I'm so sorry it took so long, I kind of did not have internet…so that's why I took so long to post it, I'm in my sister's house posting this, I had other things to do and hey might as well post this up right?
I hope you guys like it though!
Guerrero: Lol that last chapter just wasn't good enough for me, I don't know why, I was just angry with the outcome. I know I could have done better. Lol yay! 'Awesome as' that still amuses me lol. And yesssssss thank you, I was hoping to get the guy as close to character as I could have. So I'm super happy that you said that.
TheyCallMeeeLena: I totally forgot to respond to you in the last chapter thingy. Forgive me '~' and right? I love them, they are my favorites to write, I'm like utterly in love with Logan even though it'll never happen lol so I try to put some of me into Hailey, though I personally don't think I'm that mean…And Charlie actually portrays some characteristics from my best friend. She can't stand Big Time Rush, but I don't care :D
Annabellex2: I hope you do read more! Because I enjoy that you enjoy…my story…yeah. :D Thank you! HalzMarie: I will keep going if you keep reading…tis a promise… :D And thank you so much!
Callthedoc-tor: Lol thank you, it still sucked to me…but it means a lot that you don't think it did. And I know Hailey and Charlie are just super bad ass. Lol I'm not really a big Owl City fan, I think I only put that song in that chapter because my iPod was on shuffle lol But that song is super fun to sing too I don't know why lol.
Disclaimer: …Sigh I do not own the song We've Got Everything by Modest Mouse… nor do I own Mouthwash by Kate Nash and Strong Shoulders by Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps
'We've tried everything half assed and as liars and that's how we've got everything…'
"That was actually pretty damn good..." Gustavo mumbled to the four girls after they had finally recorded and tweaked up 'Let It Ride'. Mirrored grins played upon the best friends lips as they high fived each other. Gustavo might have been known for his Pop boy and girl bands, but one thing was for sure, he was a master at the sound board. He made their song even better, adding oooh's and whoa's and to Amery's delight- some piano that she happily played for him.
The grumpy heavy man turned to his sound tech guy while the teen girls took off their headphones having just finished wrapping up the last bit of vocals they needed to make the song even better. They stepped out the sound booth as Gustavo rose from his spot and the tech guy did what he had ordered.
"Alright, I'm giving you girls a few days off I need four more songs for your new EP." The girls jumped from their spots, squealing like the little girls they really were. That right there made it somewhat official. They were about to make an EP, and if it was good enough they were going to make that full album and finally start what could be their careers.
"Also start thinking of a name, unless you want me to name you? I have some great ideas for this girl band…"
"Whoa whoa whoa… Girl band? No, we're not –well technically we are since we all are girls, but we're not a 'Girl Band' so to speak." Hailey said while adding air quotes around the horrid label. Charlie pointed to her best friend and nodded,
"Unlike most of your other bands, we're not pop… we don't do synchronized dancing." The taller brunette added while crossing her arms over her chest.
"We actually play instruments, and don't really need a backup band behind us, well maybe when Ames wants to play piano for a song or something…" Liz said before shrugging and looking down at the young blonde beside her who nodded her head.
"We also have reps to protect…" Amery finished getting three yes's from her friends. Their brother's were from the rock/indie scene, there was no way they were going to soil their names along with their own being compared to past outdated girl bands that broke up because one decided to get pregnant at the age of 14 and that just wasn't cool in the music industry. Not cool at all.
"Well news flash ladies THIS IS MY BAND!" Gustavo began to yell, what was it with these kids thinking they owned everything now a days. He was about to rip them a new asshole but was stopped by a yell of the tall brunette.
"NO! It's not. It's OUR band, you included, because we own and write our own songs and you fix them. And if YOU don't like it," Charlie said while poking at the huge man in front of her, "WE CAN TAKE OUR TALENTED BUTTS ELSEWHERE!" She said with an arm cross and a raised eyebrow, daring him to call her bluff, even though she really was. There was no way she was about to give this whole thing up because of pride, her friends would kill her, but they trusted her enough to not get them fired and get what they wanted, which was musical freedom.
The heavyset man stared at the teenagers in front of him wishing he had laser beams shooting out of his eyes, they were annoying not as bad as the dogs, but close enough…and they were right. They did write their own songs, and any record company would be lucky to have them.
"FINE! Whatever, But you would have sold more with a pop like background, and with a name like Girl Times Four." He confidently finished with Jazz hands in front of his face and a well-placed smirk. The girls looked at their boss in horror. Who would ever want to be known as that? Gustavo was talented at many things, but the names he picked out for his bands…he should have stopped at Boy Quake.
