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Paul gets Alex’s reply as he’s walking down the hallway to the writers’ room. He nearly fumbles his phone as he tries to juggle it, his bag, and the door.
He’s done reading the message by the time he gets to his desk but can’t begin to think of a reply. Alex never does use very many words, but he is always devastatingly good at communicating himself.
Okay, he replies before shoving his phone back in his pocket. “Message received, darling,” he mutters under his breath.
During lunch, Carly calls. Paul leaves his laptop open to where he’s continuing to fail to fix a scene and walks out to the hallway.
“Does everyone know?” he asks. This information diffusion is even worse than when they’d first gotten together and a lot less happy. Paul hopes that Alex hasn’t seen that there are papar
