"Hey come on!" I shouted to my best friend, Katie, she was still walking out of the bus.
"Okay, okay! Where do you wanna go first?"
"I dunno, but you were so eyeing up that bus driver!"
"Me! You were, you're always going for the older men!"
"Men! I'm 15!"
"Ah-hum! Crepsley!" She reminded me.
"Ah, yes. That orange haired vampire gets me every time. I read the scene when he dies yesterday, still cried."
"OMG! Again! You whimp!"
I opened my eyes, and laughed an evil laugh. Then I ran after her.
The chase was on.
She ran round a corner and nearly into a old woman, but dodged her quickly. I kept on after her, but then she turned around and started chasing me. She was fast, fasted in our year. I had no chance, I had to use my knowledge of the area to get away. I ran out of the town centre and into the part of town that was classed as the scary side. I ran through small deserted roads and saw a long road, glancing back I noticed that Katie was behind me, looking around for me. I ran down the long road and saw a alley way that had been boarded up. I soon realised it wasn't an alley way at all, it was an entrance to somewhere that had closed long ago. I climbed through the small hole, and saw it was like a small room, only because it had a plastic roof and a wall at the other side too. On the other side there was a man with what looked like a red dress on. When he heard me come in he turned around and saw something I thought I would never see but always hoped I would.
The dress I thought I saw from the back was in fact a long coat with a high collar and sleeves. He had the coat done up so I couldn't see what he was wearing underneath, but I did she a black shirt and a white tie. He had black tailored trousers on and black dress shoes.
But that wasn't what I noticed first.
He had startling orange hair, but strangely brown eyebrows.
And he had a long scar on the left side of his face.
I knew who he was.
I walked over to him a said,
"Show me your hands." He looked confused.
He breathed in and went to breathe in my face to knock me out.
I put my hand over his mouth to stop him from doing it.
With my other hand I grabbed his, the first thing I saw was the longer, sharper finger nails. I turned his hand over and saw little scars over the top of his fingertips.
"Are you Larten Crepsley?" I asked him.
"No, my name is Vur-" I cut him off.
"Horston? Vur Horston?"
"Fine, I am Larten Crepsley. What of it?"
I ran my hands over my face, looked towards the opening of the tiny room, then looked back to check he was real.
"Are you a vam-" This time he cut me off.
"Shut up, someone will hear you." He muttered sinisterly. I could almost see why Darren was so scared of him.
I quickly pulled my phone out and took a picture of him. He was stunned, but he didn't look scared stunned he looked confused stunned.
"Why are you here?" I asked him.
"Why are you here?" He asked me.
"Don't answer my question with another question! Why are you here?"
I had some theories, maybe he was hiding from the police, or the sun, or the most probable one he was just selling Cirque du freak tickets.
"I am selling tickets."
"To the Cirque du freak?"
"Yes. Now how do you know all of this?"
"I read a lot. Anyway, I want a ticket. No, two tickets." Katie would never forgive me if I didn't get one for her.
"You are underage."
"So was Darren!"
"Who is Darren?" He asked, I guess I was a little ahead with this.
"Doesn't matter,I don't care about my age. It's not like I'm innocent or anything!"
"Who is your plus two?"
"My best friend, Katie."
"Does she know who I am?"
I nodded.
"Do you both know what the Cirque is? The acts? What happens during the show?"
"Yes, I know more than her about it though."
"Fine, but I'm not doing it for free. The tickets cost-"
"£15?"
"Yes."
I fished around in my bag, which said bite me, and found my purse, that was in the shape of lips and fangs. I heard him make a 'tut' noise when he saw them.
I pulled out £30. Katie could pay me back when she found me.
He handed me two tickets.
"The time and place is listed in the tickets."
"Thank you. I best be going."
"Wait. That wasn't the only price. I want you to assist me in my act."
"With Madame Octa?"
"Yes." He said, still confused.
"Fine."
"Oh and what is your name? Since you know mine."
"Kelsey, Kelsey Sails." I knew this would freak him out. It freaked me out when I read the books.
"Your last name is Sails?"He asked.
"Yes, I'm not making it up, I'm serious." He looked shocked, and kind of sad. But I knew she was still alive, if life was the same as the books.
"You may go now."
I turned to leave, when I remembered something. It was a way to check if life was the same as in the books.
I opened my jumpers zip to expose my t-shirt.
"Quicksilver." I said and pointed to the brand on the top.
His eyes widened, and as I walked out I said quietly,
"Fastest hands in the world."
It was! I was so happy! As I left I knew that he was confused and a little bit scared at how I knew all these things about him.
Then, Katie spotted me. She jumped on my and sent me to the floor.
She was always trying to fight me, not in a bad way, but play fighting.
She pulled back a hand to punch me in the shoulder, but before she could I grabbed it pushed her off me stood up and twisted it round so she couldn't move without hurting herself.
"Seriously? You tried that in the middle of a street where anybody could see?"
"I thought I could catch you off guard! I did for a little bit!"
"Guess what." I said.
"What?"
I gave her one of the tickets.
"Did you make this?" She asked, referring to my fan-art.
"Nope, Crepsley gave me it."
"You have lost it. This obsession has gone on too long. Your mum was right!" As she was telling me off, I got my phone out and showed her the picture of him.
"Is that him?"
I nodded.
"I might have just been a costume." Katie said, trying to make out that I was wrong.
"Nope, he freaked out when I told him my name, and when I said about my t-shirt. You know, Quicksilver?"
"Quicksilver?" She obviously hadn't listened during my fan girl speeches about him, then again they were quite long.
I knew that if I just told her, she would think I was lying.
I rummaged around in my bag and found the 'Ocean of Blood' book. I showed her the blurb and the first page, to prove about Quicksilver.
"Wait, he can't read. So how could he know what was on your top?"
Good point. But then I remembered something,
"He does sign for things, so maybe he learnt to write and then read Quicksilver."
"I still don't believe you." She said, but held onto her ticket.
I pulled her into the little alley way room, but no-one was in there.
I walked over to the other side, knelt down and picked up a hair.
It was orange, and it was his.
I showed it to Katie, but she wasn't convinced.
"Then we will just have to go to the Cirque then. It says it's at midnight. At that theatre that shut down like 3 months ago."
"Fine. But how do we get out of the house?"
"We say we are going to the movies, they can drop us off there and we can walk to the theatre that is a couple of streets over."
"Okay then. Will your parents let you?"
"Will you stop called them that? They're not my parents, don't you remember?"
"Of course I do."
I should explain, I was adopted. That's one of the reasons I was so shocked that Crepsley exists. What is Arra Sails did too? Could she lead me to my parents? Or was our names just a coincident?
We walked around town talking about that, but we mostly hung around outside the theatre, listening for movement and watching through the windows. Katie said we should put our tickets on the glass to show that we weren't press or anything bad.
Then we saw someone approach the window.
He had scales.
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