00:08on a second thought i will actually wait are you leaving because i'm here
00:15no no no it's nothing personal i just need a quiet place to work
00:18okay well i'm regardless it's good that you're here because i um i actually i want to speak to
00:25you about what my line hope for the future
00:37yeah no this worked out perfect thanks kelly brought her soccer bag over from your place by
00:45mistake yeah i'm guessing cleats won't do very well in her dance class no no it's kind of fun to
00:51see her try though right yeah hey uh can i talk to you for a second yeah sure um uh
00:59what's uh what's up
01:00i wanted to talk to you about hope and steffi um and how the latter is being treated over at
01:08forester
01:21hey oh hey mom
01:24she brought me some groceries i did yeah well as much as i appreciate that you don't need to do
01:30it well
01:30uh i want to make sure that your fridge is always stopped yeah i can see that it can be
01:38cool and
01:40there's you know there's kale in there there's protein so it's it's balance it's all about balance
01:44well thank you i appreciate that come on in okay
01:55weather's nice huh yeah
02:00now something tells me that you are not here to talk about groceries
02:03uh no i um i called over to forester they said that you weren't in yet so i thought i'd
02:11come out here
02:12uh you know take some time i'm gonna go in late don't worry i got it approved
02:18does this have anything to do with the letter from elector that you didn't receive no no i just want
02:23to make sure that you're not being mistreated over there with everything else that's going on that
02:27you're not avoiding work i'm not and really mom you don't need to worry about it i'm fine okay
02:34i just can't believe what ivy did to break you and electra up
02:39yeah yeah it was uh pretty twisted and not only to me and electra but to dylan too
02:47okay that should be the last one thanks
03:14i feel like we keep bumping into each other
03:17yeah well it's bound to happen because we both worked at forester
03:24look i meant it when i said i don't want to do anything to make you upset or uncomfortable
03:31it's not even that i'm uncomfortable i i just can't help but be cautious around you
03:40i have been hurt and betrayed by
03:45so many people in my life that i have cared about ivy is just the most recent one with her
03:52manipulations keeping me and will apart
04:08dylan mom she was affected by ivy's actions too
04:12you're still defending her no i'm not defending her mom i told you what she had been through
04:18i mean come on it's not like that well it better not be if you want to win electra back
04:24i mean at least she finally did the right thing and moved out
04:29you know what i don't even know why i brought it up because i don't want to talk about ivy
04:34i'm moving on
04:37i mean that's good you know i'm trying to do the same move on i mean i'm so happy to
04:44have a job here
04:47but i get the foresters your family and your territory i understand that and i won't overstep my promise
04:59please tell me that you believe me
05:03i'm a little concerned that that things between our wives are getting kind of tense uh especially at
05:11work i've heard hope's lines put on hope yeah yeah it's just weird you know for a long-standing
05:17line like hope for the future to get shelved it doesn't doesn't come off very fair well i
05:25understand why you would feel that way but it's not up to us steffi's co-ceo hope has to answer
05:33to her
05:34yeah well that's the thing maybe not for long do you see what i'm working on right now
05:42well this is part of your job it's inventory you know what i mean okay so what is it that
05:50this is for another line when ideally i should be focusing on my own line
05:56so what i am asking for is stuffy is a date a date a relaunch date for hope for the
06:05future
06:11that dylan's moved out she's finally in a position to support herself financially and i'm happy for
06:18her sue me okay all right well i have to ask how do you feel about all this mom these
06:25are complicated
06:25yeah they're complicated they're complicated largely because of dylan and now she's working
06:31at forester you're seeing her every day so is it still electra because you have to see what's
06:39standing right in front of you if you don't act rj is going to make a move and you've done
06:44enough for
06:44dylan you shouldn't lose electra over that girl i didn't want to go back to living out of my car
06:50again it was scary and dangerous but i lost sight of what was important our friendship
07:04and when you gave will that ultimatum you were me i should have left immediately but the truth is
07:13i was so scared of going back to that life and living in my car again most nights i barely
07:21got
07:21any sleep and i would try and i'd shut my eyes but then the fear and adrenaline would force them
07:26back
07:26open and having to become well acquainted with the businesses close by that would let me use the
07:33restroom without being a customer but then knowing that i couldn't show my face at the same one too often
07:38because then if i did they would know and that's what i hated more than anything else
07:45was the look on their faces when they found out the pity or the suspicion
07:54and people people don't talk about how incredibly lonely it is
08:00and not just because i didn't have anyone physically there with me but because it felt like no one cared
08:06like i was forgotten regardless of what happened during our friendship
08:15you were one of the strongest and briefest and most resilient women i know
08:25not forgotten not forgotten and there's a part of me that does understand why you did what you did
08:36please electra just give me another chance
08:45i'm not accusing steffi of anything but the company has to address this whole stringing hope along
08:53thing i mean she's she's too talented to let go to waste and the the thing is
09:00if forrester doesn't appreciate hope you know somebody else is going to come along and appreciate a remark
09:10i gotta get that a mic to the hospital just wait here a minute yeah
09:21if you started your own line at logan you would have everyone's not only support enthusiastic support and
