The Way It Should Be

Chapter Sixteen

I wake up and wipe my eyes with my fingers.

I look around and see the two other hammocks are empty - to no ones real surprise - I get up and go out of the van.

I untie the wolves and go to the campfire. Evra and Darren were there, along with a bit of other freaks, like Hans Hands and Rhamus Twobellies.

"Hey. Good morning." I say.

"Its three." Evra informs.

"Oh, oops." I smile.

"You're still the same." Darren says.

"Its been two monthes not ten years, of course I'm the same!"

"Fair enough." Darren says.

"Evra, did you show him how to do the chores yet?"

"Yeah, just not washing the Wolf-Man I need you to show him that one." Evra answers

"Ok, come on let's go."

"We wash the Wolf-Man...?" Darren asks worried.

"Don't worry he's calm around Tux."

"Some times." I add.

We go to the Wolf-Man's cage. We grab a large bucket fill it with water and soap.

"Is that even big enough for him? How do you wash him in that?" Darren asks.

I start laughing.

"We don't wash him in the bucket, we don't even take him out of the cage."

"O-Oh."

"You just take the bucket, climb the ladder and dump it. Then we hide behind that large glass wall over there." I point to a large glass wall.

"Why?"

"You'll see." I hand the heavy bucket over to Darren and he almost drops it, I support it a little so he doesn't drop it.

He begins going up the very dangerous ladder and I let go of the bucket. He dumps it on the Wolf-Man then quickly gets down and goes behind the wall with me and Evra.

The Wolf-Man shakes off all the water from his fur.

I go up to his cage afterward.

"Good job." I say. "You did good."

The wolf man starts shaking the bars.

"Come on let's go, he'll be like this for awhile."

We got to the camp fire. Darren and Evra sit on a log, I sit on the ground, Nona sits in my lap and Scar and Pen sit next to me.

"What'd you guys do today?"

"We walked around and I showed him how to do the chores." Evra says.

"That it?"

"Yeah." Darren answers.

"Ughhhh..." I groan rememberibg I need to feed the wolves. "I need to hunt, be back in a couple hours." I stand and the wolves and I go into the forest.

We hunted for awhile. When we hunt we run around and play a lot too. Nona gets in 'fights' with some raccoons but Scar, Pen, and I usually either scare it off or kill it, it being the raccoon.

It starts getting dark so we make our way back to the traveling circus' set up.

When we get there, Evra and Darren are still sitting on the logs.

I sit on the ground near them. I look at Darren.

I didn't notice this when I first saw him, but he is wearing this old dusty and ripped up tuxedo. It was black, or supposed to be. Its probably the one they put on him for his funeral.

Oh yeah I never described what he or anyone else for that matter looks like huh?

Well, Darren has short brown hair and brown eyes, his hair is really dirty, most likely not taking a shower for a few days. He looks exhausted and very pale - maybe from being a vampire or from traveling so much at night with his damned master.

Steve has dyed white hair and brown eyes - since he's the rebel type of person he dyed his hair to bother our teachers. He usually wears - or wore? - sweatshirts and jeans with black sneakers, definitely the rebel type.

Evra, well he's a Snake-Boy, there isn't very many ways to describe a Snake-Boy, he has green scales covering every - visible - part of his body, he wears large baggy tee shirts and baggy shorts with no shoes.

I have long, and I mean LONG hair, its a brown-ish grey color, I wear a white button up shirt, a plaid skirt, knee high socks and sneakers. I am also sort of flat chested... not that that bothers me it anything - only that its does!

"What you staring at?" Darren asks.

"Nothing, just looking at your nasty suit." I look at the fire.

"Well I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to change since I got here yesterday."

"Ha-Ha, go to Madam Truska, she will be more than happy to fit you some clothes." I stand and stretch.

"Truska?" He asks.

"The Bearded-Lady. When she doesn't have her beard she is the most gorgeous person in the world. She is of course still pretty with her beard. She's the one that mainly dresses the performers here."

I hear a bush shake, but only glance at it, I see, for a split second, a boy.

I look at Evra and Darren, they look at me.

I smirk and they do the same. Darren stands and stretches as I sit on the ground again.

"I'm tired, see you guys tomorrow." He says.

"Don't forget to get new clothes tomorrow too."

"Yeah yeah." He says walking away.

I look at the fire.

Only thing we hear is the cracks from the flames on the ground in front of us.

We hear growling and look over at the bushes. The bushes shake a lot more. Evra and I stand.

The growling gets louder. We hear loud breathing too, from the boy in the bush.

Evra and I quickly run to our van, but don't go inside. We stand in front of it, our van is kind of farish from the fire - very much out of sight from the boy.

We make our way to the other side of the van where we could get to the bush.

Darren was the one making the monster noises - trying his hardest to freak out the boy.

Evra takes a branch. I get closer to the boy and the three of us are right behind the unsuspecting guy.

I growl he looks back and we all quickly hide behind a tree or bush.

He looks away then Evra pokes him with the stick he looks again and we hide again.

We all crawl behind him then get to our knees.

We then jump and yell "BOO!!" in unison.

The kid goes running and the three of us chase after him, laughing like crazy.