There's a moment after the Idol Awards
When the girls get home and are met with a distressed Celine waiting in the foyer.
Her eyes meet with Rumi's and she releases the breath she'd been holding since her daughter ward had asked the impossible of her.
Zoey and Mira exchange a worried look as Rumi's mask– still fighting to fake perfection– finally shatters and her tears start to fall. They try to console her but exhaustion pulls them all to the ground in a heap and their own tears start.
Celine is with them in an instant, wrapping her arms around the group as best she can; whispering how proud of them she is, how brave they were.
Sobbing turns to sniffles as they all settle in to this new peace.
Rumi's mask starts to piece itself back together– stopped by Celine's thumb running across her cheek.
Except the shocked look across her daughter's ward's face is not reminiscent of her late mother. When Rumi looks at her with those big brown eyes the expression she carries is one Celine knows well.
Because it is her own.
And in that moment, Celine's mask breaks too. Her temples crease from the smile growing across her face, genuine pride she'd denied her ward daughter for years unintentionally as she tried to punish herself for failing the love of her life.
She releases the others to pull Rumi in tight against her chest, wrapping her hands around the girl's bare and shimmering patterns
"I love you Rumi. With all my heart aegi."
Rumi returns the hug, squeezing her mother tight.
And the Honmoon hums around them, the last tear in it's strings finally threading back together.
A mother and daughter, true feelings laid bare and loved anyways.
