Wow, sorry this took so long for me to read! But, it was really good. Shame on Joey for breaking that law.

Hahaha, this is genius. I love you!

The tall one... dun Dun DUN. Lol. I totally heard that in my head for some reason when I read that. xD Great job Dani, you're amazing! <333

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A.N. - Dear Robyn, don't whack me! I have the next chapter! Enjoy...


We went to the police station, TV’s tuned in to Guy’s report show – The Guy Ripley Report, obviously – going straight to Mel’s desk.
“You rang?” I said, hands in my pants pockets.
“No, I emailed.” Mel said with a smirk. “But that’s neither here nor there. Kyle’s here if you want to talk to him. He’s denying everything, like every other man would….” She pointed to the table where the tall, thin male sat, no handcuffs but upset all the same. Walking over to him, he looked up. Needless to say, the whole ‘cute lead singer thing’ absolutely applied to him, big brown eyes looking up at us. No wonder he had fans.
“Hello.” He said, starting to sit up at our appearance.
“Kyle? Hello, I’m Ashley Holmes. This is Robyn Watson. We wish to just ask you a few questions.” Straight to business for as she grabbed a chair, me sitting at the desk, Blackberry in hand.
“OK, shoot.” He said, moving hair off his eyes. Yep, he was dreamy…and apparently, also in violation of the Heartthrob Ordinance.
“Do you know why you were arrested?” Ashley asked.
“For breaking a rule, I guess. Something about my shoes. That I don’t get.”
“No, no, not the fashion rule. The other one…you were in violation of rule #524 of the Heartthrob Ordinance.”
“The Facebook pictures? That’s a lie. There’s none of me with…whoever they say I’m with.” He said, shaking his head. Mel was right; he was denying it left and right.
“Then why were these pictures found online, with your name tagged on them, with you in them?”
“Good photoshop? I don’t know…but it’s all lies. I swear.”
“So…are you single?”
“Uh…It’s complicated…” I wrote everything down as he sat there, looking so surprised.
“Really. OK, there is someone else involved.”
“No…yes…I don’t know. All I know is…wait! Wait…ask Dani. She’d know.” My eyes widened when hearing this.
“Dani? The talk show host? The one with four million viewers everyday? The one with the rock star fiancé? Uh…no offence, Kyle.” I interjected.
“You know her? How?” Ashley asked him, sitting back in her chair.
“Long story. Just talk to her. Please…” he said, looking worried.
“We’ll be seeing each other again soon, Mr. Patrick. Hope your story doesn’t get complicated by then.” Ashley said before walking off, me following behind her.
“How do Kyle and Dani connect?” I asked Ashley.
“We’re about to find out, are we?” she said, as we walked out of the office.

The next day, we made it to City Studios, home of ‘The Dani Show’, the number one talk show on TV today, heading straight backstage to find the young hostess. We were greeted by two young ladies when we made it to her door.
“Hello, do you have an appointment with Dani?” one said, iPhone in hand.
“No…but we’re investigating a case…” Ashley started but another girl stopped her.
“The Click Five case? Dani’s doing a show about it in two days. It’s major news…” she said, black hair in pigtails as she looked up at us, holding a Starbucks cup.
“Yes…who are you?” Ashley asked the girls, fixing her glasses.
“I’m Colleen, and this is Ivy. We’re her assistants, secretaries…whatever she needs…” the brunette girl said with a smile.
“Good thing she usually doesn’t need much except coffee and a chocolate chip muffin. She’s very…anti-diva.” Ivy added in.
“So…can we go see her?” I asked, heading to the door.
“But…but…” Colleen said, starting to block the door, but it opened, the redheaded girl looking at us.
“Ashley? Robyn? Hi?” Dani said with a slight smile. One detail I forgot to mention was that we actually knew her from a while back, before she became a talk show goddess. It tended to work when connections needed to be made. She opened the door wider, tapping Colleen on the shoulder. She turned around, jaw lowered and scatted away, making room for us.
“Thanks, girls…we’ll be quick, ok?” she said, taking the cup from Ivy with a smile.
“Uh…ok.” Colleen said, moving away to go off somewhere, while Ivy walked inside with us, sitting on a couch.
“Uh…Ivy, is it? We need to speak to her alone.” I told the young girl, who looked to her boss.
“It’s ok. Don’t worry. We’ll be done shortly. Get me when they need me out there, ok?” Dani said, giving her a smile. She just nodded and walked out, looking back a few times before closing the door.

