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“Sure, I could eat,” Sofia says, “Where do we want to go?”
“I don’t know, is that new burrito place open yet?” I ask.
Sofia shrugs and I pull my phone from my pocket. I’d powered it off before the movie, so I hold down the button to bring it back to life and wait as it goes through its little cycle. “If not, we could go back to that place that did those really good crab rangoon,” I suggest.
“Aww, see, now that you’ve said that, I want that more than a burrito,” Sofia laughs.
I grin. “Well, we can do that and try the…whoa.”
“What?”
My phone was vibrating and chiming up a storm, with a flood of notifications pouring in. My heart starts pounding. Is it my parents? Is something wrong?
It takes a second for my phone to stop freaking out as everything pours in while it’s still loading, but when it’s settled enough for use, I open the first text I see. I breathe a little sigh of relief upon seeing it’s not from one on my parents, but my fear takes a different turn when I realize it’s from Wyatt.
It simply says:Call me ASAP.
My heart sinks. Had something gone horribly wrong with the update?
“Jo, you’re freaking me out, what’s going on?” Sofia asks.
“I’m not sure, I just got like a million notifications and my head developer wants me to call him,” I murmur, pressing the call button and lifting the phone to my ear.
It rings once, twice, then I hear the click of someone coming on the line. “Hello? Josie?”
He sounds nervous, but not panicked, so I ratchet back the level of my anxiety. “Hey, Wyatt, I just got out of the movies and saw your message, what’s going on?”
“Okay, so you didn’t see any of my follow up messages or the ones from Arturo yet?”
“No, just that first one and then I called you.”
“Okay, so first of all, the app is fine, it’s still running smoothly, the patch fixed everything we wanted it to,” he says.
I breathe a sigh of relief. “That’s great. So what was all the fuss about?”
“Well…we aren’t sure how it happened, but somehow in the process of rolling out the update, we accidentally caused a glitch where a portion of the admin accounts got activated.”
That doesn’t sound too bad. “Okay, well, that’s not a big deal, right? We just manually deactivate the accounts for now and find what’s causing that glitch, patch it, and then we’ll be fine, no?”
“Well, yes, for the most part, that’s exactly what we did for all of them…except for two, because they’d already gotten matches.”
“Oh. Shit,” I groan.
My team is more than welcome to use the site for themselves if they so choose, but for profiles to be activated without someone’s permission is a whole other ballgame. I’m already mentally trying to come up with an apology letter and maybe some kind of discount for any customers that got matched up. “Whose accounts?” I ask, “Have they already been notified?”
“One of them, yeah, Laine, and she actually decided she wanted to meet her match, she said the girl was super cute,” Wyatt chuckles.
“Well, that’s good,” I breathe a little sigh of relief.
Laine’s easygoing, I’m glad if this had to happen to anyone, it was her, and I hope her date goes well. I still plan on apologizing profusely and working with the guys to make sure we have another fail-safe in place to keep it from happening again, though.
“What about the second one?”
“Well, uh…Josie, I’m really sorry about this, but the other profile was yours.”
It’s a weird mixture of emotions that floods me then. Part of me is relieved that I don’t have to try and find a fix for another member of my team, but a bigger part of me is completely and utterly horrified.
“Josie?” Wyatt’s voice on the line makes me realize that I’ve been standing there in silence for a while, “You still there?”
