Pieces of the Past

Epilogue

When you finally realize you haven't posted the last chapter like you thought you did.

10 years later

Riley's POV

Although messing with us, driving us crazy, kidnapping us, putting us in jail, and making us hideaway because everyone thought we were dead were a few of many, many things Derek and Beth did to us while they were A, there were surprisingly a lot of good things that came out of it. Eldon and Michelle started dating again, and through this experience, realized life's too short to wait around, and got married at 18. Eldon went to school to become a police officer, and has spent his days catching the bad guys. He's good at it too, at 27 he's already a detective. Michelle finished schooling to become an artist, and paints pictures of everything she missed during her time in A's accommodations. They had a son at 24, and are expecting their second one. Amanda realized that if Lucien wants her to kill people to stay dance captain, it wasn't worth it. She moved to The Next Step permanently, and is even teaching contemporary. Stephanie realized that she was good at hiding the fact that something was seriously wrong, which lead to her discovery of a dream she had suppressed. She was currently acting in the lead role of a Broadway musical. Tiffany realized that there was a mean, and an evil in the world. She took advantage of the mean in her to become a high level prosecutor. She's never lost a case. Giselle became dance captain after Nationals, before Kate offered her a job as the acro teacher at the studio. She loves it. She also went to school to become a child therapist, and helps kids with anger management. Chloe helped out at the studio, doing baby ballet and classes here and there, before pursuing her dream, and dancing with Ballet De La Rien. The upcoming show will be the 9th production she's been in, and the 5th where she's been the female lead. She also started a hotline company that talks to bullied kids, and tells them how to deal with it. As for Emily, she hurt her knee at Nationals, and wasn't able to dance again. This got her thinking about under privileged kids, and opened a non-profit organization that funds to help parents pay for extracurriculars. She also works as a child sports injury physiotherapist. Of course, you may be wondering what happened to myself and James as well. Emily's warning about using protection obviously went in one ear and out the other, because at Internationals I conceived a baby. I graduated, with honours, from high school the next week, and James and I moved in together. I gave birth to my oldest, Olivia, or Liv as we call her, on March 7th of the following year. Since both James and myself had graduated from high school, our parents didn't have a problem with the baby, probably because the experience showed even them how short life is. On June 27th, our 4 year anniversary, James proposed. We never got around to a proper wedding, with a child life was hectic. When Liv was 1, I conceived my second daughter. James and I got married on August 8th, when I was 20 weeks pregnant. It wasn't big, we just went and signed the papers so we could say we were married. We didn't care it wasn't big, we were just happy to be together. January 8th, exactly 5 months after we were married, I gave birth to our second daughter, Peyton, or Pey. James had gone to college during all this, and graduated to go on and become an elementary teacher. I had a lot of free time on my hands, and got to spend it with my girls. When I was 24 and James was 25, Liv was 6 and Pey was 4, I gave birth to our third, and most likely, final child, Finley, or Finn. During the days I was home with him, I started to take up writing, and in a year, I published a book on our experiences with A, and how it affected us all. The book was a success, and I'm currently working on my second novel. Most of the things that happened to us in high school, were a result of Derek and Beth, but I feel as though I can't be mad at them, because if none of those things happened to us, we wouldn't be the people we are today. So, really, we can all credit our success to A. They may have turned our life upside down, but all the damage was worth it. And I wouldn't change a thing about it.