*Waves excitedly* Hi, guys! I have a new story. It's something that I've been thinking about for a while now and today I somehow got the idea to stick and wrote it out. Seriously, I've been up since 9AM yesterday working on this and have fifteen chapters prewritten. So, yeah, I'M excited to see what you guys think.
Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns the Twilight cast and crew, The songs: None
ALSO, Breaking Twilight now has a banner. It was made by the amazing missrebecca. I just love it, what do you guys think? (A bigger version will be on my polyvore later.)
Edward
"Stop it," I told my brother as he elbowed my arm while I tried to fight him video Play station. He did it again, giving his character the upper hand. "Stop it!"
"Wah," Emmett laughed.
I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine, I elbowed him when he tried to get the upper hand and he elbowed me back. Soon, it wasn't even about the game. We were in this epic elbow-bashing match.
"Seriously?" Leah slapped us both on the back of our heads. "You're twenty two and twenty three, start acting like it."
I may have, kind of, pouted a bit.
"Ha, she told you." Jake laughed with a mouthful of food.
"I swear to God, it's like I'm in a house full of children." she said, slapping Jake.
"Hey," Jazz called from his seat at the kitchen table.
"Except you Jasper," Leah said, sweetly. "You're the only big boy in this house."
He smiled, pleased with her answer, and continued strumming his guitar.
Emmett and I stopped acting like, as Leah says, children and continued the game. My phone kept buzzing in my pocket but I kept ignoring it.
"You going to get that?"
"Nah,"
"Is it that girl? Kelly, was it?" Jasper asked.
"Um," I frowned. "I think her name was Candy or something like that."
"You've been dating her and you don't know her name?" Leah asked, shaking her head in disgust.
"First off, It's just sex," I said. "No more, no less."
"You should still know her name."
"He's pretend she's Bella," Emmett snickered.
"Ew," Leah grumbled.
"No, I'm not."
"I bet you call out her name in your head," Jasper said, smugly.
"You like Bella?" Leah asked. "Why not ask her out instead of fucking some tramp?"
"First off, she's in the band. We don't sleep with band members," I said.
"You broke that rule on day one, so try again."
"You already slept with her?" Leah asked. "Why am I out of the loop?"
"He's just embarrassed," Jake said. "Bella wanted to forget about it the next day, it was clearly horrible for her."
"Fuck you," I said, throwing a pillow at him. "She liked it...she just...she's a lot like me. Neither of us like clingy people."
"I bet she brushed it off because she knew you were that type of guy," Leah said. "I bet she likes you more than she lets on."
"You think so?" I asked, hopefully.
"Yeah."
"What did she tell you?" I asked.
"Nothing, we don't spend much time together but..." she lowered her voice as if Bella was in the next room. "I see the way she looks at you, and the way you look at her when she's not looking. You two are clearly smitten."
"Smitten," I snorted.
"Seriously, what's the hold up?" Jasper asked. "Why not just take her out?"
"And don't say 'we don't date band members'," Jake said. "Cause that shit flew out the window when you took her home,"
"Well, it's true," I muttered. "If we broke up, this band would go down the drain. That's why we didn't want Kate in it."
"Kate sucks asshole," Leah said. "She couldn't sing to save her life."
"S'not true," Emmett piped in. "She's pretty good."
"She sucks," Jasper said. "Big time."
"Seriously, I hear her sing in the shower when she's hear..." I shuttered. "I'm surprised we don't have to replace the mirrors and windows."
"Asshole," he punched me in the gut. "But it's not about Katie...It's about..."
"So, Jake, when's your aniversary again? I want to get you and Leah something big this year," And just like that the attention was off me.
Even Emmett and Jasper, though they knew Jake was just the distraction, looked at Jake expectantly.
"Wha...Uh..." He rubbed the back of his neck.
"Are you serious?" Leah asked.
"Baby, I know the day we got together." Jake assured her with a smile.
"You better," she said, crossing her arms over her chest. "It's been four years."
"Of course it has," he said, glaring at me.
"So, the date?" I questioned.
"It's on..."
"Guys!" I heard Bella yell as the front door slammed against the wall. "Hello? Where are you?"
Saved by Bella.
Jake looked relieved, Leah still looked pissed.
"Front room," Jazz yelled. "Like always."
"Slowdown," I said as she stumbled into the front room, breathing heavily her eyes wide.
"You okay?" I asked, warily.
She nodded, "Yeah, yeah...I ran here."
"You ran here? From your apartment?" she nodded again. "You mean the one that's nearly six blocks away?"
"The bus wasn't coming for another hour," she shrugged.
