Long Live (Sequel to Payton Swift)

Chapter 8

// July 6, 2013 //

- Payton -

@paytonswift: last show of the tour that i'll be seeing. flying to LA tomorrow morning & i won't be seeing my big sis until september :'( #thatsucks

As I send out my tweet, I let out a big sigh. I loved being with Taylor for the past week and a half, but I hated having to leave halfway through. I just want to spend time with Taylor, but due to her being busy all the time now I can barely see here.

Getting a week and a half with her was a stroke of luck.

Anyway, I scrolled through my mentions and smiled when I saw a tweet from Bethany.

@BethanyMota: @paytonswift don't be sad! you've got me for a month when you get here girl :)

@paytonswift: @BethanyMota a month-long sleepover with you is definitely what i need! i miss you so much :(

After I send my reply to Bethany, I lock my phone and roll out of bed so that I can start getting ready for my day ... which was going pretty well until I tripped over one of my bags. Groaning, I stand up and brush myself off.

"Please let that be the worst thing to happen to me today," I whisper to myself as I walk over to the drawers where my clothes were. It didn't appear to be extremely hot out, so I grabbed pink boyfriend half-zip pullover from Victoria's Secret and a pair of black lululemon shorts - just incase it was warm out. Then, I opened another drawer, grabbed a pair of underwear, a pair of socks and a bra before heading to the bathroom to take a quick shower.

***

After my morning routine, I headed out to one of my favourite places.

Starbucks.

Since Taylor, Ed, Austin, my mom and basically everyone on this tour was busy today, I had to go by myself. Which I actually kind of liked, I guess I really needed some alone time? Anyway after I had ordered and sat down, I started scrolling through my Twitter again ... which wasn't a good idea.

My mentions were full of tweets that all contained the same links to the same two "articles". The first one was about me cheating on Niall with Justin - completely wrong because I haven't seen Justin in almost 6 months. Now the second, on the other hand, seemed a lot more plausible since they were pictured together almost two weeks ago.

Has pop-star Niall Horan moved on from girl-next-door Payton Swift to model Barbara Palvin?

My heart shattered into a million little pieces - not literally of course, but you get what I mean. As I read through the "article", tears welled up in my eyes and I knew that if I didn't leave soon, I would burst into tears right in a public place which is something I really didn't want to do. So, I got up, threw away my drink and then stepped outside.

That was my third bad idea of the day and it's not even noon yet.

When I stepped outside, immediately I was greeted by a swarm of Taylor Swift fans who were screaming and waving to me and as well I was greeted by a couple of paparazzi - who were awful by the way. As I walked past the first two paparazzi, they yelled awful things at me - mainly slurs to demean me as a human being. Then, there were more flashes and soon enough I was surrounded by paps with the fans bordering the outside.

It was chaos.

Luckily for me, a small group of six Taylor Swift fans came to my rescue and they all surrounded me as if they were bodyguards - not gonna lie, there were two guys in the group that were cute as hell and I was definitely ok with them helping me out.