'Golden Mary'

Part 5

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All the way from inside her room she could hear Seohyun's feet pounding against the floor madly. Victoria closed out of her email and waited for Seohyun to reach the door of the bedroom she'd finally scrapped clean since her hangover that morning.

"Victoria!" Seohyun shouted from the door of her room panting breathlessly. "Hey, look at this!"

Victoria turned around in her chair to see Seohyun's long hair trailing over her shoulder as she walked inside. Her eyes then landed on the newspaper in Seohyun's thin fingers wondering what she was so excited about.

"There's going to be a presentation today," Seohyun continued shaking the paper in her hand, "look, see? There's that big computer geek, Ha Dong Ju, who's going to be there today. He's been booked for arrests a few times, hasn't he? There's going to be a big commotion over the new computer program he's presenting today. He says it's powerful enough to hack the strongest firewalls and protect servers from virus attacks. And there's that big business woman we've been looking into, Im Chong Ae, who's investing in it. Don't you think it's going to be a big deal? Cops are going to be all around."

Victoria snatched the paper from her and skimmed the columns thoroughly. She spotted the names of several other business persons as well as other investors who were going to be present.

"And point is?"

"Shouldn't we go?" Seohyun asked. "It's our chance to meet other people and try to get close to them as reporters, I mean. We could even ask for fake interviews and go to their house, and while one of us hosts the interview the other can pry around."

"There are cops there," Victoria stated setting the newspaper down onto her desk, "something's going to happen if this guy's meant to be in prison. Are you sure you want to be part of the commotion?"

"What do you mean?" Seohyun questioned lost.

"It's not a bad idea that we could meet other big tyrants through this," Victoria nodded, "but if we get caught in the turmoil and they ask for our identity afterward, what are you going to do? Tangle yourself up with the police corps and ruin our job?"

Seohyun frowned. From looking at her expression Victoria was sure that it'd been a possibility she'd forgotten to question. There was still another possibility that she and Seohyun could bow down onto their knees and cry for innocence, such tactics always worked with women. Victoria felt her mind flood with other thoughts instantly.

"It's not a bad idea after all," Victoria said looking back at Seohyun, "where's Luhan? He's bound to know some of these people there if his dad's such a big businessman."

"Luhan?" Seohyun repeated. "Oh that's right, I forgot about that."

Victoria watched as she turned to look out her door.

"I didn't see him when I came in. Maybe he went out."

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The sun was beating down on Luhan when he stepped toward the crowd semi-formally dressed in a casual suit. Pulling at his black tie he glanced at the familiar faces he'd seen in his father's home so many times. More than a dozen rows of chairs had been set up at the front near a high platform decorated with blue stripes and a microphone at the center. A huge banner with "New World Microsoft" printed on it hung at the back.

Luhan walked around wondering where his father's right hand man, An Kor, was. He was definitely sure that An Kor would be there to receive it that day. No mater what, Luhan couldn't lose sight of him.