Big Time Songwriter

Big Time Audition

My name is Isabella Spade I'm a recording artist at Rocque Records. Plus I'm an actor, who happens to be missing her loving boyfriend Carlos Garcia. 

"I'm sorry what?"

"Yeah I'm bringing back a new boy band." 

"You do realize that Griffin gave you money for a solo artist not a boy band right?" 

"Yeah I know." 

"Griffin is going to kill you"

Before Gustavo could say anything else I hung up the phone and started working on my song again. But that was soon interrupted by Griffin. 

"Isabella, how's that song coming along?" 

"Good I'm almost ready to record it."

"That's why you're my favorite artist here." 

"Griffin do you mind if I go back to the Palm Woods, to finish working on my song by the pool." 

"No I don't mind because I know you'll get the song done" 

"Thank you, I promise that song will be done and ready to record by this evening, and if not today tomorrow for sure." 

"Isabella there's no rush in getting that song in, so take your time with it." 

I walked out of the studio and walked back to the Palm Woods. 

When I got there I walked outside to the pool and sat in one of the lawn chairs and started working on my song again. 

A few minutes later the Jenifers came up to me and sat next to me. 

"Hey Bella how's the song coming along?"curly haired Jenifer asked me.

"I can't think of anything to write about." 

"Can I see what you have so far?" Blond haired Jenifer asked. 

I handed my song book over to her and just waited for her to waited for her to give me feed back in what I have so far. 

"A hand turkey really?" 

"I've been trying to write a song all day and all I came up with is a stupid hand turkey." 

"Okay maybe we need to find you some good inspiration." 

"And how do you plan on doing that?" 

"Look let's go take a walk." 

"A walk is not going to help me." 

After a long walk with the Jenifers I decided to go back to the studio. When I got there I saw four boys standing in front of Kelly. 

"Oh Isabella your here, I want you to meet the boys I brought back with me, to turn them into stars." 

Kelly grabbed my arm and pulled me in front of the boys. 

"Guys this is Isabella Spade, she's also a recording artist here at Rocque Records." 

"Wait Carlos?" 

"Bella!" 

I jumped into Carlos' arms and he spun me around and held on to me tight like I was going to disappear. When he set me back on the ground he took my face in his hands and kissed me. 

"Carlos what are you doing here?"

"We're going to be recording some demo songs with Gustavo." 

"Bella baby!" 

I picked up a phone and threw it at Gustavo.

"We'll I'm going to go before I kill Gustavo." 

I was about to walk away when Carlos grabbed my wrist and spun me back around to face him.

"Please stay." 

"Okay." 

"Kelly, is the coast clear?" 

I just gave Kelly a thumbs up and a innocent smile. 

"Yup all clear." 

Gustavo walked out of his office and shrieked a little. 

"Kelly, you said the she devil was gone." 

"No I said the coast was clear."

"Okay aside from the she devil over there. Are you guys are to be stars? Unless you don't think you can do it 'Mr.MakeUsAPopGroup'."

"No, we can do it. Bring it." 

"I will bring it, I'll bring everything I got. Including the she devil over there is going to help me." 

"I'm gonna do what now." 

"Yeah I'm gonna need your help Bella." 

"Gustavo I can't I have a song to work on." 

"Yeah, let me guess you can't think of anything so you drew a hand turkey." 

"How do you know that." 

"You have a habit of leaving hand turkeys around the studio." 

"We'll now I have an idea and I need to get to writing it before I lose it." 

"Just meet me in the dance studio when you're done." 

"Okay." 

I walked over to Gustavo's office and sat down on the couch pulled out my song book and got to work. 

"If I could do it all over maybe I'd do it different. Maybe I wouldn't here in this position. Found you then I lost you, looking back is torture. And it hurts to know I'd let you go. You live right around the corner. I could've had it all, could've had it all. True love, I know I had it. True love was so hard to find. True love if I could get it back I'd never let it go this time. True love is an inspiration. True love it was mine oh mine. Never let it go, I'd never let it go this time." 

Before I could continue Gustavo walked in the office with Kelly. 

"No, no don't stop singing it sounded amazing." 

"Yeah keep going and in an hour I want you to come with me to check on the dogs." 

"And judging by the moment you had with Carlos I'm guessing he's your boyfriend." 

"You're guessing right." 

"So is he the inspiration you had for this song?" 

"Yes Gustavo he's the inspiration I had for this song." 

Gustavo and Kelly shared a look and then looked back at me. 

"So can we hear the rest of the song or are you going to make us wait until after we check on the dogs." 

"Was it really that good I didn't think that was my best work." 

Once again Gustavo and Kelly shared a look and then looked at me. 

"Bella that was amazing, and as a producer I can tell you that song is going to be a hit." 

"Thanks Gustavo. That means a lot to me." 

"You're welcome, now let's go check on the dogs." 

I just shook my head and laughed a little at Gustavo.

We walked back to the dance studio and found the boys sitting on the floor. 

"Okay so it's been an hour..." 

"What happened to Mr.X?" 

"Well first he banged his head into a wall a few times." 

"Then he got really dizzy." 

"Then he said a bunch of bad words that started with x." 

"Then he x-quit." Not gonna lie Kendall said that a little too happy. 

I covered my ears waiting for the scream because when Gustavo yells it's never a good thing. 

After the boys cleaned up a little bit they headed back to the studio so Gustavo could continue his boot camp. 

"Okay next in Gustavo's great pop-group boot camp the great look. And to show you what a great stage-look looks like I brought in America's pop princess Isabella Spade."  

All of the boys looked my way with wide eyes and James looked like his where about ready to pop out of his head when he saw me.  

"Hey Carlos." 

"Hey babe." 

All at once Kendall, Logan, and James turned their heads to look at Carlos.  

