A/N: okay in this story Casey and Derek graduated from High School three years ago. It starts during Derek's internship at a record label. I know there have been stories about D-Rock but I don't recall one where they get a record deal, but if someone has and does not want me to continue this story tell me now, so i can stop before I get to involoved with it. And yes this is a Dasey, so if you don't like it don't read it. Also reviews are appreciated, you can say anything you want to me, I can take it.
Disclaimer: I don't own LWD.
Derek's POV
I never thought that I would be where I am today. You may be wondering, where is here exactly? You see I have always loved hockey and still had hopes of going pro. That is why I took the scholarship and I'm now attending college. I figured if I have to go to college in order to one day make it pro then I was gonna pick a fun and exciting major. Which is why I am majoring in Music Business. Since I am currently a junior I am interning at NJ Records for the year.
Music Business is interesting but it is a lot more challenging then I thought it would be. However, I am actually getting A's in my MB courses. I think it may be my appreciation and love of music. I love listening to music and I loved D-Rock, we would get together whenever we could, but unfortunately, since college we have been meeting less and less. This is mostly due to the fact that Sam and Schelp, yes he is in the band, go to college about four or so hours away from everyone else. Recently we decided that we would stop D-Rock because it was becoming to hard to get together over the years. So when Schelep and Sam came home to visit on christmas break we would get together one last time and record a CD for memories sake. I know sappy but we all love the band. So I asked my boss about getting some recording time and she set it all up for us. We knew it would be expensive but fun and worth it, so we shelled out the dough for the studio time.
We had been recording for a week when my boss came to one of our sessions. Afterwords, she did the unexpected and asked D-Rock if we wanted to sign a recording contract. Sam said yes, he was actually planning on dropping out of school anyway. Ralph's response was "rock'n'roll", so that's a yes for him. Me? I could see my self as a rock star, the parties, the girls, so I said yes as well. However, Schlep didn't want to change schools or drop out so we had no lead singer. Then I remembered that Casey was coming the next day to record the song from Clash of the Bands sophmore year. Since Casey had been taking college classes since Junior year in high school and every Fall, Spring, and Summer semmester she had just recently graduated. Sure she had a job but she hated it, plus, she did have fun sophmore year so I thought we might be able to convince her. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to work with her but it was the only way I could live out my rock'n'roll fantasy, then I was willing to deal with her.
So the next day Casey came in and recorded the song, afterwords, my boss talked with us and asked Casey if she would like to join. Surprisingly, she agreed without even thinking it over. So next we talked about songs. Our boss thought that two songs were 'okay' and to have Casey rerecord them and that "NaNaNa", as she called it, had potential. She said something along the lines of 'needs substance' to which I am sure Casey was thinking, ha thats what I said, cause immediately she mentioned her version of the song. Not even a verse in our boss stopped Casey and asked her if she liked her, to which Casey nodded and so our boss responded with 'then stop singing'. Lets just say I don't think Casey likes her that much anymore.
Our boss suggested that we work with a songwriter for help with the song and the rest of the album. She suggested this one girl, Britt Mills, a successful songwriter who was releasing a debut album this summer.
We have been working with Britt for a month now and I have to say that the song came out sweet. Britt also had another song which she thought might work. When we were looking at it I couldn't help but see how much I could relate to the song and I could tell Casey was thinking the same thing . Here is how it goes:
You interrupted my life
Turning it, spinning it out of my control
And with it you stole
My world, my throne
And I'm making you pay the toll
We're just impatient, aggressive, confident
Type-A personalities
You crashed into me
I crashed into you
And as we fell
The battle to the top was on
Two Type-A personalities
I interrupted your life
Turning it, spinning it out of your control
And with it I stole
Your world, your throne
And you're making me pay the toll
We're just impatient, aggressive, confident
Type-A personalities
I crashed into you
You crashed into me
And as we fell
The battle to the top was on
Two Type-A personalities
We're watching and waiting for the other to fall
Driving each other up the wall
And I hate your smirk and you hate my voice
But we hate that we didn't have a choice
So we're starting a war
Battle of wits
I'm just impatient, aggressive, confident
Type-A personality
I crashed into you
You're just impatient, aggressive, confident
Type-A personality
You crashed into me
Who we are
What we are Type-A personalities
Scary right? After recording we all sat around talking and getting to know Britt which we haven't really done since we started working together. Today we learned that Britt is 25 , she started singing when she was 9 and starting writing songs professionally at 18. She went to college and majored in songwriting. Also that she has been married to this one guy Dave Mills for 5years. When she brought it up Casey immediately started to ask questions that were cues for me, Sam, and Ralph to leave.
Well that is chapter one. Hope it wasn't too bad. It will definitely get better, I just wanted to get the ground work covered and done with. Remember to review, any suggestions and criticisms welcome.