Tragedy

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(This is changed in the order of how it happened so don't come for me)

The date was May 22, 2017. Kian was in America. I had no one in the audience for me. I was in Manchester, United Kingdom. I had walked onstage. The crowd cheered, I had a beaming smile on my face as I scanned the crowd. I loved being onstage. It truly was my home. I couldn't believe I had fans.

Outfit:

I began singing my first song, "The Way I Are" by Bebe Rexha

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I began singing my first song, "The Way I Are" by Bebe Rexha. "Don't matter who you are just love me the way I are." I sang. I finished it and began singing "One Last Time" by Ariana. I sang "One Last Time, I need to be the one who takes you home."

Boom. Just as I'd finished the lyric and loud bang ripped through the arena. Everyone started screaming and running frantically. I was astonished and confused. I didn't know what was happening until all of a sudden someone ran onstage from the VIP section and picked me up and ran me offstage. I screamed until the mystery person set me down.

When we got in the backstage room, I turned on the light and saw who it was. Cameron Dallas. "Sorry that was so sudden, I just didn't know what happened and had to save you in case someone tried to target you or something." I thanked him and grabbed his hand and rushed to Ariana.

We both saw and ran towards each other and pulled each other into a bone crushing hug. "Are you okay? Oh my God." Ariana frantically said stuff and she shook her head and did release me from the hug. She finally pulled away. "I have no idea what the fuck just happened, but I'm just glad you're okay." I nodded and we ran to the nearest tv to see if anything had been reported.

Nothing had been reported so far, so we both ran out onstage and looked around the arena. About 1,000 people of the 13,000 original people remained in the arena. Most had left and we both took hands and I grabbed a mic. "Listen. We do not know what has happened. We will learn more about what has happened as time progresses but right now we do not know anything. We all wish you safety as you go home and we will find out as much as we can and address it." Ariana then spoke and tears ran down her cheeks.

I comforted her and we went backstage and I hugged Cameron and sat next to him on the couch. My phone began blowing up with every single person in my contact list, calling me as news began to break. I grabbed my phone as Jai called. "Madison are you okay? I can't believe this happened!" He began freaking out but I told him I was okay and we talked a bit and he hung up.

I then called Kian and talked to him for a bit. Then I grabbed Cameron's hand and he comforted me as I cried. Ariana turned on the tv and and we listened to what the reporters had to say about the attack. Not much was reported about the attack at the moment. We sat in silence as the reporters said the same thing over and over again.

They reported at least 12 deaths. Which would later turn into 22 deaths. We sighed as we watched them repeat the little they knew. We kept the tv on, but we stopped listening. We all sat in silence. The only sounds in the room were sniffling and whispers between Cameron and I.

Soon they talked about death tolls and injuries rising. Ariana and I couldn't bear to hear it. This was wrong. This couldn't be happening. Why? Why did this happen to us? We hadn't done anything wrong. We'd only been bringing joy to the people who loved Ariana. And now, this. Ariana and I both stayed silent for a while. Our phones rang and rang continuously. We were in shock, fear, we were confused. We sat and cried. That was all we did for that night.

I asked Ariana after about an hour, "Are you going to cancel the tour?" She thought for a minute and firmly said,

"No."

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