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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳ ぉゔぇ羅 ♡.°୭̥ 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲;

     𝐓𝐇𝐄 brunette sat at the piano that her and Calum have in their living room. Her fingertips pressing down on different keys until she found a tune she liked and started humming, her eyes fluttered shut.

"If I had everything, would it mean anything to me?"

Andrea sighed, taking a few moments to collect her thoughts before pressing down the same keys, she took a deep breath.

"Seems like a part of me will always have to lose. Every single time I have to choose."

Grabbing her phone, she began to record a voice memo.

"Seems like a part of me will always have to lose,
Every single time I have to choose
Swore that it felt right, but was I wrong?
Is this where I'm supposed to be at all?
I don't have the answers, not today
It's like nothing makes the questions go away
What I'd give to see if the grass was greener."

Andrea stopped the recording and smiled in content. Standing up from the piano, she made her way towards the kitchen, pulling out a bottle of water as the front of the door open. Laughter filled the air as the sound made its way towards the living room, revealing the Maori boy and the blonde.

Andrea sent the two a small smile, "oh, hey, Andrea," Maggie muttered, glancing around the room.

Andrea sent her a small wave, "hey?"

"Nibbles!" Calum exclaimed, "you should hear this song me and the boys wrote!" Moving towards the piano, Andrea want to speak but before she could she had noticed the stares she was getting from Maggie, the smile on her relate fell. Maggie rolled her eyes at the brunette before pushing past her to seat next to Calum.

"Oh!" Andrea spoke, "I have got this thing with Maddy to do." Maggie sent the brunette girl a dirty look, causing Andrea to be shift her body weight between her feet, "and I kinda promise that I'll do the thing with her."

Calum's face dropped, "oh," he said, shooting his head, "it's fine, go. I'll show it to you later than."

Andrea nodded, grabbing her journal from the piano, she give Calum one last smile. She turned towards Maggie, who sat next to him waving, a small smirk planted on her lips as she watch Andrea leave.

Once Andrea was out of the apartment she sighed in relief. She made her way towards her jeep, she took a minute to collect herself together before pressing the call button on her phone. Hearing the ringing, "Andy? Hey," the voice answered, "what's up?"

"I was wondering if you were busy," Andrea asked.

"Oh, no. I'm actually in the studio. Why's that?" The voice questioned.

Andrea ran a hand through her hair, "oh, that's perfect, Alex." She said, putting her keys in the ignition , "I kinda need help with this song I'm writing." She heard a gasped in the background, she chuckled knowing who it belonged to.

"Oh, is Ms Andrea Mariah-Grace Marjorie making music now?" The voice gasped.

Andrea laughed, "maybe, maybe not. Jack, you just gotta wait and see."

Alex chuckled at her response, "well, wait are you waiting for? Andrea get your ass down here!" He demanded.

"On my way!"

...

Andrea pushed open the studio doors, "she's here!" She heard a voice call out. She made her way towards the direction it come from to reveal Alex sitting in a chair with a guitar on his lap.

Jack walked over towards her engulfing her into a hug, "oh, I've missed you!"

Andrea giggled, "I missed you too, Jack," she patted his arm.

Jack let go off his grip on the girl and made his way back to his spot which was on the couch, "so, this song?" Alex questioned.

Andrea gasped and opened up her phone to the voice memo and began to play it for them. Jack patted the spot beside him for her to sit to which she obeyed and sat.

Alex nodded, "I really like it."

Andrea sent him a thank you smile as she closed her phone, "what do you need help with?" He questioned.

"Here's the thing. I can start writing a song," she told them, putting her journal in front of them and flipping through the pages that were filled with unfinished songs, "but I can never finish them."

Alex nodded in understanding as his eyes scanned through the pages, Jack moved closer to be able to read as well. "Wait, Alex go back." Jack told him, Alex obeyed and flipped back. Andrea raised her eyebrows in curiosity as Jack's pointer finger dragged across the page, "how come it's all lovely dovey shit?" He questioned.

Andrea furrowed her eyebrows, "what do you mean?"

