Animal I Have Become
Chapter 6
The next day, Gabi McCoy wakes up to the sound of her front door opening. As soon as her eyes open she lifts her head up to realize that she fell asleep on the sofa in the living room last night in she same clothes she wore the day before. Her black and red striped tank top, black mini skirt and she even still had her black boots on.
She glances up at the TV and sees that it is on and on the screen is the menu for 8 Mile, and it keeps repeating the clips to the chorus to Lose Yourself.
"Did you seriously sleep on the sofa in your clothes last night?" a voice says.
Gabi looks up to see her stupid manager Josh walking towards her.
"Yeah, I did, what's it to you?" Gabi asks him annoyed as she sits up. She quickly runs her fingers through her jet-black hair with the blood red streaks in it as she yawns.
"Ok, well, I need you to get up, and go get dressed, we have somewhere to go," Josh tells her.
"And where is that?" Gabi asks him.
"To Rocque Records, I called Gustavo last night, I think I know a way to fix your image," Josh tells her.
"I like the way I am," Gabi says. "I love be me, I love wearing black, I love my hair, I love my nose ring, I love what I wear,"
Josh just looks down at her annoyed.
"McCoy, just go get dressed and we will discuss this in the car ride," Josh tells her.
"What if I don't want to?" Gabi asks him.
"Gabi, after you hired me, your parents signed you away, I am legally responsible for you," Josh tells her annoyed. "Now go get changed into something else, we are leaving in ten minutes,"
Gabi glares at him for a moment before she stands up and walks down the hallway to her room, and five minutes later, she emerges wearing a black miniskirt with a white belt and a black tank top that has Simple Plan written across the top of it. She also has on black arm warmers and the same boots she wore yesterday on, she completed her outfit with a black rose chocker necklace, one black and one white steel cuff with skulls on it and locked shaped like hearts falling from her ears. She also had her black and red hair in a high ponytail.
Josh just looks at her for a moment taking in what she was wearing.
"Ok, there is no way in hell you are going there dressed like that," Josh tells her.
"Hey, you are my manager," Gabi tells him as she crosses her arms. "I pay you to take me places and get my paper work done for me and that crap, not to tell me what I can and cant wear, so, if you want me to go to this oh so important meeting, you are going to have to take me dressed like this,"
Josh just looks at the annoying seventeen-year-old girl in front him.
"Ok, fine, now grab your bag, were leaving," Josh says as he turns off her TV making the screen go from Marshall rapping as B-Rabbit to black.
Gabi grabs her bag off the coffee table and follows Josh out of the front door to her apartment and down to the parking lot where his car is parked. He quickly gets in the drivers seat and Gabi takes her time getting into the passenger seat and getting her seatbelt buckled just to annoy him.
"Hurry up," Josh says as Gabi gets her seatbelt buckled.
After she does, Josh pulls out of the parking lot fast and gets onto the road to get to Rocque Records.
"Why did you sleep on the sofa last night?" Josh asks her as he drives.
"I fell asleep while watching 8 Mile," Gabi says as she reaches into her bag and pulls out a stick of gum and unwraps it and puts it in her mouth.
"Why were you watching 8 Mile?" Josh asks her.
"Its my favorite movie," Gabi replies annoyed. "Where are you going with this Jefferson,"
Josh grips the steering wheel tighter. He hated it when she called him by his last name. that was exactly why she did it. Just to annoy him.
"just curious," Josh tells her. "did it have anything to do with you yelling at me yesterday,"
Gabi tightens her fists to the point her painted black fingernails were digging into her skin.
"does it have anything to do with Kendall Knight?" Josh asks her.
"shut up about that," Gabi says mad as she turns her head and glares at her manager.
"you know what, I am not going to do that," Josh tells her. "I want to know everything that happened between you and Kendall Knight, and I want to know why you broke up, and I want to know what inspired you to change yourself,"
"Marshall said I don't have to talk about it," Gabi says. "and I'm not,"
"Marshall is a forty year old washed out drugged up white rapper," Josh says annoyed.
"he is thirty eight," Gabi corrects him. "going on thirty nine, and he overcame that addiction he had to sleeping pills, the only reason he got addicted was because his best friend was shot and killed, and he isn't washed out, he made an amazing comeback with his CD Recovery, he won several teen choice awards for it. I even got a few for being involved with the song Love The Way You Lie,"
"I don't like what Marshall is telling you," Josh tells her as he continues to drive. "I don't want you hanging out with him, he is a bad influence,"
"ok, you are not the boss of me," Gabi says as she crosses her arms. "Marshall is a good friend, the only one I even have,"
"he is a forty year old ex drug addicted rapper," Josh says. "you can do better then that,"
"and you can do a lot better then managing me but you still do it," Gabi says spitefully. "and he is like a father to me, my parents bolted when they found out I was pregnant, Marshall is the closest thing I have to an adult male influence, he may have screwed up when he was a teenager and in his twenties and did bad stuff, but he has grown up, now, we are going to end this conversation,"
as soon as Gabi says that, Josh pulls up to Rocque Records. They both get out of the car and walk into Rocque Records and go to the elevator to get up to the right floor.
"what are we going to be discussing again?" Gabi asks him as the elevator doors open on their floor.
"saving your image," Josh tells her.
he then walks out of the elevator and Gabi follows him into the conference room.
"I got her," Josh says as he walks in.
Gabi follows a few steps behind but stops as soon as she gets inside.
"oh hell no," she says as she crosses her arms.
A/N: ok, i have edited the Promo video and added something new, you should go to the link on my profile and watch it again.