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THIRTY — ( TYPICAL ! )

IT WAS THE 3RD OF NOVEMBER AND THE CAST HAD BEEN OUT CELEBRATING DREW'S BIRTHDAY, THE DAY BEFORE HIS ACTUAL BIRTHDAY. The cast were out for dinner to celebrate after spending the whole day together. It had been a week or so after Sydney, Drew and Madelyn spent the day at the beach together and they'd all heard about Sydney and Drew practically flirting with each other all day. At least, that's what Madelyn had been telling everyone.

And they all believed her when they saw Sydney sit down next to Drew when they had arrived at the restaurant instead of sitting with Madelyn or Madison. But it wasn't intentional, Sydney just sat down in the closest seat to her and Jonathan had already been closer to the other remaining seat. So Sydney was sitting beside Drew and opposite Austin. Rudy was beside Austin and opposite Drew. Chase and Madelyn were next to each other on Rudy's side of the table and then Madison and Jonathan had the other seats next to Drew.

This then meant Rudy had a front row seat to the "flirting" between the two. And he couldn't say he was enjoying it.

It was after everyone had eaten when the topic of the roadtrip had been brought up and Sydney was absolutely dreading it. Something had come up in her schedule and she hadn't had the heart to tell anyone yet.

Madelyn was talking about how excited she was to go skiing when Sydney decided to just tell them all. "Actually, guys, I have something to tell you." Everyone stopped and turned to look at Sydney, who felt like she was about to throw up.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"About the roadtrip.....I can't come." Sydney braved herself for the reactions from her friends, especially from Madelyn.

Madelyn frowned as she looked at Sydney. "What?" She didn't understand.

"What do you mean?" Chase then asked her.

Sydney let out a sigh, taking a deep breath. "So I actually have to go to Paris—" Sydney begun but Madelyn didn't let her finish.

"Paris?" Sydney hadn't mentioned anything about Paris to her, to anyone.

Sydney nodded weakly. "Yeah it's for this event." It was going to sound so stupid, her excuse for not going on their roadtrip, but for Sydney it wasn't.

"For an event?"

"Fashion week." There it was. Sydney dropped the bomb and she just had to wait for the reaction. She'd been invited to Paris fashion week, something she'd been wanting to go to for years. It was a dream to go and she couldn't believe she'd finally got an invite through a fashion designer she knew. But it was the same exact weekend they had planned the roadtrip.

And Sydney was well aware most of them wouldn't get it. "You're joking, right?" Chase said, laughing. He genuinely thought she was joking.

But Sydney didn't laugh, in fact she looked like the colour had drained from her face. Her friends looked mad. "No, I'm being serious. It's the same weekend."

Madelyn and Madison weren't mad, upset was more what they were feeling. "But you promised." Madison said, leaning forward to see Sydney properly.