•M a r l e e•
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Screeched my alarm. Of course, I would be the one to forget to turn my alarm clock off on a Sunday.
I sighed and crossed the room to get rid my mostly empty house of the terrible shreek the clock was producing.
I sat down at my computer desk and crossed my feet into my lap.
Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram all happened to be dead, I considered uploading a YouTube video, but I had already posted this week. I began clicking through all of my laptops applications, then noticed a recent email pop up on my business account.
To: marleerobertsyoutube@gmail.com
From:starbrokerstudios @yahoo.com
Dear Marlee,
Recently,my marketing team and I have been following your videos and social media and we would like to arrange a meeting to discuss us potentially managing your YouTube account, as well as an opportunity for you to gain much more publicity and viewers than ever before.We are proposing that you essentially create an artificial relationship with Mr. Kian Lawley. We firmly believe that the relationship will be beneficial to both you and Kian's career, if you would follow through with this request, our company would gladly see to it that you would make up to three times more per video than you do currently. Please call us and set up a time and place that we may discuss this matter. If you have any questions, please contact our office.
Best regards,
Emanuel Martinez.
I stared at my laptop in disbelief. I had always frowned upon lying to viewers and the public on details of my life. The entire basis of my channel is my true, unfiltered, unedited(for the most part) life. Intentionally tricking viewers to gain attention seems wrong and kind of like cheating.
My hands were shaking as I unlocked my phone and typed in my best friends number. In times of crisis I usually dial her number for straight forward, unbiased advice that I can actually follow.
I was sweating heavily as my best friend, Summer, picked up the phone.
"Hey listen, I need some advice. Kian Lawley's management requested that i pretend to date him in order to gain us both publicity and i don't know whether I am against it or not. PLEASE help," I shouted into her ear.
"Okay listen, I get that you're completely against the whole lying thing, but I feel as though it would be good for you. Besides, you and Kian have been pretty close at some points, so I don't believe your shitty acting skills will be a problem here," she responded.
"Yeah, i guess you're right. I'm going to call Kian's management and talk this out with them and then I'll call you back when I've decided. Love you."
"Love you more ." Click
I ended the call and turned back towards my computer screen. I scanned the bottom of the email i was sent from Kian's management. It then dawned on me that I should probably talk to Kian and get his opinion on the situation before verbally agreeing to anything.
I dialed Kian's number, hoping for a response. Half of me was excited to discuss what was happening, while the other just missed hearing Kian's voice.
"Hey mar! Long time no speak dude!" Kian exclaimed on the other line.
"Hey man I know!! While I absolutely love making small talk with you and discussing the recent events of our lives, I need to ask you, do you know about the email your manager sent me this morning?"
"No idea, why, what did he say?" Kian asked, confusion filtering his voice.
"Your management suggested that we pretend to be a couple for a while in order to gain publicity," i responded.
"Oh mar i am so sorry. You are under no obligation to do that whatsoever. I'd really love if they would come to me with this fir-"
"But I'll do it," i spoke, cutting him off completely.
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HEYYYOO I'm still trash at writing, but I found this from a year ago and decided to do some editing and spice it up a bit, plus I'm very bored but not sleepy. Enjoy kiddos xx
