The Stars In The Sky

Chapter 2

*4 years later*

Normani's POV

I change my pose as the camera flashes in my direction. The photoshoot wraps up and I change into some regular clothing before coming back out to look at the pictures.

"These came out great" I smile

"Glad you like them, I'll contact your manager when it's ready to go out" The photographer says

I nod my head we say our goodbyes, my phone rings as I walk out to my car and I see it's my manager.

"Hello?"

"Hey Normani, how'd it go?"

"It went well, they're gonna let you know when it's ready"

"Ok, great! I'm at the label right now, come down so I can go over some things with you"

"See you soon Mickey"

I disconnect the call and make my way towards the record label.

I just graduated college a month ago, May; and life has been coming along. The whole time in college I did a lot of open mic and such, I became one of the most known students in the whole university, including my friends. My friend Zayn started the same year as me but his career started in our junior year, so he took online classes until graduation. My other friend Dinah graduated with me and Zayn, she's currently pursuing acting and modeling. My other two friends Zendaya and Ariana were juniors when the rest of us started, so they graduated two years before us. Zendaya and Ariana do acting and singing, with Zendaya also modeling here and there.

Being with them a lot in the beginning helped me cope with the fact that me and Lauren lost contact with each other in our sophomore year. I still miss her a lot, but I've come to terms that if anything is meant to be God will make a way for it. I started dating someone on the football team, simply just to get over her. Although it worked some, the relationship didn't. He didn't trust me the second half of our relationship, when the "popularity" started and I found out he cheated with somebody in one of his classes. I got over it though, a few months later.

A couple months before I graduated, me and my friends went out to a karaoke bar and Mickey was there, once I was done singing he came up to me and started talking about how I had this great talent and incredible stage presence and the look, all sorts of great things. He told me about how he manages a lot of big names, one of them being Drake. We exchanged numbers and the following week he took me down to Republic Records and it went from there. Plus the label is located in the city so I didn't affect my school schedule.

I walk into the building and spot Mickey in the lobby, he smiles and comes my way.

"Wassup superstar?" He grins while hugging me

"Hey Mickey" I laugh, hugging him back

"Alright so, debut single is gonna be huge!" He says as we start walking around the building

"Really?" I smile

"Baby girl, you gotta believe in yourself! You have the potential to be one of the biggest stars ever" He says

"Thanks Mickey" I say

"You know, you remind me of an artist I started managing around the same time as you, same label too, her debut song comes out tomorrow and she has the same demeanor as you do right now" He says

"What's the song called?" I ask

"Like Mariah" He says

Just as I'm about to ask him who's it by, his phone rings and he answers it. He's off a few seconds later and we start walking back towards the lobby.

"I have to get to a meeting upstairs but I'm gonna give you a brief run through of what's to come" He says

I nod my head and he continues.

"Single drops next week, 3 weeks of promo, video shoot in 4 days and it's gonna drop the first week of promo, have a good day Normani"

He starts walking towards the elevator but I stop him.

"Wait, who's the song by?" I ask

"When it releases I'll send you the iTunes link" He says

"Have a good day Mickey"

A/N: Thoughts so far?