Epilogue:

"I'm here! I'm here...!" I yell as I run over to Ryan who is waiting for me with Amy at the gate. Our plane is already boarding, but since we're flying first class we could choose to go inside being the first or the last - Ryan's choice is clear as I can see from the many people who are standing in line for boarding.

Amy's bright blue eyes shine as she pulls me into a hugg, "So, they signed?"

I nodd, "Got you out of the company as well since your contract won't get renewed for another good 24 months."

She smiles, "Okay... Good. Thank you... And they really... you know bought it?"

I nodd again, "They have no clue what I'm about to do. What I already did."

"What about Bolton?" Ryan's voice is filled with worry.

I gulp, "I've seen him... on a professional basis. I just... I thought he would have the courage to break up with me in the good old fashion way, but guess a little attachment is his way of saying it is over."

"You guys are broken up?!" I hear a female voice saying behind me. A very familiar female voice.

I turn around, unable to let my brain process what I am seeing. My blonde best friend is standing arcoss me. "Shouldn't you be on a plane right now?" I frown. I thought we would meet there.

She makes a dapper wave of the hand, "Ah, well Kelsi and me thought we'd catch you guys in New York and hop into a plane with you. An eight hour flight is only fun with your best friends beside you."

I frown again, "Where's Kelsi?"

"Buying coffee at Starbucks." Amy explains smiling.

I nodd, "And you guys really want to do this... with me?"

Miley sighs, "We've discussed this, didn't we?"

Flashback

"Woah..." Miley says, totally amazed by what I have her to offer.

"This is..."

"Fucked up." Kelsi finishes Amy sentence. "Your company is totally... there's no way you could save it now."

"I know." I say simply, sitting down next to them in our living room. I've asked Kelsi, Miley and Amy to come to our place to explain them my situation. To explain why I can't get Amy out.

"And what are you going to do now?" Kelsi asks me. "I mean, there are not a lot of options."

"London, that's what she's going to do." Ryan explains, placing cups with hot tea on the table.

"London?" They all ask me shocked at once.

"So you all called us together to tell us that you will leave us?! For LONDON?!" Miley nearly yells at me. "You know that New York is pretty far away from LA but London... I mean, seriously?! Why can't you just freaking move to LA, huh?!"

I shake my head, "Once I've signed the document, there is no way out. They will blame me for the money laundering. They will ruin my career."

Kelsi looks at me as if she didn't understand what I just said, "So, you decide to flee?"

I shake my head once more, "I'm not fleeing. I'm leaving."

"Sounds the same to me." Amy says to me.

Ryan sighs, "Guys, she's going to let a bomb explode before she will leave the country. She has everything planed out. From buying Amy out of the company to Eric organizing a new location for the new company."

"I don't understand it... Why do you have to leave? Can't you let the bomb explode now and stay in the States? It would make things so much easier."

"It doesn't have to be so hard." I say, grinning. "Not if you guys come with me."

"WHAT?!" Kelsi asks me shocked.

"YES!" Miley calls out of the sudden. "I'll come with you! Without a doubt."

"What?" Now it's my turn to ask her that. Her decision seems to be so... She should consider her options before she says something so recklessly. "I mean, don't you-"

"Gabs," she interrupts me, "my contract with Hollywood Records runs out in a couple of weeks. So far we did not expand it with another album. Perhaps because the fucking management is too slow and dumb to realize that. So I'm going to be free in two weeks. I can work on my acting career from London anyway, since my agent is living there. Plus, I know a lot of singers who are not pleased with Hollywood Records. Say a word and I'll send them an e-mail."

"Are you serious?" Kelsi asks her shocked, "I mean, can you... can you do that just like that?!"

Miley nodds, "Of course I can. Can't you?"

"No... I mean, yes. As a manager I can find a job anywhere."

"How about my company as your next project?" I say grinning.

Kelsi frowns at me, "You want me to manage your company? Isn't that your part?"

I shake my head, "Not anymore. I used to manage all of it and... Truth is, I want to go back to writing and producing. I mean, yes I will own the company and do some representative work but... I want to go back to the roots mainly. That is why I am looking for a manager anyways, but I can't give the job to Eric since he never has been working in that department. It would be too much for him. So, what do you say?"

She is silent for a minute or two. She is thinking it through. Analysing the situation. Thinking about the success and the failure it could mean. Then she nodds slowly, "Yes, I could do that. It's a totally mew experience for me, but yes I'll do it."

I smile at her before I pull all three of my best friends into a long hugg. "Thank you guys."

Miley's smile fades as her eyes look into mine. For a second her bright blue eyes see right into my broken soul. Into the heart which Troy tore apart. "What about Troy? Did you inform him?"

I shake my head,.

"You guys didn't talk?"

I bite my lip, "The last thing he said to me was that he loves me no matter what happens."

Miley's eyes sparkle, "He told you he loves you? Oh Gabs, that's wonderfull!"

"No it is not, can't you see? He only said it to make the decision for me harder! He didn't call me in those two weeks... He did nothing."

End of flashback

"I bought a Frapuccino for everyone!" Kelsi's voice rips me put of my flashback.

I turn around and grab the Caramel Frapuccino from her. "Thanks."

"Are we ready to go?" Amy asks us.

I nodd, "Got everyone I want." I say grinning, trying to ignore the heartache which slowly seems to reappear... And I was doing so well.

"Let's get on the plane then." Ryan says before we all walk to the plane.

"This is so exciting!" Amy says grinning.

"I know..." Miley and me say at the same time and laugh.

"Gabs, what exactly did you do to... damage Tanner's & Bolton's enterprises?" Kelsi asks me.

I grin, "You'll see it in the next week... I told him to wait until the next week."

"Who?"

"Franklin Christopher Bolton. He is the best at his sector. He is my lawyer."

Amy's chin falls down, "You work with Troy's father?"

I nodd. "Of course I do. Who else would I work with?"

Miley frowns. "This all makes no sense to me. You work with Bolton's father although you and Bolton broke up? Is that some kind of revenge or something?"

I grin... revenge... Mhm, no not really. I decide to shake my head, "Not revenge. It's my way of signalizing him that he should leave the sinking ship as long as he still can. Just like I did."

"You know that Franklin can't talk about this to his son."

"I also know that Franklin is Troy's father. Which means he has to talk to his son, if he doesn't want his company to get sued for more than just fourty million."

Miley's, Amy's, Kelsi's and Ryan's chin all fall down at the same time.

"You sued the company?" Amy asks me.

"Yes. I have enough evidence to do so. I didn't just sit the last two weeks at home for nothing, you know. I worked my ass off. I collected everything which seemed to be helpfull... and then I went to Franklin."

"I bet he wasn't pleased to hear that you want to sue his son's company."

I shrugg, "He was a little surpsied but didn't send me away after I told him what I have. How much evidence I have against them."

"But you... I mean, how can you be so..."

"Cold-Hearted?" I ask Kelsi back, who nodds. I brush through my dark brown locks, "Troy will get out of the company safely. I made sure of that. It's Tanner I want to damage. It's Tanner who will have nothing after I am done with her." I mean she tore us apart after all. She's going to be sorry for that. So sorry!

"So this is your revenge. You sue them for revenge, not for the money."

The epilogue everyone! I'm going to post a sneak peek of the new story - after I have made up a title for it - in Torn Apart. Any suggestions for the title? I'm pretty clueless. xD

Xoxo Nic