One month had passed since Max had heard Breanna's song and now they were actually recording it. "I'm tired! I don't want to do anymore." Breanna whined like a little kid into Howie's chest as he laughed quietly. "Oh c'mon. We're almost done. Just two more hours and then we're done until tomorrow afternoon. I'll even let you sleep in tomorrow." He explained. She pulled away from his embrace and looked into his eyes. "How the hell do you guys do this? It's so tiring." She complained. "It's our life and I love it! This is what I love to do." She smiled at how much he loved his life and her. "Okay, fine! Two more hours but I hate this song now. Every time I sing the chorus with you, somehow I forget the words. You're no good for me." She teased. "Well, don't look at me when you sing. Do what Brian does. Close your eyes." Howie said as he placed his hand over her eyes. He pulled his hand away and her eyes were closed. "Sleeping?" He teased. "Yes. Now, don't wake me." She threatened.

"Oh how cute!" AJ shouted from the back of the studio while the rest of the guys snickered. "Glad you think so." Breanna replied. "If you're really that tired, you'd be in here recording your part of the song. The sooner it's done the sooner you're outta here." He added. Breanna's eyes grew large as she realized he was right. "You're right AJ! For the first time ever, you're right!" AJ rolled his eyes. "Just get yo ass in there!" He pointed to the booth. "Okay, okay! Who'm I singin' with today?" she asked while walking towards the recording booth. "Me and Brian." Nick smiled. "Oh great! We're gettin' NOTHING done today." She teased. "Hey I'm hurt!" Brian replied while placing his hands over his heart. "I meant it as a compliment. You two are too much fun. AJ's too sexy, Kevin is just too hot to handle but Howie and Eve will kill me if I touch him, and Howie, well, alI want to do is have sex with him in that booth. All of you are just too distracting." She teased. She reached the recording booth but noticed it was too quiet. When she turned around to look behind her she saw nothing but shocked faces. "Howie, hun, pick your chin off the floor. And will the rest of you grow up? Did I say something *that* distracting?" AJ nodded his head with a smirk. "Um, Bree, what exactly have you and D done in that booth besides sing?" "Nothing!" Breanna and Howie answered together. "Uh huh" the rest of the guys replied. "Seriously! We haven't done anything." Howie tried to convince the rest of the guys. "He's right. We haven't done anything....yet." Breanna added. "C'mon Nick! Bri! Let's hurry up so we can get outta here. I'm becoming claustrophobic in this booth!"

The recording went along as Breanna planned. She and Brian kept screwing up the verses and Nick forgot them all together. "Geez, man! You should know this song backwards!" Brian teased. "Hey man! It's been a long day." Nick defended. Breanna felt sorry for Nick. He was inlove with a girl that none of them knew. She was quiet, shy, and no one hardly ever saw her but she had her affect on Nick. He seemed less hyper, more attentive to the others, and just sweet and gentle. "It's okay, Nick. It's been a long day for all of us." Breanna replied as she placed her small arm around his waist, giving him a friendly squeeze before tip-toeing to give him a kiss on the cheek. Nick looked down at her and picked her up for a hug. "Thanks." He whispered. "No problem." She replied in his ear. "You're in love. I can see it written all over your face." Nick blushed and nodded his head. "Happy?" Breanna asked. "More than ever. I just wish that she...." but he trailed off. "She'll come out of her shell. The important thing is that you both are happy." Nick nodded again. "Okay Dr. Relationships, are you ready for the chorus?" Brian teased. "Shuddup!" Nick and Breanna shouted as they laughed at Brian's shocked face. "We're kidding, Brok. Yeah we're ready. And this time I promise not to fuck up the chorus. Just keep Howie away from me." Breanna laughed. "Breanna, this time you all are singing it together. We’re gonna try and do something different. I want this song to have more of a live feel, like a concert. If we can get this right the first 5 times you won't have to do it again. But you still have a solo while the guys do the chorus." Max said into the booth. "I know, Max. I'll do my best not to screw up the solo. I'll just close my eyes like Howie suggested."

