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guerrero: Lmao, nah Hawk is amusing, a psycho but still amusing. But no, I wanted them to be with Gustavo, it's been done before but I hope mine is a little different. :D Glad you liked it and hey you didn't have to wait that long for this chapter.
callthedoc-tor: The boys will be coming soon!...Just not in this chapter either...I'm sorry! Don't be mad, they will be in the next chapter. I promise! Sorry for making you wait!
"Tonight the streets are ours and we're writing and saying, don't let them take control."
"Hi! I'm Kelly…Welcome to Rocque Records." Kelly said while stepping in front of the desk, a smile on her face and a hand reaching out to whomever would take the kind gesture. Charlie stepped in front of the girls and smiled shaking Kelly's hand with her own.
"Hey I'm Ch-"
"How do we even know you all have talent? Griffin is great at corporal takeovers, but he knows nothing about what I do. These girls are probably worse than…" Gustavo rudely interrupted from his seat behind the desk, he slowly rose and came to stand next to his assistant, which was a bad idea since Kelly decided at that very moment to elbow him in his ribs.
"Would you girl's excuse us for a second?" Kelly said, grabbing Gustavo's ear and pulling him to a corner to whisper yell at him. The four girls turned to look at each other than shuffled slightly closer to the producer and his talent scout, trying to hear what they were whispering about. They quickly stepped back when they saw the people they were trying to eavesdrop on turn around.
"Fine! I have no choice with you girls since Griffin brought you here…let's see what I have to work with." Gustavo said with a pout, knowing that they were probably going to be bad, but he was Gustavo Rocque, he could work his magic, if he made the dogs good enough he can sure as hell make these girls good.
Charlie turned to look at her friends and then back at Gustavo, an eyebrow raised. She wasn't conceited, but she knew her friends and herself were very talented musicians. She smirked at the sunglasses wearing man and his petite assistant. Man, were they going to be surprised…
"Well, before I was rudely interrupted…My name is Charlie; these are my friends, Hailey, Liz and Amery." She said while gesturing towards her friends, Charlie rolled her eyes when she heard Hailey clearing her throat. "And that's Mason, Hailey's dog."
"That can't be a dog..." Kelly said as she stared at the huge animal. Hailey smirked and patted his head that reached her waist. She loved getting reactions like this.
"Enough with all the small talk…what can you girls do?" Gustavo said crossing his arms in front of his chest. He didn't have time to dabble on stupid little girls. He was slowly reaching the top again with the dogs, these girls better be good or he could just plummet down again.
"Well, it kind of depends what you want to hear sir. We can sing you a song together, individually, or play you something." Amery asked politely, she smiled as Gustavo looked surprised, probably because of her accent but unknowingly because she had called him sir.
"Yeah, we're all musicians here. We all play instruments and I'm pretty sure we are capable of writing our own songs." Liz said agreeing to what Amery had just said. A small smug smile on her lips as she saw the amazement going through the two in front of them.
"Oooh! Sing Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield..." Kelly exclaimed with a smile, her smile wavering as Gustavo stared at her with a baffled look. "What? The song has been stuck in my head all day since the morning when I left my house."
The girls laughed at their exchange and quickly began the song with Amery as lead. Their voices were different but fit so well with each other; it surprised Gustavo at how well they actually could sing, and how well they were at harmonizing. Griffin was right, these girls plus the dogs can really earn them money and help him get back up. Gustavo held a hand up in front of him causing the girls to stop their song midway, Kelly pouting as she herself was getting into the song.
"Kelly! Draw up four contracts for these girls. They deserve to be here." The girls girlishly squealed once the words sunk in. They had gotten their chance; now there was no way they were going to let it go. Kelly smiled and power walked outside of the office.
"Yes! Man I can't wait to tell Julian!" Hailey exclaimed as she happy danced with Amery smiling as Charlie hugged Liz. "But! I actually have a request." Hailey said, looking over at Gustavo with a finger pointing to make her point. Charlie stopped hugging Liz and turned to look at the petite brunette, a scowl on her face. She knew exactly what Hailey was probably going to go on about.
"I've noticed that uh you mostly do pop groups, Shades." Hailey inquired, already giving her new boss a nickname. Charlie smacked her forehead, this girl never stopped.
"Hailey shut up, we just got the job, you're not about to make us lose it." Charlie began to scold her but was soon interrupted by Gustavo.
"No, no, let her finish." He proclaimed, who the hell did this girl think she was?
"You see? He's fine with it. Anyways, we don't do pop," Hailey began again gesturing to her friends and herself. It was only the truth and she wasn't one to lie…often.
"Yeah, I mean we can. But the most we can do is Pop Rock or something like that." Amery said with a smile.
"Yup, and we each have a different view on how the music should be…" The southerner spoke up from behind, her finger looping with a strand of hair, twirling it absentmindedly.
