Friday, December 7, 2018

The Circus


The Circus

Hello!, my name is Vanessa, I am 17 years old, I currently
live in NEW YORK (USA) but I would like to live in Canada, I love studying and reading, I have a secret that I have never told anyone and I will not even think about saying it, because I am afraid that my friends are going to make fun of me, I have "Coulrophobia", it is the phobia or irrational fear of clowns and mimes, in this case they are clowns. What terrifies me the most is the excessive makeup they wear, that nose as red as blood, and that curly wig of different colors, ... maybe you will wonder why I have this phobia, and why I will always have it. 
Well, I tell you: everything started when I was 6 years old, I was a very spoiled girl, my parents spent money on unnecessary things, every Friday after class, my dad took me to the most expensive circus that passed  by a nearby neighborhood while my mom was in photo shoot for the magazine "Chik",  a popular worldwide magazine.
One day, Dad came late for me to school, but anyway he took me to my favorite ex-place, (the circus) told me that while he was going for my favorite sweets, I should take care of the stalls near the stage. Well, if we sat back, I could not see more than the heads of the other children. I sat on the chair, waiting for him, I remember very well that I loved sugar, I adored, but those were other times, when I grow up I will try to forget everything that happened.

I met a very handsome guy, that's another story, we were waiting for the best of the show to come out; the clown, of course. It had been about 40 minutes and the clown did not appear so we decided to go out and looked  for him, when we were in the hall, we found his shoes, or well, a couple. We reached a small room where there was a radio that suddenly went on:
"Warning! Alert all cities in the US, this is not a simulation, there have been reported around 1,567 murders in high security circuses, many of the witnesses affirm and assure that a strange figure was watching them from the day his family members were killed, only 5 out of 10 people say he was a clown, and the other 50% a man in black clothes, nobody knew what it was, until today October 31st, 2003 there are still rumors that .......... Cz cz cz cz.
Apparently it was old news but then we saw a newspaper that said:
"On Friday, October 31st, 2012, there has been a total of approximately 1,584 murders, in continuous hours caused by an unrecognizable clown in a US circus, if you come across a guy in black and red clothing, a yellow wig and a large red nose, please contact the authorities immediately at: 911, otherwise, you will be putting your own life at risk "
Watching this news, I was totally shocked, the description of the subject in the newspaper was just the clown of this circus, I could not believe it, we were exposed to real danger.
Suddenly, there were footsteps coming from the janitor's closet, from the fright I fainted, and woke up in a psychiatric hospital, the leaves flew everywhere, the pencils and even the food, and right next to me was the boy, but not tied like me, but sitting on the desk and smiling.

By Heidi Rico, Step 9