"Well, you've got this one that goes: But, oh my stubborn heart is set on you and every night I fall asleep, blah blah," Jack read to her before flipping to another page, "and you've got this one: I know it's not. A not right now. But I will find a way," Jack read out as Alex pulled the journal back so he can have a better read, his eyes furrowed as he come to a realisation.

"You got a crush or something?" Jack questioned. Andrea looked down at her hands, she shrugged her shoulders.

"If I'm putting the pieces together right. Which I think I am," Alex began, "are these songs about Calum?" Andrea looked back down at her hands and shrugged her shoulders, Jack gasped, "are they?"

Andrea sighed as she looked at the both of them and slowly nodded, "yeah. . . All of the songs in the journal are about him."

Alex sent the brunette girl a comforting smile, "does anyone else know?" He questioned.

"Just Luke," She answered.

"Do you want him to come down and help with the process?" Alex asked. Andrea slowly nodded, "yeah, yeah. I do."

Alex nodded, putting the guitar down and pulling out his phone and sailing Luke's number, "Yo! Alex! What's happening?" She heard Luke speak.

"Nothing. If you're not busy come down to the studio," Alex told him, "Need your help with something."

....

Luke has finally arrived, walking into the studio, "what's up — Nibbles?" He questioned. Andrea awkwardly waved towards him, "what are you doing here?"

"Oh, um-well-um-," she stuttered, she stopped for a second trying to piece together the words, "well, I wrote a song but I can't finish it," she told him.

Luke nodded as he sat next to her.

"But you finished 'why I'm single' and 'notice me,'" Luke brought up to which Andrea playful smacked his arm. "Ow!"

"You promise you won't bring them up," Andrea told him, causing Luke to chuckle, "oh, trust me even if you tried to ease them, Michael's got copies." The blonde told him.

Jack and Alex stared at the two confused.

"When I was first starting out, I wrote a couple songs and release them," Andrea informed them, "and I released an ep but stopped there."

Jack and Alex nodded.

"Yeah and then she tried to ease them," Luke told them, "but Michael made copies."

Andrea groaned, "I was fifteen or sixteen when that happened and when I turned eighteen and wanted to write more and produce more music everyone will think of them and I don't want anyone to think of those songs so I deleted them so that if I wanted to produce music later on than I can and no one will ever have to hear them," she ranted.

The blonde boy shook his head as the other two chuckled.

"Andy," Alex began, "music is supposed to grow with you so that others can understand and get to know you."

Andrea shrugged her shoulders, "I know. But my anxiety got the best of me." Luke rubbed her shoulders in comfort as he understood what she meant. As he too went through something similar. "So I stuck with acting."

"It's understandable, Andy, but today let's decide which song we wanna complete and go from there?" Alex questioned. Andrea nodded, as she flipped through the pages but she had found herself on the song she started to write a few hours ago. "I kinda like this one." She told them.

Luke grabbed the book out of her hands, he sent a small smile in her direction, "is this about you know. . ." he started but stopped once he remembered there were other people in the room.

"They know, Lu," Andrea told him.

The blonde nodded, "Calum," He finished.

"How long you have you been crushing?" Jack asked.

"For a while," Andrea answered, "since I was 14."

Luke nodded, "yeah, I'm the only other person that knows, she's in love with him and I was the first and only one. So don't go telling everyone."

Alex and Jack shook their head, "We won't. Okay. Let's start writing."

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"Even if I woke up in my dreams
Would there still be something I'm missing
If I had everything, would it mean anything to me?

Would it be enough?
Or would I still be wondering?"

Andrea softly sang as Luke strummed on the guitar. Jack and Alex clapped, "that's it!" Alex told them as he finished writing the notes down, "that's the song."

Luke set down the guitar and brought the brunette girl into a hug, "see. You still got it!" Andrea giggled and nodded as the boys still continued to clap.

"This song will help change how people then viewed you as a musician and show them that, yeah, you had some time to found yourself and your voice in music but hey, I have a hella good song to show it," Alex told her.

"Yeah," Andrea spoke, "thank you." She brought him into a hug, Alex kissed her forehead, "no problem, Andy."

"We'll come back into the studio record it soon," Luke told them.

They all nodded in agreement.

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