This is a story that I couldn't help but write. This story about what my friends and I partially dream to happen one day :D The song that is in this story is one we wrote so please don't copy it! Xi Gui is pronounced and She Gway, and Qing is pronounced Ching. Enjoy the story! ^_^
"Guys I can't believe we're here!" I was jumping all around our hotel room, brimming with excitement. "I can't believe we finally made it, and we made it here together, even though we delayed it by a year, but we finally made it!" the other three looked at me and rolled their eyes.
"Kj you need to calm down, you don't want to look like a mess at the party where your long time celebrity crush is waiting for you now, do you?" I stopped instantly at what Gui said and dropped onto the sofa, but my legs were still shaking.
"Knowing that we take a fair amount of time to get ready for these kinds of things, how about we get ready now," said Chloe.
"Good idea," said Gui and she pulled the hair tie out of her wavy, light brown hair. I'm a little jealous, her hair has natural blonde highlights and it looks really cool when she has it out, because her hair in the front is a fairly light brown and then it's darker at the back. My hair was dead straight, dark brown and really thick. "Don't be surprised if I'm just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and I am," she called from her closet. "Oh wait! To show who we are and that we're a team, group thingy, let's wear our Unik shirts!" we all smiled and nodded at the idea and went to get changed.
We came back into the living room area and checked each other out. Sammi was wearing her blue long sleeve Unik shirt tucked into a black skirt with blue flats. Chloe was wearing her red Unik singlet that Gui had designed with abstract patterns on it and black skinny jeans with her chunky gold runners. Gui was wearing her loose orange Unik singlet and faded denim shorts and some blue and orange Nikes. I was wearing the purple dress with the Unik belt that Gui made for me with purple and black Converse. We were all wearing our colour flowers that Gui had also gotten us in year eight; Sammi had a blue rose brooch, Chloe had red cherry blossoms pinned to her jeans, Gui had a wide orange flower with a lot of petals clipping back some of her hair and I had about half a dozen little purple flowers twisted around hair pins in my hair
"Now let's get our jackets and instruments and figure out how the taxi system works in America," said Gui. We picked up our favourite jackets that we wore everywhere, mine was a fitted black Big Time Rush jacket, Gui's was a soft brown leather jacket, Chloe's was a black leather jacket and Sammi's was a white leather jacket. Gui also got her base guitar, drumsticks and flute(I had convinced her to bring it with her), Chloe got her guitars and Sammi and I got the keyboard and my violin, we really only like to play our own instruments, although it was hard for Gui because she was the drummer as well as the bassist. We left our hotel room closing the door after us and went down to the street below. After a few minutes we managed to hail a cab and hopped inside and waited for Gui to load the trunk. She took the front seat and told the driver where we wanted to go. Gui was always the one to take charge of things, she really hated letting her friends down, this was Chloe's dream and it became mine as well. I just realised that Gui has a lot on her shoulders and she worked the hardest for us to get here, I still remember her stuffing our CDs of Big Time Rush covers and our own songs down Kendall and Logan's shirts at Slime Fest two years ago. That's what gave us the boost and she had been emailing Roque Records for the past year saying that we would go to America after we graduated from high school. When she had told us we were so excited and worked our hardest in our jobs and at school. Who knew that the crazy girl I was paired up with on the first day of high school to make sure I showed up to each of our classes, would basically become our band's manager and get us to California to record our songs. We really need to thank her one day.
We arrived at the studio five minutes late because of lousy traffic. Sammi, Chloe and I quickly got our instruments out of the trunk while Gui paid the driver and then we hurried inside. I really hope we aren't too late.
Their songs were really good and they were inspiring for us. I wonder what kind on girls they really were because when I saw them they were decked out pretty nicely and they had some instruments with them like they were going to perform somewhere. I snapped out of my thoughts when Gustavo started talking, "Today is our annual band and musician get together and this year a new group will be joining us," started Gustavo. "I first heard them after my dogs…" Kelly stopped him and told him something. "After Big Time Rush came back from Australia after Slime Fest with two CDs of them playing. The girls in the CD somehow amazed me, writing their own songs and recording them themselves as well as doing covers for the member's favourite songs, shows incredible capability. So today we welcome these girls to Roque Records, give them a round of applause, UNIK!" he stepped back and a light shone where the girls were meant to come on, but no one showed. "UNIK!" he repeated. "Where are they," he hissed to Kelly, he didn't cover or move away from the microphone. She shrugged trying to get in contact with UNIK. "Umm, well I guess they aren't here so I guess we carry on…"
"Wait!" a girl with light brown hair in an orange singlet and denim shorts burst through the door. She looked behind her, "Hurry up guys we're late," three other girls came running behind her panting.
