Living with Tayler Holder

Chapter 14: How to fix a broken heart

"Hey babe" he said as he kissed her. I whipped out my phone and took a video of them making out.
"No. Fucking. Way."Vinnie said as we were both left speechless.
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I know I wanted to find some dirt on Charly but I didn't expect it to be this bad. I put my phone down as I looked at Vinnie as guilt washed over my face. I can't believe she's cheating on him. Nobody deserves that. It'll break his heart. Vinnie noticed how bad I felt.
"Hey, it's not your fault she's a cheating bitch." He said trying to comfort me.
"I know it's not my fault, but Tayler's going to be so heartbroken." I said feeling worse by the second.
"Well it's better than him dating a cheater." Vinnie said as he began to walk back to his car. He did have a point. I got in the car too and he drove me back home.
"Just be honest with him. That's all you need to do." He said as I hopped out of his car.
"You're right I guess. See you around?" I said as I began to walk to the front door.
"See ya." He said as he drove away.

I walked into the house to see it was quieter than normal. I walked upstairs to find everyone crowded around Tayler's bedroom door.
"What's going on?" I asked worried as I approached the door.
"Tayler's locked himself in. Charly's finished things with him." My eyes widened as soon as Chase explained.
"Over text." Markell added.
"He won't let anyone in at all. Not even Nate." Kelianne said clearly worried.
"Let me try" I said as I knocked on the door.
"Hey Tayler, it's me. Please let me in". Somehow it worked and the lock clicked. I walked in and shut the door behind me as I saw Tayler sat on the floor crying with his head in his hands.
"Oh Tay,"
The sight was enough to shatter my heart. I pulled him in for a hug and we stayed like that for a while. I was building up the courage to tell him about the other guy. I mean if I was being cheated on, I'd want to know. Right?
"Tayler, I'd hate to make this whole situation worse but I think there's something about Charly you should know."
"What?" He asked sniffing.
"She was cheating. There was another guy."
I could see a fresh batch of tears welling up in his eyes. I showed him the video on my phone before he began to sob again.
"I'm so sorry." I said as I hugged him tighter.
"But you don't need her ok. You're the one and only Tayler Holder and the fact she cheated on you shows you that she didn't deserve you. You're kind and funny and I promise you that one day you'll find a girl that likes you as much as you like her."
My pep talk seemed to cheer him up a bit as he let the others come into the room. They all gave him hugs and slowly Tayler began to perk up. I knew he wasn't going to bounce back just like that because he was in love with the girl to be fair. Suddenly a great idea hit me.
"Tayler get dressed. We're going to the gym and we're going to do some training."
"I appreciate what you're doing Grace, but I don't want to train right about now." Tayler said still seated in his position on the floor. There was no way this boy was going to sit in his room wallowing in self pity all day.
"Tayler do you remember what my mum used to say to us when something didn't go our way when we were kids?"
He nodded his head,
"She used to say 'you can't mope around feeling sorry for yourself, and expect good things to happen. It doesn't work like that'".
"Exactly! You can take this breakup and let it break you or you can better yourself in so many ways." I said.
The others didn't look so convinced.
"Grace, I get what you're trying to do but this isn't what Tayler needs right now." Kelianne said looking at me.
"Yh, he needs to be on his own for a while" Aisha said as she led us all out of his room and shut the door.
"But we can't just leave him like that!" I said in protest.
"Grace, have you ever had a broken heart?" Chase asked me.
"Um...no," I said scratching the back of my head.
"Exactly. We can't fix him. Only he can when he's ready. He needs time, so let's give it to him." Azra said.
I guess they had a point.

I walked down the hallway to my room and shut my door. Then I was hit by a big realisation. I hadn't been treating Vinnie right at all. He's been such a good mate to me and I completely disregarded his own priorities when I got him to spy on Charly with me. Who does that? Wait, was I turning into a self-centred American twat? I picked up my phone and sent him a text message.

Grace
Hey Vin! Sorry for earlier. I completely disregarded any of your own priorities by asking you to spy on Charly with me. I'm sorry for being such a prick and I promise never to fall into the 'American trap' again.  

                                                                            Vinnie
No problemo squirt. And you still owe me big time btw. 💕

After receiving the message from Vinnie I felt a lot better. I thought back to what Chase said earlier though. He was right. I don't know how to fix a broken heart because I've never been in love. I don't have a problem with the fact I've never been in love but sometimes I wonder what it'd be like. I quickly snapped myself out of it. I'm a baddie from London who doesn't need a man. I listened to some doja cat to cheer myself up and then decided to film and post another TikTok. But this one was a mirror TikTok. I was lip-syncing the lyrics as I filmed the mirror and after watching it over a few times I decided to post it. My followers had grown so quickly and I had 75k already.

I cleaned my room myself because I didn't want Tayler's cleaners to have to do it. One thing about living in a mansion was that there were cleaners to do most things around the house. I know my mum would kill me if I told her all summer I had someone to clean up after me and to be honest it made me feel incredibly awkward to just watch someone else clean up my stuff. I don't get how the others did it. I guess they were used to this lifestyle.

I went back to my phone to check on the Tiktok. I now had 500k followers and was receiving loads of support. I decided to put my age in my bio just to stop older men from making 'suggestive' comments in my comment section. I quickly made a TikTok where I thanked everyone for the support and went to bed. As I was falling asleep, all I could think about was Tayler and his broken heart. I hope he feels better tomorrow.