"What in the world is that?" Charlie exclaimed flailing her arms around.
"I thought you wanted to build your career up again, not tear it down…" Liz said shaking her head, wanting to un-hear and un-see what she had just…heard and seen.
"Who would buy that rubbish?" Amery yelled with a bit of concern in her eyes, She hoped that she and her friends could stop this madness.
"I'm not…you…just…WOW." Hailey finished turning away before she ran her mouth and really got them in trouble. Her brown hues turned to look back at her friends who quickly caught the distress coming from the short girl.
"Well if you think you're so much better than me then YOU THINK OF A NAME!" Gustavo yelled but was taken aback when the girls quickly screamed their agreement.
Charlie pulled her friends to the side, huddling, and keeping Gustavo away from their conversation.
"There is no way in hell I'm going to be part of a band named Girl Times Four…do you know what my brothers would do to me?" She tried to say quietly but the panic began to rise from the pit of her stomach. They had to think of something and fast.
"You? I would be the laughing stock out my family! 'Kings of Leon and their little sister Liz from Girl Times Four...' I'd rather die…" Liz stated slightly hyperventilating.
"Okay we've got to chill! Tub Tubs isn't about to ruin this for us with his revolting names." Hailey quietly said, inside she was enraged but it was her boss and she had to remember what her brother had told her. They fuck this up once; they might never get this chance again.
"I've got it!" Amery exclaimed, jumping from her spot and scaring nearly everyone in the room, she turned back to wave at the heavyset man who waved back confused. The short blonde turned back around and smiled whispering to her friends, a few seconds later she was getting attacked with hugs by her best friends.
The four girls turned back around with matching grins, two pair of blue and brown eyes gleaming with delight. Gustavo looked slightly disturbed and stepped back; he raised an eyebrow as he spoke.
"So?"
"Call It Karma" They said simultaneously, their grins never faltering, even when Gustavo contemplated over the name. He raised a hand to his chin to show that he was thinking of it and nodded.
"Hmm… Call It Karma…" He put his hands up in the air as if he was picturing it on a billboard, his face scrunched up and his mouth open ready to yell.
"How is that even remotely better than Girls Times Four?" He continued, it wasn't as catchy as his more than awesome band name.
"How is it not?" Liz yelled, surprising nearly everyone. She was much quieter than the other girls but she could not, would not, never ever be able to live up being in such a horribly named band.
"Yeah, I mean I could have gone worse…" Amery said while nodding, "I was thinking of S.I.C.K." Everyone looked at her confused as she continued to nod thinking that they were all on the same page as she was.
"Sick?" Hailey asked making a slightly disgusted face, even though it was better than Gustavo's…she really didn't want to be called Sick.
"Yeah, S.I.C.K … Strokes, Incubus, Coldplay…Kings of…Leon…" Amery started excitedly but then she began mumbling when everyone stared at her as if she was mentally disabled. "…get it..?"
"That's not that bad"
"Clever actually"
"Pretty damn smart…but I think I like Call It Karma better." Charlie stated, turning to look at Amery who just smiled that they hadn't completely turned down the other idea.
"So Call It Karma it is!" Hailey exclaimed while throwing her hand up, causing the other girls to yell in excitement.
"What? NO! I did not..." Gustavo started to yell with a glare and a pout but was cut off by the short brunette.
"Well we're not going to be named Retards Times Four. So get used to it, Boss!" Hailey yelled, letting out only a little of what she really wanted to say, her friends quickly grabbed her and pulled her back when she pushed her way towards the huge man.
"UGH! Fine! Whatever, it's not going to be my fault when you guys don't sell a single CD." Gustavo said shrugging and turning to the sound tech that wrote down the name of the band on the CD case.
"Listen grumpy pants, all we want to do is make music." Hailey started then looked at her friends who nodded and was about to continue but was interrupted by Gustavo's lovely assistant.
"Gustavo, the caterers are here. Oh hi girls," Kelly said with a smile and a wave receiving the same gesture from the four girls.
"Hey Kelly, It's Call It Karma now…" Charlie said while pointing to her friends and herself, a smirk on her lips. Kelly nodded her head and smiled.
"Call It Karma… It's actually really good; I could already imagine being at all of your sold out concerts now." The assistant said causing the girls to get more excited about their name as they imagined being part of the lineup of something big like Rocktober Fest, Coachella, or maybe going even bigger like their brothers had and be one of the bands at Leeds, or the Reading concert.
