Adopted (Book 1) *EDITING*

Chapter 22: Guess Whos Back.

•ONE WEEK BACK FROM TOUR•

BEEP BEEP BEEP! I slap my hand down on my alarm clock in anger. I'm still so used to sleeping in really late from tour. But I'm back to school. As we promised my school, I would be back one week after the tour. I think it's stupid, there's only a week left of school but I guess I kinda want to pass my freshman year. I sigh and swing my legs out of bed. I faintly hear Brendon singing, just a normal morning in the Urie house. I walk over to my closet and swing it open. I began to dig through shirts until I found the one I wanted. It was an MCR shirt with the Revenge album cover on it. After that I grabbed a pair of red skinny jeans. I got changed and made my way to my bathroom. I straighted my black hair and applied my usual makeup. After that made my way down stairs.

"There's my beautiful daughter!" Said Brendon through a mouth full of cereal. "Here" I sat down at the counter, he slid me a bowl of cereal.

"Thanks." I said, stuffing a spoonful into my mouth. He continued to heat his cereal across from me.

"One more week of school." He said. He swallowed the cereal that was in his mouth. "You can make it." I smile at him.

"It's not that I'm worried about, I'm worried about what people will think with I come back." I sigh and take another spoonful. "I mean what do I do? Just pretend the whole confession day never happened?" He hums and swallows his food.

"Their human, your human. The only difference between you and them is that you just toured around the U.S." I sigh.

"Well that didn't help at all." I said. He laughs. I quickly tie my black converse and grab my back pack. "Let's get going, traffic remember?" He puts on his glasses and starts walking to the front door.

"Someones a little sassy today." He said, holding the door for me. I walk to the car. "The drives short, plus it's too early for there to be any traffic." He said, hopping in the drivers seat.

•TEN MINUTES LATER•

Here we sit, I'm already 5 minutes late for school. "I told you there would be traffic." I said in a singsong voice. I runs his hand through his hair.

"Sorry." He said, waving is voice.

"Wait wait," I say, holding back a laugh. "It's too early for there to be any traffic." I mocked.

"I can't change the fact that LA has horrible traffic." He said. I tap the window gently.

"Well are we at lease almost there?" I said. He looks around our surroundings.

"I can see it from here." I undo my seatbelt. "What are you doing?" I start of open the door, he grabs my arm. "Wait wait wait, what are you doing?" He said sternly.

"I'm walking, the schools like right over there." I said, pointing towards the school. He lets go and leans over, kissing my cheek.

"Have a good day, we have practice after school. Love you." I smile and slip out the car and onto the sidewalk, starting the short walk. I look down at my phone, 8:07am. Seven minutes late, oh well.

I walked into the building and quickly walked to the music room.. Once I got to the door, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I opened my eyes and pushed the door open. I stepped inside. Before I could do anything I heard someone say my name.

"Syd!" It was Karen, she hopped out of her chair and ran to me. "Oh my god your back!" She said, squeezing me very tightly. I laughed and squeezed her back. I missed this. She pulls away. "Three months! Three and no calls or texts. I know it was tour but still!" I giggle. Before I could replied, someone else said my name.

"Sydney." Said Mr. Rexus, surprised. "Your back." He said happily. Karen hugged me one more time before walking back to her seat.

"Yep. The schools making me come here for the last week. I got back last week." I said smiling. He smiled back before turning to the class again.

"Actually class," He turned back to me. "Instead of taking the quiz today, why don't we have Sydney talk about what it's like to be on tour." People start to agree.

"Um sir, I'm not sure-" he pats me on the back.

"Oh come on, I'm sure we all want to hear about it." I look around the room. Almost everyone is smiling, except for Rina. I don't know why that girl hates me so much. "It's definitely something a few of our students would like to know about. Why don't we have a little Q&A?" I look around the room.

"Okay." I said. I sigh and walk over to Sydney, setting my backpack next to her. I then walk to the front of the room. Everyone was looking at me. "Who wants to ask me something" I ask. A boy shoots his hand up.

"So how did the fans react when they found out about you?" He quietly asked curiously. I smile.

"Some of them were nice and welcoming and some were a little harsh. I think that some of them had some problem excepting the fact that I'm going to be there a lot, I'm going to be around the guys a lot." He nods his head and smiles. After that, a whole lot of hands shot up. I picked a girl who was sitting near Karen.

"So you play guitar in the band now right?" He asked, I nodded my head. "When you first started playing live, did you have to learn all the songs you guys were performing right after you got the news?" She asked.

"Actually, no. The day I learned the news, we set up a set list of songs I knew. Luckily I know a lot off of TWTLTRTD. Casually, Kenny and Brendon taught me the others." I answered. This is actually pretty fun.

After answering loads of questions, only one hand remained up, Rinas.
"Yes?" I ask her. She glares at me and sits up, putting on a fake smile.

"So is there a reason you don't call your dad 'dad'? You always call him Brendon. I mean it's kinda weird." She asks. I look down a little. Mr. Rexus shoots me a nervous look, I decline it. He gets the point that I can handle this by myself.

"Well, I've only been living with him for almost 4 months. I don't know if I'm at a point where I'm comfortable with it, it kinda brings back bad memories." I say. She looked at me falsely.

"How can you feel uncomfortable with that. He is your dad." She says looking at me. I can feel my anger bubbling, I swear my face is as red as my skinny jeans.

"Yes I get he is my dad but he isn't my real dad. My real dad de-" I stopped and regained my strength. "is gone." I said, partially glaring. She crosses her arms.

"Oh well that's too bad-" she said with puppy eyes. Mr. Rexus cuts her off.

"Rina that's enough." He snapped at her. She rolls her eyes. He looked at me partly sad. "I'm sorry about that Sydney." I nod and go to my seat. I cross my arms and glare at her. She glares back.

•RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL•

Here Karen and I sit, waiting for my dad. She walks home but she still waits for him to come. Here we sit under a tree. She's trying to squeeze information out of me about the new album. She is determined.

"Oh come onnnnn, tell me one song other then Hallelujah." She says. I giggle.

"I wish I could but Brendon made me vow not to." I say, putting my hands on my knees. She groans.

"Ahhhhhhh your killing me." She says overdramaticly. I starts to laughs, she looks at me. "Can you at least tell me when it might come out?" She questions. I think.

"I guess I could tell you the estimated date." I said with a smirk. She freaks out.

"OH MY GOD THANK YOU THANK YOU!" She said hugging my arm. I giggle. People were starting to stare at us.

"Don't tell anyone but it might be out in September." I whispered. Her mouth dropped open. Brendon's car pulls up. "I got to go. See you." I say, patting her on the shoulder and standing up before walking to his car. She sits there in awe.