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B POV
One month later
"Ready to meet your band Bella?" Aro said while walking down the dim-lighted hallway into the recording studio.
"Yupp!" I replied happily.
Everything was set, I signed the contract to Big Machine Records and apparently I'm recording a couple of demos today. Alice and Shannon couldn't come with me because they wanted to go to the mall, some supportive friends they are. Don't get me wrong, I love them to death, but I think that they should really be by my side because being in a recording studio, getting famous is pretty overwhelming at first and you really need friends. Every single day I wake up and ask myself, 'Is this real?' and I eventually find out its all reality, my dream becoming reality.
Aro opened a heavy set door to a studio with all this technology. They had a soundboard, computers everywhere, and a separate room separated by glass that had drums, guitars, a bass, a piano, and a microphone.
"Wow…" I said quietly to myself.
"This is where you will be for the next 3 months or so, depending on how your first single goes." Aro said smiling.
I was snapped out of examining the room. "Single?!" I asked him surprised.
"Well yes, we can't just have a whole album can we? We have to start somewhere small. Remember, the chicken can never be if the egg wasn't there." He preached.
"But then how did the egg come to be?" I contradicted with a smile.
"Touché." Aro said with a playful smile before sitting down next to a man who I didn't see at first. He was short with dark brown curly hair and a baseball hat.
"Bella, meet Matt Squire, Matt Squire, meet Bella." Aro said gesturing me over to him. "Matt will be your studio producer as of now."
Matt stood up out of his seat, he was extremely short, I was at least 3 inches taller than him."
"Nice to meet you." I said shyly as I shook hands with him.
"How's it going?" he said with a cute smile. Wait, before you think anything, I'm not attracted to him; he simply is a dwarf with a cute smile, nothing more, nothing less. He must be about 25.
"It's going great!" I responded with enthusiasm.
"Enthusiasm? I'm likin' it!" he said as he sat back down in front of the soundboard. "Aro, should we bring in the rest of them?" Matt asked.
"Yes, yes bring them in."
Matt then got up and walked out another door. After about five minutes he came back with four other people.
"Bella, meet your band, band meet Bella." Matt said as he sat back down once again in front of the soundboard, he seemed really into his work.
Aro got up and walked over to me. "Bella, here are your band mates. This one is Kayla George, your new drummer." He said pointing to a petit girl who had jet black hair with lime green tips on her bangs; she wore a black tank top with jeans and sneakers. She was twisting tie dye drums sticks around her fingers.
"Hey I'm Kayla." She said as she put her sticks in one hand and shook mine with her free hand.
"Bella, very nice to meet you." I said with a smile.
"Kayla, we do provide sticks for you here." Aro told her.
"No need sir!" she said waving his statement off. "These sticks are a one of a kind, you can't get them anywhere else, they are my lucky sticks, I named them Spongebob and Patrick." She said smiling happily. I honestly think I was going to get along great with this girl.
Aro just stared at her with a confused expression as she smiled up at him. "You know what?" he said with a smile. "I'm just going to leave you to it Kayla." He smiled and then brought up the next person.
The next one was a tall and skinny guy who looked around 19 or 20, he had black straight hair that just lay above his eyes, he had on a royal blue polo shirt and skinny jeans on. You'd think he would pass for one of those "Emo" guys but he actually seemed pretty preppy.
"Bella, this is your guitarist, Landon." Aro introduced me.
"Hey." I said shaking his hand.
"Sup?" he said with a bright smile. He had perfect teeth they were straight and pearly white.
We moved onto the next person. This one was another guy. He was tall, buff, and had a nice tan. He looked like a typical California teenager except he was living in New York.
"And this one here is Austin. He's your new bassist, and might I add he's a great one!" Aro explained.
"Well then that's a good thing… Nice to meet you." I said shaking his hand as well.
"You too." He said with a shy smile.
"And last but certainly not least, meet Rosalie… your new pianist." Aro said as he introduced me to a tall blonde girl. Rosalie was what some people might say, a supermodel. She was tall and had curves in all the right places. She had bright blue eyes and long golden blonde hair. And when she smiled, that just topped everything. This girl had to be the real life Barbie.
"Nice to meet you, Bella." Rosalie said holding her thin arm out.
"You too." I replied.
"Well, now that we all know each other… let's get to work!" he announced as he clapped his hands together. "Matt, take it over." He said as he sat down next to Matt.
"Bella, what I would like you to do is record the song on acoustic and the rest of us can improvise on making the song even better."
"No singing?" I asked as I brought my guitar out of it's case.
"Nope, that comes last." Matt said as he sat back down and this time put the headphones on his ears. "Alright then, Bella, you can go in there now." He instructed.
"Okay." I said as I opened the door and walked into the room that had wires, a drum set, guitars, and basses every which way. Then in the front was a microphone hanging from the ceiling and a stool behind it. I took a deep breath and walked towards it and sat down. I could see Matt and Aro talking and discussing something. Then Matt hit some button that then turned on a light behind it that said in red light, RECORDING. I smiled. Never in my life would I have thought that I would see that sign, I still can't believe I'm here right now.
Matt started waving his hands and that caught my attention. He was moving his hands above his heads and was pointing to his headphones. I quickly got the message and reached for the headphones that were hanging on the microphone. I put them on and gave an apologetic smile.
I then could hear his voice. "Okay Bella can you hear me?" he asked.
"Yes." I said into the microphone.
"Perfect, alright, hang on a second I need to do a few things before you start…" he trailed off as he concentrated on the soundboard before him. After a minute he looked back up and said, "Alright Bella, whenever you're ready, this is your first single!" he said as he gave me a thumbs up.
"Shoot!" I said into the microphone.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I forgot to pick a song, just give me a sec." I told him.
