"Mina Park, you know damn well that I don't do stage productions. I'm a songwriter. A composer! What can I do in a theater hall?" she asked as she stared over the top of her coffee at her sister.
The older sister shrugged, giving her that pout that implied that she'd owe her one later, "Fix the shit music the first song writer left us with! The plot of the musical is great but it's new and still in the works! I was thinking that since you need a job right now anyway, that you could help us out!" She snatched up her sister's hand and squeezed it, "Please, just this once? Liv, you won't regret it, I swear!"
She frowned at her, "That's what you said last time! How do I always end up helping you with your shows?"
Mina grinned at her, "Because you're a very loving little sister who would never leave her big sister hanging!"
Liv sighed, "Yeah, yeah, whatever you say. Just tell the director to send me the music and everything I need. I'll be there Monday."
Her sister squealed, jumping out of her chair and practically dumping Liv out of her own while throwing her arms around her, "Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the best!"
She couldn't help but laugh at her sister's enthusiasm, "I know that! Now stop making a scene! People are staring!"
"You worry to much!" Mina chastised playfully, "Anyway, I need to be heading out now, come walk me to my car," she said as she dragged Liv along behind her.
"What, why? You can go to the car yourself-" she complained but of course it didn't make a difference with her sister.
"Shush, just come with me!"
Liv sighed and followed along behind her sister obediently, there wasn't much she could do about it when her sister put her mind to something anyway. The two of them walked up to the silver sports car her sister had suckered out of their father a few years back.
Mina spun around toward her sister and held out a key, "Here you go!"
Liv blinked, "What's that? Giving me your car or something?"
The older girl laughed, "God no, it's a key to my place."
She gave her sister an incredulous look, "Why?"
Mina sighed, "Liv, forgive me for thinking you might not want to stay with dad until you find a place in town. If that's the case then I'll just keep my spare bedroom with it's very own private bathroom."
"No! I appreciate it! I'd much rather crash with you than dad-" she quickly snatched the key from her sister's hand and gave her a quick hug, "Thanks!"
Mina laughed and climbed into her car, "That's what I thought. I'll talk to the director and tell him you'll handle the music for the show. You should get an email with what we have right now sometime soon. I'll see you later!" she said as she drove off waving over her shoulder at Liv.
She sighed, watching her sister drive off. She reached to pull her phone out of her pocket only to realize it wasn't there and sighed again. She must have forgotten it inside the cafe.
As soon as she walked back through the doors of the cafe one of the baristas waved her over, "Miss Olivia, you forgot your phone and wallet at the table. One of the customers turned it all in but I'd make sure everything is there, just to be safe."
"Thank you," she said as she quickly checked to be sure everything was still as it should be and then she exited the cafe again.
That night after she returned to her father's house and finished packing all the things she'd take with her to her sister's place, Olivia sat, sprawled on the couch with her phone in hand. She intended to do some innocent research about the play her sister had dragged her into but she noticed an app she'd never seen before on her home screen.
"How did this get here?" she mumbled to herself. She hesitated before opening the app, afraid it might be some sort of virus but she was usually very careful about those kinds of things. Her phone and computer held all her music and software, she couldn't let anything happen to those!
Deciding that it couldn't be a virus, she opened the app curiously. It looked to be some sort of messenger. The first thing it asked for was for a username. She thought for a moment before typing in the name Fantasia. It was the name of a type of musical piece that Olivia wanted to write one day.
The next thing she knew she was viewing messages between five different people. It didn't make sense, she had no idea how she even got the app to begin with. She read through the names, two sounded familiar, Zen and Jumin Han. Zen sounded like the name of an actor that Mina was always raving over. Jumin Han was the name of C&R's CEO in line. She'd met him once before at a benefit party she'd been invited to perform at.
Yoosung: So is your play still on hiatus?
Zen: Actually, that's what my director called about.
707: Wow….Zen is going to be super famous! They've given him the star role and got a tv deal!
Yoosung: Really?
