Lips walked down the street all alone.
He put his mobile phone in his pocket with a sigh. He had called the hospital to know how his friends were. Floyd had just woke up and could speak a little to him. He told him that Zoot wouldn't have sequels from that bump in the head apart from a bandage that his hat would disguise, Doctor Teeth had to repose his hand a little more time, and Janice and Animal were perfectly. He was really happy for that.
Janice told him about Trumpet Girl. Kermit had visited them to tell them the news. She was arrested a few minutes after they arrived to the hospital.
Kermit didn't know what to do with her. He felt very responsible for what happened...He knew she wasn't right. Apart from the deception caused by the Electric Mayhem, her life got a little difficult since the show cancelled. She had to return home and didn't adapt to her new jobs. Her relationship with her mother got so worse that she once told Kermit that she hated her. When the Muppets returned, the stress and the pression also did...He did nothing but blame himself for what happened next.
"I knew she was going to therapy...And I still accepted that she worked here with you...", he said.
Trumpet Girl, he explained, was going to have a long vacation until her nerves calmed down. He didn't think of firing her because he was sure that she didn't mean to kill them, he thought that that was one of those things that one does when he is stressed and he isn't proud of later. But the Electric Mayhem were within their rights to denounce her after what she did to them. Doctor Teeth said that they would discuss about it.
Lips didn't want to. He felt bad.
She was somehow right...Why did they accept him and left Dolores out, though she was there before and was as talented as him? Of course it wasn't fair.
"Why did they accept me? Because I'm a man? Because I'm older? Because I'm cooler? I don't know...I have to ask them...They will think that I'm crazy but I have to know...I don't want her to hate me..."
He stopped and sat in a bench near him. He took his trumpet, played some notes and left the cover on the ground. Then, he started playing "Forgive me" by Donna Summer.
He had his eyes closed so he couldn't see people throwing coins to his cover and the whole street looking at him. Some of them took him a photo with their mobile phones because they had never seen a performer like that or they recognized him from the Muppets. Others were annoyed with that noisy instrument.
He didn't care, anyways. He achieved his purpose.
Trumpet Girl leant out of the window of Saint Mary's Psychiatric Hospital.
He knew that was her favourite song, but he didn't know if that would be enough to make her forget her grudge against him.
She would throw him something. Or maybe she would close the window. He only hoped that that wouldn't have a negative impact in her nerves.
He didn't want to look at her window directly. He remained with his eyes closed.
He wanted to say it...
"Yes, Dolores, I know how you feel. I also loved being with the Electric Mayhem but we took different paths when the show cancelled. I was just an honorary member. We all knew it. We are friends...They have been the best friends I've ever had...But they are meant to be quintet. They are like a family. And you and I can't do nothing about it. I also hate Nigel bossing me around and miss the times when I acted with them, but...Well...I still have my trumpet, my soul...I am so sorry that they made you renounce to it...I didn't want it...Maybe one day we will do a duet...Be friends like nothing of this had happened...And then I could tell you that we may be expendible, but we can still be heard...I always heard you above all the instruments..."
He finished the song and heard some applauses around him. He smiled to his unexpected audience and looked at the window.
Trumpet Girl was still looking at him.
He couldn't see her expression at that distance.
He only hoped that she understood that he didn't want to provoke her.
It was just that...Though she hated him...He didn't hate her.

"So this is the end, right?"
"I hope so! I wouldn't bear another chapter!"
"Hohoho!"