By the next morning, we did as Shawn instructed. He picked me up, we took a 30-minute drive to Andrews office stationed here in Canada and we all sat down in a boardroom at a small table. It wasn't a huge office and I didn't expect it to be but it was still intimidating being in this room in front of Shawn who looked nothing but miserable since he picked me up and Andrew who was a professional at helping Shawn dick me over...
I sat in a chair right across from Andrew who sat upright and looked professional and Shawn who was slouching over just looking at me.
"So... This meeting is this about me...?" I asked breaking our small moment of silence.
"Yes, it is Ms. Harris." Andrew smiled at me as he organized a stack of papers that were sitting in front of him on the table. I couldn't get a good look at what they said but it definitely looked like a contract, was it mine?
"Alright..." I said raising a curious brow at him.
"How would you like a promotion, Ms. Harris?" Andrew asked, his hands folded in front of him as he smiled at me. Shawn just stayed silent next to him still staring at me. His head was low but his eyes were on me. Probably the way he qas just positioned and looking me made it seem like he was mad at me, I felt like he was going to murder me or attack me at any moment... wouldn't be a first...
"What exactly am I being promoted to?" I asked raising a brow as I turned my attention back to Andrew.
"Well, to explain a bit, Shawn here has been under flak recently with the Hailey Baldwin rumors. You may have heard the rumors that Shawn and Haily had a little fling at the time of the Met Gala which is not at all true, you were there, you witnessed it. And although these rumors bring attention, it doesn't bring him good attention... It's ultimately ruining his reputation with big-name celebrities such as Justin Bieber, who may I add, has no problem running his mouth about, Shawn. In general, right now this doesn't look good for Shawn. You may not fully understand but that can damage his career or potential collaborations." Andrew explained.
"Alright, but what does that have to do with me?" I questioned, still not fully knowing what I can do to help.
"Shawn and I ask that you play the role of his girlfriend on top of your current contract-"
"What!?" I cut him off, my eyes shot wide open as I stared at Shawn. He just looked away, probably embarrassed.
"Ms. Harris if you cooperate we can give you a raise, twice as much as what you make now, it will all only be for show, and you will really only have to act like a couple in front of cameras. Aside from that, you will still only be the assistant to Shawn." Andrew quickly explained.
"Right, because I fucking enjoy that enough already!" I sarcastically said waving my arm at Shawn frantically.
"Please, Ms. Harris if this wasn't important we wouldn't ask you-"
"What about Daniel?! My actual boyfriend?" I asked.
"All we ask is that you and Daniel don't show PDA. Anything is available behind closed doors."
"No! Absolutely not!" I refused.
"Shawn, I don't know-" Andrew turned his attention to Shawn only to be cut off once again.
"Do this and I'll delete them all..." Shawn finally spoke up. I looked at Shawn to see him staring at me with the most serious expression I've ever seen on his face.
"Tell me who's idea it was," I said, keeping my eyes locked on Shawn.
"Well, Shawn and I both-" Andrew tried to explain.
"Who suggested it first...?" I raised my voice, still looking at Shawn.
"It was me," Shawn answered, "I told Andrew it had to be you because there's no one else I want to do this besides you, Ms. Harris. I am aware of your situation with your current boyfriend but again this is not real and nothing romantic can happen unless in front of the cameras." He finished explaining. I just narrowed my eyes at him.
"So this is why you were prying into my relationship? You wanted to know if you could make this work based on my relationship with Daniel." I finally peaced it all together. That bullshit in the car before we left Mew York about him being jealous was just his way of starting his research.
"Yes." He answered truthfully.
"And why you've actually been nice to me..." I callee him out.
"Yes..." Shawn admitted sheepishly. I just scoffed and sat there, looking down at the table in front of me thinking for a minute.
"This was in no ways your intention of hurting me or trying to ruin me?" I asked as I stood up looking back at Shawn.
"No, Ms. Harris. This is for my image, which I would like to uphold."He calmy explained. He was still so serious.
"If I accept your offer besides the raise, will you swear to delete those pictures for good?" I asked.
"Yes, but just know that you will be legally bound to a contract Ms. Harris, so if I do this you cannot go back." He narrowed his eyes as he stood from the table. He grabbed the papers in front of Andrew and a pen.
"That's fine by me, I just want them all completely off your phone and for you to never use them against me again," I said crossing my arms as Shawn approached me. He walked up to meet face to face and stopped right in front of me, placing the papers down on the table once more.
