Prologue

The Tragedy

It was a Thursday afternoon during med summer.

Schools were already out for summer vacation in New York City. People took off to visit families and go on family vacations for some summer time fun. That also included all of the teachers who worked at the local schools and academies. Some of them decided to take a summer job teaching a performing arts class since people loved to dance.

There was a girl who loved to dance, just like her brother. She loved to dance and was always interested in learning something new, and she was a straight A plus student in school which made a lot of people sort of jealous. Her name was Rachel Phips; she was a fifteen-year-old high school girl who lived to dance.

Rachel had white skin, blondish brown hair and greenish hazel eyes. She spent her Thursday afternoons in dance class wearing a pair of red jogging pants with a green short sleeves t-shirt and black sneakers. She had her long hair tied into a bun. Rachel also wore braces on her teeth as required by her dentist for safety reason; she took it off when dance class came to an end since it wasn't the usual braces that straighten people's teeth out over a few years. She's two inches shorter than Glitch, but a half inch taller than Lil' T. She's a little like Tarra from the Teen Titans.

The dance teacher, Mrs. Shield, watched each of the students when she played one of the song selections for them. She wore a pair of blue jogging pants, a white t-shirt and a pair of white sneakers with her long organ hair tied into a bun. Mrs. Shield had deep sea blue eyes and white skin.

Mrs. Shield stopped the music after watching everyone and taking notes carefully. "Alright, everyone, we've got a few minutes left until class is over and I want to take that time to go over a few things before you leave. So gather around and find a spot."

Everyone found a spot on the floor and sat down.

"You all did extremely well for your song for the show case tomorrow, and I have to say I really impressed and proud that you were all putting forth the effort." Mrs. Shield began to say with a smile. "I've already went over what order you'll be going on stage, if you're still unsure, I have the paper posted up here." She motioned to the paper with their names the song they were going to be dancing to. "Are there any questions that I haven't answered, or still unanswered?" She asked.

A girl named Kylie Rossi raised her hand to speak. She had long platinum blond hair, white skin and dark brown eyes dressed in dark blue jogging pants, a sleeveless blue shirt and a pair of sneakers. Her hair was tied into a ponytail hanging off to the side. She was the most conceded girl in the world.

"Yes, Kylie?" Mrs. Shield called on her, although she was annoyed with Kylie as of that moment and couldn't wait for the dance class to end so she wouldn't have to deal with her for a while.

"Yeah, some people were complaining about the lighting on stage when we went out there to practice earlier this week. We just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to be a problem tomorrow night." Kylie was making that a reference for Rachel. "The lighting so dim and I could barely see where I was going." She added as MacCoy walked inside and lend against the wall.

Rachel's older brother MacCoy was working on the lighting for the show since no one else was able to. She had a feeling that's what Kylie was getting after being that Kylie hated Rachel's guts so much. Rachel couldn't wait until Kylie moved to another state the day after tomorrow. MacCoy couldn't even stand the way she acted and treated Rachel all the time in school or outside of school.

"I will make sure we have that taken care of before the show." Mrs. Shield made a promise to her about that. "Is there anything else we need to discuss?" She asked the rest of the class.

No one said a word about it.

"Alright, with all that said, I expect all of you hear for a final dress rehearsal that I will hold until show time. Everyone must be here on time." Mrs. Shield made that clear to them. "Class dismissed." She released them.

Everyone grabbed her bag and walked out of the room.

"Rachel, can I have a word with you for a second?" Mrs. Shield asked her.

Rachel walked over to her with her pink gym bag in her hand. "Is everything okay, Mrs. Shield?" She asked.

"Yeah, everything's fine, I just wanted to talk to you about what went on a second ago with Kylie." Mrs. Shield explained to her. "I only said that so she would be quiet with the whole Diva Star attitude of hers; I think MacCoy did a wonderful job with the lighting on stage."

"It's alright; I know how Kylie can be." Rachel assured her that there was no harm done.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow morning." Mrs. Shield said with a smile. She went into her office.

Rachel walked over to MacCoy and explained to him what happened as they were walking out of the building.

"So the Stuck Up Diva strikes again." MacCoy commented when they reached the front entrance to the building.

"Yep, she did." Rachel decided to keep her braces on instead of going through the process of keeping taking it off. She was glad she had the option to do that. "But all I can see if everything getting better for everyone as soon as she's gone."

"Don't forget about the twins who call their selves the Glitterati. All us seniors are going to be counting down the days until graduation so we could be away from them; Mo, Taye, Aubrey, Emilia, everyone included." MacCoy commented with a smirk as they both walked out the door. "They're ten times worse than she is."

"I've seen them before." Rachel recalled witnessing quite a bit of situations when those two were hated by everyone in their school. "Those two are five Kylie's wrapped up in one."

They both giggled for a couple of seconds.

