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Chapter 10

Elisia's POV

"Finally we can just sit back, enjoy a beautiful comfy couch, a beautiful movie, and pizza." I declared as I plopped down onto the couch with a plate of pizza in one hand and the remote in the other. Liana just looked at me and chuckled, knowing that there was no point in questioning me. And even if she did, I would probably have ignored her. I'm just too tired. A little ways into an episode of Doctor Who (much to Liana's dismay), my phone rang. I glared at it as I paused the episode and answered the phone.

"Heeello, who is this?" I said with an annoyed voice. I was not happy my episode was interrupted.

"Its Charles." The voice said, and I decided to play dumb.

"Charles who?"

"Just Charles. Your manager Charles," He started, and I silently laughed and cover the phone, whispering to Lia.

"It's Charles." Liana's faced frowned even more than it already was. How is that even possible to frown that much?

"Look, I don't have time for your nonsense," He started, "We need you and Liana to do something for more publicity. What your doing right now isn't enough. Volunteer at a hospital for a day, perform in the streets or whatever. Just do something to get your band name out there!" He ranted quickly then hung up leaving me stunned. I slowly turned to Liana.

"Well he uh, wants us to do something more to get our names out there. Apparently the interviews and stuff isn't enough." I said unsure of what was going on, and Lia nodded waiting for me to continue. I thought for a few seconds before an idea popped into my head.

"I got it! Okay so you know how we've already finished a few songs for the album? Well of course you do you helped write them. Anyways, I know we're not supposed to do this and it could get us in trouble but, what if we leaked one of own songs?" I rambled excitedly and Lia's eyes popped out of her head.

"Ellie no! We could totally get into huge trouble for that! Then again, it would get us more publicity. Oh who am I kidding? It would get us a lot more publicity. Uh fine. But the question is which one?" She replied, spouting out all of her thoughts.

"How about Independent?" I asked Liana, and she nodded.

"Good choice."

Liana's POV

So we knew that we had to seem like the song being leaked was a complete accident, so just filming ourselves playing the song as if it were planned wasn't going to work.

Ellie and I had agreed that we would need someone's help, so the camera work seemed legit. I made a group chat that had all four of the boys, Ellie, and of course myself. I typed what we needed help with and why, and they agreed to help us. For then though, we needed to sleep, and we would do it the next morning, since the boys were at their place, needing a shower and such.

I was having troubles sleeping that day, and honestly was missing my guinea pigs and doggo. I had my curtains open, so I could look at the moon and stars. I smiled, and kept looking until I woke up the next morning, because I don't remember falling asleep ever. I woke up to the sound of some commotion downstairs, meaning that the boys were already there. I heard a knock at my room, to which I called out to, while covering my face with my blanket to protect to from the sunshine.

I heard the door open, but no one spoke. I crawled to the end of my bed and peeked out my face enough to see an amused Luke. I covered my face back up and stuck an arm out to wave at him.

"Do you plan on getting out of bed today?"

"For food maybe," I replied, not moving.

"Maybe?" Luke asked, moving the blanket enough for him to get crawl in my bed too.

"Depends on whether or not I can get you to get snacks," I laughed, finding his "insulted" face hilarious. Luke rolled his eyes before leaning to kiss me. Part way into the kiss, he pulled the blanket away and pulled me out of bed.

I pouted, having not felt like standing at all. He pushed me into the bathroom, so I closed the door and got ready. I put on some light face makeup, darkened and shaped my eyebrows, mascara, and then a purple lipstick. When I was done and did a check to make sure that I looked okay, I realized that I seriously needed to dye my hair soon. I hate my natural hair color, so it was generally black or colorful, but I had been lazy. Once I went out to get dressed, I saw Luke had fixed my bed, which made me laugh. "What a sweet nerd."

I got dressed, and headed out of my room.

Elisia's POV

So it was the next day and we (Liana, the boys and I) decided to put our publicity stunt into action. We decided that we would have the boys record us while "hidden", while we were "practicing" one of our new songs. Ashton suggested we do it in a music shop to make it look like we are testing out the instruments, so it looks more natural of course. Anyways, we headed to this nearby music shop called The Mortal Instruments and asked the manager if we could rent out the shop for an hour. He was a little confused as to why we would want to do that but hesitantly agreed and left the shop along with his employees.

As soon as they left we all got started on "setting up". However, all it really was, was us getting into position. We started in different spots and had Calum start recording with the screen black. That's when Liana called over to me.

"Hey Lisi! Come check out these guitars and keyboards!"So I walked over to where Liana was and rested my arm on her shoulder.

"These are pretty sweet! Wanna test them out?" I said with a mischievous smirk. She laughed and nodded her head as she grabbed a nice with a cool design on it, while I went to a cool looking purple yamaha keyboard.
"Independant?" She asked and I just nodded excitedly, and so we started.

Independent

Time has stopped

Hell, I'm at the top

You can drag me down

But I'll get up

No more tears, I just saved my rear

I raise my cup to the gods

No more fears

You're no longer in control

You got no power over me

I've taken a stand

And set myself free

Boy I'm a time bomb

If you touch me I'll blow you straight out of reality

Boom I'm out of your league

You can't touch this

You're stuck on replay a broken DVD

I'm an angel, a goddess compared to you

An endless nightmare

Not my dream come true

~Singing~

I've taken a stand

And showed him I can

I'm independent

I've won this hand, forever I am

Yeah I'm independent

Once we finished, we high-fived each other laughing. We kinda just stood there hugging for a couple minutes before we actually let go so I spoke up.

"I can't wait till the album is done and released, it's hopefully gonna be epic."