Okay, I will say I was so stereotypical by posting a story with the title of a song that was just recently leaked and has no time frame relevance to this story (since at the moment it is happening all the way back in 2011 *Gasp*), but the song really does set the mood for the story, which we will see going on in later chapters! I love the story idea that I have, the only hard thing that I need to do with this story is worry about what was actually going on in the boys lives during the time frame in the story, since it is based in real life. (Girlfriends, both past and present, will be mentioned, but seeing that this is a James story, Jalston is obviously not going to be happening much, but we will see it!) Also working with songs is a little problematic, I have such a crazy taste in music, that when I download it, it usually has almost run its course or is way old, so sifting through my ipod looking for reference songs has been a great joy!
Also, I might as well mention it, for those who have a twitter, I did make one for Arianna in the story, so she will be tweeting like things are actually going on and it will fill the time gaps between updates as well I like to think. The story won’t cover absolutely everything that happens on twitter, but I figure it will be a nice way to interact with the story as well, as in, you can tweet “Arianna” and she will tweet you back and so forth! Anything u suggest for the story via that account or my personal will possibly be incorporated as well!
Enough droning, the account is ArianaDances and mine is KathrynMaslow.
Feel free to get in touch on either one!
Now Thanks!
Carlos’sCupcake- First of all, I love your stories and I am sorry I never get to review on them, and it was amazing that you were the first one to review this! Thanks for the support and keep reviewing!
DaniNohelty- Glad to hear you want to be 7 again! Thanks for the support and actually encouraging me a little to post this! Hope you love your character as we continue!
Sarah- Thanks for wanting to read more and for reviewing! I love hearing from you guys!
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BTR-maslow-luv97- First of all, thanks for adding me to your story! Loving it already! And James is being very forward right now, we will see where that leads us when Halston is in the picture. (since this story revolves around real life as well) And later on in the story we will find out why Arianna is different.
Are you still there? LOL, sorry for the long note, I should really put these at the end of my chapters *sigh* Oh well, on with the story!
Disclaimer:
I only own the rights to Ariana, Maria and Zak. They are my characters that I have created. Dani is a very good friend of mine and I do not own her. I don’t own BTR or any references to the show. The only thing I claim besides my characters is the plot line to the story. Enjoy it people.
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I got the magic in me/Everytime I touch that track it turns into gold/Everybody knows/I've got the magic in me/When I hit the floor the girls come snappin' at me/Now everybody wants a blast of magic!
I groaned and grabbed my phone off my bedside table, pressing the dismiss button on the alarm, it was too early to wake up. I rolled over and looked at my clock. I didn’t trust it to go off after I missed one of my biggest auditions because my Iphone wasn’t fully plugged in and it didn’t play.
9:30, too early.
“Arianna, get up. You need to leave for your shoot in 45 minutes.” My mom said, opening my door and walking pulling the blinds open.
The photo shoot! How could I forget about that! I leapt out of bed and skidded into my bathroom, nearly knocking my mother over on the way.
After taking one of the fastest showers in history, I slid back into my room and pulled my closet open, pulling my towel tighter around myself.
The company that I am doing the shoot for said I could wear whatever I wanted to, as long as it wasn’t too flashy or showed too much skin, which I really didn’t have to worry about, I had too much to hide anyways.
I pulled out a pair of boyfriend jeans and a black, cropped tee that said dope across the front, quickly dressing before going back into the bathroom.
I pulled my still wet hair up away from my face and did my makeup quick, before doing a quick check of myself. I lift my arms up over my head, frowning when a few of my scars were showing. I pulled my tube of concealer back out and quickly applied some, flawlessly blending it into my skin. Putting my makeup away, I quickly blow-dried and straightened my hair, well, as quickly as you can straighten really long thick hair that is.
I walked back out into my room as “Evacuate The Dancefloor” began playing out of the speaker, who in the world is texting me? I looked at the caller id quick, James, I don’t remember putting a James in my phone.
Hey, remember me? Tall and Handsome, famous popstar? Ring a bell?
I rolled my eyes, now I knew who it was. The kid from Nickelodeon.
Wow, I m surprised. Taking time to socialize with the commoners? Okay, maybe that was a little harsh, but why was he texting me again when he hasn’t gotten in touch with me in the two months since the concert? My phone vibrated again.
Ouch, come up with that one on ur own? :P I was wondering if you wanted to come down to the studio today and hang, I would love to get to know you better. ;)
Well, that was a shocker.
How am I going to get in, I don’t exactly have parking passes for every single building in LA.
Just Show your ID at the front gates to Colombia, they will let you know where to find me from there ;)
And there we go with the winky face again! Did he really think he could win me over? I have a boyfriend for cripes sake!