"Here, take a drink," Jazz passed her some water.
"Thanks," she panted, chugging it down.
"Now what's up? Where's the fire?" Emmett asked, curiously.
"Listen to this," Bella fumbled with her phone before pressing play.
"Hello, this is Marcus Volturi, I'm looking for Isabella Swan. I was given this number by an Aro Weber. I'd really like to get in touch with the band Breaking Twilight. Please give me a call back."
Volturi...that name sounded very familiar but I couldn't remember exactly where I had heard it before.
"Volturi, as in Volturi records?" Jasper asked. "Seriously?!"
"Yes," Bella said, bouncing.
It was like the day she told us we had a gig at Eclipse all over again.
"So, I called them back and his son video tapped us and showed it to him. He said it wasn't the best quality, so I doubt he heard us all that well, but he wants a Demo...then we'll go from there, his word not mine."
Holy shit.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. After years, YEARS, of trying to break into the music world, we were finally at the doors. We only need a demo that would sway Marcus that we were what he wanted, and we'd be able to get in.
I'm dreaming, aren't I?
Or was I in an accident and have the past four months just been a blissfully coma induced dream?
I pinched myself.
And then I pinched myself for a second time.
This wasn't a dream, and I don't think it was a coma.
We were really that close to fame.
"This is incredible," Leah said. "Do you have a Demo? Ship it to him this minute."
"We don't have a current one, and I'm sure he wants something professional."
"A demo is a demo," Bella shrugged. "Hundreds, no thousands, of people send homemade ones in all the time."
"And just how many people actually get selected from those homemade demos? Like five," Emmett grumbled.
"But they don't always listen to those demos, the boss will because he came to us!" Bella said, happily. "I'm sure he'll listen to one song and we'll be signed."
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves," Jasper said. "We don't know for sure if he'll sign us."
Bella nodded, "Even if he doesn't...we can't let that discourage us. I mean, people get rejected only to be scooped up by someone bigger and better."
I nodded.
"This is crazy cool," Emmett said. "I think Bella is our good lucky charm."
"Agreed," I said.
Since she's stepped into our life, things have been so much better. In just four short months, almost five, we've managed to accomplish things we've only dreamed of doing.
Like playing in Eclipse, and not just once. Aro loves us, and it brings in more business for him so he has us playing regularly every other weekend.
Bella blushed, "You had talent, tons of it. You didn't even need me."
"Girl, they needed you," Leah said. "I agree that they were great but you added a little something that made them awesome, spectacular. All of you were meant to form this band."
Bella smiled. "From day one being in this band felt so right. I'll admit, I was this close to not auditioning at all. I'm super glad I did though."
So are we, So are we...
It took us a couple weeks to throw together a demo. We didn't have that much time between work, Bella's schooling, and then the gigs were already had scheduled but we managed.
We pulled together a good demo, maybe even great one, in about two weeks time. It's not the easiest thing to do when you don't have professional equipment but it isn't the hardest either.
We used my computer to record it so again, it wasn't the best but it would work.
We chose twelve of our favorite songs and recorded them over and over and over again.
That was my fault.
I just got a little picky with what we used so if someone messed up in even the smallest, hardly noticeable way, I'd stop and we'd start all over again. Thankfully, it didn't anger anyone in the band.
However, it did start to cause Bella to start to lose her voice. I felt bad that I pushed her so hard but in three days time, after barely talking, she was back to her normal self and singing again, although this time I tried not to have her sing the same thing thirty times a day.
The rest of us played until our fingers bled, I'm honestly surprised that Jasper and Jake still had fingers left since they sometimes didn't play with picks but they were good sports about it.
Soon, it all came together and we sat around Bella's apartment on a Friday night, listening to our finished product with our friends.
I just want to put this out there: I've never tried to throw a demo together so I don't know all that is involved with it, nor have I ever had a record deal so I don't know all that much about it. I do try to do research though.
ALSO, I keep forgetting to mention it. If you have any duets in mind that would be good for E AND B tell me. Because I only know a couple but it wouldn't exactly fit in the genre they're doing...I mean, I guess I can make them a band that dabbles in everything but yeah...just review with a duet in mind and it'll probably be added. :D
I mentioned that time would skip but I try to make it flow, I really do. All this was added as an after thought after I prewrote 'famous' chapters. (This is probably the fastest I've ever written something. I wrote everything in one day/night.)
Bella's outfits are posted on Polyvore.
Also, I have about nineteen chapters of this story prewritten so far, I wrote this story in a day. At first, I had a drabble in mind but I kept going over so I just thought I'd do short chapters and update almost everyday.
REVIEW PLEASE.
