Jealous Snake
Things couldn't have been more awkward now that Steve had suddenly joined the Cirque Du Freak. Everyone knew why, it was because he wanted to get close to Katie, but she was having too much fun with Evra, it was the perfect teenage love triangle. Though most girls fawned over Steve when he was around, he kept his eyes firmly on Katie. Who at this moment, was dancing with Rebecca by the camp fire, to some music that Evra had made. Steve watched from where he leant against an old oak tree, and he felt himself getting turned on as he watched how she moved. His favourite bit was where she danced in fire, though she never noticed that she was doing it. Evra had taken to watching Katie too, a small smile on his face at seeing how happy dancing made her, though it disappeared whenever he saw that Steve was also watching her.
"Evra, why did you stop?" Katie asked as she looked back at him when he had stopped playing, and when he didn't answer she walked to him and touched his shoulder.
At her touch, he snapped out of it. "Huh, what?"
"You stopped." She told him and as he was about to start playing again, she stopped him again. "You know what, if I have to go through this, then so do you." She took his guitar from him and pulled him to his feet. "Darren, can you play please?"
Darren smirked and nodded, picking up Evra's guitar, and as he started to play Evra and Katie started to dance together – laughing the whole time. Just watching them together, made everyone smile, as Evra twirled her on the spot, and kept a hand on her waist during their fast paced waltz, it even caused Crepsley to smile.
"I told you that this would happen." Madam Trusca told him as she stood beside him, her hand holding his. "She is happy now."
Mr Crepsley nodded. "Yes, she is, but I still don't trust the other boy." She nodded over to Steve, and saw the look of hatred that he had for Evra.
"Oh, ignore him, he is just an attention seeking leech." She shrugged and smiled, clapping with the others when Evra and Katie finished their dance.
As they finished their dance, their eyes never left each others, and before they seemed to realise it, their lips locked in a passionate kiss, with Katie's hands moving into his hair and Evra wrapping an arm around her waist and pulling her tight against him as their eyes closed. At seeing the kiss, everyone gasped before they all applauded, after weeks, they had finally admitted to liking each other. Steve watched the whole display, and he snarled under his breath, before stalking away to his tent. Though, he turned before he went inside to see Katie walk away from Evra, and shut herself away in her tent, this made him smirk slyly. When she had gotten to the safety of her tent, Katie was sitting under the table that held her coffin and she was curled up in a ball, her head in her hands.
"Oh my god, what have I done?" She whispered to herself. "Evra is never going to talk at me now."
"Katie, open the tent." Rebecca called through, as she stood outside of the tent entrance.
"Leave me alone Rebecca!" Katie shouted back, but she still heard the tent unzip, and footsteps walk towards her. However, she soon got a shock, when it wasn't Rebecca who found her, but Evra, and with a squeak she shot out from under the table, hitting her head.
"Ouch." She muttered as she rubbed her head, looking at him. "Oh no, he's going to hate me." She thought to herself as she looked at him. "Evra...I'm...I'm so sorry, I don;t know what came over me."
"Katie, relax I kissed you back, remember?"He told her, walking to stand in front of her, resting a hand on one side of her neck, and his other hand found hers. "I'm in love with you."
She looked up at him. "This is futile, but I love you to."
At his smile, they pressed their lips together again, the passion in the kiss ensuring that their lips almost fused together.
Rebecca and Darren smiled to each other as they watched the couple from their safe distance at the doorway of the tent, and Rebecca looked at Darren.
"Come on, let's go." She told him, guiding him away from the tent.
When they were a respectable distance away from Katie's tent, Steve suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Hey Shan, where's Katie?"
"She's busy Steve." Darren told him, as he slid an arm around Rebecca and kept her close as he slid past Steve.
"Go and get her then." He told him.
"No." Darren told him as he and Rebecca walked away.
Steve snarled under his breath, before he walked to Katie's tent and saw her as Evra kissing, and this fuelled his anger more. "Well, that isn't how you snog a girl you know."
At being found, the couple pulled away. "Steve, what the hell are you doing here?" Katie asked him.
"I came to find you, and I found how inexperienced at kissing a girl snake boy was."
"Steve please just be nice to him, and anyway he's a good kisser." She looked up at Evra as she spoke, causing him to gain an uncharacteristic blush to his scales.
Evra looked at her and smiled. "So are you."
Katie smiled, blushing at his compliment, not really that used to receiving them.
"Why are you here anyway, Steve?" Evra asked.
"What's it to you Snake boy?"
"Steve, just tell us." Katie told him, a hand finding Evra's and she gently squeezed it as he tensed.
"I got sick of following Mr Tiny." He shrugged, mentally praising himself for how sincere and well his lie came out as.
Katie didn't seem to believe him, but she let it slide, she planned on not doing anything until he made the first move anyway.
