Chapter 6: The moment of Truth and Consequences ----------------------------------------
A few weeks pass. The shooting for the music video went great. Tommy and Gaz decided to wait until after Tommy told Kimi the truth before going out again. They had everything all planned out to tell her after the primere, but there was one detail they had forgotten...
At the primere at the Theatre Kimi works at
There are crowds of students, teachers, parents, and just plain everyday folks waiting in line outside the theater, waiting for it to open.
Tommy is inside in a suit, Gaz is in a black gothic-type dress, and Kimi's in a beatuiful red dress. Everyone else are in various suits and dresses.
Tommy looks outside. "Look at that crowd, this is going to be my...our best premiere yet!" He smiled. He looked back to Kimi. "Is everything all set up?"
Kimi smiled and gave him the thumbs up. "Everything is a go. Let the crowd in!"
Tommy grinned as he opened the door. He quickly got out of the way to avoid being trampled on.
Later
Everyone is inside the theater, awaiting the music video to start.
Outside in the lobby, Kimi is there to keep up apperances. Angelica walks up and stands next to her.
"Hey Finster." Angelica smiled.
"Hey Angelica." Kimi smiled, even though she wanted her to get lost.
"Nice dress." Angelica stated.
"Thanks...you too." Kimi smiled some more.
Angelica looked at Tommy and Gaz. "Your boyfriend and his star have been getting close lately haven't they?"
Kimi looked at them and sighed. "Yeah, but they're just good friends."
Angelica sighed irritably. "You are so blind and gullible aren't you?" Kimi looked at her. "They are IN LOVE FINSTER! You're boyfriend is cheating on you!"
Kimi double-take between Angelica and Tommy with Gaz. Then she glared at Angelica. "How dare you accuse Tommy of doing something like that?"
"Because it's true Finster! I saw those two together with my own two eyes AND I saw them kissing!" Angelica snapped.
"Got any proof of this? And I don't mean an altered picture to make it LOOK like they're kissing." Kimi glared.
Angelica reached into her pocket. She gasped when she realized "I left my camera at home."
Kimi rolled her eyes. "Why am I not surprised."
"Listen Finster. I don't care if you believe me or not, but this is one of the times I'm telling you the truth." With that Angelica stormed off.
Kimi glared as Angelica left. Then she looked at Tommy and Gaz together. "There's no way Tommy would do such a thing...would he?"
Later
Tommy walked up on stage, everyone applauded.
"Thank you, thank you all for coming. This is a great achievement for me! This is my very first music video. Starring, in her first film apperance, Gaz Membrane! Featuring Chuckie and Kimi Finster! I give you Thriller!" Everyone applauded as Tommy got off the stage and the video started.
A door opens inside a creepy house. In steps in Chuckie, dressed in rather banged up cloth. The door closes, quietly behind him. He looks around, cautiously, looking around. Then he starts to, slowly, walk forward. There's a clap of thunder and a wolf howls.
The music starts.
Chuckie keeps on walking forward as there's a huge gust of wind and a wolf keeps on howling. Chuckie, looking rather scared, turns around and walks backwards. Then he bumps into something. He, slowly, turns around. Suddenly lightning flashed and Gaz is revealed, dressed in her usual outfit. Chuckie falls, backwards, to the ground and moves himself back.
Gaz smirks as she walks up to him. Chuckie gets up and bolts for the door. But Gaz, somehow, appears in front of him and he falls down, again, in fright. More wolves howl.
Chuckie looks terrified at Gaz, who just smirks.
Gaz holds her arm out to a clock that read midnight. "It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark" she sung as she started to make a sneaking motion towards Chuckie, who got up and ran the opposite direction. But he, somehow, runs right into her again. Gaz holds him in front of her as the moonlight shines on through a window on them. "Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart"
Gaz lets him go of Chuckie and he, slowly, backs up. He tries to sceam, but nothing comes out. "You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it" Gaz sung. Chuckie started to run, but he froze in place after just a few steps. "You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes, You're paralyzed!"
Just then Zomibes appeared, out of no where, around Chuckie and joined in Gaz. "'Cause this is thriller, thriller night And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike You know it's thriller, thriller night You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!"
Chuckie snapped out of his frozen state and saw a open door. He ran, pushing the zombies out of his way, and made it through. "You hear the door slam " the door slams behind him. "and realize there's nowhere left to run" Chuckie sees it's a dead end.
