"Wakey wakey hun… NOMBRE DE DIOS WAKE UP CHICK!" Payal shouted. From next to me.
"What, what what!" I grumbled, my voice muffled by the blanket, and my waist long hair of course.
"How do I break this to you but… TODAY'S THE FINAL DAY OF RECORDING CHICK! WE NEED TO PLAN OUT THE PROMOTION CAMPAIGN THING!!" "Fine, I'm getting up, but I promise you I won't be awake for another hour."
"Just get yourself out of bed hun." She said, stroking my head once before scooting out of the room. We got ready and headed over to the studio to finish the touch – ups on Reverse the Curse. The piano melody and voice - over was covered, along with the bass riffs. In short we were sitting in there till 4 in the morning making sure everything was JUST right.
Then we sat till 8 NEXT morning trying to settle on the first single and the track listing.
In short, I was dead tired.
"OK, what else is left now?" I asked sleepily.
"Single video… In short we don't need to get our asses anywhere but Tony's office." Zoe said yawning herself. Twish went on to say something, but I couldn't hear anything but an indistinct conversation; my eyes were slowly closing and I was falling asleep.
I was woken up by my cell vibrating in my pocket.
Apparently all of us had crashed on top of each other in the recording studio.
Nothing new there.
I sat up slowly, gently removing my phone from my pocket. I checked caller ID. Tony.
"Hello."
"Listen you guys are fixed up for day after to line up your album promotion interviews okay?"
"Uh – yeah, ok. We'll be there at… 11?"
"Sure thing."
So after slapping the rest of them awake – literally – we got our asses home. I was just about to drop off to sleep when my cell vibrated with 3 texts at the same time.
First – Mum. I replied back telling her about everyone being fine, we finishing the album etcetra etcetra.
Second – Tanz. Here I decided I'd just go take a freaking shower and sit up and get my ass to Rish's room to work out the string of dates, calls, performances, flight tickets, producers, video scripts, yada. You get the picture of what an average musician's life can be – if we're not jumping our asses off on stages, we're flying our asses to different countries promoting our albums. So I texted Tanz, telling her I had a "busy schedule" for the next month. I swear I hate not letting her in on this whole thing.
The third and most unexpected text from Gustav.
I stopped dead in my tracks.
GUSTAV'S POV
We'd finished two CD signings already, and by now the schedule was getting boring. I decided if I'm making a couple of friends from the same line of work I might as well check out the music. So I typed in '13 Moons Of Demetria' into the Google search bar on my laptop.
The search results had m mouth hanging open.
"Guys – GET YOUR ASSES HERE NOW!"
"WHAT THE FUCK GUSTAV?!" Geo screamed in my face. He was ironing his hair. SHEESH.
"Hmm… what is it?" Bill muttered sleepily; as usual there was a can of Red Bull in his hands. I guess Tom was the only one who didn't look a little wasted at the moment.
"Holy…" the rest of whatever the heck was gonna come out stuck in Tom's throat. The girls were all over Google. Articles spanned from crazy tours to interviews, to pics of absolutely AMAZING music videos etcetra. I clicked on the first link – their official webpage.
"Cool." I muttered, a grin spreading across my face.
The layout was in deep, rich, dark colours. Everything had a midnight edge to it. Apparently the girls also had a facility which recorded a certain part of their tour and promotion, sort of like TH TV. There was a band blog, and then four individual blogs. I hadn't dared to turn up the volume yet, what with two of my band mates looking sort of wasted.
"Well, turn up the volume already…" Bill trailed off, curiosity burning in his voice.
So I hit play on one of the music videos and then all of us got blown of our feet.
I'm doing this one for you
Its right here
Cause I'm afraid you're my winning streak
But your still here
Inside this heart of mine
Your never losing time
And when you know its right
You gotta stand up and fight
Cause you
You deserve the earth the skies
The starlight shinin' at night
You deserve with every high and low
To be happy
You deserve the laughs and the smiles
You deserve the extra mile
You deserve with every faltering step
To be free
Cause you've been searching so patiently
Your walking down this street of life
Turn the corner
Your wondering which store you'll see ahead
A happy ever after
Tomorrows a mystery
Your gonna make history
As you sign this heart
Help it start
Zoe broke out into a guitar solo. The crowd was wild, and you couldn't have heard them from the crowd if this was a fan's video. Tom's lower jaw seemed to want to drop of to the ground. Bill looked like a kid in a candy store.
Cause you
You deserve the earth the skies
The starlight shinin' at night
You deserve with every high and low
To be happy
You deserve the laughs and the smiles
You deserve the extra mile
You deserve with every faltering step
To be free
Cause you've been searching so patiently
The edgy heavy metal/ punk rock sound came to an end. We were still staring at the screen of my laptop.
"Wow." I breathed.
"Yeah." Bill and Tom retorted in unison.
"Mhm…"
"That makes four of us." I muttered before I whipped out my cell for a text.
