Emotionless Red

Chapter 2

Red Pov:

I headed back to the circus after hanging the posters up. I had this weird feeling that someone was watching me but I didn't really care, even if there was someone watching me.

As I arrived at the tent of the circus a drunken Cosimo came out and looked at me before grabbing my hair and shouting something at me. But I didn't listen to what he was saying until he threw me to the ground. Cosimo then started to kick me in the side of the ribs and then he stopped and walked away, leaving me lying on the ground.

I tried to lift myself off the ground but ended up falling back on the ground again, wincing in pain. I grudgingly forced myself up off the ground and limped back to where I would spend most of my time. That time was spent near a twisted dead tree. I sat at the base of the tree resting from my beating.

An hour passed and I was still sitting at the base of the tree looking at the sky. The sky had turned a crimson red from the sunset. When the sun had set I walked back to the tent and saw the ringmaster talking to a man.

The man had brown hair and a white dog with him. The ringmaster hardly acknowledged me before he started to yell at me to go give everyone their meals.

I limped past them and went to go do my job. I gave Cosimo his food and then he punched me really hard in the stomach as a 'thank you for giving me my food brat'. I just grabbed my stomach and walked out.

The next day I was sent to clear a path so that the costumers didn't track snow in to the tent. So they gave the job to the handicap person so they didn't have to get off their fat ass to do it.

I had cleared one of the entrances after a gruelling, cold hour and moved to the next one. As I was shovelling one of the entrances the white dog that was with the man ran up to me, barking. I looked at the dog and saw the man trying to catch it.

The man stopped in front of the dog and picked it up. He smiled at me before saying in a cheerful voice "What's your name boy?"

He also stretched out his hand for me to shake but he had raised his left hand and I can't move my left hand so I just answer his question in a flat tone.

"My name? I don't have one but you can call me Red"

The man nodded and introduced himself. He said his name was Mana and the little dog was Allen.

Mana walked away with his dog in his hands and I continued shovelling the snow out of the entrance.

After that I went for a walk down the streets and walked past a cart that had bread on it. I snuck up to it and stole a loaf of bread, without being caught may I add, and walked in to an alley way. I sat down in the alley way and ate the bread.

When I finished the bread I noticed that someone was looking at me in the alley way. So I was right, I was being watched. I got up and turned to who it was.

"Hello" the person said in a cheerful voice.