"What movie should we watch first?" Todrick asks from the kitchen.
"I don't know." I reply. I'm scrolling through Netflix to find something to watch while Todrick was in the kitchen popping some popcorn.
"What's Mean Girls?" I ask when I see it.
"Are you kidding me!" He yells.
"What?"
He's in the living room now.
"You've never seen Mean Girls!"
"No. I've never even heard of it." I confess.
"Um we're watching it. No student of mine will take a step into my studio without watching Mean Girls."
Todrick returns back to the kitchen and comes out with a bowl of popcorn and all different kinds of chocolate. I laugh.
"What?" He says as he settles down on the couch.
"I love how you always tell us dancers to eat healthy and then you eat all of this stuff which I don't mind eating I just thought it was funny."
Todrick's forms into the overused duck face with an eyebrow pulled up all the way.
"Just start the dang movie." He says.
I chuckle and do as he says. 

(Couple of hours later)

*DING DONG*
"Pizza is here!" Todrick says excitedly clapping his hands and jumping up and down. It was now 8:15 and we were already in our pajamas, ready to stuff our faces in pizza.
He pays the pizza guy and thanks him. He comes over with three boxes of pizza.
"Todrick why is there three pizzas? Is somebody coming over?"
"No." He plainly says as he sets the boxes down and walks into the kitchen.
"Big boys gotta eat!" He yells from the kitchen.
I chuckle and decide to go on my phone . I see that Scott had texted me a couple of minutes ago.

S-Hey is everything going well?
R-Don't worry about me I'm fine. Enjoy yourself.
S- I am. I was just making sure you were okay. See you tomorrow.❤️
R- okay❤️

Todrick came back with two plates and some napkins. He puts the napkins next to the pizzas on the coffee table. He hands me a plate and opens each box up.
"Alrighty! We have cheese, sausage and peperoni, and barbeque chicken. Since you're the guests you must help yourself first." Todrick says as he motions for me to grab a slice.
Overwhelmed by the many choices, I grab one of each. Todrick then piles his plate with two of each.

"Um I was thinking that- and you don't have to do this if you don't want to. I don't want to push you into anything."
Todrick says looking into my eyes.
"What is it Todrick?" I softly say. Internally I was freaking out.
"I was wondering if we could start looking for your real family."
I look at my pizza and slowly put it down on my plate. All of a sudden I wasn't hungry anymore. I mean of course I want to find my real family. I just don't know why I'm so uneasy about it. Todrick saw how I reacted.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up I-"
"Yes." I say, cutting off Todrick.
"What?"
"I wanna do it. I wanna find them." I look up at Todrick now.
"Okay.....like right now?"
"If you don't mind." I shrug my left shoulder.
"No not at all. Let me go get my laptop."
He put his plate down and went into a room.

I hope Mitch and Scott don't mind that I'm doing this without them. Maybe this wasn't a good idea. But Todrick is
doing this for me.

I return to reality as Todrick walks in with his Apple laptop.
"Ok, I'm gunna look up what we need to do and then we'll go from there." He says typing away on his laptop.
"Ok." I plainly say. Making sure that my voice doesn't come out shaky because I was nervous. Why? I have no idea.
I eat my pizza, even though my appetite was nonexistent right now but I didn't want to be rude.

It's been a couple minutes and Todrick hasn't said anything. All I hear is him typing and clicking.
"Ok I've checked a bunch of websites and all of them basically says to call the hospital where you were born. Do you know the name?"
"Yeah it's St. John's Hospital. The one in Santa Monica."
Todrick types in the hospital and Santa Monica. He clicks on the hospitals website and finds the number to it. I grab my phone and dial the number. I give my phone to Todrick and he gives me a questionable look.
"I'm too nervous to talk." I explain.
He hesitantly nods. I hear someone answer the phone but I can't make out what they said.
"Hi um I was wondering if you could help us with something. Well my......friend um two weeks ago found out that um she was switched at birth basically and she was born at this hospital and we were wondering if you could help um us get a hold of her um real family. Rachel Vaughn. V-A-U-G-H-N. March 25th 2000. Sure I'll wait." Todrick puts the phone on speaker and you can hear elevator music.
They put us on hold. Now I really hate this. I just want to know where they are.
"What did they say?" I ask.
"They will get your medical record which has your birth certificate in it which has your actual name and your parents name and from there they can find your parents medical records and contact them." Todrick says.
"That's kinda confusing because how could they get my birth certificate if they my name now doesn't match the name on my actual birth certificate."
"I don't know but they said they've done this before so I guess they know what they're doing."
Knowing that they've done this before calmed me down a bit but it also made me really sad thinking that someone might have gone through something like I have.

Todrick sets down my phone on the coffee table as the same boring tune plays over and over again. I stare at my phone and bounce my leg up and down. Todrick quietly eats his pizza as we wait.

After five minutes I get up and pace back and forth, fumbling with my fingers and picking at my nails. Another five minutes pass and I'm getting impatient. I look over at Todrick and he has eaten the whole sausage and peperoni pizza.

"You still there?" We hear a soft female voice come out of the phone. Todrick and I practically throw ourselves towards the phone.
"Yeah I'm still there. So did you find them?"
"Well, unfortunately I've got some bad news."
Todrick and I look at each other and he grabs my hand, preparing me for the worst possible thing that might ruin my life forever.
"We found them but they unfortunately died in a fatal car accident two years ago. I'm sorry. If you want anymore information just call us. Have a good night sir."
"You too."
I feel numb all over my body. I stopped listening to her after she said "died." I look out to the distance. Todrick was hugging me but I couldn't feel it. His comfort not breaking through my skin. I don't know how I should feel. I didn't know them. So should I feel sad? Should I feel mad? I don't know what I should feel. But what I really don't know is what to do next.
"Don't call Mitch or Scott." I say.
I get up from the couch and walk over to the room where I'm supposed to be sleeping in. I pull back the covers and climb into the bed. I feel tears slowly slide down my cheeks. I don't wipe them away. I let them crawl down my cheek and down my neck and let my shirt soak them up.

I don't have a family.

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Hey guys hope you liked the chapter! I need a name for Rachel's real name so comment down a first, middle, and last name and if I like it I will use it in my story. Remember smile!
❤️Sofia