you can tell that he feels something for Betty but they don't know about it. Well I always knew from the beginning that there was something, even if he was a jerk to her. I even told my friend that I think they should get together, lol. Well enough rambling, here are the thanks;

Dettyislove,

Agentcaroline,

Betty the Bonita,

TMadison,

theroadtohomeliesbetweengigs

You all seem to be my regulars on commenting on this story and telling me what you think. I really do thank you. In this chapter there probably wont be Detty because I'm going to do it from someone else's point of view. We will see how far I get into it. I don't plan anything so this is flying by the seat of my pants, that is why it seems to not be planned. Lol, if that makes sense. It might have some Betty and Daniel in it, we will see.

Chapter 9-

Give me a second I, I need to get my story straight

We Are Young by Pentatonix (Originally by Fun)

She sat back with her legs crossed, her skirt touching her knees and black in color. A satisfied smirk spread on her lipsticked lips, the color a bright red contrasting with the whiteness of her teeth. She felt like a different person, and that was because she was. Betty was never going to see what happens. Of course, she would be the last person that people would expect to team up with Dunne. Her nature was sweet and kind but she had a different side to her, a side that was making a permanent home within her. This was her revenge on the one woman that she hated with her whole being, although she told herself that she didn't hate anyone; but this feeling cloaked her and took over her. It was like she became someone else when she was letting the negative energy take over her body.

"Did you do it?" The smooth, british, male voice asked through the phone.

"Of course I did. Didn't you hear me? I said it was done. This magazine is going to crash and so is Meade, Mr. Dunne," her voice flowed, smooth as honey, so rich also.

"Good, the Meades are going down and they wont be seeing it coming."

Dunne sat back and looked out over the dark London sky, apparently not going to appear at the magazine launch. He really didn't care for the publication and thought it was rubbish. He knew that he would never had hired Betty if he didn't have another agenda. He didn't believe in inner beauty or the fact that outer beauty shouldn't matter, it was all a ruse. The fact that Betty was so naive made it even better, he hated the Meades with a passion and he had ever reason to, that Claire. It was all her fault.

"Lindsay we can't keep doing this. I love my husband," Claire said as she pushed the man off of her, redoing the buttons he had undone.

"I thought you loved me Claire, you told me that you did," Dunne said as he looked to her with a scorned look on his face.

"I thought I did," the woman said, pushing herself off of the desk, trying to find her shoes and her earring, "I was so confused and I was hurt. I wanted to hurt Bradford like he had hurt me."

"You were using me?" He looked to her, his face falling as a frown tugged at his lips. He had never felt this heartbreak before. He couldn't believe that he had let her put him under his spell. Claire was a well established woman and his company was just getting off the ground. He thought that she had actually felt something for him and he let himself get swept up into the affair.

"I told you what you wanted to hear," Claire said, although she hated to hurt him she did it. She wasn't really like this but she knew that she had to stop this before something else happened.

Dunne shook his head as feelings of anger and pent up hurt washed over him. He didn't know how he could have been so stupid as to think that someone like her would like him. He was from the other side of the tracks and she was always upperclass. The two don't go together, no matter what people think. That is why he was doing everything in his power to bring down Betty and this magazine he had her working on. The added bonus was aiding in Betty and Daniel splitting for good, he knew that Betty was insecure and he was going to use that to his advantage. Oh how he loved when he had the upper hand.

"Now we just have to move onto the next phase of the plan. We have to break the two up and I know that you're the one to do it. I've preened you and made you into a socialite. Now this is your payment. You will get the money that we had agreed on. I have faith that you wont let me down. I know your hate feeds your anger and your need for veangence. You will get that revenge that you so want to. So this is a win win for the both of us, don't you think?"

"Yes I do," She smirked and licked at her red lips, "I wont let you down. I'm going to do my job and make you proud."

She was always striving to make someone happy ever since she lost the one she had loved. This was her way of making sure that Betty feels her pain and that Betty will never be happy. It was the price she paid for messing with her.

"Driver, take me to Dunne please," She spoke.

"Yes ma'am," He spoke and turned the car and headed towards Dunne Publications where the launch was going to be held.

A smirk flashed on her face as the car pulled up, she could see so many people already there but Betty and Daniel weren't; their car not there. The door opened and a hand reached in, she took the hand without a thought or even looking at it, the person helping her out and shutting the door.

"We meet again, Charlie," the voice spoke, the red head turning around and her mouth drops open.

"What, you didn't expect to see me here did you?"

"Alexis..." Charlie spoke, having heard of her and read the tabloids.

