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Post by kia on Feb 22, 2009 9:23:32 GMT -5
3rd February 2009
It was the night of another concert for Kia, this time it was being held in New Jersey. Since coming to America she seemed lucky enough to break New York, so now she was trying to break another state, and as New Jersey was a neighbouring state to New York it seemed the best option.
Now Kia was just doing the usual sound checks and making sure everything on the stage was in place and working properly. Everything seemed to be going fine. "Things look good Miss Matsunaga" her stage manager said smiling at her. She smiled back at him, "Thank you Steven" she replied. She had to laugh though, she wished people would stop calling her Miss Matsunaga, it made her feel and feel like her mother.
While all this was going on however, unknown to Kia and her entourage some nasty people were messing around under the stage and seating areas setting up bombs to explode timed to go off as soon as the first song was started.
It was roughly a half hour to show time now, and Kia in her little dressing room van because the concert was an open air one, she took out her cell phone and sent Ando a text letting him know that the sound checks had gone well and everything seemed ready, if he wanted to make his way to the venue.
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Post by pucus on Feb 22, 2009 10:17:13 GMT -5
Ando received the text, immediately beginning to make his way to the venue. It would take him only a couple of minutes to get there, as long as there where no problems or hold ups for him, which there shouldn’t be. Most of the streets near the venue where basically abandoned right now, so Ando could get there relatively quickly.
He arrived minutes later, immediately looking for where Kia would be. He wanted to see her before she went out, just to make sure everything was OK, and that she was fine. Of course she probably would be, but Ando just wanted to make properly sure, ever since the incident in New York he had been a bit more protective of her.
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Post by kia on Feb 23, 2009 3:32:38 GMT -5
After Kia had sent Ando a text, it didn't take him too long to arrive at the venue, leaving Kia fifteen minutes before she was due on stage. Kia felt very lucky to have Ando in her life, and still found it wonderful to think that he was also her manager. Without him, she wouldn't have half the success in America she had.
It had definitely been a strange time for Kia since coming to America though, apart from the good stuff with Ando and gaining popularity, there was the whole finding out she was related to a family by the name of Nekawa. Strange that since the day she had met her 'nephew' she hadn't met any of the other family members. Kia sometimes wondered where she truly belonged.
The thoughts were put to the back of her mind however, when she saw Ando approaching, giving him a warm smile as he approached, and getting up to hug him close to her.
"Sound checks went well Ando, everything seems good" Kia said with a warm voice, so he didn't have to worry so much. "I owe all of this to you, you know that right" Kia said grinning at Ando.
Just then her stage manager's voice came through her ear piece, "Two minutes to show time Kia" she smiled, "Thanks Steven"
"Well it's time for me to get ready" Kia said to Ando, giving him a quick kiss before she got herself into position.
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Post by pucus on Feb 23, 2009 15:14:20 GMT -5
Ando was very glad that everything was good, and that everything seemed like it was going well, he didn’t want anything to go wrong. He watched Kia go to get ready, smiling at her. It was just like this when he got called away to see to a disturbance.
Apparently it seemed like some fans had tried to get in the back, and for some reason, he was needed. Maybe it was because he had requested that he was notified of any security risks since the incident at the signing. He was just being careful really. After a few minutes he would be back, watching Kia which was what he wanted.
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Post by kia on Feb 25, 2009 19:05:44 GMT -5
This was it, it was show time. Kia wasn't even aware that Ando had got called away to sort out some trouble when she stood in the metal cage which would lower her to the stage. She had decided to make quite an entrance this time. Since her popularity had risen, so had her funds, so they were able to splash out a little more on stage props.
Now the music was playing for her first song, as the cage was lowered to the stage, the crowd were going crazy and making lots of noises, and were even beginning to the sing the song before Kia even reached the stage. As the cage finally reached the stage and she stepped out, the crowd got even more louder. Kia smiled at them all, as she waved to everybody, especially the fans on the front row.
Just then the intro started over again, and as Kia began to sing the first few notes there was an almighty loud bang, followed by another. The music stopped playing, and Kia watched in horror as the seating area where her fans were was ablaze, and Kia started to scream out. "NOOOO!!! ANDO?!" but just then there was another blast and Kia felt herself thrown across the stage, and that was the last thing she remembered as she lay in a corner somewhere covered in debris.
