My eyes fluttered open at the warm light streaming through the gap in my curtains, I yawned and sat up, stretching my arms above my head. I blinked a couple of times as my eyes adjusted to the light in my bedroom. I let out a happy sigh as the events of yesterday filled my head. Smiling to myself I got up out of bed and padded through to the kitchen, pushing a few buttons of my coffee machine to get it working. I walked into my living room and picked up my phone.
One New Message: Destery
Yola Tori, we're gonna be at the studio all day, we're probably going to manage to finish this mother fucker soon, either today or tomorrow so get your ass here by 11, okay? ;)
I looked up at the clock on my wall. 10:30. I sighed and jogged through to my bedroom, I threw on some normal denim wash jeans and a My Chemical Romance top. I pushed open the curtains, it seemed to be bright and sunny outside so I skipped putting on a hoodie. I went back into the kitchen and poured my coffee into a to-go cup, put in some milk and sugar and grabbing my keys from the counter headed out the door.
I got to Juice about 10 minutes early, I threw my empty coffee in the trash and wandered up to Dave.
'Any of them here yet?' I asked
'Nope, you're the first but you guys are in D2 today' he said and chucked me the keys.
'Thanks, could you tell me if All Time Low are here today?' I asked, Dave turned to the computer and pressed couple buttons.
'Yep, they're in B6' he said with a smile. I thanked him and wandered back into the maze of rooms, passing B6 on my way. I unlocked the door to our studio and chucked the keys on the table before walking back out again. I had some time before it was 11 so I wandered down to ATL's room and knocked before sliding in. The room was your classic, pretty fancy, recording studio. I saw Alex sitting with another 3 guys, they turned around as I walked in.
'Oh hey Tori' Alex said as I walked over.
'Hey, sorry I'm kinda early for my session, do you mind if I hang here for 10 minutes.
'No problem, take a seat' he said, waving to the empty chair next to him. I slid into the chair and looked at the recording studio in front of me, Jack was sitting, concentrating deeply on playing guitar. His tongue was poking out the side of his mouth and his brows knitted together slightly, his fingers moving across the frets easily as he played to music I couldn't hear.
'Tori, this is Rian and Zack, they're our drummer and bass player' Alex said and I looked over, he motioned to the two guys sitting with him.
'So you're the Tori Jack never shuts up about' Rian said with a chuckle and shook my hand. I laughed nervously, not really knowing what else to say to that.
'And that's Matt, our manager' he said, pointing to the guy on the end next to Zack, he smiled politely at me, which I returned.
'Do you want to hear?' Alex asked, pulling off the headphones he was wearing.
'Yes please' I said and he handed me them, I pulled them on, they were slightly too big so I had to hold them in the right place. The song was a moderate pace and I listened to the lyrics which were amazing.
When I wake up and this dream isn't done, I want to see your face and know I made it home. If nothing is true, what more can I do? I am still painting flowers for you.
'That's awesome!' I said giving Alex back his headphones.
'Thanks' he said with a smile that I saw Scarlet get sometimes, it was the smile you got when you know someone liked your work, your lyrics or your music.
'It better be' added Zack 'It's going on the soundtrack for the new Tim Burton movie'
'Seriously?' I said he was my all-time favourite director.
'Yeah, he's directing a new take on Alice in Wonderland' said Rian, my jaw dropped, that had to be my favourite book ever written.
'I hope he does the book justice' I said smiling, it was so cool how they were on his sound track. I looked over at the clock, 11:02.
'I better go, we have a lot of recording to do today' I said and got up.
'Was nice meeting you' Zack said, with a smirk.
'You too' I said, slightly confused by his smirk but flattered all the same.
I wandered back down the hall to our room and walked in, Ronnie and Nixon were already there.
'Hey guys!' I said, wandering over to the mixing table which they were sitting at. 'What have we got planned for today?' I slumped into one of the chairs and rested my feet on the table.
'We've only got the last song to do and a whole crap load of editing but other than that we've pretty much beasted this demo' Ronnie said, running a hand through his messy black hair.
'Beasted?' I said laughing, he made up stupid words all the time and they never really stuck. He shrugged.
'We've just completely owned it and its fucking amazing' he said, grinning and showing off his perfectly straight teeth which were down to the retainers he'd had when he was 16. Scarlet and Des then came in, Scarlet's blonde hair was pulled back into a ponytail and she had no makeup on, I smiled, she looked amazing with and without the stuff. Destery's chocolate coloured hair was sitting slightly tangled and he had huge dark circles under his eyes.
'Whoa, you guys look like shit' Nixon said, as they sat down
'You really know how to make a girl feel great, huh Nix?' Scarlet said, rolling her eyes at him.
'Sorry Scar but seriously, what's up?' he said with a chuckle.
'We were up all last night editing this ass hole' Des said
'Wait so how many songs did you get through?' Ronnie asked
'All of them except the one we're doing today' Scarlet said, a proud smile on her face.
'Wow guys' I said 'You saved us a crap load of time'
'We know, now let's get down to recording this bitch' Des said.
The day dragged along but it was fun, we got the all of the music done and recorded by about 10 at night and we were there until about 2am. Well that's what I got told anyway cause I completely passed out on the couch at about 11pm and woke up on my bed at home the next morning.
I rolled out of bed and looked down, still wearing my clothes from yesterday. Frowning I wandered into my living room where I found Jack completely sound asleep and stretched out on my couch. I tip toed over to him and crouched down next to him.
'Jack' I whispered, shaking his shoulder gently.
'5 more minutes' he mumbled, covering his face with his hands.
'Don't make me get the super soaker' I said sweetly and he sat bold upright.
'I'm awake!' he said, holding up his hands in a surrender position.
'Good' I said giggling and standing up. 'How the hell did I get home by the way?'
'I gave you a ride, you're such a heavy sleeper' he replied, chuckling.
'Oh right okay' I said my cheeks burning.
'So what do you want to do today' he said grinning 'you're stuck with me cause I'm not leaving'
'I've been stuck in a recording studio for weeks now, seriously all I want to do is stay in my PJ's all day and have a movie marathon' I said, Jack grinned.
'You're my kind of girl' he chuckled and I tried to conceal my blush.
