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Vittoria's POV

Ugh, my head.

That was my first thought

CRISS!

That was my next thought.

I shifted around realizing I was on a bed and flung myself upright, ignoring the growing pain in my head. I opened my eyes and found myself within a house and just like that, everything came flowing back to me.

Big heaping mass of red…

I took no time in flinging myself from the bed and toward the door.

"Criss!!", I screamed. I didn't care if I was out of character. I needed to know what was going on.

"Ali! Criss!"

I flew down the hall way toward the living room to find everyone sitting down, quietly.

"No………"

Ali was the first to stand. "V. You shouldn't be up. You took a pretty nasty fall."

She still looked pale.

"Ali, where's Criss"

No one spoke.

"You're kidding me….."

My eyes cut to the back door and I made a mad dash until something caught me around the waist. I screamed loudly but no one seemed to help me.

"I need to go out there! He has to be alive!!"

I could feel hot tears pouring down my face. Crying? That was something new.

"Let me go!! He's not gone! STUPID STUPID ILLUSIONIST!"

I struggled wildly against whoever held me and my sobs became apparent.

The arms the held me whipped me around into a chest and I didn't care.

Criss was gone.

Dead.

Why?

Cause I didn't believe in what he did. He had to show out for me?

I cried into the chest of the person who held me. I shook horribly.

"Well. Its about time I got some respect. And you called me an illusionist…"

I stiffened and looked up.

"Hello"

Criss grinned down at me. "Were you really that--"

SMACK

I stood, head bowed, shaking in pure anger.

"I'm going back to the room I was in….."

And with that, I stomped down the hall and slammed the door shut.

Criss's point of view

"I really wasn't expecting that", I commented, rubbing my cheek.

Ali stood, mouth open in shock.

"I didn't know she'd react like this", she commented, taking a paper towel and wiping off the light make-up we dusted on her face to make her look pale.

"So she does care?," my mom asked and I shrugged.

Apparently she does.

"You're going to have to go apologize Criss. We've still got a tour. That joke probably shook her up pretty bad. You scared all of us in the beginning", JD said and I sighed. He was right though.

"Alright alright!! I'm going I'm going……"

I'm marching straight to my death bed….

I walked quietly to the bed room door and knocked on it.

"Vittoria?"

All I got was silence.

"Can I come in?", I questioned.

"No," was the reply I got.

"I'll force my way in and break this door and you'll have to pay for it. Open." I said seriously.

It took a few minutes but slowly the door creaked open just a bit. I placed my hand firmly against it and opened it up all the way.

Vittoria was seated on the window seat of the big French window, turned away from me.

"Hey. Look.", I said, walking up to her, "I'm sorry. I didn't think you'd react that way. Really. I was just trying to prove something to you. I'm not just a magician. That's such a petty word and--"

At that, she whipped around, eyes wide. "Petty word!? You'd do that to someone because of a PETTY WORD!? That makes me wonder what stupid stunt you'd pull if I called you FAKE or a LOSER! You stupid man!"

She slid off the seat, poking me in my chest making me back away.

Good lord she's mad! ……… Criss Angel: Cause of Death, Angry Realist!!

I didn't have anything to say. After her angry out burst she went over and plopped on the bed, away from me.

"I thought you were dead……", she whispered, "Do you know how badly that scared me? I don't know why I felt so horrified. You've been aggravating me for the past two or three days. I thought my heart had fell to the pit of my stomach….I blamed it all on myself. "

Her voice hitched and I knew she was crying.

Alright. Bipolar much.

But why would she take this so seriously? Its not like she cares what illusion I do or anything. She's not even a fan! I don't get it.

I walked over to her and laid a hand on her shoulder.

"Vittoria…I'm really sorry. I didn't think it would frighten you like that. I figured after you were scared and I played that joke, you wouldn't be this scared. After all, you don't even like me. You're not a loyal."

Vittoria didn't respond at all and I sighed.

That must have triggered something. Within seconds she moved from the seat to my arms and hugged me close.

"Please don't ever scare me like that again. If this tour is nothing but things like that, I don't think I could handle seeing that again…..I know I'm all about the reality of things, but that looked so real"

I blinked in confusion.

She was hugging me… the realist.

Who didn't like me.

Hugging me.

And now I felt awkward. I don't know. I just felt bad. Guilty for what I had did.

She buried her face in my neck and began to cry a little and I wrapped my arms around her, whispering how sorry I was. Her body shook a little, but after a moment or two, she finally calmed down and stopped all together.

"Don't…don't tell Ali about this," she murmured, backing away and wiping away at her face. "I don't usually cry……"

I stared at her for a moment. "Its ok. Here…", I offered her my hand.

I don't know what possessed me to do so but she eyed it like it might bite.

"Oh come on, I'm making a peace offering"

She eyed me once more before moving carefully towards me and slipping her hands into mine.

"Alright," She said quietly.

She looks so …. Cute right now. But so vulnerable and…………where did that come from?…..

My confusion must have showed on my face because by the time I snapped back into my right mind, she was waving her hand in front of my face, calling my name.

"Criss, are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm…fine…..", I said, shaking my head, "Come on, we've got to get a head start on that shopping spree. Ali and the rest of my family is waiting. Ali's worried sick"

She nodded at me, no sarcastic comment and headed straight out the door. I was left in the room, brooding over my own thoughts.

My mind just isn't right……..

Eventually I managed to make it into the room with everyone else, where Vittoria was being sought after by my mother who was frantically worrying over her.

Instead of staring, which I had started to do, I looked at JD, who was smirking at me.

"What?"

"Nothing. The Tour Bus is here. We should grab the bags and go. Costa, JT, and the crew are already on"

And with that and nothing else, everyone began to get their things and move out to the bus. Ali bounced around eagerly as usual, but Vittoria moved around, helping quietly and obviously avoiding me.

I would talk to her later. About what, I don't know.

So after everything was on the Tour Bus, and everyone settled down, we took off.

I saw Vittoria, curled up by the table, staring outside and my stomach turned with something new.

Something new that I wasn't quite familiar with.

So. How was it? Kinda good, maybe? Yeah. Vittoria's not all tough like she's cracked up to be, right? Scared senseless.

Now maybe things might change. Who knows. We still have the whole tour ahead of us that I have yet to write out, but trust me, it will be the best that I can do.

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I'm taking nothing but straight honors highschool classes. Nothing normal. So things might run just a little bit slow.

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