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Circus Girls

Eli Villegas

I woke up today really early, like at 5 am. I had put my alarm clock under my pillow so I would hear it; yeah, I usually don't do that on Saturdays, but today we have a show and we have to practice. Today's show is pretty long and someone's coming that might want to be the manger of the circus, which could be helpful.

"Despiértense!"(1) I screamed to the girls.

Clarissa, my older sister, only growled and turned around, so I shook her and she woke up, sitting up and growling a bit more. Samantha, my other sister, well, she just stood up. Veronica, my other older sister (she was the closest to my age) threw her pillow at me, but Sam shook her until she woke up. Lilíana (but we all call her Lily), my cousin, she was just kind of like she was taken by surprise and she fell of the top of the berth that she shared with Veronica. Katerine, nicknamed Katt, had just stood up and was right under Lily - poor girl. When she looked up, she yelled until Lily fell on the top of her. I shared a berth with Katerine, and Samantha shared it with Clarissa

"Ouch!" Lily complained.

"Eli!" That's me, I'm a girl, my name is pronounced Eh-lee, I'm not "Eli 'Ee-lay' the boy", I'm Eli the tomboy. By the way, that was Veronica complaining.

"What's happening?" asked the Scottish accents of Will, he was the ringleader of the circus and, for now, the one that took care of the money. "Why do you….?" He was cut off in the middle of his question which was answered as he saw Kat and Lily on the floor.

"Well get up, go have breakfast and go to practice," he said and we all got up and passed his side, and Will messed up everybody's hair. He was like our father now.

We had lost ours when we were little. Sam, Lissa, Vi and I – our parents were on a plane and it crashed. We lived with our Abuela (2) until three years ago when she died. Before that, we moved to a city called Seattle from Venezuela.

Everyone took a bowl of cereal and sat down at the kitchen table to eat.

"Hola," Luis Alberto, our best friend greeted us. He was from Dominican Republic, he was tall with tan skin just like mine and Samantha's, light brown hair like Kat's and chocolate eyes like Lily's, Lissa's and Samantha's.

"Hola!" We all said at the same time.

"Hi, girls," said Avril, she was from Australia. Tall with black straight hair - very beautiful, but not as beautiful as Samantha's black wavy hair. She had the most beautiful hair in my opinion and my other cousins, my sister's and Luis's opinion. In a nutshell, that was EVERYBODY'S opinion. Avril had pale skin and green eyes, she was very beautiful. She was 23, just 3 years younger than Will, who by the way was her boyfriend; she was like the mother figure. We lost our mother too at the plane crash.

"Hi, Avril," we all said.

"Hey, Mike!" I greeted him as he got in the room. He was short but taller that me, actually everybody is taller than me (it's not that hard), he had blond hair like Will and brown almost green eyes like Kat's, and a not so tanned skin, like Veronica's. He was from New York, and was twenty-five years old.

After breakfast, we all go into our rooms and went to change to our practice clothes. I was the Diabolo Girl, the fire eater and one of the guitars in our band Natural Disaster.

Samantha, she was on the trapezes and was something of a mime. She would pick someone of the crowd and do exactly the same things that he or she would do, and the other guitar of the band.

Lissa, she was the acrobat, and she would tell stories, usually scary ones and they really scared your socks off, she was good at it. She was also the piano and vocals of the band.

Lily, she was the girl that you know - hanged from some pieces of fabric. Also, a clown with violin, and the bass guitar of the band. She was good with music.

Katt, she was the one that walked in the high wire, and was a clown with a paper knife – dum dum DUUUUMMMMMM – sorry. Most of the times she died tragically at the end of the show - stabbing herself accidentally with the paper knife; she liked blood and gore and she was the vocals of the band and guitar of the band.

Veronica (also known as Vi), she was the one in the German Wheels, and would do Karate stunts. She was a black belt at 11 years old and she's really good at it, and she was the drums of the band.

It was a miracle that we could do all of this considering how clumsy we are. We are like the clumsiest persons on the world, yeah, it's on the world - you're not in it, you are on it.

