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"I want to be in the circus when I grow up! That looked so fun!" Julie exclaimed.

"I don't think so- what if you fell?" Natalie said watching her daughters face turn grim.

"Your right! That would be scary! Never mind!" Julie exclaimed.

Then Rick the Ringmaster came back out and said "Lets give another round of applause to our traipse team!" The audience burst it to applause again. The traipse artist took another bow and went back stage.

After the clapping died down Rick said, "Now I want to introduce you to Christina Havlo, our very own tightrope walker!"

Then a spot light went over to Christina up on the tightrope platform. The audience started to applauded for her but then the band struck up a cheerful tune and the act started. She walked the tightrope back and forth.

The audience gasped in fear that she would fall but they were also really enjoying the risk of it all. Once she was safely on the platform everyone started to clap and whistle. Then Rick said "That's not all, come on Christina… show us what you got!"

She happily nodded and grabbed some balls and started to juggle them. Then she stepped on the line and walked back and forth. Each time she got to a platform she did something different. The audience seemed to be holding there breath each time she stepped back out on the tightrope.

After balancing a stick on her nose, juggling, hula hopping, and riding a unicycle across it Rick stepped back out and announced "Now it is time for her ultimate trick- She is going to walk across it blindfolded. No problem right? Take down the net boys!" and then the net fell.

Then Christina tied the blindfold around her eyes as the audience started to cheer.

"Mom! Now if she falls, she will… fall!" Julie said horrified.

"Oh- don't worry! She has done this a million times." Natalie explained trying to comfort Julie. But inside she was worried too. The suspense was killing her. Even she was starting to enjoy the circus.

The band started playing a new song, one to match the mood that was going through the audience. It was sort of a song that made you feel uneasy. Brandon played this song every time she did this but this time, for the first time in a while, the song was making him sweat too.

If Brandon was nervous before, he didn't know how to explain what was going through him now. Did he really want to pull through with this. Yes, he did. He thought he was going to puke. It was his time to act and he was not going to back out of it. He just took a deep breath and kept on conducting.

Christina stepped off of the platform and on the tightrope. She stood there for a second and then started walking slowly. Christina faked that she was having a hard time. She started to wobble, and pretend like she was about to fall just to here the audience gasp. She loved her job.

Over all she was doing pretty good. Since she had done it a million times before she did not expect anything to go differently. But she was dead wrong.

Then Christina herd the song about to come to a end. She walked a few more baby steps thinking that she was nearing the platform, but in reality she was just a little past the middle.

Brandon looked up at where Christina was on the tightrope and decided it was time to end the song, to end Christina. He conducted to the band to end the song. The band played its final note. Then there was silence.

Christina took her cue and stepped off the tightrope and to her horror, she started falling. Christina was to terrified to scream. "How could have this happened?" She thought as she neared the ground. Then with a sickening thud, everything went black.

The audience gasped and some screamed. They all stood up when she started falling just to watch and to see what happened, to see if she would be saved. Nobody liked what they saw, Brandon was even a little sickened by what he just did.

Natalie quickly covered Julie's eyes, but the worst had already happened. She hardly believed what she saw was real. Her mind was racing as she watched the paramedics and some others rush up to see if she lived.

Then the circus manager took up the microphone and said "Please, if you would exit to your right in a orderly fashion, front row first and so on. We are very sorry you had to see that and it has never happened before."

He then put down the microphone. and turned to see what the paramedics word on it was. The nearest doctor looked up with a grim face and he and shook his head. Brandon mentally patted himself on the back. His job here was finished. His life would finally be normal and circus free because Christina Havlo was dead.

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After Adrian cleaned all the windows in his house, swept, and vacuumed he sat down to have some lunch. He put some chicken noodle soup on the stove and turned on the television.

Fox News was rambling on about something that didn't involve him what so ever so he was only half listening when they said "This just in. Just ten minutes ago Bart's and Kimberly's circus suffered a major crisis."

Something clicked in Adrian mind and he remembered that that is where Natalie and Julie were. He whirled around to the television and listened more intensely. "Christina Havlo, the tight rope walker took a dramatic fall to her death. The act was that she walked it blindfolded with no net. Sadly the audience there saw everything…" that's when the phone rang. Adrian predicted who it was a grabbed the phone quickly.

"Hello?" Adrian asked in to the phone.

"Oh my God, Adrian, we were watching the tightrope act and then-" Natalie was cut off.

"I know, I know. I watched the news. Are you two okay?" Adrian asked.

"I guess." She sighed. "Adrian, I think you should look in to this." Natalie stated slowly.

"Why? There is no mystery, she fell." He replied half laughing.

"No, I mean, when she fell it seemed like she was stepping off, like she thought the platform was there." Natalie said.

"If anything she might have committed suicide." Adrian said shrugging.

"Come on, think about the chances of that. I have been thinking about this for a while. I think that someone tampered with the rope or put sleeping gas on the blindfold or- I don't know! Can you just please come down here?" she asked in a depressed voice.

Adrian sighed. "I- um- can't. I can't drive! Also I have noodles going on the stove." Adrian simply stated but he was starting to run out of excuses.

"I will be there in five minutes. Thanks Adrian!" Natalie said quickly.

"But- Natalie! There is no point! The police will take care of it! Natalie? Natalie?" then he heard the dial tone. He sighed as he hung up. He didn't have a choice, it seemed he had to investigate it for Natalie.

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TBC…

Okay there is a long history behind this story. Well sorta. One day in the car my dad said "You guys want to solve a riddle?" We said yes.

"Okay, here it is… When the music stopped she died." We could only ask yes or no questions and have three major clues.

After two hours of this we were stumped he told us that she was a tightrope walker and her husband was wanting to get rid of her and so he planned it with her when he stopped the music and she stepped off. I thought it would be great applied to Monk!

Thanks for reviewing bringirl! Sorry if this chapter is a little short. I have a whole bunch of other riddles like that too and if you want me to I will post them. It is fun. Please Review!