A/N: kekeke I know I said I'd post this on Monday, but I decided to post it early ^_^ Its another chapter that's almost 3,000 words! You guys must love me jks lol ^_^
Disclaimer: I don't own ANYTHING! The song as I said in the last chapter is sung by Chocolat! keke
P.S Sorry for any mistakes, spelling, grammar or anything else. I haven't proofread this yet :s
Chapter Six
I rubbed my tired eyes and yawned. I looked at my alarm clock and saw that it was 9:36. I shot up, thinking I slept in and was late for school. I looked around for Amber, but then realised I was back home in L.A and fell back onto my pillow. I yawned again. How was I still tired, I probably overslept. Reluctantly, I got out of bed and stretched.
I grabbed change of clothes and went to the bathroom for a quick shower. Once I brushed my teeth, showered and changed into fresh clothes, I felt a whole lot better. The shower really woke me up. I went out to the kitchen to find something to eat. I saw James and Carlos at the table eating.
"Hey, where are mum and the others? And what are you eating?" I asked as they shoved food into their mouths. Yuck.
"Mrs Knight went shopping or something, Katie is off scheming somewhere, Kendall is out with Jo and I think Logan went to the part to study," said James once he swallowed.
"And we're eating eggs and bacon," said Carlos, shoving another spoonful of food into his mouth.
I smiled at him amused at his table manners; he always did eat like a little kid. "You guys can cook?" I asked.
"No, your mum made it before she left. She did make enough for you, but…" James started. I already knew what they were going to say next.
"We ate it," Carlos said, bluntly. Before I went to England, they did this every time mum made enough food for us. While I would be sleeping, they'd eat my share of food. Due to this, I've learned how to cook.
"No worries, I'll make my own breakfast," I told them walking to the kitchen. I got out some flour, milk, butter and baking powder and placed them on the counter. I was going to make pancakes. I found some strawberries and white chocolate and smiled. It was a while ago when I last had strawberry and white chocolate pancakes. I took those out and placed them next to the other ingredients. I got out some a pan, a mixing bowl and other utensils that I needed a made the batter for my pancakes. I was about to put the melted white chocolate and chopped strawberries into the batter when Carlos said, "Nina are you making pancakes?"
"Yes," I replied simply and added melted white chocolate and chopped strawberries into the batter and mixed it together.
"Can I have some?" he asked. I noticed that James had gone somewhere, probably to Camille so they can find some acting gigs together.
"You and James ate my share of food and you're still hungry?" I exclaimed in surprised as I added some white chocolate chunks into the batter.
"Please?" he asked, giving the puppy dog look.
"Aish, fine," I said giving in and then added. "But you only get two."
"Yay, thank you Nina!" he said, celebrating making me laugh.
Once I had finished making the pancakes, I placed two pancakes onto a plate for Carlos and gave them to him.
"Thank you Nina," he said and finished the pancakes in under a minute before rushing off somewhere.
I looked at the time, it was 10 o'clock. I quickly finished off the last of the pancakes, cleaned up the mess I made. By the time I finished, it was 10:30.
I quickly grabbed the sheet music, lyrics and instrumental CD for 'Black Tinkerbell' and left for Rocque Records. Once I got there, I saw that Ari was about to walk into Rocque Records.
"Hey Ari, wait up," I called out. She stopped and looked around, when she finally saw me, she waved at me.
"Hi Nina," she smiled.
"Seriously, if we're going to be friends and working together call me Neens," I smiled, as we walked into Rocque Records.
"Okay Ni-Neens. Oh I had my manager talk to Gustavo, we should be able to record that song of yours," she smiled.
"Nice, what did it take for you to do that?" I asked.
"He was actually fine with the idea," Ari said.
"Really? Kelly must have talked him into it," I said.
"My manager did say, he heard a woman's voice in the background," she replied.
"Yep, that was Kelly," I concluded as we walked through the Rocque Records hallway where there were posters of past bands. There was a picture of Big Time Rush up there as well. It was put up before I left for England.
"Nina, let's hear this amazing song you're going to sing with our K-Pop Princess," said Gustavo, coming out of his office, with Kelly not far behind.
"Sure, let's go to the studio. You know the one where you keep all of your platinum records and stuff," I said.
"Let's go," he said loudly, walking into the studio.
Ari grabbed two microphones, while I placed the disc in the CD player. I gave Ari the lyrics for 'Black Tinkerbell'. We quickly worked out which parts we were going to sing separately and together. Once that was over and done with, I signalled for Gustavo to play the disc. While we were singing I couldn't help but think that we sounded pretty good. Our voices complimented each other when we were harmonising for the chorus. I sang the last few lines and the let the music fade out. Ari and I smiled at each other. I could see that we were both thinking the same thing. This song was going to be a hit. I looked over at Gustavo, worried at what he was going to think because he usually wrote all of our songs when I was last here. I remember Kendall saying in one of our Skype chats that Gustavo had finally let them write a song.
