Stand by me

Chapter twelve

Lauren's Pov :

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the beautiful Demi Lovato and her daughter Lauren Jauregui Lovato!"

My heart stopped for a millisecond and started again in the same time it stopped.  Demi squeezed my shoulder and beckoned me forward. Here goes nothing.

My heart is racing, my breathing picking up as well. I can't mess this up, so many people will see this. I can't afford that mistake at all. Placing my phone in my pocket after making sure it was on silence I took a deep calming breath. In and out. I can do this. No I can't.

I walked on to the stage where Demi was standing hugging Ellen who was whispering in her ear. Probably about me and why we weren't sure I'd perform. I could hear screaming and hollering from the audience. Wow. This is nice.

I crutched on over to Demi and Ellen who gave me a wave since she couldn't really hug me, the crutches were in the way. "Hi Demi it's good to see you. So I see we have a beautiful young lady sitting next to you. She also seems to be hurt. What's up with that?"

"Hey Ellen nice to see you as well. Hi guys", Demi waved to the audience, "Um this right here is Lauren Jauregui Lovato,  my adopted daughter, but I prefer daughter. And she was in rehearsals yesterday for today's double performance, and I guess hurt herself. Lauren fell earlier which made her thigh even worse and fractured her femur. "

That was pretty straight forward.  Ellen continued to look at my cast before asking to sign my cast. I nodded my head and Ellen grabbed a sharpie and sighed it. Pretty cool if you ask me. The audience was staring at me trying to get a feel of what I'm like I guess. I didn't know what to do only seeing a few interviews in my lifetime.

I just sat there while ellen was catching up with Demi, it didn't bother me, I liked being on my own sometimes. Demi's hand had grabbed mine a while go squeezing it reassuringly. I was ok though. For now.

"Hey Lauren how old are you?" Asked Ellen who had now turn towards me starting her questions she had and everyone else I assumed.

"I'm 15 turning 16 in a month." The crowd awed at me, causing a warm heat to rise on my face.

"Wow you're pretty young. How does it feel to be adopted?"

"Well I'd honestly say that it's weird, I live with strangers, but I'm getting to know them better. They honestly are the best. But overall it's a new experience I'm still getting used to the fact that I have people that I can rely on and those who can rely on me as well. Demi is really good to me, she took me when no one else wanted to. I was in the system for a while, no one wants a teenager anymore, we aren't cute like the younger I ones."

"Yeah I heard about that, you were what 7 years old when you were put in the orphanage back in Cuba?"

"Yeah I was seven. I was living in Cuba at the time. Then at around 15 and a half I moved to the states. Well they moved me, better experiences or whatever. I'm just glad to be out of Cuba right now. "

"Wow, that really is a new experience.  I was going to say that I can hear a accent in your voice can you speak fluent Spanish?"

20 questions much?

"Yeah I can, it's easier for me than english. I still have trouble saying some things but I'm getting through it. I just learned english less then 2 years ago, a little before I moved here they started teaching me."

"Say something in Spanish for us please."

"Ok um... Hola mi nombre es Lauren. Um yeah that's hi my name is Lauren. That's really easy to say."