Fade to Black (sequel to riptide)

Part 26

I've been writing and recording, I'm back in L.A too. I mostly have been in the studio with the girls watching them not get anything done. I'm always with them it's ridiculous. Today was actually going to be a work day so Lauren was at the board doing stuff while Normani was singing in the booth. I saw her beginning to get frustrated with herself.
"Jackson baby I need help!"
"No." She looks back at me with a confused pout.
"Why not?"
"You've got this. Just focus, you don't need my help. You just need to calm down and start over."
"But..."
"I'm not bailing you out. You're a genius you've got this." She rolls her eyes sighing then turning back around to the board.
"Mani do it over because Jacksons being an asshole." She says specifically so I can hear making sure to make eye contact with me. I shrug and she groans annoyed that I remain unaffected. Normani starts singing again the track reverted to the original. She did some things changing the sound of the song.
"Jackson!" I hear her call as I play on my phone.
"What?"
"Do the thing!"
"Ok I'll go do the thing that gave no instructions that was extremely vague." I see in my peripheral that she rolled her eyes again.
"Can you come here and play the beats please?"
"That's better." I put my phone in my pocket walking over to her playing the beats.
"Perfect." She gave me a thumbs up and eventually finishing the song.
"Yay we're done!"
"Bye Jack! Bye Lau! I'm outta here!" Normani put up a peace sign running out of the room. The other girls said their goodbyes before leaving. That left just me and Lauren in the studio alone.
"Lauren what do you want to do?"
"Work in your album."
"Ok what do you want to work on?"
"It's your album what do you want to work on?"
"I want to work on my song, the one about chains."
"The one you so expertly and masterfully titled chains?"
"Actually no I want to do the one you wrote."
"I don't write I don't know what you're talking about."
"Don't lie I've seen the song. You tried to make it anonymous when you turned it in to Simon but he said something that tipped me off."
"What's it called this song that I have no clue what you're talking about."
"It's called Avalanche and it's really good. You really should've told me."
"It was my first time writing I didn't want it to be bad and then you lie to me and tell me it was good."
"Hey id never lie to you."
"Really if sex was on the line?"
"Ok you have a point but still I love the song a lot."
"It wasn't that good Jack I know that."
"Lauren stop doubting yourself. You're amazing. You're talented. I see that and I think this song is really good."
"Thanks."
"Now I'm going to sing it and pure going to produce it and it's going on my album."
"Really?" She says shyly.
"Yes." I say then head into the booth to sing it. We spent the rest of that day working on my album getting through three songs of which we will make decisions about later. Lauren wanted to go hang out with some of her producer friends so she did that and I went and hung out with Justin. He had some of his friends with him. Some chick named Hailey. Kourtney Kardashian whom I know really well because of Kendall and Kylie who were also there as well as Gigi, Zayn and Diplo. It was an odd mix of people. Kind of like our own squad. It was kinda cool too. Anyways that happened. We pretty much just went out to some club lounge place and hung there while Diplo dj'd. Nothing really that special happened. What I was excited for was going home to my gorgeous fiancé. I arrived back home at like 2 in the morning. I went upstairs to our room seeing her there in shorts her hair up in a messy bun. She was only messing round on her phone but she looked amazing. I jumped on the bed and crawled over to her resting my head on her chest.
"Hey baby where'd you go?" She asks.
"I went out with Justin to see Diplo perform."
"Awesome. I love major lazer so Diplo is one of my faves."
"He was pretty good. The best part through was watching Kendall and Kylie attempt to dance. Now that was entertaining."
"Ok the Jenner sisters were there who else went?"
"Zayn and Gigi, Kourtney kardash, some chick named Hailey that Justin's messing around with."
"Cool seems like you had a lot of fun."
"I did what did you do."
"I went out with some of the people I know, some really eccentric and chill interesting people I met through some of my friends and like yeah we just went out to a lounge and listened to poetry."
"Ooh poetry sounds interesting."
"It was. Everything was good. The poetry was so inspiring. The messages were intense and diverse. I never heard the same idea twice. It was amazing. You would've liked it."
"I would've and you would've liked Diplo."
"I would've."
"Let's stop doing separate things. Let's allow the only thing separate we do is work for the most part. I just don't like being away from you with people I don't know. I want you safe and I like spending time with you."
"I like that idea."
All of these is being said with my head buried in her stomach.
"Give me a kiss." She says lips puckered. I comply and peck her lips.
"Not enough." She says pulling me in for a longer liplock. I sit up and allow our lips to move together. I push her down on the bed. I headed for her neck but she pushed me off of her.
"Go to sleep!" She says laughing. I change into my shirts leaving me in basketball shorts without a shirt on and my cross necklace dangling around my neck. I got back in bed cuddling Lauren's back. She I retained our fingers setting my arm across her chest.