"That was amazing guys, did you really write that Neens?" Kelly asked.
"Yeah…" I said, quietly nodding.
"That was a pretty good song. I'm just glad you didn't create World War 3 while writing it like the dogs did," said Gustavo.
"World War 3?" Ari inquired.
"Don't ask," Gustavo, Kelly and I said simultaneously.
"Okay. I don't think I want to know now that you all just said that at the same time," Ari laughed. "Hey I was thinking about the song last night Neens and you know how K-Pop loves its concepts right?"
"Yeah," I said, having an idea of where this conversation was going.
"Well we could wear something like that little black dress you wore last night, but just make it a little more pixie-like…"
"And it can be black, of course to represent the song title and the black can represent jealousy because the song is basically about a jealous Tinkerbell," I finished. I suddenly had a great idea and added. "We could also make the dance a little more pixie or fairy like so that we have a dark fairy/pixie concept going on."
"Perfect!" she said, high fiving me. "I think I have an idea for our dresses, but we can design them later, back at the hotel."
"Well, you guys seem to have most of it worked out," said Kelly.
"Oh hey, Gustavo we were thinking of recording this song in two versions, an English version and a Korean version," I said.
"So that we can promote it in South Korea as well as here in the US," said Ari.
"That's a pretty good idea," said Gustavo, in deep thought.
"But doesn't Nina have to know Korean to sing it in Korean," said Kelly.
"I actually know a little Korean since I started to listening to K-Pop, plus I'm good with languages, so it wouldn't be a problem," I replied.
"Great, so how about we get into the recording studio and record the English version today and the Korean version tomorrow," said Gustavo. "After we finish recording today, we can record some songs for your album."
"Great let's go!" Ari and I said, excitedly as we all headed to the recording studio.
It took just over an hour to record the song, but we finally did it. Gustavo played the final product and Ari and I both thought we sounded pretty good.
"You girls both sound great, this song is going to be a hit," exclaimed Kelly.
"How about you guys go and figure out which verses you want in Korean and translate them, then Ari can come back in here and record some songs for the album, until then…" he got out his phone and dialled a number, then he yelled, "DOGS! Get to the studio, NOW!"
Kelly, Ari and I winced as he yelled into the phone. I heard the guys groaning through the phone and half yelled, half laughed, "Suck it up and get in here guys!"
"Whatever Nina," I heard Kendall yell through the phone, making me laugh.
"Just get over here!" Gustavo yelled before he hung up. "Oh you girls can go now."
We both rolled our eyes before going to sit on the couches in the lobby. Ari and I had just finished working out which verses we wanted to translate into Korean when the guys burst into the room.
"Hi guys," they yelled.
"Aish, go away, we're working!" I told them, throwing a pillow in their direction.
"Hey! Is that anyway to treat your dear brother?" he asked.
"And your amazing friends," said Carlos.
"Friends who steal my food whenever I'm not around," I scoffed.
"To be fair only Carlos and James do that," defended Logan.
"You're alright Logan, it's just those three that are the most annoying," I said. "Now go away, Ari and I are working."
"Hi Ari," said James, as he got up close to her.
"Um…Hi James," Ari said, trying to move back a little, but it was hard because we were sitting down. I swear I saw her blush. Could Ari have a little crush on James? I smiled evilly and knew I had to ask her about it later. Right now I had to save her from being too uncomfortable.
"James, back up a little and get in the studio before Gustavo kills you," I said.
"Bye Ari, bye Neens," they shouted as they walked to the studio where Gustavo was.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with those pabos (A/N: Pabo, also spelled/pronounced as babo, is Korean for idiot or stupid)," I sighed.
"Hey, save the Korean for the song," Ari teased.
I stuck my tongue out at her and asked as casually as I could, "So, what do you think of James?"
"Oh he's really nice," she said.
"You looked like you enjoyed him being close to you before," I smirked.
"W-w-what are you talking about? I don't like James," she said, blushing.
"I never accused you of liking James," I said innocently and raised my hands up in surrender, "but whatever you say Ari. Now translate the verses and let's teach me some Korean."
"I hate you," she said, jokingly glaring at me.
"Love you too," I laughed and hugged her.
"Ugh, be quiet and let me translate this then Romanise it for you," she said, sticking her tongue out at me, making me laugh.
She finished translating and translating the lyrics in fifteen minutes. She went through each line slowly and then said it together and made me repeat it so she was sure I said it right and knew it. We did this for the next hour or so until we finished going through the song. We then started practice singing through the song, she corrected me a few times, but I sang most of the song in Korean alright. I struggled with a few of the lyrics. We went through those a little bit more; by around four o'clock I was singing in Korean like a pro. We were singing the last few choruses of 'Black Tinkerbell' in Korean, when I heard the guys cheer.
"That sounded great guys," said Kendall.
"People are going to love that song," said James.
"You Korean sounded really good Neens," Carlos said.
