Life with the Ryan Boys

Chapter 4

I woke up in the middle of the night and was about to starve to death. Wasn’t Channing supposed to wake me up for dinner? Oh well. I wonder if I can go grab something to eat. I walked down the stairs as quietly as I could and I think I did do quite well at that if you ask me.  Okay, let’s see, I think as I open the fridge. Oh YAY!  Greek yogurt, my favorite. I closed the fridge and about craped my pants.

“What are you doing?”  Tyler I think asks.

“Getting food I missed dinner. What are you doing Mr. Fussy pants?” I ask looking for a spoon.

“Third drawer from the fridge and I heard someone coming down here and plus I had to pee.” Well looks like I wasn’t as successful at being quiet as  I thought.

“Thanks, uh, what’s your name again?” I ask feeling kinda stupid.

“Tyler.” He says in mid yawn. “And I’m going back to bed. G’night Payton. I’m kinda glad you’re here. I always wanted a sister.” He says and then walks off to what I assume is his room. That made me feel good. I started to walk up to my room then I heard something like whimpering. I opened the door that the sound was coming from and found one of the twins sitting up in their bed. I think it was Zak.

“Are you okay Zak?” I ask putting my yogurt down and climbing his steps to the bed.

“No, I had a bad dwem.” He says reaching his arms up for a hug. Which I gladly took.

“Do you wanna tell me about it?” I ask rubbing his back.

“Nu uh. Will you stay hewwe for minute?” he asked and I shook my head yes.

After about five or so minutes he was sound asleep so I snuck out successfully and went up to my room and ate my yogurt-  that was amazing- and went to bed.

 *Knock Knock*

*Knock Knock*

"Go away!" I growled to the person at the door.

"Payton, sweetie, it's time to get up." Jamie said from behind the door. I sat up and rubbed my eyes.

"Can I come in?" she asks.

"Yeah. I'm up." I say getting out of the bed.

"What time is it? "  I ask when she comes in.

“6. I wanted to get you up in plenty time for your first day. I didn’t wake you up to late did I?” she asked getting a little worried.

“No! You got me up in plenty of time.” I said reassuring her. I got up and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth but left the door open incase she needed to tell me something.

 “Okay, one thing you need to know about South Beach High is that they are a school that requires you to dress formal. No t-shirts and basketball shorts stuff like that. Even though it is a public school you need to dress nice. Dress pants for the boys and skirts and dresses for the girls. Heels are optional, but me being me, I think the shoes make the outfit. Anyway, I wanted to ask if I could pick out your outfit today?” she asked as I came out of the bathroom.

“Sure! I am awful at picking out outfits on my own so I would have come to you for help anyway.” I said sitting back on my bed.

“Okay. So, come downstairs for breakfast then meet me back here and I will have everything set out for you.”

“Okay, cool.” I said and started out the door. “Thanks by the way, for taking me in.” I say and she comes and gives me a hug.

“No problem sweetie.”  She says and heads to my closet. I walked down the stairs and accidentally bumped into a really hard chest.