24 : Team

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"How's Harriet?"

"Working on her book."

"Her third, right?"  

Kyle looked up from the score papers he'd been looking at for the past half-hour. "Her novel's still in progress. The third one's non-fiction, I think," he muttered while he slumped on the hotel bed. "Pretty busy."

"And still single?" Veronica asked, her voice a bit hushed. She was busy combing her hair in the bathroom. The door was ajar, and her black skirt's frills looked as wavy as her brown locks.

"Doesn't want distractions," he replied shortly after ignoring the suggestive manner of her question. 

"'Course. Writing's intricate, time-consuming, and..."

Kyle continued to stare at the papers he held. It had notes that she'd composed over the last two nights. He could use them in the bridge of their new song, with some vocal layers fo