Stella certainly has been becoming quite the Diva. She dreams of following in her mommy's footsteps and she's gotten a really big start already, even if she's only a tiny seven year old. Her ballet lessons, and little shows she puts on in her room, that she thinks Finn and Rachel don't know about, but secretly they do, are only a part of that start. Stella thinks her Mom's Broadway career is the coolest thing in the world, which is why she wants her to come in for career day at school."
"Mommy, can you come to my school for career day?" Stella asks her mother after school

"I don't know Sweetie. I'm going to be pretty busy with rehearsals this week, can you ask your daddy to come?" Rachel replies.

"But Mommy, your job is so much cooler than Daddy's job."
"Honey, your Daddy has a pretty cool job. You should ask him to come. I'm sure he would."
"I have to bring you mommy, I have too."
"We'll see okay."
Stella is sitting in her room when her Daddy knocks on her door.

"Come in Daddy." Stella says in a very prim and proper way for a seven year old

"Hey Princess, did you have a good day at school? " Finn asks

"Yeah, we have career day on Friday."
"That's cool, can I come or would you rather bring Mommy since she in on Broadway and has 4 Tony Awards?"

"Daddy, you can come too. Your job is cool."
"Thanks Honey, did you do your homework?"
"Yup, all done. I have all A's what did you expect?"

"You really are your mother's daughter."
"I want to be good at everything Daddy."
"You don't have to do that Sweetie."
"Yes I do."

"Sweetheart, what brought this on? Did something happen at school today?"

"I-I got a C on my math test because I forgot to carry my ones in addition."

"That's okay, C's are still good grades, and math is hard. You'll do better next time."
"But Daddy, I have to do really good in school."

"Sweetie, you're only seven you can be a bit more worried about it when you're about thirteen."

"I just want to be pretty and perfect because nobody likes me."
"Stella, look at me you are beautiful, and you don't need to be perfect nobody is."
"I am not."
"Stella, you are so pretty. You're gorgeous and you look so much like your mother. You've got the cutest nose and a bright dimply smile, and I'm sorry you don't think that's beautiful, because it is."
"No Daddy, everybody picks on me because of my nose and I tried to tell them it was pretty because my mommy has the very same one but they still won't quit picking on me Daddy. It's not fair." Stella sobs

"Oh Honey, is that why you want your mother to come to career day instead of me? You think everyone will quit teasing you?" Finn asks wiping Stella's tears away.

"Mhmm."
"Alright Sweetheart, I'll talk to her for you."
"Thank you so much Daddy. I love you."

"You're welcome Honey and I love you too. You're beautiful, Stella, remember that oaky?

"I'll remember Daddy. I pormise"
Finn's lying in bed with Rachel, his heart still breaking over his talk with his daughter earlier that evening.

"Rachel you have to go to Stella's career day." He says

"Finn, I already told you, I really don't think I'll be able to go, my rehearsal schedule is jammed packed for the whole week." Rachel replies

"Rachel please, Stella needs you. She keeps getting picked on because of her nose, and she thinks that since you have the same one and you're beautiful, that if the kids notice that they will quit teasing her so much."
"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry, I didn't have the slightest clue that this was happening to her, of course I will come. I'll call the director and have my understudy fill in."
"It breaks my heart to hear her talk about herself like that, she thinks she's ugly, she shouldn't even get that idea but she does, it's so horrible. She's beautiful."
"I know, she's so gorgeous it isn't fair. Why did she have to get my nose? I knew this was going to happen to her one day!"
"Rachel, please don't talk like that, you two are both absolutely gorgeous."
"But she's only seven, Finn, doesn't this issue concern you at all?"
"Of course it does Honey, I'm just saying it's not your fault that these incredibly rude kids keep teasing our daughter."
"Was she crying?"
"Sobbing, she's pretty hurt. I just don't understand why these kids would do that to her. They are in first grade for God's sake."
"I know but she's so tiny, I kind of saw it coming."
"Me too, but we need to talk to her about this. it could be dangerous if she's still feeling this way about herself when she gets older."
"I know, we will, let's just let her get some sleep, and we'll talk to her tomorrow."
"I'm just so worried, if this doesn't stop, when she's older she could be really depressed or develop an eating disorder, she could just totally shut herself down. Right now it's just her nose, but what if they start saying even worse things about her, that would just crush her."

"Finn, Babe, stop worrying about her, you're taking this way too far and it is just going to make you stress yourself completely out, and that's not going to help things. Stella will be just fine, I promise, we just need to talk to her and tell her how much of a beautiful little girl she is, that's all we have to do, it will all be just fine, I promise."

" You're right, I know, I'm worried about her too much, but I can't help it she is my little girl, my daughter, and all I want to do is protect her."
"I know."

The next evening Finn and Rachel decide to talk with Stella.
"Stella, Mommy and I need to talk with you." Finn tells her

"W-w-why? Am I in trouble?" Stella asks nervously

"Oh no Honey, of course not. You didn't do anything to get yourself in trouble, your mommy and I are just really worried about you." Finn tells her.

"Yeah, so can we sit with you and talk?" Rachel asks.

"Mhmm."
"Princess, you can't let what the kids at school say get you down. You're beautiful, and you should remember that." Finn says

"But Daddy, it hurts when all the other girls say that kind of mean stuff to me, it really, really hurts."
"I know, but you are so beautiful, so every day, I want you to think of that when you wake up, and when the kids say those things to you."
"But Daddy, I believe them, they're right."
"No Stella, I promise you they aren't."
"How do you really know that Daddy?"
"Because when I was a kid people always told me I didn't try hard enough and that I wasn't good enough, then your Mommy told me that I was good enough, and I believed her, because I knew she loved me. Which is why you need to believe us Sweetheart, because we love you."

"I love you guys too Daddy, but it's really hard to not listen to what all of those kids are saying because the things they say make me doubt myself all the time."
"Honey, you don't have to believe what any other kid is going to tell you, you just need to believe in yourself."
"Okay, I'll try. Thank you."
"Sweetheart, you really have no need to thank me or your mother. We just worry about you and want you to be happy and have the best life that you possibly can because you are our daughter and we love you so much."
"I love you and Mommy too, so much you guys are the best parents in the whole wide world.

"Thank you Princess, I'm going to let you and Mommy talk now, okay?"

"Okay Daddy."
"So Stella, I'm going to tell you something about when I was little girl" Rachel says

"Alright, is it a sad story Mommy? I don't like sad stories at all. " Stella says.

"Just a little, not too sad, I promise."

"Okay."
"So I was just a normal little girl, not much different then you are right now, but people didn't like me that much, especially the popular girls that I went to school with. They didn't like that I was being raised by your grandpa and granddaddy. They made fun of my nose, and my outfits, they thought I was ugly. I believed them for quite some time. But you know what? Then I realized that I wanted to be a star, and I knew that if I was going to get my dream I shouldn't care what everyone else thought."

"So you're saying that I'm going to be a star, and that it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks and I should believe in myself?"
"Exactly, and I know you'll be fine because you are a true star."

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