Life in the circus

The year was 2001 Neon was ten at the time and picking raspberries with his father in their backyard ditch. "Hey dad, I heard the circus is in town!" Neon says while reaching for a raspberry. "Let me guess, you want to go?" His father asks, "Only I-if it's ok with y-you…?" Neon says His father then got an idea in mind. "Sure, we can go!" he says slyly, "YAY!!" Neon shouts and hugs his father. Later that night, Neon and his father hop in the truck and drive to the circus grounds. Neon and his father then walks to the entrance where they got their tickets and walked to the big tent in the center where the main acts were being held. Neon and his father both took their seats and saw that on display was a two-headed clown, one of the heads were named John and the other one was Bethany. Neon felt sad for them since people were laughing and throwing dirt at them. Neon's father then decided it was time to put his plan into action. He walks outside the tent after telling Neon to stay put and talks to the ringmaster about selling Neon to the circus for about ten thousand. The ringmaster asks what Neon could do to entertain people. "Well, he can sing and dance." Neon father replies. "Good enough." the ringmaster says, and they shake hands and head to the ringmaster's trailer, where Neon's dad is handed a briefcase full of money. Neon's dad then walks to his car and drives home, leaving Neon behind. After the performance, everyone starts to leave and so does Neon, but the ringmaster stops him and pulls him backstage while Neon starts yelling for his dad. Then Neon is thrown into a cage beside John and Bethany. Bethany then tells Neon he should be quiet, or the ringmaster would inject him with a sleeping shot. So Neon tries to keep it down, but the tears keep on falling from his eyes until he fell asleep. At around one in the morning, the ringmaster wakes Neon up and injects him with a shot to make his body numb and takes him to a tent, where Neon passes out as soon as the ringmaster pulls out a scalpel. When Neon wakes up, he feels a sharp pain in his lower back. "So you're finally awake, How do you feel?" the ringmaster asks Neon and pulls out a mirror where Neon looks and sees a boy with pink hair, yellow eyes and bright-colored clothes. "W-what happened to me?" Neon asks, "I fixed you to make you look more appealing to the crowd." the ringmaster happily says. "Oh, my dearest apologies, I have a show I must run!" he says and walks out of the tent. "So, what's your name, kid?" John asks, "My names N-neon..." Neon replies and looks around for an escape. "That's a nice name, my name used to be Mathew until the ringmaster forced it to be John..." He says to Neon. Just then a group of men walks in with handcuffs and place them on each of the deformed entities including Neon. The men then take them to the circus train and place each act in their own train carts, but place Neon in the same cart as John and Bethany since he didn't have his own yet. Just then the train started to move after the tents and everything was placed in the back carts. "W-where are they taking us?" Neon asks Bethany. "They are taking us to the next place we are suppose to preform." She tells Neon, Once they got to the location, the men started to set up the tents and other things while Neon watched from the barred windows briefly. The men then walked over and brought out their cages and placed each act in them and rolled them into the tent. "I need to find a way to get out of here." Neon thought as nighttime fell down upon them.

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