An hour later they were working on the chorus. No one had screwed up yet. During the last verse, Brian sang a small solo, followed by Nick, then Kevin, Howie, and finally AJ. When it was Breanna's turn Howie placed his hand on her waist. She looked up at him then back at the microphone. She closed her eyes and sang as loud as she could with all the emotion she could muster. All the guys were shocked and stopped singing, listening to Breanna. When she finally finished she noticed the rest of the guys weren't singing. "Did I mess up?" She asked. Howie shook his head no in response. "We did." Brian explained. "GREAT!" Breanna was pissed. She wanted out of there. "No, guys, it's okay." Max stated. "We'll just use what we recorded the first time and edit it. Don't worry. I think we're done with this song for now." Breanna smiled and looked into Howie's eyes. "So, what does this mean?" She asked. "We are finished recording." She smiled. "Okay! What's the downside?" "Two weeks of vacation, 4 weeks of promotion and 4 weeks of rehearsal for the world tour, then more promotion, then the tour." He explained. "What's that mean? I mean for us." She asked while exiting the recording booth to gather her belongings. "Means we get to decide what songs we're gonna release and if we plan to release this song. If we do, you're doing a video and performing it live with us on TV and on the tour. As for us, nothing's changed."

By the time the song was completely finished it had been sent to everyone involved in the recording. Somehow a small clip of it ended up on the internet and the rumors started to fly. Breanna awoke to a phone call at 1am one night but Howie answered the phone instead since he was downstairs hanging out with Kevin and Eve. Breanna could hear everything that was being said. "Hey man!" Howie answered. "Okay, I'm assuming she never told you anything, did she?" Breanna laughed when she thought about who could be calling. Only one name came to mind, Alexei. She heard footsteps running up the stairs and held her breath. She was trying to pretend she was asleep. "I know you're awake. You're never this still when you sleep alone." Breanna threw back the sheets and laughed. "Okay you caught me. Alexei wants to talk to me, doesn't he?" Breanna questioned. "How'd you know..." "I could tell by everything you were saying on the other end." Breanna smiled. Howie handed her the cordless phone and sat down on the edge of the bed. "You're so in trouble!" He sang out but he quickly shut up when Breanna kicked him. "What'd I do this time?" She answered the phone. "Breanna. When was the last time you checked your email or even *looked* on the internet?" Her brother questioned. "Not in a long time. Why?" She asked innocently. "Cut the crap. You know you're on the internet. You always are, but did you know your voice is?" "WHAT?" She yelled. "Yeah, some up and coming young singer recorded some amazing song with your friends. But, when I heard it, the "up-and-coming" voice matched yours. I don't think it's a coincidence." "But no one knows it's me, right?" She was nervous because she and the guys agreed to not use her name. Not until she was ready. Instead, on the album, her name was listed as Shy Rose. The name Max had given her. "No one knows it's you, Bree. It's Shy Rose. How'd they come up with that name?" Alexei laughed. "Max Martin gave it to me." She laughed back. "Boy is he mistaken!" Alexei teased. "Hey!" Breanna said in an offended voice. "I'm kidding Bree. Anyway, that's great, I'm happy for you. You're gonna be famous!" Alexei was trying to piss his sister off because he knew how much she hated being famous. She was well-known amongst some of the hardcore BSB fans but that was about it. "Shuddup, Lex!" Breanna shouted. "I'm kidding, Bree! But, hun it's true. That song is the most anticipated song on that CD!" "I know." She agreed sadly. "Anyway, I'm tired and I know you are so I'll let you go. I just wanted to tell you that I knew." "Thanks, Lex. I love you! Goodnight." Breanna hung up the phone and looked at Howie. "He knows." She stated. "I know." He smiled at her. "It's all over the internet, that song!" She whined. "What's wrong with that?" He asked as he caressed her face. "It's supposedly the most anticipated song!" "But that's good!" He replied. "You just need sleep. We'll talk about it in the morning." He explained as she laid back down. "In the morning? You have a press conference." She reminded him. "Yeah, that’s right, we do. Oh well, we’ll just have to deal with this later." He tucked Breanna in and went back downstairs to finish chatting with Eve and Kevin. When Howie reached the last few steps he looked towards Kevin and Eve who were on the couch in a heavy make-out session. "Oh c’mon! Get a room! This isn’t fair! My girls upstairs asleep so I’m not going to get anything." Howie joked. "Oh sorry, man. Got carried away I guess." Kevin apologized. "Naw, it’s okay. Me and Bree would probably be doing the same thing if we were left alone for a few minutes." "Well, anyway, we better get going. We have that thing in the morning." Kevin said slowly in deep thought. "I know. Breanna’s nervous about it." Howie explained as Eve and Kevin nodded their heads. "Well, hopefully things will work out for the best tomorrow." Eve stated. "Yeah, they will. She’s just…" Howie drifted off. "Yeah, I know how she is." Eve smiled. "Goodnight, D!" Kevin said hugging his friend. "See ya later!" Howie replied returning the hug. Eve gave Howie a quick hug and whispered "She’ll be okay" into his ear.

