Choices
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Chapter 22
Lindsey’s head was confused. She didn’t know what the right thing to do was when it came to Spencer. She wanted him in her life the second she saw him.
Her phone started to ring with Cassandra’s ringtone and she reached for it.
“Hello? Cassie? Is everything okay?”
“Turn on Channel Six right now.”
“What now?” Nerves coursed through Lindsey’s body at what she assumed was more bad news. Probably some cockamamie story Brandon was telling the press about Spencer and her.” Mel can’t take any more bad press, Cassandra.”
“Lindsey Anne Carpenter, turn on Channel Six this instant before I hunt you down and hurt you!” she screamed into the phone before hanging up on her.
“Apparently we need to turn on Channel Six,” Lindsey told Melissa before looking around the room for the remote.
She switched to the right channel and felt the color drain her face immediately.
“Oh my God, is that Spencer?” Mel asked as Lindsey all but fell back onto the couch.
Spencer looked incredibly hot in a navy blue suit as he sat across from Ashlee Yang, a well-known entertainment reporter with golden skin and long dark hair.
“What is he doing on TV?” Lindsey breathed out to no one in particular, knowing how uncomfortable he had to be.
She pumped the volume up until she could hear Spencer loud and clear. She recognized the candles adorning the wall behind him, along with the other artwork that barely showed in the television frame. He was at Cassandra’s house. Reaching for one of the couch pillows, Lindsey pulled it to her stomach and squeezed it against her.
Ashlee smiled at Spencer and asked, “Would you care to clear up the rumors about you and Mel cheating long before Brandon ever did?”
Spencer wet his lip and answered in a calm and collected voice, “Melissa and I have known each other since we were kids. We dated in high school. She left our town to try her luck in California ten years ago. I reconnected with Mel and Lindsey a few weeks ago at their father’s funeral service, when she and Brandon had already broken up because he cheated on her. Even so, nothing happened between us. If Brandon says otherwise, he is lying. I think everyone knows the kind of person he is. Every time he opens his mouth, he gives people a new reason to dislike him.”
“Why did you hit him?”
“What? Spencer hit Brandon? When had they even seen each other? Why didn’t you tell me?” Melissa turned to look at her sister.
“I was busy talking with the lawyer and Cassie. I’ll explain everything to you later.”
Spencer shifted on his couch, cleared his throat, and said, “I hit him because he said horrible things about Lindsey and Mel. The kind of things a gentleman should never say about a lady. But we all know Brandon is not a gentleman but a douche.”
“We have an exclusive recording of the event,” Ashlee announced.
A photo of a drunken Brandon Allen filled the screen while the recording was played on air.
“How has everyone not seen through your act yet?”
“Because I bring fun and excitement to their pathetic, small lives. That’s why they are obsessed with us. We act like a drug. They can’t have enough of us.
“Everything that happened lately was a charade. Carl Carson came with the idea of me cheating on Mel and leaking the video to the media. We break up and she is heartbroken. Then I apologize to her and beg for her forgiveness and we are together again. Best publicity stunt ever. The public and the media ate up the whole thing!”
“You’re disgusting!” a caption read Lindsey Carpenter’s voice.
“Your sister didn’t think the same when I was in bed with her...”
“Wow! This is breaking news!” Ashlee exclaimed with excitement. “I suppose this was the moment when you punched him.”
“Well, he got even nastier for a couple of more minutes ... he said he would do naughty things to Lindsey ... and then I punched him.”
“So you admit to assaulting him, which is what Brandon is claiming.”
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