Oblivious- A Tanner Buchanan Story

A New Beginning

                       

You never know when you're gonna meet someone
And your whole wide world in a moment comes undone- Daughtry

                        Mia POV
I finished eating and looked over at my 4 year old daughter, Rosie. She had somehow managed to plaster a few of her perfect blonde ringlets to her face with the syrup from her pancake. I giggled as I shifted my gaze from her face to her disney princess plate. Her eggs were gone and so was the majority of the aforementioned pancake. She shoved one more piece of pancake in her mouth.

"I'm all done, Mommy!" Rosie exclaimed after she finished chewing.

"Are you sure? You still got a little bit left, Sweetie," I calmly responded, pointing at her plate.

"Yep! I'm full! Look my tummy is all big," she said, pushing her belly out and patting it lightly.

I chuckled as I sipped my coffee. "Whoa, look at that! Alright, then. Time to clean up."

I took care of the dishes and then took Rosie to the bathroom to wash up. Once that was done, we got dressed and she busied herself playing with her Spiderman action figure and her barbies. I sat by my window and sighed as I drank the last of my coffee.

I was a single mom in my 20s and I was honestly okay with that. It was better than staying in the horrible marriage I had been in with Rosie's father. I rebuilt my and Rosie's entire life together after I divorced him and I was finally finding myself and loving what I found.

I remembered who I was before him and knew who I wanted to be now. I had always been a dreamer. I had always wanted to do more than a 9 to 5 job. I loved to sing and dance, and though I had never acted before, always wanted to try it.

I never had the guts to before though, because a lifetime of abuse from everyone around me told me I wasn't good enough or pretty enough to do it. That it would be too hard and I would never make it.

Now I didn't care what they thought. I wanted to do it. I was worried about uprooting my baby, and I did like my job, but honestly I think we both needed a change. Most all of our family, except a select few, were toxic and I didn't feel much connecting me here except my best friend, Kristy and her son, Theo. My mom lived way up north and the only other friends I was very close to lived states away and we really only got to talk online.

I hadn't told anybody but I had been saving as much as I could to follow this dream.

I pulled out my phone and checked my savings.

I gasped.

I hadn't been keeping close track lately since I had so much going on, but I usually knew roughly how much I had in there. Today, however, I was shocked. There was more in there than expected.

I double checked my budget and my plan for expenses for leaving.

I had more than enough for my plan.

Rosie and I could go to California!

I checked on my daughter and then, because it was my day off, sat on my couch with my laptop and spent the day making all the arrangements.

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[A little over a year later]

My phone played The Champion by Carrie Underwood as I got in my car after my afternoon acting class. I almost threw it as I whipped it out of my back pocket and answered it.

"Hey, what's up?" I said, tiredly.

"Oh, nothing much, I just booked you an audition for a movie! It's not A list but it is still big. And you're auditioning for the lead!" My agent/manager, Annie practically sang.