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Daisy: We must've written eight or nine songs the first couple weeks. I would have an idea, and then he'd flesh it out, or he would come up with a riff, and I'd come up with a melody line.
Billy: When you're making an album, any album, it's an intimate thing. I mean, it has to be.
Daisy: Which isn't to say we didn't... fight.
Billy: Oh, we were fighting constantly. (chuckles)
Warren: For a month it was like that. We'd be, we'd be in the studio, you know, recording all the arrangements, and they'd be... who knows where, doing God knows what.
Eddie: Every day, they'd come in with something new.
Karen: I mean, great fսcking songs.
Eddie: And every night, they'd come in giggling like two little schoolgirls.
interviewer: Did it concern you?
Graham: Not really. Not yet, anyway. I mean... like, whatever they were doing... it was working.
Lata: The days I visited the band at the recording studio... I think I was more concerned that Camila wasn't there. The whole reason the band was The Six was because of Camila, i think just not seeing her recording or taking photos while everything happened was an anomaly. I think it's one of the reasons I was rarely there
Interviewer: What was the other reason?
Lata: [hesitates] You have to remember this was the 70s, so hanging out with rock stars meant there was no taboos on drugs. It was almost encouraged and after a while... you either give in or become completely done with it all
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November quickly turned into the new year. During the days of recording the band would always go even if they came back home late with hours in their day waiting for Billy and Daisy to join them. Once Lata was finished with her semester she had more time to visit the band
On this specific day Lata had visited only to learn that it was Warren's turn in the booth. Lata was accustomed to their rockstar life to an extent - it was still jarring having total strangers act like they've known the band for ages and have them snort cocaine.
Lata could drink ten shots or five beers without blinking an eye but she never showed any interest in trying cocaine.
When Warren finished recording his part of the song on the drums walks out to the studio's common area to find Lata laughing hysterically on the couch next to some guy who had his arm around Lata's seat
Lata's smile widdens once she spots him and jumps off the couch to walk over to him, "Hi"
"Hey," Warren smiles at her only to notice the white powder on her nose making him swipe it with his thumb "What's so funny?"
"This guy's name is Adam and her's is Eve!" Lata points at the two people she had been sharing a couch with as if that explained the joke
Considering she was always the one more sober than him in every way possible, seeing her high on coke rather than weed was interesting. Warren kisses the tip of her nose, "How do you feel?"
"I feel amazing! It's- it's I... I know now!"
"What do you know?" Warren asks with a grin liking her seeing happy
"That I'm dropping out of school" Lata says with determination that makes Warren's happiness vanish
They'd talked about how stressed she's been and how many PHD programs with her focus in marine biology there were - specifying in the search for a composite to break down plastic without harming the sea ecosystem - and there weren't many but Lata really wanted to go somewhere near the coast. Warren never picked up on the fact that Lata would give up her dream - the dream she'd been talking about since they met. Him getting his dream but not Lata wasn't right.
"Baby, what are you talking about?" Warren asks all playfulness out of his voice
"It just makes so much sense now Warren!" Lata exclaims, happy to share what she just came to realize "Staying in school has been holding me back, like without it who am I? Dropping out would just be ripping the bandaid and then I'll be healed!"
"Healed? What?"
Not hearing the questions Lata exclaims, "I'm going to call my advisor right now!"
"No, no!" Warren stops her by putting his hands on her shoulders so she wouldn't move "Remember what you told me?"
"No"
"We only make sober decisions. No life changing decisions while under the influence," Warren recites her words knowing she was right and he would have regretted adopting the dog that only had a year to live - he wouldn't have been able to manage that heartbreak
"But this isn't under the influence. It is me being clear minded!"
"Baby no"
At his statement Lata hops filled with energy and argues back, "Baby yes!"
"Lata..."
"Warren." Lata takes his hands on her shoulders not giving in "I am calling my advisor and quitting."
"No"
"Okay." Lata shrugs her mind still set on quitting but knew he wouldn't let her "Can you get me some water?"
"Yeah"
Warren doesn't think much of it and turns to grab a closed water bottle from the mini fridge by the couch. Turning back with water in hand Lata is nowhere around.
Warren curses and makes his way around the studio to the nearest phone which was in Deb's office. Warren walks into the office only to see Lata with the phone receiver to her ear
He ends the call making her look up at him with a pout, "Hey!"
"No calls"
"I am quitting!" Lata loudly says setting the phone back where it belonged on the table
