Ashley woke up quickly with her heart racing, no matter how many years passed the damn alarm clock scared the shit out of her.  Rubbing the sleep from her eyes she padded to her dresser which she shared with her daughter to grab a pair of jeans and shirt before heading into the hall and to the bathroom across from Taylor’s room.

Inside the bathroom the thirty one year old woman yawned and stretched as she turned on the water, letting it cascade down her slender body. Thoughts of today’s meeting running through her head. She’d taken her daughter to several producers being turned down by all of them because of the one minor detail that Ashley refused to give up being Taylor’s manager. Ashley spent the majority of her youth going with her father to gig’s than she had her own gig’s but she knew that Taylor was something special she was going to be the one in the family to make it big if only someone would give her a shot.

After her shower she got dressed and headed into her daughters room, the girl was half in the covers and half out, ever since the divorce the teen had trouble sleeping so ended up all over the bed in the morning, smiling at how cute the image was she walked slowly up to her, “Tay baby wake up,” Ashley ran her fingers through the girl’s hair watching her stir and chocolate brown eyes blurry looked back at her own.

“What time is it?” she yawned while sitting up.

“A little after six, I thought we’d go see grandpa Raife before the meeting…” Ashley spoke quietly keeping the peaceful atmosphere.

Taylor jumped from the bed, “Yes…let me go shower.”

“Okay,” but the words never reached Taylor’s ears as the girl was already in the bathroom. Laughing softly Ashley made it to the living room slipping on her shoes, once Taylor was finished getting ready the two headed out stopping to get some McDonald’s breakfast than headed to the nursing home that Raife now lives at.

“Ashley…Taylor, what a surprise!” the head nurse Roberta Dickson smiled widely at the two approaching women, “What brings you hear so early in the month?”