Publicity // Luke Hemmings & Lauren Jauregui

Chapter One: Hollywood

Lauren Jauregui

Finally, the door opened and out came Mr.Greene, the manager of the company. He looked at the four of us and tilted his head. "Where are the rest of them?"

"Rude." I heard Calum mumble.

Camila was about ready to kill Greene. He had made her wait for who knows how long and now, he was being rude. She crossed her right leg over her left and said, "Why don't you call them and ask?"

"Now, now need to get fiesty-"

"You made us wait for two hours! Why don't you ever do your own work, -" Calum put his hand over Camila's mouth before she could continue."

"Uh, don't mind her." He quickly excused.

"You can call me Zach." Mr.Greene said. "I'd prefer it, then 'Mister Greene'."

Camila slapped Calum's hand that was still over her mouth. "Okay, Zach, what was so important you had to call us at 7AM and make us wait two fu-"

"Hours." Calum interjected. "Two hours."

"Yeah," Luke sat up. "Zach, what's up?"

Zach sat at his desk and opened up his laptop. "I dunno, you tell me?" He showed us a page with the trending hashtag '5SOSISDEADPARTY'.

Camila laughed. "Is that all?"

"You do realize that these two fandoms of yours have been, quote on quote, 'at war', for two years now." Zach explained. "Two. Years."

Luke shrugged. "So?.."

Zach stiffened up. "I will not let two bands on the same record deal have fandoms at war. Either you fix this, or I let both bands go."

"That's completely unreasonable!" I panicked. "That's an unreasonable conclusion, you can't just let both of us go-"

"I can do anything I want." Zach smirked and closed the laptop.

"You can't fly." I stated.

"I don't want to fly." He said back. "Anyway, I've devised a plan-"

"Will it be a good plan or a bad one?" Camila asked, clutching her phone tightly in anger. "Because we should be in Las Vegas, But, look here. We're in a meeting in Hollywood."

"Your shows aren't until tonight, no need to worry." He smiled. "You two will be there. But, Lauren and Luke won't."

I raised my eyebrows. "Excuse me?"

"You two are going out." He stated and pointed his index finger at us. "No objections."

"What do you mean by 'going out' exactly?" Luke asked.

"Dating."

"I have a boyfriend!" I exclaimed. "What is he going to say when he finds out-"

"It advantages both bands." The manager explained. "Consider-"

"We'll do it." Luke interjected. My eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.

"What?!" I whispered-yelled at the blonde Aussie. "I just met you today, I have a boyfriend, and-"

"We'll deal with that later, babe." He winked. I slumped back in my seat, sending Luke a 'You-Are-Fucking-Dead' stare.

"Uh, sir?" Calum perked up.

Gee, almost forgot those two were here. I thought to myself.

"Don't you think your kind of taking things out of proportion?.." Calum hesitated asking, this Zach was the person who could make or break your entire career. Yet Camila didn't even try to her kind or sincere self. Camila took a different approach, she asked rudely "Why am I here? I don't have anything to do with this dating charade."

Oh, you poor stupid, little Cabello.

"You two are in this too." Zach said. "You're dating Calum."

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me."

"I still think this is unnecessary." Calum said. "Can't we just sing a song together or tweet something out?.."

Zach cleared his throat and opened his laptop. "If you think that will solve, quote, 'Camila's jawline is sharper than the blade Ashton uses to cut himself every night.' And 'Calum Hood should go sext-"

"Okay, I get it." Calum interrupted.

"The fans have taken it out of proportion-" Zach explained before being interrupted.

"Don't hate on our fans."

"I didn't mean to, but since they have, we do too." He shrugged and pressed on a button close to the phone. "Steph, make sure the paps aren't out, four celebs are waking out."

The machine beeped and played a reply. "No paps. Clear as the sky."

"The sky isn't that clear actually." Camila pressed the button herself and told her, "Don't you know what clouds are?"

A sigh could be heard from the other end. "I didn't ask for this job.."

"You four are free to go. Stay mean, Cabello." Zach waved us goodbye aswe scrambled out of the office room. We split into our regular groups and walked out of the building.

"Your girlfriend seems bitchy." I overheard Luke say. Camila seemed to notice as well, she narrowed her eyes at me and mouthed 'I don't like him'. I nodded as a reply.

"Seems like she is." Calum laughed.

Camila stopped and turned back. "Save the gossip for the paparazzi, boys." She spun back and around and walked toward the car, leaving the boys surprised, not surprised about us hearing them but surprised that Camila would say that.

It felt great knowing that I wasn't in this alone, I mean yeah, Luke's in it too but I mean knowing that there's someone else doing this as well. It's not the brightest idea. What if one sabotages the other's career? Luke doesn't seem the type to do that, but the possibilities are endless.

From Mani:

Where r u guys?!? Show starts in five hours! U missed sound check!

I checked the time. 3:55PM What the fucking hell! I quickly turned to the driver of the car, "Step on it!"

The driver obliged and drove faster. Camila turned around to look out the window. "What an asshole." I heard her say.

"What?.." I asked confused.

"Calum, I mean." She bitterly said. "And that Luke of your's doesn't seem much better."

I laughed at the statement. "Oh come on, you can't be judging them already."

"Yet I am." She shrugged and pulled out her iPhone 6s. "Because they are assholes."

"Give them a chance."

"Niall can give them a thousand 'chonces' and I still won't care to give them one." She joked and rolled her eyes.

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might be foreshadowing something :o? -em