+: Isolation and Loneliness:+

(Evra Von Love Story)

NOTE- Obviously I do NOT own ANY Cirque Du Freak characters! I am, however, own my own OCs (And that goes for Reyn Neko as well). Anyways, enough chit-chat. Lets get this show on the road!

~Chapter 2: "You're really awesome, Cora, you really are!"~

~Cora's POV~

Morning rose really quickly, maybe it's because I spend all of my life inside and never managed to see day break. The day break was beautiful with blends of reds, oranges, and yellows. As I stretched my arms over my head, and swung them back, I accidently hit someone. "EEP! I'm really sorry!" I turned around to see that it was only Evra and I knocked him upside the head without knowing.

"'S ok, Cora, I needed a wake-up call anyways." He reassured as if it was no big deal.

My cat ears flattened as my face burned pink.

It was one of the most awkward moments where someone says something, it falls into dead silence kinds until Evra asked me what I was gonna do today. "Well, I was gonna practice for today's show. Wanna practice?"

"Sure!" We headed over to the clearing, where I brought along my radio with me from the tent, outside of the Cirque Du Freak; Evra brought one of his snakes with him.

I started looking for a pole beam while Evra practices with his snake. When I finally found one, I inserted one of my CDs inside and skipped a couple of songs until I found "Circus" by Britney Spears 'This is a good song choice.' I thought as I hopped on the end and, as the singing begins, I started to dance like I did when I first entered Cirque.

~Evra's POV~

I had my pet snake slither my arm, only to be interrupted by music -distracting for me-. I stalked over to where the music was at and found myself hiding behind a tree to see Cora performing by herself. I don't understand why but she moves as if she's a ballerina mixed with her cat-like reflexes. My face flushed with mixed emotions everytime I see her perform. But why? When the music ended, I was about ready to get out of here, when all of a sudden, "I know you're there, Evra, common out!" 'Crap! How did she know I was here??' I was in shock, not only she knew I was here, she knew I saw her perform! I stepped out of the shadows, only seeing her back. Well, until she turned to see me.

"Well...?"

I gulped. "'Well' what?"

"Did you like my performance?"

Yep... she knew I saw her. I try to come up with an answer that won't either insult her or embarrass myself. "Well, umm... it's-"

"Evra! Cora! Sam's here! Common back!" That was Darren calling -saved by the bell-.

I didn't saw it coming until I saw Cora hopped in front of me and got hold of my hand. "Common, Evra, lets go! Lets go!!" She starts dragging me out of the forest, until she stops, lets go of my hand, and went back to get her almost forgotten radio -It was playing "Lady Marmalade"-. She ran back to me, got hold of my hand again, and we ran back to the Cirque where Darren and Sam, a blond haired blue eyed kid -Before that incident happened-, and RV, the eco-warrior who wanted to protect animals and nature with his life -Yeah, he's weird... but he's actually pretty cool...-. She stopped immediately in front of them, making he face-plant to the grass.

Sam and Darren started laughing at me until I muffled that it's not funny and that they know it. Sam stopped and stared at Cora in amazement. "Wow!! What are ya?" His attention turns to Cora, the cat-girl -to me, she's the 'Silver Maiden'... Her first name's Greek for "maiden" while Gin is Japanese for "Silver", so... yeah...- "And what's the name of the song? It's really catchy!"

She instantly blushed and skipped the song, accidentally, to "Halo", then she finally turned it off. "Whoops..." She laughed nervously. "Y-you'll find... out wh-when you're older..."

Sam put up an upset face. "No fair! I'm old enough!"

Cora started to giggle. "Until you're a teenager."

"Aw man!"

"Hey! I'm 13 and I don't know what the song is!" Darren blurted out, causing all of us -I got up as soon as Sam said he's old enough- to laugh.

"Changing the subject, I still wanna know what you are!"

She knelt down in front of him, her cat tail began wagging and one of cat ears twitched. "Well, umm..."

"Sam! Sam Grest!"

"'Sam', I'm a cat girl. My ears and tail are naturally born and I just joined the Cirque since yesterday."

