nashville reborn (sequel to NN)

Chapter 23

***Ryne's POV***

Ridge sang the song she wrote for me. I sobbed when she sang it. It made me fell 100% better about everything. I wanted to go try to find her. I knew she would be with Tae. I walked into Maddie and Tae's dressing room. I was shocked when it was Ridge and Maddie. They both looked at me.

"Uh, R-Ridge can we talk?" I ask. Maddie clears her throat and pushes past me. I walk into the dressing room. "You...You sang-".

"Yeah, I did, but I still don't support your decision" She says.

"I'm not getting it. I...I can't do that" I say.

"What made you change your mind?" She asks. I sigh and sit down on the couch.

"Nothing did. I didn't want it to begin with, but I felt like I had no choice. I thought it was the only way to get Jase back" I say. "I wanted Jase back, I didn't want a baby".

"I did. Mama and Daddy don't know this, but Isaiah and I talked about kids way before he proposed. We wanted to have a family, and we wanted one as soon as possible. Isaiah said that if we ever had a girl he wanted to name her after Hannah because she never got the chance to be a Mother herself. We didn't think that we would end up in Hannah's position. We were going to have babies as soon as we could and not stop until we had too. We...We don't get that chance now" She says.

"It should be you. It should be you having the baby. Not me" I say. She shaked her head.

"No. No, It shouldn't.  This baby is being born to the person it should be. You've got this. You're going to rock the mom life, and you don't need Jase to do it. You have me" She says. I look up at her.

"I do?" I question.

"Of course" She says with a smile. "You and Me together".

"Take on the world forever" I finish the lyric of her song.

"You're my sister. I'm not always going to like you, but I'm always going to love you" She says. I bite my bottom lip and fall into her arms.

"I love you too" I say.

***Eliza's POV***

Ridge found me before I went onstage and told me that she and Ryne had made up. I knew it wouldn't take long for that to happen, but she was still not talking to Jase and Maddie. I knew that it would just take time for them to all process everything. I was just thankful my girls were back to being sisters. Our shows were always better when most people were happy. I was having so much fun on stage tonight. It was ourast day in LA before we traveled to Inglewood to play 'The Forum'.

"Alright, LA. How are we doing tonight?" I ask the crowd while taking a drink from my water bottle. The crowd cheers. "You know, I...I've been touring the world, playing shows like this for the past eighteen years. I'm about to sing my first single next, but I wouldn't have been able to make that single unless two people in Nashville believed in me. I like to do this a lot, and I'm about to do it again and no one backstage knows this, but I would like all of the original Women of Wilder to join me on stage" I say. If no one had noticed by now, I used the stage to help mend peopled hurt feelings. Runaway June and Carrie walked out together. "Maddie and Tae, where are you guys?". A couple minutes later, they appear.

"What are you up to, Eliza Rose?" Carrie asks. I just smiled at her.

"LA, if you know the words sing along" I say as the beginning of my song starts to play. The crowd sang and so did everyone on stage. I knew that when we all got offstage, Maddie would still be salty with all of us, but for right now, I just wanted to go back to being the twenty two, twenty four, twenty eight, thirty, thirty six, and thirty eight year olds we were the first time we were ever on tour together. I realized in that moment that no matter what happened to any of us, no matter how much any of us fought or hated each other, we would always be The Women of Wilder.