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BECAUSE NOTHING ABOUT scheduling is ever easy, Alex’s upfronts obligations are at the beginning of the last week of May, and Paul’s are at the end. Neither of them can afford to take a full week away from L.A., and Paul is generally surly about the entire thing. With the ongoing death of pilot season, the sanctity of upfronts increasingly seems nonsensical to him.
Paul watches dolefully as Alex packs and promises they’ll figure something out in the middle. Although they both know there’s a damn good chance they’ll be together for little more than a couple hours between when Alex returns and when Paul has to leave.
Alex shrugs it off. When he has to travel for work he tends to go quiet. Paul worries sometimes that’s as much about what happened when they were still trying to get their s
