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Chapter 3

Liz's POV

Ever since I saw the corpse my cousin left behind, I've been gravely sick. I've been puking around the clock and it feels like I'm being stabbed every time I move my limbs. Darren and Evra try to cheer me up and tell me that my screams and puke doesn't bother them, but I know they're lying. Mr. Crepsley and Mr. Tall check on me every hour, and when she's not performing or sleeping, Truska takes care of me.

"Chow time!" Evra laughs as he walks into the tent. He's carrying two trays completely stacked with food. "Here you go!" He puts one of the trays on my lap. "We need to get your energy back up."

"Thanks," I whispered while attempting to smile, "You didn't have to do this."

"It was my pleasure."

"Evra?"

"Yeah Liz."

"Where's Darren?"

"Darren is talking to Mr. Crepsley right now. Why do you ask?"

"Well, you and Darren seem like such good friends that it's strange to see you separated." No one talked for a moment.

"Liz," Evra's voice was barely above a whisper, "do you really want to be a vampire?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

"You do realize that once you become a vampire, you would stay young for a long time while I grow older with every passing minute?" That's right, I'll only age by one year every five years, and then ten when I become a full vampire.

"Evra, I already predicted it, so it's going to happen."

"I understand."

"Wait! I know, you could ask Mr. Crepsley to change you to."

"That wouldn't work. Snake's blood is poisonus to vampires. No vampire would be stupid enough to try to change me."

"I'm sorry, it was a stupid idea."

"Yeah, it was." I then saw him smile, "That's something I would expect from Darren, but from you?!"

"Glad I amuse you." After about a minute of laughing I realized that I could trust Evra with anything, "Hey Evra."

"What is it?"

"The corpse we found last week, I know who killed him."

"Really? Who?"

"My cousin, John. He killed my parents two years ago after they found out about his love affair, and he then threatened to kill me."

"Liz. Does Mr. Tall and Mr. Crepsley know?"

"Yes."

"Then we have to trust that they'll protect us. That's why we're all here, for protection from others. After I was born, my parents were so disgusted of me that they left me at an orphanage where the other kids picked on me because of the way I looked. I was later sold to an evil circus owner who put me in a cage and had people pay to stare, laugh, and even throw trash at me. One day Mr. Tall came, when the evil man trued to sell me to him, Mr. Tall strangled him and released me from my cage. I then joined the cirque du freak."

"I had no idea. I'm so sorry."

"It's alright, I was trying to get you to cry, I was just trying to explain that here at the cirque, everyone looks out for one another. So come on, lets get you some sun light now!"

One Week Later

Things are starting to get back to normal at the cirque. Well, as normal as a traveling circus of freaks can be anyway. I'm no longer sick and Mr. Crepsley left some evidence, though he refuse to tell me how he got it, and an anominus letter at the local police station, enough to prove John guilty of my parents and that man's murder. Things were beginning to look up. I'm now walking around the perimeter of the cirque looking for foxes. I've always had a strange love for foxes, never figured out why though.

"H…help me." A weak voice called. I followed the voice running farther away from the cirque.

"Hello," I called, "is anyone here."

"Well," an evil voice laughed, "I'm here." Before I could even scream for help, he gagged me and threw me to the ground. Everything went black.

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