Disclaimer: I don't own anything twilight related it all belongs to SM.
I couldn't get this idea out of my head and I know that I have quite a few stories on my plate as it is but I just can't help myself so...
Re-edited on 7/04/14 Here we go
Bella POV
I, along with Jasper and Emmett were sat in the studio waiting for Edward to join us for the recording session which was now...half an hour late in starting because our lead guitarist still wasn't here yet.
So, being as board as I was, I decided to play angry birds on my iPhone, while waiting for him to finally show his face. Marcus was going to be pissed if he didn't show up soon and who really wants to work with a grumpy music producer.
"For fuck sake!" Emmett suddenly exclaimed, "Why does pretty boy always have to be late?" He said in an exasperated tone.
"Don't know! Why don't you ask him? Seen as he is your brother," Jasper bluntly pointed out, swinging around to look at Emmett from the spinning chair he was currently slouched in and looking up from the screen of his Blackberry.
Emmett paused for a moment to think about that, and I couldn't help the laugh that rose up my throat.
"Dumbass!" I sputtered through my laughter.
"Hey, just because he's my brother, doesn't mean I have to know where he is 24/7," Emmett muttered as he picked up his own Blackberry.
"Yeah, but still it was a pretty dumb question," Jasper pointed out, trying to provoke him. Shit this was just what I needed another Jasper/Emmett smack down of words. It was time to pull the big guns.
"Hey I'm thinking of crossing to the darkside and joining Twitter," I spoke still looking at my iPhone screen.
Both stopped the conversation immediately.
"No fucking way!" Jasper exclaimed.
"Yep!" I answered popping the 'p'.
"Bella Swan joins Twitter? What is the world coming to?" Emmett said with faux shock.
"Seriously Bella? Why now?" Jasper asked and stopped swaying from side to side in his chair. Even Emmett turned around to that he was sat facing me on the sofa we were sat on.
Sighing I stopped playing Angry Birds and left my cell to rest on my chest.
"Well I've been getting a lot of people asking me in my fan mail when and or if I will be joining Twitter. And thinking about it, it would be easier to talk to fans and to set the record straight about the shit the press write about me, and come on it's been what? A year in the making?" I asked.
"Oh my God what would be your Twitter name?" Emmett suddenly shouted, making me jump in my seat and causing Jasper to snigger at me.
"Errr Bella Swan, ob-v-ious-ly," I said slowly, like he was a 2nd grader.
"Can't somebody already has it," Jasper said and went back to swaying back and forth on his chair.
"OOOhhh I know, what about BellaTwilightSwan?" Emmett suggested, "All one word obviously." He added.
"Nope taken," Jasper said.
"Ummm...okay then how about TheRealBella?" Emmett asked. I looked at Jasper to see if that would work.
"Yeah that 'ill work," he said with a nod of his head, and looking at me.
"Okay go for it," I said with a shrug.
"Ah that a girl. It was about time you joined the band wagon," Emmett said and sat back on the sofa and started messing with his phone.
"Okay Bella go on your Apps and download Twitter, when that's done, put in your e-mail address and the password is bellarocks, all lower case, then you can change the password to whatever you want and your free to go," Jasper told me.
"Oooo I'm so excited, wait until I tell Rosie, she is going to be well impressed with you Bells." I scoffed at Emmett's words and proceeded to log into Twitter.
"Okay Bells, now all you have to do is send a tweet first then me and Emmett will send one to our followers to tell them that you basically finally caved and we'll watch your screen blow-up with followers." Jasper said as he got up out of his swinging chair and plopped himself down in the seat next to me so that I was sat in-between them.
"What should I write?" I asked looking at the screen, and wondering what to say.
"How about "Yes it's me I've finally done it" or along them lines," Emmett said, "Just hurry up so I can send my tweet telling everyone that you're now on twitter." He added impatiently.
"Okay," I sighed.
Twitter Message: "Yes it's really me I have crossed 2 the DarkSide PLEASE FOLLOW XX"
"There all done," I said simply.
"Bahaha genius Bells absolute genius. I'm so going to start trending DarkSide," Emmett said all the while giggling like a school girl.
