Chapter 28 - Black Cat (2)
Outside the Main Building, Eppie stretched out her body against the brick facade.
“Whelp, that was useful,” she said to Eric. “I guess we should find someone to find Mio.”
“Charlene is the obvious choice,” Eric agreed as he studied the other students staring in their direction. “You got anyone else in mind?”
“Not really,” Eppie replied. “So things are moving fast, eh?”
Eric wasn’t looking at her, but at the quadrangle.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
“Halloween,” her lawyer said, looking at her all-black theatre get-up. “You doing anything?”
“You know, I totally forgot about that,” Eppie became suddenly aware that, indeed, she really was out of the loop. With all the practice and the songwriting and the Valorie drama, she had completely forgotten about America’s hyper-commercial season of spirits. In truth, she hadn’t celebrated Halloween in as long as she could recall. Their gated community was full of very private people who kept to themselves, and the C-suite rarely indulged in the festivities they organised for their workers through middle managers.
“I hear that Halloween is an ordeal here, in LAPA.” Eric looked at her again, then at the kids in the quad. “I take it you didn’t receive any invitations?”
“Not at all.”
Eric gave her a strange look. “You’re telling me that with your popularity, your songs, your number of friends on MySpace, you…”
He stopped.
“When’s the last time you checked your MySpace?”
Eppie suddenly felt sodden as cold sweat permeated her cheap t-shirt.
“When’s the last time you checked your email notifications?”
Her brows grew equally drenched with realisation.
“JESUS CHRIST, Eppie! Go check them now!”
With a glowering Eric looming over her, Eppie turned on her computer and checked her Social Media summaries.
| From: mfilmore@sonymusic.com To: efontaine@sonymusic.com Date: Friday, 27 October 2007, 5:47 PM Subject: WEEKLY WRAP — Oct 20–Oct 27 🎃 (please read the bit about Kyle!!!) Hi Eppie!! Hope the week went well! Here's your weekly wrap! NUMBERS MySpace profile: 4,340 friends (up 318 from last week — the Halloween bump is real, people were sharing your page like crazy). I posted that little "Happy Halloween from Eppie 🎃" message on Wednesday night, and it got 214 comments by Thursday morning, which is genuinely insane. YouTube: The clip from the Vincent segment is up 130,000 views. Someone reposted it on a fan forum (LAPerformingArts.net). I've been lurking ther,e and the sentiment is really positive. We’re now only 210,000 views from the big 1 million! IMPORTANT I have a call with the journalist from LA Youth magazine on Monday about Vincent. I'll handle it, but I may need a quote or two from you — I'll send a separate email with like 3 super easy questions. No rush until Wednesday. THE KYLE SITUATION (please read this one!!) OK so. A boy named Jules Hernandez left like 37 comments on your profile over the past week. I replied to a few of them (friendly, nothing weird), and now he has told his friends that you and he are friends for real. I've gently cooled off the replies on his end. Situation managed 👍 ACTION ITEM
Maddy Madeleine Filmore | Junior Artist Relations | Sony Music Entertainment
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