Shaking my head, I grabbed my bag off of the hook next to my door and went down to the kitchen for breakfast.
I placed a kiss on Dani’s head as I sat down at the bar next to her, grabbing a slice of toast off the plate that was placed in front of me.
“What did your teacher say that you were going to be doing in school today Dani?” I asked her.
“Well, We are supposed to be working on out cursive writing, but it’s really hard.” She said.
I ruffled her hair. “Don’t worry, it gets much easier as you get older.” I finished off the rest of my toast before slipping on my favorite pair of Adidas high tops and walking to the living room.
“I’m going ma!” I yelled up the stairs pulling the door open to reveal Daniel standing there.
“Hey you.” I said, kissing his cheek before moving around him.
“Where are you going?” he asked.
“I have work today. Doing a photo shoot all day.” I dug into my purse to pull out the keys to my Camaro.
“Well Can’t I come with you?” He asked, looking slightly put off that I wasn’t spending the day with him.
“Closed set, sorry babe. Now if you don’t mind, I need you to move your car so I can leave.” I said, unlocking my car and pulling the door open.
He sighed heavily but complied none-the-less. I backed out of the driveway and blew a kiss his way out the window as I drove past him and out onto the expressway.
20 minutes later I was pulling into the lot for HiHat Choreography studios.
“Hi Dollface, how are you?” Dina, the owner, asked as I walked through the doors, pulling me into her arms and doing that cheesy air kiss thing with me.
“Just peachy, can’t wait to get my groove on. I feel so honored that you would choose me as the Face of HiHat. It means a lot.” I said, putting my bag down in the locker room.
“I had to choose the best, didn’t i?” She asked. I blushed before following her back out into the studio.
“Okay, this is Steve, and he will be your photographer today. Put that little iPhone of yours into the speaker system and do your thing girl! I’ll be back in 4 hours.” And with that, Dina walked off to her office.
“Well well, this must be the beautiful Arianna that I have heard so much about. Girl, you could be a model.” Steve says as I walk over to the speakers, pulling my iPhone out.
“I could, but I won’t. I don’t believe in photo shopping. And I know that if I did become a model, I would need it. Now, are we ready to begin?” I asked with a smirk.
“Come on Doll, let’s see what you’ve got.”
“Hey, would you mind trying something?” Steve asked.
“Uh, that depends, what is it?” I asked, we had been doing typical hip-hop shots for the past 3 hours, and we had about an hour left until Dina was back.
“You are wearing your dance spandex under your jeans and top, correct?” Steve asked, a contemplative look in his eyes.
“Yeah…” I said hesitantly.
“Would you mind doing a few contemporary shots? I have the perfect idea in mind.” He said.
“Gosh, I really don’t know about that, I have a lot of scars on my legs and all.” I confessed, wringing my hands together nervously.
“Nothing photo shop won’t remove, please, just one shot.” He begged, getting a twinkle in his eyes.
“Fine, just one shot, but that is it.” I conceded.
“One shot is all I need.”
“Ari, these are perfect!” Dina cheered as she looked through the stack of proofs that Steve had eagerly printed off of his computer just 20 minutes ago.
“Thanks, it was no trouble at all.” I said, pulling my phone out of my pocket.
Are u still in the studio? I asked James real quick, I didn’t want to make my way all the way downtown only for them to have already left
“Here Ari, take the proofs, Steve and I can look through the ones on his laptop to choose what we want to use for the ad campaign. You are free to go.” Dina said, bowing her head over her papers again.
As I walked out of the building, I pulled my phone out really quick dialing James’ number, it rang only once.
“Whats up?”
“I just texted you, are you still at the studio?”
“Yeah, why? Did you think that by waiting long enough you could get out of coming today?”
“I like to call it the real world Mr. Starpower. Some of us need to work to pay the bills.”
“Not trying to insult you or anything. But yeah, we are going to be at the studio for at least another 4 hours, so no rush.”
“I am actually on my way over now.” I said, unlocking my car and throwing my purse into the passenger seat.
“Okay, see you soon?” he asked sweetly.
“Yeah, see you guys soon.”
And with that I placed my phone in the cup holder and put the car in gear, steering out into LA traffic.
“Come on man, spill!” I heard coming from the studio that security had directed me to once I first got to Columbia records.
“Logan, for the last time man, I have a Girlfriend as well, Halston? Ring a bell to you?”
“Yeah, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t like this Arianna chick as well.”
I leaned up against the wall outside of the studio, making sure that my shadow wouldn’t cast in, a little eavesdropping never got anyone in trouble, right?
“She has a boyfriend too.” James said.
