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[28] We're screwed

✱ Naima's p.o.v ✱

The last few hours we've kinda just been waiting. I came here at 2 pm and it's almost 5 pm now.
Annie and I have tried to work out a plan that hopefully should work if the hackers manage to get through to all our materials, but we haven't really found a solution. If they succeed I guess we'll have to take it from there.

For every second that passes by I see the firewall collapse more and more, and that really freaks me out. This kind of stress isn't good for the baby and especially not when you add my everyday stress to it. But I just suck it up, the people in this room doesn't know that I'm pregnant yet. I hate not having control over situations like this, just to stand here and watch it all going downhill and not being able to do anything about it.

"Naima, can I talk to you in private for a minute?" Annie asks shyly and I nod. We walk out of the door and out to the hallway outside the studio.

"What's up?" I ask and smile slightly. I can easily tell that she's nervous and her whole body is tense and it scares me.

"Naima please don't get mad at me, but it's something you should know. There's more information on that computer" Annie says and looks down at her shoes and her gaze stops there.

"What?" I ask nervously and she almost looks ashamed, what can possibly be on that computer?

"I have information about your pregnancy. If they succeed, they'll get that information" woah, that would be a disaster. I really don't want the public to find out through some hacker that has nothing better to do.

"I'm not mad, it's not your fault. If it leaks, we'll just have to take it from there. Everything will be just fine" I assure her and embrace her in a hug. I hold her tight for a minute, until I feel that she's calm.

"Come on, we should probably help Philip in there huh" I say and gesture towards the studio again.

"Yeah" she replies and breath heavily one last time before entering the studio again and I follow her.

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Annie's assistant comes in with four cans with energy drink and hands them out to some of us in the room, including me. I really appreciate that, I'm already tired and the clock is barely 7pm. And I know that I'm gonna be here for quite some time. I've texted Grayson and told him a little about the situation and that I'm stuck here for the night.

Just as I put my drink down on the table, the computer screen goes black. The room instantly goes dead silent and all I can think of is this is it. Everything is going to get exposed.

"What does this mean?" I speak up and Philip looks at me.

"Well, it could mean two things. They either succeed and logged us out of the system or the firewall held them back and the hackers gave up" he says and clicks at the screen and tries to start the computer, but with no luck.

"And how do we know which?" Annie asks and Philip shakes his head.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but the internet should blow up any second now with the information. We'll just have to wait"

Ugh, I hate just waiting. Instead of just waiting I walk outside to get some fresh air. I walk out of the big doors and go sit down on the pavement. Some people gives me weird looks but I couldn't care less right now. I soon stand up to walk inside again, I just needed some air because otherwise I think I would've gotten a anxiety attack. And that's the least thing we would need right now.

As I walk back, I open my twitter an I instantly prepare myself for the worst. I scroll through my feed and all I'm seeing is my leaked stuff. I curse low to myself and start to increase the pace to the studio again. I keep scrolling and I'm seeing more and more things about me that people shouldn't know.