Chapter 47 - Working With Faye Group!

After a lot of ribbing and teasing, the five brother like friends separated after extracting a promise from Adam to at least introduce them to the girl he was interested in making their sister in law.

The only person who stayed behind was Felix who was now munching on another bag of chips. 

Not bothered by him, Adam went to check on his phone hoping to see another message from Alice but the phone had no notification. Felix noticed the actions quietly before sighing and leaving his perch, ready to leave the room. He has travelled through the night and now they needed to go to the company soon so it was better if he grabbed some shut eye.

But before he could leave the room , Adam stopped him. "I thought you wanted to talk about something?"

Felix smiled sarcastically before asking, "So you noticed?"

Adam could not help but frown at the sarcastic tone and asked directly, "What is going on in that head of yours?"

But instead of answering, Felix directly refused asking in return, "Since when did we start having heart to heart chats?"

"Felix, we never heart to heart because we have already linked our hearts to each other. You, me and the others all know that we have each other. So, what has you so worried? Is it because of this incident? Gyeom is too young and he is allowed a little rebellion and immaturity. I mean we were already his age when we formed the band and past the rebellion stages! A little immaturity is good for him to grow up."

Adam noticed that Felix seemed to be not paying attention to what he was saying but he was actually hearing intently. Walking to the guitar that was placed in the corner of the room, Felix started to play a new melody. Adam closed his eyes and listened as he let it flow over him. This is how Felix usually communicated. The main producer of the band, Felix was actually the biggest reason for their success. His melodies had the power of talking. The music was enough for him to write the lyrics. As words of longing intertwined with happiness started to flow through him, the music turned choppy and turbulent, making the listener feel as if they had been thrown from a tranquil lake into a rough sea.

It was music that first spoke of hope and a craving for love. The happiness of finding it. The struggle of holding onto it and then slowly the pain of losing it. An abyss of all human feelings and emotions going around in the same circle.

As the turmoil in music slowed down, the song flowed into another melody. A calm after the storm. A peace. And once the music was finished, no sound existed in the room other than the two men's silence.

Adam turned to look at Felix, seeing the man leaning back with his eyes closed. With the pain in his eyes, he knew he would see a mirror of his own reflected thoughts. He and Felix we're both the same. They each had their love in front of their eyes but could do nothing to hold onto them. His love did not remember him while Felix, his lover wanted nothing to do with him. Both their hearts had been served on a platter only to be trampled upon.

Walking to his mate, be placed a hand on his shoulder in silent understanding. Felix came out of his trance with a sarcastic smile on his face and looked up saying," We always feel it is them who need us but the truth is we need Gyeom's silliness, Apollo's pranks and I.M's logic more that anyone. And both of us need to remember that."

"Hmm."

After a moment of silence, the two people had already composed their emotions and Adam went over to his bag to look for his diary and started to write the lyrics that were now floating around in his head. Naturally the process of song writing was not so easy. After this initial piece both Felix and Adam would work on fine tuning their part and then would come the time to produce the song. Sleep forgotten, both were immersed in their work and that is when an urgent knock sounded on the door. 

Closing his diary and carefully placing it in his bag, Adam walked to the door to open it and saw a frazzled Phillippe standing there? Marching in, Phillippe looked at Adam accusingly and said," Were you trying to do damage control or were you trying to make more problems for me? What is this surprise about? Now everyone is speculating about a new album that you are set to release! Even though your songs have been recorded the company is still working on the video and we have not even decided anything for the pre sales! Are you trying to make my hair turn grey? Or should I pull out my hair and become bald to satisfy you? To add to it, our biggest deal which we were supposed to sign after you returned from vacation is in doldrums because of this blasted scandal!"

As Phillippe panted for breath after cursing out, Adam raised an eyebrow and asked," Deal? What deal is this? and why were we not aware it? Phillippe, you do know that we are not going to take on any more brand endorsements for the time being. So what is this deal. Look, Phillippe we understand that brand rankings are important but we want to work on out album, concerts and more!"

Phillippe shook his head and explained," It is not a brand endorsement deal! Actually it was but not in the way you are thinking? You remember the variety show "1,2,3 Go!" where you played different games and sports while competing with each other? All of you enjoyed that right? It was also well received by the audience and we were planning something on similar lines with a big corporation. They were going to be producers. Their only request was that their own venues be used for the shows! It was a win win deal for all of us! But the company has been very strict and we have passed almost all stages of approval except for the final. However the marketing director of the company is now hesitating and considering using their second option for this project! Though as a band, all of you have reached way beyond your peers, such opportunities don't come by everyday. And even if we find another producer, if the company sponsors them then we will have a tougher competition in the future. But if that company sponsors us then you will have taken a much larger leap than expected and leave behind all your competitors! I did not tell you this because I wanted to confirm everything! I have been working my a** off while you were all on holidays just so we can get this! There is no one better than Faye Group at the moment." 

At the mention of the Faye Group, Adam suddenly felt his ears sharpen. He, who had been resistant to the ideal all along, was suddenly looking forward to it and thus asked," Is that why we went to the Annual Party that night?"

Finally Adam asked a question! Phillippe felt as if he had been offered Nirvana because the only way for the group to accept this deal would have been if Adam agreed to it and since he was questioning the deal, that means at least the guy was interested. He felt a niggling thought that Adam might have some interest in the Chairwoman but that would mean doubting his artiste's sanity so he simply explained," Yes! I wanted the chairwoman to have a good impression of you so I took you there. But that could not happen. Anyways, it is never too late! I, at least, had the foresight to arrange a meeting with Chairwoman Faye in advance and we are going to see her in two days. Hopefully until then this scandal would have disappeared and they will be more open to the deal! But, K! before that we need to prepare the surprise that you have prepared for the Stars! what are we going to do about that?"

With a glitter in his eyes at the thought of meeting and then working with Alice in the near future, Adam grinned and proposed his plan," All of us have prepared a log of our vacations which we are going to share with our Stars. Gather everyone so that they can give you pictures and then each of us will narrate out thoughts over this. We will then release the videos in parts to let the Stars know that they are never much away from our thoughts!"

As Phillippe marveled at the genius plan, Felix could only shake his head at the manipulative man that was their leader!