Well hello to the 398 of you who have this story on your story alerts.

And a big hello to my other readers who will see that I have finally updated the last chapter of my three part series.

This is chapter 151, the epilogue to conclude this whole series.

This series has spanned over the last few years years of my life now and I believe I haven't updated this in a year and it really needs a conclusion.

I started writing the epilogue a long time ago and as only recently, finished it. I owed it to you all to finish it and let you see the end of Shane and Mitchie's journey in this story.

It's been a long time coming and I just want to than every single one of you who have stuck by the trilogy over the years. You are all amazing and this story wouldn't have gotten this far without all our support.

There's honestly so much I want to say that I cannot even figure how to put into writing. So I will leave you with the very finale piece of writing for this story.

You guys are the reason that i'm writing...see what I did there. ;)

One last HUGE thank you to every person who contributed to reading this trilogy. I am at just under 4,000 reviews for this story alone. The trilogy as a whole currently has 930,000 hits. That's almost a MILLION hits. Words cannot describe what that means to me.


Epilogue

Reflecting back on your life, you never want to be able to say 'I wish I could have, but I didn't'. You don't want to wonder 'what if', you need to live your life to the fullest and take chances.

I think I did just that, you are always going to be hearing negative things in your life put I believe you need to stay positive and power through it to be the best you can be.

Being only sixteen when meeting the love of my life was something I could have only dreamed of growing up. I was this shy, insecure girl who didn't really know who she was or how she fit in anywhere.

My whole life I grew up wanting to be a musician, to be famous and for people to hear my music so I could share my stories, hoping to help people going through the same things. Going to Camp Rock the first time was a dream come true in itself and meeting a spoiled pop star there was not apart of the dream, yet somehow he became mine.

Shane Gray was probably one of the most famous teenagers at the time and because of that he had lost his way, let the fame get to his head. Somehow the walls came down when I was around him throughout the summer and a canoe ride at the end of summer was the beginning of our relationship.

Somehow I was the girl who brought him back to who he was, the one who he said saved him.

Dating one of the worlds biggest artists is hard enough, let alone being a teenager in high school still. Yet somehow we got through it all; psychotic exes, the media, deaths, you name it.

I was signed after winning Camp Rock's end of summer competition the next year and given a record deal and soon enough I was getting what I had always dreamed about. Soon enough I was on stage and had songs and fans and it was honestly so crazy. Even to this day, I have no idea how I managed to do it all so young. I think Shane, friends and family are what got me through it all. I had a strong support system around me that most definitely kept me grounded.

Right before I turned nineteen, I married the love of my life and I honestly think it was then that a part of me knew Shane was my dream. I owe my life to music but somehow I think it was a way to bring Shane and I together. It was destiny to meet him and to have beautiful children who would also all become my dream.

Before becoming pregnant with Melody when I was twenty years old, my oldest friend passed away and although I am a strong believer in 'everything happens for a reason', I honestly couldn't wrap my head around it. It has been one of the hardest things i've gone through and Melody's middle name is Jade like hers.

Melody was quite the surprise for Shane and I in fact and there has never been a moment where either of us have wanted to change anything about our life together. We were scrutinised for being so young and somehow we put all those negative things aside and just loved each other and her as I knew we would all the children yet to come.

There are no words to describe how I feel being a wife and a mother, how much love I have to give to my family.

I wanted to share my story. And although I know so much more will happen between now and ten years from now, when this is read again, I just want to be able to say I have lived my life to the fullest. I have lived my dreams, I have loved with everything I had.

Not once have I ever regretted any of my decisions, not once have I ever had this lingering question in the back of my mind wondering what could have been. Never let your fears take over, live in spite of those things that scare you to death otherwise you will regret it.

I found my missing piece at only sixteen years of age and since then I have come to realize making yourself happy is most important. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion you want and do what makes you happy. Do what makes you happy and don't care what others think.

That's how I got to where I am today and I never have wanted or will want to change anything about my life.

You only live once, but if you do it right...once is enough.

Sitting in the very the spot where my father first heard my mother sing twenty years ago is a little unsettling knowing she was only my age when it all began for her. She had come so far and worked so hard already by the time she was sixteen and here I was, brought up under her name and my father's and famous before I was even born.

