Freekshow Romance

I ran back stage to see everyone packing up stuff.
I ran over to Patrick.
"Rick guess what?"
"You're gay?"
I glared at him.
"No, I have an assistant!" I cheered jumping up.
Everybodys heads turned.
"You what?" Bertie said looking at me.
"I got an assistant!"
"Ari, do you think you can just going around handing out jobs to people?! Why didn't you talk to us about this first?!"
"I didn't want to lose her. She's perfect Bert! You or Candy could teach her the stuff she needs to learn! I promise you won't be disappointed."
"Where did you find this girl?"
"The audience."
"Dipshit," Kristoff the Elephant Man his me in the back of the head.
"You are notsupposed to talk to the audience. We already warned you about that."
"But, she's perfect!" I yelled again.
"Which one?" Patrisha sighed.
"The pink haired one. Her name is Antoinette."
They all looked and smiled at me.
"Good. If you said anyone else we would have killed you." Patrick laughed.
"Why?"
"She would look good for the troop. Good choice, boy." Bertie said leaving.
I looked around kind of confused on the change of mood but I ignored it.
I ran over and started to pack up my make-up and other props.
I was the last one to finish packing up stuff.
We left the building and went to our bus.
We put our act stuff in the trailer toat on the back.
We used the trailer on the back for all of our props, costumes, and etcetera.
We all got into the bus and rode of to a Wal-Mart parking lot.
If we were just staying at a place for a night we slept in the bus but if we were staying for a couple days maybe even a week we would get a find somebodys house to stay at or go in the woods and make camp.
My bed was right next to Femme's.
Femme was always cool to talk too.
She really was French and barely knew English.
She taught me how to speak French which was pretty cool.
We all said good night then went to bed.
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When we all got up and dressed in the Morning I gave Candy, our driver also Bertie's wife, the address to Antoinette's apartment.
She drove us to the apartment and within five minutes we were there.
I got out and went to the front door.
I thought about knocking but I saw the doorbell.
I pressed the dirty white button.
A short and fat woman opened the door.
"What do you need?" she sighed.
"Um, is Antoinette here?" I asked suddenly feeling insecure.
"Why?" she eyed me.
"Um, I'm coming to, you know-" I hated people.
Just talking to normal people bugged me.
Right then I saw the mess of pink hair run down stairs.
"Teena it's okay. He can come in." she said breathlessly smiling at me.
Teena looked at me and let me by.
I walked in.
"Sorry my apartment is upstairs." she said leading me to the stairs.
We went up a few stories then we got to an open door and she walked in.
"This is my home." she sighed.
It wasn't much.
A bed, a small fridge, and a room that I presumed was a bath room.
She had two small to medium sized gym bags.
"Sorry if it's too much." she said worried.
"Oh, don't worry, we have room." I smiled.
I grabbed the bags for her and we headed downstairs.
She left a key by the door.
We were then off.
I took her out to the bus.
We walked in together.
"Guys, I'd like you to meet Antoinette, the new member of the crew." everybody smiled back at her.
"Welcome to Hell, sister." Raven one of the Lobster Twins laughed.
"Don't listen to her." I heard Bertie's voice say behind us.
Antoinette gasped then turned around.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Bertie smiled.
We got settled in and the bus was off.
Antoinette immediately connected with Femme.
I found out through eavesdropping that her mother was French and they were talking about the beauties of France.
"So, what made you say yes to Ari. He is such a silly little boy." Femme said quietly in her strong French accent.
"I don't know. I mean weird and unusual things have always interested me and it was weird. It was like Ari asked me and something happened. Avez-vous vu ses yeux? Ils sont hypnotiques! Je ne pouvais pas dire non." she quickly said in French.
I could barely decypher what she said.
She said it so quickly.
All I could make out was she said something about eyes, something was hypnotic, and she couldn't say no.
"Il les amène de sa mère." Femme said sweetly.
I understood that completely.
He gets them from his mother.
I soon was lost after they started to talk in quick, eloquent French.
I went to talk to Kristoff.
He tested out a new trick on me.
I clapped in approval and then he said,
"She's a gorgeous girl y'know?"
"Yeah, she's cute."
"Cute?"
"Yeah, I mean she's nothing too special."
Kristoff rolled his eyes at me.
"You're too innocent for a crazed man." he laughed.
I smiled looking at Antoinette.
Maybe she is a little prettier than I thought.

Glossary:
Avez-vous vu ses yeux?- Have you seen his eyes?
Ils sont hypnotiques!- They're hypnotic!
Je ne pouvais pas dire non.- I couldn't say no.
Il les amène de sa mère.- He gets them from his mother.