FREAK SHOW

Chapter 10: Love and Lust; Giving and Getting

Chapter 10: Love and Lust; Giving and Getting

~" she's just about as pure as they come but she knows how to get down if she really needed to, and oh bet she wants to. she's delicate and sensitive but nothing's gonna break her. she's full of promises but they're made up with the same words as her lies. she doesn't trust a soul no more, she's been used to these goodbyes. she's an undercover model of the devil's work at hand, but she knows she don't believe in it either. she's the most angelic atheist you'll ever lay your eyes on, she's so good she's bad, but you'll never believe it." ~ (unknown)

A couple days had passed by to the last day of November, they moved to some other town away from the marsh, all she knew was that it was a much, much prettier place. Scarlett was not certain where she was in the world but she was certain that snow was to come soon; the air becoming much colder in which she had to wear long-sleeved shirts and loose jeans, occasionally a sweater or jacket. A type of sadness had washed over Scarlett, knowing that she might be half way across the country from her family. She tried to look at the bright side, her new coping mechanism to things, and appreciated the leaves that were falling from the trees. The orange and reds always looked like they were dancing down to the carpet of crunchy leaves. It made her feel at peace, with the cool breeze and the crisp air and the crackling under her feet as she walked to place to place.

"That's the last of it," Charlie said, dropping the last load of fallen leaves into the sizable pile, some of them catching onto the fabric of his black gloves. Scarlett grinned at him and looked over to Nina who was practically shivering with excitement; the child looked even more comical considering the huge red coat she donned and the tiny sliver of her face (only the eyes) exposed due to her hat and the scarf wrapped around her neck, clearly Nia spared no expense to making sure her daughter was warm. The little girl looked like she was in a cocoon.

"Wait let me get my camera out!" Nia called out, before they could move another inch to the leaf pile the three had conjured up. They stood patiently as the woman fumbled for her camera, seemingly old, from the pocket of her coat. Whipping it out and aiming it at them for a picture, she held a thumbs up for them to continue.

"Ok on the count of three," Scarlett began, her arms outstretched in front of Charlie and Nina so they didn't go before time was called, "One....two-"

"For Christ's sake, just jump!" Felicity barked out from the under the tree Nia and her were sitting under. The old woman was more grumpy than ever with an evident cold as her pointed nose was red and the bags under her eyes looked like they grew bags. The coffee in her hands as she sat in her lawnchair didn't seem to help.

Her voice acted like the gun shot starting the race though and the three launched themselves in the air, cannonballing into the heap. The flash of the camera and the loud swoosh of leaves splashing in the air made Scarlett laugh loudly with the other two, even when she felt leaves get into her mouth. The mound was so big that she was completely submerged. Finally swimming and shifting her way to the top, she spit out the leaves, nearly choking on one because of her laughter.

Charlie was up too, most of his upper body exposed because of how tall he was, but what made her giggle even louder was the absolutely confused, as well as endearing, face he wore. "I can't tell if this was a stupid idea," he stated, brushing off leaves from his black coat.

"You have leaves in your hair," she chuckled, moving forward to pick it out of his tousled dark hair. But he did it for himself by shaking his head like a dog and letting them fall out, in which she laughed more. "Where's Nina?" Scarlett asked after her laughing died down, looking around the scattered leaf pile they were adrift in.