Luis, he was the equilibrist. He would take a lot of stuff, pile it up and climb until Samantha could grab him by the arms from up on her position in the trapezes. He would do the karate stunts with Veronica with her but he would always loose- so tragic.

Avril, she was the dancer and she would dance what ever she liked to dance that day.

Mike, he was the magician and the one in charge of the lights and the stuffs like that.

And Will, he was the ringleader like I told you but when Avril needed a partner he would dance with her.

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We practiced our show. The songs I was using for my routines were Born For This during the Diabolo one and Let The Flames Begin by Paramore to the fire eating.

Samantha's was Hallelujah by Paramore for the trapeze and for the miming was Crush Crush Crush by Paramore.

Lissa's was Misery Business by Paramore for the acrobatics and for the scary stories was Transylvania by McFly, the only song that wasn't by Paramore.

Kat's was That's What You Get by…. Paramore. Who else?

Lily's routine was Whoa by guess who…. Paramore, the song that was for the Clowns show was Pressure by Paramore.

And last but not least Veronica's: Here We Go Again by… I know you already know but it is by Paramore and for the fight stunt Emergency was played, by them too. When we finished practicing, we went for lunch. Lunch is very important.

"Hey, Will do you think that too much people will come tonight?" Katt asked.

"Sure," he said.

"Can you pass me the Pasta?" Samantha asked Mike.

"Here you go," he said, passing her the Pasta. The very important Pasta, it has carbohydrates and cheese.

"Gracias," Samantha thanked politely.

"You're welcome," he answered.

"So, who will be the lucky one that will have Samantha as a mirror tonight?" Lily asked.

"Easy, we will ask the ones with a …. What color will you be dressing in Samantha?" Will asked

"Neon green"

"We'll ask the ones dressed in black to stand up. The one with the craziest look will be told to go to the stage," he explained

Later at something near 6:00 pm o'clock, we were getting ourselves ready for the show. My suit was a strapless shirt with black and tuscan red stripes, leggings made out of the same fabric and you know those gloves that have no fingers? Those too and I was wearing black shorts and tuscan red converse. I looked at myself in the mirror to make my hair, I have black with tuscan red locks - I know, that I wear it too much but it is one of my favorite colors - and curly hair. I have the darkest skin of the circus crew, I had cucaracha(8) brown eyes, as we joke about and you know it actually true, it was almost that exact tone, sorry, getting carried away. I have big eyes and full lips. I put my hair in a pony tail (why is it called pony tail? Can't it be a cat tail or something?!). And got out of the bathroom.

"It's unfair that you have a body like that, I don't!" Veronica complained as she got into that bathroom to get her suit on, I'm the curviest of the girls (besides Lissa) - though I have no boobs, but I usually wear baggy shirts so I rarely show it off.

"Well, it's unfair that Samantha can have that hair and I don't," I replied at her a little loud so she could hear.

So I turned around to see the girls. Clarissa was wearing a pink dress with a cut in the front that looked like a corset with black leggings and pink socks, the sleeves were separated from the dress and were pink too, it was her favorite color.

Samantha was wearing a baby blue dress with a silver ribbon and leggings; the ribbon lace was embracing her body and one of her arms but not her hand. She needed it the least slippery possible because if she trips, she falls and even if there's a net under her, she could ruin the show and make the man that might pay for all the circus costs and he stuff leave or worse she could get herself hurt.

Kat was dressed like buffoon with something that looked like combat boots but where actually perfect to do the high walking and all the possibilities if she fell where the same as all of us.

Lily was wearing a blue skinny shirt and blue leggings. Her hair was hidden under a hat.

Veronica got out of the bathroom, she was wearing a top with half of it and just one arm cream-colored, and the other part was orange. From below that, all the way to her hips it was mustard yellow and the top part of her skirt was cream-colored and the lower part was orange with cream-colored leggings.

"Se ven todas muy bonitas,"(3) Luis said as he entered our room, he was our best friend and we were close enough to tell each other when we looked fine and when we did not.