“Excuses, Excuses. You keep bringing up reasons to deny your feelings for her, come on man!”
“Carlos, I am telling you guys, I don’t like her-”
“Of course not, you LOVE her.” Logan cut in.
“You guys! She is going to be here any minute, there is no need for her to over hear this conversation, so please, just drop it!”
I backed up a few steps silently and grabbed a spare hair tie off my wrist, and spent a minute untangling it from the mirage of bracelets on my wrist. I had finally freed it when I walked back into the studio.
“There you guys are, I think security gave me a wrong turn somewhere along the lines.” I said, breaking up the staring match that I saw going on as I pulled my hair up into a pony tail.
“Hey Arianna, you remember Logan and Carlos, right?” James asked, sitting up on the beanbag in the corner.
“Yeah, you two were the ones who ran with my 7 year old sister through a parking lot.” I saw their faces turn down a little at the reminder. “And you don’t have to call me Arianna, just stick with Ari, it is much easier.”
“Ari it is!” Carlos said, getting up and giving me a hug, backing away quickly when I tensed.
“Sorry, I just don’t like physical contact. Something I kinda haven’t been able to get over as I got older.” I said, and it was mainly true, they just didn’t know why I didn’t like the contact.
“So, what were normal people doing today?” Logan asked, putting air quotes around ‘normal’.
“I actually had a photo shoot for my Dance Company and studio. They are just starting a new ad campaign. Want to see the proofs?” I asked, already digging into my bag for the photo envelope.
“Are you even allowed to do that?” James asked.
“As long as you don’t leak them before the campaign launches I can’t get into trouble, besides, my boss told me to keep them.” I said, passing off a chunk of the proofs off to each of the guys.
“Ari, these are amazing.” James said.
“Yeah, how did you even learn how to do that?” Carlos asked, holding up a picture of me where I was in the middle of doing shoulder windmills.
“My dad forced me into dance classes when I was younger, just to get me out of the house, it eventually turning into what I absolutely loved to do. I make a good living off of it at the moment so I’m not complaining.” I said with a shrug.
“Wait, why is this in here?” James asked, holding out the one contemporary shot that Steve had managed to get. It was probably one of the fastest photo shop jobs anyone has ever done as well. In the photo I was sitting down, leaning back on my right arm, looking over that shoulder at the camera. Both of my feet were pointed, one was placed on the ground, the right leg extended up. The lighting hid half of my face from the camera, giving the photo an air of mystery. I thought that Steve had done a fantastic job capturing the real me in that photo.
“Steve, the photographer, wanted to get one contemporary shot in, since he has known me since I moved to the states. And I agreed, with a little persistence on his part as well.”
“You look absolutely gorgeous.” James murmured, and in the poor lighting of the studio, I thought I could see his cheeks turn faintly pink.
“Who looks absolutely gorgeous?” Kendall asked, walking out of the sound booth.
“Our friend Ari here, you remember her little sister, right?” Logan asked, noticing that James seemed incapable of answering.
“How could I forget my ‘Sister-in-law’?” He asked, with a large smirk on his face.
I rolled my eyes. “Now that would explain why she wouldn’t stop talking about how Kendall was her husband on the way home. Thanks for that one.” I said, crossing my arms and leaning further back against my wall.
Kendall must have noticed that I wanted my space and, after giving me a short contemplative look, sat down next to James, taking some of my proofs out of his hand and flipping through them.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like the guys; it was just that I had grown up to distrust men, and it was a hard habit to break.
“Wait, you said move to the states, where exactly are you from?” Logan asked, looking at me with something that I couldn’t quite exactly place.
“England, I lived there until I was about ten until I had to come here.” I explained quickly. It was a part of my past that I wanted to forget.
“Parents get transferred or something?” Carlos asked.
“Yeah, something like that.” I said, not really looking at anyone. “So, what are you guys working on?” I asked, quick to change the subject.
“Just working on finishing up the vocals on our second album, want take a listen?” Kendall said, getting up to go over to the soundboard.
“Sure, why not?” I said.
He pressed a button and the lyrics came in slowly.
I don't know why you always get so insecure
I wish you could see what I see when you're looking in the mirror
And why won't you believe me when I say
That to me you get more beautiful, everyday
James looked at me as I recognized his voice come through the speakers, something unrecognizable in his eyes as I listened to the soft melody.
When you're looking at the magazines
And thinking that you'll never measure up
You're wrong
Cause you're my cover, cover girl
I think you're a superstar, yeah you are
Why don't you know
Yeah, you're so pretty that it hurts
It's what's underneath your skin
The beauty that shines within
You're the only one that rocks my world
My cover girl
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