"Okay this is what I put," Emmett announced handing me his Blackberry.
EmmettTwilightCullen: The day has FINALLY come TheRealBella has joined Twitter or #TheDarkSide as she likes to call it LMAO go follow her!
I chuckled at his tweet then Jasper shoved his cell at me to show me his...
JasperTexzTwilight: She's finally done it! Our Bella has joined Twitter if u want 2 follow her, heres the link TheRealBella
"Awww thanks guys so are following me then?" I asked them.
"Yeah but here I'll get you following me quicker," Jasper took my cell from me.
"Hey don't forget me...oh and pretty boy can't forget him either," Emmett pointed out.
"Jesus you already have over a thousand followers and you only sent the tweet less than five minutes ago," Jasper told me and handing me the my cell phone back.
"Do I have to follow them?" I asked.
"No just follow the people you know, and maybe the one or two odd fans. I also added Rose and Alice to your followers, and Edward too," He added. I nodded.
"Hey lets take a picture of you so people actually think it's you and not just us messing about," Emmett insisted. I shrugged and handed Jasper my cell, I didn't trust Emmett. Never have.
Fifteen minutes later I had posted ten tweets, four of which was pictures of myself, Jasper and Emmett alone then of one of us all together then one to thank the 30 thousand people that were already following me. And the rest was cussing out Edward for been late. That made Em and Jazz laugh and decided to join me in cussing Edward out for always been late.
You see I was part of a band, Emmett was the drummer and all round back-up singer, he had a good voice but it wasn't as good as mine, Jasper and Edward's but he was a sick drummer that's for sure, Jasper played base and was amazing as was his singing voice, but he didn't like to sing for some reason, I think he sang lead on all of ten songs altogether on five albums. Then there was Edward our guitarist and some times pianist, he sung lead on some tracks too, but then there was me the lead singer and I also sometimes played the guitar. Myself and Edward did a lot of duets, not all of them the sappy kind; we just sang most of the vocals. But I sang the most.
Anyway for the past four years we had become internationally know as the band Twilight.
We were just finishing up recording our fifth studio album, and we're going on an eight month world tour next year. We had another four months or so to finish and bring out the album and do whatever promotion needed to be done before said tour would come about. I was looking forward to it. Even though we had just come off a gruelling world tour four months ago.
"For fuck sake how much longer is that dipshi..."
Emmett's words were cut off when Edward walked through the door of the recording studio.
"Speak of the devil and he shall come!" I exclaimed, making Jasper burst out laughing.
"Hold the phone everyone I have some news," Edward announced with an excited smile on his face.
"Dude we already know Bella joined Twitter...Jesus we was there when it happened, idiot," Emmett sighed shaking his head in what looked like to be mock-embarrassment.
"No that's not what...wait Bella joined Twitter?" He asked in astonishment.
"Yeah dude, where you been for the past like..." Jasper paused to look at his watch "Half hour?" he asked.
Edward looked at me for a moment and I gave him my most dazzling smile. He went all confused for a moment then shook his head to snap himself out of it.
Oh how I loved him.
No must not have those thoughts.
He is your best friend, not to mention in a really good relationship with a girl I kinda like.
"Anyway...She said yes!" He shouted.
We all just sat there looking at him wondering what the hell he was going on about.
"You know it's a good job your pretty," I teased him, making Emmett and Jasper laugh.
Edward flicked me on the ear.
"Ow...no hitting the girl, Emmy help me against the big bad pretty man!" I pouted crawling over to Emmett and sitting in his lap, he wrapped his massive arms around me as if to protect me from Edward. We both ended up laughing. I was going to move back to my seat but Edward decided to sit there instead. I looked at Emmett, he looked at me then we both shrugged and stayed like it. I mean come on it's not the first time I've sat in Emmett's lap.
"Yeah whatever...as I was saying, she said yes! Tanya said yes!" He exclaimed.
"Yes to what bro?" Emmett asked.
"I asked her to marry me and she said yes."
As soon as those words were spoken my heart broke, like literally in two. I managed to keep my face from looking like it (years of practise) but on the inside it felt like I was dying as soon as those words left his mouth.
