Our Secret Dream 2

Helping Momma Mel

As busy as things have been lately with not living in the main house, starting the wedding planning, having Chris and Bella staying with us I haven't been around the main house with Mel for a while. So when she texted me to ask if I'd be able to spare a couple of days this week to help her I literally cleared my schedule. Mel has done so much for me since I came out to LA, not only professionally but for me personally. She gave me a place to stay as Bryan and I figured out what was going on between us. She offered me a position with the team when my own management team in the UK had acted like complete tools.

Even now with Bryan and I living together in our own place she has been really supportive and lets us just do our own things. We might not be going live on the daily anymore but we are still keeping active with our supporters. Bryan is still posting daily and going live a couple times a week. I go live weekly with Chris on a Friday for our series 'Dating my Bestie' sometimes its on my platform, sometimes its on his, on rare occasions we both go live.

I tend to go live on insta while I am getting ready to just hang and chat with people. I'm thinking about starting up zoom calls with some of my followers as I keep getting so many DM's from people asking for zooms or a PO Box so they can send me fan art or letters. It's not that I want to shut them out of my life or anything but I don't want people to feel like they have to spend or send me money just to get my attention or feel appreciated from me.

I know that all the boys have a shared PO Box, do daily zoom calls etc but is this something that I want to do not only for them but for me? I'm going to have to think on it for a while any maybe get an outsiders opinion, either way I would not be charging ridiculous amounts if I did do this.

Anyway back to the point at hand, Mel called me last night and asked if both Leaha and I could come over and help her sort out the old office, looks like she want's to go revamp it into a music studio or something. For the past 8 months she has literally avoided that room like it has a disease or something. I'm not 100% why but she does and because she avoids the room, all of us have too. Out of loyalty I guess.

I arrived around an hour ago and I couldn't believe how much everything had changed in the space of 10 days. Clearly I am more out of the loop with Mel and the boys than I'd thought. Maybe being moved out and distracted with work and the wedding I haven't been a very good part of the team or friend to everyone as I had thought. The realisation makes me said and my heart aches a little. I'd always taken pride in being a good friend and someone they can depend on but maybe I haven't been holding myself up to my own standards?

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So turns out that the girl Tyler has been heavy crushing on and talking to all the time is actually Mel's niece Alyssa Jordan a huge snowboarding champion. I'd never really heard much of her as snowboarding wasn't huge in the UK but she's really sweet and kind. I thought initially she would have been from the UK too seeing as that's were Mel is from but she was actually born and bread in the US.

Not sure it's something to do with Tyler or anything but she's actually decided to stop in LA for a year and is going to be living at the main house. She wants to take a break from everything and just have a gap year. The year of having fun and who knows maybe she will fall helplessly and madly in love?

Between us I think LA will become her new home as her and Tyler seem inseparable but it's too early for any of us to tease them about it.

Dom hasn't been at the main house since we returned from Puerto Rico which is such a long time ago. Seems him and Quinn are pretty much living together just without the actual movement of stuff. I guess that's another reason as for why I haven't really seen either of them for longer than a few hours at a time. As much as I love having Quinn by my side helping me start the wedding planning I'd love for us to just hang out like the old days. When we would get all slutty and go to clubs, drink shots and dance until 4am. We haven't done that in such a long time. Maybe that's something I can arrange with her and Dom and Bryan could hang out. I don't think Mel's bothered about Dom not being at the main house as he is still going live regularly, uploading on his socials and keeping in touch with everyone from the house in the main group text. In all honesty if we didn't have the main group chat I don't think any of us would have a clue as to what each of us is working on.

Tristan you ask? He's become the new party boy of the house which is insane as he is only 18, he can't legally drink unless it's at the house or a party but he makes it work for him. I guess he's trying to live his life large before he meets the girl of his dreams. All any of us want is for him to be happy and it seems like what he's doing right now does.

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Mel talks us through everything that needs to be done in order for us to strip out the room for the builders, it's either going to be a long ass day or this is going to take longer than we think. Either way I have cleared my diary for the next 4 days.

I start off by sorting through the 4 large metal filing cabinets along the wall hoping it will be an easy task to complete. Boy, I was wrong. Just as I'd finish one draw I'd open the next to find it even messier than the one previous. How can someone be so unorganised and still get things done? I shake my head and take a deep breath, determined to get them all done as soon as possible. Mel has done an incredible job taking over the house and helping everyone but I know she could use a break that was a big reason that both Quinn and I hired Leaha - although she lives with Quinn and primarily helps organise her diary she still helps me with some of my business stuff when I'm extremely busy. Maybe she could offer Mel some support. I know that Mel could use it even if she would never actually ask for it.

Skylar: Leaha, feel free to say no but would you be able to take on another account?

Leaha: Yeah, I have the resource and the time. Quinn only really needs me on the weekends and your always hot on your diary scheduling things so I could help Mel like 3 days a week?

Skylar: That would be awesome, I know Mel could use some extra support.

Leaha: Great, it's a win-win. I can still help you though Sky if you need me. I'm used to supporting multiple people.

Skylar: Thanks.

Leaha turns back to what she was sorting and I shout out for Mel, she comes into her office a minute later. 'Yeah Sky?'

Skylar: I think I have a solution to help with your workload. Leaha has kindly offered to help with some of you work.

Mel: Really? That would be amazing. I'd really love to be able to go back to London for two weeks this summer.

Skylar: Why don't you guys go and have a coffee and start working out what tasks Leaha can do for you.

They both nod and leave the office.

I go back to the cabinet and continue sorting. I am on the last draw of the fourth cabinet when I notice a A4 brown envelop stuffed down the back of the draw. it's literally been crammed down the back hidden away. I pull on it gently until it breaks from from the place it had been shoved in. Once it's free I stand up and walk over to the sofa, sitting down with the envelop on my lap. I stare at the back of it, feeling a wave on nausea in my stomach. Whatever this is it isn't good.

I flip it over and it has F.A.O Zack on behalf of Bryan Williams.......OH FUCK!