Adopted by All Time Low ^Completed^

Home Part 1

*Alex's POV*

I woke up to Jack shaking me telling me to get my lazy ass up and get dressed because we were leaving to go back home. Home. I missed my mom and dad. I couldn't wait for them to meet Winter. Speaking of which, where was she? I looked over to the bed at where she slept last night, but the only thing there was a made bed.

"She's in the lobby with Rian and Zack. Now get up and get dressed!" he practically screamed as he threw my bag at me. I ushered him out of the room to get dressed. I didn't have time to take a proper shower so I justed used some dry shampoo that was provided by the hotel we were staying at. I then started thinking about how long it would take for Winter to get used to us. Maybe days, maybe weeks, or even months. I sighed and locked the door walking towards the elevator. When I got down there, I saw Winter listening to music on her MP3 player kinda secluded in a chair in the corner I guess waiting for me. When she saw me, she jumped right up and came over to walk next to me. I smiled at her and she gave the realiest smile I've ever seen her give and we continued walking side by side. It was obvious she was more comfortable with me instead of the others. She was most likely scared shitless of Jack, Rian probably looked intimidating, and Zack was probably too shy to even say a word to her. The important thing was that she was comfortable with one of us, me. As we reached the car, she crawled into the very back and I decided to follow her. I asked to turn off her music so I could talk to her. I wanted to ask her why she was so quiet and secluded and why she wouldn't just open up to us a little more, but I knew that would sound rude considering what Alice told us.

"So, how come you won't talk to us much? We won't hurt you, I promise. Maybe Jack will try to bite you but that's about it." I asked with a chuckle adding in the last part. She must of found it funny too, because she laughed a little.

"I just get uncomfortable when I have more than one person that all potentionally care about me.I had no friends in school. I was that weird, awkward kid that always got picked on and that nobody cared about. When I was in 6th grade, it got a little worse. There were more kids that picked on me and it got harder and harder each year. Now that I'm in ninth grade, it just came to physical beating and mental beating. I was always scared about teling an adult because I was scared of getting beate up even harder.....it isn't that I automatically don't trust you it's just that I'm not used to attention by more than one person in my life." she explained barely over a whisper. I then felt really bad for asking and she looked like she was going to cry so I gave her a hug. Suprised, she hugged back.

-5 hours later-

*Zack's POV* (Oooh something newwww)

I looked behind me at the row of seats where Winter and Alex were sound asleep whil Winter was resting her head on his shoulder. I smiled. I really wanted to be able to talk to her but I don't know how she'll react. Rian was now driving and we were about 2 hours away from Baltimore. I couldn't wait to see my family and I knew that the others couldn't wait either. What if Winter gets scared by our family. If she likes Alex's family, hopefully she'll like ours.

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So this'll be a two aprt chapter thingy. I'll update tomorrow cause I have a little bit of writers. Love y'all <3-Emma