"I will delete the picture after you sign in agreement to the new contract," Shawn held the pen up to me to take.
"Also... no more unsolicited photos of me and no more assaulting me in any way shape or form. You want me to be a professional? You have to be one too. And this contract has to at least have an expiration of at most a yeat." I added. Shawn just inhaled deeply as he closed his eyes.
"Fine." He sighed. I just smiled wide before I grabbed the pen.
"Andrew, you are a legal witness to my verbal contractual obligation right?" I asked.
"Yes, Ms. Harris I will be sure to update the contract and have you both resign as soon as possible," Andrew confirmed.
"Thank you," I said before leaning down to sign my name on the dotted line where my signature was required. Shawn, following my lead once I was done signed his own name where it needed to be as well.
Once we were both finished signing I crossed my arms and looked at Shawn with a raised brow.
"Yeah, yeah." He scoffed before pulling out his phone. I took a step closer and hovered over his phone to get a clear view of him going to his gallery and selecting every picture he had of me. I noticed a few that I wasn't even aware of and just narrowed my eyes up at him. He caught on an looked back at me.
"I needed new pictures of my girlfriend." He winked at me. I looked at him disgusted before I shook my head and looked back down to his phone. I watched as he hit delete on all the pictures. He then went to his trash bin and emptied it, then moved onto his cloud storage app and deleted them from there too.
"That was all of them off your phone completely right?" I asked looking back up at him.
"Yes." He sighed.
"Then thank you for your incredible offer, Mr. Mendes and I look forward to working as your girlfriend." I fake smiled as I held out my hand.
"...As do I." Shawn hesitated for a moment before he took my hand in his own and shook it firmly.
"I should also tell you that this contract takes effect immediately, and we have to go get lunch as a couple..." Shawn added. I just narrowed my eyes at him.
"Fine. So what do we do? Hold hands? Laugh at each other for no reason then call it a day?" I asked.
"Add, pet names, couple pictures, and kissing to that." He corrects me.
"Kissing? No, no, no. I can not-"
"You literally just signed that piece of paper agreeing to be romantically involved with me in public at all times. Kissing is being romantically involved." Shawn countered.
"I'm crazy religious and refuse to do anything until married..." I fake smiled at him with my excuse.
"Cute, but people have already seen you kissing with Daniel at the airport." Shawn fake smiled back.
"Which by the way-"
"You and Daniel broke up last night at my party, you came crying to me, your best friend, one thing led to another and I kissed you first saying you should be with me instead." He explained, his choice of words made me smrik for a moment before getting swriois for my next joke.
"Cause you know you can treat me better than he can?" I teased keeping my calm and serious face. Shawn just closed his eyes and I watched as he resisted the smile trying to creep up on his face.
"C'mon, that was funny." I laughed breaking my serious face. Shawn did the same and shook his head.
"That was so lame though." He chuckled, making me giggle in return.
"But funny. Now, before we go, give me a minute to at least explain this whole thing to Daniel." I said as I pulled out my phone.
"10 minutes," Shawn commanded.
"That's all I need. My babe's super understanding." I smiled before turning my back to Shawn.
"You're Shawn fucking Mendes girlfriend?!" Daniel yelled from the other end of the line. I stood in Andrews personal office where he said I can make my phone call in private.
"Baby, relax. It's not real, I'm not actually dating him and besides you like Shawn, you heard how shitty his actual love life is. This is truly just business, also this helps me out so much." I said calmly trying to make him understand.
"Yeah and that's great for you but what about me? Don't you care?" He whined.
"Oh, don't say that of course I do. I told you the first thing I did when he offered me, was refuse." I scoffed.
"Why couldn't you keep doing that?!" He exclaimed.
"He honestly offered me something I couldn't refuse after that. And because of it, I don't feel like a miserable slave to him anymore!" I said giddily.
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The more you talk about him and this whole ordeal makes me like Shawn less, babe. He basically just bought my girlfriend and I'm now learning that apperantly you're miserable being there with him..." Daniel sounded concerned.
"Babe it's literally just a job and besides, Shawn says we have to kiss in public but you know I'd never let that happen. Not when I have you." I cooed.
"Fuck, babe... fine... ok. I guess... I guess I won't make a big deal of it. Just don't let him do anything I WOULD do." Daniel said making me smile.
"Of course babe. Now I gotta go, Shawn wants to start plastering it to the world that I'm his girlfriend and Hailey Baldwins not." I explained.
"Alright, I love you." Daniel said defeated.
"I love you too." I smiled wider even if he couldn't see it.