A/N: Okay so i have had this idea for a while i just wasn't sure how to finally put it into words but i think i have it now. Each chapter will be based on at least one headline that the girls make (whether together or apart), the chapter will contain the events the headline reports on. See this chapter for an example:
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March 5, 2012 - Justin Timberlake's Tennman records signs new artist, Santana Lopez
I can't believe this is happening. I walk into the office and I am met with the most intimidating security I have ever seen, but they simply smile and step aside allowing me to pass through, I continue walking, because as long as I keep walking this dream can go on forever. I walk to the elevator, I go up to the floor, I walk through the office, I shake his hand and I say: My name is Santana Lopez, I am 21 and I am from Lima, Ohio. That is the same introduction I have used since I first started showing of my talents at the age of 18. Granted before this I was showing of my talents at bars and in parks but I was still singing and that was all that mattered to me.
To say I've dreamed of this moment is an understatement. Since I was tiny, like two or three, all I have ever wanted to do is sing, it has been the only career I ever considered. When I was eighteen and finishing my senior year at McKinley High School in Lima, I realized that didn't just want to sing, I wanted to be famous. I wanted to dominate the music industry, I wanted to be in the big leagues.
My friends (Quinn, most of all) thought I was insane for never giving up, never settling down, and never taking a break, but they didn't understand by the end of high school this wasn't just a dream, it had become something I needed to do to prove to myself that I was as talented and bad-ass as I thought I was.
About a month ago I was playing a gig with my band at the Red Cockatoo bar and lounge. After finishing my set, I got off the stage to grab a drink, when Puck informed that Rob Knox wanted to meet me. I dropped my drink, I heard the glass shatter but I couldn't move. The Rob Knox of Tennman Records in Los Angeles wanted to meet me. I literally thought I might pass out. He came out and told me he was impressed especially with the songs I had written myself. He told me that he wanted to send the short videos he had taken to some of the other executives for review. He said he wanted to get me a record deal. I said I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
So Rob calls me three weeks later and said the one simple sentence that had the power to change my life forever: "We want you to come in to the office".
And that is how I ended up here shaking Justin Timberlake's hand and sweating my ass off.
"Hi Santana! I am really glad you're here. I saw some of your work and I am really impressed, and because I am the CEO I can officially say, we here at Tennman Records would like to offer you a record deal."
The next couple things went by in a complete and utter blur, I was just lucky I had asked Q to come along. Finally when I realized there was a contract sitting in front of me, I snapped out of my daze. This was important. I didn't care who was offering me a record deal or what they were offering, I was going to do this my way or I wasn't going to do it at all.
I gave them all my requests and the things that I was completely unwilling to compromise on:
My band. My band consisted of Finn my drummer, Puck my guitarist and best friend, and Sam my other guitarist, and bassist. There was no way I was willing to get a different band. They had been with me through everything and it was their hard work as much as mine that got me here.
My music. I have written my own music since I was nine, and I do not intend on stopping now. I want to write my own music, no exceptions.
My image. With Santana Lopez what you see is what you get. I don't care if you like it or not. I am not willing to change myself or my image for any record company.
Lastly my crew. I want complete control over who is around me. If I didn't pick them they aren't in my crew, simple as that.
Of course I tried to say it all a little nicer than that but these requests were everything to me and if Tennman couldn't meet every single one of them then I would go back to singing in bars in Ohio. I am confident in who I am and in my talent, I know that this is only one of the many offers I will receive if this one fails. Where there is one record label there are usually about fifteen others waiting to offer a contract and at least five who will do and give anything to have an artist with even the slightest chance of being successful.
Luckily, I didn't have to worry about it, Justin and Rob thought that the requests were completely reasonable, there was only one person who didn't agree. I had only heard of the man that sat across from me, but I knew that Jim Font was a huge fan of taking artists and remodeling them to the point where they are barely recognizable, and there was no way in hell I was going to let him do that to me. Justin and Rob quickly assured me that my request were more than acceptable and they would definitely be met, and with that I signed on the dotted line. With that I signed to a record label, I had signed my recording contract with a major Los Angeles record label under the parent company Universal, one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world.
