Fame | Joel Pimentel

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I quickly pulled away, "Joel! What are you doing?!" I asked.

"What the fuck dude!" Shawn came running to us and shoved Joel away.

Joel shoved Shawn back and eventually they started to get in a fight. Shawn had fell onto the ground and Joel was literally punching him.

"Joel! Get off of him. Stop it!" I yelled and tried to get Joel off of Shawn but it was no use. Richard came behind and pulled me away, the security separated Joel and Shawn. There was so many lights going off and Shawn's manager and Kelly lead both Shawn and I inside, away from there. I'm pretty sure Joel and the rest of the guys and team left too. We eventually made it to the car. Oh fuck, what just happened.

"Are you okay?" I asked Shawn worriedly as we were inside the car.

"I'm fine." He chuckled as he had a paper towel on his bleeding lip.

I sighed, "I'm sorry."

"Don't be, it's not your fault. I'm fine, really." He gave me a small smile.

"Today was such a good day but now it turned out horrible. I'm scared, what are we going to do now?" I sighed as Shawn pulled me to him so I can rest my head on his shoulder.

"We'll talk about this tomorrow alright guys, I'll call the cnco team and will let them know to meet us somewhere so we can all fix this." Kelly notified us.

"Yeah, for the meantime don't tweet or go on any social media until we say so." Shawn's manager demanded.

We both nodded our heads and just sat in silence as we rode to our houses.

-

The next morning, I woke up pretty later than usually, finally a good night sleep, sorta. I checked my phone and saw I had a bunch of messages and missed calls from Joel.

Joel: Shit, i'm so sorry Mariana, please call me.
Joel: Mariana please.
Joel: I'm really sorry, i'm so fucking stupid.

Those were just a few from all the ones he sent me. I ignored them and went downstairs into the kitchen where I saw my mom washing the dishes.

"Buenos días mami," I exhaustedly say as I wrapped my arms around her.

She stopped washing the dishes and put her hand on my arm, "Buenos días, what happened yesterday? I was watching tv and then you came up."

I sighed for like the 100th time and told her everything that happened.

"Ay mija, what are you going to do?" She asked.

"I don't know, I have a meeting in a few and we're going to talk about it."

"Okay let me know what happens." She rubs my back and walks away.

I get a text from my phone and immediately look at it. It was from my friend, Alexa. She sent a link and than a message attached to it.

alexa: giiiiirl, i am so shook!
me: i'll explain later :-/

I clicked on the link and it went to youtube, it loaded and I saw the title "You will not believe what happened at the awards yesterday!" Oh great. The video finally played and some women came up and she showed a video from apparently last night. It was Joel and the rest of the guys being interviewed.

"So what's the deal between you and Mariana?" The interviewer asked.

The camera zoomed in on Joel and I could tell Joel got kinda nervous.

"We're just good friends, she's an amazing, talented, beautiful girl and i'm really glad that we're friends." He smiled a little still looking a bit nervous.

The video of him ended and the women began to talk more and she eventually showed the video of when he came up to me and kissed me and everything just went downhill after that.

"Well wasn't that interesting? I sense some drama coming up. Do y'all think there really is or was something going on between Joel and Mariana? What do you think? Let me-" She began to go on but I closed the app and groaned.

-

I arrived to the building and Shawn was already there, I greeted him, gave him a hug and sat next to him. Minutes later, the guys and their team arrive. I greeted everyone but Joel wasn't with them.

"He went to the restroom he'll be back." Richard states.

As we all got into our seats, the door opened and Joel came in. We made eye contact but I looked away. Throughout the meeting, every once in a while, I felt Joel's gaze on me. Basically what they said is he's going to apologize for drinking, he's going to apologize to Shawn and I, and he's just gonna say that he had a little crush on me but he knew where he stood and we will all remain friends.

Once it was over, Joel called me but I ignored him and began walking out with Shawn.

"Mariana, Mariana." Joel grabbed my arm.

I nodded at Shawn for him to go ahead and he went with his manager.

"What?" I harshly asked.

"Can we talk?" He asked as everyone was leaving outside.

"I don't want to talk to you, Joel." I was about to leave but he got in front of me and closed the door.

"Please." He pleaded with regret in his eyes.

I sighed, "Fine."