p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"Epilogue: The Fairytale Finale/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"TRIS/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"Sunday, March 25supth/sup/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" Tris waited restlessly behind the curtain. It was their last show, and she hated the idea of it. They'd worked so hard over the course of so many months, and it was already over. On the other hand, she was ready to get her life back. Normal cheer practice, no day-long rehearsals… more time to spend with Tobias./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" The thoughts left her mind as his narration ended. Before the curtains opened, his voice flooded through the auditorium, and she loved every second of it. The last few lines made their way out, and she positioned herself on the set. It was only her and Pascal in the opening scene./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;""Gothel had found her new magic flower. But this time she was determined to keep it hidden. But the walls of that tower could not hide everything. Each year on her birthday, the king and queen released thousands of lanterns into the sky. In hope that one day, their lost princess, would return."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She took a deep breath, then the curtain opened./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"—/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" Alas, the final line had to come eventually. She didn't want it to, but it was the nearly the cutest part of the play./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" Tobias gave her a cocky grin, and in that moment, he perfectly resembled Flynn Rider for what would be the last time. "But I know what the big question is," he said to the audience. "Did Rapunzel and I ever get married? Well I'm pleased to tell you that after years and years of asking and asking and asking…" He gave her a little side eye. "I finally said yes."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She smiled. "Eugene…," she said in a flirtatious tone./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" "Alright, I asked her," he admitted./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She stepped closer to him, and he wrapped his around her, pulling her close. They face each other, and she said, "And we're living happily ever after."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" They leaned their foreheads on each other's, and he said his last line. "Yes we are." The violins and trumpets sang, and the curtain began to close. They held their positions until the curtain closed. When it did, they turned off their mics but still kept their closeness./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" "We did it," she said softly with a little laugh./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" He leaned down and kissed her for the last time as two people playing a part. She felt his lips gently press against hers, and she greatened the pressure between them by standing on her tiptoes. He gave a little chuckle, then pulled away only to go into a hug./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" "We better go do the thing," he said./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She released him, then they made their way backstage, where she ran into Christina. She was tearing up a little, which prompted Tris to as well. They hugged each other tightly, and Tris whispered, "Thank you for making me do this."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" The extras ran out on the stage and bowed, then energetically ran off. The brutes from the Ugly Duckling took their bows and followed suit. Next up was the Stabbington Brothers, and then the boys who played Maximus the horse. Mother Gothel ran out herself and bowed, and then it was Tris and Tobias's turn. They ran out hand in hand, then bowed a few times with thunderous applause roaring in front of them./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"There she stood with a huge audience before her, but the only person she was looking at was Tobias beside her. He grinned, looking out among the crowd, but noticed she was looking at him. He gave her a chaste kiss on the cheek, which earned some whistles from the crowd. The rest of the cast joined her onstage, and she never felt so grateful for anything her life./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"She meant what she said to Christina. She wasn't planning on doing the play until Christina told her to, and she couldn't imagine her life without it. She wouldn't be as close with her new friends, she wouldn't have broken her stage fright, and, most importantly, she wouldn't have met Tobias. The man who set the bar the highest it could go./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"The truth was, everything she had she owed to the theater, and would never be so grateful for anything again./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"THE END/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" /span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"TRIS/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"Sunday, March 25supth/sup/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" Tris waited restlessly behind the curtain. It was their last show, and she hated the idea of it. They'd worked so hard over the course of so many months, and it was already over. On the other hand, she was ready to get her life back. Normal cheer practice, no day-long rehearsals… more time to spend with Tobias./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" The thoughts left her mind as his narration ended. Before the curtains opened, his voice flooded through the auditorium, and she loved every second of it. The last few lines made their way out, and she positioned herself on the set. It was only her and Pascal in the opening scene./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;""Gothel had found her new magic flower. But this time she was determined to keep it hidden. But the walls of that tower could not hide everything. Each year on her birthday, the king and queen released thousands of lanterns into the sky. In hope that one day, their lost princess, would return."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She took a deep breath, then the curtain opened./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"—/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" Alas, the final line had to come eventually. She didn't want it to, but it was the nearly the cutest part of the play./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" Tobias gave her a cocky grin, and in that moment, he perfectly resembled Flynn Rider for what would be the last time. "But I know what the big question is," he said to the audience. "Did Rapunzel and I ever get married? Well I'm pleased to tell you that after years and years of asking and asking and asking…" He gave her a little side eye. "I finally said yes."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She smiled. "Eugene…," she said in a flirtatious tone./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" "Alright, I asked her," he admitted./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She stepped closer to him, and he wrapped his around her, pulling her close. They face each other, and she said, "And we're living happily ever after."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" They leaned their foreheads on each other's, and he said his last line. "Yes we are." The violins and trumpets sang, and the curtain began to close. They held their positions until the curtain closed. When it did, they turned off their mics but still kept their closeness./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" "We did it," she said softly with a little laugh./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" He leaned down and kissed her for the last time as two people playing a part. She felt his lips gently press against hers, and she greatened the pressure between them by standing on her tiptoes. He gave a little chuckle, then pulled away only to go into a hug./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" "We better go do the thing," he said./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" She released him, then they made their way backstage, where she ran into Christina. She was tearing up a little, which prompted Tris to as well. They hugged each other tightly, and Tris whispered, "Thank you for making me do this."/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" The extras ran out on the stage and bowed, then energetically ran off. The brutes from the Ugly Duckling took their bows and followed suit. Next up was the Stabbington Brothers, and then the boys who played Maximus the horse. Mother Gothel ran out herself and bowed, and then it was Tris and Tobias's turn. They ran out hand in hand, then bowed a few times with thunderous applause roaring in front of them./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"There she stood with a huge audience before her, but the only person she was looking at was Tobias beside her. He grinned, looking out among the crowd, but noticed she was looking at him. He gave her a chaste kiss on the cheek, which earned some whistles from the crowd. The rest of the cast joined her onstage, and she never felt so grateful for anything her life./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"She meant what she said to Christina. She wasn't planning on doing the play until Christina told her to, and she couldn't imagine her life without it. She wouldn't be as close with her new friends, she wouldn't have broken her stage fright, and, most importantly, she wouldn't have met Tobias. The man who set the bar the highest it could go./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"The truth was, everything she had she owed to the theater, and would never be so grateful for anything again./span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" align="center"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;"THE END/span/p
p class="yiv5211746979msonormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"span style="font-family: Times; color: #26282a;" /span/p