The Daughters: Adopted by Renée Elise Goldsberry and Daveed Diggs

FBLA Part Four

I sit with Kaitlyn behind me doing my hair. We are getting ready to go to the awards ceremony. We have Phantom of the Opera on in the background and I'm singing a long with it. Then the riff part of it comes up and I do it. "Oh my goodness you should be Christine." Taylor says. "Yeah you should." Kaitlyn says. "Thanks." I say. I reach over and grab my locket and put it on. On the day Renée and Alexis adopted me, they gave me this locket with a picture of us at Hamilton in it. Since then, I've warn it for luck or when I needed to be fearless. Kaitlyn finishes curling my hair and I get up. "How do I look?" I ask the girls. "Your so pretty!" They exclaim. "Thanks." We leave to go to the ceremony and I sit between Taylor and Alexandrea. I Send a link live to mom so her and the cast can watch the ceremony live and I settle in for the ceremony.
Renée's POV
I walk into the living room with bowls of popcorn and other snacks. The cast and our families take up the space around the TV where we were able to get the live show on. "Be quiet everyone it's about to start." I say. We watch and wait until it gets to Nicole's and Alexandrea's competition. "Career Explorations Middle Level. Will the following members proceed to the waiting area: Veronica Jones, North Shore. Rebecca Stevens, Johnson middle. Alexandrea Diggs, Harlem Middle." We all cheer. "Stephane Ho, Lafayette Middle. And Nicole Goldsberry, Harlem Middle." We all scream. They all go up to the stage. We knew the top two would be going to the national conference in Maryland this summer so we were on the edge of our seats. "In fifth place, Stephane Ho, Lafayette Middle... In fourth place Veronica Jones, North Shore." "Our girls are in the top three Goldsberry!" Daveed says. I nod, wiping a tear from my eye.  "In Third Place, Rebecca Stevens, Johnson Middle." Everyone shouts. Our girls were in the top two. "In Second Place, Alexandrea Diggs, Harlem Middle." We cheer. Alexis hugs me. "In first place Nicole Goldsberry, Harlem Middle." Everyone screams. "THAT'S OUR DAUGHTER!" Alexis screams. Everyone cheers and we are really happy for our girls.
Alexandrea's POV
Nicole and I walk off the stage holding our trophies up. We would be going to the NLC. 'So, this is what it must feel like to win a Tony'. We go back to our group who are all cheering and sit back by Taylor who had just placed first in Business Math. "Were all going to NLC!" She says. We laugh and hug. After the rest of the ceremony goes on, we go back up to our rooms and mine and Nicole's phones were blowing up with notifications from the cast. We go through them and then Renée FaceTime us. Overall, it was a good end to an amazing conference.