*1 Year later*
*SHAYLA'S POV*
I am 18 now, and life has been really good. I am still with Wesley aka the best boyfriend in the world. Drew, Wes, and Keaton went on the X-Factor and came in 4th and are now signed with Columbia Records. They are working on an album that comes out late summer. I've heard a few songs, and they are dope! For me I got a job at a skatepark. It doesn't pay a ton, but skateboarding is one of my favorite things to do, so its worth it until I have enough money to go to college. I haven't heard from Christie or Hannah for a year now, so who knows what they are doing, but I hope they're okay. I have thought about texting them, but I don't want to cause a problem. We lived in that hotel for about 5 months till we got enough money together to buy a house. So Drew and his girlfriend, Kat who I met at the hospital when everything started going down hill, has there own room, Wes and I share one, and Keaton has his own. They got Zuni and Sampson from their mom, so zuni usually sleeps in Keaton's room. Sampson sleeps wherever he wants to, so it changes every night.
*HANNAH'S POV*
I am 17, and I moved away from the US completely in search of a new life. I moved to London, England about 7 months ago. Life is so much easier over here. I had to get away. Everything reminded me of the day they all left. I got more and more depressed just sitting in an empty house. Once I got to London I needed a way to make money. So I competed in little competitions like food eating contests. I love food. This one particular contest was the best one I had ever been in. I met my boyfriend. He is amazing and he makes me forget about all the stuff that happened in California. Although he is always away on tour with his band. One Direction. Oh yeah my boyfriend he's Niall Horan. I go to college in England, and I'm studying to be a physical therapist. I am going to L.A. with One Direction in a week, and I'm really scared that once I get there memories will start flooding in. I am the happiest I have ever been in my life, but I'm still missing something. I don't know what it is but hopefully I will find it soon.
*CHRISTIE'S POV*
So I'm 18, and I live in Washington with Jacob still, but I'm about to move back to L.A. I don't watch too much t.v. or anything like that. I play for a practice olympic volleyball team. They asked me to train and play for the US in the Olympics, but I turned it down, because I really have no desire to play in the Olympics. I have bad knees, so I would probably only get to play for about 2 years, so when I got here I needed a job, but I couldn't find one, so I do want every hopeless musician trying to find money does. I stood out on the streets, and played my guitar and sang songs I had wrote, and I sometimes did a few cover songs. Usually I got around $20 every time I did it. I would do it at least once every week, but probably more like 2 or 3 times a week. One time I noticed a guy in all black who wore sunglasses, which scared the hell out of me, but he seemed to enjoy the music. He would come back every time I played until he dropped not money, but a card in my guitar case. I got back home, and noticed it was a card from Syco. Simon Cowell's music label.
I went back to the same street corner two days later, and the same man showed up, along with someone else. White T-Shirt, Jeans, and black sunglasses. It scared me even more, until he took his sunglasses off to revel who he really was. Simon Cowell himself. He told me how great I was, and that he wanted to sign me. I honestly thought I was being punk'd, or that I was dreaming. So that is why I am going back to California. To record my album. Things got better between Jacob and Logan, and Jacob was right when he told me to step out of my world, and just think. I haven't had a boyfriend all year and I am perfectly okay with that. I sometimes wonder what Shay, Drew, Keaton, Wesley, and Hannah are doing, but I can't think about it too much, because it brings back too many bad memories. I have thought about talking to Drew or Shay, but I can't get myself to do it. I have good friends in Washington that I don't want to say goodbye to. Logan is actually going to college at USC, so I won't have to say goodbye to him, but Jacob is going to play Men's Beach Volleyball in the Olympics, so I won't see much of him. My other friends in Washington are staying in Washington, so all I have to do is go back to see them. I'm scared to go back to California tho. I don't want all those memories coming back to me.