Gustavo rolled his eyes but followed after his assistant who then caused the girls to follow after him out of Studio A and towards Studio B, confused and nosy. Four pair of eyes looked around the usually instrumented filled room now filled with tables and chairs, fancy decorating and many, many waiters.
"What's going on?"
The girls turned from their amazement to see their co-workers, excited and just as confused and nosy as they felt.
"It is the Big Time Rush party celebrating the making of your first album." Kelly said excitedly causing the guys to give each other man hugs and yell out, only to get shot down by their own boss.
"You're not invited!" The girls made their presence known by trying to stifle their laughs, or flat out laughing just like Charlie and Hailey were. The girls maneuvered their way besides the boy band as they heard Gustavo explain to them why they weren't allowed to be part of their own party.
"The girls in the other hand are invited." Gustavo said with a dimpled smirked, jumping slightly as they boys yelled even louder.
"WHAT? They don't even like us! And they're not even part of the band!" Kendall said pointing towards them with wide eyes.
"Don't worry we don't want to go." Charlie said nonchalantly, shrugging when Gustavo and Kelly both looked on with wide mouths.
"Why not?" The heavy set man screamed, his face becoming slightly redder as she shrugged.
"One, you said this party will be classy…"
"What, that term isn't part of your vocabulary?" Kendall asked while his lips grew into a smirk as the brunette stared daggers into his soul. Charlie lunged at him ready to hurt every part of his good looking body but was stopped by Liz who was big enough in sense of height to stop her; the red head grabbed her by the waist and pulled as hard as she could to get the five foot seven Boyd offspring away from the blonde trouble maker.
"You're going down douche bag, I swear to everything I love…I'm gonna wipe that smirk right off your pretty little face." She yelled while trying to get past her friend without hurting her, only to stop and blush when she heard Kendall's reply.
"I'm not afraid of you, and thank you, but you're much prettier." Charlie's eyes widened, her cheeks burned red and her pushing seized. She really wasn't expecting a compliment from the guy who had just insulted her. Kendall noticed her reaction causing him to smirk, he figured out how to stop her from attacking and how to shut her up.
Hailey looked from the blonde to her best friend, an amused smirk on her lips. It was hard to stop Charlie when she was about to rampage, and he did it with just a few words.
"He said classy..." She began the conversation again, "Whenever we hear that word, we don't know why but we think of a whore, so we really don't want to be in a whore party." Hailey explained causing nearly everyone to turn to look at her confused, she shrugged and smiled. "Plus, I have a feeling this party will be a total drag."
"That's not true!" Gustavo semi yelled childishly only getting another shrug from Hailey.
"Either way! We're staying!" Kendall said crossing his arms and his friends following suit. It was their party, they deserved to stay.
"Fine!" Gustavo yelled, a chorus of the four letter word was heard by the four teenagers. The girls looked on as two men rolled in a huge box that stated 'Super Party Fun Box'.
"Ooh that looks like fun…" Amery stated getting closer to the guys only to get pulled back by Hailey.
"It's a trap dumbass…" the brunette whispered causing Amery to frown. The blonde turned around and faced her friends with a sad expression.
"Let's go then…" Charlie sighed at the youngest girl and rolled her eyes.
"Come on; let's go kidnap a 10 year old so we can get into Chuck E. Cheese or something." Charlie said playfully and wrapped an arm around Amery's shoulder, pushing her towards the elevators to exit with her best friends in tow.
After their plan to kidnap a child failed the girls departed, Charlie coming up with the idea that they each try to write a song on their own, and if they needed help they could only ask one other girl.
Amery walked along the park, her notebook in one hand while the other hand tapped a pen on said object. She had already come up with a tune in her head, all she really needed was her piano, but right now she was trying to think of some sort of lyrics for her song.
"This is my mind. It goes over and over the same old lines. And this is my brain. Its torturous analytical thoughts make me go insane…"
She sung with her natural accent, her head raking more words to create the chorus, a song like this needed a little more flare, maybe some drums and not only piano.
"Wow…you sound…beautiful." The short blonde turned to see the taller than her but still short Latino staring at her slightly dumbfounded. Her cheeks burned red but she still managed to smile.
"I mean…umm…you write your own songs?" Carlos asked while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"We all do, we've already written our first song. Gustavo said he wanted four more for our EP, so we're trying to each write a song on our own. It's not going that well though… I think I might need help from Hailey or something." Amery said while looking down at her notebook.
"That was great though, what you sung. I never really thought about being a singer or whatever, so I can't write a song if my life depended on it, well not yet at least." He said with a shrug, getting a little more comfortable with who he thought was probably the prettiest girl he's ever seen.
