Chapter 1

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"dude, I think we need help for this video. I can't get a good beat on this song." Josh complained to the cameraman. "Yeah, we are fucked if we make this ourselves." Narrator laughed as Juicy tried to play the drums jokingly, the sound being too loud and out of any rhythm he was attempting. "Mully! You got any random music people links?" Eddie spoke across the room to where Mully was sat working on lyrics as he had done every time they did a video like this. "yeah, why?" he responded, not listening to anything said before hand. "Call them, we can challenge ourselves to make music with their beat or something." josh said.

"She does heavy stuff, might be too much of a challenge, but I'll call her anyway." Mully spoke again, going from notes app to his contacts. he left the room for a minute before coming back in. "She's on her way to save us." he said sarcastically at Josh who rolled his eyes, still trying to salvage the poorly made beat on the computer. After waiting 20 minutes, Mully got up and went downstairs. They all heard the sound of the front door opening and closing again, small chatter being exchanged on the way up the stairs. Mully came into the room, leading the short girl in. "This is Reagan. The musician you guys asked for." He put his hands on her shoulders and brought her into the view of the camera. "Hi. Sooo, what are we working with?" She walked over the computer set up, taking a seat. She scanned over what was already done, hitting play quickly. The plain beat made her frown, leaning back in the chair. "We are open to letting you have free reign over the backing track, it would be a funny challenge." Eddie mentioned to her, making her eyes light up. She looked around at what they had. Drums, guitar, recording closet. Not much to work with but oh well.

"You guys good with fast?" Reagan asked, looking back at them from where she was sat, to which they all nodded. "How about heavy? Like metal, hyperpop, just loud in general?" She kept questioning, getting a collective yes from them once more. "I love being loud, this will be easy." Juicy commented, the others having frequent conversation amongst each other. "Wanna have a bit of directive control then?" She asked him, making the rest of them protest. "I'm not kidding, he will fuck it up." one of them ended the chatter with, but she was unfazed. She held her gaze on Juicy, waiting for a response. He hesitantly nodded. "Nice! Alright, this is gonna be 100% a surprise for the rest of you guys, so fuck off." She said, pretending to be serious at the end. They all jokingly hurried out, bumping into each other and the things near the doorway.

"How do you know her?" Eddie asked Mully as they continued to record downstairs. "She's one of my friend's sisters. She only lives a town across from here too." Eddie nodded and looked around, thing to himself what to write lyrics about. "I wonder what Juicy will do" Eddie said, sighing. "He's definitely gonna make it hard to do any rap to." Narrator speculated. Mully chuckled under his breath, confusing them all. "I think Reagan will make it even harder to rap to. She doesn't do rap tracks anymore. Her stuff is crazy, dude."

"Can we see what she does so we are at least a bit prepared?" Josh asked, becoming curious about what they were getting themselves into. Mully went on his phone and pulled up YouTube. He typed in a name and showed them the music. After they went through a few tracks, they all stopped to think about a plan. "She has too many different styles, what do we do?" Narrator moaned, looking through the lyrics he had already mocked up. "I guess we just improv it once we hear what she makes?" Eddie suggests, and they all agree.

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"So, what do you want me to do?" Juicy asked Reagan, who was opening a new file to start on. She stayed quiet for a while before asking him a question. "What do each of you specialise in?" He was taken aback but answered quickly. "We are pretty open to anything, but Mully, Josh and Narrator do slow rap, and Eddie does faster rap." She nodded and took in the information, pulling up a few different sound packs. "And you?" she asked, looking back at him, her silver-blue eyes holding a look of curiosity. "Anything really."

"Can you do shouty kind of singing? Like in metal?" She kept asking. "I can give it a go. Sounds like it cant be that hard." She smiled and started on building up the base of the track, adding sounds every few seconds, then played it out loud. Quickly, she completed a general sound for the track and turned back to Juicy, who was messing about with the drums again. She hit record on the drum microphone and let him continue without him noticing. She stopped recording after a minute and went back to editing. "Hey Juicy, could you switch to the guitar? I need some samples." he did as she said and picked up the already plugged in electric guitar. "What do you want me to do exactly?" He asked, plucking at random strings. "Do long notes of each one, then do whatever you want." She stated, pressing the guitar microphone button, watching him. He played the long notes, then did some random riffs.

She happily turned back to the computer, saying thank you to him quietly as she continued making the song. She stood up and made her way to the drums, playing a basic beat, then did the same with the guitar as Juicy focused on what she was doing. When she sat back at the desk, he stood behind the chair, watching as she swiftly transferred the sounds and cut them to place. She played it out loud for them to both listen to. "That's sickkk, how can you do that so fast?" he asked as she contently saved it and looked at him. "Practice." she simply stated. "Should we get the others now?" he nodded at her question and smiled.

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The boys turned to the stairs as they heard the sound of footsteps. "Guys, she's done!" They all got up and headed upstairs. "Right, so press play whenever and tell me if there is any changes needed." She said, waiting for them to hear it. They listened through and heard each section through, nodding along. "This is fire dude, lots of changes in it." Mully complimented. "The changes are for each of you, they are tailored to fit your styles." They all started on lyrics, most of them improvising along the way. They started recording as Reagan sat at the computer, editing their vocals along the way.

After a few hours, they finally finished the song. They all gathered near the computer, pressing play. "This is much better than expected! Thanks for helping out with everything." Mully said as the rest of them listened to it. They all thanked her after the song stopped, saying their goodbyes as she went to leave.

"Hey Mully?" Juicy said as the other boys went downstairs to start another video that they had queued up. Mully turned to him, waiting for him to continue. "I think we should do some more videos with her, she seems cool." Juicy suggested, making Mully laugh. He pulled his phone out again, taking Juicy's out of his pocket too, and entered a number into it. "There, you can be her contact since you have a little crush on her." Mully joked and walked downstairs.

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