"Yeah? Well you want to know what I think? I think that you girls are too high up on your horses to notice that I'M THE PRODUCER! I KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT BECAUSE YOU GIRLS NO NOTHING ABOUT MUSIC AND I DO! …Comprende?" Gustavo said ending the last word of his rant softly. Charlie quickly came face to face with the much taller and heavier man, a hand stretched out to stop Hailey from uttering a word. If they didn't get fired now, she was sure that with what Hailey had to say they were going to be.
"We know a lot more than you think, Gustavo.We also know that you need us in order to get back on top. So I would appreciate if you'd stop screaming." Charlie said her head held high and a glare in her eyes as Kelly came in with the contracts in hand.
"Okay girls! I need you to sign…what's going on?" Kelly asked surprised at the scene in front of her, Charlie and Gustavo were glaring daggers, Liz was trying to calm down a surprisingly Spanish speaking Hailey, and Amery looking on at the situation sheepishly. She had just been gone for a few minutes, how did it come to this already?
Gustavo turned away from the glare match with Charlie and walked over to Kelly, muttering loudly that they were just like the 'dogs' and about the whole situation.
"That's offensive!" Hailey said completely forgetting about her anger and turning to look at her dog that was resting next to her, she smiled as he rose and she began to pat his head, her nails grazing his head just the way he liked it. "Shades didn't mean that Mason, he's just a big meanie." The brunette said with baby tone to her voice, smiling as she gave Mason a kiss on his head, and not caring about the weird looks she was getting from her new employers.
Gustavo turned his head to Kelly, pleading for a way out of this. If his dogs didn't kill him, he was sure these girls were.
"We need them Gustavo, plus…Griffin said we had to sign them. And we would be stupid not to, they are great…not good...great, and any producer would want a shot at them. You can always compromise." Kelly said sternly, getting a pout from Gustavo.
"Oh fine! Come on, get the signing." Gustavo ordered but raised an eyebrow as another request was made by one of the girls, this time by Charlie.
"We'll sign, on one condition. We write our own songs, but you will do what you're good at and make the songs better." She stated with a smile, hoping that he will agree with their decision and trying to ignore his grumbling about how it's not gonna be possible since he's not writing the song. Her smile widened as Kelly elbowed him for the second time.
"Fine, whatever." Gustavo said, trying to soothe the pain from his side by rubbing it gently. The girls celebrate to themselves while signing their lives away to the industry. They were finally going to make their dreams come to life; this is what they were meant to do.
"Congratulations Ms. Boyd, Ms. Casablancas, Ms. Followill, and Ms. Martin. You are now signed to Rocque Records!" Kelly said excitedly, grabbing each contract away from the girls and organizing each paper, failing to notice the look of recognition and fear coming from the big man next to her. A chubby finger rose to point at the girls, his mouth and eyes wide. Being the one with the quick wit, Hailey hastily grabbed Charlie's shoulder and brought her down to whisper two words into her ear.
"He knows…" Charlie's eyes widened and turned to look at Gustavo.
"Please don't say anything; we know that we didn't need to be walking around with who our brothers are but…please we want to do this on our own. Without any help, we just want to make music." She exclaimed with pleading eyes, her friends backing her up with the same sad pleading look.
"Oh alright, huh… I guess you girl's really do know a lot more about music than I thought you would." Gustavo said, with a small smile on his face. These girls were going to make his job easier, especially from the families they came from.
Kelly looked up from the pile of papers confused, but then shrugged knowing Gustavo will tell her about it later. She looked back and smiled, Rocque Records was getting back up on its feet with Big Time Rush and these girls to help it along.
"Ahh! I can't believe we did it!" Liz exclaimed as she and Amery danced from on top of the red couch, laughing as Mason began to bark, he himself getting excited from all the commotion. Charlie had recently gotten off the phone with her mother, telling her the great news. Now the tall brunette was singing along with Hailey to another of their favorite songs.
"Unicorn loves deer, deer loves unicorn. These are code words we can say, code words we can all obey!" Alamo Race Track's song was so much fun to dance and sing too, and right now it was their 'let's celebrate we got these jobs and don't have to clean up after these dirty people anymore' anthem. As soon as they signed their contracts, they ran back to the hotel and literally screamed at Bitters that they were quitting. Of course the grumpy middle aged man, frightened, but none the less agreed with their decision. Now they were in their apartment celebrating with music blaring, some pizza, and some soda. It was their own private party. And no one was about to ruin it.
The song had stopped and a new track played in its place, Hailey stopped her dancing and singing and walked over to her dog, lowering the volume to the stereo as she did so. She began to bother the two year old canine, flipping his ears around, laughing when he opened his mouth to get her to stop. She knew he wouldn't hurt her, but it was just so much fun, especially since she noticed the look of worry coming from her friends faces on the couch. Hailey then turned her gaze to her friends, the same look of realization hitting her as it did when she was eating waffles that one early morning.
"Hey you know…we're kind of supposed to be writing about now, especially since Shades agreed we could write our own stuff…" She shrugged her shoulders turning back to smile at her dog and speaking to her friends even though she wasn't looking at them. "Just sayin'…"
All three best friends stopped immediately what they had been doing, the only noise coming from Mason's attempts to make Hailey stop and the musicians who inspired all of these girls to love music as much as they did, The Beatles.
