CHAPTER 34 - thirty thousand

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a/n - guys double chapter bc wtf i don't even remember posting the last chapter?? and i was wondering why it had 20 comments😭 anyways vote and enjoy!!! 

5 months ago, olivia and i broke up.

i packed all her clothes into the suitcase she originally brought her clothes in, fitting her other stuff in and putting her three grammys in a seperate container just in case. i dropped it off at gracie's house after since olivia wasn't home. part of me wanted to see her, part of me didn't, just because of how extremely awkward the interaction would be. olivia took the first step after a month, deleting all the photos she had of us on her instagram. after getting woken up by multiple spammed dm's from timothee, harry and madelyn telling me our pictures on her page were gone, i archive mine too. did i archive them because i was too scared too delete them? maybe. did i also not delete any pictures of us/her off my camera roll? also maybe.

from there on, all everyone's been talking about on twitter, instagram AND tiktok is the assumption that olivia and i broke up. after talking about it with my managers, they said to not address the situation and let everything ride out. "drama's drama, it disappears after a few months. people are gonna forget, and move on with their lives," they said. olivia and i still follow each other, but neither of us daring to like each other's post as we haven't said one word to each other.

timothee was driving me back home after lunch, and i tap a picture, showing him. "is this okay to post?" i ask. he glances at it, nodding with a smile. "you look great." "thanks, timmy." i tap the bio, thinking of one before posting.

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y/nl/n i wish i knew you wanted me

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user8 what happened to u and olivia???

user1 CAPTION IS SO FOR OLIVIA

user13 you and liv were meant to be endgame :(

user19 so pretty!

user03 apparently no one's ever heard of steve lacy before...

user10 I WISH I KNEW! I WISH I KNEW YOU WANTED ME

user31 get back with olivia

user16 sometimes when i'm sad i think about y/n and olivia. then i feel even more sad.

2 hours ago

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timothee and i lay in my bed, watching 'the maze runner'. "dylan o'brien is so hot," i comment, timothee looking at me before laughing. "do you disagree?" i ask, offended. "no!" timothee replies. i smile, leaning into him as we watch the movie.

olivia's pov

i swing around in the office chair, waiting for the meeting to start. "olivia, can you stop for a second?" one of my managers, kylie, says. i stop for a second, putting up my index finger, then putting it down after a second and continuing.

i stop swinging side to side as the meeting starts. as my document on disney plus 'driving home 2 u' was about to release, the premiere the same night. "we really need this premiere to go bang so the documentary can shoot up the charts," leon says. "and how would we do that?" grace asks. i observe everyones thinking faces, putting on my thinking face too- even though i have no idea how to make the premiere go out with a 'bang'.

after a few minutes of silence, leon sighs, "the only thing i can think of is a PR stunt." i roll my eyes at the 2 words i hated. "do we have to?" i ask, looking at leon. "unless you have another idea, that's all we've got. PR stunts aren't even that bad, olivia. you're getting more money and you're seriously complaining." "it's not about the money," i say quietly. "PR stunt it is then." katie chips in.

after figuring out that someone needed to be my plus one at the premiere, all we needed to think of was who. "why not conan? or iris? or gracie? or madison?" i blurt out my friends' names. "that's not a PR stunt then, olivia. that's just you wanting your friends to be your plus one,"leon calls out, "think guys, think." i slouch in my chair, trying to think of anyone who could possibly pull off this stunt. "maybe... y/n l/n?" grace suggests. "no." i straight up say, shaking my head. leon sits up, thinking about it. "no... that's good," he agrees, nodding his pen towards grace, "think about it. you and her have broken up, deleted pictures on socials, haven't interacted with each other for 4 months." 5 months. "it's perfect! everyone's gonna think she's somehow in it, causing them to watch the show." "we're leading them on though, she's not in it." "who cares! once they figure she's not in it, they've finished the documentary already." "and it's a premiere! i don't want her to be stuck watching her ex's documentary for an hour and 16 minutes," i argue, clearly not effecting them. "it's for your reputation, olivia. and her's as well, if i might add." "you realize that using y/n as my plus one is gonna cost a lot more money, right?" joleyn says. "it'll all come back to us as the documentary rockets," leon says confidentally. he was never wrong. after everyone agrees to use y/n as a lot of money, leon goes to message y/n's management team.

y/n's pov

i rock back on my chair, listening to my management meeting that just started. "y/n, how's $30k for you?" james offers with a smug smile. i furrow my eyebrows at the sudden approach. "what's the catch?" i ask. "just a few hours at a premiere," dean says. "why so much money though?" i ask another question. "not just a few hours at a premiere, a plus one to the main singer in the premiere," kaitlyn says, adding more information. "who's premiere?" i ask, sitting straight in my chair. "olivia rodrigo's." james says. "no." i decline quickly. "come on y/n, it's a lot of money." "i couldn't care less about the money, why do i have to go to the premiere with her?" i ask. "you're her best shot at boosting her reputation and to make bank with her new premiere." "by pulling off a PR stunt with her ex?!" i exclaim sarcastically. "yeah, now you're getting it!" dean says, with a hopeful smile. "that was sarcasm." i mutter. "anyways, it'll boost you up the charts, along with her. you'd want that for olivia, right?" dean continues. "but is this seriously the way? can't i just- i don't know, repost her post on my story or something?" i suggest. "that'll get her a few thousand views on her document, and that wasn't the deal for the thirty thousand." "when is it?" i ask. "in a few weeks, don't worry, you got time to prepare. remember, you're visiting the children's hospital the the next day after the premiere as spider-woman and then six flags the day after for the space jam 2 premiere!" "how could i forget?" i smile.

after getting in the car after the meeting, i call madelyn. "guess what," i say as she answers. "what happened," she asks with a concerned tone. "my management wants me to take up a 30k dollar pr stunt to be olivia's plus one at her premiere for her documentary." madelyn gasps, soon laughing. "you'd do that shit for free!" she exclaims, still laughing. "i wouldn't!" "would!" "wouldn't!" "would!" "wouldn't!" "did you even accept it?" she asks. "no, not yet." "honestly, i would do it. it's like 2 hours with her, it's not that bad." "i'll think about it," i say, sighing and stopping at a red light. "30k y/n!" madelyn teases. "it wouldn't even go all to me, dummy." i say, rolling my eyes. "you'd get some of it though, money is money. and it's not like you two are on bad terms, right?" "i don't think so, it's more of the awkward stage where we follow each other but don't like the posts or view each other's stories which is worse." "that's not worse!" i smile, shaking my head. "alright, i'm gonna go now." "let me know what you do!" "yeah, of course. talk later mads, love you!" "love you!" she hangs up, and i sigh, leaning my head back on the headrest.


another a/n - no bc i literally don't remember posting this😭 i kid u not i had a dream that i posted the wrong chapter on wattpad this is basically the same except i posted on accident?!?!???? or i just don't remember?!?!??

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