Zen: No…;; Not even close;;
Jumin Han: That's too bad, it would have been nice if you were a television star.
Jaehee Kang: Zen will shine brightly in any mode of media. The public will just need to see his face and they would fall to attention!
Zen: Thanks, Jaehee! I can't deny the truth of that but I'm surprised to hear you say it!
Jumin Han: What did your director say?
Zen: He said that we start rehearsals on Monday. They've found someone to rewrite the music for us.
Olivia stared at that last message, that wasn't her musical, was it? Mina hadn't said anything about working with Zen though, if she had, there's a chance that Liv wouldn't have listened anyway. While she mulled over that she noticed a change in the messages. 707 suddenly sent an emoji-of his face it seemed- a surprised one?
Yoosung: What's going on, Seven?
707: Intruder! Intruder alert! Mayday! Mayday! All Hands on deck!
707: Super Hacker to the rescue!
Zen: What's going on, man?
Jumin Han: Intruder? There does seem to be a new username in our chat.
Yoosung: What? Really?
Jaehee Kang: Mr. Han is correct. The name Fantasia, doesn't belong to any of us.
707: I'm calling V and hacking at the same time! Hold on!
Yoosung: Who is this person?
Jumin Han: Why don't you try asking them yourself, though I doubt they'll be honest about it.
Yoosung: Ooh! Good point!~ I'll ask! Who are you, new person? How did you get itno this messenger?
Olivia panicked for a moment. What was she supposed to do? Apparently she wasn't even supposed to be on that messenger but she had no idea what was going on to begin with. Hesitantly she typed a quick response.
Fantasia: Tell me who you are first? I don't even know what's going on here!
707: That's a good point! I'm 707 but my christian name is Luciel! God Seven! Defender of Justice!
Yoosung: Oh! I want to introduce myself too! I'm Yoosung! I'm 21 years old and I'm a student! I love playing the game LOLOL!
Zen: I doubt they care about your game but I'm next! My name is Zen, I'm a musical actor and I'm 24 years old!
Fantasia: This app really is a virus isn't it- this is insane-
Jumin Han: Why would you download it if you thought it was a virus?
Fantasia: I didn't download it. I don't even know how it got on my phone.
707: thatsweird
Yoosung: What is?
707: she'stelling theturtth
Zen: Dude- What are you doing?-
707: TalkingtoV
707: He said he'll be here in a minute!
Yoosung: You said she, so Fantasia is a girl?
Olivia stared at the screen in confusion, "Just what is going on here?" she grumbled to herself as she watched as the others spoke amongst themselves. It seemed to be a big deal to whether or not she was a girl. She frowned at them. As she waited for things to begin making sense, another person entered the chat. V.
That was another familiar name. But it was just a name, there could be plenty of people with that name. Maybe this was just some kind of weird fan site or something?
V: Fantasia, I'd like you to tell me how you got this app.
Fantasia: No clue. Forgot my phone in the coffee shop today when I went back for it, it had this thing on my home screen. I didn't download it. I just opened it to see what it was then all this craziness happened.
Jumin Han: How do we know you're telling the truth?
707: I don't think she's lying. I'm looking at her background history right now. Up until this week, she's been out of the country. And when I hacked into her phone, I found traces of another hack-
Fantasia: You Hacked my Phone? And you're doing a background check on me? Where's my privacy?
Zen: Don't mind him- Seven doesn't believe in privacy-
707: I do too or I would have posted her bikini pictures by now!
707: I probably shouldn't have said that-
V: I'm sorry, Fantasia. It's just a precaution. Our group is private because we hold a lot of valuable information from our charity service. We just have to be sure that no one is trying to steal that information.
Fantasia: I suppose I understand that but you could have asked my permission first.
707: Srry-
707: Hey, can I get your autograph to sell?
Fantasia: The hell you talking about?
Yoosung: Is she some famous person? Will i get to meet a famous person?
Zen: From her answer, I think Seven isn't getting that autograph and that she's not famous, Yoosung- Seven's probably just pranking you again.
