you had been going through the absolute worst time of your life.

shipped over to a new country, all to be physically abused and moved to a new foster home when you were meant to be dancing and having fun was not what you had planned.

your dance coach, missy, ended up adopting you since every home they had tried to put you with either rejected you or somehow hurt you, so you were living with her.

and it was fine.

then you met ezrela, the only other aussie in dream academy, and while she was only two years older than you, she quickly became a mother figure to you.

missy realised this and let you move in with her.

ezrela started having lexie over a lot more than usual, which wasn't weird since they were friends, but considering the lack of free time everyone had, it was strange.

until you walked in on them making out. ezrela quickly explained they had been dating and that lexie wasn't just a hook up, which eased your mind, but it still felt strange.

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it had been more than a year since you debuted with KATSEYE, and even longer since you had seen lexie.

ezrela made sure to keep in touch, but life got in the way, and it became hard.

she moved back to australia, you moved in with the rest of your group.

but something was missing.

megan– your girlfriend– could see it in the way you'd stare at your phone whenever big news came in, unsure of who to tell, she could see it in the way you'd stare at the girls interacting with their parents, enviously watching as they got the parental love and attention that you craved.

she didn't know what to do, so she told sophia, and sophia told missy, and missy called ezrela and lexie.

so now you were laying in your bed with megan tucked sleepily into your chest the day after grammy nominations had come out, staring at the ceiling.

then you heard a voice, and then two, and then footsteps.

you assumed it was just lara or manon being strange at their ungodly times of the morning, but then they entered your room, which pissed you off since you had planned to go back to sleep.

you sat up, fully prepared to yell at whoever had come into your room, but then you froze.

mum and dad– ezrela and lexie.

"surprise." ezrela whispered, mindful of the girl sleeping on your chest.