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