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Post by pucus on Feb 26, 2009 11:58:06 GMT -5
Ando had been walking back into the stage area, when he had heard a blast, and then screaming. As quick as he could, Ando ran into the performance area looking around for Kia, where was she? He needed to find her, make sure she was OK. He didn’t know what he could do with himself it she had gotten injured, as he would end up blaming himself for it all, for not being there.
He spotted her, running over quickly. “Kia!” He yelled, “Are you OK?” Stupid question, something had happened, something bad. He didn’t know would do something like this, what kind of person would only attack a music concert, it didn’t make any sense to him.
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Post by kia on Feb 26, 2009 16:29:49 GMT -5
Kia didn't know what had happened and at the moment she didn't even know where she was. All she remembered was a couple of loud bangs and now she was lying under some debris. In the distance she heard a lot of moans and groans, and people crying out in pain. Then she heard Ando's voice calling for her. That's when she remembered what happened. Then she felt the pain in her head, she put her hand up and it was covered in blood.
"Ando!" she said in exclamation as she tried to get herself up from the stage floor, grabbing onto bits of the stage which has been ripped to pieces for balance. Ando seemed to be very worried and was asking after her in a concerned voice. Her sweet Ando.
"I'm fine, just this" she said as she pointed to her head which had a nasty gash in the side. "You're okay?" she asked, "None of the blasts got you?" she asked, looking at him it would seem he was fine. But the moans and groans of cries of pain were coming across the stage from the seating area.
"Those poor people, we have to help" Kia said as she looked out at the place where all her fans had been standing only moments before. She began to wonder who would do something like this and why. Unless of course, she was the target and her fans were just in the way.
Kia began to walk toward the seats, in a daze and shaken, everywhere was a complete mess. She stumbled over something, "Damn" she muttered, and then looked down, "Oh my God!" she exclaimed, as she put her hand to her mouth and began to cry, she had tripped over a dead body, a girl, she couldn't have been more than sixteen. "Oh Ando" she said softly, not able to look and turning herself to him in total grief.
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Post by pucus on Feb 27, 2009 11:52:47 GMT -5
Ando could barely look either, part of him wanted to just run away, and hide. He couldn’t believe what had happened, what was happening. He needed to help, needed to do something now. And the quicker he could the better really.
“I’m fine.” He said to Kia, trying to block out everything around him for a second, “I was too far away to get hurt.” Then reality struck him again. He looked around, and could only see pain, and death amongst the people lying on the ground, groaning in pain. Hurriedly he moved over, trying to find someone who was still conscience, someone to help.
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Post by kia on Feb 27, 2009 16:02:43 GMT -5
Kia was glad that Ando seemed fine and unhurt, all that was bothering him was the same thing which was bothering herself, the amount of wounded and dead bodies lying around caused by the explosions. It all seemed unreal, who would even want to do this at a pop concert, it just wasn't right. They should have known there would be a lot of young people at this. It was just disgusting.
Ando couldn't look at the dead body either. "I'm glad you're fine" Kia said softly, but he seemed to be more interested in helping people, which was understandable, she needed to help people herself. Just as Ando moved in the direction of some of the moans, Kia did likewise and found somebody who didn't seem so bad.
"Are you alright?" she asked the young guy as she helped to get him up off the ground. "I'm fine Miss Matsunaga" he said, as he looked at her with a red face. "Call me Kia, please, do you think you can help?" she asked him with a weak smile.
"I think so, my name is Jared" he said and gave Kia a weak smile back. "Great Jared, come on" she said, as she headed toward a girl moaning just a little ahead of them.
"Ando, I've found somebody, his name is Jared, he can help us" Kia shouted over to him.
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Post by pucus on Feb 28, 2009 15:14:52 GMT -5
Ando heard a call that there was someone else who could help. That was good. Everywhere Ando seemed to look, all he could see was blood, and pain. He found someone, someone who was spluttering out blood at an extremely alarming rate. Ando tried, but knew that with the blood loss that they had suffered, eventually they would die.
He could only wonder at how many others like this person would have died, and why? There had to be a motive behind everything, a reason why. He thought back to the other time something like this had happened, at the record shop. Was someone targeting Kia, or him even? Something had to be going on, something bad.