Dunne had also gave her some background on the Meade family, that way she was well informed. She didn't expect to run into anyone and she didn't even know how Alexis knew who she was. She looked to her like a deer caught in headlights and she knew that she had to catch her footing. She didn't want to have to give anything away and she needed to convince the tall blond that she isn't this Charlie, her name was Penelope.

"I don't know who this Charlie is but she isn't me," she said, finally able to get her bearings, trying to move away from the tall woman.

"Oh don't play dumb with me. You dated Henry before Betty did, you even carried his spawn. Did you think that would have kept someone that clearly wasn't in love with you?"

"Again," the short woman was trying to keep her cool, the clutch, clutched tightly into her hand. Her fingers were turning white, "I'm not this Charlie. I'm Penelope. I'm sorry if you have a case of mistaken identity. They say there is a twin for everyone in the world."

Charlie broke away from the woman finally and hurried inside, as fast as she could in the six inch heels she was wearing. Even with those heels she was shorter than Alexis and the woman was still intimidating no matter the height. She had almost ruined everything back there, and she couldn't afford that. She needed this money that Dunne was offering her, that was another incentive that sealed the deal. Her and Henry's son had a lot of medical problems and it was hard to go to the doctors when you didn't have any money and you were in debt.

She grabbed a flute of champagne and sipped at it slowly, like Dunne had coached her. Well he had someone coaching her, she had to learn how to act in public and how to carry herself. She needed to show everyone that she was self assured and would handle things with dignity. Her heart was pounding in her chest, a rhythm that was so frantic. On the outside, though, she was hard as steel and her spine was ramrod straight. She repeated her mantra over and over in her head, that she could do this and that the little one needed this.

Meanwhile Alexis had put her phone back into the small, pink purse that she held. She had quickly texted Daniel to let him know who she had ran into. She knew that "Penelope" was a fake and it was, in fact, Charlie. She didn't know what she was doing here, but she had a feeling that she was here under Dunne's request. There was a nagging feeling that Charlie was behind some of the things that were going on. Of course these were just feelings and she would needed proof in order to pin anything onto her.

She walked into the party and also grabbed a flute of Champagne and circled the place, her eyes scanning the crowd for Charlie all the while talking with a few other people. Glad that Claire had come here and knew to call triple A for Daniel and Betty, hoping that both of them made it here on time. She knew that her brother was in love with his former assistant, she could actually see the change into him the fashion week that she had come out. Now she knew that Dunne was trying to do something, but the thing was she didn't know why he wanted to do this to a magazine he is funding. He was losing money from this, unless he had other plans. She was trying to work out the details and pay attention to what one of the advertisers was saying, some jewelry company. The guy was flirting with her, but he was just too short for her.

"I'm sorry," she spoke as she set the empty flute down, "I have to use the ladies room."

She gave him a smile and pecked both of his cheeks, being polite. The blond made her way to the ladies room, looking around before going around the corner and disappearing into the hallway. One way she was going to find out, she was going to help her brother and make sure that Betty was a success. She wasn't going to let Charlie or Dunne ruin her. Betty didn't deserve that, because she was an amazing woman. What Alexis didn't know was what she was going to find out. She didn't know the past that her mother had with the established man either. Everything was about to get even more deeper than what it is now. If she would have known, maybe she wouldn't have agreed to help her brother. Nobody knew what was in store for all of them, or the outcome. Everything was just starting to come to the surface and a storm was bubbling up deep from the depths.

It was just waiting for the right moment to explode over, like a volcano waiting to erupt. Things were going to be blown sky high and the results were going to be messy. Just like life, there were messy moments that people didn't know if they could bounce back from, there are things that you can't unlearn, once you learn them. If they thought that this was going to be easy, they had another thing coming.

"Alexis Meade we meet again," Dunne spoke from his dark office, having heard the click of her heels as she came down the hallway.

"Mr. Dunne!" She said as he had scared her, her hand laying over her heart.

"What are you doing in here?" He asked her, keeping a straight face.

"I was looking for the bathrooms and I kind of got lost," she lied, the lie slipping from her tongue smoothly.

"Ah but there were facilities in the room the launch was being held," his elbows rested on the desk as he looked her in the eyes.

She gave him a nervous smile as she fiddled with the thin, gold strap of her purse, needing something to do with her hands as she was getting nervous under his gaze, which was new to her. Usually she was the one that was intimidating people and not being intimidated.

"Speechless?" he asked her with a smirk, as the door slammed shut and the lock clicked.

It was then that she noticed that her and Dunne weren't the only ones in the room, that somebody else was standing in the shadows, that person flicking the light on, bathing the office in light. Her eyes going blurry for a moment before they got used to the brightness. The persons she saw standing there made her gasp, not expecting that at all.

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