Another Cinderella Story

Chapter 17 (Edited)

Serena's POV:
"Dre- Oh Hello Serena! Calem!" As we were working on the assignment that was due by the end of the week, Cilan came bursting through the door. Calem and I simply waved before going back to work. "Hey, I'm Cilan! You are?" From the corner of my eye I saw May flash a smile before introducing herself.

"We are doing a project, what do you want?" Drew didn't look up from his writing, it was like this was just a normal thing for him, having someone barged into his bedroom and ask for something. "I wanted to see if you had checked out the demo, Ash and Gary were suppose to check it but since they left hours ago . . ." Cilan rubbed the back of his neck as his voice trailed off.

"Demo?" My curiosity got the best of me. "Yeah, we want to release our new album soon so we had set up many demos for a few songs!" Drew finally looked up from his writing and from how passionate he sounded while speaking about their new work, I couldn't help but grin.

"Anyways, I haven't." Drew informally responded before going back to writing his part of the project. "Hmm . . ." Cilan let out a heavy sigh before clicking his tongue. "How far are you guys from being done?" We all looked up at him before looking at our surroundings; We had finished the posters that needed to be done, we are still writing our essay to paste into the back of the poster, and we still need to print out a few more pictures to add on. "Not that far, I guess." May answered while trying continuing on with her work on her part of the essay.

"Since it's due by the end of the week, you guys will have enough time to finish so how about you guys accompany us to the studio? How about it?" My head shot up at his proposal. "R-really? Even before it's publication?" Cilan nods his head before his long arm reaches towards the high rim of the door waiting for a response from us. As if we could read each other's mind, Calem, May, and I turn towards each other for a mili second before smiling up at the tall figure near the door. "We would love to!" Drew lets out a sigh while he began to clean the mess we had established when we were working. "Alright lets get going!"

(Time Skip)

"Thank you!" We all day in unison to their personal driver. My eyes trail from the streets with many people walking by towards the grand building before me. Even if it was restricted to non workers, it didn't seem to stop fans who wished to see their favorite idols. "We should head towards the back, make sure to not make yourselves noticeable." Drew informs us as he tucks his hands inside his pockets while Cilan pulls out his phone to make it look as if he were on the phone. We followed suit, not bringing any attention to the two stars who had invited us to their work area.

"Ah!" May and I gushed at the back entrance, from where we were we could see the many fans waiting outside the company with signs, posters, and even with pictures of their preferred celebrity. Drew chuckles at May's reaction with adoration for the dense girl who was too busy focusing on the wide first floor, even if it wasn't as busy as I thought it was still pretty impressive.

It's polished clean floors, the black leather furniture that were settled around the floor, fake plants that brought much color towards the building, even the receptionist seemed to bring off a very happy and colorful aura with her pink tinted lips, pearly white smile, neatly made high ponytail, her wrinkle-free white blouse tucked into a tight grey pencil skirt. "Hello boys! How are you two?" She kindly smiled at the boys when we walked towards her way. Cilan and Drew smiled back at the older female a tiny amount of pink was seen on their faces; who could blame them she truly was an elegant woman.

"If you came to find Ash and Gary, you came to the right place they had walked back from their usual work out and ended up going towards the practice room." She sadly clicked her tongue, a frown was forming on her face. "Ah . . . Those boys don't really take much of a break." Cilan rubbed his chin and Calem seemed to be getting annoyed at the pity the woman was showing towards the group's leader and marketed playboy.

"Thank you for your concern, we will make sure that they take a small break." With that we all bowed at the kind receptionist and walked into an elevator leading us towards the seventh floor. "Oh! Serena how are you doing with the lyrics?" Drew looked back at me with a confused expression but I paid no attention to him. "I haven't gotten time to work on it but I can reassure you that it will be completed!"

"What are you guys talking about?" Drew and May questioned us in unison as Cilan was unlocking the room we were to enter. "Drew is someone who keeps to himself, if we tell him he takes it to his grave." Cilan reassures looking back at us before opening the door to heir studio.

The amount of improved technology they have was not a surprise to me but it sure was a sight, the beeping lights of each station, the grand recording booth that could fit more then seven people in it not to mention how it had everything set up inside from the microphones to the headphones and some high chairs for the artists, their was enough space for the same leather furniture as there was on the first floor, two swirling chairs, that were set near the grand maschine mk2 that was there for a reason, and lastly there was a guitar on a stand near the corner of the room isolated from everything else.

"Wow!" I traced my finger over the keyboards, it was a new sight, something I had only dreamed about. The feeling lingered even after I had moved onto viewing the recording booth behind the glass window. "That was the same reaction we all had when we first arrived, we were rookies back then unsure of what we were suppose to do." The sudden voice shocked me and I turned around to see Gary and Ash walk in. Gary chuckled a bit before flashing a small smile.

"What are you doing here?" Ash's voice came out harsh and cold, his tone was far different then when we were younger. If I try hard enough to remember I can hear his voice speaking the same words over and over again. 'Don't give up until it's over.'

"We were just here to check on the demo since you guys had abandoned it." Drew sat down on one of the swirling chairs, I took notice that the chair he was sitting on had a varsity jacket wrapped around it, Drew's name stitched onto it. The chair next to him had the same varsity jacket wrapped around it but with Ash's name stitched onto it. "We didn't abandon it we were coming in to check it out after we had some practice." Gary responded while  walking towards a miniature refrigerator. 

I took the chance to sit next to May, who had been sitting on the leather couch displayed out in the open for anyone to sit down on. "Do you think we shoul-" May's whisper was interrupted by a sudden noise. Everyone looked upon the culprit, Calem had pressed a button on the booth recovering a sound in return. "Can I just play with this for a minute." He didn't get an answer before he began to mess with it, pressing buttons, flicking switches, and moving the capacity of the volume.

It was terrible at first causing us all to mentally cursed at him for creating such lousy noises but later it began to sound like an actual track sound, an actual beat that could be used for a song. "What the-"

"Language." Cilan glares at Ash as he makes way towards the male who had just  made a new tune out of nothing. "Don't you guys remember going into some music store and messing with this?" Calem questioned us before turning towards the confused boys.

"May, Serena, I and another one of our friends had come across a store that was selling an old station like this, we fought over it until they eventually allowed me to have it. Up until now I learned and took time creating beats whenever I'm not busy . . . Heck I even created tunes for Amou-" My eyes widened and I quickly shook my head, May tried her hardest not to bring attention by silently and shyly making hand movements. Calem stops himself once he notices our actions which is where he opens his mouth again this time allowing a cough to erupt from it.

"U-um . . . Yeah but I'm not the only one who has the ability to create music, Misty is one of the craziest chicks you can ever find in this world. Not only can she bring out the potential of others but she can prove herself to anybody." I notice Gary rubbing his chin for a second before turning to look at the oldest member.

"We do need new music engineers . . . Our last two left because so many fans would manage to break into the building." Drew spoke up playing with a switch near him. "Misty is a fierce girl, she can handle thousands of fans with her cold glare." May proudly butted in, smiling at the topic of one of our closest friends.

"One, Two, Three!" Cilan and Gary had looked upon each other before both boys including Drew yelled out in unison. "Let's go!"

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