Capítulo 5: Coming to studio

General pov Monday

The dark sky are in contrast with the bright earth below various light from street lamps and houses still shining their light, a few leaves slowly falls from the tree where they belong, and a chilling wind blowing slowly without any care for other, it's 50°F (10°C for others) on the outside.

Inside one of the houses in california, the clock shows 04:00 and a kid already wakes up and moves around in his bed annoyedly.

"Fuck.. I can't go back to sleep, and it's only 4 in the morning. I can't even eat yet, I woke up too early today." Harry muttered softly.

"Is this the side effect of getting reborn ? or getting too excited ? or maybe feeling nervous ? God Damn it i hate this feeling" Harry continues to rambling around.

"Should I wake mom up ? nah she needs more rest, Alex has been waking up a lot at night, and dad already has those horrible eye bags under his eyes, he also needs more sleep… uuughhh what should i do ? " Harry muttered softly while moving around anxiously in his bed.

Finally this little boy decide to go downstairs to his house kitchen, and seeing whether he can find any food or maybe drinks to drank, so his little figure began moving around sneakily around his own house, going to the kitchen to check the fridge and rummaging food inside, where he found a can of diet soda with strawberry flavour.

"Meh i don't really like strawberries but i guess it's better than none" Harry muttered softly, and then he began cleaning the can before opening it softly and drinking it happily, and then he bring it to the living room where he can drink it while laying around the sofa, enjoying his alone time.

"I can get used to this, enjoying a cold soda alone in the morning is pretty fun" Harry said softly while giggling a bit.

Suddenly a shadow rose from his back, the little kid, unaware of the shadow and still happily enjoying his drink without any care in the world, was shocked when suddenly someone took aways the soda can from his hand.

"Hey, I'm drinking that" Harry said while moving his head to his back before he was suddenly shocked with what he saw.

"Aaaarrrhhggg " Harry screamed before a hand close his mouth to stop his scream.

"Okay stop shouting, why are you drinking soda this early ? it still counts as night you know" Claire said sternly to Harry.

"Mom, you surprised me… i woke up and can't go back to sleep so i go to the kitchen to grab something to eat or to drink" Harry said softly.

"And you decide that a soda in the morning is healthy ? " Claire asks Harry while staring at his face.

"Its diet soda so it's alright, after all it's not like i have it every single days" Harry said slowly to Claire with a puppy eyes.

"Baby it's not fair for you to use the puppy eyes, and I know you are a smart boy, but you are still 4 years old, you need to eat something healthier than this, and even if you wanna say it's a treat, you need to see the time right ? it's 4 in the morning for God Sake". Claire sounds a bit annoyed by her oldest son.

"Sorry mommy, I just… just.. Can't sleep so I decided to enjoy my own morning, I'm sorry… " Harry said softly.

"Don't do this again in the future alright ? you can woke me up or drink a milk, maybe eat a cereal in the morning if you're hungry" Claire said to harry

"Yes mom" Harry muttered softly.

Harry pov

This is not a good morning for me, from waking up too early to getting caught drinking soda in the morning by mom. If it's dad that catches me, maybe he will allow me to finish the can, sigh… I guess I'm just too nervous huh ? After all, I had never met a producer before and I didn't know if I could do this.

I guess I'm too agitated this morning, let's hope everything is going to be alright.

In the afternoon uncle Mitch picked me up from my house, it seems he already talked to my mother and managed to get permission to bring me to the universal music's office building in downtown. After sitting that seems forever in the car, we finally arrive at the studio, uncle Mitch bring me inside while holding his bag, today he look like a professional lawyer with a black suit and a white shirt under it, and i just follow him along to the one of the office before we finally meet patricia maxwell.

"Good afternoon mrs. Maxwell" I said confidently.

Mrs Maxwell looks professional in her white shirts and long brown skirts , she is a white woman that seems to have a bit of irish or british lineage, with long blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Good afternoon Mr Dunphy, please call me pat or max, and just relax, it's okay to be casual around here" Pat told me gently.

"Please call me Harry, so my uncle already told me that you want to talk to me before buying the song ? " I asked her immediately.

"Yes , Harry, I did ask your uncle to meet you directly, I wanna talk about what your vision for the singer will be ? " she ask me directly,

"Well in my mind I want the singer to be male, with a manly voice that has those crispy voices. It's a bit hard to explain but since the music is between rock and metal, I need a charismatic singer or band that can do the song justice "I said to her directly.

