Honey was dreading having to meet up with Launa, even if Steve was going to help her. The whole morning, she was on edge, and nervous, kind of like the author on a day when she has to get a blood test.
When it was time for them to go, Honey almost started crying, but she managed to pull herself together, and not totally lose her mind. You can do this, Yv. She told herself.
You can do this, you can do this, you can do this, you can do this, you can do this, you can do this-Shit I'm here…No, no calm down, you can do this, you can do this, you can do this, you can do this…Oh god…Launa is so menacing! No, no, stop thinking these thoughts! You can do this, Yv, you can do it! You can do this! You can do this, you can do this-Nope! I can't do this! I can't do it! I can't, I can't, I cannot!
Honey breathed heavily, as she took a seat in front of Launa. Pizza Steve sat next to her, and put a hand on her shoulder. This slightly calmed Honey, but she was still nervous.
"Honey, why did you bring this loser with you?"
"I-"
"You know what? It doesn't matter." Launa put her hands on her desk. "Anyways, we're here to talk music. We'll take you down to the studio and record those songs, and then I want you to write a follow up, ASAP." Launa said, looking straight at Honey "And then we have some press meetings you have to attend."
"P-press meetings?"
"Oh, you didn't know? Those videos of you on the internet singing have millions of views! Of course, they didn't have millions of views until I tweeted them, but you are an internet celebrity!" Launa smirked
"I'm…I'm internet famous?" Honey looked down at her knees, trying to avoid eye contact. Maybe before this would have excited Honey, but now, this was really the last thing she needed. Just another thing to complicate this whole mess.
"Yep!" Launa pulled up the video on her laptop and showed it to Honey. There were 6,000,000 hits.
Honey felt like she was going to pass out. Steve was a little alarmed. Her video got more views than the video of him practicing his Italian Karate. By 5,999,995. He got 5 views. 3 of those views were him.
"Oh my…CAW!" she was so nervous, she slipped up and made a loud, scared bird noise.
That startled both Launa and Steve.
"I'm sorry…I just…CAW CAW!" Honey breathed heavily and kept making bird noises.
"Yeah, that's it, we're leaving." Steve helped Honey up, while she made distressed bird noises.
"Oh, so what? You're not happy about being famous?"
"I-I-"
"Leave Honey alone, okay? You are stressing her out so much!" Steve yelled at Launa, while patting Honey on the back to calm her down, as she continued making distressed bird noises. "You didn't even ask permission to post those videos of her!"
"So? It's not like I posted personal videos!"
"It doesn't matter! You never asked her! She is overwhelmed by all of this!"
"Well she has talent! And that talent should be public!"
"Public how? By exploiting her and posting more videos of her without consent?"
"Listen, you fucking joke, just let me do my job, okay? Honey will be famous, whether you like it or not!"
"ENOUGH! I don't want any of this anymore, okay? I just want to go home and pretend this never happened! I am overwhelmed, and…and sick of this! I thought being famous would be fun for a while, but then I found out it's just selfish music producers exploiting me for money, and you know what? I quit! I fucking quit! Rip up that fucking contract, right now!" Honey yelled.
"No. The contract is for 5 years."
Honey grabbed Launa's shirt "I said, RIP UP THE CONTRACT!"
"Yeah, you don't want to make my Honey mad. She gets really scary." Steve said, lowering his shades a bit and looking at Launa, with narrowed eyes.
"Okay, okay, fine!" Launa backed up. She pulled the contract out of a drawer, showed it to Honey so that she knew it was the contract, and then ripped it to shreds.
"That was the only copy, correct?"
"Yes! It was the only copy!" Launa was scared of angering Honey now.
"Good. Now have a nice life Launa." Honey said in an insincere tone, as she walked out with Steve.
They went back to the RV, and the moment they walked through the door, Steve picked up Honey and spun her around. "You did it Honey! You stood up to her! I am so proud of you!" He put her down and kissed her.
Honey blushed. "Th-thanks"
"That's just…amazing, okay? I am proud of you." He kissed Honey more, because he was so happy for her.
Honey blushed. "Stop, you're making me blush."
"Okay, I'll stop. Just know that I'm so happy for you, okay?"
"Okay."
They sat on the couch and kissed for a little bit.
