skater Girl//Jack Avery

Chapter 14

it's the first day of all the guys being on tour, George and I are meeting the girls and going shopping, George felt bad that everyone was leaving so he stayed, I was getting me and Gracie ready she wore this: 

I wore this:

George wore this: 

we got ready to go, I grabbed Gracie and George grabbed her bag and we left. I got a new car last week and it was a white Audi A1 with a black roof, I strapped Gracie in and George offered to drive so I hopped in the passenger seat. we got to the mall, walked in and saw the girls straight away. "hey, it's been too long how have you been" "I'm good, tired but good, been working every day this week" "oh my god, where's Gracie been?" this is when George chimed in "either with me or sitting on the floor playing next to Ella" "how are the boys? have you heard from them?" "not yet but Dom and Brad have been sending a lot of photos" "yeah they've been really busy" "how are your parents and everyone? how's Hardin adjusting to having a new big sister" "not great, him and Tris are really close and then I come in and mess everything up? it's not fair on him" "yeah I can imagine, he'll get used to it, just takes time" "yeah but mum says he's been acting out, skipping school, smoking, drinking, going to parties" "oh my god" "she wants me to go home for a few days to see if I can talk to him" "yeah but what about Bailey and George?" "George is coming with me and Bailey is going to stay with Dom's parents cause they're here on holiday till Dom gets back" "anyway let's go shopping" "yeah" we went to forever 21, urban outfitters target, Walmart, victoria secret, old navy, Macy's until finally we left the mall and started packing for our trip to London. it's spring going into summer in London so I packed light clothing, I put my and Gracie's clothes in one suitcase and packed the hand luggage with my laptop, iPad, Gracie's iPad, chargers, spare change of clothes for Gracie, hoodie, headphones and Gracie had a backpack full of toys too. we were all ready to go, we were just waiting for George to get back from taking the dogs to Dom's parent's house. George got back and we headed straight to the airport. Gracie was so excited to see grandma and grandpa

we got off the plane 14hr later and got an uber to my parent's house. I knocked on the door and Hardin answered "hey...little brother" "what are you doing here?" "mum wanted me to come down and I missed you guys" "let me guess she wants you to talk to me" "what? no, why what's going on with you?" "ur a terrible liar" "anyway, I missed you guys and Gracie missed her uncle, Hardin" "hey Grace" "hi.." we get in the house, George takes the bags to our room and takes Grace upstairs to give us space "so what's going on?" "I don't know what you're talking about" "mum says you've been drinking, smoking, skipping school" "bullshit" "oi! please just talk to me, I know I messed it up by coming into your life but you love Grace and you're an amazing uncle" "yeah I do love her, it's just" "what? talk to me please" what neither of us had realised was that our parents and George were in the hallway listening in "Tristan never speaks to me anymore it's like I don't exist, he's always "busy" with his fiancee or you or the band, when we were growing up we would do everything together, he taught me to drive, not dad but him" "Hardin I'm sorry but Tristan hasn't had to deal with my problems for 3 months, you know I'M always here for you" "he's been lying to me for 3 months? he's made me hate you because of it!" "Hey, I'm here and I know you don't hate me, yes he shouldn't have lied but there's probably a good reason to it" "he's such an asshole, if he didn't wanna talk to me he should have said something" "that's not it, I know it's not" he grabs a glass and smashes it "THEN WHAT IS IT?!?!" "Hardin breathe please just calm down" "YOU WANT ME TO FUCKING CALM DOWN YOUR THE FUCKING REASON FOR ALL THIS!!!" "I'm sorry but please put the glass down and breath please you're scaring me" "fuck this I'm out of here" he pushes me really hard against the wall and storms out, I try and clean the glass up but accidentally cut my palm over "SHIT!" then mum and dad rush in "Darling, are you okay?" "Yeah, mum I just cut myself on glass" "it was Hardin again wasn't it?" "yeah it was" I clean my hand up and the glass and grab an ice pack, I sit on the sofa and George goes to check on grace. I get a call from Dom and the rest of the boys "hey guys" "hey babe, how is everything?" good, I'm actually at my parent's house in London" "where's George?" "upstairs with Grace" "hey sis, how's Hardin being?" I just sigh and say "he's good" "why did u sigh? what happened?" "nothing we just had a fight" "about what?" "you" then mum and dad walk in "is that Tristan? hi, sweetie" "hey mum, why did they fight about me?" "honey, it can wait till after the tour" "no mum tell me now" "I asked your sister to talk to Hardin, he's been acting out but things escalated and this is the first time he's physically hurt someone" "what who?" "ur sister" "what did he do?" "Tristan calm down, it wasn't his fault" "what did he do?" I could see he was getting angrier by the second so I just hung up on him and texted Brad to distract him and not to tell him what Hardin did.