Fate's Design

Chapter 2

Through the day, my personal driver David, my assistant Taylor, and I had gone through the streets of California to look for a fitting dress for the premiere night of my movie. We ended up at Julie O.'s and found a halter dress that had a gradient effect of the black color. 

Now that we were done, I wanted to rest for the day. Suddenly, my phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Crystal Danica Jenwood, a pleasure to hear your voice." 

I had recognized the voice since the first word.

"And to whom have I been speaking forthwith?" I played with the person.

"Stop it, Danny, your Old English needs to improve, seriously!" Olive bursted. Neil's voice echoed in the background, and I felt elated at the moment.

"How's life going, producer?" I asked Olive, slurring the last word on purpose. She laughed, and then spoke.

"I can't believe being a world-class producer meant a lot of work! Neil's is much worse, though. Oh, the papers and the plannning, it's a migraine to me. But, you have to get used to it, right?" She recalled her fine days of her career.

"And just to tell you, Neil's about to start a book!"

Neil... that crazy dreamer. He's a director, and now he wants to be an author? 

"Really? Has he started making it?" I asked curiously.

"Well, yeah. I think he's on to Chapter 15 or something. He started it like three weeks ago." Olive said. 

"That's cool. Any date for release?"

"Yeah. June 16."

Oh. Still a long time to go. I hadn't realized the long talk between Olive and me when I saw the beach from outside the window. David was still running the van, and Taylor was asleep.

"Olive.."

"Yeah?" 

"Do you happen to be in the mood for coffee?"

~~~~~

"Thanks for the drop-off, David." My voice rose as I got off of the van. "Take care of Taylor, okay?" I requested. His brown eyes widened in reaction, then he stuttered.

"Oh, um, uh... uh, s-sure. No prob." He smiled as he scratched the back of his neck. I waved, and he drove off with Taylor in the front seat. 

Those two are gonna have a good time. 

After 5 seconds passed, I received a message.

From: Taylor Wilde

Fuck you, Crystal. What are we supposed to do? :'(

I responded.

To: Taylor Wilde

Thanks for the swear word there. Could have fired you. JK, enjoy it there! Fix your bond with you honeybunches.

Another message appeared a minute later.

From: Taylor Wilde

Sorry for the swear word. Honeybunches? Really? You seriously need to improve your terms, dear. You won't last a day with your boyfriend if you're like that. And stop texting already, David and I are in an awkward situation that we need to deal with. Later... (pressured)

I bursted out boisterously, I hadn't noticed a person standing beside me.

No. Hold it. Two persons. I smiled upon seeing their fair skin and blue eyes.

"Hey Neil! Hey Olive!" I exclaimed as I dragged them into my arms, extremely glad to be reunited with my family.

~~~~~

"And when I opened the door, I saw one of our cameramen dancing to "Uptown Funk", and I screamed at him, saying, "Jonas! Your zipper's open!" "

We all bursted out as Neil retold his experiences of being a director. We all stopped by at Caffeinated and had three cups of coffee as we talked about our careers. We all seemed to have a good time with our lives. And it felt nice to meet up with them again for once.

"Oh, and also, this one time, I remembered when we had planning for a movie, Kori opened up to Neil and asked him out! It was crazy!" Olive reminisced.

"Kori? Isn't that a girl's name?" I asked.

"Yeah, it is." She replied back. Neil stared at her already for minutes.

"So, you mean a girl asked Neil out?" That sounded creepy and wrong, but I had no other thoughts of it.

Neil opened his mouth to talk, but Olive held a hand. 

"Thing is," she began as she fixed her posture, "Kori is a female name, but it's a boy."

A boy? A boy?

"You mean it's..." I cut off. Olive nodded, looking at Neil, whose face was burning red with embarrassment.

I laughed, but prevented myself from continuing.

"So what did you do, Neil?" I asked him this time. He looked at me, surprised.

"What would I do? I dumped him! I mean, her! I mean... I don't know, but I dumped Kori!" He managed to speak with the confusion.

"That's a serious relationship you experienced there, Carter." I told him, wiping my tears away. "How about you, Olive? Do you have anyone special right now?" 

As soon as I said special, her eyes were looking out dreamily. I looked at Neil, and he nodded.

"Yeah, I do." She seems to be in love, badly.

"So, tell me about him."

"Oh, there's nothing much." She cut off her love trance. "He's just as tall as me, and he's Neil's age."

"Oh. His occupation?"

"An actor." There it is.

A relationship between a producer and an actor. Now that's rad. But it seems I'm the odd one here.

Suddenly, Olive stared at me, making the air feel weird. 

"Crystal..." She called me. I looked at her as I held my cup, raising my eyebrows.

"Don't you have someone?" She asked.

It felt awkward to admit it, but I really didn't have anyone. Not even an actor. And I started to wonder, who would be meant for me? Would he be a celebrity like me? Someone out of the spotlight?

"Actually, I don't."