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    I peeked out from behind the curtains. It seemed like the paparazzi had bred. All of the ones who’d been out the front of Liam’s parents’ house yesterday were now on the nature strip out the front of my house, and then some.  
    “Why do they care so much this time? They don’t normally follow you home. Much.” I turned to look at Liam. He was sitting on my couch, cup of tea cooling in front of him on the coffee table and scowling at his phone.  
    “Holly,” he said miserably. “Break-ups. Misery. Scandals. It’s what they thrive on.”  
    “What do we do?” I asked. Liam just shrugged.  
    “Do you need to go anywhere?” he asked.  
    I thought for a minute. “No… but it’s such a nice day, I wanted to go for a walk up the mount, and go to the cemetery…”
    “Oh yeah… it’s Grant’s birthday. I’m shit. I totally forgot.”  
    “You’re not shit. It’s been six years, and you’ve got other things on your mind. I’m sure Grant wouldn’t blame you in the slightest,” I said. “Plus, he never remembered anyone’s birthdays - he forgot his own mother’s one year, remember that?”  
    Liam laughed. “Yeah, we had to run and buy a bunch of flowers and some chocolates for him. She never knew.”
    “Oh, she knew.” I grinned.  
    “Six years... god, has it really? Damn. It’s fucked up, thinking about all the things he’s missed. I was no-one back then.”
    “You were never ‘no-one’, I don’t like it when you say things like that,” I protested.  
    “Okay, fine, I was just another regular Aussie kid working at the local supermarket stacking shelves coz he was too dumb to get into uni.”
    I raised my eyebrows. “You didn’t even apply.”  
    “Yeah well, I didn’t want to go to uni, so what was the point?”
    “Remind me not to get you to come in for Careers counselling...”
    “Why not? I made a pretty good go of it in the end. They should know that you can be successful without getting a fantastic Year 12 result. I mean, it’s great that you got an awesome mark and you totally deserved it, but you knew you wanted to go to uni and study. I didn’t. All you guys did. You, Dan, Grant. You all studied your arses off and got great marks and knew what you wanted to do the next year. I had no freakin’ clue. I liked drama, I liked acting. I like writing sometimes, but I hated doing creative writing classes. I just kind of figured it out as I went along.”  
    “You did a pretty good job with that...” I murmured.  
    “Well, I didn’t exactly set out to be a movie star mobbed by paparazzi...”  
    “Mmm, sure,” I said.  
    “I didn’t, Jen. Things just kind of snowballed. You know that. One thing led to another.”
    “You saying you wouldn’t be famous if you had your time over?”
    “No. Yes. I don’t know.” He rubbed his face. “Times like this, definitely NO. But it has its perks.”
    “Yeah, I bet. That house of yours is pretty nice.”
    “There is that.”
    “And the car.”  
    “Well, yeah.”
    “And being able to travel whenever you want.”
    “Not true.”
    “Sure.”  
    I moved from beside the window and over to the couch.  
    “Would they really follow us if we just went to the shops?” I asked. “I mean, no offence, but not even you can be that fascinating to make grocery shopping in Tarang news worthy.”  
    Liam scowled again. Even I had to admit, it was rather cute. “You’d be surprised at what they find interesting. Selena Gomez taking her garbage out is interesting to them.”  
    I sighed. You really could never pay me enough to be famous on this level. It was crazy.  
    “Maybe we could make a diversion, like on the