The Bold and the Beautiful has always known how to break hearts — but no one could have predicted the soul-shattering events that unfolded at the art school when Hayes Forrester, the youngest light in Steffy and Finn’s lives, was tragically gunned down by Luna in a horrifying moment of madness.

It all started with chaos: Sheila Carter, forever a symbol of danger, took Steffy and Dylan hostage, creating a powder keg of fear and desperation. While the villainess held them at gunpoint, Luna — increasingly unstable and terrified — was swept up in the terror. Her descent into panic was rapid and chilling. But nothing could prepare viewers for the unthinkable.

Hayes innocently entered the scene, unaware he was walking into a living nightmare. Wanting only to speak with his favorite teacher Dylan, the young boy instead encountered his mother bound and gagged, his mentor powerless, and a madwoman armed and volatile. He fled, instinctively — but Luna, completely unhinged, chased him, and in a catastrophic moment, pulled the trigger.

The bullet tore through the hallway and struck Hayes in the back. In an instant, the Forrester family’s world came crashing down.

Steffy’s scream was a gut-punch to viewers. Sheila, normally the orchestrator of disaster, froze in shock. And Luna? She fled — overcome by guilt and terror.

What followed was heartbreak on every level. Finn, working a shift at the hospital, saw his son rushed in on a stretcher, bloodied and lifeless. His devastation quickly turned into a desperate attempt to save Hayes’s life — a moment that will go down in soap history for its intensity and emotional rawness. But it wasn’t enough. Hayes succumbed to his injuries. A child, gone too soon, and a family left in ruins.

Chief Baker launched a city-wide manhunt. Luna became public enemy number one — a villain shaped not by evil, but by emotional collapse. Sheila, meanwhile, experienced an unfamiliar sensation: guilt. Her actions indirectly created the setting for Hayes’s death, and for once, her icy façade began to crack.

As for Steffy and Finn, their grief threatens to pull them apart. Their love, tested time and again, now faces its darkest trial. They cling to each other in the storm of media scrutiny, legal questions, and unbearable sadness.

Dylan, too, is haunted. His classroom, now a crime scene. The community — once vibrant with creativity — is traumatized.

Will Luna be caught? Will justice be served? And will Steffy ever forgive herself for being in that situation, or Finn for not being there?

This is more than just a shocking plot twist. It’s a reckoning. And for the Forrester family, nothing will ever be the same.