"Very well, we can understand that, and how about the fact that we want you here on the recording day ? Can you do it ? we can even record now if you can do it right now " She asked me.

"Wait , today ? like immediately ? How about the negotiation ? and the fact that i won't go to any interview or in public, not even the awards ceremony ?" I asked Pat.

"We already agree on all of your condition including the copyright fee, for both the lyrics and the music we are willing to pay 15% for Primo Victoria and we are willing to pay $250.000 if you agree that for 3 years this song is exclusive for universal music, of course we are still paying for every single commercial song for perpetuity after being recorded by our artist" she said confidently.

"Then we have a deal, nice doing business with you Pat" I said immediately.

"Nice doing business with you Harry, we can directly go to the recording studio on the 15th floor" she said to me.

"Sure, let's go there" I said to pat.

After spending a couple hour in the recording studio, i came out happy as hell, the singer that they have have a similar voice to Joakin Broden, his name is jonathan Smith and i even talk to him that we maybe gonna work together a lot because i love making rock/metal song about history, and he seems like a nice guy.

"I have a feeling that we are gonna work together a lot, John," I said to Jonathan.

"I have the same feeling here Harry, I love how you can bring the history lesson to your song, and the fact that it blends so well is just, unimaginable, love your work man" he said to me.

"Well whenever I get a song that I feel you are gonna love, i will offer it to you first John, i hope we are gonna work together a lot and for a long time hahaha" i said happily while laughing around.

"Sure, just call me and I will tell pat to buy your song, i can feel it's gonna be a huge success" he said confidently.

"I'm feeling the same way John, you are gonna make it " I said while smiling.

After a while i decide to go home for dinner, where my mother ask me a lot about what i do in the studio, and how it all went well, she seems happy that my music is finally sold, and the fact that i make 250.000 dollars is also a big news for her, she never expected that just the signing fee is that much, if only mother know, i still have 2.5 million usd in my system , she is gonna get shocked even more… But I decided to hide the system from her, so I just told her that we can use the money to pay the house mortgage and it's more than enough so my father can finally work less and spend more time with his family. My mother agreed and said that she was going to talk to my father tonight.

When my father finally arrived at home it was already late, but he also seemed happy.

"Dad I'm waiting for you to get home, here drink some water" I said when he entered the house.

"Aww Harry, did you wait for me ? Why ? Did you have a surprise for your father ? " Phil asked me.

"Yes , Dad I got a big surprise for you, but I will let mom explain it to you cause I'm already feeling sleepy, well let's just say I make 250.000 dollars today" I said to him before leaving him in the living room and running upstairs to sleep in my own room.

General pov

Phil looks stunned, he is not saying anything and just sit down in the sofa with an open mouth until a few minute passes and Claire coming downstairs after making sure all the kids are already sleeping before hugging her husband that Phil seems to return to life.

" Are Harry telling the truth babe ? that he makes 250 grand today ?" Phil ask his wife,

"Yeah, your Oldest son is signing with the universal music today and the money is already in my account, it is after tax because the universal music agree to pay the tax for us, in return now the song is exclusively owned by UMG (Universal Music Group) for 3 years" Claire say to Phil softly.

"And is it all real ? " Phil asks Claire for confirmation.

"Yes dear, it's all legal and real, Mitch already call me and he said the money will be in my account in wednesday, he come and have me sign for Harry, he even considering to be full time Harry private lawyer, cause he know how much our son can make just from song writing" Claire explained softly to Phil.

"These are such happy days, my son is talented and we need to support him darling, maybe use the money to build a music room for him ? Or a studio ? we can even buy a few instruments that Harry loves to use" Phil said excitedly.

"Don't be in such a hurry dear, Harry says he wants to use it to pay the mortgage, he doesn't like the fact that we have a debt and want you to work less so you can spend more time with our family" Claire said softly to Phil.

"Hmmm , I guess I can work a bit less, but really ? the first thing he said is to pay our mortgage ?" Phill ask claire

"Yeah, that's what he wants to do" Claire said confidently.

"He is such a good kid huh, never expected that… alright we're gonna pay off our mortgage and we can build a music room for him in the basement, we got more than enough for that, after all today i manage to sold a big mansion with a big commission in my pocket, we already seal the deal and done the paperworks" Phil smile happily.

And just like that Mr and Mrs Dunphy spend more time in their room while making noises that good children cannot hear, they are really really hard working in making the next generation of Dunphy family line flourish.