"You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun." A cold wind blows at Chuckie. Then he covers his eyes. "You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination." Just then Gaz came up behind him. "But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind...You're out of time!" Chuckie removes his hands and sees her and he jumps through a window.
Gaz just stood there and held her arms up. "'Cause this is thriller, thriller night There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes" Chuckie ran through a cemetary and ran into a creature with 40 eyes and he bolted away.
"You know it's thriller, thriller night You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!" Chuckie continued to run but he fell to the ground.
Zombies started to come out of the ground. "Night creatures call And the dead start to walk in their masquerade" One tried to grab Chuckie, but he kicks it away. Gaz is in front of them. "There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time (they're open wide) This is the end of your life"
Chuckie ran away, but he, again, ran into Gaz. Gaz held him in front of her and started to do some wacky hand movements accross his face. "They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side"
Chuckie ran away, but a while ghost goes, litterally, into him and he freezes. "They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial" He did a cartwheel and then the ghost flew out. Chuckie continued to run.
Gaz appeared in front of Chuckie again and smiled as rain started to pour. "Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together All thru the night I'll save you from the terrors on the screen..." She grabs him, turns him around, and points to a huge tomb that read The Thriller. "I'll make you see"
Then she turned him around and pushes him to the ground. "That it's a thriller, thriller night" Chuckie started to run away, but is surrounded.
Gaz comes up to Chuckie and starts to hug him. Chuckie tried to get away, but Gaz wouldn't let him. 'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare to try Man!, this is thriller, thriller night So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller, chiller,Thriller here tonight!" She turns him back to the tomb. Chuckie looks in awe at it. Gaz lets him go and moves away as she joins the zombies.
The Tomb opens in in walks Kimi, dressed in a black, dark, vampireish outfit and her face was dead white.
Gaz and the zombies start to continue their music quietly as Chuckie stares at the approaching Kimi.
Kimi puts her arms out to the moon. "Darkness falls across the land...The midnite hour is close at hand!"
Kimi then points towards Gaz and the others, who were heading towards the town. "Creatures crawl in search of blood...To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood"
Chuckie watches as they headed towards his town, he has a horrid look on his face. Kimi then put her arm on him. "And whosoever shall be found...Without the soul for getting down...Must stand and face the hounds of hell..." She points to a pair of dogs that looks rotted. Then she turned Chuckie towards a corpse. "And rot inside a corpse's shell!"
Chuckie ran away from her, but Gaz and the others surrounded him again. A green fog comes accross the area, Chuckie covers his nose. Kimi approaches him. "The foulest stench is in the air...The funk of forty thousand years..." Skeletons start to come out of the ground and tombs. "And grizzly ghouls from every tomb...Are closing in to seal your doom..."
Chuckie is soon surrounded with, absolutly, no way out. He looks like he's going to fight them. "And though you fight to stay alive..." Kimi smirks as she approaches him. Chuckie starts to get the chills. "Your body starts to shiver..." Chuckie looks up at her, as Gaz approches him too. "For no mere mortal can resist...The evil of...the thriller" Kimi starts to cackle very evilishly as a close up on Chuckies terrified face and the video and music fades.
Once the music video is over, everyone applauded. They loved the music video. The crowd gets up and either leaves, talks and/or congratulated the autors, and whatnot. Most people crowded around Gaz, some saying that they enjoyed her singing. Tommy pushed his way towards to help her out.
"Okay, folks! Move away. Give Ms. Membrane some air! After all, even celebrities want to get away from their fans on their first day!" said Tommy as he helps Gaz get away from her fans.
As Tommy and Gaz leaves, Kimi sees them and looks somewhat suspicious.
"Strange. Why did they leave together? Well, maybe Tommy wanted to congratulated Gaz or something. I mean, they are friends and there's nothing I should worry about." Kimi then remembers Angelica's accusation towards Tommy and Gaz. "But...what if Angelica was right? No. Tommy loves me. Yet...what if...I better followed just to check." Kimi said.
Kimi, remembering her way through the theater since she works there, leaves through a door out of the theater.
"You did well tonight, Gaz." Tommy said with a smile.
"Thanks." Gaz said smiling back. "So, uh, shouldn't you tell Kimi the truth?"
"That's what I wanted to tell you about. You see, I need your help about how to tell Kimi."