"Why didn't you say something earlier you git?" The Britain was the first to yell at her friend, they had been wasting time and it was nearing night fall already, there was no way they could get a song done in a few hours, especially since Gustavo said they had to get to work tomorrow morning.
The small petite brunette turned to have three pairs of eyes glaring at her. She sighed to herself, why was it always her that had to think of everything…they were all capable of it. It wasn't her fault she thought about every consequence that could happen before they did something stupid. And even if she knew the consequences, she still went for it. She was a thrill seeker, and loved to live in the moment. And she completely contradicted herself. But that was who Hailey was, and it didn't stop her from repeating the same response when they asked the same question.
"It's not always my job to be the rational one!" She yelled back with a pout, it was never ending. But it still amused her to no end, plus she knew Charlie would come up with something. She always did, they could all always count on her. Before Hailey could get the same response she always got Charlie put her hand up, hoping to silence her friends.
"Alright, it's 7:25…we can do this!" Charlie exclaimed, getting nods from all of her friends. They ran towards the music room Hailey's brother had kindly had installed for them. It was like their own personal Guitar Center. There were dozens of guitars –electric and acoustics-, basses, ukuleles, and banjos, hanging from the wall. Two drum sets in each corner of the room, one single and one double pedal. One huge grand piano towards the front of the room, amps, cables, microphones and mic stands, everything you might need.
Charlie, Hailey, and Liz all ran for a guitar, while Amery ran to her Piano sitting down on her rightful seat, her hands grazing the very instrument she loved the most. She turned around to face her friends, a look of worry written on her face, how the hell were they going to think of a song and get a good night's sleep.
"We need ideas…what should the song be about? A love song maybe?" Liz began with suggestions; she knew they were all more than capable to write a song, it was just going to be hard especially since they all had different tastes. Amery shrugged her shoulders; she really didn't mind nor cared. She just wanted it to be good. Charlie and Hailey both shook their heads, they were probably going to be the hardest to work with, they were both very strong headed.
"I don't want to write a love song…It's too soon for that y'know?" Charlie stated her opinion while strumming a random chord on her acoustic guitar then finger picking the same chord into a pretty melody. Hailey nodded her head, surprising everyone in the room.
"Yeah I was thinking something more like…'We did it, and you can't stop or judge us cause we're the shit' type of song." Hailey said with a smirk as she fingered a random riff on the electric she had plugged in to the amp before she sat down on her stool. The other girls smiled at their friend, she always had a way with words. Amery nodded her head and turned her body playing a C flat minor, followed by an A major, E major and lastly, a B major. Those chords had been stuck in her head for a while now, and playing it out even if it sounded somewhat sad, made her feel good almost inspired really.
"Whoa, whoa!" Charlie exclaimed as Amery continued to play the same chords onto the piano. "That could work! It sounds nice…" She continued listening and then played along with her guitar, the same exact chords but finger picked into a pretty melody. Liz took her cue and quickly placed her guitar in a nearby stand and grabbed a bass guitar, wrapping the strap around her shoulder and plugging it into the amp. She followed the melody and made a bass riff to go perfectly with what they were doing. Hailey nodded her head to the song her friends had created, a small smile on her face as she got drifted into the music. Getting off her stool, Hailey placed the guitar to lean against the wall and rushed towards the double pedal drum set, the closest to where her friends were. She grabbed some drumsticks and began to make the perfect beat. She was glad her brother and his friends had taught her to play well.
It was 2:03 a.m. when the girls had finally concluded their jam session. They left their music room, tired, looking like hell, but with smiles. It didn't take as long as they expected, but what else would you gather from four driven musicians who literally had music flowing through their blood.
They had written their first song together and it sounded awesome.
"We got this in the bag ladies!" Liz said with her arm wrapped around Charlie's shoulder, a big bright smile on her lips. She and the tall brunette laughed as the two shortest of their little group happy danced out of the room.
"I hope Gustavo likes it." Charlie said with a bit of a worry, she didn't just spend nearly seven hours just to get screamed at the fact that it isn't good enough for the big mean glasses wearing man.
"Oh no…he'll like it…I'll make sure of that." Hailey said after calming down, an evil glint in her eyes. Charlie's rolled her eyes, but shuddered none the less. Deep down she knew Hailey wasn't joking around…honestly, the small 5 foot 2, Spanish/Danish decent, Casablanca offspring scared the crap out of her whenever she got that look in her eyes, or that smirk on her lips.
"Oh sod off it Hails, the song is too good not to like. The bloke will probably have some sort of aneurysm just from hearing it tomorrow." Amery said with her usual smile, she was so excited that they had finished it; and she was damn proud of them all.
"Ames is right, the song is awesome and Gustavo is going to love it. Now let's get to bed, you guys look horrible" Charlie said with a grin while running to her room and shutting the door quickly behind her before three different shoes slammed into various parts of her bodies.
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