"Sonny With a Real Chance"
By tenshi noyo ryu taiga
Disclaimer: I do not own the dress bought in this chapter. The dress (combined with her jacket) are used in Demi Lovato's music video "Here We Go Again". I only changed the color. "Love Story" is by Taylor Swift and owned by her record label. "Broken" is by Amy Lee and Seether and belongs to them and their record label. "One and the Same" belongs to Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez and their record label as well.
AN- Sorry! For some reason I thought I already published this! I know it's been a while. I have Thirteen done already so it shouldn't be too long until that comes out. This chapter is very weird. I don't really like it, but it needed to be done. Thanks! Oh, and review! Even if you just write 'cool', that's good enough for me!
Chapter Twelve:
Ally smiled as she walked out of yet another store. While filming Twilight, she had met several new friends. All of these friends were older than her and so some of their tastes rubbed off on her. Before, her clothes had been bright, colorful and basically childish. Now, her style was more influenced by the type of music she liked. (Ally blamed Rob for this…) She preferred darker colors now along with slightly darker make up. At the moment, she wore black rhinestone ballet flats with dark blue jeans. Ally had a dark green band tee on, a black leather jacket and black jelly bracelets on her wrist. She had just bought another bracelet and was putting it on as she walked down the street. Ally wrapped a thing leather cord around her wrist several times before stopping to move out of the way. It would take some tricky work to tie the cord with only one available hand.
After several minutes arguing with the inanimate object, Ally finally tied the cord and continued shopping. She walked into a vintage shop, attracted by a sleeveless black dress in the window. Ally walked in and asked the woman on the counter to pull it down for her to try on.
After several turns, Ally squealed. She loved the dress. She stepped out to tell the clerk she wanted to wear it out when she stopped in her tracks.
"This is the other one. They came together," the clerk smiled. In her arms was the exact dress Ally was wearing, only in white. Ally smiled and took the dress before walking into the fitting room again. She silently squealed and jumped up and down. This truly was the perfect dress.
Ally stripped and donned the white dress. She folded up the black one and walked to the counter, "I'll take both of them and I'd like to wear this one out, please," Ally smiled.
The woman quickly wrung up the purchases and helped Ally cut the tag on the white dress. Ally put her jeans and tee into the shopping bag and took out the thick black belt that had previously been holding her jeans snug to her hips and instead fastened it around her stomach. Then she took out the leather jacket and put it on as well before checking her watch and walking out.
Ally ran to the corner of the street she was on. There, sitting idly at the curb was her limo. She had asked the driver to come back in three hours to pick her up and there it was, on time… unlike her.
She was in the back seat for a minute before the limo was already on the move. In no time, they made it to the recording studio.
"Thanks!" She yelled as she ran up the steps and disappeared into the building. She took several turns before skidding to a stop in front of the room reserved for the Twilight Soundtrack. Ally paused for a breather and just as she reached out to open the door, it swung open first.
"Ally?" a deep voice asked.
Ally looked up before a large smile worked its way across her face, "Rob!" She reached over and gave him a quick hug, "You're recording?"
"Just finished," He jiggled his cell phone, "I was just about to call you and see if you wanted to meet up. Nice dress," He complimented
"It's new," Ally laughed, "I'm recording now. But, do you want to stay?"
Rob raised a brow, "You sure?"
Ally rolled her eyes and pushed him through the door, back into the room.
"Hey, I'm Tony," a large Italian man shook Ally's hand before returning to his seat behind a large switchboard of multiple switches and dials.
"Ally," she replied.
"Okay, so the studio has picked out this song," He slid a piece of paper over to her, "We have a rough recording for you to listen to. Try and memorize the lyrics, though. It's called "Love Story". It's based on Romeo and Juliet which, star crossed lovers, tie in pretty significantly to "Twilight"."
Several minutes later, Ally had the beat of the song stuck in her head. She had most of the lyrics down, but brought them with her into the studio booth anyway. Almost two hours later saw her grinning happily as she finished recording her first song.
"Good job," Rob grinned, giving her a small, one armed hug.
"I agree," A tall man spoke, "I'm Alex. I'm the producer. I just heard both of your songs and I was wondering how the two of you feel about a duet."
Ally blinked in shock. She felt Rob stiffen in surprise next to her, "Seriously? Us two?"
