"You're sceduled to meet up with Normani in half an hour, I know that you may not want to do this but think of the amazing opportunities it could produce for your career. You're known all around the music world now it's time to show your face in a new art form."
Dinah's assistant pr manager Braelin explained to her as they walked through the large executive building belonging to Republic.
"Her overhead, scooter, yourself and I will all meet together in the discussion Bello room on the 7th floor. I expect you to be right on time, actually even early"
Dinah had been to Republic to visit the studio as well as talk to her manager about some of the events she would be willing and unwilling to attend. Braelin left the building leaving Dinah with 30 minutes to gather her composure. She went to call her mother Milika on the phone who very explicitly disagreed with the stunt the two managers were trying to pull. Milika hated that her daughter had been hurt and if it weren't for the constant paparazzi and the sickening tabloids Milika may have had a little word or two with Normani herself.
20 minutes passed with Dinah's mother on the phone before they said their goodbyes and Dinah headed up to the 7th floor in the elevator rather than trying to tackle climbing what felt like 27 flights of stairs to get there.
She walked into the Bello room which was named that because of the platinum certifications that were placed around the wall all from Republics very first artist Camila Cabello.
Dinah was the first one there, bright and early, so she sat herself in the large white leather chair sat on the end of the table facing the door in the middle with two unoccupied light pink chairs next to them.
She rested her elbows on the transparent glass table and rubbed at her forehead with both hands and her eyes closed. God knows she didn't want to do this deal.
"Ah hem" someone cleared their throat and when Dinah looked up she was faced with the person who'd been seemingly haunting her. Normani.
Normani and her manager walked into the room greeting Dinah and having seats in the chairs opposite of her. They had another 7 minutes until the meeting was set to place so Normani's manager decided to go to the restroom while she could.
Being the always cheerful and cordial person Dinah is, she greeted Normani who smiled quickly back to her before dropping it in an instant. There was so much tension in the room you could cut it with a paperclip.
"I don't think I ever got the chance to say sorry." Normani spoke up, wanting to take the small amount of the alone time they had to apologize for everything.
"You did, you just wanted me to slap you instead."
"Well I'm apologizing now. And I know that I'm probably the last person you want to see right now and I don't want to do this deal any more than you do but it's genius if you ask me."
"You're wrong, you want to do this deal more than me because I don't want to do it at all, I just don't want to let my label down but if I had a choice we wouldn't be sitting here right now."
Normani didn't respond only nodding her head in defeat.
"Oh and by the way, I'm a very forgiving person so even though you fucked me over I'm going to let it go, I don't know what you were thinking then and I was just so fed up that I lashed out but you can tell me your side if that's what you want to do"
"I do, I want to let you know everything, can we get together after this maybe for coffee or something." She paused
"I don't want this to sound like I'm asking you on a date or anything but we only have about 4 minutes until this meeting is set to start and that's definitely not enough time for me to-"
Scooter and Naomi walk into the office causing her to abruptly stop her sentence in the middle of it. Dinah and Normani stand up each greeting the other's manager. Braelin soon coming in behind the each of them. "Hi everyone, I think we're all just about on time, let's get this going shall we?" Braelin suggested taking a seat at the large table as did Scooter and Naomi.
"It's nice to meet you all" Naomi greeted "I would like to get straight to business shall we? Normani is a busy woman as am I so let's make this quick."
Dinah sat at the table, a blank expression on her face. She was just as willing to get the meeting over with as Naomi was. "So I have a list of award shows and events that Normani can attend with Dinah and I hope you guys have some fashion events that Dinah could accompany Normani on as well" Braelin proposed the list towards the center of the table, Naomi taking it up into her hands.
"We don't have a list, as far as I'm concerned Dinah can accompany Normani on every fashion event she attends as well as shows"
"How long are we keeping this up exactly?" Dinah asked finally sitting up and scooting into the table more.
"Just a month or two, we'd like you guys to each get the same amount of exposure from one another but not too much." Scooter says
"So you want us to pretend to be dating? Or are we just pretending to he friends?" Dinah
Normani wasn't going to lie, that hurt a bit, the fact that Dinah took this as 'pretending' to be Normani's friend when before this whole thing happened they actually were friends.
"We'll let the public decide that." Scooter said before pulling a contract out of his bag and sliding it over to Normani.
"This is just a disclosure agreement, just to make sure that if everything goes down hill you won't be going around telling TMZ that this is all for PR" he chuckled.
The contract wasn't long, just merely two sheets of paper each one sided, so Normani read over it quickly before sliding it to Naomi who read it over as well. Dinah glanced over at the contract nosily then turned back to the rest of the people in the room.
Normani signed the contract and slid it back towards Scooter who tore off the extra yellow sheet that made an immediate copy of the signed contract and gave to Braelin before handing the pink one behind that, to Naomi.
"I think we're pretty much done here." Scooter said as Naomi immediately stood up and gathered her purse and the copy of the contract. "Nice meeting, if there's any problems or questions I'll have my people contact your people yeah?" Naomi suggested, heading towards the door and walking out of it without an answer back.
The rest of the people piled out of the room, Braelin reminding Dinah that she had a free fan meet-up scheduled in a couple of hours so she shouldn't wait around too long before getting ready.
"If you're entirely too busy today we can sit down and talk about this another time?" Normani suggested after Braelin exited the Bello room, Dinah had gotten up and stood next to the table looking at Normani.
"You can come with me to meet the fans, let's get this press thing on a road, afterwards you can ride with me back into the city and we can speak of it in the car, it's about a 45 minute drive so that should be enough time."
"O-okay great" Normani let out a breath in the form of a chuckle. "Alright, I'll see you then?" She asked.
"Yup, two hours. Don't be late."
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Sorry the update was SOO long I got writers block and I was trying to figure out how to make the chapter more interesting but it's pretty boring, the next one will be better though :/
