Raise Your Voice [lrh] (EDITING)

epilogue

ten years later

"Luke! What the fuck!" Fabian yells from the dressing room backstage. I make my way in and they're fighting over a video game.

"Mummy, what does fuck mean?" Luke and I's three year old daughter, Katy, asks.

"It's a bad word, Katy. You don't say it." Fabian pipes and I roll my eyes.

"This is why she should be with Fiona and not back here." Luke mutters in my ear, placing his hands on my barely visible baby bump.

The rest of the boys, Ashton, Michael and Calum, run back stage shooting each other with water guns and yelling like cavemen.

"Oh my freaking god, I'm gonna slap someone." An irritated and very pregnant Lincoln says from the couch.

I sit next to her and sigh as Katy lays her head on my lap, and I begin thinking about how much life has changed since we all graduated from Sydney Arts. After I moved to London, Luke and I had tried dating while him and the boys went back on tour with One Direction. It didn't work that well, to be point blank.

When I flew back during Christmas break to Sydney to tend to Wizardo's, Tiffany was working part time as a barista, engaged to a big business CEO and was four months pregnant. Tabatha ended up becoming addicted to multiple drugs and Tiffany had her sent to rehab so she could get better. She had also told me that after Tina had healed from her fall at the showcase, she became a dance teacher at the local studio.

Tiffany and I kept in contact while I was in London, and when she had a little girl, I flew to Australia to see her. She named her Violet Eleanor, after my mum and I, who had apparently inspired her to become a better person. Violet was now five and Tiffany had twin sons, Alexander and Nicholas, who just turned four.

Tabatha was currently out of rehab and just became a pediatric ER nurse. She was living in Melbourne, currently engaged to a Spanish man, and had three dogs. I saw her when I went to Sydney again, and she hugged me so tight I couldn't breathe. It was good to know that she had gotten the help she needed though, even if she did treat me like shit for most of my life.

When I went back to London after that, Fabian was waiting in my dorm room and professed his undying love for me in front of my roommate, Casey. We gave dating a shot but it didn't quite work out, and we decided we were better off best friends, and we are.

So, doing the logical friend thing, Fabian and I started a band, Rag Doll Suicide (I didn't choose the name, Fabian did), and began working on an album as soon as we got signed. Then, we began touring all over the world. We went everywhere, all over America and Europe, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, you name it and we toured there. Fabian and I made three total albums and sold over twenty-million copies and counting. We had our fun, but we stopped after a while when we realised we didn't want to this for the rest of our life.

After that, Fabian then moved back to America and attended Julliard with Lincoln, and then they got married a year later, and I was lucky enough to be a bridesmaid. At their wedding, I ran into Luke again. It was awkward at first, but after awhile, things simmered down between us. He and I caught up with each other after that and I noticed I had never really stopped loving him, even though we had never really admitted to each other that we did love one another. So, we gave our relationship another chance, and two years later, he liked it so much he put a ring on it.

5 Seconds of Summer had a reunion tour after Luke and I got married, before I had found out I was pregnant with Katy. It ended when I was seven months pregnant with her and then it was calm for a while. It was nice, Luke not working himself so much and having him home more than having him gone. When Katy was born, everyones life changed. She was our little angel, and Calum, Ashton, Michael and Fabian were like her protectors. Because of her, they all settled down and got a grip on life because they wanted to be positive role models for her.

Fabian and Lincoln had announced that Lincoln was four months pregnant right after Katy's third birthday in August. Two months later I found out I was pregnant again, and our second daughter is due July 17th, a day after Luke's birthday.

Unfortunately, Devon (and his girlfriend) passed away in a car crash a few months after Fabian and Lincoln's wedding. He was driving on an unmarked road in his home town late at night, and a drunk driver hit his car, causing him to tumble off road and hit a tree, both dying on impact. It was hard losing him, he was the comic of our little group. I don't go a day without thinking about him since it happened.

The rest of the band and I have gotten closer as a result of Luke and I getting married and touring together for a while. Michael had somewhat settled down and got married to a a girl named Winter; she had pale white skin and long black hair and blue eyes. They currently had three kids together, all boys, Michael Jr, Jackson and Spencer, just as rambunctious as Michael himself. They resided down the street from Luke, Katy, and I, and we had them over quite often.

Calum decided that marriage wasn't his thing, and when he wasn't with the band or he wasn't touring, he made his money off of his chain of guitar shops, and adopted a ten year old girl named Liv, who was from Auckland, New Zealand. She changed his life around, to say the least, and she definitely made him a lot happier than I've ever seen him. She was talented, just like him. She was a dancer, and she and Katy enjoy dancing together.

Ashton actually married Serena, other wise known as the girl who stole my voice, and they have twin daughters, Sophie and Seline. Identical in looks but completely different; Seline was a musician and liked any instrument she could get her hands on. She was currently learning how to play the cello. Lauren was quiet and preferred reading and watching old disney movies with anyone.

All of us live in London now, and currently we are at the O2 arena, since tonight is the last show of the small UK tour Rag Doll Suicide and 5 Seconds of Summer had been doing. We had just done sound check and the boys were on first, since you save the best for last. So naturally, Fabian and I are last.

"Auntie Link, is Cody swimming in your belly?" I hear Katy's little voice ask, which pulls me out of my thoughts. Her hand is on Lincoln's stomach, and her baby is kicking up a storm right now.

"Yes, Katy, he is. Are you going to teach him how to swim when he's old enough?" Lincoln asks and Katy smiles, looking like her dad.

"Yeah! If Liv lets me!" Katy says with a giggle as Lincoln tickles her.

Everyone else comes into the large gathering room, wives and kids and band members alike as the boys began to get dressed and warm up before the show. Luke kisses me before he goes on and I hug the other guys and then I'm holding Katy in my arms as we jump up and down to the beat of their opening song, which is also her favourite, End Up Here.

Soon Fabian and I are getting our ear pieces and we circle up with the band and say a prayer before going on stage. Fabian gives Lincoln a kiss and Luke kisses my cheek before Fabian and I go out. The crowd is massive and super loud, even when slightly muted by the ear pieces. Fabian and I sit on our stools, since I can't move around much and I get dizzy from standing to long, he wanted to be fair and sit with me.

I put the guitar in my lap and I turn to face the band, we give them the signal and we're performing our first single off of the last album, Did You Really Try?, and the crowd is singing along with us and cheering happily. I look over and see Luke with Katy in his arms and I smile at them. After Fabian and I finish our set, the guys come out and we all hold hands and take a bow. The crowd goes wild and I begin to tear up a little bit, looking at all of the people who were hear to see us.

We all begin to exit the stage except for Fabian, who stays on for a few minutes longer.

"Hey, guys, can you all be quiet for a moment?" He asks, and the arena hushes down quite a lot. "So I'm Fabian, and I want to tell you a story about a boy and a girl who have a mutual love for singing, and the boy helps the girl find her voice."

the end