Adulting in the Spotlight

Don't Lie

 Parker took Isaac to the studio about an hour early. He was itching to talk to the director about his role. Parker went to get the donuts he had ordered out of guilt for being the last to arrive. He was the last to arrive again, but they let it slide because of donuts.

No one said anything when the four members were talking to each other. Alice knew what was happening, but didn't really want to rock the boat if she could help it. Ella never went on her phone until lunch time as a rule unless someone called. Parker and Isaac were both to preoccupied with their own confusing feelings to realize that people were staring at them as they talked at lunch. Then the director pulled them into his office.

"Boys," He spoke quietly before pulling out a box of small recording devices that had been found in each of the rooms.

"Woah what are those,"

"The recording devices that recorded your conversation. We found them,"

"What conversation?" Isaac asked innocently. Parker looked just as confused and the director was just dumbfounded. He opened up the blog that had become a trending page and left the room. They read the page and listened to the recording.

"What the actual hell?" Isaac whispered tears forming slowly. Hearing himself say those words was embarrassing as anything, but becoming aware that everyone else had heard those words as well was terrifying. Parker said nothing and just stared at the screen. Isaac turned to Parker and found that he was unsure of what he was thinking. The director came back inside.

"Okay. I was talking to the writers about it and they said that we can work it into the storyline. Your characters didn't really have a substantial B-Plot anyway,"

"Work what? What?" Isaac asked. Parker kept staring into the screen. It was clear that neither were in the right state of mind.

"The recording is only this section and you only say one name that can be passed for just not having character names quite yet,"

"This can work into the story?"

"Of course it can. This has been a little inconvenient for us, but we have one writer working on creating your relationship throughout the season right now. She said she can make it work and then something about fanfiction. I am a little ticked off that this situation has happened at all, but not like you could have known there was someone recording everything," the director explained.

"Who," Parker spoke up still staring at the screen.

"What?" The director answered.

"Who did it," he glared up at the man before him as if he had been the one to do it, "Who recorded us and put the work into this. Who decided it would be fun to try to ruin our lives?"

"We, we don't know," the director admitted. Parker left the room slamming the door behind him. Isaac was shocked. Ella and Alice came rushing into the room as well. Ella had just seen the blog and the articles.

"Oh my god you're gay?" she shouted. Alice smacked her.

"No, it was a script revision and Parker forgot Isaac's character," the director covered not sure who to trust.

"I quit." Isaac said quietly. The three people turned to face the young man who was now crying. Isaac thought the whole thing was stupid and pathetic. He wasn't quite sure why he was saying what he felt. Isaac had grown up in a pretty conservative household where he would have been kicked out for being gay. Jae's parents would never accept him now even if he wanted to try. He just wanted to curl up into a ball on the floor.