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The lights dimmed,and went off, signifying the end of intermission. His stomach turned, his fingers trembling with fear. Groping around the nearly empty stage, he found his position. Tonight he wasn’t just an actor.Tonight he was on a mission. He almost lost it when he thought of what he must do, what he must prevent, and how it must be done with no one knowing but himself. The light switched on, and glared upon the one he had once trusted, the one who used to be his friend. The one he must stop.They spoke their few lines until the single moment he knew would probably change everything, the one he had to save an innocent person’s life, that would give away the fact that he knew his ex friend’s secret plot to murder an innocent person.With one swift slide of his hand, he quickly switched the real dagger in the pocket of the other man to a fake one, and the security guard finally stepped out and arrested the other man, putting the audience into shock, and saving the life of the one he loved.

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