TOM'S POV
Niki's voice was perfect for the song. It was almost as if the song was written for her, the music was just so overpowering. Bill's eyes widened and he looked alive for the first time since the day began. "You bet wow…"
Georg put his straightener down and shoved Gusti out of the chair. "Lemme see!"
"When did you become the whiz kid!" I snapped, taking the laptop from him.
Georg sat at it anyway.
He turned the music up and started tapping his foot to the beat. "This is cool. Their individual blogs are like the newspaper man look at the amounts of comments!" He shifted a bit so we could read properly.
PAYAL's BLOG
I guess this is what it takes to be a musician…I was thinking at the beach again and I saw a Spanish family there having a fiesta, Spanish guitar and food and all. It really e me miss my own family…my whiny lil Bug (13 year old sister) especially. I remember her excitedly sad face when I told her I'm moving to L.A for my music.
When I sat on the plane for L.A, I tried to think that I was starting a new adventure but I guess you gotta be a nuthead like me to do this sort of thing. :-P
Anyhoo I saw a heck load of movies and I'm going eco friendly by not touching the TV set for a good two weeks.
Yes, that's the longest I'll pull off for you. :D
"Moving on…" I muttered, after chuckling.
NIKI'S BLOG
You'd think I was tired of having to sleep in a tour bus, right. Well it doesn't work like that when you have a bass player whose bunk is right under yours, AND gets bugged when you take a flick at her hair every now and then if you can't sleep because the bus jerks 24X7 :-P
On top of that the lead guitarists jams with you to 3Oh!3 and the "f song"…
Ah! The infamous "f song" I came up with.
*evil grin*
So anyway… you'd think the first thing you guys would do was check the snippet of the new single that we've planned for you guys.
OK, no more than a snippet!! I'm singing my ass off, but the whole song serving's not coming till late next month ;-)
So song of the day for you from me?
East Jesus Nowhere – Green Day
I'm telling you I'd head nowhere amazing if it weren't for this band. :-P
ZOE'S BLOG
How cooler can Jeffrey Star get? I land up in LA only to find he's in love with the four us idiots ;-D
Don't believe me? ;) You could go over check his blog. And then he got caught on the TMOD camera.
BTW Oli – YOU LOST THE BET XD Old gran didn't like that tattoo you got so much. She freaked pretty bad sweety :P
And you would think I'M the nut who goes gaga over tattoes? Revolutionary exhibit A & B – Niki and Oli Sykes *shakes head*
No. Comment.
Oh, and did you see the snippet yet?
Huh huh huh?
Yeah, I know I'm pushy… you know how crazy I am with that lead singer/sis of mine ;-)
GUSTAV'S POV
There was a link to a TMOD episode. We decided we'd watch it through. By the end of it – it went past with a discussion of the nuts in their school, causing Bill to have a random outburst of giggles at the point about some chick who liked the proclamation of "Miss Big Butt" every period, where she got up, shimmied unnecessarily in class and sat back down.
"you know, I think Pal was right…" Niki was saying, "I guess she did have wedgy and was just a wheeny about going to the bathroom…"
Tom, Georg – and me (raise your eyebrows all you want) were now rolling on the floor as we howled, while Bill blinked rather spastically.
I sound Brit maybe, but its for effect.
And I like Brits.
But coming back to the episode, it just ended in me covering my ears –
"Gimme the skittles gimme the skittles gimme – " Zoe rambled on like a baby. UGH.
"Zoe shut the *beep* up!!" Niki shouted covering her ears. Zoe grabbed the bag of skittles from Niki's lap, smug.
"Always works." She said, nodding to herself as she popped a few skittles into her mouth. Niki shook her head in disgust.
"Arschloch."
For the first time I, Gustav Schafer, openly giggled in front of my bandmates.
Causing them to stare at me openly, which is what has been happening for the past half hour.
How boring.
BILL'S POV
Holy fuck! He giggled…and how! I stopped gaping eventually my obviously my brother and my gay bassist couldn't compose themselves. Poor Gusti was so bored, his expression was like a trapped puppy I couldn't help but burst off into giggles – AGAIN.
I took the laptop from Georg and sat down between Gusti and Tom, and looked back at the screen. I'd opened a link of one of their music videos and we all watched silently as I took in the sound. It was the perfect mixture of rock, punk and even goth! There were a couple of instrumentals and acapellas but my personal favourite was "13 Moons of Demetria – The Apocolypse."
Darkness awaits my decision
The moons lie in iridescence
Goodbye to the world
Hello to the swirl
Of this breath of life
As each piece of my soul
Teeters onwards towards the edge
May darkness be borne
Or the moons escape my fate
My destiny
Is wrapped among the flailing arms
Of four
Including my own
Let us make amends.
And when the darkness exhales its last breath
The moons of Demetria shall rise
And thirteen they shall be
Escaping sacrifice
For your love is true and pure
For me the only cure
The 13 Moons of Demetria await my cautioning wind
The sacrifice of my will
Before darkness moves in for the kill
And engulfs the four remnants of this heart
This soul, the four remnants of a spark
All hail these pieces of me
All hail unity
All hail the memory
Of my will
Move for the kill
Take my will…
TOM's POV
My phone vibrated from next to me.
