Waiting for Never - Post Malone

Skinny Love

It's the end of November when they are called into a meeting with the record label. They want to look at sales, share stats and talk about a tour. It's going well, Austin's record is still top of the charts and two of his songs on the album have been referred to as songs that will stand the test of time and become classics. There is even a dance made up for one of the songs by fans that Jonas has learned and is a source of entertainment for Marli. Austin is constantly trending on social media and can no longer go out in public without his bodyguards, Max and Jack, with all the hype around the record. Even now a mob is growing steadily outside the record company as they have their meeting of fans hoping to catch a glimpse of Austin when he leaves. Austin Post was world-famous before, but right now it's the galaxy he seems to be on top of. A world tour is what the label is suggesting, starting in February and will run right through to October with a month-long break in June. The venues they are busy booking hold the capacity of a minimum of 20,000 people and the label expects to sell out these venues within hours of when tickets go on sale on Christmas day. The great strahiv stadium in Prague, AT&T stadium in Texas, The Ohio Stadium in Ohio, Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, Wembley stadium and 02 Arena in London, Friends Arena in Stockholm, and Madison Square Garden in New York to name a few. They are expecting to book him for 140 shows.

Marli is listening wide-eyed, trying to wrap her head around what it would actually feel like, standing up in front of a crowd of 20,000 people 140 times over an 8-month-long tour. No thank you. She is also a bit worried, this is a lot of pressure for Austin and Marli hopes he can cope. Halfway through the meeting, she catches Austin and Jonas holding their phones and trying to be discreet as possible, but they are both practically whisper shouting at each other.
The room goes quiet and then both men look up to assess the sudden silence. "Sorry, my apologies. We seem to have an internal issue. A pain in my ass if I am being honest," Austin says and then looks at Marli with a pointed look then hands his phones, iPad, and laptop to Jonas. "Will you please follow Jonas out, he will update you," he says to Marli. Marli stands and follows Jonas out of the room. In the passage, Jonas stops and hands her his two phones as well as Austin's two phones, his iPad and laptop. "Marli, do you have your phones on you?" She nods. "Will you check them please?" She holds up her full arms and looks at Jonas like he has lost his mind. Jonas sighs and takes all the devices back from her. Marli then digs in her bag and pulls out her two phones. She has 8 missed calls from her mother on each of them. Jonas is looking over her shoulder and nodding. "Yes, just what I thought. Mine has about the same and so does Austin's our legs have been vibrating non-stop since the start of this meeting. She has called me every day this week. Yesterday she asked Charlie to take a picture of the pantry in Utah. She asked me what foliage I was planning to use in my wreaths!! What the fuck is foliage and I don't even want to know what a fucking wreath is. I can't do this Marli. You need to speak to your mother and tell her to calm the fuck down," Jonas says. Marli is offended if she is being honest. How dare he speak about her mother like that. "Jonas, I know she is a bit much, but she just likes to make sure everything is perfect so people feel special. You can't be upset with her for that. She is treating you both like family and judging by the lack of interest you both show in your families one would think you would jump at the opportunity to have a family fuss over you," Marli says defensively.

Jonas shakes his head "Don't talk about things you know nothing about Marli," Jonas says and lets out a heavy sigh. "Well don't talk about my mother like that! She is a good woman with a big heart! She is just trying to be nice!" Mark says angrily. "You are right. Your mom is very sweet, she helped me through a breakup last week. I will always be respectful when she calls. But can you talk to her? Please. Just ask her to chill," he says. Marli knows he is right and if on cue her phone lights up, it's her mum. "OK, I will leave you to talk with her," Jonas says as Marli walks away to chat with her.