"Really?" Emmett asked.
Edward nodded.
"Dude! Congratulations!" Emmett exclaimed and giving him a fist pump.
"Yeah man I'm happy for you, you and Tanya make a great couple," Jasper said while giving him a man hug thingy. Then Edward turned to look at me.
That's when I realized I hadn't said anything.
"Yeah...Erm congratulations wow! I'm so happy for you two," I spoke with the best poker face I think I've pulled off to date. Edward smiled and wrapped his arms around me.
"Thanks Bella that means a lot to me," he admitted into the hug.
I smiled and laughed on the outside, while on the inside I was secretly dying.
"Okay three down, one to go," Emmett suddenly said.
I turned to look at him.
"Oh I don't think so," I laughed getting up from his lap and picking up my cell.
"What you not going to get married?" Edward asked me.
"Nope!" I answered popping the 'p'.
How can I get married when the man I would marry is already getting married?
See talk about an impossible equation.
"Who's the best man?" Jasper suddenly asked. I could have kissed him there and then for changing the subject.
"Me obviously," Emmett boasted while gesturing to himself. Edward laughed at him.
"I don't think so! You will be my groomsman but defiantly not my best man, that job is going to a one Bella Swan," I snapped my head to his direction with a confused look on my face.
"What?" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth.
"I want you to be my best man," Edward told me simply. I was still confused.
"You do realized that I'm a woman right, I might work with you three guys, but I am actually a girl," I said slowly trying to make him understand.
"Of course I know you're a girl. But you're my best friend and it makes sense for my best friend to be my best man," he noted as if it was a simple as A B C.
"No, and I really don't think Tanya would be happy to see a woman stood up next to you on your wedding day," I looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"I don't mind Bella, I know how close you and Edward are," We all looked up at the new voice in the room, it was Tanya and she looked gorgeous as she always does.
"Tanya I really don't think it would be right for me to be his best man seen as I'm a woman!" I said all the while putting emphasis on the woman part.
"So you'll be his best woman instead of his best man," She pointed out simply and sitting down next to Edward. He smiled at her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to him. She looked at him and smiled.
I told the truth when I said that I really did actually like her. The only thing I didn't like about her was the fact that she was dating Edward. The man I'd been hopelessly in love with since I met him, almost five years ago, when we were just starting out in this business.
"Tanya it's not traditional and I'm all about tradition when it comes to weddings and I honestly think Emmett or Jasper, or even Carlisle would be better for the job," I suggested trying to come up with anything to make Edward change his mind about been his. Best. Fucking. Man. Or woman as Tanya pointed out. Even so I don't think I could stand there next to him and watch him promise his life to her when I was hopelessly in love with him.
"Bella, I want you to be my best woman," he gave me a cheeky smile as he'd changed the word. "I don't want anyone, but you, to be stood next to me on my big day. No offence," he added after Emmett let out an irritated huff, but Edward didn't care.
I sighed and rubbed my forehead.
"I refuse to wear a dress," I suddenly stated.
Everyone literally paused, Tanya looked at me with wide eyed shock, and whereas Jasper and Emmett looked impressed so did Edward.
"But...but you have to wear a dress," Tanya sputtered.
"Nope," I said in a sing-song-voice sitting back in my chair and propping my feet up on the coffee table and going back to my phone, "If I'm part of the grooms party then I shouldn't have to wear a dress," I added and went to play a game of Words With Friends with a random opponent. I'd love to see there face if they found out it was me.
"But, you have to wear a dress Bella. It's a wedding," Tanya answered back like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"No, I'm not going to wear a dress. I don't even wear a dress to the Grammys! You really think I'd willingly wear a dress unless I was a bridesmaid, which I won't be seen as I'll be doing the best mans job. So I shouldn't have to wear a dress."
Jasper was sat there snickering again and nudged my converse clad foot with his. I looked at him and he gave me a smirk and a wink.
There was a long pause and I was about to suggest we start recording when Tanya spoke.
"Fine. You can wear a tux," I just turned to look at her, "But..." She paused holding her finger up at me. I nodded for her to continue "Two things that are none negotiable." I paused for a moment, before I nodded again for her to continue.