"Que esperabas?"(4) Clarissa asked sarcastically. We all just laughed.

"Girls, Luis! The show it's about to start!" Avril's voice traversed the door.

We all stared running through the small garden that separated the house and small gym were we trained from the small building were we held the circus show. Samantha ran upstairs with Kat and Lily since there shows were from high above.

"And for the first show," I heard the Scottish accents of Will. "The Germans wheels!" Annoying dramatic music played.

Then we all saw Veronica go into the stage in a wheel as Here We Go Again began playing. Her show was awesome.

"You did it great!" Avril said.

Clarissa and I hugged her and Luis messed her hair.

"Now go and change!" Will ordered as he got on the stage again. "I know you all liked it." I heard the crowd scream in agreement. "Yeah, that's what I thought. And now, I may suggest that if you're afraid of heights but not for yourself but for a boy, close your eyes and welcome our fabulous equilibrists!" He said as Luis walked in.

I could hear the squeals of the people as Luis got higher and higher just putting a chair or a suitcase or stuff like that to get to where Samantha would grab him on the top floor. And then I heard screams as Luis' entire stuff fell, but Samantha lifted him higher with her hands.

"Don't worry he's OK," Will said. "Now for your entertainment, just so you didn't spend your money in vain, our Magic Show." Mike got on the stage and began. His show was impressing; I could hear the claps and yelling of the crowd when his show ended. "Hey girls, I'm sure that you like to see a girl kicking a boy's butt?" I could hear all the girls' screams of approval. "Well then, wait and see if it happens!" He said.

Veronica and Luis got on the stage, their fights were never planned, they would just fight. They've never killed each other. Yet.

Veronica kept protecting herself until Luis began to get tired and so she began to attack, and then…. she defeated him.

"That girl never stops to amaze me," Will said.

"Sorry man," he said, man-hugging Luis. "But sometimes we lose… Anyway, here comes from high above - really it's high, it's something like a two floors above us. Please say 'Hi!' to our little girl." I couldn't see my Cerebro (5), that was the nickname Katt and I had for each other. But I could hear the song she had picked. And then I could hear the claps of the people that liked her show.

"Please welcome the less alike sisters in the world," Will said as he went backstage. Clarissa and I got on the stage to present Lily while he changed to his dance outfit.

"Well, you know he's not lying," said Clarissa to the crowd.

"Yes it is, and now I'm sure we've got you screaming Whoa! And if we don't then she'll be!" I said as Lily started her show. All I could say is that she left me screaming whoa like she and my girls always would.

"Well, now I want you to clap your hands to our dancing pair," Clarissa said.

Will's and Avril's dance was a swing routine, it was awesome dude.

"Thanks!" said Will. "Now clap you're hands for our acrobat." I saw Lissa get on the stage with a mortal and her show was getting more and more impressive as she did something, it was awesome. I heard people laugh as Katt and Lily got on stage, they would do their clown presentation.

People laughed. "Hey do you want to see an Angel?" Will asked as Hallelujah began to play "Well, look up!"

Samantha's show was beautiful; it was perfectly synchronized with the music.

"Soooo…., sure, that was an Angel," Will said, looking up to see if Samantha got safety in her spot. "Please say whatever you want (if it is not something bad) to our Diabolo Girl," he said and I got on the stage. I did my show as the song said - like it was the last show I would ever do, but what I didn't know was that I may have been right.

"Well that was definitely something, I've never seen," Will said. "Now it's time for a bloodcurdling story." Dun dun dun DUUUUUUNNN.

Lissa's story was one that I've already heard. It was a traditional one from Venezuela, El Silbon (6). It's the story of a young man who killed his parents and was cursed to live forever carrying their bones. If you hear him whistle close, he's far away and you're not in danger but if you hear it far away, he's really close and there's no time to run.

