Total pages in book: 84
Estimated words: 82271 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82271 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
Because I have to tell him.
I can’t just sleep with his sister, be in love with her, and not say something. I know I need to come clean, but I need courage and right now, spending time with him, might help me gain that courage, plus, I’ve always wanted to be the main rapper on an album, the only problem is the image I have isn’t main rapper, they don’t want that out of me, they want me to sing and make girls blush because I’m so cute.
It’s time for a change.
And it’s not even because I was just naked on the ground only a few doors away from him, with his sister, with the love of my life—I’m just feeling like it’s time.
“Okay.” Eric nods. “I mean I’ve never heard you rap but let’s try it.”
He grabs his phone. “What’s your number and I’ll send you both the full file.”
The door to the studio opens, Kai and Jay walk in and stare at us all grabbing our phones and exchanging numbers, probably in shock, all before Eric walks into the booth with his guitar.
What happens next is complete magic. Eric lays down the guitar tracks, when he’s done, Kai, Jay, and Rae sit with Eric and go over the other tracks to add lay down and mix while I go over the rap.
By the time I have the cadence of it memorized, they’re ready.
Of course that also happens to be right when Lucas, Kwan, Ji-Woo, Chul, and Suho walk in.
My palms are sweating when I open the door to the booth, the other guys haven’t even noticed that the rest of our bands are in the recording studio.
And I faintly remember that there are cameras in the studio too.
Rae’s voice comes out in the booth. “All right, Sookie just take it slow for now, you only need to lay down the rap part.”
I can see Lucas mouth rap.
Suho’s shocked expression isn’t helping.
The beat drops and I start rapping at the wrong timing. “Again, sorry, I didn’t realize it was that fast.”
“It’s fast.” Rae says back almost at the exact same time. “But just take it slow for now and get used to the rhythm.”
I nod and wait for the music again, this time I start at the perfect part and let loose not even realizing I’m done until the music stops.
I look up at the glass, waiting for Rae to tell me to do it again, but it’s like he’s frozen, the rest of the groups are staring at me in shock and Eric is fist bumping the air again.
“What?” I ask. “I should do it again, right?”
“No, no, no!” All the guys start talking at once.
“Who wrote this?” Suho asks.
I grin and walk out of the booth. “Eric wrote it, we helped for the last hour or two with some changes.”
Chul grumbles. “I could have rapped that.”
“You probably would have done better than me.” And it’s probably true.
Suho looks directly into my eyes. “You nailed that, and I haven’t even heard the entire song.”
“It’s solid,” Rae says from his chair. “Listen.”
He plays the entire song, and it’s like everyone is stunned into silence, when it finally ends he holds up his finger. “And as for our final track, Eric helped us a bit with the lyrics so we’ll need to record for a bit guys, but then we should be done.”
Chul raises his hand. “I actually was struggling with one of ours that I have to rap can I hang out a bit?”
Rae’s fingers fly over the computer and then he saves the file and opens a new one. “Send what you have so far and hop in.”
The next five hours were wild.
We end up ordering pizza and never would I have thought that at some point we’d be helping each other out on our albums and making suggestions without starting the next world war.
“One more take,” Rae says after eating a piece of pizza, “You hit the notes really well, Eric, but you lose confidence in the low one, make sure you really dig in, take a deep breath from your diaphragm, all right?”
Eric nods, he’s back in the booth and half the guys have dispersed. I yawn and look at the time “Oh shit, we have to be up in five hours. Does anyone have the call sheet on their phones?”
Chul tosses me his. “Was just looking at it. We’re screwed.”
The call time for both of us is indeed, five a.m.
I groan and toss his phone back. “I need to go take a shower.”
After all, I didn’t do it on purpose, but I still smell her on my skin and the last thing I need is for Rae to finally ask me why I smell like Ari.
I shoot her a quick text to see how she’s doing and then say goodbye to everyone and start walking out of the studio, nearly running right into her.