Life of a Producer's Daughter Chapter 8, a camp rock fanfic

Seven

Seven

"Christina Alicia Reed! Get over here right now!" a voice squealed as we walked in the door. The house was packed with people. Rachel, the one who had shouted my name, came running giving me only a brief second to see the DJ along with a stage and a projection screen before a mass of brown hair was in my face. "How have you been? I haven't seen you in forever! Who are those really hot guys?" all came streaming out of her mouth as she hugged me.

"Hey, Rach, slow down and ask those again one at a time." I said staggering back as I laughed at how exuberant she was.

"Sorry, thank you so much for coming!" she dragged my over to the couches. I looked behind me and was relieved to see that they were starting to talk to other people that were at the party. Rachel and I talked for about twenty minuets, and then I shooed her away to go be a hostess, it was her party after all. I started walking around and squealed as I saw Ben and Adam walking toward me. I had met them when I had met Rachel, and I got along great with both of them. Ben was like a brother to me, not that I needed any more, but he was older so it helped. Ben had started taking me to clubs when I was ten, and checking out the music with him and Adam. Now that I was older, and that was cool. I had seen Ben's announcement that he supported Obama, and ever since he and I had talked of nothing but politics. But tonight for Adam's sake, we talked about music tonight too. Or at least we did until Rachel came over and gave me a look that said she wanted something.

"What do you need Rachel?" I said apprehensively as I stepped away from Ben and Adam.

"Well you know how Mike sent me that CD of you guys?" she asked me talking about the band my brother and I played in at school.

"Yeah…" I said still confused.

"Well I really want to play Fall For You, but I kind of can't find the CD. So would you please please sing it? We have a keyboard…" she pleaded.

"If I can find Jason and he brought his guitar, then yes I will sing," I sighed as I walked around the dance floor looking for Jason and saw him and Aly dancing around acting like fools. "Hey you!" I shouted as I walked toward them.

"Hey sup?" Jason said still dancing around.

"Rachel wants us to go sing Fall For You, you in?" I asked starting to dance with them.

He laughed a little, and stopped dancing, "Um sure, let me go grab my guitar, I left it in the car." I rolled my eyes as he left. He never went anywhere without his guitar, even when we went on vacation last year he brought it on the plane with him.

"How much of a nerd is he?" Aly said laughing as we made our way to the stage I had seen earlier. It wasn't big, but it was always in Rachel's house. She loved parties, and karaoke was one of her favorite reasons to have a party, so she had put a stage in her living room. "This place is so cool, I know all of these people, but at the same time I don't know any of them, it's so weird!" Aly said still excited abut getting to come to the party.

"Yeah, Rachel has great choice in people to invite, she only invites those who she knows will be fun to be around, that's part of why I get along with her." I said smiling and waving to people as we passed. "Oh look, Jason's back already, he must be excited about this."

"Well duh, he's never played in front of people who actually know about the music business." Aly said rolling her eyes as if I was an idiot. She hopped up on the stage and helped me set up.

After Jason had tuned and we had set everything up, I grabbed a mic. When the song ended, the DJ turned off the music and I flipped the switch to turn on my mic. "Hey everyone, I'm Christina, and this is Jason. Rachel asked me to come over here and sing the first slow song of the night. This one's called Fall For You, and I'd like to dedicate it to her." I said smiling into the crowd. I put the mic in its stand, and sat in front of the keyboard. I looked at Jason, who nodded, and the started to sing and play at the same time: "The best thing about tonight's that we're not fighting
Could it be that we have been this way before
I know you don't think that I am trying
I know you're wearing thin down to the core"

I kept playing as Jason joined in on the guitar

"But hold your breath
Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind
Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a guy like you is impossible to find
You're impossible to find"

I stopped singing and Jason started

"This is not what I intended
I always swore to you I'd never fall apart
You always thought that I was stronger
I may have failed
But I have loved you from the start
Oohhh..."

We sang the Chorus together, harmonizing effortlessly.

I started singing on my own using all of my voice, changing from the soft one I had been using before.

"So breathe in so deep
Breathe me in
I'm yours to keep
And hold onto your words
'Cause talk is cheap
And remember me tonight
When you're asleep"

I softened my voice as I sang the chorus with Jason after he and I played together for a short time.

"Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind
Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a guy like you is impossible to find"

Jason stopped singing for the last refrain as I sang and played by myself.

"Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind
Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a guy like you is impossible to find
You're impossible to find"

I left the last note lingering, closing my eyes as I finished. I was afraid to open them again because I, like Jason, had never preformed for anyone like this before. But for me it was more than that. I had totally forgotten about everyone else in the room. I had forgotten that I knew these people and that they actually knew about music. I slowly opened my eyes once I heard them start to clap. I looked up and saw that they were all smiling at both Jason and ME. I laughed and said into the mic "Thank you, did you really like it?" the crowed laughed and we hopped off the stage. Jason went back to the car to put away his guitar. I stood in the middle of a crowed of people.

