I want to apologize for the long wait on this and my other stories, I will still continue them but since I am currently in my senior year and I am in 4 extracurricular activities and I have 4 honors classes I have no time to get on, if I do then it's during the weekends but that's when I update my stories on YT as well. Anyways on with the story!

New Characters for this story:

Zooey Deschanel – Kit

Vanessa Morgan – Sarah

After the accident inside the locker room, I headed back to the tent where I found Krista already asleep and Angela on her bed with glasses on reading a book called 'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes. Wow, who knew she liked reading? Honestly she seemed like a very smart girl to me.

I laid out the wet towels to dry. Of course I had dressed inside the locker room before I had left. Thankfully I hadn't run into James again. "Whatcha got there?" I asked Angela as I jumped into bed and propped myself up on my elbow to look at her.

She looked up at me from her book and smiled, "Reading, something of a side hobby other than bending my body different ways."

I nodded, "You seem more like you would be in college studying for a real career."

Angela placed her book down and took her glasses off then rubbed her eyes. "Well honestly my family didn't have money to pay for college, so I decided to join the cirque to kind of save up for it." I raised my eyebrows. Didn't see that one coming.

"What college were you planning on going to?" I asked.

Angela chuckled a bit, "Believe it or not but Harvard. They have one of the best pre-med programs in the U.S but I didn't have that kind of money, so I ended up here."

I abruptly sat up then and waved my hands, "Hold up, how old you are exactly?"

"I'm only 18; I graduated high school when I was 15. You could say I was somewhat of a genius." Angela shrugged.

My jaw had literally dropped to the floor. I really hadn't expected her to be this young! The moment I saw her, I thought she was at least my age but she's taller than and practically speaks like and older person. "Well this is awkward…" I sighed.

Angela laughed, "Yeah everyone says that but like I always say age is but a number. And don't worry I don't use large vocabulary around any of the people here, it'll probably freak some out."

Now she had caught my attention, "Say something intelligent to me."

"Like what?" she asked.

I shrugged, "Well you mentioned pre-med, tell me something about the human body."

Angela thought for a moment, "Hmm…okay. Uh, the human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a definitive quantity, but the storage competence of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, comprising over 900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain's memory power imposing."

I sat there for a moment, "Okay, I lost you after human brain cell." Angela shook her head and began to laugh to herself. This chick was definitely something else. And what surprised me the most is that she told me this out of memory like if she were telling me her birthday. I must say that's pretty impressive.

After a few more minutes of talking, we turned the lights off and said our goodnights. Tomorrow was going to be a brand new day and I was going to make it one of the best. Whatever incident had happened tonight would definitely not get in my way.

That was until…I dreamt of him.

"You are absolutely beautiful." James whispered as he placed his soft warm hand on my cheek. I involuntarily closed my eyes and savored the moment. Just by his touch my heart beat began to rise.

Why was it that he had this effect on me? I just couldn't understand.

Once I opened my eyes again I found myself lost into his amazing hazel eyes. His smile radiated as he found mine. What happened next was nothing I'd ever once thought or even wanted to do.

James slowly leaned in towards me, his lips only centimeters from my own. What scared me the most was that I wanted it. I wanted to feel his full soft lips move against mine. And in less than a centimeter away, it would come true.

"GEN WAKE UP!" Krista screamed into my ear.

"What the hell?!" I shrieked as I fell on the floor with a loud thump. I wasn't sure whether my heart was beating hard from Krista's yell or from that terrifying but undoubtedly sweet dream. No, focus Gen, you don't like James remember.

"What happened in here?" I looked up to find a wide eyed Angela staring at me from the entrance of the tent. She quickly walked over to me and helped me to my feet.

"Krista here decided it would be funny to scare me awake." I gave a death glare to the blonde across the room as Angela helped me to my feet.

Krista shrugged and chuckled, "Hey you were making some happy noises so I thought I would be doing you a favor."

My cheeks had instantly turned pink at her comment. Had I really been making….happy noises? I most certainly hope not. But by the look on Krista's face and the smirk she had given me, there was a huge possibility that she had been lying about it.

Angela rolled her eyes, "Enough with these sophomoric antics, you two. We have to get to practice. Today we're working on the contortion act, Krista."

I turned to Angela then, "And what will I be doing today?"

Krista smiled, "I'm sure we'll find something for you to do. You can always work on trapeze or something. We do need an extra person after the last girl we had fallen off and broke her leg and arm."

This caused me to gulp. They weren't kidding when they said that people can seriously get hurt. The most I could actually do was anything gymnastics related. Okay, so maybe trapeze has some flexibility involved like gymnastics does but there is no way I'd be able to stay on a bar hanging up high off the ground and expect to live. I guess Angela noticed the look on my face because she stretched a hand out and rubbed my shoulder.

"You'll be okay. Hardly anyone gets hurt doing trapeze, well that's because most had experience with it. But I can assure you that you'll be okay. Besides, we do own harnesses you know." Angela gave me a reassuring smile.

After changing into some practice clothes, Krista and Angela went their separate ways while I went to a different part of the gym. Many of the other members of the cirque were sitting around and stretching. Some of them would say hi and smile at me while others continued to mind their own business.