"The tux has to be custom made to fit you to a tee, and I mean fit you to a tee as in it shows your figure off to full effect...and you have to wear the same heels as what my bridesmaids are wearing," she added as an after thought.
I thought about it for a couple of minutes while swaying from side to side in my chair. I narrowed my eyes before I finally gave in and nodded my head.
"Yes! Thank you so much Bella. You're going to be the best, best woman a guy could ask for," Edward exclaimed coming over to me and wrapping me in his arms.
I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him too. I honestly couldn't believe that I was going to be the man I loves best fucking woman at his wedding. Talk about fucking irony.
"I'm so glad you said yes Bell," Edward murmured into my ear.
"Hold the phone!" Emmett suddenly shouted.
I pulled away from Edward as we all looked at him.
"What?" Edward asked.
"Does this mean she gets to plan and go on you bachelor party?" He asked with shock written all over his face.
I paused and just looked at Edward for the answer to that question.
"Well if she's my best man..."
"Woman." Myself and Tanya said together.
"...Means that of course she does," he continued, and then winked at me.
"But she's a girl, she can't plan or go on your bachelor party it's a guys only night out," He whined while looking back and forth between myself and Edward.
I shook my head and looked back to my cell. I stopped listening to Emmett's complaining and Edward trying to tell him it wasn't up to him and that it wasn't his bachelor party.
"Sorry to interrupt, but you do actually have things to do today, so do you think you could get your asses in the fucking studio?" Marcus came into the room with a pissed off look on his face.
Without even saying a word we all got up and headed into the recording booth. We were recording a new song that we'd written one afternoon it was upbeat and I loved it. We'd decided to call it Moves Like Jaggar after the one and only Mick Jaggar.
"Okay up first it's Moves Like Jaggar, we'll run the whole song first then we'll go back and work through it, Emmett and Jasper I want to hear your vocals too so no slacking and then add the whistling. Then were moving onto Faithfully, and if we can, It Will Rain. You all okay with that?" He asked, I nodded along with the guys.
I grabbed my guitar and got into position along with the others. When Marcus was ready, he gave us a thumbs up, myself, Jasper and Emmett started the music then Edward came in with the lyrics.
Oh did I mention I love this song. Especially the flirty lyrics. Which, I have to sing to Edward.
*TOTGA*
Three songs recorded and God knows how may hours later I was finally on my way home.
I'd said a quick goodbye to the guys and got out of there as fast as I could. I couldn't stand to be around Tanya and Edward no more. It fucking hurt to look at them. Honestly, it literally felt like my heart was broken and all I wanted to do was go home and have a good old cry. /Holding in tears all day is incredibly hard to do, trust me. Yet nobody who'd seen me today would have even known how upset I was. That's five years of practice for you.
You see, I met Edward, Emmett and Jasper when I was nineteen. I'd seen an advert in the paper for auditions for a lead singer for a band. I thought about it for a while and decided to go. I took my guitar with me as I'd decided to do a song that showed off my vocals and that I could play too.
When I got there, to say they were shocked would be an understatement. You see, they were looking for a male lead to make them an all guy band. I frowned and took the advert out of my back pocket, and preceded to show and tell them that it never said male only. Jasper and Edward had turned to look at Emmett and he looked back at them with a shrug.
Somehow I managed to convince them to listen to me play and they did. Ten minutes later, they said I got the job.
When I eventually asked them why they were looking for a lead singer, they told me that they did have one, but that he had to drop out, and they had a audition down in California with a big record company, in two weeks, and they were expecting a four person, not a three person band. I nodded in understanding and in them two weeks before the audition, I learnt all their songs and also found out that Edward was an amazing singer. When I asked why he didn't sing lead, he'd told me that he just didn't want to, but would on occasion. Again I totally understood.
