After the Houston and San Antonio show, they were on their way to the next show in Arizona. On their way, Payton thought it was the right time to tell everyone else about the EP her and Daniel will release after summer. Payton walks out to the living room area where everyone else is and sits down. "Hey Pay! What's up?" Tyanna asks. "Well there is some exciting news I would like to tell you guys." Payton smiles. "Well lets hear it!" Clark smiles and looks at her. Payton looks around and sees everyone looking at her. She looks over at Rayvon and he nods. Payton doesn't know why she was so nervous. I mean, its HER and DANIEL'S EP. Its just that, if she says something exciting, no one ever supported her on that back then. But then she broke the exciting news. "Well, Daniel and I have been working on some music since we were on the show and we both decided to release an EP." Payton smiles. Jax gasped and smiles. "Payton that's amazing!" Jax tells Payton and walks over to her and hugs Payton. "You guys really think so?" Payton asks. "Of course! Why wouldn't we think that?" Nick looks at everyone else. Payton was gonna say something but then decided not to. She just smiled. "What's the EP called?" Clark asks. "Well...Rayvon helped and thought of DP." Payton smiles. "Clever." Jax says. "When are you guys planning to release it?" Tyanna asks. "End of summer." Payton answers. "That's not too far away you know?" Rayvon tells Payton. "I know. We only have two more songs to write. I'm pretty sure we will be done by then." Payton smiles. "Well...we are very happy for you!" Clark smiles. Payton smiles and looks at everyone. "Thanks guys. You're support means a lot to both me and Daniel." Payton says to everyone. She stands up along with everyone else and they all get into group hug. They all talk for a while and they had a day off just to relax and then before they knew it, they arrived in Arizona.
Hours passed and everyone was back in the bus hanging out and Payton was face timing with Daniel.
"Ok, so when do you think we should tell the fans about the EP?" Payton asked Daniel. "When we finish the last song. I mean, we did a whole song in 3 hours and we only need one more." Daniel smiles. "Ok tomorrow we have another day off so we could write the last song and then on Tuesday before our show, we can tell everyone." Payton suggests. "Sounds good!" Daniel says and Payton smiles. "Hey, do we have a name?" Daniel asks. "Oh yea! That reminded me." Payton sits up and looks at Daniel. "The night when we were starting to talk about the EP, Rayvon over heard us and suggested we should name it DP." Payton tells Daniel. "That's actually not bad." Daniel laughs. "I know right! Catches on quickly." Payton laughs. "We still don't know how to record the songs." Daniel says. "Oh right." Payton wiped her smile off her face. "Can't we like send some of the clips and then put them together on our own?" Payton asks raising her eyebrows. "That's too complicated." Daniel starts to think. "Danny, I can't just move to Washington without notice." Payton laughs eating some of Jax's Taco Bell. "Hey...." Daniel looks at Payton. "What?" Payton raises her eyebrows confused. "That's not bad." Daniel says. "Danny I was kidding." Payton laughs. "No I'm serious!" Daniel sits up. "Daniel...." Payton trails off but Daniel cuts her off. "Payton, it's the only way. You can stay here for a couple months till we release the EP." Daniel begs. "But school....." Payton starts to say. "Come to Union High. We'll spend junior year together." Daniel says. "I can't just leave Trevor, my friends and my dad." Payton says eating more of her food. "Think about it please. We have an extra room here and my parents don't mind having you over." Daniel brings up. "Look, it's a lot to take in babe. I'll have to talk to my dad and see what he has to say." Payton smiles. "Ok. I just really would like you here." Daniel says. "I know Danny. Soon. I promise." Payton smiles. "Isn't that Jax's food?" Daniel asks looking at Payton eating the Taco Bell. "Yea. She doesn't eat left overs anyway." Payton laughs taking another bite. "You're crazy." Daniel laughs and then someone knocked on the door. "Who is it?" Payton yelled. "It's Jax!" Jax yelled back on the other side. "Shoot!" Payton looks at Daniel and hides the Taco Bell. She then gets up quickly and let's Jax in.
