Soul Mate

Chapter 19

Andy's P.O.V.

"The tour was a huge success," says the head of the label, "We saw huge profits from ticket sales, and your band had the most merch sold."

The guys and I started looking around the room at each other, we had no idea of this and were honestly quite shocked. Motionless in White was the headliner and the well known band, we were the simple opener that nobody knew. This was good though right, that meant that the crowds heard our music and liked it enough to buy our merch.

"Now to the next task at hand, we have a room full of hopeful drummers out there. It is up to your four gentlemen and your manager to pick five of them that you think could work well with the band and let us know. We will have the final decision and let you know by end of day tomorrow."

With that we were dismissed to the next room that was set up with a drum set and a long foldable table with five metal chairs. The guys and I took a seat, while John took one on the end. We spent the next two hours listening to a bunch of people play on the drums. Once the last one was done we had a decision to make.

"I think we should pick a guy. Nothing against the women, but I feel it would be easier if it was just all guys. Remember Sandra needing a separate space to get ready?" Ashley interjects his opinion

"I am fine with that, plus if us guys are going to continue renting that house it would be easier to have a guy living with us" Jake mentions

"These are all good points, but I think we should pick at least one female, we don't want the label to get any bad ideas from us. They may seem like good points to us, but we could come off as sexist and I refuse to ruin the chance this band has over something so stupid" I say finally after listening to everyone else.

"That seems fair. So that's settled. There were only two females that auditioned, so who are we choosing?" Jinxx asked

We sat there for the next twenty minutes going over every audition and who was a absolute disastrous hell no, and who we thought would fit with the rest of us. Once we finished that we brought our picks to the label, who thanked us and sent us home for the day. I couldn't wait, I had a long phone call to have with my girl.

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Lilly's P.O.V.

I rush out of the living room when I hear my phone ringing upstairs.

"Hello?" I say trying to catch my breath

"Hello beautiful" his voice says, somehow melting me from thousands of miles away

"Hi, how was the meeting with the label? Did you do the auditions?" I start bombarding him with questions while getting comfy on my bed, knowing this conversation is going to last a while.

He chuckles before responding, "It was fine, we apparently made the most money on merch during the tour,"

"Andy that is AMAZING!" I shout, cutting him off, "Vivi!" I yell for my sister, she would never believe this

His chuckle comes through the phone right as my sister comes busting in my room, "What? Where is the fire?"

Now I have to laugh, "I just thought you would think it was interesting that BVB made the most money on merch sales during tour."

"HOLY SHIT! No way! That is HUGE for them. Is Andy excited? What did the label say about it? When do they start the next album?" Vivi screams questions at me so loud that Andy can hear them and he chuckles.

I put him on speaker, "Tell her that I AM excited, all the guys are. The label is impressed, and I don't know when we will start the next album. We gotta get a new drummer first"

"Oh yea! You had auditions today, how did those go?" Vivi says flopping on her stomach on my bed

"Am I seriously on speaker?" he chuckles

"No, what gives you that idea?" I try not to laugh

"Oh you," he says, I can practically hear him shaking his head at me, "the auditions went fine. The guys all agree that we want an all guy band. It would make a lot of things easier, but we did choose to put one of the females that auditioned on the list for the label to make it seem fair."

"I can imagine having a girl makes the dressing room and bus bathroom privacy a bit of an issue" I say with understanding.

"Yea, we all loved Sandra, she was awesome, but she needed a private space to get ready and stuff. So having a fifth dude would just make it easier."

"Alright, well that's all I care about," Vivi states getting off the bed, causing both Andy and I to laugh at her, "you two enjoy your conversation. Oh, and remember how thin the walls are. Is there protection for over the phone?"

My eyes go wide at what she is insinuating and I throw my pillow at her, "VIVI!"

She dodges and I hear her laughing as she walks down the hall to her own room.

"I can't believe she said that," I say taking Andy off speaker and putting my phone to my ear, my face hot as my cheeks go red, "did you hear her?"

"Oh I heard her," I hear his tone shift to a playful one, "so what type of protection should we use for this conversation?"

I roll my eyes and laugh at this man who fate destined to be mine, "you're dumb"