He looked across at Kia, “We need help.” He yelled. They needed some help, and fast.
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Post by kia on Mar 1, 2009 18:16:06 GMT -5
Kia was devastated at the destruction around her, she couldn't believe that somebody could do something so awful. She also began to wonder if she was the one they were after, because surely they wouldn't kill innocent people, yet that's exactly what had happened looking at the scene before her. So much blood. So many of her young fans had been killed.
Jared wasn't really in that great a shape, he had blood running from his head like Kia had, and he had also injured his leg as he was limping, but he seemed to be in a better position than a lot of them. Ando then shouted that they needed help. He was right.
"I agree" Kia shouted, as she took out her cell phone and dialled 911 explaining they needed police and ambulance. Within minutes police and paramedics were surrounding the area. By now Kia's head was beginning to throb and with the blood running down her face, she began to feel dizzy.
"I don't feel too good" she said to nobody in particular, as she fell to the ground and fainted.
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Post by pucus on Mar 2, 2009 12:32:10 GMT -5
Ando looked around in complete panic, he needed to help, needed to do something. Kia had called 911, and help was coming. He had to save someone now. Then the paramedics arrived, and Ando felt slightly more relieved, now some of the people could live, but too many had died today, too many for this day to be known as anything more than a slaughter.
Then Kia fainted, and Ando ran right over to her, wanting to make her better. She was bleeding, and Ando yelled out for some help for her. One of the paramedics came over to her, to make sure she was OK. He wanted to be sure, she had been pretty close to the explosion when it had gone off after all.
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Post by kia on Mar 6, 2009 18:56:45 GMT -5
When Kia had fainted she didn't know how long she had fainted for, but as she came around there was a paramedic fussing over. Ando must have called him over to help. Most of the people had been taken care of by now, all there seemed left were the dead bodies, and there were too many. Kia was devastated, those dead bodies were her fans, and she felt like there was nothing she could do about what had happened.
The paramedic cleaned her head, and then put a couple of stitches into the wound, before covering it with a wound dressing. He then handed over some painkillers to Kia. "These should help with the pain, take two every four hours" she was instructed. She gave him a weak smile, "Thank you" and then the paramedic was on his way.
The police started to gather the dead bodies together, and came toward Kia. She looked at Ando, "I'm alright, just a little sore, do you think they're going to see if I know anything about what happened tonight?" she asked Ando, expecting him to know. She was a little worried she may get blamed for this disaster tonight. Right now Kia just wanted to escape to Japan, back to her safe haven.
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Post by pucus on Mar 7, 2009 22:49:52 GMT -5
Ando felt much better when Kia came conscientious again. She was given something for her pain, and left. Then she asked about what would happen next. “I don’t know anymore Kia.” Ando replied, he didn’t know what would happen – if everyone would get moved to hospital for the police to carryout their operation alone or if they wanted to speak to everyone first.
He know what to do anymore, what could he do? Around him was the evidence of the explosion was continually reminding him – and probably Kia of the incident. They should get away to somewhere else quickly, just to get away as long as they where allowed.
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Post by kia on Mar 10, 2009 19:35:51 GMT -5
The whole night was a disaster. What should have been one of her first open air concerts in America had gone off wrongly and Kia blamed herself. Even though she knew it wasn't her fault, at the same time she felt like it was her fault. Poor Ando didn't know what to do either. He was at a loss just as much as she was.
She nodded her head slowly, and patted his arm with her hand, "It's alright, we'll get this sorted" she said, as she looked around, none of the police seemed to be coming toward her to ask her any questions, so Kia being the brave sort she was, decided to go and ask herself.
"Am I needed here? Or can I go?" she asked the detective, or policeman or whoever he was, but he seemed like some official who was dealing with the carnage.
"Oh, you can go Miss Matsunaga, I think you've had a tough enough time for tonight, don't you agree?" the detective said, "If we need to know anything we can contact you" he added, as she turned away from her and went back to doing what he was doing.
"Thanks officer" Kia said softly as she went back to Ando, "We can go, and after the night I've had, I think I could do with a nice hot relaxing bubble bath and just spending the night in your arms" she said softly, as she leaned into him for some support.
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