America's Sweetheart

six | reunion

Edited- 03.19.2022 (2:42am)

Today makes a week that we've been on tour. Many reporters have emailed me asking me how I felt about about performing with another man in front of my ex, Haze Collins. I didn't even know he was there!

"Listen, Emma, you have to do one interview. It'll be over the phone and I'll send your printer a list of questions to be approved."

I almost groan at Tim's statement, but think better and walk to my printer when it begins whizzing. Tim tells me that he'll get with my publicist and set the phone call up. I grab the papers and sit at the small table in my bus. All of a sudden, we stop.

"Ms. Mayfield, Mr. Daniels's bus is having an issue, so he will be joining us for the rest of the way to Austin," Mitchell, my driver, tells me politely.

"Okay, thank you for telling me, Mitch," I smile and he rolls the screen back up.

The door opens and Colt walks up the stairs, a duffel bag in hand. I wave at him when he looks at me, but quickly busy myself with the questions.

One of the questions is 'How do you feel after being Hazed and rebounding with a man that is the exact opposite of Haze?' The question makes me scoff and I write down my answer in my notebook.

"What?"

I ignore the man that I 'rebounded' with and continue reading the questions, crossing some off and leaving some alone, meaning they can be asked. Colton growls and snatches the papers from the table, reading some.

"Hazed?"

He throws his head back, laughing loudly. I almost join, but manage to keep a straight face, looking serious.

"Is he Taylor Swift now?"

This question gets me giggling until Colton sobers up. He reads a few more questions and rolls his eyes at one of them on the last page, where I haven't seen.

"Ms. Mayfield, did you stage your breakup with Haze Collins so you could be with Colten Daniels without guilt? They didn't even spell my name right!"

"What?!"

I stand and snatch the paper from Colton's grip. Sure enough, the question is there, in bold lettering. I pick up my pen and go to mark through it, but Colton takes my pen and my notebook, writing something in it.

'I will answer this one. My tour bus broke down, so our managers put me on the bus with Emma Lou. The relationship we have is none of the public's business. At the moment, we are simply friends. If something changes, that's for us to decide.'

I read what he wrote and he shrugs when I look up at him. He just hands my pen and questions back before looking for food in the cabinets. I shake off the feeling that I felt the kickoff day of the tour and mark off a few more questions, sending them back to Tim.

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"That movie is so sickening! Why the hell would somebody do that? That is fucking cruel! So they fall in love, get married, then she dies? Are you shitting me? That's a terrible movie!"

I decided to re-watch A Walk to Remember on Netflix and Colton sat down with me, making fun of how dumb Landon is and how beautiful Jamie is. Now, though, he's pissed because of how the movie ends.

"I thought most girls liked mushy movies. Like boy meets girl, girl is unaware of boy's feelings, they kiss, fall in love, and live happily ever after."

"I'm not most girls, Colt. I love this movie because he loved her so much that he wanted to be married to her, even though he was aware of the chance of her passing away. That's real love; true love. A love that will never die, even though she's gone, he will always love her."