Write off the Fear

Epilogue

They're standing just outside the imposing skyscraper with Mia impatiently tapping her foot and checking her watch every 30 seconds.

"Where is she!?" she anxiously asks no one in particular and only receives two sighs. Ever since she started working as a stage manager at various Broadway theatres, Mia has become sort of a stickler for keeping time.

"Mia, breathe. She'll be here." Liza says once the incessant foot tapping goes on for too long.

Just as Mia is about to retort, Mim comes barreling round the corner, taking quick strides to reach them.

"Sorry! I'm here! I'm here!" she apologizes as she nears them.

"You're just in time." Tiny says as she pushes herself off the wall she'd been leaning against. "Mia was just about to blow her gasket."

"I-I was not!" Mia huffs and the other three sisters share a look before giggling.

"Come on, let's go. Song's not gonna sing itself." Liza says as she lightly pushes her sisters in the direction of the skyscraper's doors.

They make their way past the front desk, giving Gary and Ronald friendly waves, and step into one of six elevators. Hitting the button for the 12th floor, they ride the elevator in relative silence, bobbing their heads to the elevator music.

Once they step off, they're greeted by a familiar face.

"Hey!" Nova exclaims, coming up to give each of them a hug, "You guys ready?" She asks as they start walking toward their usual suite.

"This is finally it." Mia says, "The final one before...everything." she adds a little nervously.

"Well don't sound so excited about it." Nova teases as she opens the door to let them in. "Hey, before you guys do your thing...I just wanted to say thanks again. For taking a chance on me and letting me be your official manager for all this. I know you guys had a lot of other 'more professional' options. So thanks." Nova says sincerely as her eyes begin to water and Tiny pulls her into a tight hug.

"We wouldn't trust anyone else Novs." Tiny says assuredly, as the rest agree, before releasing her.

"Right," Nova says, quickly wiping her eyes and throwing a beaming smile at them, "go on and kick some butt!" She says before walking towards the back of the room to sit on the couch, away from the cameras and crew currently crowded in the studio.

The sisters are pulled in a few different directions from there as they head off for hair and makeup and then wardrobe. They had insisted that this be the route of their first music video ever since Mia brought the idea to them. They wanted it to be simple for their first one, really just letting their music shine and the label, backed by Ms Singh, had agreed. Mia's concept was reflective of their journey. They'd already shot at a few different locations, their childhood home's basement, on a stage that looked similar to the one at their first summer festival, a college graduation stage and now at their final location, they were going to record in the label's studio. It's their journey of where it all started to where they are now.

As people touch her face and hair and excitedly hover around her, Mim is slightly baffled that this is her life now. She thinks about everything that's happened since that writing competition 6 years ago.

After the competition, Rory somehow managed to get through to Jason and he had come forward in one of his live streams with the full truth about his songs and the album artwork. He even went through with the formal apology for the stolen artwork. He received quite a bit of backlash for all his wrong doings and stopped his streams. He still performed at the summer festival but that was about it. Since they'd all graduated high school, Mim has bumped into Jason a few times and during one of those times, he'd actually apologized to her for how he treated her and she'd forgiven him. Now, they weren't friends but acquaintances as they ran in similar circles after he signed his own record deal.