Industry || Pete Wentz

Chapter 8

The video of Pete falling and putting a hole in the wall has gone viral, it was all over the internet. Even people who didn't like Fall Out Boy were sharing it even though they had no idea who Pete Wentz was. Everyone was constantly making fun of him for it, I was lucky enough to see it in person.

"Have you seen the amount of gifs people are sending me?" He sighs from the sofa, I just sip my tea giggling.

"I have sound check in a minute so I'll talk to you later." Pete pushes himself up from the sofa staring down at me.

"I have a meeting with management before the show so probably not."

"Well come to sound check."

"Meeting is now Petey, I'll  see you later." I say before jumping off the bus and run into the venue where management were waiting for me. I open the small make do meeting room where head management, our manager and Fall Out Boy's manager were sat.

"So what's this about?"

"Keep up the good work Violet, you're bringing up the rates with yours and Pete's relationship. We just brought you here to tell you that you both need to keep hanging out in the eyes of the public."

"We are not your puppets, we will not be forced to do anything we don't want to just so you pull in a shit ton of cash."

"We will pay you one hundred thousand dollars for you to date Pete." Head management smiles.

"No."

"Five hundred thousand dollars."

"No."

"God dammit Violet, name a price."

"Sophia, you know what happened with.."

"Honey I know, but everyone will pay to see Hollywood's newest couple." Sophia sends me a sad smile.

"I'm not dating Pete Wentz, I won't be paid to. End of."

"We will replace you with a new and more attractive lead singer." Tina smirks, I raise an eyebrow.

"Do you think my childhood friends would stand for that? You'd have no band and we have labels emailing us everyday offering us a spot. Do you really want to lose your rising band of the decade?"

"Not if I put a bad name in for you all."

"You do that, I'll bring Fueled By Ramen with me." I cross my arms smirking at the small woman in front of me.

"You'll take down Pete's record label. You'll take everyone else down Violet!" Fall Out Boy's manager Bob gasps.

"You aren't taking my friends lives away from them or I'll take your life's living down with me Tina, I'll set up my own label and where will you be Tina?" I snarl. Tina is sat there with wide eyes, they know how much power I can have if I said one bad thing about Fueled By Ramen. The press would get hold of it and tear them to pieces.

"I'm not dating Pete Wentz because he will break my heart, then I'll break him."

"You can't just go on some revenge scheme after every boyfriend you have. I know you are upset about him but Violet come on."

"I'm going down, and I'll take everyone with me." My voice cracks before I storm out the room, the tears spill down my cheeks as the memories of that night with him. He disgusts me, he was such a bad influence and he put my whole career on the line. I had to have therapy after him, he messed me up so badly.

"Welcome to the music industry Violet." Tina calls out to me as slam the door.

"Violet!" Marty shouts down the hall before I just keep walking, through the endless corridors. Random crew members were staring at the celebrity running down the halls with running mascara and salty tears steaming down my cheeks.