Authors Note: here it is. The ending. God i cant believe it's over. I loved writing this story. See i love music. It's a huge part of my life. I was in band for like 8 years and i just love music so much. I had to write something like this. Alright I have to tell you that writing this ending was hard because i set it up for a sequel only i dont know if i can write a sequel but we'll see. The songs in this are 'We've Got a Big mess on our hands', by The academy is...we started it with them we end it with them and ' One day, Robots will cry,' by Cobra Starship. Check out the goodbye note at the end of this. Oh yeah and idea three won.
Epilogue: We've Got A Big Mess On Our Hands.
20 Years Later:
The crowd got quiet as a lone figure walked out into the middle of the stage. They'd seen her face many times before in many of the gossip magazines. They all knew who she was the only thing they didn't know was why she was there. As the crowd began to whisper the girl who had been looking down this entire time finally raised her head to the crowd and a smile that could rival that of her mother's broke out across her face and the crowd began to cheer. She slowly began walking around the stage as the rest of it lit up and revealed a band behind her still shrouded in darkness and a song, that sounded all too familiar began playing and the girl began singing.
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
I've got that lefty curse
Where everything I do is flipped
And awkwardly reversed
You're seldom known and barely missed
I always put myself
In destructive situations
I need oxygen
To be exposed where no one goes, where no one's been
When it all comes crashing…
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (yeah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Somebody get my phone
So I can throw it in a public
Pool and watch it float
And as it slowly sinking down,
Become a social ghost
Inside a box, cut at the top
To let some light shine in
To remind me what I've done and where I've been
When it all comes crashing…
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (woah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big, big, big
Mess on our hands, on our hands.
Don't give in, don't give up,
I'll be gone.
You don't look innocent enough.
We're too young to be critics
We won't miss anything at all
Don't give in, don't give up
I don't look innocent with this big, big mess on,
I'll say something else.
The music suddenly began to get quieter as the girl looked over to her right and another figure appeared. Once he walked into the light and the crowd could see who he was they went wild with applause and screams that made him break out into a smile as he finally stopped beside the girl and put his arm around her. She looked up at him as he nodded and together they finished the song.
(woah)
(woah)
(woah oh)
We've got a big, big mess
Oh, we've got a big, big mess
Oh, we've got a big, big mess
A big, big mess
Now we've got a big, big mess
A big, big mess
Now come on
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (woah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big, big, big
Mess on our hands, on our hands,
Don't give in, don't give up (we've got a big, big mess)
I'll be gone. (a big, big mess)
I don't look innocent enough
We're too young to be cynics (we've got a big, big mess on our hands)
We won't wish any harm at all
Don't give in, don't give up (we've got a big, big mess)
No one looks innocent with this big big mess on our hands tonight.
(a big, big mess. we've got a big, big mess on our hands)
When it all comes crashing.
The crowd continued to cheer as the girl hugged the man then turned to the crowd and took a bow. "Thank you everyone...thank you so much. As you guys know this is my dad, Hyde the original lead singer of the High," She paused as the crowd cheered and Hyde smiled at them, "And as I'm sure you all know my name is Dahlia and I'm here to welcome you to the first ever THE HIGH REUNION TOUR!" She screamed as her father smiled at her before she left the stage.
"Thank you so much for your support. It's been a long time since we've been on a stage hasn't it guys?" Hyde asked as the lights came on and it was revealed the band was entirely original. Travis, Nick and Eric were in their usual positions with smiles on their faces. "Now uh as you all have heard we actually have a new song to play for all of your tonight. It's called 'One Day Robots Will Cry' and I'd like ask my beautiful wife to join me." Hyde said as Jackie walked out in a blue and black stripped dress with her keytar on her arm as the crowd cheered for her. She finally joined Hyde and he leaned over and kissed her forehead.
"Are you ready for this doll?" Hyde whispered quietly in her ear as she nodded. Hyde turned to Eric as he nodded and began playing and Jackie walked to the front and started playing her parts on her keytar.
This won't hurt more than a pinch.
So just pour a drink,
Let's talk it over.
I'm back after all these years.
Don't be afraid my dear,
Now I'm older.
'Cause people change,
Can't you see my eyes?
Are they not the same after the lies?
I know I'm like a machine,
But I still have dreams.
I know one day we will…
Sleep for days.
Come over, come over.
I won't make the same mistakes.
I'm dying not to hurt you.
In our dreams we can be complete again.
When you were young,
You kept a list
Of the things you miss as you got older.
I know you in every life I've lived.
Yeah, I'm still a kid
Even though I'm colder.
When you were a child
I was lost in the wild
But you built a home for me in the grove.
I was born in the cold,
Turn up the heat,
I know one day we will…
Sleep for days.
Come over, come over.
I won't make the same mistakes.
I'm dying not to hurt you.
In our dreams we can be complete
If we go to sleep
We can wake up home again.
(Come on over again, over again.)
Sleep for days,
Come over, come over.
I won't make the same mistakes.
Come over, come over.
I'm dying not to hurt you.
Sleep for days.
I won't make the same mistakes.
Come over, come over.
I'm dying not to hurt you.
In our dreams we can be complete
If we go to sleep
We can wake up home again.
(Come over, come over, come over.)
(Come over, come over, come over.)
Dahlia watched her parents from behind the curtain as her brother William walked over with their little brother and sister, Marilyn and Jesse.
"They're still really good aren't they?" William said as Dahlia nodded.
"I swear age hasn't slowed them down a bit." Donna said as she walked up with Samantha and Bobby.
Dahlia turned around and hugged her aunt and cousins as did William, Marilyn and Jesse.
"Your parents love this you know right." Donna asked the kids as they nodded and continued to watch their parents perform for the first time in 10 years.