Unknown to Tommy and Gaz, Kimi is following Tommy through ways only she (being an employee) knows. He knows how to spy on people sneaking in food, not paying their tickets, etc. very well. She looks suspicious about what Tommy said.
'Truth? About what?' Kimi thought.
Tommy and Gaz walks away, discussing quietly. So quiet that Kimi couldn't hear. She decides to continued following in secret, though Tommy and Gaz are ahead now and Kimi having trouble keeping up.
"Tommy, you soften her up with the date, you should tell her. What's the problem?" Gaz asked, continuing the conversation.
"The problem is, once I do tell her, she is probably going to go into the "who do you choose" thing. I mean, I love her, but I love you as well. One girl afterwards is whom I wanted to stay the rest of my life with." Tommy explains.
"Well, I couldn't forced you to choose. Like Grandpa said, you should look into your heart to find the one you want." Gaz said.
"You're right. Once I tell Kimi when we're alone, I should think hard about who I wanted to be with." Tommy hugs Gaz. "Thanks for helping me out."
"Hey, you helped me out with being pals with the locals including you, I owe you one. Now my debt is paid." Gaz said with a smile.
Both her and Tommy laughed a bit. Then they looked at each other, in that trance again. They leaned forward closer and closer. Soon their lips met and they kissed.
Kimi, however, chose that time to appeared and she gasped as she saw what's going on. The boy she loves kissing a girl she no longer has suspicions about!
Kimi couldn't take it. She begins to cry a big loud cry. Tommy and Gaz stop kissing long enough to see her run away.
"Kimi!" Tommy gasped in horror, letting go of Gaz in an attempt to follow Kimi. But Kimi was out of the theater before he could get a chance to catch her. "Oh man! I knew I should have told her sooner!"
Tommy looked at Gaz sadly who just looked at her feet.
Outside, Kimi runs out of the theater with tears in her eyes. She finally stops running when she's alone in an alley. She sits down slowly and cried to herself.
"Oh, how could I be so stupid?! Tommy pretended to date me just so I wouldn't expected the truth! But now, what Angelica said was true. He was cheating on me with...with her!" Kimi looks up, an angry look on her face. "That no good Goth! She took Tommy away from me! She already did it the first time they met! Well, no one takes my boyfriend away from me and gets away with it! Gaz Membrane is a dead woman."
A few weeks pass. The shooting for the music video went great. Tommy and Gaz decided to wait until after Tommy told Kimi the truth before going out again. They had everything all planned out to tell her after the primere, but there was one detail they had forgotten...
At the primere at the Theatre Kimi works at
There are crowds of students, teachers, parents, and just plain everyday folks waiting in line outside the theater, waiting for it to open.
Tommy is inside in a suit, Gaz is in a black gothic-type dress, and Kimi's in a beatuiful red dress. Everyone else are in various suits and dresses.
Tommy looks outside. "Look at that crowd, this is going to be my...our best premiere yet!" He smiled. He looked back to Kimi. "Is everything all set up?"
Kimi smiled and gave him the thumbs up. "Everything is a go. Let the crowd in!"
Tommy grinned as he opened the door. He quickly got out of the way to avoid being trampled on.
Later
Everyone is inside the theater, awaiting the music video to start.
Outside in the lobby, Kimi is there to keep up apperances. Angelica walks up and stands next to her.
"Hey Finster." Angelica smiled.
"Hey Angelica." Kimi smiled, even though she wanted her to get lost.
"Nice dress." Angelica stated.
"Thanks...you too." Kimi smiled some more.
Angelica looked at Tommy and Gaz. "Your boyfriend and his star have been getting close lately haven't they?"
Kimi looked at them and sighed. "Yeah, but they're just good friends."
Angelica sighed irritably. "You are so blind and gullible aren't you?" Kimi looked at her. "They are IN LOVE FINSTER! You're boyfriend is cheating on you!"
Kimi double-take between Angelica and Tommy with Gaz. Then she glared at Angelica. "How dare you accuse Tommy of doing something like that?"
"Because it's true Finster! I saw those two together with my own two eyes AND I saw them kissing!" Angelica snapped.
"Got any proof of this? And I don't mean an altered picture to make it LOOK like they're kissing." Kimi glared.
Angelica reached into her pocket. She gasped when she realized "I left my camera at home."
Kimi rolled her eyes. "Why am I not surprised."
"Listen Finster. I don't care if you believe me or not, but this is one of the times I'm telling you the truth." With that Angelica stormed off.
