Fame | Shawn Mendes

Chapter 6; Harriet & ski gear

"Are you coming with us?" one of my friends from Texas asked me on the phone as I was sitting on my bed in Andre & Lauren's apartment.

"I don't think I can but I will most definitely try to convince management," I told her. "You really should because you can't miss it! We all miss you and want you to come with us. It will be our last trip together so you have to come!"

"I'll talk to my management soon, Kyra. I gotta go now so talk to you later."

We said our goodbyes and I got out of bed knowing that I had to get ready because I was having a meeting about my album, webside and mostly the designes of my merch. Yep, I got the chance to help designing them because I wanted them to look as awesome as they could get.

I connected my phone with my box and listened to music while getting ready. It took me about half an hour to look somewhat okay for the public eye before leaving my room and greeting Lauren & Andre.

I feel like I was in the way sometimes because they were young and in love and I was kind of getting in the way when they are in the mood to be all lovey dovey.

"Have a fun day you two," Lauren called as she got her keys and left for work. Andre & I turned the volume of thr radio louder and starting singing and dancing around the apartment until we were ready to go and guess what...we were late again.

"Don't you guys have an alarm on your damn phones!" Mark, our boss, yelled as we collapsed in our chairs. "Sorry," we both muttered as the meeting about my webside, merch and lastly my album began.

"The album will be dropping in two weeks from now and we still have some touch ups to do," Derek began as he listed the simple things that still needed to get done. I was calculating when the correct date of my album release was whilst having the class trip in my mind.

"Shit!" I suddenly blurred out. Everyone's eyes landed on me, waiting for an explanation of what I was currently thinking.

"What is it Jam?" Mark asked with a raised eyebrow. Yea, I have a lot of nicknames including Jam.

"I was going to ask if I could...ehm, if I could possibly go on a trip with my school but I just realized that the trip is from the 20th to the 26th and the release date is the 23rd. I really wanted to go, though," I sighed, knowing that he wouldn't let me because I had to promote my album and such.

"Well, sorry but there is no way you can go on that trip," Mark told me honestly. I nodded my head slowly and found my phone case much more interesting at that moment.

"Mark, you should let her go. It's their last trip together as a class and she doesn't want to miss out," Andre said, taking not only me by surprise. "She has to promote her album and having the opportunity to have that is great and that means you have to sacrifice other things for this."

"We all want her to achieve great success but we also want her to have something that makes her a normal teenager. Let her go on this trip and we figure something out," Andre spoke up once again, knowing that it was important to me.

Mark thought for a while but knowing him there's always a catch.

"I will let you go," he started but I was already screaming and jumping off happiness.

"BUT!"

I sat back down and waited for him to continue. "Before then you have to be on your best behavior. Always on time. Always doing your best. I will arrange more interviews and such to promote the album also whilst being on that trip," he smiled at me, "don't break something and have fun."