09:30finally you would come first start fresh find some much needed happiness and respect at logan
09:41okay yep all right we will check in with accounting yep thank you all right bye bye
09:49okay sorry about that busy day that's all right you're the boss gets to make the big decisions about
09:59what goes on here like when my line will get resuscitated
10:05i told you hope forrester's putting all of our energy and resources into couture we're focusing on
10:10my grandfather now that it's back and i respect that i really do but it does feel like you're deflecting
10:16here but i i only ask about a timeline because i'm trying to manage expectations like what does this mean
10:25for my line and me hope i told you we don't have a launch date right now okay
10:31honestly sometimes i think you like keeping me in limbo stringing me along just waiting
10:41for you to make a decision and then ripping it away there's something more going on here isn't there
10:56i'm not just sitting around here and waiting for electra to come to me i'm actively fighting for her
11:02clearly you were affected by your time with dylan yeah i was i was finally able to talk about a
11:09few
11:09things and sure i let her crash here that was only because electra is her best friend yeah i know
11:15and
11:15that's what concerns me what if she sees you and dylan together we keep our distance besides she's
11:22focused on a career at forrester and i think that's great it's a huge opportunity for her
11:29okay clearly you care about her i do care about her she and i got pretty close when ivy was
11:36manipulating electra and me our friendship meant a lot to me
11:42it meant everything having someone to go get macho with and talk about anything
11:48or nothing it made me feel lighter during a really dark time in my life
11:54and i really want to give you another chance dylan
11:59and like i said i've just been hurt and betrayed by people that i care about too many times
12:08and i'm not just talking about my own ivy
12:14there's there's something i've never told you you can tell me
12:23back home
12:27i was deep faked and then it happened again here in la
12:35and it wasn't just some random stranger it was someone that i trusted it was my best friend
12:43i'm so sorry and i work really hard every day to try and forget that
12:50and some days are easier than others but on the bad days it feels like that trauma rules my life
13:00he said it was a friend my best friend
13:08remy remy
13:10remy price
13:16so i'm i'm sorry if i went a little uh overboard with you but
13:23but like i said i've been hurt and betrayed so many times
13:32everything good yeah
13:37like liam listen i really do believe that hope is appreciated as forrester
13:43you even said it yourself right hope for the future it's a big part of forrester
13:49don't must believe that it's not going anywhere i'm not so sure
13:56hope i am asking for your understanding we have supported hope for the future for over
14:00a decade now this isn't anything personal but if you do want to talk about business
14:08there was a time when hope for the future was underperforming
14:12how can you expect it to succeed when you're constantly undermining it and me
14:19stephi honestly what is this really about forrester creations is as much a home away
14:25from home for you as it is for me i grew up here too i remember playing in the hallways
14:33together when
14:34we were little and as much as we have had hard times we've always managed to find our way through
14:41it but this it just it feels it feels different it feels like none of that even matters anymore
14:48so i'm asking you
14:52is there a place for me here at forrester creations or is there no use for me or my line
14:59because i don't
15:00know it feels like that's what you're trying to tell me so if if that is the case maybe i
15:04should
15:05just go work somewhere else hope i think you're overreacting am i because i'm coming to you
15:25as co-ceo to tell you that i am feeling unappreciated here at four you'll have a line
15:30hope we're just prioritizing my grandfather is back now he's the founder of this company
15:37look the way your am moved going behind our backs putting her claws into my grandfather
15:43she stabbed us in the back and i'm not going to forget that right but i'm asking you about my
15:48future here at forrester creations you know how much this company and hope for the future means to me
15:56and i think you know that my line will die if we don't put out a new collection don't you
16:03think
16:03you're being a little over dramatic it's just being postponed for a bit okay
16:09you're not taking me seriously here i'm asking you do i have a future here at forrester creations or
16:16should i look someplace else
16:26when i asked you to respect my relationship with will and not spend any time alone with him
16:34i was just trying desperately to protect what i had with him and you couldn't do what i asked
16:42and that really hurt me
16:46and now all of that stuff was my own ivf that is a whole nother level of pain because that
16:52is family
16:54and it all started with those deep things
16:57i hate what that creep did to me i do too but i wish i wish i would have known
17:05but that doesn't excuse me and i know that i am truly so sorry and i am stepping back and
17:15respecting
17:15you and your boundaries i know that will and rj both have feelings for you i won't interfere
17:24i'll just be here if you need someone to confide in just please tell me there's a chance that we
17:31could be friends again i'll think about it yes that that means so much to me i mean that is
17:38more that
17:39i could ask for thank you and again i am so sorry i'm so sorry about what happened to you
17:48in those deep
17:54weeks
18:14i like a little spice with my sweet whoa whoa whoa whoa any more that you're going to burn a
18:19hole to the
18:20work yeah that's right just a little burn it a lot
18:26oh
18:43hello
18:46jamie is that you are you messing with me because it's not funny
19:18here's a look ahead you should be co-ceo
19:21with rich not stuffy you're right we need another fashion icon like hope no freaking way i need to
19:29know that i have a place here because if not then then what what are you gonna do
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