Chapter 3
Adam's POV
Mr. Davenport was driving us to the Hollywood Records building-I wanted to drive since I had my license, but Mr. Davenport said he was driving because he knew where the building was.
Bree was texting someone, probably that really annoying (and weird) girl Caitlin, I didn't know how they were friends, but I ignored it.
Leo was staring out the window and randomly saying stuff like, "That cloud looks like Principal Perry!"
Even I wasn't that weird.
Chase was listening to music on his phone, probably Imagine Dragons, the one thing we could agree on, we actually had seen them in concert together and we had to deactivate Chase's bionics so he didn't make a scene at the concert, but it was like the only bonding experience we had ever had.
I was so bored and everyone else had something to do on the super long trip. Actually it was more like a hour but my phone was dead and no one trusted me with there's.
Time for a last resort.
"Are we there yet?" I groaned.
"No Adam, the same as the last forty seven times you asked," Chase said pulling out his ear buds.
"I'm bored, and my phone's dead," I said leaning the back of my head into my seat. Then I fell into darkness.
What seemed like two seconds later I felt Mr. Davenport shaking my shoulder. I must've fallen asleep.
"Adam, we're here," Mr. Davenport said.
I climbed out of the car and followed my siblings into the building. When we walked in we saw the amazing building.
They had posters all over the wall of their artists. I was hoping that we would be on that wall someday and I think my siblings felt the same way, mainly because everyone's mouth dropped open when we walked in, myself included.
Mr. Davenport walked towards the desk.
"May I help you?" the woman asked. She looked around our age and was very pretty.
Then Richard came in there.
"They're with me. You'll have to excuse my daughter, she just started working here and already had a few problems," Richard said.
"It's true, people are always trying to sneak in here and meet celebrities," his daughter said.
"I'll take it from here Tara," Richard told her.
Tara nodded and left.
"The recording studio is in here, there are a couple writers who I want you to meet," Richard said opening the door.
There were two writers in the room who were talking about a song they were writing for Demi Lovato, a artist my sister liked-though I thought she was annoying.
"Max, James, this is the band I was telling you about. Adam, Bree, Chase, this is Max Cooler and James Christopher Monger, they write songs for Demi Lovato and Sabrina Carpenter." Richard said.
I waved at them with a grin on my face. Then my siblings gave me a really look. That is how you're supposed to say hi to people, right?
"I hired these two to help you write music, because eventually you will come out with a album," Richard said.
We all smiled at that.
"I'll let you guys get to work," Richard said closing the door behind him.
"Let's get to business, I'm the manager, I manage, you two are the writers, you write, and those three are Not Another Boy Band, and they-well, play music, I guess," Leo summed up slightly awkwardly.
"Ok, do you guy's know how this works?" Max asked.
I shook my head no, my brothers and sister did the same.
"Ok, we're going to record Shut Up and Dance, Chase and Bree, can you two step into here?" James asked.
They nodded and stepped into the booth.
"Put on the headphones and I'll point at you two when you start should start singing," Max said.
My sister and brother nodded and put on the headphones. Max pointed at them and they started singing. James handed Leo and I headphones so we could listen to our siblings.
A few minutes later they finished and Max put it on playback.
The recording was amazing, except the instruments weren't there.
"Where are the instruments?" I asked totally confused, I felt that feeling a lot.
"We sang it without instruments and now we go into a different room and record just the instruments and they'll stick them together," Chase said.
I must've been standing there with a confused look on my face because I could hear myself say,
"Huh?"
"It's a lot to process, don't hurt yourself," Bree said putting her hand on my shoulder.
Max and James took us to a different room with our instruments in the room already. I sat down at my drum set and tested them, they were fine.
Chase and Bree put their bass and guitar straps on and quickly tuned them, instruments get out of tune in extreme weather conditions and it was like 120 degrees outside-okay, I was exaggerating a little bit, but according to the weather it was like one of the hottest days in California history.
We put the headphones on and Max pointed to us to start playing.
I started my drum part, Bree started playing her bass and Chase started playing guitar.
I saw Leo jamming on the other side of the wall with the headphones that James gave him. A few minutes later we finished up and came out of the room.
It took Max and James twenty minutes to stick the tracks together then they showed us and Mr. Davenport.
"This is amazing!" Mr. Davenport exclaimed.
The track will be up for digital sales tomorrow. We'll put it on the Hollywood Records social media page, you guys go home and rest," James said.
I groaned, we had to go back on that super long car ride again.
"Hey Adam, do you want to listen to music on the way home together?" Chase asked, and I smiled and nodded.
Mr. Davenport and Leo sat in the front and were quietly talking, probably about the band's debut.
Bree was texting Caitlin again and putting the date all over Twitter and Facebook.
Chase was sharing his headphones with me and we we were listening to Imagine Dragons, 5 Seconds of Summer and Charlie Puth.
I was so excited, tomorrow was our debut!