"Heyyyyy Jax." Payton opens the door. "Hey Pay, just wanted to check in." Jax smiles. "Oh, well Daniel is just over there. Say hi." Payton points to the computer. Jax walks over to the computer and says hi to Daniel. "Hey Danny boy!" Jax waves. "Hey Jax." Daniel smiles. "Hey, what do you think of Payton moving to Washington?" Daniel asks Jax. Jax opened her mouth wide and looked at Payton. "YOU'RE MOVING TO VANCOUVER?!?!" Jax asks/yells at Payton jokingly. "Haha nooo." Payton laughs. "I'm still thinking." Payton sits over next to Jax. "I think it would be cool if you moved in together." Jax says. "We're 16. Even if I did move I would only be there for a couple months." Payton tells Jax. "I think you should go.." Jax tells Payton. "Jax..." Payton sighs and Daniel cuts her off. "See Payton! We can't complete this EP if you're 3000 miles away." Daniel explains. "Look Danny, I'll think about it." Payton looks at Daniel. "And you, out!" Payton points at Jax and gets up. Jax laughs and then walks out of the room. "Back to what we were talking about..." Payton grabs the Taco Bell and sits down. "Oh hey and have you seen my....." Jax walks in on Payton eating her food. "Taco Bell...." Jax walks towards Payton. "Is this mine?!?!" Jax looks at Payton. "Maybe." Payton smiles continuing to eat it. "You ate like all of that!!!" Jax says. "You don't eat your leftovers anyway!" Payton laughs. "Where's the taco salad?" Jax asks. "Clark and Rayvon ate it." Payton looks back at Daniel who's laughing and video taping. "Are you serious?!?!" Jax looks back. "Yep. And Tyanna ate the other taco." Payton says. "I can't stand living on this bus with you guys." Jax laughs. "Wait...I had three tacos in there." Jax points out. "Didn't you eat and Tyanna only eat one?" Jax asks. "Nick ate it." Payton says. "NICHOLAS!!!" Jax yells storming out. Payton laughs and turns back to Daniel. He continues to laugh and stops recording. "You guys are hilarious." Daniel says looking down at his phone. "Such a drama queen." Payton laughs.
"So what are your plans with music?" Daniel asks. "Well, Jax wanted me to sing a song with her in her new album so we just finished writing that song and we are gonna record some tomorrow." Payton explains. "Really? That's cool!" Daniel smiles. "Yep. Should be great." Payton smiles. "What else?" Daniel asks. "Well I'm planning on working with a director to shoot a music video for Double Tap." Payton says. "No way! Did you find someone?" Daniel asks. "Not yet. But I'm gonna wait till we figure out this whole DP stuff." Payton explains. "I also want to make more covers so I'm thinking about those." Payton says. "That should be fun." Daniel smiles. "Yep. Busy busy busy." Payton laughs. After another hour of talking, it was time to hang up. "Alright, I should get going. Think about coming here alright?" Daniel tells Payton. "I will. I'll talk to you tomorrow." Payton smiles. "K. Love you Twizzler." Daniel smiles at Payton. "Love you too." Payton kisses the camera and then they hang up. Payton smiles and walks out to the living area. "Hey guys!" Payton smiles and sits down. "Hey! You're still up!" Clark smiles. "Where's Rayvon and Nick?" Payton asks. "They went to sleep." Tyanna says. "Ah ok." Payton laughs. "So what were you and Danny talking about?" Clark asks. "Well Dad...." Payton rolls her eyes and Clark laughs. Clark always acts like a dad to Payton. Of course in a good way. He's protective of her and cares for her like a real dad. "Well we were talking about the EP and working out how we are gonna record." Payton explains grabbing a bottle of water. "How are you guys gonna record?" Tyanna asks. "Well he wants me to move to Vancouver." Payton laughs. "Are you serious?" Clark looks at Payton. "Yep. Like, move in with him for a couple months and go to school for our junior year." Payton explains. "What's your dad gonna say?" Tyanna asks. "I don't know. I'll talk to him after the tour." Payton says and looks over at Jax. "Now, why isn't she talking?" Payton points to Jax who's on Twitter. "She's just mad that we ate her food." Clark scoffs. "So she's been like that for the last hour?" Payton laughs. "Guess so." Tyanna looks over at Jax. "Ughhhh." Payton rolls her eyes and stands up. She walks over to her bunk. "Where you going??" Tyanna asks. Payton walks back over to Jax and gives her a Taco Bell gift card. Jax looks up and sees the card. "Why are you giving this to me?" Jax asks smiling. "Well I was gonna give it you after the tour. But since you're so upset..might as well give it to you now." Payton smiles. "Aww thank you." Jax smiles and hugs Payton. "In fact I gave all of you guys gifts but you guys have to wait." Payton points to Tyanna and Clark. "Dang it!" Clark pouts and quits talking for 10 seconds. "Ok, just because it works for Jax, doesn't mean it will work for you." Payton tells Clark and laughs.
