Support Act // z.h

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Stephanie's POV

"Hi dad" I said, barely above a whisper. By now, I was fully in tears, mascara going everywhere. "Oh Stephanie, you have no clue how long I've wanted to meet you" He said, he hid it well, but I could see tears forming in his eyes too. "This doesn't feel real" I choked out, giving a soft laugh. "I am so unbelievably proud of everything you've accomplished so far, I knew this family was talented" He laughed. We talked for quite I while, I even introduced him to Jordan. Dad thanked him for being a strong figure in my life. "So when are you flying out to LA dad?" Jack asked, causing us all to laugh. "How about next week? I'm sure the girls would love to meet you Steph" He answered. I smiled, it turns out I have an older sister and two younger step-sisters. Sydnie, my older sister was often visiting LA so it would be easy to see her. "I'd love to meet them too" I reply. "Settled, I'll see you next week. Stay safe until then, both of you" he laughs, causing Jack and I to do the same. "Bye dad" We said in unison. Jack sends me Dads phone number and I add him and send him a message to let him know its me. Jack pulls me into a hug and whispered "I'm glad I've finally found you" he said. I laugh softly, holding back tears. A bright light flashes followed by the words "Turn the flash off idiot" from Corbyn, Jack and I seperate and found that Daniel took a photo of us. "Send that to me, I want to post my first photo with my baby sister" He demands. "Oh god, call me baby sister again and I will chop off your hair and sell it on eBay" I threaten, but let a smile break through. Jack posted the photo with the caption 'Been searching for 16 years, but finally found you. Meet my little sister everyone  @stephacarter' he turned the commenting off but the post was gaining likes extremely fast. I was cut from my thoughts when my mum called.

"Hi mum" I answer.

"You need to move back home, I don't like the people you're with" she demanded. It broke my heart, I could tell she somehow saw Jacks post. However being the petty daughter she raised, put it on speaker for Jordan to hear. "Mum, you signed a waiver, I am her guardian for the next three years" He replied. I could hear the frustration in her voice.

"I don't care Jordan, she needs to be back in Australia" she demands. She was being extremely unreasonable so I found the perfect way to get under her skin. "Dad doesn't mind that I am here, he in fact prefers that I am here" I say, the perfect amount of sass. The boys exchanged shock looks but I laugh it off. "You've spoken to him, haven't you?" she replies, she sounded a mixture of angry and disappointment. "Yup, he's actually flying out here to see me next week" I replied with even more sass then before. Jordan gives me a warning look so I step down slightly. "Mum please, she is happy here, you can't have her live her entire life without meeting her family. It's not fair on her or them" Jordan calmly states. I hear my mother take a sharp breathe through her phone. "Whatever, you know what, she can stay. But she is not coming here for any celebrations. She can see her father if she wants to see family." She states in a complete monotone, causing me and Jordan to laugh. "Okay mum, I love you! You know Matt was heading here right? He's coming and staying with us for a couple of weeks, that's why he left last night. Who am I kidding, you probably already know" Jordan replies, in the perfect tone.

"Bye mum I love you so much!" I add before hanging up the phone. I threw my phone on the beanbag and Jordan and I burst out laughing. "Well, guess I am not heading home for my birthday this year" I laugh. The boys looked at us as if they didn't know if they should be laughing or making sure we are okay. "When is your birthday?" Jonah asks, Jordan, Jack and I looked almost as if to fight who could answer. "Three weeks" I say, flipping my hair over my shoulder. "Well, I guess we are all gonna be going to dads to celebrate, after all we are also family" Jack says, throwing his arm over my shoulder. I nod my head in agreement before my phone starts ringing yet again. This time it was a call from Emily, she was the head of Fashion Nova's modelling. "Hey Em, how are you?" I answer.

"Good thanks, hope I'm not interrupting anything" She replies

"Nah you're fine. What's up?" I ask

"Unfortunately we have to postpone your shoot today, the storm took the studios power" she answers. With all the fuss this morning I didn't even notice that the weather was crazy. It was a heavy storm, which was unusual for Cali. "Oh yeah, that's fine don't even stress. Just let Cassie know and reschedule with her" I reply back. The boys shoot me questioning looks.

"Thank you so much Steph! Stay safe today"

"No problem, you stay safe too. Talk to you soon" I finish

"Of course, goodbye" She says hanging up. I sigh and throw my phone back on the beanbag for the second time. "What happened?" Jonah asked.

"Fashion Nova's studio lost power in the storm so my shoot in being postponed" I answer sighing. "Oh shit we have a shoot as well" Daniel interrupts. As if on queue the boys manager called Jonah. "Hey Josh, what's up" he said into the phone. He talks a little bit more before hanging up. "Ours is cancelled as well" He sates. The boys all cheer in unison. Jordan gets up and turns the TV on. We all sit and relax until all our phones go off at once. I look at my phone to see an Weather Alert. The alert also plays on the TV so I focus on that instead. "We issue an alert for everyone in Hollywood to stay inside and prepare for extremely heavy thunderstorms and potential power outages right across California. Please stay inside and prepare for the worst possible conditions to be safe. Thank you" the announcement ends. The boys all turned to Jordan and I. "We can't go back home in this, even if we tried our driver won't pick us up" Daniel states. A smile forms on all of our faces. "Guess you're staying here again" Jordan said. We all cheered when I hear a slight knock on the floor. It would be Logan telling us to be quiet. I pick my phone back up and shoot him a message.

Angel from above: Surely you're not filming this early

Satan from below: Well I am, Weathee Alert bro, good content. Can I come up and get some clips with you?

Angel from above: nah fam, got enough boys in my apartment ;)

Satan from below: ew boys have cooties, bye steph.

Angel from above: Yeah sure, cya Logan

"Do you guys have enough food to last us" Zach asks. Jordan and I burst out laughing. "Absolutely my dude" Jordan replies. Jordan and I high five before we decide what we are going to do for the day, being it was only 11am. "I say we make use of the current power and watch a few movies on the projector screen, if the power goes out the complex has a generator but we get charged extra for how much we use, so we can use that for food at most" I say. They all nod in agreement so we re-arrange the beanbags, pillows and blankets. We invited Kayla, our next door neighbour and Jordans new fling over, she lives alone and Jordan didn't want her scared. They share a beanbag, Zach and I shared another, Jack and Jonah shared one but sat further away from eachother unlike Zach and I, we were as close as possible. Daniel and Corbyn didn't mind being close to eachother so it was fine like that. I closed all the curtains to darken the room so we could see the projector better. "Each beanbag picks a movie and we will decide the order after that" Jordan says. When everyone picks their movie we decide that Zach and I will have the first choice, followed by Corbyn and Daniel, then Jordan and Kayla and finally Jack and Jonah, they were last because they are too afraid to be close with eachother. I cuddle up next to Zach as he turns Netflix on to play the new It movie. Throughout the entire time all the boys acted like they weren't scared, but Kayla and I?  We hid by our boys like you wouldn't believe.

END OF CHAPTER. WORD COUNT: 1496

hi this chapter put me in feels while writing lmao, hope you enjoyed <3

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