After I got changed and began to drink milk. "Now the people that are dressed in black, please stand up." I could hear as people laughed as Lily and Katt went to pick the lucky one. And then I kept drinking milk, if I was going to drink gasoline I had to drink milk first so I didn't get sick. I didn't see Samantha but I know that she was perfect at the miming. Then I got the gasoline into my mouth, it was time to play with matches!

"Now for the last show, please clap your hands for our fire eater and please don't try this at home. Seriously."

I heard the music begin and got on the stage, my show was cool. I did it great and had fun doing it.

"Now meet the crew!" Will exclaimed after I got off the stage

"On the trapeze and our human mirror," Samantha got on the stage. "Samantha!" Sam waved and smiled.

"Our equilibrist and one of our fighters is Luis! On the German Wheels and our other fighter," Veronica got on the stage. "Veronica!"

"Our magician and technical support: Mike!" Mike got on the stage.

"Our clown and high walker," Kat got on the stage "Katerina! Our other clown and fabric roller," he said laughing. Will and Lily had a bet that he wouldn't dare to present her like that, but he did so he won. Lily got on the stage. "Lily!"

"Our acrobat and storyteller," Lissa got on the stage "Clarissa!"

"Our Diabolo Girl and fire eater," I got on the stage "Eli!"

"Our dancer," Avril got on stage. "Avril!"

"Also a dancer and ringleader, myself!" he said.

Lilly took the opportunity to grab the microphone, "His name is WILL, people! W-I-L-L-iam!"

We all took each other by our hands and bowed as people clapped. I loved that sound, it was the sound that I had entertained some people for a while and took them out of their problems, I loved the feeling that it gave to me. Then we went outside to say good bye to the people that had come to see us.

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By the time we got to our house it was way past midnight. My sisters, my cousins and I went up to take a bath and got into our PJ's. Then we went down.

We were joking around for a while and then: Ding dong, the doorbell rang.

"I'll go," said Will. I heard the door open and then, the most horrible sound in the world. A loud bam! I knew what it was; I've heard it before, the shotfire of a gun. And then a thud.

We all screamed, I was really afraid, but for some reason I wasn't screaming, crying or paralyzed.

"Get the kids out," Mike said to a crying Avril. But it was too late - another shot, this one got to Mike.

"No," I murmured, and I realized that the girls and I had all grabbed the baseball bats that were in the corner where we were standing. I was the first to try to hit him but he grabbed the bat and threw it away. He shot Avril, killing her instantly.

I felt the tears begin to run down my cheeks. But I saw Samantha try to hit him but then again another bam, it hit Samantha, wounding her on the shoulder.

"Sam!" we screamed. I felt the taste of gasoline in my mouth. The only thing I needed was a match, and maybe I would be able to do something, but there were no matches near and I wasn't going to leave the girls and Luis alone. Not now, not ever.

Then another bam and a thud, this one hit Luis, right between the eyes - killing him instantly, at least it was painless.

"Luis!" someone screamed and we heard Samantha murmur something. She was alive, thank God!

Then another bam, it hit Clarissa on a leg. "Lissa!" someone screamed, and then I realized it was me.

Bam! Bam! Two shoots more, one hit Vi on the shoulder and the other one hit Katt in the guts. I cried out, and Lily tried to hit him with the bat but he shot her on a leg before she reached him. I was alone now.

A shoot more it hit me one shoulder, the pain was nothing at first, I couldn't feel it, but then I felt the blood spread through my shoulder and then a bit of pain, I put a hand on my shoulder, and began to pray.

"Ayuda!"(7) I whispered.

I felt another shot; I looked up to see who it was destined for: the crazy gun man had shot himself.

I tried to scream but I had to save energy to stay alive. No one would hear me scream, the nearest house was twenty minutes away. I felt the other girls whispered pleas; I knew that we were all fighting to stay alive. I reached out my hand to take Lissa's as she was closer.

Carlisle Cullen.

It had been a very different day for the Cullens, as they had been on an outing. The sun had broken through the clouds and shone in the sky like it never had before, enticing the coven to abandon the secluded house in the woods for a bright meadow, the very one Edward had taken Bella.