~Darren's POV~

'Yeah... and your life is short-lived...' I thought as she continues to talk to him about her special abilities, which made his wondering curiosity grew more and more until it begins to burst.

"AWESOME!! You're really awesome, Cora, you really are! Now I REALLY want to join the Cirque!"

RV just looked at her as if someone kicked a puppy and that Cora's that puppy. "Did anyone mistreated you since you came here?"

She looked up at him in confusion. "No... In fact, I feel like my life's protected and... I feel a lot safer here."

Now it's RV's turn to look at her in confusion. "Are you sure about that Cora?"

She nodded. "Yep-yep! And I vow to protect anyone with my life!" She balled up her fist, placed it in front of her chest -where her heart is at- and smiled like a true hero.

I tried to say something but Evra spoke up before I got the chance. "Common gang, the show's about to began! Lets get ready!" Evra announced and me, Evra, and Cora started our way to the big tent -the show tent-, leaving Sam, waving and saying good luck to the both of us, and RV, staring off into space.

~The Show Begins!~

"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Mr. Tall announced to the packed crowd. "Welcome! To Cirque Du Freak!"

Everything was turning out swell for everyone with Gertha showing everyone her impenetrable teeth, Trushka -aka the 'Bearded Lady'-, Alexander Ribs, Hand Hands, even the Wolf-Man. As the show continues announcing more performers, Cora starts to get extremely nervous. "What's wrong Cora?" Darren asked Cora.

"I dunno about this... I-I'm getting really scared about this! What if they started throwing things at me? I got hit by a toy car back at the circus once!" Cora stammered as he tries to calm her down.

"It'll be fine. This is different to what you've went through. I told you the first time I saw the Cirque; no one threw anything at anyone, not even to Evra." He knows Cora's extremely protective towards her two guy friends. Mainly to Evra.

"Are-... are you sure?"

"I'm positive." Music begins to play as Mr. Tall announces Cora. "Good luck, Cora!" He high fives her.

"Thanks for the support, Darren." She turned and starts her performance by dancing to the beats and made her way to the pole beam as the chorus takes place. Her performance was amazing, the song was astounding, and the ending was her standing tip-toed on the edge of the beam. She started shaking, getting ready for balled-up popcorn bags, drink containers, even toy cars. But her eyes widened as everyone began to cheer and applaud for her and no one was throwing anything at her. She smiled, still shaking, and began bowing. After all of that, she descended down the beam, and made her way to Darren, but missed him and tackle-hugged Evra. "You were right, Darren, no one threw anything at me, just like you said! Thank you so much!"

"Umm... you're welcome, but... I'm not Darren..." Evra spoke as Cora looked up and jumped back away from him.

"Ack! I'm sorry about that!" Her face was florid -blushed- with embarrassed.

"'S ok Cora." He laughed, making Cora flushed even more. "Wish me luck you two!" He left to do his performance.

Mr. Cresply walked over to Cora and Darren, mainly towards Darren, and told him to not get nervous and that everything will be alright. He looked over to Cora and mouthed to her that if she still has her lives left. She nodded and walked over to Trushka, trying to have a somewhat normal conversation.

After Evra's performance, he high fives Darren and tells him good luck. Then he jumps into the conversation with Cora and Trushka, helping Cora translate -the best he could do- to what Trushka's actually saying. He notices that Cora's feeling impatient and nervous and asks her if she's ok.

~The End- Evra's POV~

"Hey, Cora, you ok?" I asked her, she looks worried, always looking back at the entrance.

She looked back at me, alittle bit worried, but nodded. "Yes... I'm ok." But that's not the answer I was looking for, so I tried to ask her what's wrong again, but she keeps telling me -no surprise- that everything's ok. Until we saw Darren running towards us.

"Hey Darren! Great performance out the-" He dashed right passed us as we looked back at him. I started to get confused and so is Cora and Trushka. "What's up with him?" I dunno what's up, but it seems like Cora does when she asked Mr. Cresply if something bad happened to Darren. I know something ain't right, and I really don't wanna get myself involved, but if something bad IS happening however, I must find out. One way or Another!