The Waiting Game

THE WAITING GAME - 20

OCTOBER 2018

NEW YORK, USA

"My heart just feels so empty right now. Let's drink some more!" Ariana exclaimed while raising her glass.

"Empty? Why empty?" Victoria asked before sipping the remaining contents in her glass as Ariana did the same.

"Maybe love is not for me. Maybe I'm better off alone, you know?" Ariana replied while grabbing the bottle of champagne to fill up her glass once again.

"Hmm? What about Match?" Courtney asked.

"Psh... he has forgotten about me. How dare him!" Ariana emptied her glass by drinking all its contents nonstop. "I don't care about him anymore. I don't care about love in general. I'm done! I'm just going to drink champagne forever!"

Ariana began reaching for the bottle of champagne once again, but Courtney stopped her. "Girl, you better cut it out. I bet that if you ever got cut, you'll bleed pure champagne because of what you're doing for days." Courtney replied, taking Ariana's empty glass.

"You're a party pooper!" Ariana pouted.

Victoria clapped her hands to catch the two's attention. "Hey, we came here to fucking make music that we can be fucking proud of. Let's make hits, Ari."

"Oh yeah! That's the spirit! We're gonna make a fucking hit!" Ariana shouted.

Ariana, Courtney, and Victoria are currently in a studio. After a month since then, they finally managed to get Ariana out of her apartment. However, the latter was not interested in doing any other activity aside from getting drunk and writing new music.

As a musician, writing has become Ariana's outlet for all her bottled up feelings. She's grateful that her friends are all in it with her. They all willingly get drunk with her and play around with the music equipment in the studio.

However, Courtney decided to be the sane one today. She didn't want to drink as much as the two who kept cursing at every sentence they spew out of their mouths due to their drunkenness.

"Why don't you guys start working on that fucking hit?" Courtney stated before throwing wet towels onto her friends' faces to take off a little bit of their drunkenness.

"What the fuck, Court?!" The two exclaimed, which only earned a loud laugh from the latter.

"Are you, guys, sane now? Come on! I wanna hear some new music."

Ariana and Victoria glared at Courtney before sharing a knowing glance. "Ooh! I have an idea." Vic exclaimed before she began rhythmically tapping boxes out of the pad. She bobbed her head to the beat she's making before facing the two. "What do you think?"

"Nah. I'm not feeling that vibe right now. Let's try another one." Ariana answered.

"Wow. Not even a thank you for my effort? Just let's move on to another beat?" Victoria complained, mocking Ariana.

"Fine. Thank you, next please..." Ariana said, and her eyes immediately widened after those words left her mouth. "Holy shit!"

"What?"

"Thank you, next!" Ariana repeated with a wide grin. "That sounds dope, right?"

The two agreed and they began brainstorming about what would be the general topic of the song. They spent a couple of hours throwing ideas and suggestions back and forth and writing some lyrics and melody.