Title: Five Minutes To Showtime
Original Published: Aug. 31, 2009
Word Count: 100
Prompt: "California is a fine place to live―if you happen to be an orange."
Notes: Set during the finale, before Dana comes in with her news.
"I don't want to go."
"Danny, California is a fine place to live―"
"If you happen to be an orange."
"What happened to the more money and the Laker Girls?"
"Yeah, turns out I don't care. I don't want to go."
"Is this a Rebecca thing?"
"This is a Casey thing. I'm sitting here realizing that I don't want to do it without you."
"But you can."
"But I don't want to... Don't look at me like that."
"Only look I got."
"Yeah... Me too."
"In three, two..."
"Good Evening. From New York City, I'm Casey McCall alongside Dan Rydell."