"Hey you are still way, too fast," said a Chinese girl with dyed brown hair and rainbow streaks.
"We spent around seven years together, how are you not used to me running," I could see the muscles in her legs.
"Hey, you're the only one who likes sport out of us, and you have the least stuff" said a tan girl with purple flowers pinned in her long dark brown hair. Wow, she's pretty.
The girl shrugged, "True true, but you could've asked me to take something else,"
"We would've but you kept saying 'hurry up we're late and then dashed off."
"Oh, sorry. Anyway, we are UNIK," she smiled and the others straightened up and smiled too. Everyone around us didn't look convinced that four little, really little, eighteen year old girls could catch Gustavo's eye. "How about we prove that we're not fake," the orange singlet girl started to walk forward with the two Chinese girls following her, but the dark haired girl stood frozen, eyes wide staring at me. The orange singlet girl came back and grabbed her hand, dragging her to the stage whispering something to her making her focus and blush at the same time. The dark haired girl was cute. When they were on stage they set themselves up. The rainbow hair girl was had an acoustic guitar as well as a white electric guitar. The quiet Chinese girl helped the dark hair girl set up the keyboard and the girl in the orange singlet pulled out a glittery red bass guitar as well as drumsticks. They tested out their instruments starting with the bass, then the keyboard, then the acoustic guitar, then the four microphones, the other guitar and the drums. That's some collection of instruments. Rainbow girl went back to acoustic and orange girl stayed on drums. They looked at each other and nodded. Then they started the song in Chinese without instruments and continued.
Rainbow:
还记得年少美好的向往
那是黑暗中的一道光
Chinese:
不管未来会怎样
我只相信梦想
Orange: Chinese and Rainbow:
We dreamed of seeing our futures
But it's not always what we hoped it'd be
Dark hair:
Don't pull us back just let us go
And we can push toward that dream
那曾经约定好的梦想
我们要一起闯
All of them:
We all have dreams and want to be
Anything but our destiny
Because we want to be
What we see in our dreams
They say that they are protecting us
But they should let us be ourselves
We won't listen to anyone
Because we want to dream
Orange:
Every day we worked so hard
But it's not as easy as it seemed
Dark hair:
We told ourselves 'the sky's the limit'
And now we're here living our dream
Chinese and Rainbow:
那曾经约定好的梦想
我们要一起闯
All of them:
We all have dreams and want to be
Anything but our destiny
Because we want to be
What we see in our dreams
They say that they are protecting us
But they should let us be ourselves
We won't listen to anyone
Because we want to dream
Rainbow:
还记得年少纯真的向往
是我们一直以来的信仰
Chinese:
就算渐渐失去了起初的美好
也永远会是黑暗中的一道光
Rainbow:
不管别人会怎么想
想想想我只相信梦想
我的未来由我掌管
因为 we are the one
Chinese and Rainbow: All of them:
那曾经约定好的梦想
我们要一起闯
We all have dreams and want to be
Anything but our destiny
Because we want to be
What we see in our dreams
They say that they are protecting us
But they should let us be ourselves
We won't listen to anyone
Because we want to dream
Because we, want to, dream
We applauded them but some were hesitant, and it's true that the song was a little childish and cheesy. Throughout the song, I also took note of their voices. The strongest voices and the voices with the widest range out of them were Rainbow and Orange. Dark Hair had the highest voice and I wasn't too sure about Chinese.
"Oh yeah," said Orange. "We forgot to introduce ourselves. I'm Gui Griffin I play drums and bass," she smiled and looked to the keyboard.
"Well her actual name is…"
"Say it and you won't make it home," Gui said darkly to Dark Hair.
"Ok, ok, I'm Kj Rotunno I play keyboard, and Gui if you say my full name I won't stop talking about BTR all night," she warned Gui who was about to say something.
"I'm Sammi Zhang, my actual name is Yi Ning not Sammi. I sometimes play drums when Gui is playing the bass," the quiet Chinese girl had a fairy strong Chinese accent.
"And I'm Chloe Yang, real name Yu Qing not Chloe and I play guitar. Gui's full name is Xi Gui Griffin and Kj's full name is Katrina Josephine Rotunno," Rainbow was given glares by her two friends. Katrina's a cute name.
