Hollywood Bleeds

twenty one

AFTER FOUR SESSIONS, Amina and Luca finally finished the single. After their last meeting when they figured out the idea of what they wanted the song to be about, and her piano note that she showed Luca, the trio had finished the three minute song in only four days.

The single was about wanting someone, but not being able to have them. Luca and Jacob had found it easier to go with Amina's way of getting over their writers block-to create a story rather than trying to make the song relatable. Writing a story with a song was putting herself into a character and trying to think and see everything the way her character would. It was easier to make the excuse of Amina being in a characters head than her own-her lyrics and emotions being excused as an imaginary persons.

Luca sang the first verse and Amina joined in for the bridge, chorus, and second verse. Each line was a new page of a chapter being told.

Two people desperately wanting each other but never being able to have them. A depressed man believing he didn't deserve anyone, and a closed of woman who didn't try to get to know anyone. The song followed them and the stage of wanting to be in love with each other, but the odds pointed against them. Amina knew the idea was too close to home, but the best music was. Her way of letting out her mention was through music, and she wanted to let her fear of not getting to be with the person she wanted the most to be let go of.

They worked endlessly throughout the night to make it the way they wanted it. It was much different from Luca's regular music, but she saw how alive he looked while writing it. While Amina and Jacob were exhausted at two am, Luca was writing new lyrics and waking them with excitement like a child on Christmas if we a new, better verse. For the first time in years Luca Jackson was proud of what he was putting out into Hollywood.

Amina sat beside Luca on the large couch with his head laying on her shoulder and hand enveloped in hers. Mavis, polo, Marcus and Jacob sat on the other side of the studio. Jacob and the two music producers polished the single as Mavis stuck to her phone.

Jacob turned around from the computer and to Amina and Jacob. "My dads coming today to hear it." he informed nervously.

Amina's heart raced rapidly. "I thought we sent him samples of our progress?"

Throughout the past four days, Amina and Jacob has sent videos of her and Luca's progress with the song. If they made any little change they made sure to send him a video-whatever they did, it was automatically sent to Brandy. Luca hated it and thought it was stupid because he said Brandy was an ignorant asshole who didn't care about progress until it came to the final product.

"He doesn't believe in listening to work in progress." Jacob muttered annoyed.

Amina's eyebrows furrowed as she felt Luca chuckle beside her. "Right."

"I think we did good though, amazing even." Jacob states proudly, a radiant smile on his lips. "This song is by far the most..." he trailed off breathlessly.

"Real," Amina said for him.

"Exactly," he laughed. "Definitely Luca's and mine best song yet."

She smiled accomplished as she played with Luca's long hair locks. "Glad you think so."

"Although let's hope it's what my dad wanted," Jacob admitted with a small frown. He winced slightly as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Definitely isn't anything like Luca's old music beside his first album. And this won't be played in much clubs either."

"But it can be the song right bring in a new era into Hollywood." Amina teased as Luca squeezed her hand.

He was tired, and his body proved it. He got rarely any sleep throughout the past four days, but it wasn't like his body wasn't letting him. Luca had told her that he was over excited about the process of finally writing his own song that sleep wasn't important when it came to it.