May's POV
"Welcome to Hi or Hey Records" said a tall white haired guy leading us into the tall building. It looked way too comfortable and homely to be an actual studio.
"This is awesome" Ariel gushed picking up the bass guitar with red and white X on it
"Yeah that's Calum's " the man, John Feldman, said crossing his arm over his chest
"Super cool" I ran to the Galaxy drumset in the corner
"Ashton's " John laughed. I gasped in awe as I picked up the drum sticks, moving it around the high hat, the crash cymbal, rolled it gently on the snare, then moved to the toms, feeling the vibration, enjoying the way it felt. I guess it doesn't matter whose set it was I always felt comfortable and right with drum sticks in my hand as I moved it across the drums.
"I think she's having a moment" Lucy laughed, I jerked my head up realising that they were all looking at me
"Oh um, it's an amazing set" I smiled getting up from the seat
"So whenever you guys are ready we can start working on your new song" John clapped his hand bringing the attention to him.
"Yeah we already started working on one last night" Genie smiled
"Actually May started working on one last night" Lucy smiled at me "she's kinda the composer of the band"
"Really?" John looked at me in awe as I stared right at the ground. Did she have to say that?
"You and Calum would get along great" he smiled. I doubt that I thought.
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"How bout this?" I said plopping down on the couch beside Lucy
"Lemme see" she grabbed the book in my hand as she set her red guitar chelly aside
"Reach me reach me reach my level
If you want me come and get me
Don't waste my time, do u understand?" She read out loud looking at me to sing it which I did, she picked up her guitar and strummed along to the melody.
"Damn that's good" Luke said as he walked into the room, along with Michael and Ashton though Calum was nowhere to be seen.
"Who wrote that?" Michael sat down on the chair across us.
"She did" Lucy pointed at me causing me to smack her arm lightly.
"You write songs?" Ashton scoffed then smiled sitting on the office chair next to us "you and Calum would get along"
"So I keep hearing" I whispered to myself
"Wait where is Calum anyway?" Luke asked his band mates
"Said he had something to do but he'll be here really soon" Michael replied
"Oh here " Ashton handed Ariel a gift basket
"What for?" She asked in confusion
"It's a welcome gift" Michael laughed
"I need to use the restroom, be right back" I said walking out the room, I wasn't so used to socialising with people, I mean the only people I talked comfortably with was my mates and my parents and theirs and that was it.
I shoved my hands in my ripped boyfriend jeans nodding my head along to the beat of the music that blared inside my ear, thank my lucky stars I got earphones yesterday else I'd be stuck without music and that's a world I wouldn't want to live in, a world of awkward conversation and forced socialism.
"Oi watch it" a deep yet familiar voice said as I ran into something, I dropped my phone and he seemed to drop something as well, papers flew to the ground. I immediately fell to the ground to gather up the papers and my phone as well
"Oh shit! Look what you've done" he grunted. I looked up to see the tall kid lean down to gather the papers, he stopped to look at me, I could smell his cologne, his eyes were chocolate brown and his hair was ruffled. We stared into each other's eyes for what felt like hours but were only mere seconds. I could feel my heart beat faster, oh crap I thought,
"What's your deal anyway?" He shook his head angrily breaking the eye contact as he continued to gather up the papers that had music notes on them. I looked at a piece of paper titled "San Francisco", he was writing a new song it seemed like. I looked down at my iPhone which now has a crack on it
"Bloody hell!" I sighed rubbing the screen hoping it was just something minor but boy was I wrong
"Look what you've done!" I scoffed at him
"It's just a phone" he shook his head, picking up the rest of the papers and walked off in the direction I came from
What a prick I thought still rubbing the screen. I worked all summer to come up with the money for this phone and now it's gone, like that!
Calum's POV
"What I've done?" I said to myself "it's just a fucking phone, my song's mixed up and it'll take me a while to sort this out and she's worried about a phone" i shook my head as i walked into the room where my friends had texted me to meet them
"Hey guys" i smiled half heartedly
"Hey Cal" Luke said laughing, obviously someone had said something funny. I looked around the room to see the girls from the other night, May's band mates it would seem.
"Uh hey guys" I said to them sitting on the couch by the wall trying to sort out my messed up song lyrics, the whole thing was everywhere fuck I thought it will take me all night to sort this out.
"Uh-oh, someone's not happy" Michael laughed patting me on the back
"Some girl fucked up my song mate" I sighed shaking my head
"I'm sorry dude, we'll help you figure it out...later" he smiled heading back to his seat
"Um, girls, where's May?" The blonde girl, Lucy was it? Asked the rest of her friends who sat next to her
"She said she was gonna use the restroom " Genie, the red headed girl said "but that was like half an hour ago" she looked at her phone
"Uhhhhh, I think our British drummer got lost" Ariel laughed. So she is British huh? And she was the drummer, wow information that I did not want or need to know.
"We gotta go look for her, someone text her, she's never without her phone" Lucy said worriedly looking at her friends
"R-right" Ariel looked at them exchanging the same expression. She dialled May's number and held the phone to her ear
"She's not picking up" Ariel sighed. Wait her phone's really broken?
"Um, she might not answer" I said to them
"Why not?" Lucy looked at me suspiciously
"The girl who bumped into me..it was her, her phone fell and I guess it broke" I shrugged still trying to sort my paper
"We gotta look for her thou-" she was interrupted by the door opening as May walked in, her eyes seemed red, like she was...crying? She dusted her white shirt that said "save the drum, bang the drummer" in blue letters, she didn't look up just at the floor as she sat beside Lucy.
"You okay?" Lucy said softly to her
"Yeah I'm fine," she shrugged
"You sure?" Ariel asked her
"Yeah, you sure?" Genie touched her shoulder
"Guys I don't need to get you some ice cause I'm sure you're able to chill all on your own" she chuckled playfully
"Aye chap, not dead am I? I'm fine" her accent came out thicker in that sentence
"Yeah of course" Lucy laughed a little unsure "so this song you wrote, you have a beat to go with it right?"
"Um can we not talk about the song here?" She looked around the room at everyone until her brown eyes landed on mine, she looked hurt, it was just a phone!
"Why not? I wanna hear it" Ashton said leaning in
"Um- uh, I uh I was kinda wondering if you wanna add something to the, uh, guitar solo, I mean you are the lead guitarist " she said nervously to Lucy
"It's fine, it's just one thing here and there other than that it's perfect" she tapped May's back. Wait, she wrote a song? I was really curious but I didn't wanna show it.
"Uh, I'm I thinking something like this" she headed towards the drums "may I?" She asked Ashton
"Sure thing" he smiled at her
She played a really catchy beat, it was really good, like she was really good at it. I looked up at her as she sang along to the beat, my heart fluttered a little but ignored it,she seemed so into it, like she was lost into the song. She was an amazing singer and a pretty damn good drummer. When she stopped she looked back at everyone nervously. She reverted to her nervous self.
"Babe that was GREAT!" Lucy clapped
"Oh my goodness" Genie squealed
"Wow" Ashton cheered
"Thanks guys" she looked at the ground shyly then looked up at me but I looked away. It was good but what was I gonna say? Besides I was too busy fixing the mess she made. But still I couldn't help but steal a glance at her as she smiled at her friends.
I know I know, boring snoring but we'll get to the good parts I promise~M
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Fanfiction**completed** She's the drummer of the new upcoming band, he's the bassist of a well known one. They can't stand each other, or so it seems. Everyone, including their fans wants to know. Are they truly enemies? Or is something more going on behind...