My parents had gone through a lot together, I knew that. My mom's letter wasn't extremely descriptive but I had learnt a lot over the years, I had read countless articles on the internet and seen how she looked at my age. I am practically the spitting image of her at sixteen, just with darker hair.

I had everything growing up and yet somehow my parents did such a good job with me, i'm not at all the spoiled princess the media has made me out to be. It's a funny thing being famous for having famous parents, always having photographers following you around since birth, your dad being so protective that he sends a bodyguard with you if he can't be there with you.

I was pressured into loving music I guess you could say, don't get me wrong I honestly love it and definitely inherited my mom and dad's musical abilities. I just don't like to showcase them often, I could sing quite well I just didn't have plans on becoming a famous artist, being famous for nothing was enough to put me off.

Melody Jade Gray does have a certain ring to it though doesn't it?

Luckily I had my sister and brother as well as my cousins and my non-biological cousins that could relate to this. We all were kids of Connect 3, all of us linked and brought up together since we were born. My mom always said how great a support system she had growing up through the spotlight, having my dad as well as her friends and family.

Somehow though I always had been the closest to Noah, Uncle Nate and Aunty Caitlyn's first and only son. Although we weren't technically related, he and his his two sisters had been like cousins to me and my siblings growing up. Just like Uncle Jason and Aunty Savannah's two boys and two girls actually were.

Addison was my cousin and best girl friend, being closest in ages it fell into place, yet somehow Noah and I had been best friends ever since I could remember, Caitlyn and my mom would joke that one day we would end up together. Even the media continuously reported this when we hung out together in public.

After years of denial I finally accepted it and told my mother at the beginning of camp that I liked Noah more than I probably should. And of course she called Caitlyn over to the cabin and started jumping up and down happily with her before giving me the letter she wrote for me telling me I should have no regrets in life.

Noah apparently had liked me more than he let on since he was thirteen and I was fourteen, I think I always knew this, yet it was something I just pushed aside. Our siblings would always tease us about it, yet I wanted nothing to change. He was Noah, my best friend and I didn't want anything to ruin our friendship.

Sighing to myself, I made my way outside running right into my father. Literally.

"Melody, what's the rush?" He chuckled, holding me up.

"Nothing, i'm just looking for Noah." I replied, "Why, what's the rush for you?"

"Your mother. Reliving our years together when she was your age."

"What was she honestly like at my age, dad? I've seen photos and videos and I swear she acts like a teenager sometimes, but I just want to know what she was really like."

"Honestly, she was and still if the most beautiful girl i've ever met...after you of course sweetheart." He added humorously, "She was just so real, caring, beautiful and I knew I never wanted to be with anyone else for the rest of my life."

"You knew that when she was only sixteen?"

"I did, I may not have been much older but I knew and I risked everything for her after everything did for me. She isn't just my wife, she's my best friend. I think that's who you're supposed to spend your life with, someone you can call your best friend."

"Thanks dad." I smiled, giving him a quick hug before rushing off again.

It didn't take me long to find Noah down on the pier with his guitar, his legs hanging over the edge over the lake. He was the spitting image of his father, just younger and he definitely inherited his talents when it came to musical instruments.

"How's your last couple weeks of being a fifteen year old feel?" I asked nervously, startling him as I sat down besides him, letting my legs dangle over the water also.

"I feel so old, MJ." He joked using my nickname, setting his guitar down besides him, "What's up?" He asked, clearly sensing my nerves.

"I've just been thinking a lot recently and I read this letter my mom wrote for me to read around ten years ago."

"What about?"

"Her life, just about not letting herself have any regrets, living life to the fullest you know? Being scared but jumping anyway. I mean, we both were born into this lifestyle and famous before we were born and now it feels like the older we get the more people are rooting for us to be together as a couple."

"Melody..." He trails off slowly, looking down and she knows right then he still has feelings of more than friendship for her.

"We've been best friends for the longest time and you know i'd do absolutely anything for you. One day when all the fame eventually dies down, I want to be able to get married without it being some huge spectacle, I want to be able to have kids without them going through what we have.. We've just had so much pressure all our lives and I think honestly it has put me in denial of certain feelings i've had for a certain best friend of mine."

He looks up at this and directly in my eyes, "What are you trying to say?" He smiles, dimples showing.

