Forget You – Chapter Nineteen – All Over
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"And today, we have a very special guest on Wake Up, USA. Please give a warm welcome to my daughter, Stephanie Tanner," Danny announced and two sliding doors opened to reveal Stephanie. She walked out, making her way over to the couch and took a seat.
"Now, thank you for coming on to the show today," Becky began, scanning Stephanie's face for any reaction to being in front of the cameras. "We understand this is probably hard for you to do, being a fairly recent event."
Stephanie shrugged a little, "I have to do it at some point, and why not do it on the best talk show out there?"
Danny smiled, "Well, first of all, for those of you that don't know why Stephanie is here today, she has agreed to talk about her story with us – which we are extremely grateful for." He paused for a moment, "If you will, would you explain to us what happened?"
She smiled a little but took a moment to begin speaking, "When I was fifteen, I was involved in an accident with my older sister, D.J. From there, I was taken by a man, James Donald. He took me to England, to his house he had there and he…" She paused to take a deep breath. "He beat me for months on end."
"It must have been about four months later when he decided he was done with me. He dumped me on the side of the road, left me for dead. I was found, thankfully, and taken to the hospital. There I met Casey, a nurse. We became pretty close over my time there and she fostered me. At this point, I was going by the name of Emma Wright since I didn't know my true name."
"She could have dumped me when I turned eighteen, but she didn't. She kept me and raised me had her own and I don't think I could ever repay her for that," Her eyes were beginning to water slightly so she dabbed at them with her pinky finger.
"Nineteen years later, I came over to America to live," She explained. "I met one of the most amazing people here, D.J., she was so kind and accepting. That's how I've always known D.J. to be and she really hasn't changed much. I met the rest of her family – my family – and they were all so sweet and amazing as well."
"There was an accident that I was lucky to survive around eighteen months ago. But if I hadn't had been in it, I wouldn't know who I truly was today. I wouldn't be sitting here as Stephanie Tanner. I wouldn't be sitting here at all. I would be living a life that wasn't mine, that wasn't reality."
"I wouldn't change the past for anything," She admitted honestly. "Sure, I missed out on a lot and now I have a lot to catch up on, but at least I'm alive. At least I'm one of the lucky ones."
The club was packed to maximum capacity. Every table was full to the brim and people lined the walls, chatting to each other as they waited. Stephanie stood nervously behind the curtain, waiting for her cue to go out on stage.
A night had been organised in the Smash Club – which Jesse stilled owned – to raise money for missing children. Since people had been so kind in donating to find her, it was only right that she helped to raise money for other charities in need of the financial help.
Stephanie saw Jesse nod out of the corner of her eye and she stepped out onto the stage, earning a loud welcome from the audience, "Good evening, everyone," She smiled. "Thank you all for coming out here tonight and supporting such a great cause. Every forty seconds, a child goes missing. All money you donate tonight will be going towards many different charities that aid the searches of these missing people and to help bring them back home, so thank you. I hope you enjoy this song I wrote and don't forget to donate."
The music started up and Stephanie began. (I don't normally do these notes but the song she sings is I Wish by Vienna in case you were wondering.)
Once the song was over, it was rewarded with another round of applause. Stephanie made her way off the stage and over to the table where her family occupied. She took Tommy off D.J. and settled him in her lap. Danny, who was next to Stephanie, wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "I'm proud of everything you've done," He told her.
Stephanie just smiled up at him in response. Her life was nowhere near perfect and it would take time for the effects of everything to die down a little, but hopefully with the help of her family, she would be able to plough through it all.
Have to admit, short epilogue there that turned a little mushy at the end but I couldn't think of anything else to write. I'm kind of glad that I've finished this all up now, I can put it to bed and not have it nagging at the back of my mind to complete. The ending of this story is so rushed it's not even funny… Anyway, thank you for joining me on this mini journey and I hope you enjoyed the story. Thank you for a hundred+ reviews, thirteen favourites and twenty-six follows! Could you leave one final review, please? Thank you so much if you do :)