Chapter 22:

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(August 22, Day Off)

André "morning beautiful", Tori immediately covered herself with the blanket, André "are you okay", Tori "yeah, I'm fine. Just a bit tired and baby girl is right next to me and you're being a bit loud", André "I'm sorry love, I'm gonna go walk the dogs, they already ate so I'm gonna take them out", Tori "okay, I'm gonna go back to sleep", André "okay", Tori and Averie continued to stay asleep, while André walked the dogs.

André was out buying breakfast, Averie "mommy", Tori "yes baby", Averie "when you were younger were you shy", Tori "where is this coming from baby girl", Averie "when I was on stage with you my stomach was turning inside out, and I was a bit nervous", Tori "come here", Tori sat on the chair and pulled her daughter between her legs, Tori "I was very very shy growing up and singing is something I've always loved to do. And because of my shyness I thought that it would never happen for me", Averie "but you have sold out shows mom", Tori "do you know why, because I never gave up. I asked God repeatedly to help me with the stage fright, with the shyness because I needed to be a singer, I didn't know what else to do if I wasn't to become a singer. It's what I really wanted for myself, I started journaling and songwriting more and more and he eventually helped me through it all, and now I am where I am because of him and everything he did for me. You wanna outgrow this shyness, you have to ask him for help, you have to pray, and keep praying no matter how long it takes. He works in our favor but it's on his time, your shyness will go away, but that is something you've gotta tell yourself. You've gotta look yourself in the mirror and repeatedly tell yourself that you no longer wanna be shy, that you wanna be outgoing, that you want you want to be the person he wants you to be, and you know you can be that person but you've gotta want it for yourself", Averie "but what if it can't go away and I'm stuck like this", Tori "baby girl I was just like you, but so much worse. My shyness was way more serious than yours, sometimes I would even throw up if I was too nervous and scared. You will get through it, starting tomorrow at the next show before we go on stage you, me and daddy are gonna pray together. And if it becomes our little before show prayer than that's what we'll do. And we'll keep doing it even when we aren't on tour. We will do whatever it takes to help you through this but when you are on stage with mommy just have fun, because those people in the audience don't care if we're perfect, they don't care about the little things, they just wanna see us performing, and that's what we do. We're performers. I'm a singer and so are you, I mean come on you literally wrote the verse for the r&b edit of missing u, and you've written other songs, you're extremely talented my love, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You're my little princesa and I'm so proud of you. Proud of the big things and the little things you have accomplished", Averie hugged her mom, Averie "I love you mommy", Tori "I love you more baby girl", André "I'm back", Tori "finally, did you go all over town lol", André "no, every time I tried to go to Starbucks it was either too packed with orders and too busy, or just too crowded", Tori "lol, anything would have worked", André "I know but not with our little picky eater", Tori "you're right about that", André "where is she anyways", Tori "she's coloring, just had a deep mommy daughter convo with her. I'll tell you about it when she takes a nap", André "okay". Tori "I am actually gonna go to the gym, do you got her from here for a little while", André "yeah I got her baby, go have fun. Go get your work out on", Tori "thanks my love", Tori got dressed and left for the gym.

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