"You must be good if you're in a band now. Writing a song just comes from what you feel, maybe what you want people to know, if you're in love, if you've had the worst heartbreak of all time. It's how you connect with people. This song is mostly about me… I felt like being a bit selfish." The blonde said with a playful smile, she giggled as Carlos continued to stare at her; she snapped her fingers in front of his face.
"What?" He asked breaking out of his trance, her eyes were so blue. He had heard from Guitar Dude that one of the new girls, the blonde one was out by the park, the whole time he had been walking he had been trying to work up his nerves to ask her to their party. And now that she was in front of him all he could think of is how she actually gave him a chance and actually spoke to him.
"Y'know if you really want to get the girl, you should probably start paying attention to what she says." Amery said jokingly causing Carlos to stiffen in his spot, hoping he didn't blow it if he did had a chance with her.
"I'm sorry it's just..." He was just going to blurt it out and say it, the worse she could say was no right? "Would you like to come to this gathering get together thing that we're throwing back at our place?" He semi yelled causing the blonde to step back startled; before she noticed he grabbed her hand in his and nodded his head hoping she would agree with him, it was his last resort. Amery smiled slowly and nodded her head with his only to have him to let go of her hand and jumped pumping his fist in the air. When he had noticed what he had done he tried to play it off, stating it started at seven and turning around to leave nearly tripping over his own feet when he heard Amery yell out.
"That was very smooth."
"So this is why I'm waiting, this is why I haven't come undone. This is what I keep saying to keep my shoulders strong…" Liz sang as she strummed the Ibanez acoustic a few times before stopping and jotting down other possible lyrics to her song in the small leather bound journal sitting across her lap. She sat on the staircase, finding that not a lot of people take the stairs since the elevator was so convenient. It also helped that this place had probably one of the best acoustics throughout the hotel.
"Hey Liar," Liz looked up from her notebook, instinctively closing it shut as she looked into the hazel eyes of the tall pretty boy. She smiled as he looked at her slightly annoyed.
"I told you, it's Elizabeth." The redhead said as she shrugged, Liz rested her beloved guitar gently against the stairs and stood up from her spot causing her to be about the same height as James. He really was good looking, way prettier than she was that was a fact. It just sucked that he was so into himself. She raised an eyebrow when he shifted the grocery bags full of junk food and soda in his arms.
"I thought it was Liz?" James asked disregarding the nosy look she was emanating; this girl irked him, not in a bad way. He knew she just had to like him. There was something obviously there between them both.
"Only my friends call me that…" She replied with a small smile her eyes looking up from the paper bags and towards his.
"So, we're not friends?" He asked while stepping closer, he may have been holding something but that wasn't going to stop him from flirting with her. He did stop when he saw her bend forward, past the bags and towards his face, a small smirk on her lips.
"Not even close…" She whispered her eyes falling from his own to his lips and back up to his eyes. She moved away, bending to pick up her journal and her guitar then stepping down the two steps before hitting the ground floor. His eyes followed her every move as he willed himself to not blush uncontrollably. She could not be getting to him; he had to get to her first. That was the plan! James shook his head, his perfect bangs sweeping to the same direction, clearing his head of the southern belle and back to his game plan.
"Well Ellie," he said, a smirk reaching his lips when she turned around eyebrows raised at the new name he had given her. "I was going to ask you if you wanted to come to our gathering get together but since we're not frie…"
"I don't want to go…" She interrupted him; his mouth grew wide in disbelief. This had to stop. "I've got a lot of work to do man…" She continued with a giggle and a wave of her notebook. Liz had never been so amused at a person before, now she knew how Hailey felt when she bothered people for fun.
"Fine! I'll just text the three hottest girls in my phone; I don't need you to come." James pouted childishly his grip tightening around the grocery bags. If flirting didn't work, then maybe jealousy will.
"You do that." Liz said shrugging and walking through the door and towards the elevator. She wasn't about to go up four flights of stairs. She pressed the up button before reaching for her phone feeling it vibrate against her front pocket.
Dude, party, seven, 2J. Liz looked towards the staircase and smiled, he did sort of indirectly invite her. The redhead looked back down at her phone, her thumb swiping along the screen replying to Charlie's words.
Sounds good, let's go.
Eh, this one kind of bored me. My story will be semi going along the lines with the episodes, not completely but sort of. I hope you guys liked it. Let me know if you guys liked it or hated it or whatever… :D
Review please, it'll make me the super happiest and will bring the next chapter up sooner, which in my opinion…is way better than this one :D I would put it up with this one but I kind of don't wanna… Please review though and I'll find some way to post it :D