The Way It Should Be

Chapter Fouteen

Its been two months since I joined the Cirque and left my family and friends. I miss them but I can live. I've been texting Steve every Saturday, giving him a report on everything happening at the Cirque. Speaking of which today is Saturday and I still haven't texted him.

Evra and I have become great freinds over the months, we acre have quite a bit in common - other than the obvious snake obsession - we talked about our old lives a bit as well.

He was abandoned by his parents and was used to be a part of a real freak show, the kind Mr. Dalton told me about, he was abused and laughed at, until Mr. Tall came and saved him. It must have really Sucked, how sad would it be to be abandoned?

We have our tents and vans set up near a little stream and near these people that are all about nature or whatever the crap that is about. We are low on preformers so we're just resting for now. Its quite fun being in the Cirque, away from people that know my true self - still texting Steve of course - away from people that tease me for being different.

My act that I do on stage is lame but I'm new what do you expect, I'm not gonna be this big bad Wolf-Girl like people expect.

I got some wolves to make my act look more real.

Evra goes on stage with my snake along with his, because it makes sense for a snake to be with a snake.

Any way this is my act.

*going to the past*

"Hello, I am Alicia Woods, but you probably know me as the Wolf-Girl. I know based on the Wolf-Man you think I'll be all big and bad and roar. But no, I have abilities of wolves. Like I can eat raw meat, I can stay in the cold for long periods of time, and I can run far and faster than any human." Some women will bring out a table filled with raw rotting meat. "Now, I'll demonstrate my wolf like abilities." I would say smiling showing my sharp teeth, I would bite into a few chucks if wood or something hard like that and then I will then start eating, when I finish I will smile again and then howl. I would then run around a bit then face the crowd. My face would go all serious and I would freak out people.

I would growl then pretend to lunge at them and make a lot jump from their seats and scream. I would stop pretending and start laughing.

"I'm sorry, that was funny." I would say. After that I'll do some other things.

*Present time*

"Hey Evra, how long do you think we'll have to stay here?" I ask.

"I don't know, maybe a couple days, like usual." Evra, the Snake-Boy, answers.

"Yeah but are we gonna preform?"

"Probably not, we don't have enough preformers so we can't really."

"Makes sense. Well we better do our chores."

"Yeah."

So we do our chores, which is just some things like wash the Wolf-Man - which is calm around me since I'm part wolf - hunt for some food, and clean some clothes.

When we finish all our chores we go back to our van and take a quick nap - or Evra does and I text Steve.

"Hey." I text.

"Yo anything exciting happen this week?"

"Nahhh we are just taking a rest since we're low on performers right now oh right there is a rumor going around that a preformer is coming later today, he must be Larten coming back to the show."

"You think so?"

"Yeah it has to be, though no rumor has said who he actually was."

We text a bit longer - actually hours. When we're finally done I leave the van and

Its night, maybe midnight-ish.

My wolves are always tied up by ropes in front of our van to make sure they don't run off. I untie them and we go off hunting, grabbing some rabbits, foxes, mice, so on and so forth.

I bring a bag to put some meat in as a snack for the wolves later, though I don't know why I bother they never leave enough for me to actually put in the old bag!

One of my wolves has a large scar on its side with no fur on that area, I named Scar.

Another is a girl, nothing super special, just a girl. Her name is Penelope or Pen, because I miss Penelope back at home, though she made fun of me a lot.

Lastly is a little pup, a girl pup at that, she.. Doesn't have a name, I can't think of one. I asked Evra for some help but he said its my wolf I must find a name for it.

I call it No Name for now.

Scar is eating an old fox carcass.

"That's nastly!" I say giggling a little.

Pen starts growling and I look over to her and start smelling the air, I smell nothing strange.

Scar starts growling.

I grab No Name and hold her in my arms.

Pen and Scar start running back to the Cirque and I follow dropping the bag.

When we get there nothing is out of the ordinary.

I look around a little.

"What is it?" I ask smelling the air again only to smell the delicious aroma of stew. "What the soup? Is that what you want?"

They growl again and go to Evra and I's van. Pen starts scratching at the door. I open the door and see Evra is gone, the snakes are sleeping.

I put No Name down.

Pen grabs the snake Darren gave me, that I decided to bring to the Cirque.

"Hey put that down!" I yell.

Pen goes running out the door and I chase after her.

"Give it back!! Pen!!" I yell. "Pen give that back its important to me!!!"

She stops at the camp fire area that we always have set up, that's where we cook, once again, we are old fashioned here and don't really use stoves.

I pull the plush from her jaw and look up to see Evra and.. Him sitting on a log.

Darren.. Darren Shan.