"I am going to forget you said that Rainbow Goat," Chloe glared at Gui. "That song was the first song we ever wrote, well finished writing, and that was when we were thirteen and our parents were always telling us to become lawyers or something instead of going for our dream. This song is called Dream and the next song we're gonna perform is a new one called We're Here," Sammi traded places with her and she picked up her bass and Chloe picked up her yellow guitar. The song that they sang this time was more rock than pop and had a small guitar solo and some pretty creative bass in it. But what stood out to me the most was the keyboard. Her fingers were gliding over the keys effortlessly to the upbeat tune of the song. I looked around at my friends and saw them gawking at the girls. I guess they were thinking the same thing, five years ago we just started our career but we had help and got in through auditions and Kendall. These girls got in by stuffing their CDs down mine and Kendall's shirts and delayed their fame by a year so that they could finish high school in Australia. They write their own songs and put their feelings into everything they write. It's understandable that Gustavo was amazed. Their song finished and everyone applauded for real now. The girls started to pack up but were interrupted.
"That is why I wanted them and what about Kj's violin and Gui's flute why don't you play something for us," the two girls looked at each other with a look that said 'oh no'. Violin huh.
"Umm, we didn't bring them," said Gui quickly and Kj nodded.
"Don't be silly I can see them on the floor behind you," they girls gave up.
"Told you we should've left them," said Gui as she picked up a black case that said Gui Griffin N.H.S. she unzipped the case and pulled out two pieces of metal and put them together, got out the head piece and attached that too. She played a quick scale to warm up, "I'm going to play one of my favourite pieces because learning it pissed me off so much," a small laugh came from Kendall. "It's called Der Mirjambrunnen or After and Old Fairy Tale," she took a deep breath and started playing. The piece was beautiful and beside me I could see Kendall staring in awe. When it ended people clapped, like they had been woken from a trance, without saying a word. Then Kj stepped up. I leaned forward slightly.
"I'm gonna play a piece that's taken a long time to learn, it's called the Devils Trill," I know that piece, she focused and started playing the incredibly hard piece. While she was playing people stared wide eyed and when she finished people whooped and whistled as well. The piece was incredible and it opposed Gui's flute piece which was calm and relaxing, but the Devils Trill is intense and has a lot of suspense in it. The girls packed up fully and put their instruments in the corner. I saw Kj look over the crowd and then her eyes stopped on me. Gui waved a hand in her face and she didn't move, then she followed her eye line and then nodded. She grabbed Kj's arm and dragged her through the crowd pushing through people to get to us. They reached us but before they could say anything her friends interrupted.
"Guiguiguiguiguiguigui!" Chloe came running with her arms open looking really excited. "Exo's here! Exo's here! Exo is here! Exo is actually here!" she and Sammi were shaking Gui and Kj like crazy.
Gui stopped Chloe from shaking her, "Then go say hello, dipshit. It's not every day that you get to meet your favourite band," she smiled and turned Chloe around towards the direction of the Chinese and Korean band that was here as a special guests. "But before you actually talk to them take a deep breath and figure out what you're gonna say before you say it, otherwise they'll think you're just some crazed fan," then she pushed Chloe away, then pushed Sammi away. "Sorry 'bout that," she turned to us. "They've been Exo fans for ages and now they're here, so they're a bit overzealous." She looked at her friends with Exo and smiled. "Speaking of overzealous fans," she pulled Kj from behind her and put her right in front of me. "Kj has been a BTR fan for years and she's been a particularly big fan of you, Logan," Kj blushed and lightly shoved Gui, then Gui almost knocked her over. "So you two talk and bond because I saw how you were looking at Kj while she was playing," she indicated to me. "And I, am going, to find, some food. Where da food at!" she was jumping up and down trying to see over the crowd. "Uh, I'm so hungry," she wrapped her arms around her belly.
"Food's this way," said Kendall nodding toward a large table that Gui couldn't see and started walking towards it.
"Do you think they'd have corndogs?" asked Carlos eagerly, heading after them.
"And I think we could talk and bond too," said James attempting to put an arm around Gui's shoulders, only to be elbowed in the ribs. Then I was left alone with Kj who was blushing heavily and looking at the ground. I smiled to myself and started talking to her.
This chapter mainly was about introducing the bands to each other and stuff and I can see myself taking charge of our band like that. The next few chapters will be more about them getting to know each other so it won't be incredibly interesting but I'll try to make it as exciting as possible. :D Oh yeah, I don't put in any note to the POV's unless it's really hard to figure out, so you guys need to figure it out for yourselves and please review and read my other stories and well as RandomWriter23's. Thank you.