Steve stayed for a little while longer, until it got to be almost morning and Katie needed to get into her coffin, which Evra helped her to do. Both boys turning so she could change into something more comfortable than her jeans, though all Steve wanted was a quick peak, and when he turned back he found Evra helping her into her coffin tucking the blanket around her.
"Thank you." Katie smiled at him, and they shared a longing kiss, before Evra left to get to bed.
"Hey Katie, how about me and you meet up tomorrow night, go for a walk or something?" Steve asked her.
Katie looked at him. "Yeah, okay, we can hunt as well if you want."
Steve nodded. "It's a date." He smiled and watched her pull the lid of her coffin down. "Night, Katie."
"Good night Steve." She called back as he blew the candles out for her, and left her tent. As he walked to his own tent, he pretended not to notice that Darren and Evra were watching him from their tent, whilst Mr Crepsley was watching from his tent with Madam Trusca at his side.
"Good night, my darling." Madam Trusca whispered to him, kissing his cheek.
"Good night." Crepsley told her, his eyes not leaving the Steve as he walked to his tent and shut himself inside.
"Go and get into your coffin, Katie will be fine until tomorrow night." Madam Trusca told him, and she watched him walk to his coffin and get in, shutting him inside, before she walked to her own tent – praying that things will start calming down soon between them all and this new boy.
The following night, Katie was just finishing off getting ready, when there was a cough behind her, and on instinct she turned forgetting that she was in her bra, jeans and converse.
"Nice rack." Steve commented, seeing her breasts.
Katie suddenly turned bright red, and she turned so her back was too him. "Steve, what the hell!"
"You did say that we were going for walks tonight remember?"
"Yeah, but I thought that you would have let me change first." She put on a button up shirt and fastened it, before she turned to face him again. "Come on, let's go." She walked out of her tent, trying to calm down her blush.
Steve smirked at her blush, and followed her. "So, what do you usually feed from?"
"Humans of course, I might be a freak but I'm still a vampire." She told him as they walked, and soon they flitted into the forest which surrounded the camp.
Whilst they were gone, Evra walked to Katie's tent and when he went inside and found her gone, he looked around puzzled, then decided to go and join the others at the fireplace.
Rebecca smiled as she saw him. "Hey Evra, what's up?"
"Have any of you seen Katie?" He asked, as he sat with them.
"No, I haven't." Rebecca looked at him, and then at the others who were around the fireplace. "Hey guys, have any of you seen Katie around?"
"Yeah, I think she went off camp with that Steve boy." Alexander Ribs told her, as he joined them. "They seemed to be having a lot of fun as they walked."
The mere mention of Steve, suddenly made Evra's blood boil, and he nodded a thanks, before he walked away. Watching Evra leave, Rebecca stood up and followed him, before she found him in his tent.
"Evra, what's the matter?"
"It angers me that he wants to get close to her." He admitted, watching the floor.
"Wow, you must really love her." Rebecca whispered.
"Of course I do." He told her, looking up in time to see her smile. "When she gets back, can you tell her that I'm here?"
"Of course, I can." She walked to him and hugged him. "She loves you; you have nothing to worry about." She told him, before she left the tent.
Katie and Steve came back a few hours later, and they were both laughing and joking. Steve suddenly picked her up, holding her in a fireman's lift, which caused her to scream.
"Steve, put me down!" She hit his back. "Steve!"
Steve just laughed. "No way, Katie." He carried her over to the fireplace, where Rebecca looked at them and watched as Katie was thrown into the fire.
"Katie, Evra said can you go and join him in his tent please?" Rebecca told her, as she rolled out of the fire laughing.
When she had managed to calm herself down, put out the fire and stand up she nodded. "Okay, I'll go and see him now."
Steve watched her go, before he sat with the others, deciding not to comment on how the people who sat either side of him moved away from him.
Katie walked into Evra's tent and she looked at him. "Hi." She smiled. "You wanted to see me?"
Evra stopped playing his drums and looked at her. "I went to find you earlier, and you had gone out with Steve."
"Yeah, because me and Steve are friends, Evra." She told him, raising an eyebrow. "Wait, are you jealous?"
"No...Of course I'm not." He gained a slight embarrassed tone, looking at the floor.
"Evra, you have nothing to be jealous about, you know that right?" She walked to him, so she was right in front of him and she tilted his head up to look at her.
Evra let his eyes meet hers, and he nodded. "Alright, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be getting jealous over you having friends, but I don't trust him.
"I know, and to be honest I don't trust him fully either." She told him, kissing his forehead, moving his hair out of the way of his eyes. "If I get him to trust me, I can find out what his true intentions are and put everyone's mind at rest. So just bite your tongue and wait." She told him.
"Alright." He sighed, kissing her lips gently. "One thing, can you spend tonight with me?"
"Of course." She laughed. "Can you show me how to play the drums?"
He laughed. "Alright." He moved so she could sit down, and she sat down on his stool, taking the drumsticks when they were offered to her and with his hands over hers, they started to play the drums together – closing their night on a happier note than what it started off as.
