Something Different- Fangs Fogarty

Eleven

    "Good luck!" I  call to everyone stood by the stage as Jughead rounds the corner with his camera "Catching all the juicy bits, huh Jug?"

    "Yes! So I'm going to go grab a few shots of people getting ready and then settle in my seat at the front. I need to make sure I catch everything"

   I laugh as I watch him rush off, Betty rounds the corner whispering her lines to herself. "Saskia please say you have a copy of the script? I'm panicking and I've forgotten everything. I'm begging!" I pull out a script from my clipboard and hand it to her "I love you, you angel!"

   She rushes back towards the changing rooms with the script in her hands "Everything okay? " I look over my shoulder to see Cheryl stood there with a smile "Need help?"

   "Cheryl! Oh hi, didn't expect to see you here after the whole situation. But everything is okay back here I don't need any help"

   "Oh! It's okay, It's just mommy dearest that I'm angry at nobody else. Well I'll see you later because I need to go and grab my seat!" She struts off towards the audience as I carry on directing everybody in the directions they need to go. I head towards the changing rooms as Jughead backs out of one and bumps into me in process.

   "Whoa Jug, watch where you're going" I laugh as turns around looking a little shocked "Oh Saskia, you... you're here right now, Saskia!"

   Fangs walks out of the dressing room carrying a clipboard and a box of booklets "I need to go and hand these out. Can you help please Sass?"

   "Oh yeah sure, I just need to grab Betty and Archie then I'll meet you out there" I call over my shoulder as I know on the door for the make up area "B, Arch! You're gonna need to get to the side of the stage and Has anyone see Alice or Midge? I need them both up there now! They're on in 5!"

   "Keep your wig on Saskia, I'm here" Alice laughs as she makes her way to the side of the stage "I'll go and grab Midge if she's not already up there"

   I rush up to Fangs side and grab some of the leaflets from his box as he smiles towards me "Are we okay? After this we'll go for a milkshake or two and talk about things, yeah?"

   I nod at him as the rooms go dark and the spotlights come on "We should probably get backstage, Fangs" We hand out leaflets to everyone who doesn't have one "Fangs hold on we need to put the rest of these in the cupboard"

   I nod towards the back of the room as he follows me up the isle before we could turn back around, everyone starts screaming and yelling "Someone for the love of god, help her! Get her down now!"

  "Midge!" I scream as Kevin and his dad rush to the stage "We need everyone to get out of here now!"

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   I push my straw around my milkshake cup as everyone sits in silence, none of us have anything to say after seeing Midge up on the board. I grab Fangs hand squeezing it lightly as he smiles down at me "Sass, could you spare a minute?" I look over at Jug and nod

  "What's wrong?" I take a seat on the bench outside pops next to him, He sighs heavily handing me his camera 

  "This needs to be handed in to the police soon but I need you to look at some footage that I captured but promise you won't be mad. It looks worse than it is!" I frown pressing play on the footage 

   The footage starts to roll as my heart starts to break a little "I knew something was happening between him and Midge, why did he lie?" I look up at Jughead before handing him his camera back "Why? I didn't think he would ever lie to me"