Falling Down(71)


"You knew it wouldn't be a good fit?" Jace asks.
Cage nods. "Her personality is completely different than yours."
"Well, who's next?" I ask.
"That'd be me, bitches."
"Are you shitting me!?" I squeal. I turn around to see the tall, model-beautiful Megan Melody with her multi-colored rocker hair..
"Meggie!" Sera squeals and squeezes her in a hug. Jace and I join in.
"Huh," Kennedy says. "I guess they know each other."
"Oh my f*cking God," Meggie says. "Get the f*ck out of here with these bitches and then Falling Down. I'm going to need a dry pair of panties. For real."
I laugh. "We know Megan from high school."
"No shit?" Jesse asks.
"For real," Jace says. "She was in a rival band two towns over. We fought for gigs."
"How come you're not still with Taunt?" I ask.
"Ugh. Nothing but a bunch of coke heads and manwhores. With me being the only female, it was just too much for me to have to listen to them f*cking their sluts while I was trying to sleep."
"Gross," Sera says with a shudder.
"Huh," I say looking over my shoulder at Jesse and the guys. "That'd be kinda like having to live on the Falling Down bus."
Jesse lets out a laugh and shakes his head. "Tsk, tsk, Lucy. Always so judgmental."
"It's not judgmental if it's fact."
"Valid," Megan says.
"Holy shit, do you read Jay McLean?" Sera asks.
"Yes! Logan f*cking Matthews, bitches."
I let out a laugh. Logan f*cking Matthews.
"Let's jam, bitches," Meggie says with a bounce in her step.
"Yeah, f*ckers, let's go," Jace says with a grin and fist bumps Megan.
As we head into the sound booth I hear Cage mutter, "We've got bitches and f*ckers. This is going to be one hell of a ride."
We don't stop after one song. We go into two and three and then four. I notice Cage on his Bluetooth, likely cancelling the rest of the interviews which is perfect.
With Trace and Megan, Blush is perfect.
We walk back out to where everyone's standing and I hug Cage. "I'm so excited, you just don't know!"
He chuckles. "I can guess from the smile on your face and that weird happy dance you and Sera are doing right now."
"Don't knock the dance," Sera says grinning.
"Alright, business before we head to lunch. You all share the same agent, so this will be easy as far as contracts go. I'm sure Irene's going to want to talk to you all about a group contract with her. Right now you've only got individual and for different purposes. She'll have to modify Trace and Megan's and write one up for Jace." Sera and I nod.
"That's pretty freaking handy."
"Irene is a goddess," Trace says.
"That she is."
"I want you all back here in two weeks to start recording," Cage tells us.
Meggie bounces on her toes.
"We've got a shit ton of songs to choose from between all of us," Jace states. "We can pick the ones we want and modify them to fit our style."
"Wicked cool," Trace says.
"You can use my private studio to practice and there's office space if you want or need room to work through the song choices."
Meggie whispers loudly, "Just how well do you know Cage?" and I smirk.
"Not as well as Sera."
Everyone snickers and Cage winks.
"All right. If you need me, you know how to get a hold of me. I'm sure I'll be seeing a lot of you."
I look around for Damian and he's nowhere to be found. He must have taken off when we were jamming with Meggie. Bummer. I would have liked for him to come to lunch with us.

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