After the concert Jackie and Hyde decided to do one final press conference as this was their last reunion concert so they sat down at a table and let the interviewers as they questions until finally Hyde said that they only had time for one more.
A gentleman raised his hand very shyly and figuring that this was his first time Hyde called on him.
"Are you going to let your daughter Dahlia record?"
Hyde smiled as he got up and asked for the reporter to come to him, "Here," He said as he handed him a demo, "You tell me." Hyde said as they turned around and walked away.
A few days later...
"MOM!" William yelled as he walked into his parents house.
"You don't have to yell you know," Jackie said as she walked over and hugged her son, "What's up you sound excited about something?"
"Mom i think...wait where's dad?" Will asked as Hyde walked in the room.
"Oh son what are you doing here?" Hyde asked as he sat down and Jackie quickly sat next to him.
"Good you're both here. Alright now i have something i have to tell you." He said as he sat down and his sister walked in the room.
"Oh Hey Will what are you doing here?" Dahlia said as she sat next to her mother.
"Uh i actually have to tell mom and dad something." He said as he glared at her.
"Oh well me too." She said as she smiled at her mother before glaring back at her brother.
"Okay enough with the glaring what do you have to tell us." Jackie said as she looked at them.
"I'll go first." Will said as he stood up, "Mom, Dad...I've met the woman I'm going to marry."
"Really?" Hyde asked as he looked at Jackie.
"And who is she?" Jackie asked as she smiled at Hyde before turning her attention back to her son.
"Her name is Betsy Kelso." William said as Jackie and Hyde's eyes got huge.
"Oh my god," Jackie said as she stood up.
"What the heck?" Hyde said as he stared at his son.
"What's wrong?" Will asked as he looked at his parents.
"Son we know Betsy's mother and father." Jackie said.
"You do?" Will asked.
"We're old friends...really old friends." Hyde said.
"Well that works out well because I'm dating their son Mike." Dahlia said as Hyde glared at her.
"Damn it." Hyde said as he walked out of the room.
"Mom is there something wrong with the Kelso's?" Will asked as Dahlia looked at her mother.
"No it's just that there is a lot of history there. But it's fine. Dahlia that boy...he isn't stupid is he?"
"No way he's so smart. He's got his mother's brains and his father's looks apparently." She said as Jackie breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh that's good. Well just give us time to adjust to this and William you bring this girl by...you too Dahlia I want to meet them both." Jackie said as she went to find Hyde.
"Steven," Jackie said as she opened the door and found Hyde sitting on their bed, "Are you alright?" She asked as she sat next to him.
"My kids are getting old." Hyde said as Jackie took his hand.
"It's what happens Steven."
"I know but...she's dating a Kelso...i mean how did that happen?"
"It's a small world and i mean at least we know what to expect."
"That she'll be knocked up by the end of the month."
"Steven you know your daughter better than that. She wont let that that happen." Jackie said as Hyde looked at her.
"I know i just...she's my baby."
"I know Steven...she was your first daughter and you love her. I understand that but understand that we cant choose who our kids date. If we could my parents wouldn't have let me date you."
"I know...i know baby. Alright I'll give it a chance."
"Good now lets go start on dinner." Jackie said as they left the room together.
Hyde and Jackie were sitting on the couch enjoying a VH1 special about one hit wonders when Dahlia walked in the room and turned off the TV.
"D, what was that for?" Hyde asked as he looked at his daughter.
"I need to talk to you two about something important." She said as she pulled up a chair in front of the couch.
"Alright," Jackie said as she and Hyde sat up, "Spill it honey."
"I don't want to go to college." Dahlia said as Jackie's eyes nearly fell out of her head.
"What? Why not?"
"College isn't for me mom. I don't enjoy school you know that. I just don't want to go and end up wasting your money."
"Well what do you want to do instead?" Hyde asked as he took his wife's hand.
"I want to be a singer."
"No," Jackie said as she got up, "No Dahlia you're not going to be a singer. Not happening."
"Why not? Mom you know I'm good you say that all the time. Why cant i have this?"
"Because that is not the life i want for you. I want you to have more than that."
"Jackie, D was raised around music...it's all she knows. It's in her blood." Hyde said as he smiled at his daughter.
"Please mom," Dahlia said as she looked at her mother.
"Fine, but we'll sign you and you have to do what we tell you to got it?" Jackie said as she walked over to Dahlia who stood up and hugged mother.
"Oh i love you mom thank you so much," She said before she ran upstairs to her room.
"I just hope she enjoys it." Jackie said as Hyde wrapped his arms around her.
"Come on lets go upstairs." He said as he kissed her neck before walking upstairs.
Jackie stood outside her youngest daughter's room. Inside Marilyn was dressed up in an elegant dress having a tea part for her dolls. Jackie couldn't help but smile at her daughter's innocence and Hyde walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her.
"I guarantee that she'll be an actress when she gets older."
"Is it so much to ask that one of my kids actually gets a degree in something?" Jackie asked as she turned around in his arms.
"Well Will is at college so there's hope." Hyde said as Jackie laughed.
"How did I ever get so lucky?" She asked as she touched his face.
"I could ask you the same thing doll and to think this all started with a song." Hyde said as he leaned down and kissed his wife.
The End
A/N: Alright first of all i want to say thank you to kmcat who was my first reviewer. You wondered if this was a jackie gets pregnant and aborts the baby story and to which i've proved that it wasnt. But thank you anyway.Secondly thank you so much monica, and Ashley without your words of encouragement and your constant reviews i never would have finished this. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. This story was my favorite one to write and i'll miss it so much. But thank you to those who have read it and enjoyed it. This chapter was written for you. Thank you! See you soon.