Loren and Eddie have finally left Jake's office, they both look a little miserable and not completely at piece with how that conversation went and ended. Eddie looks over at Loren who is sitting next to him in the back seat of his car and he gets worried.
Eddie: Lo, are you okay?
Loren: I'm just really worried about your decision
Eddie: I thought we went through this already
Loren: We did, but that doesn't mean i have to like it
Eddie: So if you don't like it then why did you agree to it?
Loren: Who said i agreed? Last i checked you and Jake did all the negotiating and i sat there and just watched.
Eddie: I thought you would be a little happier that i decided to join you on tour.
Loren: Eddie, don't get me wrong im super excited that you are coming with me, i don't know what in the world i would have done had you decided to stay here to work on your music but that doesn't mean i cant be worried about you.
Eddie: So then what are you worried about?
Loren: Your career, what will happen now that you want to continue in this new direction, you are not signed with any label and your fans aren't loving your music like they used to.
Eddie: Lo, you have to stop worrying about everyone and everything, you know that everything that happens, happens for a reason weather we understand it or not, look at me hon you and i we will go home now, pack up and then get an early night sleep. We leave for Vegas at 6 AM. We will take whatever happens after that one step at a time okay.
Loren: Your right i worry to much.
The car pulls up in front of their apartment building. Loren and Eddie get out, they go inside the building, Eddie pulls Loren into a passionate kiss in the elevator, they continuing kissing while they walk into their apartment and fall down onto the couch laughing. After a long evening together their bags are packed and they go to sleep. At 5 AM Eddie's phone rings and wakes them both. Eddie sees that it is Jake so he picks up.
Eddie: Jake, do you know what time it is?
Jake: Yeah, its five
Eddie: So why are you calling this early?
Jake: You know that we are coming to pick you guys up in an hour right.
Eddie: Yeah, we are both ready so i was planning on waking up at a quarter to six.
Jake: Ed, there is something serious i have to discuss with you privately can i come by now?
Eddie: Bad news again?
Jake: No nothing about you.
Eddie: Kelly?
Jake: How did you guess?
Eddie: Really Jake, everyone out there knows that Kelly is in love with you, it only makes more sense that now that Tracy left she will make things more complicated for you.
Jake: I still miss Tracy is there a way that you can explain that to Kelly before we leave today? It's just that i am still nervous every time am alone with Kelly she doesn't seam to get that i still love Tracy and i am not ready to move on yet.
Eddie: Don't worry Jake, i'll take care of Kelly as long as i know you will have my back through this whole process, i know you are not thrilled with my decision to join Loren, if you stand behind me i will get Kelly to back off. Do we have a deal.
Jake: We sure do.
Jake and Eddie hang up. Eddie gets Loren up and they both get ready for their upcoming road trip. At six sharp Jake and Kelly are outside waiting for them. Max and Nora are there as well. Everyone is getting settled onto the bus when Melissa comes running on.
Melissa: Am i late?
Jake: Nope, your right on time we are about to leave.
Loren: Mel, what are you doing here?
Melissa: Eddie, you didn't tell her?
Loren: Tell me what?
Eddie: I wanted you to surprise her yourself.
Melissa: After you accepted the offer from the label they called me and asked me to video your entire tour.
Loren: But i thought you already had a job.
Melissa: I did, but i couldn't turn down the opportunity to join you on tour for double what i was originally going to get paid.
Loren: Mel, that's amazing, i'm so excited your coming.
Loren and Mel get tangled up in a really intense hug, Melissa then pushes Eddie away and ends up sitting next to Loren. They ended up leaving LA at six thirty so they got stuck in heavy rush hour traffic. They pulled up in front of the hotel they were playing in at twelve as the four hour car ride ended up taking close to six hours to drive. They all get out of the bus and enter the hotel. Loren Eddie and Melissa are standing outside the hotel together when Loren comes face to face with someone she had never planned on seeing again.
Loren: Trent, what are you doing here?
Trent: Hi honey, i own this Hotel.
Eddie: Loren, you know this man?
Loren: Eddie meet Trent McCall, my dad, Trent meet Eddie Duran my boyfriend.
Trent: Nice to finally meet you Eddie.
Eddie: Loren i thought you hadn't seen your dad since he left you and your mom 14 years ago
Loren: Your right, except that he decided to come to my last concert the one at the MK club.
Eddie: You came to see your daughter while i was gone, you really thought that would help her out? How could you do that to her?
