Roller Coaster

Chapter Ten: A New Step

"Well, I see no point in waiting... hand me the paper," Arthur said, putting his hand out for the paper.

Alfred laughed. "No, no dude. You gotta talk to my manager and stuff." He said, gesturing to his manager.

"Yes, come with me Arthur, we can get you set up." Daniel smiled, leading Arthur to a wall that, when he pushed on it hard enough, opened up and became a door to a room. It was a rather dark and gloomy looking room. Arthur was a little intimidated and was uneasy about going into the room.

"What is this room?" Arthur asked nervously, stepping back a little and gulping.

Alfred looked back at him, giving him a toothy grin. "This is just the dealer's room, as we call it." He replied.

"Isn't that a poker term?" Arthur asked. "I'm not too familiar with poker but... Is it?"

"It is, but, I just thought it sounded cool." Alfred shrugged, then sitting Arthur down at the table, the chair on the left side of the head, as Alfred sat right beside him.

"This is a bit nerve wrecking, Alfred..." he whispered to Alfred, who was completely zoned out.

"Huh?"

"Never mind..." he sighed, leaning back in the chair. Arthur couldn't believe it, he couldn't believe that he went from a silly little fanboy to Mr. America's soon to be singing partner. He was dumbfounded. Why him? Why now? Not as if he had a problem with it, he loved to be around Alfred, although he would get rather nervous near him. Daniel, Alfred's manager, soon walked in. His slightly heeled shoes making a click each time he stepped, he handed Arthur the stack of papers. He pointed to different sections of the page.

"Sign here, here, here..." he paused and flipped more pages through. "Initial here, sign here, and put the date here..." he continued to go on with each page, telling him different places to sign. Arthur paid attention the entire time, nodding to each thing as he quickly signed all of the papers.

"And... done!" Arthur said with a grin.

"Congrats! You're officially a part of the family." Daniel said as he then put his hand out to shake. Arthur smiled nervously and put his hand out as well, shaking his hand to seal the deal.

"I think we should get to work! Do more songs! What do you think, Arthur?" Alfred asked, practically jumping out of his seat in excitement. Before Arthur could even answer, Alfred had taken his hand and ran upstairs, instead of taking him to the recording studio, he had brought him upstairs in his room. His room was huge, so huge it had even such luxuries as a hot tub, a trampoline, and a smaller waterfall. Arthur's eyes widened, he was completely surprised by his room and how beautiful it was.

"So, dude, do you like it?" Alfred asked, letting his hand go as he looked at him with a hopeful smile.