Alex nodded, watching carefully.
"I'm all for it," Rob spoke, looking at Ally carefully as well.
Ally thought about it before nodding slowly, "Alright. If you're in, I am too."
"Perfect. We just got a song this morning that would be perfect for the scene where Edward sucks out the venom from Bella… or so I'm told by my teenage daughter," Alex laughed, "It's called "Broken". Here's let me go get the lyrics," Alex quickly left the room, Tony right behind him.
Ally laughed, "Can you believe they want us to do a duet? How crazy is that. I feel like this isn't even real."
"Yeah, I know. I've always loved music and the thought that people are going to hear one of my songs on this CD, let alone two… it's amazing."
Alex burst in waving several pieces of paper, "Here we go. I'll be working on this myself, so Tony's gone for the day."
Rob and Ally ended up spending almost an hour learning the lyrics and working the music for their different pitches. Finally after another grueling two hours of work, they finished the song. They walked out of the booth only to notice a blond man scowling next to Alex who looked scared.
"Hello. I'm Ally," Ally introduced politely, "Who are you?"
The blonde's scowl didn't let up, "I'm James and I'm his boss," he stated nodding at Alex, "I'm sorry, but that song was not his to give to you. That was a complete abuse of his authority."
Ally and Rob exchanged worried looks, confused as to what was going on.
"On the bright side, you guys were great," James smiled at them, totally ignoring Alex now, "I loved it and I'm sure Summit will too. I'm sure you guys are probably sick of working by now, but unfortunately, Summit already thought of you two doing a duet and we've already selected you a song. A song that was not that song," James glared at a wincing Alex, "So, unfortunately, you have to continue recording. Although, now you can probably get all three songs on the CD."
Rob raised an eyebrow at Ally who shrugged, "Alright, but if it's cool with you, can we eat first?"
James waved them on, "Yeah, yeah. Be my guest. I have to do some paperwork to explain "Broken" to the company now, anyway."
The duo walked out the door and headed outside, "So what the heck was that about?" Ally asked, completely confused.
"I guess Alex gave us a duet, but wasn't supposed to, and got in trouble. The company already had a duet for us and Alex gave us a second one," Rob explained.
"Weird," Ally muttered, "Half this CD is going to be us, you know."
Rob chuckled, "Probably not half. I hear they've confirmed fifteen songs already."
"That's a lot," Ally replied. The two spoke casually over a quick dinner at a local restaurant. Soon enough, the two of them were heading back to the studio to record for, hopefully, the last time.
"I'm so tired of singing. My voice is going to be so hoarse tomorrow," Ally sighed as she pushed through the door.
Rob followed right behind her, "I agree. I'll probably end up croaking all night."
Ally laughed as they stood in front of James.
"Alright. We received this song a month ago. Originally, we planned to use it in a duet for two girls in an upcoming movie soundtrack, but we've decided to use it for you guys instead. They lyrics are all about two very different people coming together, so it's perfect for this movie. While you two were out, we've been working on the pitches so that you two can sing it."
"I don't know," Ally spoke hesitantly, "I don't want to take someone else's song…"
"It was written for Selena Gomez and her co-star," James spoke, handing out the lyrics, "I can call her up and inform her. I'm sure it will be fine."
"She doesn't know? I think I'd prefer to call her myself. I don't want to step on her toes. I kind of owe her one for- well, anyway," Ally pulled out her cell phone and scrolled down her contacts list before finding her friend's name, "Selena?... Hey, it's Ally…. Ally Monroe. Sonny?... Yeah, magic girl," Ally winced and rolled her eyes, "Look, I'm at the studio. You were supposed to record a song?... "One and the Same"… They want to give it to me and my friend Rob to sing… Rob's a guy… They re-worked it… Really? Thanks! I so owe you one… NO! Chad and I are not going out! I already have a boyfriend… Why does everyone think I'm dating Rob?... His name is James… What?... Sure, when?... Oh, I'm supposed to be having lunch with my friend Taylor. But you should come, he won't mind. It'll be fun!... Taylor Lautner… I'll introduce you… Okay, Friday then. Bye!" Ally hung up the phone smiling, before turning to face the other two men, "She said it was cool."
"Alight then. Let's make some serious Twilight music!" James smiled.