"Rough night?" someone said behind me.

I turned around to find Fegan standing behind me. "You can you tell that easily?" I asked.

Fegan shrugged, "I can see it in your aura."

My eyebrows automatically rose, "Alright, you're seriously freaking me out with this whole psychic stuff and what not." He let out a chuckle and began to walk away.

Suddenly a light skinned thing girl with dark hair and penetrating blue eyes walked up to me followed by a dark skinned and long dark haired girl. "Hi you must be Genevieve." The blue eyed girl spoke.

"Yes, that's me." I smiled as I took her hand and shook it.

"I'm Kit and this is Sarah. We're part of the trapeze group. Well along with Angela and Krista, we were told we'd be training you today." Kit said.

"Nice to meet both of you." I smiled.

"Come on then, let's get started." Kit smiled as she led me towards another area.

Usually every act gets to have their own practice and training area only trapeze had to be put with others because, according to Kit, it wasn't seen as anything very dangerous unlike other acts. Which I strongly disagreed on, I could easily fall off and break my head open for goodness sakes! But they had rules and one had to abide by them.

"Okay, well first thing is first though; we have to cover some of the basics to trapeze. It's not all just about flipping through the air and hoping to catch your partner's hands." Sarah said then as she walked up closer to me and placed a large thick belt around my waist.

Kit walked up then and hooked a line to the back of the belt, "She's right. Trapeze is like gymnastics and dance mixed. You have to be focus on what you are doing but at the same time think about posture and elegance."

After giving me a few pointers on how the stances must look like and helping me stretch out, they led me towards a latter that went up to a platform probably 40 feet off the ground. Until now, I've never been afraid of heights. But after seeing how far up high we were, I definitely did not want to do this.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine. Kit will say on the ground and will make that the net holds so you'll feel better. But once you get the hang of it, the net will be removed then the harness." Sarah placed her hands on my shoulders and gave me a soft push towards the latter.

In some way, I felt better that Sarah would be coming up with me. Once we were on the platform, Sarah handed me the white bar and placed it on my hands, "Okay, now all you have to do is swing off, tense your legs and point your toes and once you have the right momentum try your best to swing your legs towards your body and latch on to the bar and let go so you can swing with your legs. Got it?"

"I umm…" I began but she suddenly pushed me off.

Next thing I knew, I was staring up at Kit. Everything around me seemed to spin.

"Is she okay?" Sarah's voice came through the ringing in my ears.

"Yeah, she just passed out." Kit's voice came through more clearly.

Kit helped me sit up, while Sarah handed me a glass of water. "What happened?" I groaned as I held my head. For some odd reason I felt very light headed.

"You passed out." Kit replied.

"Did you not take a breath before you went?" Sarah asked.

I glared at her, "I didn't have the chance because you pushed me off."

Kit turned around and frowned at her. Sarah held her hands up in defense, "I'm sorry, I'm so used to doing that to all of the performers. She's the first to faint."

Kit stood up and placed her hands on her hips, "You should have known that she was pretty nervous by the look on her face. Next time, I'll be going up with her."

Suddenly they launched off into a dispute. Honestly at this moment, I didn't want to deal with any of this. I was seriously beginning to think that the cirque life was not for me. "You know, maybe there's not a next time for me." I sighed as I began to walk off only to be pulled back by the harness line.

I gave a look at Kit so she could take it off. And once she did, I continued to walk away; ignoring both of their protests.

"What the hell are you doing here Gen, seriously?" I mumbled to myself as I walked out of the area and into the lonesome hall. I'm guessing everyone was practicing at the moment.

"You weren't too bad, you know?"

I froze at the familiar voice. Just when my day was going bad, it would get worse now. I turned then to find James walking up to me. "What do you want?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.

"Regardless of what you think, I believe that you belong here. With us." James smiled not closing the space between us. Suddenly all memory of that dream from last night came to me. No, focus Gen. You're supposed to hate the guy. Yet I couldn't help but feel the blood rush to my cheeks.

"Thanks but no thanks. I don't really care about what you think, of all people." I said harshly before I turned back around only to feel his grip on my arm.

"Wait, I want to apologize about last night. It was definitely not anything that I was expecting." He sounded sincere at the moment. No flirty tone in his voice.

Finally I turned to look at him, which was a major mistake. His hazel eyes bore into mine, and held me at his gaze. And even though I wanted to turn away so badly, I couldn't. It was like I was under a spell.

And in some way, I knew James felt what I had. His grip on my arm loosened only for his hand to trail up to my face. This was wrong. This was all wrong.

"Stop please." My voice came out hoarse. I knew that if we were to even kiss, there would be no going back. I've never felt anything for a guy before because I was always far too busy for one. But now, it was different but I had to hold on to the fact that he had someone else. Even though I tried so hard to hold on to that, it was forgotten the moment his fingers made contact with my hot cheek.

"You're absolutely beautiful Gen." he whispered keeping his eyes on mine. Then he began to lean in toward me, closing the space between us only to where our faces were centimeters apart.

Oh no, my dream!

This could not be happening to me.

Whoa! Will James kiss Gen? Hmm. Sorry for the wait on this, it literally took me days to write because I've been beyond busy! Anyways, REVIEW!