No more fear no more doubt she only had one certainty she would do it. She clicked the submit button the screen displayed the message "Your application has been successfully submitted." Alyssa stared at the words feeling something break inside her not fear but a door opening before her she had taken the first step toward her dream. Alyssa walked into the room closed the door behind her and sank into the wooden chair next to the old piano. The room was engulfed in silence only the soft yellow light from the corner ceiling casting a warm glow over everything.
This space was so familiar the place where she had spent countless nights alone her fingers gliding over the worn piano keys where her dreams had once soared but it was also here that she had often questioned whether she was truly good enough. But today everything was different. Alyssa was no longer the shy girl sitting in the corner of the classroom no longer the invisible shadow that Madison could easily trample on no longer someone Mr. Grayson could look down on just because she wasn't born into a wealthy family. She had changed she was no longer the outsider.