The Babysitter//Zach Herron

Ch 18- Breaking the news

The next morning

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I wake up to Zach kissing my forehead softly, "good morning princess" he says in a quiet voice.

I yawn. "good morning babe" I say rubbing my eyes.

I look reach over Zach to get my phone, it's 8am. We have to go pick our family up from the airport at 6:30pm.

We decide to relax in bed till 9:30am replying to tweets and looking at fan edits. Contrary to popular belief, Zach actually looks at the fan edit pages!!!

We spend the day doing our favorite things to do in Dallas, since this will be our last weekend here for a while.

Around 6:00pm we head off to the airport, Rosie in my lap. Zach thought it would be a good idea to bring her since it would make Reese really happy.

"Oh there they are, on the right behind that gray minivan," I say pointing towards the family.

Zach pulls over and they load their suitcases into the trunk before piling in the car.

"Hey guys, how was your trip?" Zach asks while driving out of the airport pick-up area.

"Soooo much fun!!! I met Ariel!!" Reese exclaimed.

The Little Mermaid is her favorite Disney princess, I would know because every time she takes a bath she plays with the entire Under the Sea bath collection. 

"Aww I'm glad you had fun, pumpkin!!" I say smiling and handing her Rosie.

The whole car ride back Zach and I hear all about the trip.

When we arrive back home, my dad says goodbye and walks over to our house.

"Bye babe I'm going to try to explain to LA plan to my dad...wish me luck" I whisper.

"Im sure it will be fine, don't worry." He says before kissing me goodbye.

When I open the door, Rosie runs inside and starts wrestling with her toy.

"Hey dad, when you finish unpacking  can we talk?" 

"Yeah of course sweetheart, give me like 20 minutes." he responds.

When he walks down we both sit down on the couch. I explain the entire situation with my mom flying to Dallas and surprise stopping by. 

Here comes the hard part...

"Oh also dad, there's something else." I start.

"Ok sure what is it y/n?" 

"Um well you know how Zach is in the band Why Don't We? Well they offered me the opportunity to be featured in one of their new songs!!" I say excitedly.

"Wow that's great honey, I am so happy for you!!!" he says kissing the top of my head.

"The only thing is, I would move to LA and live in the Why Don't We house. I would also go on tour with them for their next album and open for their shows." I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders now that these words have left my mouth.

My dad sits in silence for a moment before he responds.

"Um, we just moved here y/n. And you barely know Zach and haven't even met the other boys in his band."

"I know dad, but I love Zach and I know he will take care of me when we are out in LA. I actually have met the boys and talked to them, just not all of them in person yet." I say nervously.

"Y/n you are only 16!! What's the rush to fly the nest?"

"Dad this is not personal, you know I love you so much. This opportunity is not one that a lot of people get. I really need to do this for myself. This could help launch my music career too!" I say trying to be hopeful.

I know that I already told Mark and the band that I can go, so I either go with his blessing or without it.

"I would rather you not move to California for God knows how long and live in a house with 5 boys." 

" Dad they know I'm dating Zach, the other band mates are just close friends to me." I say trying to reassure him.

"Will you have your own room?" he asks.

"Ummm dad no of course not, Zach and I will share. They bought this house with 5 bedrooms assuming that it would only be them. I really love Zach dad, it's ok if we share a bed."

"Oh is it then? What's stopping you from getting pregnant? You are too young to have a child y/n and Zach would dump you because it would ruin his life." he says huffing at the end.

That brought me to tears, how could he says such a thing?

"Dad," I say choking back the tears. "I already agreed to do this. I'm moving to LA with Zach on Wednesday. Either you support me in this or you don't, but I'm not letting you stop me." I start to sob and run out the door.

I stand on my porch catching my breath and wiping my tears before I run over to Zach's house.

It's about 7:15 now, so they should be done eating dinner.

I open the door and run upstairs. Zach is sitting on his bed listening to music with his headphones in.

He looks up and sees me crying, I walk in and shut the door behind me. 

"What's wrong y/n?" He asks while taking his headphones out and hugging me.

I take a second to stop crying so that I can form understandable sentences.

"My dad said that he doesn't want me to go to LA," I start. "And he said that if I got pregnant you would leave me because I would ruin your life. He practically called me a stupid ignorant 16 year old" I say crying again.

"Shhhh" Zach whispers while rubbing my back. "It's ok baby. If he doesn't support you, then that's on him. We are going to do great things in California!! And not like we are going to get pregnant anytime soon, we aren't quite ready for that yet," he says laughing, causing me to crack a smile. "I would never leave you and my child. Right now, even though we aren't married and we don't have any children...we are a family." 

I kiss him. "I love you, thank you for being the most perfect boyfriend I could ever ask for!"

"Aww baby, I love you too." he replies picking me up and laying me down on his bed. 

We cuddle and watch Logan Paul's vlog for the day. I fall asleep asleep in his arms.

I had really hoped that my dad would support me, maybe he'll come around by Wednesday.

A/N- im sooo sorry I'm publishing this much later than I normally do...i've been so busy today. Hope you like :)) Get ready for the move to LA in the upcoming chapter(s)