"Ok, so everyone ate my Taco Bell and I didn't talk to them for an hour then Payton have me an early gift." Jax says recording herself and holding up the Taco Bell gift card. "Thanks Pay." Jax points the camera to Payton. "You're welcome bae" Payton smiles. Jax finished recording and posted the video on Twitter."Hey wanna pull a prank on Nick?" Payton asks them. "Oh god not again!!!!!!!" Jax groans. "You're just a little ball of pranks." Clark laughs. "I'll be right back." Payton stands up and walks to her bunk quietly and walks back with an airhorn. "Oh no." The three say in unison. "Someone record this." Payton says and Tyanna pulls out her phone. Payton walks over to Nick's bunk followed by everyone else and Tyanna recording. Payton quickly pulls back the curtains on Nicks bunk and positions the air horn. "Ready?" Payton whispers and everyone nods. Payton then sets off the air horn causing Nick to quickly wake up and hit his head. "OW!!!!" Nick grabs his head and everyone laughs. "Not cool." Nick says to Payton. "Aww poor nick." Payton smiles. "Great. Now I can't fall back asleep." Nick gets up and jumps off his bunk. "Is Rayvon still asleep?" Clark asks looking down at Rayvon's bunk. "He is a heavy sleeper." Jax says. Payton walks over to his bunk and opens the curtains. Rayvon is laying there snoring. "Wow." Payton laughs and closes up the curtains. Everyone walks back to the living area. "What time is it?" Tyanna asks. "3am." Nick says looking at his watch. Everyone started talking and then of course, Nick brought up Daniel to Payton. "So how's the DP coming?" Nick asks grabbing some food. "Well we only have one more song to write and all we have to do is record." Payton explains. "How you guys gonna do that?" Nick asks sitting back down. "We don't know yet." Payton says. "Daniel wants Payton to move in with him." Jax tells Nick. "Woah! For real?" Nick turns to Payton. "Yea, it's like I move in with him for a couple of months and go to school with him." Payton explains. "Well are you?" Nick looks at Payton. "Don't know. I have to talk to my dad." Payton says. "What do you guys think?" Payton asks everyone. "I say go for it." Clark says. "I agree with him." Tyanna turns to Payton and everyone agrees. "Seriously?" Payton questions. "Yea. You guys can't record without each other." Nick says. "I mean, you love each other." Jax mentions. "Guys, I have to talk to my dad. And I don't even know what to do. I don't want to leave my dad and Trevor and all my other friends." Payton explains. "Just sleep on it." Tyanna suggests. "Yea. I'm pretty tired. Daniel and I have to write." Payton stands up. "Night guys." Payton walks to her bunk. "Night Pay." They all say in unison. Payton goes to bed and thinks. Does she want to move in with Daniel and his family? Or stay with her friends and her dad? But they can't make the EP happen without having each other together.
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After Idol: The Sequel (Daniel Seavey)
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