She stormed out of the station.
A week after the Doctor Lemon fiasco, Megan was curled up on her sofa reading when her phone rang. The display read Adam. She couldn’t stop the butterflies from acting up.
She slid her finger across the display to answer. “Hey.”
“Leon just called me. He wants to see us down at the station right away, says it’s important.” Adam sounded breathless, like he’d been running.
The hairs on her neck stood. “What does he want?”
“I don’t know, but we’d better get over there. Want me to pick you up?”
She glanced at the clock. “I don’t know. It’s getting late. What if people see us?”
He groaned. “Funny. I’ll be there in a few.”
“All right. But you’d better have me home before midnight, or people will talk.” She didn’t mean to be so sarcastic, it just came out.
She hung up, then decided to change out of her T-shirt and sweats and refresh her makeup. By the time he pulled up, she was ready and waiting for him. She slid into the passenger seat. “What’s this all about?”
“Your guess is as good as mine.”
When they got to the station, Leon was waiting in the lobby by the door. He pulled them inside and rounded on them. “ABC wants to buy the show.”
Excitement shot through her. “What? How?”
Leon looked like a kid at Christmas. “I pitched our show and sent them tapes. They love the idea!”
Adam grabbed her arms and pulled her into an embrace. “ABC! Can you believe it? We’re going to be on ABC!”
She hopped up and down with him, unable to contain her enthusiasm. “My mother’s going to flip! She never thought I’d amount to anything in television.”
Adam grinned. “And I’ll be able to afford to bring my father to a closer facility.”
“I can’t believe we’ll have our own morning show on a major network!”
Leon cleared his throat. “Um, no. It’s nothing like that.”
Somewhere in the back of her brain, she heard the horrible sound of a record player needle scratching over vinyl. “Wait. What are you talking about?”
Leon rubbed his mustache. “It’s not your morning show they want.”
A cold lump formed in her middle. “What do you mean?”
“They want your dating show. They’re going to bring on Doctor Lemon as the host, and the whole premise is Adam trying to win you over.” His eyes gleamed. “They’re making a whole mini-series, ‘Winning Megan Over’, or something like that. They’re not sure of the title yet.”
Megan’s stomach lurched as her dreams went crashing into pieces. This was not what she expected. A major network…and all they wanted was to film her and Adam dating? That couldn’t be right. There had to be more to it than that. “What would the show entail?”
Leon shrugged and shuffled his feet while staring at the plastic plant stuck in the corner of the room. “Um, well, not much, really. They want to show clips from our show. Give the readers a taste of what you guys are about. Then they’ll have Doctor Lemon working with Adam, coaching him, helping him woo you.”
She narrowed her eyes. “Woo me? Like, going on dates, right?”
“Yes. Dating will be part of it.” His eyes shifted, and she could tell there was more to it.
“And what else?”
“I don’t have to tell you that ABC is a major network. We are talking big money here.”
Adam put his hands on his hips. “Leon…”