Kimi glared as Angelica left. Then she looked at Tommy and Gaz together. "There's no way Tommy would do such a thing...would he?"
Later
Tommy walked up on stage, everyone applauded.
"Thank you, thank you all for coming. This is a great achievement for me! This is my very first music video. Starring, in her first film apperance, Gaz Membrane! Featuring Chuckie and Kimi Finster! I give you Thriller!" Everyone applauded as Tommy got off the stage and the video started.
A door opens inside a creepy house. In steps in Chuckie, dressed in rather banged up cloth. The door closes, quietly behind him. He looks around, cautiously, looking around. Then he starts to, slowly, walk forward. There's a clap of thunder and a wolf howls.
The music starts.
Chuckie keeps on walking forward as there's a huge gust of wind and a wolf keeps on howling. Chuckie, looking rather scared, turns around and walks backwards. Then he bumps into something. He, slowly, turns around. Suddenly lightning flashed and Gaz is revealed, dressed in her usual outfit. Chuckie falls, backwards, to the ground and moves himself back.
Gaz smirks as she walks up to him. Chuckie gets up and bolts for the door. But Gaz, somehow, appears in front of him and he falls down, again, in fright. More wolves howl.
Chuckie looks terrified at Gaz, who just smirks.
Gaz holds her arm out to a clock that read midnight. "It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark" she sung as she started to make a sneaking motion towards Chuckie, who got up and ran the opposite direction. But he, somehow, runs right into her again. Gaz holds him in front of her as the moonlight shines on through a window on them. "Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart"
Gaz lets him go of Chuckie and he, slowly, backs up. He tries to sceam, but nothing comes out. "You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it" Gaz sung. Chuckie started to run, but he froze in place after just a few steps. "You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes, You're paralyzed!"
Just then Zomibes appeared, out of no where, around Chuckie and joined in Gaz. "'Cause this is thriller, thriller night And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike You know it's thriller, thriller night You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!"
Chuckie snapped out of his frozen state and saw a open door. He ran, pushing the zombies out of his way, and made it through. "You hear the door slam " the door slams behind him. "and realize there's nowhere left to run" Chuckie sees it's a dead end.
"You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun." A cold wind blows at Chuckie. Then he covers his eyes. "You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination." Just then Gaz came up behind him. "But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind...You're out of time!" Chuckie removes his hands and sees her and he jumps through a window.
Gaz just stood there and held her arms up. "'Cause this is thriller, thriller night There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes" Chuckie ran through a cemetary and ran into a creature with 40 eyes and he bolted away.
"You know it's thriller, thriller night You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!" Chuckie continued to run but he fell to the ground.
Zombies started to come out of the ground. "Night creatures call And the dead start to walk in their masquerade" One tried to grab Chuckie, but he kicks it away. Gaz is in front of them. "There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time (they're open wide) This is the end of your life"
Chuckie ran away, but he, again, ran into Gaz. Gaz held him in front of her and started to do some wacky hand movements accross his face. "They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side"
Chuckie ran away, but a while ghost goes, litterally, into him and he freezes. "They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial" He did a cartwheel and then the ghost flew out. Chuckie continued to run.
Gaz appeared in front of Chuckie again and smiled as rain started to pour. "Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together All thru the night I'll save you from the terrors on the screen..." She grabs him, turns him around, and points to a huge tomb that read The Thriller. "I'll make you see"
Then she turned him around and pushes him to the ground. "That it's a thriller, thriller night" Chuckie started to run away, but is surrounded.
Gaz comes up to Chuckie and starts to hug him. Chuckie tried to get away, but Gaz wouldn't let him. 'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare to try Man!, this is thriller, thriller night So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller, chiller,Thriller here tonight!" She turns him back to the tomb. Chuckie looks in awe at it. Gaz lets him go and moves away as she joins the zombies.
The Tomb opens in in walks Kimi, dressed in a black, dark, vampireish outfit and her face was dead white.
Gaz and the zombies start to continue their music quietly as Chuckie stares at the approaching Kimi.
Kimi puts her arms out to the moon. "Darkness falls across the land...The midnite hour is close at hand!"
Kimi then points towards Gaz and the others, who were heading towards the town. "Creatures crawl in search of blood...To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood"
Chuckie watches as they headed towards his town, he has a horrid look on his face. Kimi then put her arm on him. "And whosoever shall be found...Without the soul for getting down...Must stand and face the hounds of hell..." She points to a pair of dogs that looks rotted. Then she turned Chuckie towards a corpse. "And rot inside a corpse's shell!"