"Yeah, you were right when you said you have a gift for languages. You have the accents perfect and everything. If I didn't know you weren't Korean or just heard your voice, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between you or a real Korean speaking person," Ari complimented.
"Thanks Ari, that means a lot coming from you," I smiled widely.
"Dogs are right, that sounded great. Now come in and do that tomorrow and I reckon we can get this single out early next month," said Gustavo. It must be good because Gustavo hardly ever compliments people.
"That sounded amazing, now Ari you ready to record some songs?" asked Kelly.
"Sure, how about I meet you back at the hotel and we can work on our dresses?" said Ari.
"Sounds like a plan. See you later Ari. Have fun," I waved.
"Bye and I will," she replied, before walking into the recording room.
"Let's get back to the hotel and see what scheme Katie's up to," said Kendall.
"Knowing her, she's probably cooked up some money making scheme," I said.
"Most likely," James and Carlos said.
"I don't even want to know," said Logan.
"Come on let's go back to the Palm Woods. I'm tired from a day of recording and memorising Korean lyrics," I said.
"You did a pretty good job learning the Korean lyrics though, I doubt I could have done that," Logan smiled shyly, rubbing the back of his neck, making me feel all mushy inside. What was wrong with me, he's my best guy friend and one of my friends ex.
"Hey, you're smarter than me, you could do it. I mean you are the smart one in Big Time Rush according to Pop Tiger," I said, poking him, trying to quickly forget about my annoying thoughts.
"Logan's right, you learned and memorised all of that Korean in like three hours," said James.
"Actually, it was four," I corrected.
"But still, that's pretty cool Neens," said Carlos.
"I don't think I know anyone else who could learn a whole song in Korean in four hours sis. So suck it up and accept our compliments," said Kendall, smugly might I add.
"Okay fine, I give in, I give in," I said, raising my hands in surrender. "I'm awesome for learning a song in Korean in four hours."
"Thank you for admitting it," said Kendall.
"Yep, 'cause that doesn't make me sound conceited or anything," I said sarcastically.
"Nope, not at all Neens," they chorused.
"Aish, what am I going to do with these pabos," I muttered to myself
"Huh, what did you say Neens?" asked Carlos, hearing me.
"Nothing," I replied quickly and as innocently as I could.
"I heard 'pabo', what's a pabo?" asked Kendall.
"It means idiot or stupid in Korean," said James.
We all stopped walking and turned to stare, well more like gape at James. He just said what 'pabo' meant and this was another language. James couldn't comprehend learning another language, unless you count hair as a language. We all gaped at him for a few more minutes before he started getting fidgety.
"Ahh, what are you all staring at!" he yelled.
"How…" I started.
"…do you…" continued Carlos.
"…know Korean?" we finished simultaneously, flabbergasted.
"What? Is it that surprising that I have taken a little interest in learning another language," he said, making us all give him a look. "Okay fine I was looking up some Korean because I wanted to impress Ari."
"I KNEW IT!" I exclaimed. "You like her."
"Be quiet, do you want the whole world to know. Geez Neens," he said, quickly covering my mouth. I rolled my eyes when he finally removed his hand. "Don't say anything to Ari, please. I'll do anything."
"Don't worry I won't say anything to Ari about this," I said. "Just buy me the latest U-KISS CD and stop stealing my food for 5 days and we're good."
"Deal," he said as I held my hand out.
"Pleasure doing business with you Jamie," I smirked, shaking his hand.
"How many times do I have to tell you, stop calling me Jamie," he said, exasperated.
"'Till the day I die, my dear friend," I said, making him glower at me.
We were almost back at the Palm Woods Hotel, when I noticed what I beautiful day it was. I hadn't been able to enjoy a nice, sunny day like this since I moved to England. It was always dark and gloomy over there and even if it wasn't I was probably solving a puzzle with the rest of Sibuna.
"Hey you know what guys, you go ahead. I'm going to take a walk at the Palm Woods Park for a bit," I said.
"Okay Neens, I'll tell mum if she asks where you are," said Kendall.
"Bye Neens," James and Carlos chorused, before walking into the Palm Woods.
"Mind if I join you?" Logan asked.
"Sure, why not," I smiled. To be honest, I was a little nervous being alone with him, but don't tell him I said that. "Bye guys."
"I'm going with Neens, okay guys. See you later," he said to the rest of the guys, who had disappeared through the doors.
"So to the park we go," he said, grabbing my hand and swinging it back and forth like a little kid as we walked to the park across the street.
A/N: This might be my last update in a while because I return to school on Monday :/ But all together both chapters are close to 6,000 words ^_^ Hopefully you guys won't kill me. I was thinking of including the scene with Nina and Logan in this chapter as well but decided to put it as a separate chapter (Ugh that sentence was horrible -_-)
Anyway I LOVE YOU ALL! So please leave a review? No okay ^_^
- Seoul Sweetheart
[UPDATE]: Explanation for those who are confused. So, I live in South Australia and we've been on a two week break, next week is the start of Semester 2 so that's why I have school next week :/
