What if?

9. Beautiful

-Luke-

        That was so embarassing. How could I not notice that sign earlier? I'm going to kill Calum the next time I see him. Speak of the devil. I opened the door to the next room to find Calum and Michael having their song writing session. I slapped my forehead forgetting about this. I ignored the both of them and opened the drawer to get an empty notepad and a pen. I was about to leave when Michael stood up and asked, "Hey Luke is Charlotte okay? I didn't mean to being up such a sensitive topic earlier." "She's okay Mike. Thanks for asking and it's okay. Don't beat yourself up over it." I said patting his back.

        I bet Calum was feeling lost with our conversation. He said, "Charlotte? Who is that? What happenned to what's her name, um.. Leroy or something?" "Lara? Oh um she was just a girl I agreed to date for her publicity. Not my fault the management has the power to make us do things we don't want to. Plus, I really like this girl okay? Please don't ruin this for me." I said begging the both of them knowing they might do something stupid ruining it for me. They just nodded. I mumbled a thanks before heading back to the 'Magic Room' or 'Sex Dungeon' where I left Charlotte. I wonder what she's doing.

-Michael- (surprise surprise)

        I felt so bad for bringing up something that ruined our fun. I mean I didn't intent for my stupid game of getting to know her get too personal but it did. Luke said she's okay but I have to apologise to her the next time I see her. As for now I should focus on finishing this song with Calum. I was about to ask him about what he got so far but he beat me to it.

        "So you've met Charlotte? How is she? Is she pretty? Tall? Blonde? Well, does she look like a baby prostitute?" He questioned. "Woah Calum slow down. Yes I've met her and no, she isn't a baby prostitute. She's nice and she's different. She isn't like the girls we meet at clubs or the girls that the management wants us to date for publicity or something. She's a fan of our band but don't worry, I don't think she's in it for the money or sex so chill your ass. And yes she is pretty. Gorgeous actually. She's Asian-American." I said. "Wow. That is.. different. Hey! She's next door right? Let's go meet her now. Why not right? C'mon." Calum said standing up and hurrying out of the room.

        I had all the worst things that could possibly happen if I let Calum into that room with Charlotte and Luke and I couldn't let that happen. "Calum wait! You can't go in there! Cal- shit." When I said next door it was literally a few steps away. And we were now standing in the door way, joining Luke who seemed to be frozen from this beautiful voice coming from inside the recording box. It was Charlotte. Wow.

-Charlotte-

        Yes. I'm Asian-American. The more you know. My mum is Asian so that's where my Asian blood came from. I had small brown eyes but I was tall and had dirty blonde hair and that's where the American blood from my dad came in. I guess you could say I'm unique. I never really thought I was pretty but I never thought I was ugly. I was satisfied with myself. I used to be really chubby but decided to workout for a much fitter body last year and I got it. It's hard to maintain but it's worth it.

        Anyways, I was in the studio alone so I thought I'd take advantage of it. I didn't know how long Luke would be gone so I went into the recording box thingy, took off Luke's sweater and picked up this beautiful black acoustic guitar that caught my eye. It reminded me of my own back home. I sat down and started strumming a few chords and begun singing.

        I started singing random words that came to me that I didn't realize reminded me of Luke.

Fell in love with his beautiful baby blues,
They were mysterious,
They got me curious.

        Thank God I had my phone on the music stand in front of me on record so I would have whatever lyrics that pops into my head now to be written in my notebook when I get back to the hotel. I continued singing whatever came to me and more lyrics came. This time they were about something else.

Your words sweet like candy,
Your voice like music to my ears,
But your eyes were always fooling me,
Acting all innocent then hurting me,
Now everytime I see your face,
I wished I had known,
It was all just a big mistake.

Just wanna be left alone,
Because no one understands me but myself,
All I wanna do is pack my bags,
Go somewhere far away,
So they,
Can't tell me what to do,
'Cause all I wanna do,
All I wanna do,
Is break the rules,
And run away!

        I was strumming the guitar and bopping my head to the beat. Those lyrics were. Wow. I didn't know I had that in me. I guess feelings put into songs make the best lyrics.

        The final strum and I stopped my recording. I quickly placed the guitar back hoping no one would notice it was used. I opened the door of the recording box to find Luke, Michael and Calum standing in front of me with wide eyes and their mouths wide open. What if they heard me sing and play? Crap.

        "Uh.. I didn't mean to play the guitar, I thought it would be okay.. I-I'm sorry.. Uh.. I should go.." I tried pushing past them but someone stopped me. Calum grabbed my wrist and pulled me back into the room. "No. Stay. So you're Charlotte? Nice to meet you. You probably already know me, but I'm Calum. I play the bass. In a band with these two idiots. Please sit down." He said motioning me to sit on the couch with him. "Luke! Michael! Snap out of it and sit down! Let's... talk." Calum said with a smug look on his face. What's going on in that pretty little head of his?

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So.. how do you guys like the book so far? Sorry for making Calum such an ass but yeah hahahha also those lyrics are my own :) Hope you guys like this chapter! Tweet me! @Gelyn_lyn :-)