"ʏᴏᴜ ᴀᴄᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ⵊ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀss ᴏɴ ꜰɪʀᴇ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʀʏ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ."
From her birth, her destiny was set in stone. But, who's to say that destiny can't be changed?
One spring break, in the lonely town of Hawkins, Indiana a circus comes to cure the inha...
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"Since when was I a thing to be rented out?!"
"Soleil, you're just doing a ribbon dance for the school, they wanted to make this year special, spring break is coming up soon. Don't be so dramatic considering the position you're in right now."
Something that has never happened in the very history of Regal Circus. It was the very decision the Ringmaster had just made that would make the most dedicated performers take double takes.
Soleil's father had just delivered her the news that she was going to be performing at the beginning of the championship basketball game for Hawkins High. Since she was already in the hot seat, it'd be next to impossible to escape this. However, what her father was making her do contradicts his values for the Circus. He always wanted these shows to stay in the red and white tent since the beginning of the Circus, these shows were shows of a lifetime for a reason. Now he wanted to do something privately? That was shocking, which is an understatement.
That wasn't the only reason that she didn't want to do this, she had a few. She was overworked from doing so many shows already and practice, it was getting harder to hide her burns, and she didn't want to see some of those guys from the basketball team again, and most of all, she told Eddie she would try and sneak out to watch the end of his D&D campaign unfold now, she wasn't so sure she could anymore. Plus, she was on her period and her cramps felt like she rolled around in piles of glass shards.
Soleil crossed her arms while she stood backstage trying to make her father see reason. Cassandra was to the side of her, not even phased by what she was hearing. "You said yourself that what we do in this tent stays in this tent, our show is one of a kind."
"Things change."
Cassandra gave him an unimpressed look. "You want to cheapen the worth of our show? How much money could that principal even pay you for Soleil's performance? She's tired Everett let her rest besides, you're the one who says she can't use her abilities outside."
He simply ignored both of them. "I said she could use her powers when performing so, so she can use them, I don't even know why I'm explaining this to you but, I promised everyone a bonus, and I have to deliver."
"I can't believe you." For a split second, Sol thought she saw her dad's stern expression crack.
"Cassandra, you know how it is in show business sometimes."
"No, no I don't."
This was so short notice, tomorrow all of a sudden, Sol had to do three shows and a private performance that she had no prep time for. That was it, maybe it was because she was tired, in pain, and overall sick of her father's crap but, she had enough.
"I'm not doing this unless I get to make the dance up, choose the music and my dancers." If she couldn't get out of it, she could bargain. " I want my tapes back and I want Kelly on the bench for the next week."