The room was pretty standard dressing room fare, with a couch, mirror, a nice chair for makeup to be done, and lots of snacks. I knew she was a fan of healthy eating. She sat at the couch, coffee in hand as we just stood. OK, Ashley stood; I just took a seat at the makeup chair.
“Dani, we wish it was a social visit, but, sadly we were directed to you by one of the people we’re investigating. What’s your connection to Kyle Patrick?” Ashley said, fixing her glasses once more. Dani sighed, her head leaning back and looking at the ceiling.
“Oh, Kyle? You’re investigating Kyle? He wouldn’t hurt a fly.” She said, surprised by this.
“So, you do know him. How?”
“Uh…it’s a long story…why is he in trouble?”
“He’s been suspected of fashion crimes and violations of the H.O. I know you know about it…”
“Yep. Did a show about it. Kyle? You sure? I mean…fashion crimes, I can agree with, but…what happened?”
“Can’t disclose that, but he said to ask you about what happened, actually.” Dani sat there, just stunned by this news. I couldn’t blame her, as her head went down, looking at her feet.
“I have no clue what’s going on, and I have no clue why he’s asking for me after all this time.”
“All this time? Dani, I know we haven’t spoken in a long time, but even I would know when you’re with a new guy…right?” Ashley said, tilting her head at her.
“Well…time for the long story, I guess. Me and him…we were together for almost a year. However, he wanted to keep it private. Not even my mom knew until two months before we broke up. It was just…very….something.” I wrote this down, seeing her taking a sip of her coffee, looking around her room to find somewhere else to focus.
“You…ok?” I asked. She just nodded.
“Why did you…break up?” Ashley asked, probably feeling bad that she was asking this stuff to someone we actually liked.
“Well…couldn’t you guess? I couldn’t tell anyone! I’m private about relationships myself, but not tell my family? My friends? It was madness. It was like he was ashamed of me.”
“Maybe he was jealous…you’re significantly more known than he is.”
“Ha. Kyle wasn’t really the jealous type…well, he joked he didn’t want to show me to his bandmates, since he knew they would go jump after me, but whatever.”
“Really? He never introduced you to the band?”
“Well, more like they introduced themselves to me. They kinda…caught us in a slightly compromising position.”
“Oh…” We got the idea of that, so we didn’t probe into that.
“Yeah…they’re nice guys. Ethan, especially…he knew first…the others just walked in after.” She continued, laughing a bit.
“Oh…just Ethan?” Ashley wondered, mostly to herself.
“No, no, not just him. The others were sweet about it. Good guys…sad they’re in this mess.”
“Dani, why do you think Kyle would want us to go to you?” Ashley asked. Dani paused, sitting back on the couch. I gave Ash a look quickly.
“Do we need to continue?” I asked her in a hushed tone. She paused, then just nodded.
“Hey, I can answer…don’t worry about me.” Dani interrupted, giving us a look.
“Oh, sorry…continue.” Ashley said, turning around, looking slightly embarrassed.
“Well, anyway, as I said earlier, I have no idea why Kyle would ask for me to explain a thing I don’t know. However, I bet it’s probably a misunderstanding.” Dani said pretty calmly.
“OK…does anyone else in your camp know or knew anything about this?” Ash asked.
“Uh...I doubt anyone else knows, so, sorry. All I know, they know, especially what we learned for the special we’re doing on it.” She shrugged, looking down.
“We heard. Bound to be interesting.” Ash commented.
“Between me and Guy Ripley, this thing is having a lot of coverage…mostly from Guy.” She said, sipping her coffee. I noticed her engagement ring, her ring finger tapping her coffee cup.
“Nice ring…I forgot how long you and Brendon were together. A year?” I asked, just being curious.
“Yeah, pretty much…I got lucky, I guess. After the break up, I just…chilled out, worked and he just came out of nowhere and took me.” Her smile was growing, as I looked up at the pictures pinned up on the mirror of the two in various occasions. They looked really happy together.
“Lucky, indeed. Anyway, I think that’s all we have to ask you…thank you, have a good show, and we’ll call if we need more information from you.” Ashley said, Dani getting up and giving us both hugs.
“Ladies, be good…hope the case works out…” she said, opening the door for us. We walked out where both Colleen and Ivy was waiting, smartphones in hand.
“Ladies…may we talk to any of you?” Ashley quickly asked. Ivy looked at Colleen, who just pointed to somewhere.
“Uh…” Ivy said to her.
“I’ll handle it. Go get the muffins.” Colleen said with a smile, while Ivy walked off.

Colleen stuffed her phone in her pocket, walking over to us, looking around with a sigh.
“OK…what do you need?” she asked, flipping her brown hair quickly off her shoulders.
“Did you know or hear about Kyle from Dani?” Ashley asked.
“After they broke up. Everyone knew in the office that they were over…we were shocked they were even together. At least, I was. I mean…even I would know. I guess I should, with all the secret meetings she went to for hours. Dummy, much?” Colleen said, sounding pretty calm about the whole thing.
“OK. You ever…meet him?” I added, just interested.
“Yeah…on the street. He’s cute. Really cute. No wonder she was with him…total babe.”
“Any…relations?” Ashley said, which made Colleen drop her jaw.
“Hey! The boss-employee rule – don’t date your boss’s ex’s!” she said, shaking her head at this.
“What about Ivy?”
“What about her?”
“Did she…”
“Look. I gotta go get lip gloss for Dani. She ran out of her favorite brand, so…” she said, running off.
“We need to talk to Ivy.” Ashley said as soon as Colleen was out of sight.
“But not now…” I said, seeing a few security guards looking over at us.
“Yeah…let’s go.” Ash said, as we left the studios without another sound.

In the car, I slipped in my OK Go CD in the player, wanting to zone out, even for a minute. The case was draining me, since I barely slept after it started.
“Robyn, you ok?” Ashley asked, as we stopped at a red light. I just nodded.
“OK…” she said, and we just rode in silence, except for the music blaring around us. Getting out and getting to our offices, it was back to business.
“Robyn, I think Ivy knows something, and Dani and Colleen are coving for her.” Ashley said, sitting at her desk.
“I think so…Ivy was ran out the room, then ran out to go get muffins…they don’t want us to talk to her. She knows Kyle. She knows what happened and why it happened.” I said, going to my computer.
“Agreed. We need to talk to her, and soon.” She said, sitting back in her chair. Today, we were going to sleep, at least a little bit more than last time, but like last time, we both expected to be busy very soon.

if i get arrested, put me in a cell with kyle

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“You rang?” I said, hands in my pants pockets.
“No, I emailed.” Mel said with a smirk. “But that’s neither here nor there.
You already know I love this part, but I just wanted to tell you again, it's brilliant.

“Do you know why you were arrested?” Ashley asked.
“For breaking a rule, I guess. Something about my shoes. That I don