"Hey?" A familiar male voice said from the side of the steps outside the building.

Rachel and MacCoy turned to see Glitch and Lil' T standing there. Taye was with them too while Glitch was waiting for Mo.

"Oh, hey?" Rachel greeted them with a smile.

"Friends of yours?" MacCoy asked her.

"Obviously, or else we wouldn't have said anything." Lil' T responded back with a smirk.

Taye smirked and shook her head. "Come on, girl, before you get us into trouble." She said to her little sister.

They walked off and went home.

"You're Rachel, right?" Glitch asked her.

"Yeah." Rachel responded with a smile.

"I've seen you around school, but I haven't gotten a chance to talk to you." Glitch said.

"You could've talked to her during class this evening." MacCoy added as a joke.

"Oh, I've been busy with school and doing some early preparations for college for a while." Rachel said with a smile. "You know, being that I got an early acceptance letter like everyone else."

Mrs. Shield sent a letter of recommendations in for all of her students who were in her class to the Dancing Star Academy. She also arranged for them to come to their show to see all of the students in action, and during rehearsal hours.

"Yeah, same here." Glitch responded.

Mo snuck up behind Glitch and playfully put him in a headlock.

"I got you this time." Mo released him.

"Very funny." Glitch fixed his hair after it was messed up.

Rachel giggled at them.

"We'll see you tomorrow at the show." Glitch said to her as they walked off.

The Phips showed up in their white four door sedan.

Mr. Phips looked was an older version of MacCoy, and Mrs. Phips was an older version of Rachel. They got into the car and drove off for their house.

"So how was class, you two?" Mrs. Phips asked them.

They filled their parents in on what happened. Their parents weren't even a small bit surprised by that after meeting Kylie's parents.

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The evening after a log day of rehearsal it was time to start the show. Mrs. Shield gave the people from Dancing Star Academy a sheet for each of the students to fill out as they watched the performances on stage. They filled out the first part which was how they saw the students during practice, and all of them got amazing feedback so far. Mrs. Shield spoke and welcomed the parents to the show and started the show for them.

Each student either went on in groups, or they performed solo. Kylie performed by herself instead of performing with anyone else, including the Glitterati twins who were as self absorbed as she was.

After Kylie's performance, people clapped for her as she walked off the stage and went back with everyone else.

"Don't mess up out there, Rachel." Kylie said to her in her usual snobby voice.

Rachel ignored her comment.

Mrs. Shield walked onto the stage and took the microphone. "Alright, we're down to our last performer of the night. Let's hear it for Rachel Phips." She finally said.

They clapped as she got off the stage, and Rachel walked on wearing a peach shirt with a jeans skirt, leggings and flats. Mrs. Phips turned on the music for her, and Rachel performed her dance as practiced. She danced until the song came to an end and finished with the perfect move, and everyone clapped for her. Kylie wasn't pleased at all.

Rachel went back stage with everyone else. They congratulated her as she went to her area to get her bag and make sure it was packed. She thanked them along the way and told them that they were amazing as well.

"Nice choice of Ciara out there." Glitch said to Rachel.

"Thanks." Rachel responded back with a smile.

"Oh, nice, although it could've been better." Jaryn from the Glitterati commented. "I'm sure my brother and I will see you soon enough." She walked off with her brother by her side.

"Ignore them." Emilia said to Rachel. "They maybe seniors this year, but their bad attitude speaks a lot of volume these days."

"Everyone, you all got another ground of amazing feedback from Dancing Star yet again." Mrs. Shield said to them as she walked back with the sheets. "Make sure you keep them in your folder along with the early acceptance letters and other things you've gotten from the college thus far." She said to them as she handed their sheets to them along with a gift box she made for each of them. Everyone was excited about the good news.

Rachel's iPhone went off when she got a text from MacCoy. "I better get outside, my parents and my brother are bringing the car around." She placed her phone in her bag and pulled it over her shoulder.

"Do you want me to wait with you?" Glitch asked her.

"No, I'll be alright." Rachel walked off with a smile after saying goodbye to all of her friends and went outside to wait for her parents.

Rachel walked out the front door and looked for her parents and MacCoy. After a few seconds they were pulling up in their white sedan, and Rachel started walking off the steps and onto the sidewalk so she would be right there when they pulled up even though they were half a mile away. Rachel stopped when she noticed a bright light coming across the street from her family's car. It appeared to be another car heading in their direction. It was going to hit them, and MacCoy was driving with the window down.

"MacCoy, look out!" Rachel cried out to them.

But it was too late. MacCoy was hit, and so were their parents by the other car and tipped over. Rachel pulled out her phone to called for help, and the police and ambulance showed up within a matter seconds after the call.

At the hospital, Rachel received word that her parents and MacCoy didn't make it. They passed away an hour after getting to the hospital.

The Dancing Star:

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