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"Oh, don't feel bad, Brodi," Riley said with a smile. "And if you really could, that'd be pretty neat," she finished. "I hope one day I can have enough fame to get into places like backstage and stuff," she said, laughing.

The lights slowly dimmed as celebrities hurried into their seats for the Trinity Tears comeback performance.


Trinity Tears
The stage was pitch black as Trinity hurried into her position in center stage inside a cage covered by a red sheet. She had invited two friends she met backstage - Andrew and Isi - to watch from the sides and come onto the main part of the stage during the dance break. She was a little nervous for the performance, but Andrew and Isi had given her some encouragement, so she felt she would do just fine. The introduction of her newest song, Carnival started to play. A moment later, the lights flashed on and the audience roared with applause as the red sheet covering the cage was torn off by backup dancers. Trinity turned around to face the audience with a beaming smile and began sining her song, doing a cage dance.
Two verses into the song she had reached the chorus and the cage was lifted up overhead by the crew backstage and she made her way downstage towards the audience as the backup dancers mimicked her every move. She danced rather provocatively with them until the second round of the chorus, marking the dance break. She pulled Andrew and Isi onto the stage and then went to pull others from the audience on stage. She grabbed Lorenz Milton and Kamal East to dance with. And everything was going so great and ---

BANG. A gun fired from the upper balconies. Trinity Tears fell to her knees and collapsed completely as the entire room screamed in panic. BANG. BANG. Lorenz Milton and Kamal East were next to fall. BANG. Zip Afron's face fell straight into his food, shot in the back. BANG. Brodi Tyler was the next to be hit. BANG. Isabella Sinda was the final victim.
The room was in a frenzy as people rushed to escape. In the madness, the attacker was able to escape unnoticed. A manager of the event hurried to the microphone and urged everyone to evacuate the facility as quickly as possible. Six people shot (some the biggest stars of the industry), all in one of the most publicized events of the year. And the entertainment industry's darkest scandal begins...

She had just slipped her hand under Brodi's when the lights went down and was about to retort when Trinity came on stage and the show started.

Riley heard the panicked screams around her, and one had risen up in her own throat, but hadn't escaped, as it had seemed to close up before any noise got out.

Even though people pushed to get out, Riley did not go with them (she'd be quite ashamd of herself if she left). Instead, fighting back the rising fright in her stomach, she made sure that Zip's face was no longer in his food (she couldn't even be sure he was still alive, but it'd be terrible if the shot hadn't killed him only to be sufficated).

Frantically, as Brodi grasped at the hem of her dress, she searched through his coat pocket for his cell phone. Her attire had made it difficult to carry hers. With shaky hands, she quickly dialed and waited for the phone to pick up on the other end.

Everything was a gigantic mess.

One moment, Renee was getting a facefull of Angelica before she went off into the night, hoping Chad was able to pull off his distraction and willing the woman's contractions to hit right about the time Angelica hit the limo (maybe she'd get lucky and fall it), and the next, some gorgeous girl in a deep rose concoction entered the theatre as though she owned the place. And that was the easy part.

"I'm not entirely sure," Renee admitted, blinking a couple times as she tried to collect herself. The lights went out for a moment, and anything else she said would've had to be shouted directly in the girl's ear to be heard. Trinity was definitely getting her comeback tonight...in more ways than one. If anything else was said, Renee couldn't be sure - she couldn't read lips.

The gunfire went off with a sharp, shattering BANG!, several times in a row, and Renee's hands immediately covered her ears, eyes darting about for whatever was making the noise and finding nothing. visible. Nothing aimed her way. But there were now several bodies on the floor, and far more massing towards the door in a frenzy, pushing her along with them. Renee hated her small stature and found something to cling to until she could get her footing and the crowd began to thin.

"Are you alright?" she asked the new girl.

Isi found this all rather over whelming, she was going to be dancing on stage with someone like Trinity Tears! It was more then she would have ever thought would happen before her career even got anywhere! The gig was going to well and they were dancing and then the bangs started. Isi saw Trinity fall and ran over, hearing some more bangs and then she heard one, she was sure of it but then the sudden wave of pain hit and what happened she had no idea. One minute she was trying to help Trinity Tears and the next minute she was out, though maybe not for as long as one would expect.

It was her leg, her leg had been hit. Whether that had been on purpose or not she wasn't sure but the pain, oh the pain! She tried to move her leg but couldn't, reaching down she felt the blood coming out of her wound. She moaned a little, not really able to move that much due to the amount of pain the shot had caused. At least she wasn't dead, at least she was still alive.