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Kennedy sat across form Hailey. Hailey had been moved out of the hotel and had finally gotten an apartment to herself. To say she had done a complete 180 was an understatement. Hailey was like Kennedy had never seen her. She was up and about, humming, running to write down lyrics if the mood struck her. It was astounding.

"You look good."

Hailey nodded, "Yeah."

Kennedy slowly sipped at her lemonade and looked out the window. Hailey had of course gotten an amazing view, along with a pool, indoor gym, and spa, "This is a great place."

"Yeah, management did something right for once." Hailey muttered, scribbling away in her journal.

Kennedy couldn't help but wonder why Hailey even kept her around. Whenever they hung out together, Hailey kind of just ignored her. Kennedy felt like she just took up space. But still, Hailey still asked her to come over frequently, and since she was on a mission, Kennedy figured it was better to just go with the flow. But Kennedy was slowly also getting used to Hailey. She wasn't that bad. Especially after everything that had happened between her and Harry. So she had to have a bit of an attitude adjustment, other than that she was just a girl, just like Kennedy.

It was silent in the room, but a comfortable type of silence that the girls had become accustom to. Hailey honestly just didn't want to be alone. She liked having Kennedy around, and she liked that Kennedy didn't force her to talk. It almost made her wish she had a little sister when she was growing up, almost. Kennedy as well was feeling a weird bond forming with Hailey, but she didn't want to get so involved. She knew she had to get the DVD as soon as humanly possible, and finally just cut off all ties with her. But could she really do it? It felt like it was so wrong, she felt so wrong every time she visited Hailey with the sole intention of grabbing the DVD and running. Maybe that's why she just kept putting it off. In reality she could've gotten last week, or the week before. How man times had Hailey left her alone with her things? Too many. But today, today would be the day. Kennedy had to get herself together and just finally do it. As she was attempting to give her self a pep talk though, Hailey's cellphone went off and interrupted Kennedy's train of thought.

Hailey answered it casually, "Hello? Yeah. Oh, okay." She looked up at Kenned and said, "It's my mum." She whispered, motioning towards the door, "I'll be back."

Kennedy nodded and waited for Hailey to close the door behind her. Okay so maybe she would finally be able to find the DVD, she figured she would have at least ten minutes to look around.

Everything was still in boxes, Hailey hadn't bothered to take anything out other than some outfits and her makeup. Kennedy figured she had to have kept the DVDs close though. She didn't want to come up empty handed like when she searched Hailey's dressing room.

She sorted through Hailey's dresser, her medicine cabinet in the bathroom, under her bed, she was about to give up when she spotted a small nook next to the table where Hailey's laptop was charging. She went up to it and found various CDs and DVDs in unmarked cases and sighed loudly. She would have to open every single one to be able to see if the disk had any date or markings on it. She opened the unmarked disk and found that it had the name of the hotel where Reagan had stayed and that it had the date 06-27-2015 scribbled upon it. But just as she was about to put all of the CDs back, and run to put the DVD in her purse, Hailey stepped back into the room and yelled, "What are you doing?"

Kennedy jumped, obviously startled, and dropped all of the CDs on the floor. Hailey looked down at them, her mouth slightly ajar.

"Is this why you keep coming over?" Hailey asked, marching over to where Kennedy was and pointing down to the CDs. "She told you, didn't she? She sent you here to get this?" Hailey angrily picked up the DVD that Kennedy had been holding and waved it in her face.

"No I-I"

"She did, didn't she? You never wanted to be my friend, you don't even care about me do you? All you wanted was to make sure your fat ass of a sister kept her fucking job!"

"Hailey-"

"No." She yelled. "You're just like the rest of them! You only care about poor, little, Reagan!"

"Hailey, it's not what you think. I do care about-"

"Me? You care about me? If you cared about me you just would've asked me about the fucking DVD! You wouldn't have used me! You know what?" Hailey opened up the case, took the DVD, and cracked it in half. She looked at Kennedy with fire in her eyes, "Now get out. I don't ever want to see you again."

Kennedy hung her head in shame, "I'm sorry." She muttered before walking out.

She could hear Hailey crying through the door as she closed it, and Kennedy almost broke down herself. Yeah, Hailey was a spiteful, cold-hearted person. But deep down inside, she was still a person...wasn't she? Kennedy tried to fight away the tears as she got out of Hailey's building and walked down the block to the bus stop. But she couldn't. How could she have done this? How could she have betrayed Hailey, even if Hailey wasn't the best person, even if she was rude, and mean, and didn't have a filter, that didn't excuse Kennedy from what she did. Kennedy felt completely and totally ashamed of herself, this wasn't who she was.

She looked at the time and before she could stop herself she dialed Louis' number. She figured he was probably just lazing around the arena, waiting for their next concert to begin. She just needed to hear his voice. She needed to tell someone that she just royally fucked up.

"Kennedy?"

"Hi, Louis." She said, trying to hide the sadness in her voice.

"What's wrong?" He asked, obviously hearing the tears she was trying to choke back.

"I'm such a shit person."

"What happened, love?"

"I went to Hailey's apartment today." She could hear Louis sighing on the line, "Well she left me alone in her room while she was talking to her mom, and I thought, I thought that I could just get the DVD before she came back you know?"

"Oh no."

"Yeah. She found me looking through her stuff. I found the DVD, I did, but she figured out that-that." She tried so hard not to cry, but she couldn't help it.

"Oh, love." Louis sighed, "Come on now, it's not your fault. I shouldn't have encouraged you to do this. I'm sorry Kenz. Seriously though, you were just trying to help Reagan and Harry-"

"But at what cost!? I'm no better than she is! She actually needed a friend this time and I betrayed her."

"Kenz, come on, she's not the greatest person in the world."Louis said, obviously trying to console her. He cleared his throat and asked,"Did she give you the DVD?"

Kennedy shook her head, "No. She broke it in front of me."

"What about the electronic copy?"

Kennedy felt her head spinning,"What electric copy?"