Painted Red

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Zane (Pov)

Today's the day. I smiled slightly as I finally looked at my work. To tell you the truth it look like a rainbow threw up and died on me. Yup, if I'm coming out might as well do it with a bang. I grabbed my giant rainbow flag and put on my rainbow mask and headed to my garage, driving off to something that will either save me or ruin me. I thought about that for a while, Eh, fuck it. I don't care.

I finally arrived to my destination and join with my group. Our leader looked over to me and smiled, "Zane, oh my Irene you look awesome, I think you made it clear where you lie," he said patting my back, "Okay, lets get back to practice."

Time skip

We finally started to line up for the parade, my group on top of the first float. I was in the middle of the three parts, I was the flying color guard. I felt the float start moving and I finally saw the crowd.

When we were visible to the crowds our performance begun as cheers erupted. I held to my flag as I was placed top of the human pyramid, soon enough I was in the air twirling my flag as I did a couple of flips before landing into the groups' arms. I followed my own flag routine waiting for us to redo our routine. 

I was in the air being held up in split position by two human pyramids while I twirl my flag when I saw Aphmau and her group of friends and my brothers. I saw them smile and cheer me on. My smile faded as I felt intense pain in my mid-region. I looked down seeing red dots grow larger and larger on my colorful shirt. 

I lost grip on my flag as screams of horror erupted along with an explosion. I almost hit the ground if it wasn't for Taylor (the leader). Gunshots and explosions were all I could hear as my vision started to blur and get dotty. Last thing I heard was someone scream my name.

Travis (Pov)

We all waited in hospital waiting room as the doctors continued to work. Laurence was holding Garroth trying to comfort him. So far there were 154 people injured and luckily only 6 deaths. Garroth was shot in his shoulder but he gave no attention to it only focusing on Zane until the situation was controlled, even then he was frantic to just get patched up and see Zane. It's understandable, I mean, they're brothers and Zane did take heavy damage being the first victim.

Aaron was comforting Aphmau with Kawaii~Chan, hoping she'd calm down. And there was Katelyn, who looked like she was about to leave at any minute.

"Garroth Ro'Meave?," a nurse called out. Garroth shot out of Laurence as the nurse spoke with him. She left and Garroth fell to his knees and cried. Irene, please, don't let Zane be dead. Please, I love him! Wait, what?

"What's wrong, Garroth," Aphmau said through tears.

"H-he's... h-he's blind in one eye and he's deaf in one ear," Garroth sobbed as Laurence picked him up, cradeling him. 

"Come on lets go visit him,"Laurence said leading the way to the room. What I saw broke my heart.

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