Chapter 11

Bree's POV

I was a little concerned about Chase, but he hated it when people babied him, so I ignored it. But I was so excited, Leo promised that we were gonna have two special guests at our next show. I was so excited, I was super speeding back and forth through the bus. Then I collided with Chase, and he tumbled to the floor.

"Sorry!" I said helping him off the ground.

"Wow, you are really excited aren't you?" Chase asked, and I nodded "Can you not super speed in the bus? Your gonna end up hurting someone," he continued.

"Okay," I replied simply, nodding.

"Thank you." Chase said, then he climbed into his bunk. He had been doing that ever since our show where he hurt his ankle. I was getting worried, but I pushed it to the side of my brain and I started super speeding again.

Miami, Florida

"Leo, who is coming to our concert? Is it Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber?" I asked.

"Imagine Dragons and Charlie Puth?" Chase questioned.

"Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor?" Adam suggested.

Chase and I glared at him for a second but directed our attention back to Leo.

"No. Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas!" Leo exclaimed.

I heard Chase make a gagging noise, Adam looked happy-he was a Nick Jonas fan-and I probably blushed. I loved Demi and I had a huge celebrity crush on Nick Jonas.

"How did they find out about us?" I asked.

"Apparently they saw Chase singing Jealous and decided to take time off the Future Now tour to see you three." Leo explained.

I suddenly was worried, what if my favorite celebrities hated my performance? "We need to do a Demi Lovato song. We've done a Nick Jonas song, but we need one for Demi," I said.

"I think that we should do the song they did together." Adam said.

"Avalanche?" Chase asked.

"That one's good," I consented, nodding.

"I can easily make some guitar parts for this one," Chase told us, holding up a few sheets of music paper.

"And we can both sing," I said.

"All I see is a bunch of squiggly lines," Adam complained, looking at Chase's papers.

"Adam. Those squiggly lines are called notes, and they show you where to play your instrument," Leo explained.

"Well, I can easily play after I hear the song. Is that a bionic ability?" Adam asked.

"No. It's called playing by ear, not a ton of people can do it, so it's cool that you can do it, but it's not a bionic ability. Sorry," I said.

"Well, we should practice. Good thing we're at the venue," Chase told us.

"Be careful, you never know when a piece of the ceiling will fall on you," Adam replied in a mocking tone.

I could tell that comment was directed to Chase, but they normally snapped at each other, so I ignored them and started to unpack my bass. A few minutes after they started arguing, they came and unpacked their instruments. I heard Richard and Mr. Davenport coming towards us, also arguing. Again.

"Douglas told me that at the in Orlando, someone attacked Chase, you have to call off the show." Mr. Davenport said.

"If Chase was attacked, that is all on you, your their security guard, and if you can't do your job, then I'm gonna have to hire someone else," Richard threatened.

Leo went over to them. "I am the manager, and I am sick of these attitudes, now Richard, what are you even doing here?" Leo asked.

"Short stack, I am their manager, they just gave you that job because they didn't think that you would take them anywhere, they didn't want you in the band because, face it, your a embarrassment," Richard sneered.

"Hey! No one ever talks to my stepson like that!" Mr. Davenport cried, glaring.

"I just did, and what are you gonna do about it?" Richard challenged.

Leo turned towards us. "I'm just the embarrassment? Good to know," he said, and then he walked out of the room.

We all came off the stage and confronted Richard.

"Why did you talk to our brother like that?" Chase demanded.

"It's just how this business works, and if you don't like it, we can easily get rid of you, and in two days, you'll be a little speck in the radar. Do I make myself clear?" Richard asked.

"Yeah," we all mumbled.

"Good. Unpack your instruments. You are playing for two of the biggest stars in the world and we don't want to disappoint." Richard said.

I was feeling something in the pit of my stomach, but it only happened every time they mentioned Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato. Maybe I just had jitters that would go away in a little bit, but right now, we need to find a song for Leo.

That night

I just saw Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato enter the building, I suddenly felt nauseous, I ran to the bathroom, locked the stall and threw up. Then I wondered what was going on, why was I freaking out now? I don't get stage fright. I started crying then I heard a tap on my door.

"Who is it?" I called, trying to hide the fact I was crying.

"It's Tasha, are you ok sweetheart?" Tasha asked.

"No. I'm not. I can't perform tonight." I said, still crying.

"Why not?" Tasha asked.

"Because my celebrity crush and the person I admire most are out there. I can't let them down!" I exclaimed, but I was finally done crying.

"The boys are waiting on you," Tasha told me.

Then I heard Chase say, "Okay, we're coming in." They did indeed come into the girl's bathroom.

"Bree, we're all counting on you." Adam said.

"Come on Bree. We need the bass, we need our singer, we need our sister." Chase said.

That was the right thing to say. I finally unlocked the bathroom door and I hugged Chase and Adam. "Let's do this," I said, determined.

"Yes!" Adam exclaimed as he grabbed me.

Tasha did my makeup and then I heard, "Please welcome, Not Another Boy Band!"

Adam, Chase and I ran on stage and Chase walked up to the mic.

"Guys, this first song is for our stepbrother, Leo Dooley," Chase announced.

I started singing. "I feel like I'm walking in the sky, whoa, whoa, yesterday tears were in my eyes, whoa, whoa."

Then Adam started rapping. "What's a bad day? Yeah I've been there before, but I keep my head up so I don't have those anymore, I made a choice to be the best that I could be, gotta stay positive, ignore all the negativity."

Then I started singing again. "Gonna follow my intuition, telling myself to listen, everything's gonna be ok, it's gonna be a good day, oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh, it's gonna be a good day, follow my intuition." I finished and I swear, the crowd exploded.

"Leo, please forgive us," Chase said, looking at him.

And I saw Leo give us two thumbs up. Good, we had our brother back.

"Next we have a special song for our special guests, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas!" Chase yelled.

The intro to Avalanche started and then Chase started singing. "Words, like a loaded gun. Shot out from the fire one. Love last, from our fight there as one. I can see you breaking down, the end to one falling out. I got pride, you can't hold your breath. We'll crash down like a avalanche. Look out now, don't take one more step. We'll crash down like a avalanche."

Then I started singing. "I never want it to turn out this way. Now forever feels like yesterday."

Then Chase and I both started singing.

"Sorry's something that I just won't take. Can you see me breaking down? The end to the falling down. Yeah. I got pride you can't hold your breath. Even if we survive, we'll crash down like a avalanche. Crash down, crash down. Look out now don't take one more step. Even if we survive, we'll crash down like a avalanche. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, we'll crash down, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, like a avalanche. I got pride, you can't hold your breath, we'll crash down like a avalanche. Ohh. I got pride you can't hold your breath, we'll crash down like a avalanche. Look out now don't take one more step, we'll crash down like a avalanche. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, crash down, crash down, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, just like a avalanche."

The crowd would not stop cheering. I started crying a little, and so did Adam, Chase had the biggest grin on his face.

We were unstoppable.