Chapter 7

Chase's POV

We were gonna write our own song!

We had been discussing it with Max and James when Bree shouted.

"I got it!"

I put my hands over my ears to block out the noise. Then Max and James asked if I was okay.

"Yeah, sensitive ears," I said, a little embarrassed as I put my hands down.

"So, what's your idea Bree?" Max asked.

He liked Bree, a lot, but he was like 30 so he loved her in the daughter sense.

"This is about my past boyfriends and even after they dumped me, how I'm still going strong." Bree said. Then she sang the bit she had. I swear if you could hear it, you would love her. But I hated the song.

"That's stupid," I said.

"It is not!" Bree argued.

"I agree with Chase, that is a stupid song. And I know stupid," Adam pointed out.

"It is not! This is important to me! I should've known that you just needed a bass player, not a sister. I quit, have fun boys," Bree said, tears forming in her eyes as she stormed out of the room.

"Oops," Adam mumbled.

"Drama!" James said in a singsong voice.

"I'm your manger, I'll handle this," Leo said, leaving the room.

I frowned, I had just messed up our band because of me being such a stupid brother, and I never say that about myself.

"Chase... do you think that you should apologize to her?" Adam asked.

"Yeah. James, Max, we'll be right back," I said, grabbing Adam's arm and went with him to talk to Bree. I heard her and Leo talking in the room where we played the instruments.

"Do Chase and Adam even like me?" I heard Bree say.

"Of course they like you, they just think the song is girly and they think it'll ruin their image." Leo explained.

"Chase doesn't have a image," Bree muttered angrily. Hey!

"Yeah he does, sure it's an annoying image, but still a image," Leo said, and Bree laughed.

Then I opened the door.

"What do you want?" Bree demanded as she turned to me.

"I wanted to say sorry. I appreciate your skills and your talent, but I also appreciate you, and if it hasn't seemed like that, then I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" I asked.

"If I do, you and Adam will just take advantage of me again," Bree insisted.

"I promise I will never take advantage of you again, but I can't say anything about Adam. Besides, he isn't smart enough to figure out how to take advantage of you," I said.

"True. Fine. I forgive you," Bree replied. Then she smiled and hugged me.

"Max and James are probably getting worried about us now. We should go," I told her.

"We're coming," Adam said.

We walked back into the recording room to see James and Max smiling. "We finished writing Bree's song. Here," James said handing Leo the piece of paper.

Leo glanced at it then showed it to us.

"It's awesome!" Bree said.

I have to agree, it is quite amazing," I said.

"Chase, don't be a nerd and just say you like it," Adam told me, elbowing me.

I rolled my eyes and made sure Adam could see me.

"Okay, into the booth," Max said opening the door and let Bree and I in. "Okay, go!" Max said pointing at them.

"You say I trust too easily

They all thought I was weak

I can tell you that's not true

If you'll just let me speak.

Every time I get shut down

Before I've even started

You all think I go too fast

I know I'm not faint-hearted.

I'm not one who wants betrayal

I just need an accurate portrayal

They lie and cheat and scheme and steal and we all do nothing

Well now it's time to go and do some real-life thinking.

It's happened to many times

The boys I trust go bad

I don't think it has to do with me

But who knows? They could have just gone mad.

It's not my fault that they betray

It's happened for so long

But if you think that's gonna stop me

You could never be more wrong."

After we were done Leo and Adam hugged us.

As we were leaving to go to the car, James stopped me.

"Chase, I think you know that being in a band is hard, but it gets easier or harder, if it gets harder, then most bands give up, don't let your sister and brother give up, help them push through," James said.

James was acting like a teacher of some sort by encouraging me like that.

"Don't worry James. I'll keep a eye on them. And we won't quit. If you have forgotten, we're bionic, we can handle anything," I replied, grabbing my guitar case.

"That may be true, but be careful," James insisted.

"We will, bye," I said, leaving the building.

XXX

As soon as everyone was gone, James clicked a button on his neck and his face morphed revealing-

S-1.

"Oh, better be careful."

S-1 smiled and turned back on the cyber mask before walking back inside.