I don't like crowds, it's one of my biggest fears, so I wasn't really comfortable with everyone around me. I must have looked like I felt, because I felt a hand on my arm, and heard someone say "Hey guys, give her some space." I then felt myself being led to a couch over in the corner. I looked up at him and smiled a little.

"Hi, Nick right?" I said still a little shaky from all of those people.

He looked down at me and smiled. "Yeah, Nick. That was really good, who wrote it?" He was taller than me, even with heels on, so every time I made eye contact, I had to look up.

"I did." I said shyly, looking down at my hands as I sat on the couch. He sat down too with an impressed look on his face.

"Wow, if that song was any clue, you've got a real gift." He said with a small smile.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP He looked at me confused as I quickly rummaged through my bag. It was bigger than most at the party, but it had a lot of stuff in it. I pulled out my PDM in its hard waterproof case. I looked at it and sighed and started pressing buttons quickly.

"What's wrong?" Nick asked me with a concerned look.

I looked up from the only thing that kept my life somewhat normal and said "I'm out of insulin, that's the stuff that controls my blood sugar, and well apparently my levels are off."

"Do you need some insulin? I'm a diabetic too, and I think I have some extra." He said quickly looking at me.

"No, that's okay, I have some shots with me, so I should be good for a couple hours." I said while rummaging in my bag for one of said shots.

"A couple hours? How low are you?" he said with a confused look.

"I'm about five points below where I should be." I said slowly as I grabbed a syringe out of my bag.

"I'm not fallowing" he said trying to help me with the syringe.

I batted his hand away and stuck the needle into my arm. "I have ST1D, severe type one diabetes. I need insulin all of the time because I don't make any of my own."

"Wow that's intense." He said quietly looking down at me.

"You learn to live, it's not a big thing in my life. I have so much more to offer than a sob story about a disease I've had since I was seven." I said quickly looking up. "So let's change subject, how do you know Rachel?"

"I uh don't really, she met Kevin a while ago, and they became fast friends." The conversation flowed easily between us after that, but I was still careful; I didn't know this guy after all. And even if his brother was Rachel's friend, it didn't mean I was going to just going to automatically trust him. That he'd have to earn.

Time flew between the two of us. I didn't realize how long we had been talking until I heard my phone ringing. Gonna kick of my shoes and run in bare feet… "Oh bad, one sec Nick. Hey!" I heard crying on the other end of the phone and quickly figured out it was Eddie. "Eddie what wrong honey? What did Tom do? Please clam down and tell me baby." I said softly into the phone.

"He… he called me a buuuuubbbbbby!" the sobbing young voice cried into the phone.

"A Bubby? What is a bubby?" I said in a confused by how offended my little brother was at being called a word I was pretty sure didn't exist. As I looked up to see Nick laughing as he watched my face.

"I… I don't know!" He yelled into the receiver.

"Edward Adam Reed do not talk to me like that! Sit down, stop crying, and do not hit your brother!" I said raising my voice. "Put you fist down, walk away from him and sit. NOW!" Nick looked at me shocked at my sudden outburst. I quickly mouthed Sorry to him before finishing with my brother.

"Okay now he was just trying to get to you. You are not a bubby, whatever that might be, so please just calm down and go to bed. It is way past your bed time. Okay? Can you please put Tom on the phone, I know he's sitting next to you." I said in my quick, caring yet authoritative voice.

"Uh hu. I love you Chris." He said sadly giving the phone to his older brother.

"I love you too." I waited and then heard the quiet voice of my other brother.

"Hello?" Tom said in a cautious voice that made me smile.

"Thomnas Paul Reed! Why did you have to get under Ed's skin?" I said trying to sound stern as I heard him sigh and knew that he was hoping I would take it easy on him. I know that I'm not supposed to have favorites, but he was the brother I felt I had the biggest connection to.

"I told him I was sorry!" he whined.

"Tom, how many times do I have to tell you? You cannot call people names until you stop picking you nose! So apologize to your brother, stop giving Alan a hard time, and go to bed! I love you, good night."

"Night Riss, love you." I smiled at his nickname for me, the only one who could get away with calling me Riss, and hung up the phone.

"Sorry, my little brothers were miss behaving." I said with and apologetic face.

"It's cool, I take it you mom's out of town or something?" he asked as I sat back down next to him.

"Uh no," I said looking down, "Both of our mothers are not here…"

"Oh, I'm sorry, stupid question," he said uncomfortably.

"It's okay, it happens," I said waving it off. And with that we started talking easily again. How can I be so comfortable around this guy when I just met him? I was unnerved, but I kept talking. I was having a great time, and it took Aly come up to me sleepily asking if we could go home for me to stop talking to Nick and say goodbye. I hugged him, then Joe who had come around sometime while we were talking, and then found Rachel and said goodbye.

When we got in the car, I looked at the clock and groaned. It read 1:30. Great. I had looked at the PDA Nenny had given me earlier and seen that I had to be at the studio by six thirty. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.