Broken to Unbroken

Chapter Eight

~Payton

The house is huge and the walls are covered in pictures of Vic and the guys that I guess were taken during their free time. "I'll show you to the guest room." Vic said waving for us to follow him. We follow him up the stairs and down a hallway that had about 8 doors in it 4 of which I am guessing are the guys' rooms. We get to the end of the hall and Vic stops. "Here you go, the bathroom is right across the hall and there's another one down the hall just in case. You guys get settled and come down whenever you are done. Dinner will be ready soon." Vic said and with that he left. We walked into the room to see all four walls were covered in frames that held fan letters and fan art that had been sent to them. "Oh my gosh, Tony!!!" Tory yells from the other side of the room. "What?" I ask as I walk over to her. "Our letters and fan art! Its all here!" She squeals. I walk over and look at the wall to see that she was  actually being serious. Even the portrait of myself that I made and sent them last year was there. "I can't believe they actually got all our stuff." I said looking at the portrait in a frame on the wall. "Let's head downstairs, yeah.?" Tory asks bringing my attention to her. I nod and we leave the room and walk down the stairs. We find everyone sitting in the living room talking. No one noticed us for a while but then Jamie looked up. "Hey guys!" He says smiling at us causing the Mike, Vic and Tony to look over in our direction. We wave and walk to sit on one the couches. "The guest room is amazing." Tory says. " I can't believe you guys actually get all the stuff that we send you. I always thought that it gets sent to your manager or something." She says. "Its different for every musician. Some have all their fan mail sent to their manager and others don't. We like to read all if our fan mail ourselves and we love seeing all the art you guys send us. We have so many talented fans. Especially you Payton. That portrait of you that you sent us was amazing. It looks just like you." Vic says. "Thanks." I say smiling while feeling my cheeks heat up. There was a 'ding' from the kitchen and Jamie jumped up. "Lasagna's ready!" He said with a huge smile before running into the kitchen. We all laugh at his enthusiasm and soon walk into the kitchen as well. After we got our food we went back to the living room where we sit and watch random Disney movies while we eat. When Anastasia ends we take our plates to the kitchen and sit them in the sink to be washed later and walk back to the living room again. We all take our seats on the couch again and the guys ask us to tell them about ourselves. "Well there isn't much to tell about me. I'm nineteen. I like to draw and I love music." Tory says with a  small chuckle. "Oh okay. What about you Payton.?" Vic says smiling. Everyone turned to look at me and Tory looked at me with a worried expression on her face, knowing that I was most likely going to tell them about my dad. "Well... I'm nineteen like Tory. But I'm older. I love draw as well as dance and sing. I guess I'm a pretty good actress... I'm really smart. Music is really important to me.. And I've been living with Tory for the last ten months....." I trail off at the end trying to decide if I wasn't to tell them more. "Why do you live with Tory.? What about your parents... If its okay that we know.." Tony says with a curious expression obviously voicing the question that was going through all four of their minds. I look down at my hands as I feel tears start to form in my eyes. Tory holds my hand and lightly squeezes it to let me know that it'll be okay. I look back up at the guys with vision that is now blurred by tears and as they fall down my cheeck I see that their expressions have gone from curious to worried and that Tony was giving me an apologetic look. I give them a sad smile and take a deep breath before speaking. "My mom died when I was little and my dad was killed in a tragic car accident ten and a half months ago... that's why I've been living with Tory. I was to young when my mom died to really know or remember her but my dad was my everything." I say letting out a small laugh. "I'm a daddy's girl. I remember when I was in eighth grade this boy asked me out and I was like 'sorry my daddy's my boyfriend' and I walked away. We use to  watch movies every Thursday night because he said he didn't want to take my Friday nights away so if I decided that I wanted to go out I could. God, I miss him." I say smiling at the memories. It's silent for a while. I look at the guys and smile at them. They smile back and give me a look as to say 'I'm sorry for your loss' and I smile again to say thank you. "Its like 2 a.m. we should get some sleep." Jamie says looking at his phone. We hadn't even realized that that much time has passed. We all say goodnight to each other and walk upstairs to our rooms. Me and Tory say goodnight and last down in the bed. Before long we're both fast asleep.