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Epilogue Three years later Summer had made three major changes to her appearance in the last three years; one was that she was gradually getting more and more tattoos all over her body to cover her self-harm scars in an attempt to put the past behind her. The second was that she now had double-pierced ears: one set of piercings for her Synergy suit earrings and the other set for the original Synergy earrings Jerrica had given her; no matter what kind of outfit she wore, Summer always wore the original earrings as a sort of good-luck charm. And the third change was that she’d made her signature hair colour a neon bubblegum pink – the colour she’d always wanted to dye it once she was famous. And famous, she was; Summer Bowen was a household name by this point! She’d been on tons of famous talk shows at this point, her concerts were always packed with people, her music videos had millions of views on YouTube, and all kinds of content of her could be found far and wide on the internet and

Chapter 14 Summer came home late from the show in fairly good spirits – albeit, concerned and a bit disappointed about Jerrica’s no-show. And then she saw the flashing red and blue lights and the cops and paramedics milling around in front of Starlight Mansion. “What the hell…?” she breathed. Once the car had stopped, she immediately jumped out and ran up the driveway towards the crowd, trying to learn what was going on; however, nothing anyone told her when she asked what was going on gave her any clues. All they said was that no-one was allowed inside the mansion yet – and after several unsuccessful attempts to find out what’d happened, Summer suddenly noticed Kimber talking to a paramedic. “Kimber!” she shouted, running in her direction. “What’s going on?!” When Kimber turned around, however, Summer stopped dead in her tracks, noticing that Kimber’s eyes looked puffy from crying. “Summer, thank God you’re back!” Kimber cried, running the last little way to meet Summer and give her

Chapter 13 Later that afternoon, Devon came over to Starlight Mansion to talk to Summer about some more details of the upcoming U.S. tour; she was practicing some music on one of her guitars when she told him her plan. “I’ve been thinking recently,” Summer began, strumming softly on her guitar, “and I think since Jerrica will be out of rehab by then, it would be best if she came out on tour with me; I think it would actually be best for both of us. I’m honestly really worried about leaving her alone, and besides, we could make it fun; we can sing some duets, and maybe she can sing some stuff by herself –” “You do realize that isn’t an option, right?” Devon interrupted. “I know she’s your friend and you’re worried about her, but it just isn’t possible to bring her along.” “You don’t understand, it’s not just her being my friend and me worrying about her; I know it may not always look it, but Jerrica is also, like, so involved with her art and her music in a way that I don’t think she’s

IMPORTANT NOTE – Trigger warning for more hints at (past) suicide attempts. I don’t really know if I should put a trigger warning for this other thing or not, but I know it bothers some people, so nevertheless, I’ll put an emetophobia warning, too… Chapter 12 The next minute or so was a bit of a blur for Summer. All she could tell was that she could hear herself crying, “Oh my God, this is amazing!” over and over again, that just about everyone else had stood up and started cheering and clapping, and that people were hugging her and patting her on the back as she was pulled to her feet. “Jerrica, oh my God, I actually won!” she cheered, looking down at where Jerrica still sat. Squinting up at Summer as she stepped out into the aisle, Jerrica asked dazedly, “Is that why everyone’s…” “Yeah, that’s right!” Summer answered. With that, she started walking up towards the stage with Jerrica getting up and following close behind, asking, “Where are we going?” By the time they reached the

Chapter 11 By the time Summer got back to Starlight Mansion, it was light outside. Jerrica was sitting in the living room with Ollie, and as Summer came in, she got up to greet the girl – but Summer instantly smelled the alcohol on Jerrica’s breath. “Have you honestly been drinking?” she asked Jerrica annoyedly. “You’re telling me you’re fucked up right now?” “I might be out a couple,” Jerrica mumbled truthfully. Summer glanced down at her watch, then stared back at Jerrica. “Are you kidding me? It’s eight in the morning.” Even though Summer had gotten drunk several times herself in the past, she’d never been drunk in the morning, only ever at night – and sure, today was Saturday, but what difference did that make? “Yep,” Jerrica shrugged idiotically. Noticing the bottle in Jerrica’s hand for the first time, Summer snatched it away from her and went to go put it in the kitchen. Jerrica was absentmindedly playing with Ollie again when Summer came back into the living room a few minutes