It had been barely three weeks since the song had been finished recording and the guys were out doing promotional appearances for the upcoming new album. At a press hearing they were questioned about the songs and most notably, one particular song. After 10 minutes of basic questions that the guys were used to being asked one journalists looked directly towards Howie. "Howie, what about the bonus track? Could you tell us a little bit about it?" Howie swallowed and smiled. "Sure! It was written by a close friend of ours and we loved it the moment we heard it but she had no intentions of ever recording it or even having anyone record it, period. But, we convinced her to let us use it which wasn't hard. The hard part was convincing her to sing it with us. That took us a couple of weeks of begging and pleading but once she agreed everything went smoothly. We don't normally do duets but something about this song, I don't know how to explain it. It's my favorite track on the new album." Howie said beaming. "Who is this young lady?" Another journalist asked. "We call her Shy Rose because that's what she is. Max Martin said she looked like a little rose. When we caught her singing this song she was really shy about it. So, that's what Max calls her and the name has stuck ever since." Brian explained. "What's her real name?" The same journalist asked. "That's confidential. She doesn't want that info to get out." Kevin defended. Nick spoke up as well and Howie swallowed hard thinking that Nick’s inexperience and immaturity would give Breanna away but Nick surprised Howie and everyone else. "Shy Rose is a great friend of ours, almost like a little sister and we’re really protective of her. She’s a very talented woman but we never knew she was musically talented. When we found out how great she really was she became very withdrawn ‘cause she was afraid of her life becoming like ours. We have no privacy and we can’t do anything normal. She didn’t want that to happen so we swore that we wouldn’t give away her real identity. If we do release this song, we’re gonna have her sing it with us and do the video and promotion that goes along with it but it’ll be on a different level. No one’s gonna know her real name or anything about her unless she wants to give out that information. You can keep pressing us for stuff about her but we’re not going to say anything. She’s too important to us." When Nick was finished saying his part the rest of the guys nodded their head in agreement. "She’s a talented friend and this is just something she did for us. She was being a friend. Nothing more, nothing less. Let’s leave it at that unless she wants to come forward and volunteer information about herself." AJ added. "Could you at least give us her age?" One reporter shouted. The guys quickly looked towards Howie. He shrugged his shoulders in response. "She’s in her twenties." He stated. "Why did they all look to you, Howie?" Another reporter asked. "Um, I was the one who introduced her to the guys. We met a while ago and we’re the best of friends." Howie knew that excuse wouldn’t work but for some reason it did. The reporters moved on and started asking other questions about the new album and how their lives had changed.