Chuckie ran away from her, but Gaz and the others surrounded him again. A green fog comes accross the area, Chuckie covers his nose. Kimi approaches him. "The foulest stench is in the air...The funk of forty thousand years..." Skeletons start to come out of the ground and tombs. "And grizzly ghouls from every tomb...Are closing in to seal your doom..."
Chuckie is soon surrounded with, absolutly, no way out. He looks like he's going to fight them. "And though you fight to stay alive..." Kimi smirks as she approaches him. Chuckie starts to get the chills. "Your body starts to shiver..." Chuckie looks up at her, as Gaz approches him too. "For no mere mortal can resist...The evil of...the thriller" Kimi starts to cackle very evilishly as a close up on Chuckies terrified face and the video and music fades.
Once the music video is over, everyone applauded. They loved the music video. The crowd gets up and either leaves, talks and/or congratulated the autors, and whatnot. Most people crowded around Gaz, some saying that they enjoyed her singing. Tommy pushed his way towards to help her out.
"Okay, folks! Move away. Give Ms. Membrane some air! After all, even celebrities want to get away from their fans on their first day!" said Tommy as he helps Gaz get away from her fans.
As Tommy and Gaz leaves, Kimi sees them and looks somewhat suspicious.
"Strange. Why did they leave together? Well, maybe Tommy wanted to congratulated Gaz or something. I mean, they are friends and there's nothing I should worry about." Kimi then remembers Angelica's accusation towards Tommy and Gaz. "But...what if Angelica was right? No. Tommy loves me. Yet...what if...I better followed just to check." Kimi said.
Kimi, remembering her way through the theater since she works there, leaves through a door out of the theater.
"You did well tonight, Gaz." Tommy said with a smile.
"Thanks." Gaz said smiling back. "So, uh, shouldn't you tell Kimi the truth?"
"That's what I wanted to tell you about. You see, I need your help about how to tell Kimi."
Unknown to Tommy and Gaz, Kimi is following Tommy through ways only she (being an employee) knows. He knows how to spy on people sneaking in food, not paying their tickets, etc. very well. She looks suspicious about what Tommy said.
'Truth? About what?' Kimi thought.
Tommy and Gaz walks away, discussing quietly. So quiet that Kimi couldn't hear. She decides to continued following in secret, though Tommy and Gaz are ahead now and Kimi having trouble keeping up.
"Tommy, you soften her up with the date, you should tell her. What's the problem?" Gaz asked, continuing the conversation.
"The problem is, once I do tell her, she is probably going to go into the "who do you choose" thing. I mean, I love her, but I love you as well. One girl afterwards is whom I wanted to stay the rest of my life with." Tommy explains.
"Well, I couldn't forced you to choose. Like Grandpa said, you should look into your heart to find the one you want." Gaz said.
"You're right. Once I tell Kimi when we're alone, I should think hard about who I wanted to be with." Tommy hugs Gaz. "Thanks for helping me out."
"Hey, you helped me out with being pals with the locals including you, I owe you one. Now my debt is paid." Gaz said with a smile.
Both her and Tommy laughed a bit. Then they looked at each other, in that trance again. They leaned forward closer and closer. Soon their lips met and they kissed.
Kimi, however, chose that time to appeared and she gasped as she saw what's going on. The boy she loves kissing a girl she no longer has suspicions about!
Kimi couldn't take it. She begins to cry a big loud cry. Tommy and Gaz stop kissing long enough to see her run away.
"Kimi!" Tommy gasped in horror, letting go of Gaz in an attempt to follow Kimi. But Kimi was out of the theater before he could get a chance to catch her. "Oh man! I knew I should have told her sooner!"
Tommy looked at Gaz sadly who just looked at her feet.
Outside, Kimi runs out of the theater with tears in her eyes. She finally stops running when she's alone in an alley. She sits down slowly and cried to herself.
"Oh, how could I be so stupid?! Tommy pretended to date me just so I wouldn't expected the truth! But now, what Angelica said was true. He was cheating on me with...with her!" Kimi looks up, an angry look on her face. "That no good Goth! She took Tommy away from me! She already did it the first time they met! Well, no one takes my boyfriend away from me and gets away with it! Gaz Membrane is a dead woman."