It Can't Be
Jason
As soon as I heard the music I stood up which caused some weird looks from the people around me. Piper was coming out but instead of her pink and purple ombre dress with her heels and her hair some fancy do she came out no makeup or at least very little, her hair down. She exchanged her heels for sneakers and her dress for an orange t-shirt, her snowboarding jacket and a simple pair of jeans.
"I'll be right back," I told Gwen hopping that she wouldn't be asking any questions.
"You know they'll get suspicious," She warned me.
"Gwen," I pleaded.
"Alright, I'll cover for you but you better hurry, Lupa's coming this way," she shoved me and I headed backstage.
I walked around in hopes to find a certain hyperactive host best friend of mines, and find I did. "Leo I need a mic," I told him.
"Why? Piper's performing, please we don't need another Kayne and Swift moment, though we aren't at the VMA's and she's not accepting something so back to my first question. Why?" He asked.
"Look," I lowered my voice. "I wrote that song with Piper, but I wrote it by chat and under sparky so she doesn't know that it's me who wrote it but the song is supposed to be a duet," I explained. On stage I could hear Piper addressing the crowd.
"I would like to thank everyone for letting me close off the show," she shouted. "Second this is a new song that I wrote with a friend and now you know who I am. This song is called This is Me," she waited for the intro to play again before she started singing.
I've always been the kind of girl
That hid my face
So afraid to tell the world
What I've got to say
"Leo," I pleaded him. "I need to tell her."
"Jason you can't," Leo said. "You're already in so much trouble, are you asking to get kick out of the movie deal," Leo tried to reason with me which was weird since I was usually the responsible one.
"Then what do you want me to do," I played with my hair, something Lacy would kill me for doing.
"I don't know you're the smart one," and the original Leo is back ladies and gents.
"Why don't you go on for me, like what you did at my concert in New York, just go on stage and sing," I had an 'eureka' moment.
"Only problem is that I don't know the words," he crossed his arms.
"It's quite simple," then I started to tell him the lyrics and before I knew it, it was time for the duet part.
This is real
This is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be
Gonna let the let the light shine on me
Now I've found who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I wanna be
This is me
Then when the drums started their little solo I turned the fog machine on and did something funky with the lights for Leo's intro.
You're the voice I hear inside my head
The reason why I'm singing
I need to find you
I gotta find you
You're the missing piece I need
The song inside of me
I need to find you
I gotta find you
Then Piper started to harmonize with him and the crowd started to go wild. I wonder how it would have been if I was there instead of Leo but that what's done is done.
I greeted a few people before going back to my seat to enjoy the rest of the performance. "Did Lupa ask anything?" I asked Gwen.
"Nope, she was pulled away by a few people so far so good now just enjoy the crush of your life perform with your best friend because you couldn't," she said not taking her eyes off the performance.
"H-how," I wanted to know how she knew.
She took her eyes off the performance and smirked at me, "It's a British thing, now don't we have an after party to attend to?"
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It's around 2:30 and I had just got home from returning Gwen to her hotel. I barely made it to my bed before I collapsed into a deep slumber. I don't know why but my subconscious kept making me thing about the conversation I've had with Piper, there was something important about them but I don't know what and I couldn't recover the past conversations anyways. Maybe it was the all the drinks messing with my brain.
I woke up to the sound of someone knocking on my door, it was probably Thalia so I shouted for them to come in. Turns out my visitor wasn't my blue eyed black haired sister instead it was Leo.
"What do you want," I grumbled with a pillow over my face so I don't know if he understood me or not.
"I need help," he said with so much seriousness it woke me up.
"What's up?" I asked.
"So you know how the whole me going out with Piper thingy," I nodded. "Well after your genius idea from yesterday they liked it," I gulped at this. "They want another song," I let out a sigh of relief.
"What's the problem then?" I asked.
"First I can't write a song at all so I need you to help me with that and we need to go it somehow so that she doesn't know that you're doing the work. Second we need it by the Juno's next month, we're going to Canada baby!" Leo shouted the last part. Leo's been in love with Canada ever since he discovered that they had loonies instead of dollar bills and different colour bills.
"What else," I noticed the look from his eyes.
"Well I want you to end up singing the song with Piper, not me." I look to see if he was serious and he was.
"Do you want me kicked out of the deal? I mean did you remember anything of last night's performance?" I asked, a bit annoyed.
"Look, Piper likes you back, she deserves to know that you were the one behind the song, that's why you're going to write this one with her too.
"So how's this going to work," I gave into his demand.
"I knew you'd see things my way," Leo patted me on the back and we started to work on that song.