away; b.e.[rewritting]

Chapter 63

I open the door and everyone comes rushing in with their teams and outfits.

"Alright, I got and made breakfast. We have croissants, bagels, waffles, pancakes, cereal, fruit, eggs, coffee, juice, and water," I say, closing the door.

Lauren, Billie, Bry, Finneas, and Claudia all go into my room to hang their clothes.

Everyone else who's coming with us is coming over later.

Billie and her team set up in my room. Lauren, Bry, Finneas, and Claudia set up in the living room.

I already ate and got everything prepped so I'm chilling.

"Billie what you want?" I ask.

"Anything vegan and gluten-free," she yells from my room. I nod and put down 2 waffles and 2 pancakes for her with some dairy free coffee.

"Bry what you want?" I ask.

"Get me pancakes," she says. "Oh and-,".

I cut her off.

"Cold brew I know," I say, laughing.

I give everyone their food. It's about 10 AM now.

"Alright, so today's the grammys. How are we starting to get ready?" I ask.

"I got my hairdressers, clothes stylists, nail technicians, and my management all here," Billie says.

"Uh so I just have to like take a shower and put the clothes on," Lauren says.

"Yeah I'm the same. Got my nails done yesterday and I'm just curling my hair," Bry says.

"Billie, Claudia, and I all share stylists and hairdressers. So we're good," Finneas says.

I nod.

"Let's get to work then," Jessie, my manager says.

~

As everyone is running around and getting ready, I'm re-recording Narcotics.

I want to have a version that Lauren had recorded which is out and I want to have a version that I did.

So as I reuse the old instrumental and just editing it a bit to make it fresher, Billie keeps bugging me as she gets her hair recolored.

"So are we taking a limo all together?" She asks.

"Uh I don't know babe," I say.

"How about we all take a limo there together and then take our own cars back home?" She asks.

I don't respond.

"Em?"

"I don't know baby! Ok get a limo for us to get there and we'll go to the after party with our own cars," I say.

She nods.

~

"Wait Billie can you high note that part from idontwannabeyouanymore?" Bry asks.

Billie laughs and nods.

She high notes and perfectly belts the note and everyone looks at her in complete awe.

"Ok no that's it. This is the universe telling me that I need to cover the song. Emilie, I need your keyboard," Lauren says. We all laugh and so she sits down in front of my keyboard and starts playing the chords and singing the lyrics along with them.

"WAIT. You have to record this. You never know," I say. I set up a tripod and hook my phone onto it and press record.

Lauren starts from the beginning and only gets through the first half of the song. I stop the recording and we all watch it back.