"My mom was my age when she met my dad and now they're married with three kids. I think i've just been scared that we will mess this up and won't be able to end up the same way, that we'll just ruin this friendship we have and complicate things." I rambled, "I mean if things didn't work out it would affect our families, the media would find out-"

"Melody, shut up." He laughed, grabbing my legs and pulling me closer to him, resting them over his lap. "You are my best friend and the most beautiful girl i've ever met, i'd be crazy to ever let you go." He said softly, reaching for my cheek and pulling me into a kiss that I knew i'd never forget.

"Mitchie!"

I turned around to see Shane coming towards me with his guitar in hand, looking as handsome as he when he was eighteen years old.

"Pop Star!" I exclaimed, greeting him with a kiss, "Here to serenade me in the spot you first did twenty years ago?" I asked, sitting down besides him. So much had happened since then and I couldn't help but smile at the memory.

"Right here by the water." He affirmed with his gorgeous smile.

"I honestly cannot believe it's been twenty years." I said in amazement as he began to sing 'Gotta Find You' to me.

"I can't either." I agreed, knowing there were many more to come.

She just cannot help but stare at him, cannot believe they made it this far. That they had come so far from sitting in this spot for the first time when they were only sixteen and eighteen years old.

"I love you." I tell him firmly as his fingers trace her tattoo on her wrist. His name etched in ink on her skin forever.

"I love you too." He says.

By the time it's dark, they are late. Shane grabs me by the hand and rushes us down to the campfire where our family and all the other campers have gathered.

I see our daughter sitting there, her hand in Noah's with her head on his shoulder.

"Wait, what's going on there?" Shane asks noticing them.

"Oh Shane, you're completely oblivious." I giggle, rest my own head on his shoulder, "I'll fill you in later."

Melody spots me and I smile at her widely as she mouths that she loves me and I mouth it back.

Nate begins playing his guitar and soon the whole camp site is erupted into singing one of Connect 3's old songs they wrote for camp and i'm just so unbelievably happy that I am going to burst and cannot contain my nerves. I was just so blessed to be surrounded by all my family and friends, doing what we all loved still after all these years.

"Shane." I whisper in his ear half way through the camp fire session, "I want to talk to you. In private about something important."

"How about a canoe ride?" He offers just like our first year at camp.

"I wouldn't miss it." I repeat my sixteen year old self as he grabs my hand and we sneak off down to the water.

Heading down there I think I am going to blurt out the news right there. I hop into the canoe and he pushes us out onto the lake like we had done hundreds of times before. The moonlight illuminated it and all I could do was smile. Just really smile because I was so insanely happy.

"You're as beautiful as you were the day we met. If not more." Shane says softly, "Why is it you wanted to bring me out here, what's up?"

I smiled even wider, moved across the canoe carefully to sit next to him, "You know you are my dream. You know I love you and the kids so much."

"Of course I do," He replies, "I love the four of you so much."

I love softly, it's a melody in itself really, "Well, how would you feel about giving more love?"

"What do you mean?" He asks, bites his lower lip.

"I'm pregnant!" I exclaim happily.

"Mitch are you serious?"

"I'm serious." I nod and before I know it, he has his arms around me, kissing me fiercely.

"When did you find this out? How far along are you?"

"I saw the doctor right before coming to camp. She confirms it...we are going to be parents again."

Shane was smiling brilliantly and his eyes were watery, I knew how happy this made him.

"Mitch, you have no idea how much I love you."

"I know," I tell him, getting a little teary-eyed myself, "I love you so much too."

He kisses me again and holds my face in his hands, rests his forehead on mine, "I am so unbelievably happy that I found you. I am so thankful you kept me singing and that you completed me. You made me whole."

"You're missing piece?" I giggle.

"The missing piece of me." He affirms.

"I'm glad you found me. I don't know where i'd be without you. I just always want to be next to you, in your arms, singing with you our whole lives." I tell him just staring into his deep brown eyes and he smiles, stares straight back.

"Our whole life together has been one great and beautiful song. You're the missing piece of me, but everything we've been through and all this love we have...our lives together. It's one big song of love we've sung together this entire time."

I kiss him softly, pull away slightly and ask him what he means.

"Right here. You and I...This is our song."

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