Olivia sighed and shook her head before falling back on the couch to a laying down position. She read through the messages, trying to make sense of what was going on but nothing made any sense. Apparently they were a charity organization but who were they.
Fantasia: What charity organization are you anyway?
V: RFA
V: We host parties to raise money for charities.
Jumin Han: We haven't had a party in two years but that's the general case, yes.
Fantasia: Why haven't you had parties for that long then?
V: Our party coordinator is no longer with us…
Yoosung: Hey! Since Fantasia is here, why can't she be our party coordinator?
V: I'm not sure about that…
707: Well she already has access to the app, I could kick her out if you want though.
Jaehee Kang: This Fantasia person is still a stranger to us, Yoosung. We can't just allow her in with open arms. Right, Mr. Han?
Jumin Han: The final decision rests with V but I believe it would be good to have the parties again. With or without Fantasia.
Zen: I think if Fantasia up for it, then we should give her a chance!
Fantasia: I'm too busy.
707: All you have to do is send emails to people and convince them to go-
Yoosung: Besides, we might have less secrets with Fantasia helping out!
Jaehee Hang: Yoosung, It is not wise to make that assumption.
707: There are no secrets with me. She's safe.
Fantasia: Now you're discussing this like I'm not even here.
V: Alright, I guess it won't hurt anything. I have to go but Luciel, go ahead and make Fantasia a full member of the RFA. I'll decide the date for the party later.
And with that, V was gone. Zen and Yoosung were celebrating while Jumin and Jaehee quietly allowed them to. 707 was just being a goof from what Olivia could tell. She sighed, apparently she'd joined a new group. It felt a little like a cult since she didn't get any say in it.
Fantasia: What if I refuse?
Jumin Han: Then we'll have to sue you for invasion of privacy.
Fantasia: You're the ones who invaded my privacy.
Jumin Han: The point is mute. You're a member now, V said so.
Jumin Han: I have to get to a meeting. I'll see you all later. Good day.
Jaehee Kang: I must be going as well, congrats on your musical being continued, Zen. I can't wait to see it.
The two of them logged off and Liv sighed, even more confused than before. She watched as the messages kept coming through from the remaining three. Then 707 announced that he had to go to work and Yoosung announced he had to go study or he'd fail.
Zen: Looks like it's just the two of us, Fantasia. Though I have to leave soon too, I'd love to talk to you instead.
Fantasia: You don't even know me.
Zen: I mean I'd like to get to know you.
Fantasia: I guess you'll have that chance then. I have to go though. My dad will be home soon. I'm going to tell him I joined a cult.
Zen: A cult? We're not a cult! Though we did just force you to join so I guess you could say that. Tell me what he says when you do. There's a text feature on this app too so you don't have to let the others know.
Fantasia: See! It's a cult! A friendly one but still a cult!
Zen: Lol, I guess that's fair~ Well I'll talk to you later, fantasia!
Olivia laughed as she logged out. She couldn't help it, this was all too surreal for her tastes and yet she was living it. Now though, she was going to have to rewrite songs for a musical and convince people to attend a party she didn't even want to go to. Well she thought it might be fun to meet all those people in person but she knew she was to busy to go.
She noticed that there was a message outside the chat logs. It was from 707 and read, Hey, Olivia! Just wanted to let you know I love your music and I'll keep who you are a secret from the others!
She really didn't care if they found out but she appreciated him keeping it from the others and not spreading her business out to the others. Thinking on it, she wasn't even sure how much of her music was public or how Seven would know who she was that easily. He must really be a skilled hacker.
The door to the house opened suddenly and her father announced, "Livi! I'm home!"
Olivia laughed, "How was work?"
"It was boring I guess. What were you doing today, find a place yet?"
Liv nodded, "Yeah, Mina is going to let me crash with her." she said as she glanced at her phone, "Oh! And I joined a cult."
He paused in the middle of pulling his coat off, "Your sister told me that she got you to help out with her musical but a cult? Really, Liv?"
Liv laughed, "Oh, then that means I've joined two!"