[3rd POV]
After the lunch with the family, Billie ended up returning home a couple of hours later, but not before thanking Claire for the meal, and giving a kiss to Haley, as well as a promise to talk later.
Billie had some things to do over the next couple of days, with the reveal of her appearance to the world, she had to deal with some of the backlash that might come, and deal with some of her investments that she needed to keep up on. Mostly the smaller ones, which basically included a shit load of paperwork.
That paperwork was a pain in the ass to do, and took hours. And most of it included some personal information, which meant that she had to personally fill it out, as it wasn't something she could just let others look over and do for her. Otherwise she'd be giving out personal information that would be...well, better off not in anybody else's hands.
The paperwork was annoying, and took forever. And what made it worse was there was a lot of it, thanks to her owning so many properties, as well as small businesses that she owns at this point. Like burger joints, coffee shops, and more.
All of them were owned by her, but being ran by others that she had entrusted with the job. This made the actual running of them far easier, but the paperwork would still end up on her desk, when it came to the more important stuff.
Paperwork was the bane of her existence at this point.
Which is why she was currently in her office in her apartment. Sighing as she signed yet another paper after looking it over closely. She had been doing this for hours now at this point, quietly listening to one of her shows while she signed every necessary paper.
"God I hate paperwork" She muttered to herself, bored out of her mind. It didn't help that the shows she did have to watch, were...subpar for the most part. Thankfully one show did exist in this world still, one of the best of all time.
Breaking Bad.
She had been wondering if the characters actually existed here, but it seemed they didn't, which she was grateful for. As if they did...that would make things much more complicated. As it would have opened up a rabbit hole of other potentially dangerous worlds, like Sons of Anarchy.
She didn't want anything to do with them. She far preferred her calm and enjoyable life.
But she had been recently looking into other worlds that were a part of this one, ones that she hadn't found out about just yet. And was surprised that there was another rather interesting show that took place right here in California.
Victorious.
She knew next to nothing about the show, so she was in the blind. But she did know a handful of the actors. And it did explain why Ariana Grande wasn't a thing here, because Cat from the show was a person.
It was very interesting.
Especially since it also meant that Icarly undoubtedly existed somewhere, with them having a crossover and everything. She knew that technically Henry Danger and Thundermens were connected to Icarly, but she was pretty confident that they did not exist here.
Because there weren't heroes and supervillains running around (thank god).
Either way, she was very interested in visiting the school that they all attended. It could be neat, and she imagined Haley would have fun there too. Hell, she could even attend if she really wanted to.
Flipping through the paperwork, she sighed as she signed the last piece. It was on one of these neat little burger joints she had bought. It was going under due to the family that owned it going through hard times, so she had bought it and instead hired them to run it, with them able to continue running their beloved burger joint, and making a good bit of cash.
Putting the final paper down, Billie leaned back.
'Now it's time to deal with the next task' Billie thought, as she went onto Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Going through each of them, changing her profile pic to a new one that showed her face and everything.
No point in the old profile pics anymore.
She also went through and had her team upload the first of her music videos, this one being for Ocean Eyes. She imagined it would get a lot of views, as it would be the first time she properly showed her face in a video, beyond the rather low quality video of her in the concert.
This video would have much higher quality, and be easily watchable. Seeing her face in a clear video.
Looking over her assets, she hummed.
'I'll have to invest a bit more. Netflix will be a good option, it's stock crashed from 14 billion to 3. So I should be able to buy out a decent chunk of it. And with my other investments, I'll be making enough to buy more of it' Billie thought.
She didn't really like investing, but it was the best way to live comfortably, and to be able to afford some of her future plans. She wanted to make the music industry a better place not just for Haley and herself, but for all artists.
And the best way to do that was through money. And she would need a lot of it if she wanted to take it by storm. Which is what her plans would do, even more so than she already had.
It would make companies like Universal, Sony, and others that were in the industry, look at her as if she was a threat. And she wasn't entirely confident in dealing with giants like them. Not yet.
So instead she was going to invest, grow, and build herself up, so she wouldn't have to worry about them trying anything stupid. Like a hostile takeover of her company, or something else. Which she knew was pretty much inevitable at this point.
'Should also look into investing in the companies that will produce the audio equipment I'll be using in the future. Like Bose. Although I know it's a private company, I'm pretty sure I can arrange something with the owner' Billie thought, writing down the companies she planned on investing in the future, and how much they should cost.
It'd be a pretty penny, but she was confident that she could afford it.
Glancing at her follower count on Twitter, Billie raised an eyebrow as she realized it was rapidly beginning to shoot up. Probably because of the new music video, or maybe because she has her appearance showing for once.
She didn't really care that much to be totally honest, but it was pretty damn neat at this point. She wondered if she would eventually become the most followed account on Twitter and Instagram. She imagined she would, considering she was so huge.
But either way it didn't matter.
For now Billie decided it was time to do something that was actually enjoyable for once. Aka playing some video games. This time she planned on playing some cod for a few hours, that or some Halo.
Something that didn't give her a headache afterwards.
With that in mind, Billie left her office towards her living room, one thought on her mind.
'...Thank god that is over'
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That's the end of the chapter!
Just a chapter going into Billie's thoughts and thats about it. Nothing crazy.
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