A Broadway Adoption

Chapter 12: Two Show Day-o

"It's official that you are my daughter, how do you feel about me announcing it tomorrow after our last show, like right after I bow, I can introduce you taking your bows as my daughter."

"Really? You want people to know I'm your daughter?" 

"Of course, I want everyone to know that you're my daughter now, and we can tell the cast tomorrow that it's official. I want the world to know you are my daughter."

"Thank you so much, I owe you so much, you're the best thing that's happen to me, can I call you dad then?" She looks up at me with hopeful eyes

"I would be honored if you call me dad, you gotta get used to being a Brightman now. Which reminds me, you have a full family now, my mom and dad know all about and have been wanting to meet you, but I didn't know how you felt, so we'll have to do that sometime." I say rambling, until she lets out a laugh, and then I realized exactly how late it was,

"We should get to bed, we've got a two show day tomorrow." I tell her leading her to her room and tucking her into her bed

"Goodnight my beautiful daughter."

"Goodnight dad" I don't think I'll ever get used to that and with that we fall asleep.

Lily's POV:

Yesterday was just wow, I can't believe that I played Lydia and Alex, well dad now, told me that he had adopted me and everything was official, it's just unreal, I can't believe it. As we sat down for breakfast, I kept pinching myself, not believing that this was real, and it's all just a dream,

"You can stop pinching yourself you know, this is all real, which by the way, I told everyone to get to the theatre at noon, so we can tell them the news."

"Alright dad, so that means we need to leave soon, right?"

"Yes it does, now I'm asking for a friend, but what's your favorite musical?"

"We've been over this, it's like a three way tie between Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, or Anastasia." I say shaking my head

"Oh right silly me for forgetting, now go get ready little bit." He starts to ruffle my hair, which causes me to glare playfully at him and run off to get ready. 

After getting my outfit together, we start to head over to the theatre and once we got there after we had gotten our coffee, most of the cast and crew was there already, they were just waiting for us. As we make our way down to the stage and get on it, we have gotten a lot of confused glances and it was honestly really funny to watch. That's when Alex started talking,

"Now as everyone knows about Lily and her living situation, and her life hasn't been the easiest, I had started to think about something that involved Lily. With no hesitation I took her in from the start, I knew I had to get passed her many walls that she had put up and I just knew that she was going to be a big part in this cast, but more importantly my life. So when it came to the discussion of where she would go for the nights after the show, I knew she had to come with me, she's made the apartment much more lively and has taught me many things, from cooking to just being a better leader. The most important thing she taught me, was how to be a dad, I knew from the moment she opened up to me that no matter what I would become the father figure she had always wanted. Now some of you know, but I had been seeking adoption of Lily and I'm proud to announce that everything fell through and Lily is official, Lillian Eliza Brightman!" Dad tells everyone and a lot of people are crying and I see Dana holding the phone, so I can assume she's on FaceTime with Prez. Everyone gets up to come hug us and talk about having a party to celebrate, and it ends in a group hug with everyone in tears.