Look East | A Hozier Fanfiction |

26

Molly waited as the Facetime call rang through. It had been a full week since she'd gotten to Ireland and she was beginning to think about work again. It was late at night and darkness had crept in around the house. She could hear Andrew in his room noodling gently on his guitar while a soft blues track playing in the background, his night owl tendencies in full swing.

"You've reached the life-size projection of Oscar Llewelyn. If you are seeing this, I'm out of my mind on ketamine. Please leave a message and I'll return your call after I've come down," Oscar said in a robotic voice.

Molly laughed. "Hey."

Oscar broke into a grin. "How's my favorite almost-disbarred attorney? How's Ireland? Did Andrew blow your back out yet?" His questions were rapid-fire.

"Dude, its like 1AM here. Take it down a notch," she winced. "One question at a time."

"Okay: how's Ireland?" he started.

"Cold and wet," she answered. "I think its rained at least five days since I got here. I never realized how much I loved the Los Angeles sun."

"On to the question I really want the answer to: are you two fucking again?" he asked.

"No."

He looked at her in shock. "Mol, you've been there a whole ass week! I thought your pussy would be broken by now!"

Molly rolled her eyes. "As lovely as it is that you care about the status of my vagina, its a bit more complicated here than I thought."

Oscar narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"

She sighed. "Long story short, he wants me back but he's not interested unless I do certain things for him."

"Gross," he replied.

"No - not like in a weird way or anything," she said quickly. "More like...he wants a real commitment from me. And proof that I'm serious. In his words, essentially he wants me to make him a priority of mine. He doesn't want it to be like before where he was basically just getting crumbs."

Oscar was silent for several seconds. "Is that something you can do?" he asked. Molly looked away, unsure if she should tell her best friend what her plan was. "Molly...what's going on?"

Michelle would find out about the application when it was processed because she put her down as a reference and she'd used her work history with Bright Horizons. It was only a matter of time before he found out as well and it was better it came from her.

"Its kind of something I can do," she replied. He raised an eyebrow. "I applied to get my LLM at Trinity," she said softly, aware that Andrew was still in the other room.

"You what?" Oscar asked.

"I applied to Trinity to get my LLM," she repeated.

"Mol, why there? That's...that's a year-long program. You could do it at UCLA and Michelle would fucking pay for half," he said in disbelief.

He was right. Michelle had told both of them at the beginning of the year that she'd pay for half of the degree if they got a LLM from UCLA. But that offer also came with the expectation that they'd sign a three year contract with her afterward.

"Yeah, if I wanted to stay in L.A., I'd agree to it," she replied. "But I don't want to be locked down there for four more years. Not when I could have Andrew now."

"He really must have some magical dick because there is no way I'd move my whole life across the world for anything less," Oscar answered.

"Its just a year," she said dismissively. "I don't even know if I'll get in. It doesn't even start until September."