But from the moment I met Edward, I fell in love with him. He was perfect, with his weird copper/bronze coloured hair, emerald green eyes, body of a fucking Greek God, not to mention he was extremely talented. But he was also smart and four years older than me, all the guys were older than me. Jasper was also twenty three like Edward, but Emmett was twenty five and also Edward's older brother. He had blue coloured eyes and dark blonde hair, which he told me he got from his dad while Edward was all mom apparently, he was also huge, not in a fat way, but like he spends all his time in the gym working out 24/7, and likes to take steroids kind of way. When I asked if he did, he just laughed and said he had always been that way; Edward nodded and told me it was true and that Emmett didn't need steroids whatsoever.
Jasper was from Texas and had come to Seattle for school, which where and how he met Edward and Emmett, and they ended up forming a band with an other guy who they told me was called James, who would eventually try to sue us when we made it famous, for apparently stealing his songs and apparently regretting to inform him that he was out of the band. Let's just say the guys were pissed and agreed without involving me to give him a settlement.
Which he didn't deserve by the way.
It turned out that James was right about not been told he wasn't in the band anymore, but the songs had been written by Jasper and Edward. Edward eventually told me that they found out that he was into hardcore drugs and they didn't want that to be a problem for them for when they made it big. So the guys gave him a decent settlement, where I didn't have to pay a penny due to the fact I didn't know a thing about it.
Anyway, I fell in love with Edward hard, and it didn't help the fact that we were always together. We'd become very popular very fast in America, and then it went internationally pretty soon after, so we were constantly touring in the beginning. Going here, there and everywhere, so that we weren't basically called, one hit wonders. And all the hard work paid off. As we ended up making another album, then two more after that and we were now working on our fifth studio album.
So during the first six month of us touring myself and Edward got really close, so close in fact that one drunken night we ended up making out on the tour bus, but Edward pulled away, said he was sorry and went up to bed. I ended up crying myself to sleep that night, as all I could think was that he thought I wasn't good enough for him. I was just plain old Bella, brown hair, brown eyes, really short, thin, and abnormally pale and could blush at anything.
Two months later, when we were finishing up our mini European tour, Edward was on his cell phone and smiling away while texting, and you know the type of smile I mean, the one were it lights up your whole face because of how happy you are, so I asked him why.
He'd looked at me for at least a full minute before he told me.
"I've met someone." He answered simply, but at them three little words I felt my whole world crash around me. "She's amazing, I met her when we were in New York four months ago and I really, really like her. She's amazing, I didn't even realized what life could be like until I met her, she just makes me happy and she totally gets why I'm always so busy. I asked her to be my girlfriend two months ago..."
I'd stopped listening after that. It basically meant that when he was feeling me up and making the fuck out with me he was already seeing some other girl. It took every ounce of control I had to not let my eyes tear up and cry my eyes out there and then.
"...You'll really like Tanya, she can't wait to met you and I think you'll get along great," He ended I nodded then faked a pretty big yawn and stretched so that I could escape to bed.
And Edward was right, I really did like Tanya. She was a normal girl; only thing was she was drop dead gorgeous. Blonde hair, blues eyes, tall and had curves in all the right places. Basically, my complete and utter opposite in the looks department.
The only thing I didn't like about her, was that she had Edward and I didn't. But other than that, I honest to God really did like her, and if any other girl had to let their boyfriend travel around the world in a confined space with another girl would be jealous as fuck, but she wasn't she understood the circumstances and that Edward only thought of me as his best friend, she was confident in her relationship enough not to be jealous.
Tanya was PA at E! Entertainment when she met Edward, but she was so good at her job that she ended up been a presenter in no time. Which, in a way was a really good thing for the band; because she was dating Edward they did a lot of press coverage on us. In return we gave them a few exclusives, which, in turn only helped with our careers more.
And now here we all are, four years later.
Jasper had been in a relationship with a girl called Alice since they met in London, three years ago and had been engaged for two. She was a fashion designer and had her own very successful shoe/bags/sunglasses collection. She was constantly trying to get me into her shoes and use her hand bags, you know for the publicity. Only problem was all her heels were either four or six inches high and I couldn't walk in those, plus Alice Brandon doesn't do flats or kitten heels, so it was a big no-no. Her hand bags also weren't my style either, so in the end I went with the sunglasses, I liked them a lot. I had every pair she had brought out. She had just started to create a fashion line, mostly of dresses and I'd heard her saying to Jasper that she'd get me in one at some point and trust me I don't doubt her at all.