"Carlos care to explain to us how you managed to date Isabella Spade." 

"I've known her since before I met you guys and she had to move away for her music career when we started dating." 

"Yeah we face time almost every night. He even sends me little gifts to let me know he's thinking of me." 

Logan looked like he was going to melt into a puddle. Kendall looked at Carlos in awe. And James just had a huge smile on his face. 

"Okay, as much as I enjoy seeing her happy and I do, we need to get this moving along because we only have three days to prove to this company there is something, anything here." 

The first look the boys where shirtless and in overalls. For the second look they looked like they where ready for the Fourth of July and Kendall seemed to agree with me because he said and I quote 'We look like uncle same threw up on us.' For the third look they where dressed in black and in leather and Logan said he couldn't feel his legs. 

"I hate it." 

"So do we." 

"You I need five new looks by tomorrow. And you go work on your song." 

"You don't have to tell me twice." 

I walked back to Gustavo's office, pulled out my song book, walked over to the piano and started to play a melody for the song I wrote. 

"Feeling it all around me, wondering how I blew it. And I wanna know the secret of how they do it. There's no such thing as perfection, I'm still learning that lesson. Forgive is the key to forgetting me. And I'm staring at my reflection." 

I was once again interrupted by Gustavo who stormed into his office which could only lead to one thing. The guys did something stupid and Gustavo fired them. 

"Gustavo what did the boys do?" 

"They got into a fight in the recording booth." 

"I'm going to finish this song and then go talk some sense into those boys." 

"Let me guess you don't want Carlos to leave." 

"Gustavo this is the first time I've been with him since I left Minnesota. I'm not ready to say goodbye again. I could barley say it the first time." 

Before I could say anything else my phone rang. I picked it up and realized that it was Carlos. 

"Hello?" 

"I hate to do this over the phone Bella but..." 

"But what Carlos?" 

"We need to break up." 

"I thought you loved me Carlos." 

"Let's be real Bella the spark that was there between us isn't there anymore." 

"Don't you ever talk to me again you jerk. I never want to see or hear from you again you hear me!!!!" 

I hung up the phone and burst into tears crying onto the piano. 

I felt someone tap on my shoulder I looked up with my tear stained face and saw that it was Gustavo. 

"Bella what happened. I heard you yelling from across the studio, and you never yell." 

"It's Carlos... he broke up with me." 

"Okay, I'm going to go get Kelly and then I'm going to kill that helmet wearing hockey headed dog." 

A few minutes later Kelly came into Gustavo's office with a teddy bear, ice cream, and chocolate. 

"Hey Gustavo told me what happened. Why did he break up with you?" 

"I don't know Kelly." 

"Here's your teddy bear, I brought you some ice cream, and a little chocolate." 

"Thanks Kelly but I don't think that stuff will help me right now." 

"Then why don't you finish your song." 

"Okay." 

I got to work on the song and when I finished the lyrics to the song I walked out of Gustavo's office.

I was about to walk to recording booth when I saw the saw boys but I froze when i saw Carlos. 

"Well?" 

"Ok, we'll do it your way. No Goofing off, no pillow fights, And no questions for the next 2 days." 

"Okay Girl Time from the top." 

"Except that. We really don't wanna sing Girl Time." 

"Oh let me guess. You have a better idea. Well let's hear it. Let's hear the dogs better song title." 

The boys all looked at each other and shared a look and then looked back at Gustavo. 

"Big Time. Rush. It's a song about four hockey players from Minnesota who of have an amazing opportunity in front of them and they're gonna take their best shot." 

Kelly, who was still holding on to me making sure I was okay, I looked over to Gustavo and quickly spoke. 

"I like it and you have stop using the word girl in all of your song titles." 

Every one then looked at Gustavo waiting for him to speak. 

"I...like it also. We're gonna be working all night because Friday is two days away. And we are in a Big Time Rush." 

The boys cheered and then we all walked over to the recording booth. 

I sat down on the couch hugging the teddy bear that Kelly gave me. 

"Okay, Big Time Rush from the top. Only this time try and make not wanna choke you. Also Carlos me and you are going to have a little chat later for hurting America's pop princess Isabella Spade."

The boys then started to sing and Gustavo gave them a hand signal that said 'Meh' but that quickly changed when they stated to sing the first verse of the song. 

After recording the song the boys where then brought to the dance studio where Mr.X was waiting to teach them a new dance for the song. 

The next day the boys where back in the studio, getting a new look for the band. 

Friday finally came along and the boys where performing for Griffin and I was still sitting on the couch hugging a teddy bear. 

"I like 'em. The boards gonna love 'em. You got three months to make your demos. Now why is sweet Bella crying over here." 

Kelly and Gustavo shared a look then looked at griffin. 

"Ask Carlos." 

"The girl was crying her eyes out on the piano in Gustavo's office." 

Griffin looked in the window and pressed the button that allows the boys to hear him from outside the booth. 

"Carlos, we need to have a chat." 

Carlos looked nervous for a second then realized what was going on. 

Carlos walked out of the booth and griffin's assistant held him by the arm. 

"Carlos do you know what happens to people who hurt America's pop princess Isabella Spade." 

Carlos just shook his head and griffin continued to explain. 

"She writes an amazing song about you and then the world figured out that you hurt her and then turn against you. But this time it will affect the whole band not just you. And I can't afford for that to happen right now. So what I'm going to do is let her decide if she writes that song or if she forgives you. But givin her current state I'm guessing she already has a song that's ready to record. So when the media figures out that America's pop princess Isabella Spade has been hurt I'm going to schedule a press conference where she will decided what to tell the world her song is about." 

After griffin talked to Carlos he walked away and Carlos ran back into the booth. Where Gustavo have them good news that they were staying in L.A to make some demo songs.