The Circus of Nightmares

The Circus of Nightmares: Chapter One

Jessica Anne Latham
Friday December 29th, 2015

It was a cold and freezing early morning as Jessica was sleeping in bed bundled in her nice, big and heavy blanket that was covered in very soft teal fur on the outside and on the inside was normal silk material that was also a teal color. As she slept her phone lit up on the nightstand next to her bed that she would use as her alarm for school and would go off at 5:00 a.m. every morning of every school day.

She groaned and felt her hand around on the nightstand for her phone until she finally found it and grabbed it lifting her head up to look at it and saw it was currently 5:01 and she sighed turning her alarm off and laid her head back on her pillow. She let's out an exhausted breath, but eventually sat up slowly and was sitting on the edge of her bed and stretched as she groaned and soon let out a loud and heavy yawn.

She finally made the decision to stand and walk over to the clothes she had sitting out on her dresser as she rubbed one of her eyes getting rid of the slight blurriness in it. She began to undress from her night clothes as she grabbed her white and pale blue denim jeans that had a hole in the left shin, her right knee, her lower left thigh and her middle right thigh. She pulled them up and buttoned up the four buttons since they were waist high. She then grabbed the black crop top that had a loose stitching pattern on the outside of the sleeves that fell off her shoulders and clung to her arms.

She soon walked over to her door and opened it now walking through the hall and into her bathroom where she pulled open a drawer and pulled out her green and black hair brush. She looked in the mirror and sighed in annoyance at the rats nest of hair she had to brush through every morning. She started to brush through it untangling all the knots and straightening it out to it's natural length and style. She looked in the mirror and saw she got the knots out all the way and was now looking at her naturally straight and auburn hair.

Once she was done in the bathroom, she walked back to her room and took a pair of socks out from her drawer and slipped them on sitting on her bed. She then took out her black converse and put those on tying the laces and finally standing and checking her outfit in the mirror.

She smiled seeing it to be alright and she went back to her bathroom and went in a drawer under the sink again, grabbing out a small make up bag and just took out her liquid eyeliner. She opened it and looked in the mirror and was being as careful as she could to make the wings perfect and even, otherwise it would bother her for the rest of the day.

It took her a few tries, but she eventually got it perfect and even and she smiled as she looked at it in the mirror. She then put the eyeliner back into her bag and took out mascara and untwisted the lid and took the brush wiping it on the top of the little tube part and took some of the extra liquid off and then looked in the mirror and applied the mascara to her eyelashes. When she was finished she put it in the bag after checking it in the mirror and she put the bag away.

She walked into her room and looked around for her jacket since she set it somewhere and soon found it hanging on her closet door and she grabbed it then walked over to her nightstand and grabbed her phone. She walked out of her room closing her door then closing the bathroom door as she passed it and she headed downstairs. When she got downstairs she slipped her jacket on and then checked her phone and saw she had a text message from her friend Jennifer. She sighed as she smiled at her over protective friend and she opened her front door and when she did, she was met with a man dressed in a dark maroon suit and had a top hat on his head and he was a bit taller then herself.

She looked at him skeptically, "May I help you?" She asked as she looked at this strange man. He smiled and put the top hat on his chest, "Quite the opposite my dear, can you help me?" He asked with much enthusiasm and she raised a brow, "With what?" He then pulled out a ticket and held it in front of her. She looked at the ticket then him and took the ticket in hand and observed it, "I would like you to come to the circus I am having down the road from here. I'm sure it will be a thrill like any other." He said in a tone that seemed very strange to her.