Duo's Afraid of clowns.



I've always been afraid of clowns. I know it's silly, but I can't help it. I don't think clowns are funny. I think they are scary. I know how my fear started. I can remember like it was yesterday. it was Heero's third birthday party. All my friends were there. Heero had Trowa's father as a clown at his party. At first the clown did magic tricks. Later he started squirting us in the face with a bid water gun. Wufie and Quatre laugh, I didn't find that funny.

I still remember the clown's painted smile and his fire red hair. But what I remember the most were the clown's eyes when he came up close to me. He didn't have those happy eyes. His eyes weren't very kind. Beneath all that white makeup his eyes were cruel. The clown smashed a pie into Heero's face. Trowa, Wufie, and Quatre laughed. But did not. And before I knew it, the clown came right up to me. He backed me into a corner, bumping me with his pillow belly. The others forgot about Heero and began laughing at the way the clown was bumping me against the wall. But I was really frightened. "What's your name?" the clown asked in a very deep, croaky voice. "Duo," I said. Then the clown leaned really close to me, so close I could smell his sour breath. And he whispered, "you ready to die, kid."

I remember it so clearly, even through I was only three. I gasped "What?" I said. And the clown whispered, it again his lips brushing my ear, "I said are you ready to die!"

I was terrified of clowns from that day on. If I saw on at the mall or in front of a car wash or restaurant, I walked a mile out of my way to stay away from him. Nine years later I was twelve years old and I still dreamed about that terrifying clown at Heero's birthday party. I know it's crazy. But clowns still freaked me out, still made my heart pound and my breath catch in my throat.

At the middle school fall carnival I totally lost it. I didn't want to go in the 1st place. I mean, Ring toss games? Win a goldfish? Pay money to bounce on a trampoline? BOR-RING.

But some of my friends were going and I didn't have any thing better to do. So I tagged along little did I know there would be a clown there too. Whaen I saw him all the way across the gym. He was a big clown, floppy yellow slippers, a bouncing pillow belly, and a booming laugh.