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The next day Brandon Arreaga, of course, was late. After being shaken awake by Edwin this morning he hastily took a shower, brushed his teeth, and for once didn't care what he was wearing that morning. 

He simply put on a plain Coca-Cola t-shirt, black jeans, and his black and white vans. To add just a little flare he put on a silver watch he had bought a few months ago and rushed out the door with his phone in hand.

When Brandon made it to the meeting area thankfully it hadn't started yet. He took a seat next to his bandmate and close friend Edwin Honoret who sat beside Nick Mara. Across from the three was Simon Cowell, the band's head manager, Austin Porter and Zion Kuwonu.

One seat sat vacant beside Brandon and the other beside Simon. "Simon do you mind me asking what we're doing here?" Nick asks thinking of his bed. As Simon was about to answer the door opens and the girl who Brandon had met walks in. She seemed to be talking to someone behind her with a kind smile on her face. "Thank you, I appreciate your help!"

Simon quickly stood to greet the girl with a quick handshake. Aliyah quickly noticed Brandon and smiled. He did the same back as he gave a small wave. She sat next to him and they exchanged a quiet hello.

Zion, who's eyes stayed glued to the girl as she walked in, noticed this and pulled his brows together in confusion.

"Boys this is Aliyah AKA, Killumantii. Aliyah this is Zion, Austin, Edwin, Nick, and-"

"Brandon, we've met."

"Oh, Brandon never mentioned you two having history."

"No, we met last night when we were leaving." Aliyah explained.

"We uh stopped by the café as well." Brandon added with a small smile.

"Well now you only need to get used to four more."

"May I ask why? My manager didn't really mention much."

"Well since you are our newly signed artist we wanted you to get to know more artists that are around your age. We also thought you six could work on a song or two." Simon says gesturing to the boys in front of me. "It would help get your name out there and it would help add some more variety to the boy's music."

"Sounds fun. How old are all of you guys?"

"Nick and I are both twenty one." Austin says leaning on the table across from you

"Z and I are nineteen." Edwin says.

"And I'm eighteen." Brandon says with his signature smile still placed on his lips.

"Wait so you're the baby of the group? I thought you were the oldest." Aliyah gives a small chuckle and Brandon playfully rolls his eyes.

"Whatever..."

"So for the rest of today I just want you all to hang out. No work for these two-" Simon points at Brandon and I and I feel my cheeks heat up "and just, as you kids say, chill."

Simon says his goodbyes and leaves us alone in an office room. "So Aliyah-" Zion starts. Aliyah focuses her attention from Brandon who she was currently chatting with to the tall Canadian who sat on the opposite far end of the table "Do you remember me?"

"Am I supposed to?"

"Damn that's cold..." Edwin says quietly from the other side of the table.

"I-I uh, I texted you on Instagram last night, you saw the text... right?"

"Oh! That was you? I get texts like that all the time from fans so I just ignored it sorry."

"It's aight..."

"But hey! Now we can actually do it."

"Do what?" Brandon asks suddenly feeling protective of a girl who he had known for almost a full twenty-four hours now.

"Just film a cover or something, don't worry."

"Why would I worry?" Brandon asks with a small smirk as he looked down at Aliyah.

"You just had that tone." Aliyah says subtly biting her lip.

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