Your Band, My Band, and Our Band

18

Charlotte's POV

We finally landed at around 8:00 PM. There was a small group of girls waiting for is at the airport. I don't even know how they knew we were gonna be there.

"Omg! I can't believe it! You're Commercial Appeal! I love you guys so much! I've been subscribed to your YouTube channel since day one!" A girl walks up to me and Jordan as I'm holding his hand.

"That's so sweet. Thank you so much." I say hugging the girl and she has me sign something which is weird cause no one has ever asked me to sign something before. After I finish she runs over to Joanna and Tyler.

"Where's Patrick?" I ask Tyler.

"He said he'll be here." She says and I nod.

Not long after that flashing lights start heading toward us and we know that it has to be Patrick.

"Tyler Rose! How is my favorite little cousin?!" Patrick says holding his arms out which Tyler runs into.

"Great! How are you?"

"Awesome. I'm so glad you guys are here because you've got a meeting in the morning!" He says smiling.

"A meeting? A meeting about what?" Joanna asks.

"About you getting signed of course!" He says excitedly.

"So this is actually happening? We're really getting signed?!" Tyler says full of excitement.

"That is if they like you so make them like you, and don't worry I'll be there the whole time because it is Island Records and they liked us." He says as he leads us outside in front of paparazzi who were taking as many pictures as possible. It was a bit overwhelming. We hopped inside Patrick's limousine and he took us to this condo he rented for us. It was absolutely amazing! We had a perfect view of the whole city.

"Patrick, how are we ever gonna thank you?" I say hugging him again.

"Don't thank me. I'm just helping out family." He says rapping his arm around Tyler.

"Seriously Patrick like you're buying us all this amazing stuff I don't know how we are gonna repay you." She say hugging him.

"You're welcome, but it's getting late and you guys have a big day tomorrow so you'll need some sleep." He says backing into the limousine. We all wave and head into our beautiful new home.

"This is incredible!" Jordan says and I smile.

"I know right it's so big and per-"

"No Charlotte, I mean THIS is incredible. Me and you. Here. Together." He says looking in my eyes.

"Mhhmm. I couldn't ask for a better guy to spend this experience with." I say kissing him.

"I CALL THIS ROOM!" I hear Joanna scream causing me to break away from the kiss.

"WHY DO YOU GET THE BIG ONE?!" Tyler yells.

"BECAUSE I SAW IT FIRST! AND MY STUFF IS ALREADY IN HERE!" Joanna yells and I begin to get annoyed.

"THAT'S NOT FAIR YOU PUSHED ME OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE I GOT IN!"

"SORRY TY BUT IM NOT LEAVING!"

"CHARRRLOTTE! JOANNA IS BEING MEAN TO MEEE!" Tyler screams and I shake my head.

"I hope they don't act like this the whole time." I say letting go of Jordan's hand to break up their fight.

The next morning

Tyler Rose's POV

We woke up really early because if we wanted to make a good impression we had to get there on time. I'm usually last to wake because I can get a little moody in the morning.

"TYLER GET YOUR ASS OUT OF BED WE GOTTA GO IN LIKE TWENTY MINUTES!" I hear Jordan knock on my door and I ignore him and go back to sleep.

"TY, DO WANT JOANNA TO WAKE YOU UP INSTEAD?!" He says and I moan and slowly roll out of bed.

We had Patrick once again pick us up and take us to the meeting at Island Records in Santa Monica. We were a little early for the meeting so hopefully that will tell them that we're prepared.

"Good morning Cleo." Patrick says walking into this huge room with to many chairs to count.

"Morning sweetie. Sit down." She motions for us to sit down and we do so.

"This is the band I was telling you about. My cousin, Tyler Rose Sharp, who plays the bass guitar. Joanna Claire, Alex Gaskarth's little sister, lead singer and guitarist. Charlotte Miller, Kurt Cobain's niece, lead guitarist, and her boyfriend Jordan Wild, drummer." He introduces us to Mrs. Cleo Baker who I'm pretty sure works at Island Records.

"Yes, Patrick has shown me many of your YouTube videos and I did enjoy....but I want to see more than you just perform. I need to see you play the part of of a rockstar! Make a mark in music! Once you do that people will want to hear more of you." She says.

"Well thank you so much!" Charlotte says and we all smile.

"For what? I just gave you advice. I didn't say you could be apart of Island Records." Our smiles fade.

"But I thought you said-"

"I said make a mark I didn't say how." She interrupts me and we begin to feel embarrassed.

"Wait Cleo give them a chance. They're amazing!" Patrick chimes in.

"I'm sure they are but where are they gonna start?" She says and there was a moment of silence.

"They can open for Fall Out Boy!" Patrick says and all of our jaws drop.

"What?!" We all say including Cleo.

"They can open for us. That's a start right? I mean our tour is in two months." He says as I try to come up with something to say.

"True, but don't you want to discuss with the guys about this?" She asks. "They'll be fine. Trust me just please give this chance!" He says and we all give Cleo the puppy dog face.

"Fine!" We all gasp and jump out of our seats. "BUT your tour starts in two months that means you have two months to start getting more noticed." She says and we all nod.

"THIS IS AMAZING! WE GET TO OPEN FOR FALL OUT BOY!" Charlotte grabs Joanna's shoulders and begins to shake her.

"Patrick you have literally done it all! I mean this is just to much!" Joanna says.

"I'm just glad that my opening act is Commercial Appeal!" He says and we all laugh.

"So how are we celebrating?!" Jordan asks.

"Well...have any of you been to a L.A party before?" Patrick raises his eyebrows and we all look at each other and smile.