Payal: I just tripped down the stairs…
Tom: Holy fuck! Are you okay?
Niki: Don't bother…chick is one of the clumsiest people I know! Keeps fuckin trippin every two hours, so lame!
Payal: Haha I bet Niki just texted you
Tom: Dude agreed you two are twins n shit but I'm not exactly to another pair of twins with the telepathy!
Payal: Eh. You'll catch on. Ya get to see how you and Bill are on a regular basis, only its two whack Indian girls :P
Tom: Hmm….so whatsup? We're checkin out your site right now……
Payal: LOL! So seen TMOD TV yet? Fucking awesome (We're in it after all) HA!
Tom: Can it kid we're watching…….and breakfast tomorrow? I wanna see L.A through your eyes
Payal: OOOH okay! :D after 12 though, little girl needs her 14 hour sleep
Bill: Arschloch if both of you 'oldies' are not up by 9 I SWEAR I will beat the fucking fuck outta each!
Payal: Your own girlfriend wont be up until 11 hun forget your own brother so chup
Bill: I'll wake you up with Cool Blue ;)
Niki: Twisha's tried that…trust me NOTHING IN THIS WORLD can make Payal Shah drag her ass outta bed except the beach. :P
Bill: Older ones suck like fuck.
Tom: Ha! Rot in hell little one you're just jealous…awesome guitars in your songs btw tell Zoe
Niki: Bill, "chup" means shut it in Hindi… *giggles*y
Bill: WHY are you giggling?
Niki: Call me up I'm running on 45 minutes of sleep since the past two days
I actually was pretty damned lost what the hell were we talking about but I kept replying to the few messages that I did manage to relate to the conversation. Bill sat at the other end of the room now, his fingers blurring as they typed at breakneck texting speed. By the end of the convo, Bill and Niki were on the phone while Payal, Georg and I were on conference on another line.
Bill, suddenly looked like he was off the line.
SSOOO not the case.
"WHY am I dating Bill ANYWAY??!!!" Niki's voice screeched from the speaker. Georg, Gustav and me - and I guess Payal too - winced. Bill had to hold his another hand to his mouth – two fingers inside – to control his laughter. He cut the speaker as abruptly as he'd put it on.
BILL'S POV
That text had made my heart skip, I must admit. I'm not so sure if this angel of a girl – who I was currently talking to on the phone – would agree.
"WHY am I dating you?" she muttered irritably.
"NO idea. I told you – older ones do the fucking, and are fucked up." She giggled.
"Nein, they just drank too much…" she muttered. I chuckled lightly. It was hard not to laugh with this girl.
"Hey, I wanted to ask you – when did you write '13 Moons of Demetria – The Apocalypse'?"
"Umm… I dunno the date. Approximately a month and a half before my 15th birthday?" She said, trying to remember. I was dazed into a stupor. "Yeah, that would be it." She said. "Why, though?"
"Just curious." I whispered.
"Are you ok?!" she asked, concerned. We had slipped into German so easily I hadn't even realized.
"Euhm, ja. I guess…"
"Would you mind explaining?" she said cautiously.
"You wrote that when you weren't even fifteen." I repeated.
"You wrote 'Rette Mich' early too, right? And 'Leb Die Sekunde'…"
"Yeah, but…" I was struggling with words.
"Can we not talk about this." She said quietly.
"Yeah… I'm – I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault I have a hell of a dark past." She said gently. She threw me off balance, Niki did. The way she could just casually call you like you were just someone else, the way she referred to her past so mater – of – factly you barely saw the depth to it; and those eyes with that beautiful little soul…
"Bill?!" I hadn't realized I'd spaced out. I had apparently made my way to my bunk and lay down, just thinking… of her…
"Mr. Kaulitz?!" there I'd gone again.
"Oh, sorry, what?"
"I'll call you later is that OK? I haven't slept in two days and I look a complete mess. I need to fix myself up before I speak to anyone again." She sighed. She sounded dead tired too.
"Yeah, of course. Tom's supposedly 'fixed us up' tomorrow anyway." I muttered.
"Yeah and my fuck of an elder twin's in on it!" she said in a mock bright and preppy tone, before giggling that is. I chuckled.
"See you tomorrow." I whispered.
NIKI'S POV
"See you tomorrow." He whispered. My heart continued its useless splutter of a rhythm. And here I thought my cheeks couldn't flush further.
"C – cya." I stuttered. DAMN I must've sounded like an idiot on that last note. Whoever stutters on the phone with a friend?!
TOM'S POV
I sighed as I abruptly cut the cal on my newly formed – and sexy – friend. Making my way to his bunk I whispered low in Bill's ear.
"Your in too deep."
He wouldn't heed my warning in his dreams, and I wouldn't repeat it in reality.
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