Eddie picks up his hand and slaps Trent across the face
Trent: I guess i deserve that
Eddie: Look man i feel your pain i know what its like to be far away from Loren, i just went through that myself, but really dude you walked out on her, you left her because you didn't want her, you cant just come back into her life when it's convenient for you. Where were you when she was four years old wondering why her daddy never came home, or when Nora would bring home all of these guys, or when Loren started to realize that all her classmates in school had two parents and she only had one, How about when i went missing and my father had to comfort her, where was her father? And where were you when Loren died? You definitely never showed up to the hospital.
Trent: i understand where you are coming from Eddie, but can't you see that i am trying to make things right here?
Eddie: Are you trying to make them right for Loren or for you? If you wanted to make it right by Loren then why don't you ask her how to make it right because i don't think that booking her for a gig behind her back is the best way to start.
Trent: Look i am desperate here, really i am,
Loren: So you booked me here on purpose.
Trent: You were so amazing the last time i heard you sing, and your mom wouldn't let me contact you i had to figure out another way to do it.
Eddie: I am sure there are better ways to do it than randomly showing up here without giving her advanced notice.
Trent: If she would have found out that i owned this Hotel she would have backed out completely
Loren looks at her papers and then back at Trent.
Loren: Trent how come your name is not on my paper here as the contact, i have someone else's name here.
Trent: I had to put the reservation under the name of someone else so you wouldn't find out it was me. i am sorry Loren but i really wanted you to play here.
Loren: So whose name exactly is on the reservation?
Trent: The name you see there, well she is my fiance.
Loren: What, Dad how could you do that to me?
Trent: Loren, i thought you would be happy, i have finally moved on, i am going to be getting married and i really wanted you to sing at our wedding and i didn't know how else to get you down here.
Loren: Look you might have contributed to my existence but you are not my dad and you never will be, but couldn't you have picked anyone else in the world to marry and not her.
Trent: Why whats wrong with her and how do you know her you never even met her.
Loren: You're right i never met her but still you can't marry her.
Melissa: Lo, whats wrong, you never have to see your dad again come on lets go inside.
Loren: Mel you need to see the name of the person my dad is about to marry.
Melissa: Me why?
Loren hands Melissa the paper.
Loren: Just look.
Melissa takes on look and then freaks out.
Melissa: What no way how can you do this to me? How can she do this to me?
Trent: Look i don't really understand what you two are getting so worked up about. I met Beth twenty years ago and we dated back then, we continued our relationship on and off during the years whenever she lived here. she recently moved out here and started working for me in my hotel. We immediately reconnected and a couple of weeks ago i proposed to her and she said yes.
Melissa: So you knew here while she was here in rehab?
Trent: How the heck do you know about that?
Just then Beth comes walking out of the hotel.
Beth: Trent what is going on out here, Melissa what are you doing here, i thought you had a job in LA for the summer.
Melissa: Hi to you to mom, i gave up that job to join Loren here on tour. Oh and by the way i don't know if you mentioned to Trent that you had a daughter but so does Trent, Beth meet Loren my best friend a really famous super star who also happens to be your fiance's daughter.
Beth: Loren it is really nice to finally meet you. And Melissa yes Trent did tell me about Loren after i told him that you Melissa are his biological daughter as well.
Melissa: What?! Trent is my dad?
Trent: Yeah, one night while Nora was pregnant and being real moody i left the house and went to a bar where i met you mom Melissa for the first time. We were both really drunk and had a one night stand where i got Beth pregnant. I didn't know about it until just recently. We had you Loren and then i left. But now i will have both my daughters.
Loren: So you are saying that after all these years of saying that Melissa was my closest friend who felt like a sister to me she is becoming my step sister oh wait no actually she is already my biological sister. Thanks dad if i thought i could count on you to make my life hell before nothing compares to the bomb you just dropped on me.
Eddie walks in between Loren and Melissa and hugs each of them. Normally Loren would be mad that Eddie was hugging Melissa but she was so happy and proud of him for recognizing that right then they both needed to be comforted. The three of them then walk into the hotel where they are greeted by the rest of their group.
Nora: What was going on out there we were starting to get really worried.
Melissa: Well to make a long story short, Trent owns this hotel, he is engaged to my real mom Beth and oh by the way did i forget to mention that while you were still married to Trent he cheated on you with Beth making him my long lost biological father.
Nora: What?!
