"How could you act so foolish on stage?! You are an actress and a singer, not a bloody clown!" Scolded Danielle's dad backstage, Samuel. "I'm not just an actor, father! I'm an entertainer! I need a reaction out of the audience, no matter if it means embarrassing myself! As long as they laugh!" Dani yelled back in her defense. "Do not DARE raise your voice at me, you scrawny little lady! I don't tolerate ANY woman raising their voice at me. Especially my clownish daughter." her father shot back, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt and pressing her against the cold, hard, wall. "Have I made myself clear?!" 

"Y-yes, father... I understand." she responded, tears in her eyes as she finally gave out. "Good. And don't you dare stop smiling!" He said and dropped her, landing on her hands and knees.  She tried her best to keep her smile. Her partner, Leo, suddenly ran backstage seeing her father had left, and helped her up. "Are you ok, Dani?" asked his sweet voice. 

"Leo! Yes, yes I'm ok. How much of that did you see..?" She asked him, quietly and embarrassed. "All of it, it was absolutely absurd... and... sorry for not trying to save you from him." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Oh, don't worry about it. I don't expect you to do such a dangerous thing." She smiled and straightened his bowtie. "He was right, though... I shouldn't have been randomly hitting high notes." she sighed.

"Are you kidding? That was so good! It certainly was entertaining! You made it so much more cheerful, and the crowd loved it!" He said as he grabbed her shoulders. "Yeah, I guess you have a point. Thanks, Leo. I mean it." She smiled at him. "What are you gonna do about your dad?"

Suddenly, Dani's smile widened maliciously. "Oh, don't worry about my father. He won't be here to toss me around like a piece of rubbish much longer." he grumbled. Leo looked confused and rather worried. "Okayyy..." He laughed nervously. "Oh, look at the time! The next song is due to sing any moment now!"

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Dani sat in her room and pet her four cats and one bird. Her mother was sitting on her bed next to her, chatting over tea. "Darling, I am very proud of you. You deal with your father so well, really. But you won't have to worry about him much longer. I'm going to talk to him about your happiness and what he is forcing you to do tonight." Her mother, Christine said.

"Really? Thank you so much, mum. That means a lot, I can't keep coping with this tight schedule for long." Dani said with a sweet smile. Maybe she didn't have to go through with her original plan?

~

Dani waited eagerly in her room as her mum talked to her dad. All the sudden she got a bad gut feeling and her cats started acting paranoid. 

"AAAAAAAAAAAAH! NO, PLEASE! HELP!"

...

Dani jumped up, hearing her mother scream like that. She ran into the living room to see her mother dead on the ground, a knife in her chest. "Mum, no!" She screeched in horror. Her dad who was looking ferociously psychotic suddenly looked terrified. It was because Dani was wielding a chainsaw herself, after seemingly pulling it out of nowhere. "You... killed mom." She was oddly calm. "I-" Bruuuuuuuuuuuuzz!!

"Not another word, father..."