The spider weaved its way through her fingers, panicking at this sudden turn of events. It had been just minding its own business, climbing its way up the wall when Lila's fingers curled around it.
Lila watched the spider in her palm with fascination as the eight-legged specimen crawled around frantically.
Suddenly the door opened, smacking the wall behind it with so much force the bed itself shook. Lila's older sister Rosalie burst in dramatically with her cell phone wedged between her pudgy cheek and shoulder and her brown hair frizzing up.
She looked at her sister, trying to motion for her to get out of her room without disrupting the conversation. But then she gazed upon the terrified but utterly harmless spider in Lila's hand.
Rosalie let out a bloodcurdling scream, and fled from the room, dropping the phone and the call.
Lila amusedly watched this seventeen year old girl screaming in agony at such a small and harmless creature.
Leaving the little creature as a present for Rosalie under the sheet, she gets up, stretches and walks out of the room to take the laptop back from her younger brother Will.
"Hey Willow, give me the computer." she says, walking into his room.
"Don't call me Willow! It's Will!" he says indignantly. "And in a little bit. I'm watching this video…" he trails off, recaptured by the screen.
Lila sighs and turns to leave when a small ad in the corner of the screen catches her eye.
It has pictures of a magnificent freak show, and reads "Come to Cirque Du Freak. Here this week only. Be amazed by this bizarre freak show! Only 5 dollars at the old cinema theater." Lila looked at it for a moment, before finding what had originally struck her attention, and found the giant spider and the curious-looking man who was commanding it.
She quickly ran into her room and picked up her phone, frantically texting her friends.
She was going.
Tonight.