Overkill // Joseph Quinn

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my dumbass said july 30th like there wasn't 31 days in july :|

sooo just pretend drew said july 31st instead of the 30th :D

July 31st.

That's exactly 2 weeks and 4 days away from today. 2 weeks and 4 days until I give out my first ever pieces of music that I wrote and produced myself. I cant seem to wrap my head around that. The things I went through in the process of writing these songs along with the relationships that have grew is more than what I could have ever asked for. I didn't think I'd be able to get to this point confidently, but it's now official.

July 31st is the date Felicity drops.

Overkill being in the millions with streams, my name being tossed around in social media along with articles on top of articles. I hope this gets the same recognition and it wasn't just a one time thing. That's the only thing that gives me doubt throughout this entire process. Drew is confident I'll be okay and this will only spark a new beginning in my career. I haven't been up front about my emotions during this time with anybody. I feel like I'm overreacting, as always, even though I'm lucky enough to get to where I am this quickly.

I also have to start promoting the project, secretly of course. I've been sending out various tweets and posts with little snippets of each of the songs. It's mostly lyrics and some portions of the instrumentals, people seem to be going crazy over it. That's where my confidence spikes again. I should have nothing to worry about.

"What are you up to?" Joseph jumps onto the bed beside the desk I'm at. My laptop is spitting out air like it's about to blow up. I wouldn't be surprised if it did, I've been on it for about 4 hours straight now.

"Just trying to figure out this whole 'promotion' thing for Felicity. I want to release some sort of video on top of everything else." I rub my tired eyes with both palms of my hands and sigh. "It's just that the EP comes out so soon. I don't know how much I need to put stuff out to tease it and to make sure everyone is excited for it and wants to listen to it."

My rant gets cut off when Joseph's arms suddenly wrap around my shoulders. It startles me that I flinch, I didn't even realized he moved from the bed during my rambling. His breath meets my neck as he inches closer to my face. I lean into his touch and close my eyes to get some sense of comfort during this stressful period.

"You're overworking yourself, love. Even if you didn't do any promoting it would be just fine. You barely promoted Overkill and look at it now. You've grown a fan base just on one song, they're gonna listen to Felicity either way." He whispers his entire speech into my ear and finalizes it with a kiss on my temple.

I know he's right, but my modesty takes over. I cant just expect the same numbers every time I release something just because one of my songs did well. To me, it's about the quality and execution rather than just 'hoping' everyone who listened to Overkill comes back for Felicity.

"Let me see what you got." He releases his grip on me to reach over to my laptop. He presses play on the video I created and watches closely.

"It's just all of the songs combined. I put the instrumental from the intro over it so you have to listen really close for the other music to come through." I explain quickly to help with my embarrassment. It took me longer to come up with the idea than it did to actually create it. It's simple, but it does the job.

"I think it's perfect." He compliments subtly, kissing my forehead quickly before getting back into bed.

"That makes me feel better." I scoff jokingly. He pushes himself off the bed again and sits at the edge closest to me.