Which song? I honestly couldn't choose, there was Our Song, but I don't think that would really be a good one to start out with. Then there was 6 months but that was too slow, I need something upbeat, something like…
"Fearless." I said out loud. "Okay I'm ready."
"Ready when you are." He replied.
I took a deep breath before I started strumming the song out on my guitar. I hit every note as perfect as I possibly could and before I knew it, the song was done.
"Very nice, Bella. Good job." Matt told me.
I happily hopped off the stool and walked out of the room.
"Austin!" Matt called. Austin looked up from silently strumming his bass and got up out of his seat.
"Good job, nice playing." He told me as he passed by me.
"Thanks." I called back to him before I sat down.
"You're good at recording improv, right?" Matt asked him.
"Yeah sure." Austin replied nodding his head.
"Cool, cool." He said bopping his head like he was listening to rock music.
I sat down next to Kayla who was air drumming with Spongebob and Patrick.
"So Kayla…" I said grabbing her attention.
"Yeah?" she said stopping what she was doing.
"Why did you name your sticks Spongebob and Patrick?" I asked her.
"Because that's my favorite cartoon show and also, the first song I played on the drums was the theme song, well I improvised a bit, but it still worked."
"Well, that makes total sense." I smiled at her.
She opened her mouth to say something but my acoustic version of the song had already started. Austin listened to the intro before hitting beats in certain places that made the song have more groove to it. It honestly sounded ten times better with another instrument. I nodded my head to the beat all the way until the song was over.
"Good… but I think you can do something right at this part." Matt said to Austin as he stepped out of the studio.
An Hour Later…
"Dang… they've been at that for a while." I said to no on in particular.
"Matt's a perfectionist." Rosalie told me. "He will spend all day on one instrument if he has to. He wants the song to be perfect… it is your first single after all." She shrugged and went over to the mini fridge to grab a drink.
"Oh…" I thought for a minute. "Then why didn't he correct mine?" I asked.
"Well one, it was great and two, it's the original composition." She explained as she opened the can and sat down on a lounge chair.
"That makes sense…" I trailed off and rested my head on my arm.
"Yupp…" she popped the 'P'
45 minutes later…
"Alright, I think we got something here!" Matt exclaimed as he rolled his chair back to the soundboard. "Austin, let's try this again." He instructed.
"I'm on it!" he said as he entered the room once again.
The day continued like this and sometime when Matt and Landon were working together I fell asleep on the couch. My dream consisted of me singing at a concert, everyone was cheering my name but only one beautiful voice stuck out the most.
"BELLA!" I heard some boy say my name, and it was the most beautiful velvety voice I've ever heard, but I had to keep singing. "BELLA!" It called again. This time I looked into the audience. I saw a tiny speck of bronze hair and I immediately knew who it was. I stopped singing.
"Edward?!" I asked into the microphone.
"Bella!" he exclaimed.
Everyone in the crowd was silent now, looking at who I was speaking to. I couldn't stop smiling. I reached my hand out for him and he grabbed it, making sparks fly. He smiled a wide grin as well as I pulled him up on stage.
"I missed you." I whispered as I dropped the mike and wrapped my arms around his torso. He had gotten so tall.
"I missed you too." He said into my hair.
I didn't realize but I had started crying. I was sobbing into his shirt as he rubbed my back, consoling me. Then all of a sudden he pulled back from the grasp and lifted my chin. We looked into each others eyes, his were so green, so captivating. He leaned in and I leaned in… I've never been kissed, I've been saving it for his… all this time I realized, I don't miss Edward… I love Edward! I always have!
He stopped halfway and shook me. I was so confused.
"What are you doing Edward?" I asked as he continued shaking me.
"Bella, wake up!" Kayla shook me. My eyes shot open.
I sat up quickly and rubbed my eyes. "Sorry!" I got up off the couch.
"Who's Edward?" she asked.
"Huh?" I asked her.
"You kept whispering Edward." She told me.
"Oh he's uh… my brother! He lives in Forks, my hometown, I guess I kind of miss him that's all." I said quickly.
"Oh." She said still confused. "Anyway… you have to go sing, we are all done tracking." She added.
"Okay cool." I walked over to Matt.
"Bella, are you ready? Let's get this baby done." He said.
"Ready Freddie!" I said with a smile.
"Well then go Spaghetti." He said smiling back.
I walked into the room and stood in front of the mike, and put on the headphones. I nodded my head to show I was ready. He started to play the edited music and it sounded amazing! With the added drums, bass, guitar, and piano… it sounded even more up beat!
I took a deep breath as the intro began to play.
There's somethin' 'bout the way We're drivin' down the road And I don't know how it gets better than this So baby drive slow Cause I don't know how it gets better than this Well you stood there with me in the doorway Oh yeah Cause I don't know how it gets better than this Oh, oh yeah
The street looks when it's just rained
There's a glow off the pavement
You walk me to the car
And you know I wanna ask you to dance right there
In the middle of the parking lot
Yeah
Oh yeah
I wonder if you know
I'm tryin' so hard not to get caught up now
But you're just so cool
Run your hands through your hair
Absentmindedly you're makin' me want you
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless
'Til we run out of road in this one horse town
I wanna stay right here in this passenger's seat
You put your eyes on me
In this moment now capture it, remember it
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless
My hands shake
I'm not usually this way but
You pull me in and I'm a little more brave
It's the first kiss,
It's flawless,
Really something,
It's fearless
Cause I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless
"Nice." Matt said. "We might need to redo it tomorrow, but I'll see what I can do. But, most likely… we'll be moving onto your next song." He smiled at the end.
I smiled back at him. "When will Fearless be on the radio?" I asked with anticipation.
Matt laughed at my eagerness. "Maybe next month." He told me.
"Yay!" I threw my hands in the air.
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