Haley, upset and throwing the usual fourteen-year-old girl tantrum over Kristen, one of her two finalist competitors', latest scheme, walks quickly down the hall toward center stage. On her way down...she notices Doug, her other competitor, watching her and Tommy Q performing center stage.
"Doug...what's this all about? Is she really allowed to get away with that...that sad attempt to score some points with the judges!?"
"I'm not sure Haley, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to be preforming with little Tommy Q right now if I were her. I heard him and his fiancé just broke off their engagement last night. It was totally sudden...like M.J. and his 2001 'Invincible' record comeback sudden. Nobody knows what happened."
"Oh my God! Kristen's about to make a fool of herself on national television!?" Haley chuckles in relief placing her hand on her head and smiling.
"You know, down in Minnesota, we don't have these kinds of rivalries on public television."
"Well here in Toronto, we do. Oh, snap! I sort of left my friends back in my dressing room. I should go check on them. This competition has got me so crazy and whelmed up that I completely just up and left them there."
"It's okay...go find them. I'm about to go on anyways. I know we're Jude and Karma rivals right now, but wish me luck, okay?"
"Of course. Good luck, Doug. I grew up in Kristen's shadow. If anybody deserves to win this, it's you."
Haley walks away with a sigh of relief. Soon, she arrives at her dressing room, just in time to see her two best friends making out through a crack in the doorway. Realizing what she was seeing, she quickly turns away, holding back her tears without the two noticing.
As she walks again towards the stage, this time even more upset then the last, she thinks about her friends and how long they've been keeping their "little" secret from her. Once she hits backstage, she watches Doug preform his original song; "As She Was," trying not to cry. Brandon comes out searching for her; looking confused; the boy soon approaches her from behind;
"Hey, is everything okay?"
Haley cringes a little, holding back her tears. As she goes to reply; Instant Star host Drew Blaire calls all of the contestants center stage.
"I have to go." She says looking down, obviously upset.
Kristen appears from the other side of the stage with a smug look on her face as Haley walks towards the center of the stage.
As the announcer talks about success and the journey these contestants have overcome; Haley can't help but tone him and the crowd out and drown herself in her own thoughts. Soon enough the announcer proclaims; "And this year's Instant Star is…"
Haley looks up in disbelief.