Fake Love | G.D

{fake love}

After fixing myself in the mirror for the third time I finally leave the bathroom and take the elevator up to the 4th floor to begin looking for Amanda Payne's office.

Amanda Payne is a very well known manager for celebrities, she's managed some of the biggest names in Hollywood and she contacted me to come in for a meeting about my modelling career which I'm currently trying to get a break in.

When the elevator doors open the lady at reception points to Amanda's office and tells me to head straight in.

Amanda is waiting outside her office and shows an excited smile when she spots me walking towards her.

"Chloe Bolton, right?" she chirps extending her hand for me to shake.

"Yes, it's so nice to meet you Mrs. Payne" I smile politely shaking her hand.

"Stop that! Call me Amanda" she chuckles, leading me into her office, "now darling welcome to AP Management, take a seat and make yourself comfortable" she takes a seat behind her desk.

"Thank you" I smile sitting in one of the two seats facing her, "I'm so happy to be here"

"Now" she trails off, taking out a stack of papers and dropping them onto the desk, "I should probably start with the real reason why I asked you to come in today"

"It wasn't for modelling?" I ask trying to hide my disappointment.

"Yes of course dear" she assures me, "but there is a few details I left out which I couldn't mention over the phone" she trails off.

"First things first, to get anywhere in the modelling world you need a name for yourself" she says, "for example models who make it big usually come from famous families or social media accounts with a lot of attention"

"Ok, but I don't understand what I'm suppose to do about this" I admit.

"Simple" she smiles, "I have a job ready for you which will give you a lot of publicity"

"A modelling job?"

"Not exactly" she hums.

"Amanda I got your message" a guy rushes into the office, "oh sorry, am I interrupting something?"

"No actually, you got here just on time" she smiles, "now I don't have to explain it twice"

"Why couldn't Ethan come?" he asks sitting in the chair beside me.

"Grayson, this is Chloe Bolton" Amanda bites her lip while introducing me almost as if she's nervous, "Chloe, meet Grayson Dolan"

"Hi" he smiles turning to face me for the first time since he arrived, "nice to meet you" he adds extending his hand for me to shake, which I do.

Grayson looks familiar but I don't know where I've seen him before.

Amanda throws a teen magazine into Grayson's lap. I recognise Grayson on the front cover with a girl, they're both getting into a car after leaving a night club.

"That's the 4th one this week" Amanda crosses her arms.

"The 4th time on a magazine?" he asks cluelessly.

"No Grayson" she sighs, "that's the 4th girl you've been seen going home with, this week"

"At least one of us is counting, right?" he smirks.

"This isn't funny" she snaps, "all of your fans are young, their parents won't want them supporting you after seeing this"

"Their parents will understand it's just what boys do" he shrugs and Amanda is now looking very pissed off.

"Can you take this seriously please!" she snaps again, "it's not just the girls, you're always out partying, there's now reports of you doing drugs"

"Woah Mands, you know I'd never do drugs"

"That's the same thing 16 year old Grayson told me about alcohol when you first moved to LA" she scoffs.

"I'm just having a little fun" he defends himself, "it won't happen again"

"You promised me that last month" she reminds him, "that was your last chance and you blew it"

"So what happens now?" he asks.

"Chloe will help from here" she smiles at me.

"How?" we both ask at the same time.

"By signing a simple contract agreeing to be Grayson's girlfriend for a year. It will clean up his reputation and-"

"You can't be serious" Grayson cuts her off.

"You don't have to be a real couple of course, just at events. A quiet unknown good girl will turn your image around! The contract just states that you cannot speak about this deal with anyone especially press and that you'll keep it up for a year" she explains further.

"But-" I try to interrupt.

"And as for you Chloe, you'll be the newest member of AP management. This will be the perfect publicity for your upcoming modelling career" she says making me reconsider the answer I was just about to give, "you'll also be paid $2,000 a week with a bonus for events"

Having Amanda Payne as my manager would be a huge step in getting somewhere in the modelling world.

"Is this even legal?" Grayson asks and Amanda rolls her eyes at him.

"What do you think dear?" she turns to me.

"Can I at least think about it?" I ask.

"I'm sorry Chloe but if you leave this office without signing the contract then the offer is off the table"

"Grayson would you be okay with this?" I ask considering the fact that Amanda isn't giving him a choice.

"You're really considering this?" he scoffs.

"Grayson you're going to have a fake girlfriend by the end of today whether you like it or not, it may as well be a girl as nice as Chloe" she tries to reason with him.

"When does this contract end?" he asks.

"January 28th, a year from now"

"Where do I sign?" he huffs and Amanda smiles throwing a contract on to the desk in front of us.

"The dotted line" she points to the bottom of the page before handing us both a pen to sign our names.

note;
honestly not really sure about this story but thanks for reading!