The next morning, Lola held Cuppy and nervously paced in front of the double doors that led to her mother's bedroom. Inside, Tori was writing a song for the play as she talked to someone in Spanish on the phone. She peeked through the door and stared at her mother. She was in bed with her long hair pulled into a messy bun and make up less, having just woken up.
"Just do it sweet pea." Trina said into her ear, while Andre and Robbie stood beside her, urged her with a little pat on her rear which made Lola enter.
Tori looked up and smiled at her daughter, patting the empty spot beside her on the bed as she hung up the phone. "I have to finish this song and fax it to the composer, then how about you and I go out to lunch and spend the rest of the day getting lost in Bergdorfs?" She asked her daughter as she put an arm around her and kissed her cheek.
"I can't... I'm sorry... I have to go out of town today." Lola said looking down.
"You have to go out of town today?" Tori decided to humor her daughter, "And where, may I ask, are you going?" she asked.
Instead of answering, Lola buried herself underneath the white satin sheets of her mother's bed.
"Callie." Tori said with a laugh trying to tickle her into coming out, "Callie!"
"That's why I have to go! I have to go see Callie." Lola said underneath the covers. Robbie and Andre peeked into the room at the sound of her voice - she wasn't exactly all too quiet when she said it - even though it cost them both a slap on their arms by Trina.
"I see and where might Callie be?" Tori asked still thinking it was a joke.
"In Napa with her mother, Jade West." Lola answered, and this piece of news definitely shocked Tori.
Her jaw dropped and she looked at her sister and friends who could only nod in reply. Tori's eyes filled with tears and she looked back down at the lump in her covers.
"You're not Callie?" Tori asked in a whisper, pulling on the sheets while Lola looked at her fearfully (she was never scared; se had no idea what this woman was doing to her) with her big blue eyes holding her Cuppy close to her.
"That would be correct." Lola mumbled, her eyes wide in worry even though her mothers lips were going up with a smile.
"You're Lola?" Tori whispered as a tear slowly slid down her cheeks, smiling softly.
"I am." Lola sighed, sitting up.
Tori put a hand on her mouth as tears fell from her eyes as she looked at the daughter she hasn't seen in over ten years.
"Callie and I met at camp and we decided to switch places." Lola whispered softly, looking at her mother. "I'm sorry, but I'd never seen you and I'd dreamt of meeting you my whole life and Callie felt the exact same way about Momma, so we just sorta switched lives. I hope you're not mad because I love you so much and I just hope one day you can love me as me and not as Callie." She explained as her mother looked at her blankly.
"Oh, honey, I've loved you your whole life." Tori cried as she pulled her daughter into her arms. The two looked up to see a bawling Robbie being comforted by Trina who closed the door to give them some more privacy as Andre just shook his head.
"I've never so happy in my entire life!" they heard him bawl and Tori turned to her daughter.
"Why didn't you tell me it was you all along?" she asked.
"I was scared." Lola confessed wiping away the rest of her tears, "So I guess you have to switch us back now, huh?"
"Legally, you belong to your mother and Avia belongs to me." Tori answered with a sigh, thinking about her ex all over again. She would never admit it, but she missed her.
