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Giordana

June 26th (Los Angeles)

Funnily enough, what happened the other night, at Monti's birthday, gave me a ton of inspiration for a new song. I meant what I said to Michael, I meant that I was done with him. I meant that he was now irrelevant. I was just so fucking done. There was just a small part in side me, hoping that once he saw me, he'd change, and that he'd apologise and realise that he was wrong, but he didn't. And what even hurt even more, was that I would have to spend the next few months with him, acting like nothing was wrong, but that was the opposite. Everything was wrong, that's why I said I was done. I just didn't care anymore.

I found myself, sitting on my bed; my legs crossed, and my guitar resting on my lap, my old notebook in front of me. Words were scattered all over the page, but unlike last time, where I had no inspiration; this time, I had so much, but there were too many words coming to mind and none of them made any sense when I tried to put them together.
However there was one phrase that stood out for me, boy I'm gonna get your goodbye gone.

"What cha doing boo?" I heard from my doorway
"Writing," I told Monti, "I have inspiration, but too many words are coming to mind,"
"Let's look then," she walked over to me, and sat next to me on the bed, grabbing the note book, "is there any of these lines, that stand out more than the others?" She asked
"Yeah," I told her, "boy, I'm gonna get your goodbye gone,"
"I like it," she told me, "so what are you thinking, with this song?"
"I don't know, honestly," I sighed, running a hand through my hair, "it's pretty clear, it's about the other night,"
"So then," she began, "what did he say to you, think about that,"
"He called me a slut again, accused me of fucking Luke in the bathrooms, and then said I was like going for a new record or something, four guys in one night," I said
"So? You're single, you can do what you want,"
"Well according to the media, I'm not single anymore,"
"So? You can still flirt with as many guys as you want, Michael has no say in what you do, do what makes you happy Hun," she said.

I thought about her words for a moment, and then I knew I could some how use this in the song. This song was about saying goodbye to mine and Michael's relationship and friendship for good.
I grabbed the notebook off Monti and picked up the pen; placing the end in my mouth, while I thought of a tune. I played a few chords, before I had something.
The next step was, phrasing that line in the right way. A few minutes later, I had it and I wrote the words down.

I can stay out late, if it makes me happy
Flirt with the boy whose looking at me

I sang the words over a few times, when Monti, must have thought of something, "play it again," she said. And I did
"I can stay out late, if it makes me happy, flirt with the boy whose looking at me,"
"Whatever it takes to break this heart break, I've had way too long, get your goodbye, get your goodbye gone, get ya, get ya goodbye, get your goodbye gone," she sang, "and there you have a chorus,"

"I have a question," Monti said, after about half an hour. We hadn't gotten very far with the song at this point. We'd written a few more lines, but that was it, "do you want Michael to know it's about him?"
I thought about the question, before I answered, "yes," I decided. I wanted him to know
"Well, then, you need to say something that'll make him know," she said, "and I see you're still wearing the ring he got you, for your birthday,"
"It's pretty," I said, wondering to myself, why I hadn't taken it off yet
"If we didn't have the life we have now, and we're back in Melbourne, what would you do if you sold it?"
"Take you and Holly out, with the money I got if I pawned it," then another line came to me.
I picked up the pen, and wrote it down

Picking up my girls, first rounds on me
With the money I got, when I pawned your ring.

A few hours later, we had burnt out our brains, by coming up with lyrics. And we still hadn't finished the song. I wanted to keep going, but I knew, we had to get ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow was going to be our first television interview. In our time here, we'd done quite a few radio interviews, and a few interviews for some people on YouTube.
Not only did we have the television interview tomorrow, we also had a Skype interview with, Australian teenage magazine Dolly. We were going to be on the cover of their August issue, to be released in July.