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"What're you doing?" she asked.

"Hacking shit."

"What shit?"

"Someone hired me."

"To hack stuff? Is that legal?"

"Yeah."

"Are you sure?" she prodded.

"Yeah."

She rolled her eyes. When he was in the zone, he wasn't going to say much more. She stared blankly at the television for several minutes, unable to keep her thoughts from returning to Jonny, to how handsome she'd forgotten he was and how different - colder - he'd seemed.

How he'd helped her and claimed to have a mutiny on his hands.

I never really knew him either, she thought, troubled.

"You can change it," Brandon said.

Ashley blinked away her thoughts and took the remote from him. She wasn't in the mood for television or her project or anything else. She wanted to return to the gym and beat herself senseless until she stopped thinking about Jonny.