Relationship of Convenience

Chapter 2.

"Please tell me again why do we have to be the ones to go over to their place?" Ely mumbled while putting on her sunglasses and a baseball hat. She opened the passenger seat of Jude's car and got in.

"Because his guy," that's what they referred to the boy who was going to play 'family' with Ely, "has a shit load of paps following him around and it's more likely to get papped on his way to my office than you," Jude explained while turning on his car and backing out of the parking lot.

"So who is this guy though? I mean I should at least know something about him before signing anything," Ely said.

"We're meeting him today, actually, he'll be there with my friend Carlos who's his manager and then we'll get to an agreement and sign the papers, I don't know who he picked honestly," Jude explained and the rest of the ride they remained quiet.

If you were to ask Ely what did she thought about all this she'd say she really isn't looking forward to pretending to be someone's girlfriend especially if the guy turned out to be ugly. But deep down, she wanted to be on the covers of magazines, talked about in tv shows only so that he could see she had finally moved on.

They arrived to a small apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles, it was surrounded by various stores which made Ely worry about people spotting them. They entered the building and stalked to the elevator immediately. The doors opened in the fourth floor and they walked to the apartment.

"Come on in guys, we were waiting for y'all," a big bald man greeted them at the door when he opened the door, Ely immediately supposed it was Carlos, and walked them to a big sofa, from what looked like the kitchen another bald man came out but he was slightly darker than the other.

"Sit down, I'll call my client to come here in a minute, do you want anything to drink?" Carlos asked with a heavy accent and brought them back their waters that Judy and Ely asked for.

The tanned sir introduced himself as the father of the problem which made Jude chuckle and they soon continued talking in whispers, ignoring Ely completely. Carlos came back and behind him another tanned man followed him to the living room.

"Well hello, you must be Ely Sanders and I'm Carlos Santana, this is Neymar Santos father of Neymar Jr here who's going to be 1/2 of this stunt," he then proceed to shake Ely's hand but she was more focused in the fact that the man who was going to pretend to be her boyfriend was one of the best players in the world and the one she had a crush on.

Ely shook Neymar's hand and inside she was jumping, screaming, hugging him. She was a football fan and that was something it annoyed Zayn, because he wasn't interested in sports, though her team was Real Madrid, she thought Neymar was handsome.

It was after he let go of her hand and sat down in front of her, next to his dad that Ely realized there were people talking.

"A PR stunt, just like Kirsten Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid," Carlos said once everyone was sat at the lounge and Ely flinched at the mention of his name.

Her breakup with Zayn was still recent, only 2 months ago and he had already gotten himself a new girlfriend, even though everyone thought it was a stunt, she knew of very good hand that it wasn't the case with them. Nobody seemed to notice how she stiffened at the mention of his name and wiped a silent tear that managed to escape.

"We need to let everyone know that you guys are actually sane, have their shit together and can be professional in both of your work areas," he continued, "Neymar, your image as a party boy and womanizer is ruining the sales for all of your sponsors which makes them pretty fucking mad, you have a son and you have to act like an adult, I'm not saying don't have fun but please know your limits," he continued.

"And Ely, honestly I don't know what's gotten your panties in a twist, I understand at some extent that your relationship with Zayn has something to do with all you do but honey, your constant partying makes the casting directors not want to give you a chance," Jude said and at the mention of his name Ely froze, this time everyone noticed and she felt uncomfortable.

"Okay, listen," this time Neymar Jr spoke taking away the attention from Ely, "I live in Barcelona and she," he pointed at Ely, "lives here in America, how are we going to make everyone believe we're in a real relationship if we won't be seeing each other often?"

"Yeah and besides you know Zayn fans, always making up theories about me and my relationships saying its a PR stunt," Ely continued, "how are we going to make them believe this? They're still on my case,"

"Well, we have a plan" Neymar's dad spoke this time, "but first we need to make sure if you guys agree to do this and sign a NDA, then we can talk."

Neymar and Ely but nodded but they didn't had a choice, really, Neymar knew this had to be done, he couldn't continue with his antics but he was worried that this fake relationship ruined his real relationships with his girlfriends and friends.