Hey!!! It's Alice, obviously. And I'm here with…a new chapter!!! Whoopee! Haha. Hope you guys like it.
My day was weird. My friend, Jesus, made me and my other friend/crush, Alan/Lissac, stand close together and put my head on his shoulder. Awkward. Anyways…on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Darren, Evra, and/or the Cirque Du Freak. I, Alice, only own Phoenix and the story line.
Enjoy!
Phoenix walked in between the two boys, hand-in-hand with Darren and Evra's arm around her shoulder.
"So, where to, sis?" Evra asked casually.
Phoenix shrugged and stepped away from them, turning to face them.
"Wherever the wind takes us," she exclaimed before running and transforming into her other form.
Darren and Evra looked at each other, shrugged, laughed, and ran after her. They ran for a good five minutes before Evra began to get tired.
"Hey, Phoenix, slow down," called Evra.
"Slow poke," teased Darren as he passed up his friend.
"No fair! You're a VAMPIRE!"
"You're a snake! And I'm only HALF vampire," Darren called over his shoulder.
"You're still a vampire!"
"And you're still slow," said Phoenix as she landed on a branch, in human form again, and jumped to the ground.
Darren and she linked hands again and waited for Evra, gasping for breath, to catch up to them.
"You really need to work out more, Ev," said Darren. "It'll help your lungs."
Phoenix giggled. Darren and Evra raised an eyebrow at her, but only Darren knew what she was giggling about—when she had thought of HIM working out. Darren smiled in adoration at her and gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek.
"You're adorable, you know that?" he asked her quietly.
"I DID know that actually," she said smugly and pulled him in for a kiss.
Evra cleared his throat, signaling that he was still there. They smiled sheepishly and apologetically at him.
"Sorry, Evra. This lovey-dovey stuff—" Darren was cut off.
"—is going to make me hurl," said Evra, finishing for him.
The three laughed and began walking again.
"How will we survive?" Evra asked after a moment of silence.
"I've survived on my own before," said Phoenix. "I can take care of the three of us."
"Money?" Darren spoke.
"Isn't important," she claimed. "But if we ever need it, which we WILL, I can handle that too."
Evra stopped, crossed his arms over his chest, and looked her sternly in the eyes.
"You will get money, HOW exactly?"
Great. He was in 'protective brother' mode now. And he was probably coming up with all these worst-case scenarios.
"I'll find a way," was all she said.
"You won't do anything provocative, will you?"
"Am I REALLY that type of girl to you?" she asked, hand on her hip and eyebrows raised.
"No. But some people are so desperate for money that they—"
"—give themselves away. I know. I watch the news from time to time."
Darren looked worriedly at her. He did NOT want her to 'give herself away' just so they could sleep in a decent place at night or buy food. He wouldn't allow it either. Phoenix was HIS and ONLY his. No way was another guy…or girl, gross…was going to touch her for money.
"How WILL you get money, Phoenix?" Darren asked.
"I don't know, but I WILL find a way."
"We can perform our OWN freak show," Evra suggested.
"And how would we do that?" questioned Phoenix. "Let people make fun of us so we could get paid? Remember how that felt when you were a kid, Ev? I don't think you'd want to go back to that."
Evra shivered at the memory. No, he did NOT want to go back to that. But if he needed to, he would.
"No. It wouldn't be like THAT. You and Darren can actually PERFORM. But I'll be willing—"
"—to get your feelings hurt for some worthless pieces of paper," Darren said. "Phoenix is right. We can't put on our own freak show."
"But we can TRY."
"And we can fail or get hurt," replied Phoenix.
"So how will we get money to survive?" Evra inquired.
"We'll find a way, I PROMISE. But you have to trust me first. Deal?"
She held out her hand to her 'brother', like when they were kids, waiting for him to shake it. He reluctantly took it.
"Deal."
This chapter seems so short to me. Oh well, at least I got a new chapter up. Hope you liked it. Comment and review.
--alice
