My life in the Cirque du Freak

Secrets Revealed (Kinda)

"Were you the wolf from last night?" Evra asked, sounding a bit angry. I put my hand on his arm, "Calm down. Let him explain." I said. Evra huffed and sat down on the ground, then we let Johnny continue. "Scarlett, I am so so sorry about last night! I could've killed you!" He said, tearing up. I hugged him, and caught Evra's jealous face, "I don't blame you for anything, Johnny." I said and let go. "You should! If I had bitten you--" "Johnny, you didn't bite me, and you didn't kill me. I'm right here! So stop worrying!" I said. "I don't want to hurt any of you." He said with a few tears escaping. "You won't." I assured him. "Do you forgive me?" He asked. I nodded and then Johnny looked at Evra, who still had quite a jealous look on his face. "Evra, please? Can you forgive me?" He asked. Evra sat there for a minute, then finally he nodded. "Sure." He said. I tried to get Johnny to hang out with us, but he went back to the Cirque to rest for a while. Evra seemed happy about that, "You don't have to hate him, you know." I said sitting next to him. "He could've seriously hurt you, Scarlett." Evra said. "But he didn't. What happened to being his friend?" I asked. "That was before he almost hurt my girlfriend." He replied. I turned his face to me and kissed him softly, "Don't be mad at him. Please. He can't control this and you know it." I said, trying to reason with my hard-headed snake boy. He sighed and looked at me, "One more kiss and I'll forgive him." He said with a smile. I rolled my eyes and kissed him again, Evra pulled me onto his lap and deepened it. I laughed and backed up, "Come on lover boy, let's go home." I said. Evra rolled though and then I was lying underneath him. "Can't we stay here for just a while? I like just you and me time." He said. I smiled and nodded, he rolled off of me and I put my head on his outstretched arm. "This is nice." He said, and I nodded. "It is. I can't wait for Halloween to be here." I said. "I can't wait to see you as a snake-girl!" He exclaimed. I laughed and responded, "I can't wait to be your snake girl!" Evra turned on his side to face me and I turned to look at him. "You'll always be my girl, Liv. Scales or no scales." He said, making me smile and tear up a little. "You'll always be my guy, Evra. No matter what!" I responded, kissing him after. Nothing else happened because we were out in the open, and after we kissed for a while, we went home. I sighed, "What's wrong?" Evra asked. I shrugged, "Just worried about Johnny, I guess." I said. "He'll be fine." Evra said, clearly not as forgiving to Johnny as I was. "Evra." I said. He gave me a questioning look, as if saying, "What?" I stopped walking and he sighed, "Look Liv, I like Johnny. He's a good guy but he attacked you! I'm not just going to let that go so easily!" He said. I rolled my eyes, "He didn't know what he was doing!" I said back, hating all the arguing that's been between Evra and I. He closed his eyes, leaned his head back, and took a few deep breaths to calm himself down. I took that as a chance to wrap my arms around his waist and my head on his chest. I felt him moving and felt his chin on my head after. "I'm not saying I'll forgive him completely, I mean, he could've se-" "seriously hurt me." I interrupted, looking up at him and deepening my voice to mock his. He gave me an annoyed little glare, "Yes, you little smart arse." He said with a small laugh.
"Well, he didn't." I replied. "And you are just as big a smart arse as I am babe." I continued, and pulled on his hand to get us walking again. "Pssh, whatever." He said. I laughed and leaned against his side as we walked in circles around the edges of the campground. "Promise me you'll try?" I asked in a small voice. He nodded, "For you, I'll try to forgive him." He said. I smiled, "Thank you Evra." I said. It was already 2:00 in the afternoon and we hadn't started on our chores yet, so we kissed goodbye and rushed off, and just when I thought today was going so well I find out that I have to help do laundry. With Rebecca. Fun. When I knocked on her door she thrust an empty basket into my arms, almost knocking me down the stairs of her trailer! "Let's get this over with." She said, closing the door and picking up her own basket. I sighed and walked down the stairs to the tents, laundry started out as collecting what anyone needed washed, ironed, or patched up then going to whatever water source we could find to fill up two metal tubs with water and soap. I got Mr. Crepsley's cape and a few of his shirts before heading to Evra and I's tent, since Evra and I were sometimes forgetfull, I always tried to remember to shake out any jeans or shirts with pockets on them before putting them in the water. As I shook out a pair of Evra's jeans, a box fell out of his pocket. I picked it up. It was small, black, and velvet, and I wondered what it was for. I shrugged and tossed it into the hammock before grabbing more clothes and shaking out a pair of ear buds, a piece of paper with lyrics on it, a good morning letter I'd written Evra the day after the attack, and the black and white Polaroid he'd taken of me before he left. I smiled as I placed all of the forgotten items in the hammock and went to the next tent, which was Truska's. "Hello Scarlett." She greeted with a smile and a hug. "Hey Truska. I'm on laundry today so, came to get anything in here you might need washed." I said. She shook her head, "No. Nothing at the moment, but thank you, my dear." She said. I smiled nodded as I turned to leave. "Wait, won't you stay and chat?" She asked. I looked at her and shook my head, "I wish I could, but they paired me with Rebecca today and she's mad enough at me already." I replied. I hugged her as she nodded and then I left. Rebecca and I sat across from each other at the tubs, the only sounds were those of the sloshing water as we washed the clothes and the snap of clothes pins as we hung them in the sun to dry. At one point when I went to hang up Mr. Crepsley's cape, I didn't realize I grabbed it from the bottom, and the button near the collar snagged on the handle of the tub. Tipping it and spilling water everywhere, soaking our feet and the bottom of her jeans. "Thanks a lot!" She said. "It's not my fault Rebecca!" I replied, hanging up the cape and trying to see if the button had come off or not. I heard her mumble something and turned to her, "What?" I asked. "Nothing." She said, and I walked towards her and put my hands on my hips. "No, seriously. What? I want to know why you're still so mad at me! Why?" I asked, raising my voice. "You ruined everything!" She yelled. I was taken aback for a few seconds before I replied, "What?" Rebecca threw the clothes down and stood up, "You think you're so perfect! You have this... Half immortal life with your vampire mentor and your snake-boy boyfriend, who used to be my boyfriend before you got here! And you walk around here so happy and everyone just loves you and you get whatever you want and don't even care about how your ex-best friend was feeling! You didn't even ask if you could date him!" She yelled. I humorless-ly started to laugh and I shook my head at her as I loudly said, "You think my life has been perfect? You don't know the half of my story!" I told her. She crossed her arms, "Then enlighten me!" She said. "You know that I had to become Mr. Crepsley's assistant, but what you don't know is that when I did this, I lost my family and my best friend of 5 years because of it! I didn't want to be a vampire's assistant, but I did it to save my friend's life! I had to say goodbye to everything I have ever known to join a life that I didn't know if I'd survive the week in. I have had to fight for my life and the lives of other vampires and humans, I had to go through insane trials to prove that I could remain a vampire! Why do you think I came back with half of my hair gone? And even now, there are still vampire hunters that want to hurt me, and Crepsley, and any other of our kind that they can get their stakes in! If anyone here has the perfect life, it is you! And I didn't steal Evra from you either! He broke up with you! Years ago, Rebecca! It's about time to get over the fact, that he is with me now and he is not yours to love anymore!" I can't remember the last time I've yelled at someone like that and felt so good about it. It's like something was lifted from me that had been desperately trying to escape for years now! I guess Johnny wasn't the only one who needed to reveal some things.