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Chapter 16 - 14: WHERE OUR TIMES BEGIN

Stella Northgate stayed by the phone for half a day already, waiting for lavern to call her back saying that there in for working with the group. lavern on the other half is sitting on the hotel bed looking at the business card that Stella gave her. kassie comes back with a bag of chips and sodas. taking off her glasses. "I got your soda, the one you wanted." she sets the keys on the nightstand and sits on the bed opening the bag of chips. "hey...I was thinking...we should find a home here.." kassie says. "don't you wanna go to los Angeles and start there?" "i really want to rest from traveling places...even though los Angeles is at the corner." lavern looks at kassie. "I guess we could.." Lavern grabs the soda, and opens it and takes a sip. She takes the card out and gives it to kassie. Kassie grabs it and looks at it. "What's this?" Laverns voice starts to shake "a Record Company" Kassie turns the card around "what's their interest in Us?" "They want your voice to be heard around the world with music" Kassie looks at Lavern. "Why is your voice so shaky?" Lavern gulps and takes another sip of her soda, and she finally lets it out "well I wanted to work for the company..you know? See how it goes." Kassie puts the card beside her, and gets up. "Sure we can try it out, see how it goes" Lavern gets up while kassie walks away to the bathroom, when she closes the door. Lavern grabs the card and calls Stella, "hey it's me the one from last night at the fair? We wanna do it."

Lavern and kassie get in the car and head to Los Angeles where Stella is at with her record company. Leaving the windows down with a cold breeze cause of the ocean, kassie smiles and closes her eyes. As they got there, the doors were open wide and they step in. Kassies eyes where all on the big windows. she smiled as one of the assistants came over. "Your kassie Z London right?" Kassie nodded and smiled more. "Come right this way." The assistant reply's. Takes them to the office of Stella northgate and a huge knock on the door that the assistant gave, Stella opened. "Wow you guys made it!" The assistant walked off back to the lobby while stella watched her scroll away. Stella comes back to kassie and gives her a big hug. She pulls lavern and kassie inside, they didn't think much to it. "So I heard you wanna join my team?" Stella says. Lavern and kassie look at each other. "W-we wanna work with you, I wanna publish music." Kassie stutters. Lavern gives kassie a look of stress and nervousness. Stella smiles and turns around, grabbing paperwork that was not filled out. "If you want to join my team, you have to sign a contract with me." She grabs the contract and pulls it to them. "Read the following rules and conditions, sign some stuff and we will get it over with you starting on our team." As Lavern grabs the pen and smiles. She signs it slowly and kassie and her take turns using the pens to sign it.

A few hours later, they left to get ready for a gig right in Sacramento. The last gig they will ever do since they are working with stellas team. While they where driving back to Sacramento, they where screaming with joy. Cant believing what just happened. Kassie gets up and sings her arms out and yells of joy "I cant wait to put music out there!" She screams. Lavern laughs like no other. "What genres are we gonna do? I mean…what the songs are gonna be about?" Says Lavern. Kassie sits back down and laughs. "Don't worry about it, I got it all under control!"

They got there just in time. They announce kassie, giving rules what to do and not to do. She goes on stage with a stool. She sits down. The orchestra in the back doing nothing. Waiting for Kassies signal. Kassie sighs and she starts to tear up a bit. "I love you all. For coming to my shows when I was younger, and still here. This isn't gonna be the last time I'm gonna be singing to the crowd but this is gonna be the last time I sing without thinking" kassie laughs, and the crowd laughs nervously. Kassie wipes her tears and holds the microphone close to her mouth "this is the last song for you all, it's called "what is the game of love"" the song that kassie sung when she was 7, at a concert, And been sing it since for the crowd. "As love begins to make me confuse I can't again to breath, hurting myself for standing on my own two feet" she sings for the crowd while they clap the night away. Lavern claps along while she sings to them. Kassie trying to make the best for the last night of there childhood.

The next day, they drove out to Los Angeles. To start some demos. Before they drove out. Kassie grabbed her book of lyrics and packed it in her purse. While they where heading, kassie was reading magazines of houses in Sacramento. Since kassie wanted to settle down and just start from there. They hit to Hollywood and make it to "ACU PRODUCTIONS" they park out front and they rush inside. Again with the doors open wide, the win blow in their faces. Lavern walks up to the front desk. "Hi where is the recording studio?" She asks. He opens his file cabinet and takes out a map of the whole building. Gives it to Lavern. Lavern nods her head as a thanks and walks off with kassie to the recording studio. As she got the the right hall where the plants are she knocks on the door, when a woman peeks her head out and sees the both of them "you must be kassie and Lavern?" She says quietly. "Yes I'm kassie and this is my cousin and manager Lavern" the lady gasp and lets both of them in. When they walk inside there is a man sitting in the chair, fixing the controls, making sure everything is in check. Kassie drops her stuff down by the wall. "My name is elis and I'm gonna be working with the controls in the control room" kassie goes up to elis while she closes the door and gives her a big warm hug. Elis hugs back and smiles. "I'm kassie!" She yells. She turns around, and looks at the man that's in the seat. she comes up to him and he gets up from the chair, "Dennis, nice to meet you-" he was interrupted by kassie hugging him tightly with warmth. "Kassie z London how ya do?" There was smiles in the room. kassie secret power was making everyone smile like they always should Lavern thought in her head. Elis walks over to Dennis and kassie while they stand there, "okay kassie" elis says. "You have to go in the room that's called the "live room" and also the "studio" you put the headphones on, and you have to sing and we make sure you can do the singing" elis explains. Kassie looks around and she points at the side rooms inside the "live room" "what's that?" She says elis looks "those are the isolation booths, there for instruments, that are loud like drums or electric guitar amplifiers and speakers, to keep these sounds from being audible to the microphones that are capturing the sounds from other instruments or voices" Kassie walks in the "live room" and she puts the headphones on. "Okay kassie start singing random things just for testing" Dennis explains. Kassie nods. Dennis runs to the side and pressed record and let's a thumbs up to start singing. "Do—deeeee——daaaa——doooooooooooo"

Lavern sat there while kassie sings random words from the top of her head, "wow…she's too good by just singing random words..her vocals.." Lavern thought. Dennis stops the recording,

"You did good kassie you can come on out!"

Kassie puts the headphones down, and runs out to see the recording. They listen in, all you can hear is "Do—deeeee——daaaa——doooooooooooo" Dennis laughs, "elis we got a good one." He says under his breath. Elis smiles, but kassie and Lavern know is that, not enough proof to know Kassies vocals. But all kassie did was put effort into the "Do—deeeee——daaaa——doooooooooooo". "We can start recording a song right now and do demos and see what we can do.." elis says. Dennis turns his chair around and looks at elis. "We got no lyrics." He says. Kassie mouth opens short and runs to her bag for the book of lyrics. "I have this." She says. She hands the book to Dennis. There was only one page of lyrics. The song that kassie was working on at the hotel "what will it be?" He puts the book in Kassies hands. he tells her to get back in the "live room" and sing the lyrics. She puts the headphones back on. And Dennis let's up a go. She starts to sing, the song that she wrote.