Emmett was already married when I met him to Rosalie or Rose, if you had the privilege to be allowed to call her. She was our bands manager and a real hard ass bitch too sometimes. But I love her, she was like the big sister I never had and never wanted, but she put herself in the position anyway. Plus it was nice to have another woman with us when we had to travel, whether it was touring or just having to be at a photo shoot or something.
They had an absolutely gorgeous two year old little boy called Henry, who was a little rock star. Plus I was his Godmother so I had bragging rights. Not to mention he was practically the unofficial fifth member of the band. Jasper was also his Godfather, as he was Rose's cousin. Edward was a little pissed when he wasn't picked; Emmett just told him he was his uncle already so he didn't need to be his Godfather too. Edward just huffed and stormed away.
It was funny as fuck. Trust me.
But I wonder if that's why he wants' me to be his best man/woman instead of Emmett, just to get back at him for not picking him to be his godfather. Hmm…I'll have to ask him when we're alone.
Also Edward was now getting married and I had a feeling that he'd be married before Jasper and Alice. They were just happy being engaged, as it gave their relationship little more stability then that of just dating.
Then there was me and I was still single. The press liked to speculate who I was dating, but it was never true. The truth was that I was still a virgin. Yes I'm almost twenty-four years of age and a virgin, but when the only guy you have ever wanted to sleep with, basically turns you down and are dating somebody else, it has really put me off. It's also hard when my three band mates tend to scare off any guy with in a ten foot distance. But I was happy and seen as I hadn't experienced sex yet I wasn't missing anything really.
I got home in record time. That was the best part about having a Mini Cooper I could zip in and out of traffic due to the cars small size. I parked in my drive way and quickly went into my house. As soon as the door was closed and locked the tears came.
And they didn't stop for hours. It was as if I couldn't breathe at times. I'd somehow managed to get to my bedroom and strip out of my clothes run a bath and get in it. Don't ask me how as I don't remember.
I stayed in the tub until the water went cold. By then I was just sniffing every now and then and looking out the window to my back yard. I couldn't believe I was too chicken to tell him how I feel. Its ridiculous, I could have been in a happy and loving relationship with him if I'd told him how I felt almost five fucking years ago but no.
He will always be the one that got away.
I suddenly sat straight up in the bath as the song words just came through my mind. I rushed out of the bath soaking the floor in the process, grabbed the towel wrapped it around me and ran for a pen and paper before I forgot the song.
Summer after high school when we first met
We make out in your Mustang to Radiohead
And on my 18th Birthday
We got matching tattoos
Used to steal your parents' liquor
And climb to the roof
Talk about our future
Like we had a clue
Never planned that one day
I'd be losing you
In another life
I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
Be us against the world
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away
I was June and you were my Johnny Cash
Never one without the other we made a pact
Sometimes when I miss you
I put those records on
Someone said you had your tattoo removed
Saw you downtown singing the Blues
It's time to face the music
I'm no longer your muse
But in another life
I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
Be us against the world
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away
The o-o-o-o-o-one [x3]
The one that got away
All this money can't buy me a time machine (Nooooo)
It can't replace you with a million rings (Nooooo)
I shoulda told you what you meant to me (Woooooow)
'Cause now I paid the price
In another life
I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
Be us against the world
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away
The o-o-o-o-o-one [x3]
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away
After I was finished I sat back and read through what I think would be a great hit. It was a little different for me, but I thought it was good. I couldn't wait to take it to the studio with me tomorrow and show the guys.
I just hope they don't ask what the inspiration was.
A/N:
Okay so I've gone over this chapter and sorted out the spelling mistakes and whatnot. Tell me if anything accidentally sneaked in there!
Please please please review, trust me they all bring a smile to my face when you do. :D
Songs:
Moves Like Jaggar by Maroon 5
Faithfully by Journey (the glee version and it will be a re-make/rerelease of the song)
It Will Rain by Bruno Mars
The One That Got Away by Katy Perry.
Hugs Alicia xx
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