"You're late," I hear Cayson say as I walk in the record label.

I look up from my phone which kept buzzing from the silly group texts Tyler and violet kept sending along with Kate's winky emoji.

I see Cayson sitting down on a chair with his guitar in his arms, playing a tune. I see couple of other people sitting around and some others sitting on the other side of the room.

"I'm sorry, I was in school," I reply and he walks towards me.

"After school hours?" He raises an eyebrow. "And that too for two hours?"

I nod in response without saying anything else. I couldn't tell him that I went home to figure out what's happening to me.

When I went home, I checked my temperature and it was high. I have no idea why this is happening.

I look away and put my bags on the side which is labeled Venus. This seems like a great record label, whoever's it is must have put a lot of time and money.

"Well, I want to introduce you to everyone here," Cayson says as everyone sit up, attentively.

"This is Caleb, the record producer and engineer who is also my older brother," he says pointing to a man standing next to him. He extends his arm and I shake it, firmly with a small smile on my face.

"This is Jeff, the A&R coordinator and administrator," he says pointing to a guy sitting on the other side of the room.

"This is max, our booking agent and tour manager, who is apparently very excited to start planning our first tour," he says pointing to a man sitting across us.

"This is Macy, our publicist," he says pointing to a girl who's sitting next to Max. She gives me a soft smile and I reply back with a smile.

"This is Jane, Our concert promoter," he says and points towards a girl on the other side of the room.

"This is Finn, our sound technician," he says pointing to a guy standing next to Caleb.

"This is Haley, our stage manager," he says pointing to a girl standing next to Finn.

"This is Alina, our DJ," he says pointing to a girl who shakes my hand.

"Then there is your manager, Jason," he says as Jason walks towards me and shakes my hand.

I smile at all of them and they all smile back warmly.

"Everyone this is Venus Stavish," he introduces me and everyone mutter a 'hey.'

Guess we have a lot of people working for us.

I suck at memorizing names but hopefully I remember at least my manager's name. What was it again? Jack? Jeremy? Jeremiah? Joplin?

"Jason will give you a contract so read it and then sign it," Cayson says and I nod.

I internally smack my head and sigh. Oh, it's Jason. I'll remember it, it's easy.

"Sure thing," I mutter and then everyone starts shuffling.

"Alright, I have a tune in mind for your mom's fashion show opening night but if you want, we can sing one of my songs that I have written," Cayson says, picking up his guitar and I make my way towards the keyboards.

"I don't mind, whichever one seems easier," I reply back and he looks at his brother.

"Guess we should write our own song as it's the first one, together," he says and looks at me before turning to his brother who just smiled and nods at Cayson.

"Sure, where do we start?" I ask and he smiles and we start composing a song.

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"This song is perfect," Cayson says after what seemed like hours to just come up with a chorus for our song.

Caleb thinks that this song is also perfect as it is our first one together. He has a lot of experience with songs and other celebrities so we go ahead with the song.

We all contributed couple of lines and then boom! The song is created!

"This is super fun," I comment and Cayson nods.

"It is when it's with someone other than my guitar and me," he looks at me with a small smile on his face.

My head has been paining through this whole session but I tried to distract myself from it by the song.

I pull my hand towards my head and it is still hot. I quickly pull my hand back to myself and wipe the sweat, forming near my temples.

"I'll be back," I say and quickly walk out of the record label and int my car.

I dig through my purse, looking for the pills and find them. There is always a bottle of water sitting in my car somewhere so I start searching for it.

It's next to the passenger seat and I pull it out and drink some water and then swallow the pills down quickly.

Everything was starting to get blurry again and my tremor was back. Suddenly my hands started shaking and I groaned in frustration.

I tried hard to stop it from shaking but nothing works. Just as it stops, I walk out of the car and stand outside, looking at myself from the glass of the car's window.

When I see myself, all I see is a lonely girl. An abandoned girl. A depressed girl. An alone girl. A girl who's going through a hard time.

Ugh, I groan.

I pull my hands to my face and pull my bangs up and start breathing heavily while looking at my own reflection on the window.

Something is wrong, but what?

Suddenly I feel a tap on my shoulder and I jump as I turn around and bump into a muscular chest. I look up to see Cayson who is standing close too close to me with a concern on his face.

"Are you okay?" He asks and I just look at him.

Does he even care?

"Of course I do," he replies and I look away knowing the dumbass shit I did just now. "I mean we are tied together for the next five years now so my partner has to be fine."

Oh, he just cares about the music.

I sigh and look at him. "I'm fine."

I look behind him where I see the others looking through the window. He raises his hand to mess his hair and I walk past him but almost fall on him because of a rock.

He quickly catches me and his hand brushes against my neck. His hands are resting on my almost backless crop top while his other hand is holding onto my hand.

His touch sends shivers down my spine but I try my hardest to ignore how it makes me feel.

I quickly pull myself up and push him back a little but he doesn't move, instead he comes closer and puts his hand on my neck and then my forehead.

"What?"

"Are you okay?"

"Seriously? You just asked me and I said I'm fine. Again, a minute later, I'm fine. Don't worry nothing will happen to this gig."

"You're really warm," he says, pulling his hand to himself and looking at me, his eyes filled with concern.

Of course, my bad health will also hurt his so called reputation.

"I'm fine."

"If you say so," he hesitates and lets go of me.

"Well then, let's start practicing the song so we get the hang of it soon enough," I say and he looks away for a moment before his eyes pierce to mine.

"How about we do that tomorrow? For now, take rest so we can be fully prepared," he says and I was taken aback.

Why would he want me to rest up while we have this huge gig coming as this is our first gig?

He is definitely on some sort of pills. Maybe he's just not in the right state of mind.

Well, I'm happy for this free break I'm getting without even asking.

"Well, see you tomorrow then," I say and sit back into my car.

He taps on my window and I pull it down. "Make sure you rest Venus," he slowly says before he heads inside.

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