Bliss, absolute bliss, as the Cullens took in the warm sun, their incredible marble skin glinted and dancing in the sunlight. Renesmee was sad that she only glowed – personally, she thought it was unfair.

If it only wasn't for that gunshot. That horrid, sickening gunshot.

Because of that gunshot, Carlisle was speeding through a highway, Esme, Emmett and Rosalie in tow. Going far past the speed limit, the tires of the car screeched on the pavement as he stopped in front of a large house that looked slightly like a dormitory. "Aren't these the circus grounds?" commented Rosalie, looking very disinterested.

Yes, they were the grounds of the small, established circus that entertained Seattle with their hilarious antics, but now the cheerful signs plastered on the outer walls of the buildings seemed to mock the world.

The place was eerily quiet as the Cullens got out of the black BMW, their soft footfalls only added to the mounting anxiety that only loving Esme and compassionate Carlisle felt. Something was very wrong.

Carlisle could smell the stench of dead blood before he turned the door handle, which revealed a very gruesome sight.

There were at least three corpses strewn about the room, their eyes blank and wide with shock. Blood splattered the walls; it seeped into the carpet and still oozed from the shattered bodies. Esme gasped, her hand clutched Carlisle and her eyes wretched in maternal pain. Esme had been the first to see the girls, all so young and so near death.

"We have to leave," said a resentful Rose, her voice strained as she tried not to breathe the smell in. Emmett was already out the door.

"No," refused Esme, kneeling down and moving the blood coated strands of hair away from one of the girl's faces, watching the human's eyes widen in wonder. Esme's heart thudded – for lack of a better word – painfully. Could her baby have been like this girl?

The young woman felt a hand on her shoulder, that of Carlisle. Esme still clung to the girl. "Please Carlisle, please."

Carlisle didn't know what to say. Should he deny Esme her maternal instinct? So many newborns were sure to cause trouble, how would they live? Was it the right choice?

He saw youth, love and loyalty in these girls. Some of the stronger ones had inched towards the weaker, trying to console each other wordlessly. Two of them held hands, and one of them looked like she was losing hope.

Carlisle met Esme's gaze.

"They've lost too much blood. I'll have to bite them here, if I don't do it now, they'll die."

Eli Villegas

I heard someone come in, I kept praying, but I opened my eyes. There was a man that couldn't have been older than Will had been; the women couldn't be older than twenty-three and must have been the most beautiful women I'd ever seen, the man was so handsome that you couldn't stare at him for too much. I couldn't keep my eyes open, I didn't have the strength.

"Please Carlisle, please," a feminine voice said, very beautiful, by the way.

"They've lost too much blood. I'll have to bite them here, if I don't do it now, they'll die," said a British accent.

They were going to help us.

"Sam, save Sam first," I mumbled.

"Yes," Lissa breathed. The others murmured some form of agreement.

"Sam," said the British accent, much closer to me now. "Which one is she?"

"First shot – wound – shoulder – black hair," I garbled an explanation to him.

I felt him move and Samantha moaned in pain, then I felt his deadly cold hand run through my hair. "Sorry," he apologized, but I didn't know why. I felt something sharp cut across my throat and the worst pain I've ever felt.

TRANSLATIONS

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(1) "Despiertense!" - Wake up!

(2) Abuela - Grandmother

(3) "Se ven todas muy bonitas" - "All of you look very pretty"

(4) "Que esperabas?" - "What did you expect?"

(5) Cerebro - Brain

(6) El Silbon - The Whistler/The One who Whistles (Note: Silbon isn't an actual noun accepted by the Real Academia Española)

(7) "Ayuda!" - Help!

(8) Cucaracha - Cockroach

Final Word: So my pretties, this time Vic is talking! (Evil Cackle) Next chapter will be penned by me and all of you miserable twits will have the pleasure of meeting a certain young lady by the name of Irene. MUAHAHA (Somebody from the audience throws a shoe at Vic) HEY! WATCH IT!

Till we meet again,

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