Why Crysty Wouldn’t Have Done It - Part 3

“Do you hear it?”

The music suddenly stops. -“Final destination. Final destination.” A recording sound can be heard.

The bus arrived at the cinema. The passengers get out.

Crysty steps out, looking worried. Reef follows her. -“Are you okay?” He asks, becomes worried as well.

-“Yea... Yea! I’m fine!” She answers. “It sounded like a weird version of my song, it just caught me off guard. Let’s go watch the movie!”

-“Alright!” Reef returns the same hyped vibe. He is still worried. He thinks to himself: “Crysty seemed down about something for a while. I don’t think it’s only because she felt guilty or lonely, unable to tell us who her family was. Something else is going on.”

They enter the premises and look for the ticket booth. Crysty orders the ticket, looking super happy. Reef is worried she is pretending to enjoy herself.

-“Reef, do you hear me? Hello?”

-“Wha... What?”

-“I asked if you want to sit super close like always.”

-“Oh. Yea! Yes I like it best when we sit close to the screen.”

-“Me too. Unlike the rest of the gang.”

They look for the right room and find it very quickly. Then, they look for their sits, which are also easy to find since they are up front. They sit down and shortly, the movie starts.

-“Wow, they really took their sweet time getting here.” Angelica complains.

-“Are you sure we didn’t just get here too early?” Arney asks.

-“Don’t contradict me muscle head!” Angelica says and punches his shoulder. “Ouch! Why did it hurt me instead? I’m the one who punched!”

Arney is smiling awkwardly.

-“Sshhh!” Albert tries to hush them. “What if they hear us?”

-“We are all the way over here in the back, they can’t hear us, can they?” Angelica asks.

-“I doubt it, but they are both musicians. They can probably identify sound well. When pros like them ‘just hear something’ it’s usually on point, so, sshhh!” Albert answers.

Reef and Crysty watch the movie while secretly being watched by the rest of the gang.

-“Look!” Arney whispers loudly. “He wraps his hand around her and she leans onto him!”

-“Sshhh!” Albert replies just as loudly.

Angelica looks at Arney, and she makes a mad face. Arney looks back at her. -“What?”

She then uses her elbow to deal a blow to his side, dealing some damage.

“Guh...” He admits the hit.

Angelica then takes Arney’s hand and wraps it around herself. Arney blushes, unable to look at her direction. Albert smiles.

The movie continues as Reef and Crysty enjoy each other’s company, and the rest of the gang enjoy their enjoyment. When the movie ends, Reef and Crysty get up and leave the room, as the rest follow them, from a safe distance.

-“Let’s hurry Reef, it’s the last bus.” They hold hands and start running.

-“Last bus?” Arney asks in panic.”

-“I’m not as good at planning these kind of things like Albert!” Angelica answers.

-“Guys, put on the hoodies I gave you.” Albert says. “Now run.”

They barely finish wearing the hoodies in order to hide their faces and they start running after Reef and Crysty to get to the last bus, trying to accomplish putting them on fully while they are at it, having trouble seeing in front of them as the hoodies are quite big. They see Reef and Crysty climb the bus’ stairs, so they pick up the speed to go on board as well. They manage to get on the bus and they go all the way to the back, trying not to be noticed.

Reef and Crysty are on their own, just keeping on leaning onto each other.

-“Crysty...”

-“Yea?”

-“Did you see Angelica wrapping Arney’s hand around herself?”

-“Yea, I love them, they are so cute!”

-“Tomorrow, when they pretend like we blew them off since it got so late, we are going to have to look sorry... Those cute bastards will definitely pretend all the way.”

-“I love them so much, hahaha.” She laughs.

-“Yea, me too.”

After a drive that felt quicker than it actually was, the bus returned to the city. Everyone gets off.

-“Quickly Arney! Albert!” Angelica whispers loudly and starts running. Arney follows her running. Albert doesn’t run yet.

Reef suddenly turns to him: “Did you arrange this?”

-“Angelica did.”

-“Did you take a picture?”

-“I couldn’t inside of the cinema, but trust me, I’m not going to forget today.” Albert then smiles and leaves.

-“When did Albert become so freaking cool?” Reef asks.

-“Hahaha.” Crysty laughs in response.

-“I guess he always was.”

Reef walks her home. They reach her very normal looking house.

-“Does your dad leave someplace else?” Reef asks.

-“Yea, he leaves outside the city.” She replies.

♥️“Wanna come over?”♥️

The next day. Reef and Crysty walk to school.

Right when they see the sign saying “Artisan”, they are stopped by a few classmates.

-“Crysty, is that how you made your songs? Can you teach me? Maybe I can be famous like you! Haha.” Sophie tells her.

-“What?”

-“Your song is all over this app.” Sophie replies. “The OnLineHere app allows manipulating songs. You can dismantle them and rearrange them, change voices, make your own voice into the new singer. Is this not how you made your songs?”

-“No! I made them normally!” Crysty yells in response, offended.

-“Okay... Don’t be mad. I guess it makes sense. Yea, I’m pretty sure this app is new. Anyway, look at the top song. It’s yours! People all over the world are rearranging it, it’s like your song becomes one with the world!”

-“No... No it’s not... It’s like... The song is being dismantled until it’s remembered by none...”

-“Well I didn’t mean to upset you. Look at the bright side, people will remember your name.” Sophie tries to cheer her up.

-“Crysty, let’s try to...”

-“NO! This is wrong!” Crysty yells, interrupting Reef.

-“Let’s try to do something about this, they can’t just use your song without your permission.”

-“But look, the one who uploaded my song is just someone random from the internet. My name isn’t even mentioned. If I press it, the app shows the most liked version that people all over the world teared my song apart into!”

She falls to her knees, making a face of distress, unable to move.

-“Crysty!” Reef gets down to help her stand.

-“Reef, my music is who I am.”

-“I know.”

-“You said that I’m crysty and that nobody can take that away.” She starts crying.

🩸“They just did.”💔

-“Do you think your dad can do something about this?” Reef asks desperately.

-“This is not his company. This is who he sold the A.I technology to.”

Reef tries thinking hard like his life depends on it. Then, a light of hope is seen in his eyes.

-“I know who we can turn to.”