Chapter 4: When you see it…

"Good morning Country Pop!" Scene squealed before Country Pop even had time to sit down. Country Pop laughed.

"Good morning Scene. Good morning Intern 2." Intern 2 looked a little surprised - no one ever said good morning to him. Idol came in and sat at her desk beside Country Pop. She looked over and noticed her small sticky note collection.

"Hmm looks like someone has a secret admirer!" Idol laughed. Country Pop blushed and started to doubt her idea of keeping them in the open like that…

"Well not so secret but… yeah." Country Pop nervously giggled and turned to her laptop. But Idol wouldn't let her get away with it that easily.

"What do you mean, not so secret? Oh do you have a boyfriend?" Idol questioned her. Country Pop was flustered.

"Um well no. But I know who has been giving them to me so… yeah." She tried to smile and get back to her work.

"You say yeah a lot. You seem uncomfortable." Idol continued to talk. Well obviously Country Pop thought, of course I would feel uncomfortable. You're like interviewing me and I'm crushing on someone I met here, yesterday. But she didn't say it, of course.

"No, no. I'm fine. Um, I need to do some work…" Country Pop tried again.

"What work?" Idol continued to question.

Country Pop stood. "With Metal, in the production studio." She tried to sound confident, then turned and walked off. The truth was, she had no idea if Metal was even in the production studio. She just needed to get away from Idol. She knew Idol meant well, but it was getting too awkward. Country Pop walked through the doors of the production studio to find it empty. She sighed. She slipped back out and went back to her desk, relieved to find that Idol was nowhere to be seen. But she knew Idol wouldn't be gone for long, so she grabbed her laptop and went back to the production studio, which was still empty. She sat on the ground and opened her laptop. It's not like there was any work for her to do when there wasn't a show being filmed or edited. That's all the company did. And if Metal wasn't at his desk or in the production studio, no one was doing any work. Except maybe Intern 2, And possibly Techno and Dubstep booking someone for a show. That was about it. So Country Pop turned her laptop on and started to write. She tended to write a lot. She would spend long hours working on stories that covered a lot of different topics. Fan fiction and original stories. The topic that all of her stories seemed to involve was romance. She was a total hopeless romantic. But this time, instead of opening up one of her stories that were in progress, she started a new file. She started a fantasy dialogue between her and Dubstep. She was so absorbed in it that she didn't notice when Metal walked in. And she was so quiet the he didn't notice her. He walked over to the camera equipment and started checking something. Then he looked up.

"Country Pop! I didn't see you there." Country Pop jumped as Metal spoke.

"Oh, I didn't see you come in."

Metal walked over to her. "What are you doing, sitting on the floor? You have a desk you know."

"Yeah well, Idol kind of scared me away from my desk. And it's peaceful in here." Country Pop looked up at him. He sat down on the ground beside her.

"What are you doing?" He asked, peering at her laptop. She blushed.

"Writing."

Metal smiled. "Mind if I ask what you're writing?" Now, with anyone else, Country Pop would have said none of your business. But there was something that made her want to trust Metal…

"A fantasy dialogue. Kind of like a role play… with myself…" Country Pop blushed. She hoped that Metal didn't think it was stupid.

"Cool. Do you write a lot?" Metal seemed genuinely interested in what she had to say.

"Yes. Whenever I'm not singing, I'm writing."

Metal raised his eyebrows. "You sing? Can I hear?"

"I guess so…" Metal stood and extended a hand to help her up. Her mind flashed back to the day before, when he had helped her up, and immediately walked away, acting all tough. But this time, he helped her up, and then pulled the keyboard from the side of the room. Country Pop sat down in front of the keyboard and hit a few keys. She looked up. Metal was watching her. She looked back down at the keys and started playing "I Knew You Were Trouble" by Taylor Swift.

Once upon a time, a few mistakes ago,

I was in your sights, you got me alone,

You found me, you found me, you found me-e-e-e-e,

I guess you didn't care, and I guess I liked that,

But when I fell hard, you took a step back,

Without me, without me, without me-e-e-e-e

She sang it through until the end, keeping her eyes on the keys the whole time. Metal clapped. She looked up and smiled. She stood and walked back over to her laptop.

"That was amazing. You should sing something metal…" Metal laughed.

"Yeah, I'll pass." Country Pop turned to face him. Something had just… clicked. And she knew they were going to get along extremely well.