fake love ; shawmila ✅

chapter 27

Shawn's POV

{present day}

"Mr. Mendes, who is this woman?" One of the members of the record label pushed a tablet towards me with a picture of me with a woman.

The picture was really blurry and I could hardly tell who it was but I noticed the clothes and I was instantly reminded.

"That's Lucy. She's just a girl that I took home one night." I explained.

"And you decided to do that while you were still dating Miss Cabello?"

I wanted to scream and tell them that we were never together. It was just a show but they already knew all that and it would probably make things worse if I started arguing with a group of people that essentially had control over my entire career.

"Yes. I tried to be as secretive but some photos just-"
"Mr. Mendes I think you should only answer what you're asked." Another woman told me. I rolled my eyes at her and leaned back in my chair.

"I think you're in a certain position in your career where you know every single step of your life is being judged and recorded. You cannot get away with anything. And your little secretive stunt has managed to gain you the role of a massive cheater and a "fuckboy". There have been about thirty articles that's just about your horrible past with relationships, and by that I mean, you only being involved in physical relationships and there being no trace of a proper girlfriend in your whole life. We tried to get your relationship status in order by having you and Camila Cabello date, but you refused to take our help."

Oh so now being single is a crime? I need help they said. Just wow.

"It was you who managed to get Miss Cabello off the contract. You somehow managed to mess things up so bad that she refused to talk to you ever again. When we asked your manager about your opinion on the contract and Camila getting off the contract, I have only come to know that you didn't want to sign the contract at first, and were more than happy to be removed from the contract. I hope you know how much money, time and effort goes behind an A-List celebrity like you Shawn."

Great! Andrew just blurted out everything to them and now they're guilt tripping me.

"Now if we keep these facts aside I can clearly remember Miss Cabello's team laying down a big set of rules to you after the split. I think your manager was kind enough to explain it all to you; then tell me how was it so difficult to just ignore her, let alone get into a physical altercation with her? Aren't you aware that they have the power to file a lawsuit against you for blatantly ignoring several rules that were laid down to you by them?"

"Look I've had about enough." I finally spat. "I screwed up. Just tell me what I have to do to fix up my reputation, it's not like I fucking killed someone. I just had a small fight with a friend, well not a friend per say but-"

"Shawn. Please." Andrew told me, indicating me to shut my mouth.

"Mr. Mendes this might seem like a joke to you but we have already spent a lot of money trying to clean up the pictures and videos from last night, the pictures of this unknown female that you were seen with, and trying to get several websites to write a positive review about you. But it's all turned out useless. You have had one of the cleanest reputation in this community and once you've ruined that, everyone is now painting you as the bad guy. For them it's like finding fish on land."