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calixtes rolled over in her bunk to hear the crew calling out, a banging on her door made her heart jump into her throat, hurriedly she stepped in to her black spandex tare down had each of her muscles aching, her newly found love sitting on the bed beside her he still smelt of hydrolic fluid and grease, tare down was much longer for him. do you have coffee, he demanded. calixte looked at him in apologetic tone, "no, I just awoke".. a long pause held in the air when a final heart stopping knock shook the door, ""LEAVING IN 5, HURRY UP!!"" calixte, pulling her shirt over her head staring at her boyfriend "Jackson!!, hurry!! we must go."" his brown eyes turned up to her with a hateful look of disbelief "DO I LOOK LIKE A MINUTE MAN!" calixte turned opened the door and walked out to keep him from seeing her tears in her eyes, she quickly walk towards the white duely truck her smiling bosses face greeting her from under the overly large round frames Myra's smile quickly dissipated seeing calixte holding her head down with her bright pink pack thrown across her shoulder, "is everything ok dear?" ,"yes ma'am" calixte quickly replied, Myra stared not to question any further nor push her, calixte gave her a forced smile pushing her pack in the floor bord between her legs and strapping her seatbelt across her, calixte red hair in the sun showed natural red,orange, brown,and bright blond streaks her eyes changing slowly from their usual emerald green to a deep grey, her redden skin covered in tiny brown dots laid upon her as tho some one had sprinkled cinnamon across her face and arms, Myra on the other hand had a stunning golden complexion along with honey brown eyes that showed worry for her friend and employee. Myra was a year younger than calixte but her title made her act older. Myra flashed her bright white smile and calixte thanked her lucky stars for such and understanding boss and friend. "hold up babe" a bouncing Joseph running his hair dark black tasseled under the trucker's hat with his calloused greased stained hands held up Joseph was Myra's husband his dark black brown eyes shown at her, and asked her if she had his copy of directions to the next spot, "of course love! I almost forgot!!" calixte admired their love so deep and true a tap on the window next to calixtes head reveals Myra's half brother travis standing his eyes cut narrow as he asked her " where is Tampa??!!" Tampa being the midway name given to Jackson by the crew, " I believe he is still in the room sir" he huffed seeing Jackson bounce out of the room slide his aviators across his eyes pushing his blond hair threw his fingers" his cockiness did not serve him well with Zeke (Myra's half brother) his shrpe tone did not faze Jackson as he commanded him to jump in the cab of the semi-truck that pulled the power grip, one of the spectacular rides owned by the carnival company they all worked for, calixte feeling anxious gave a nervous smile to Myra.

Joseph sprinted towards his box tuck pulling one of the game line ups. moments later they pulled onto the after stopping by a restaurant to allow the crew to grab a bite to eat and continued making their way through traffic until finally 2 hours later pulling into the lot, instantly people jumped from the bus and trucks and started working.

this was life tho it wasnt much and didnt pay outstandingly but it was life, the mud and dirt buried under their fingernails pulling tugging and calixte and other 4 crew members cleaned and scrubbed the cotton candy wagon and fryers in the corn dog wagon later rejoicing at their accomplishments to finishing their set up in time to open tommrow afternoon, this was a decent fair and the people were kind to the carnies.

the next day walking to work tucking in her purple shirt down into the tight black pants and pulling her ponytail thru the back of her hat smiling this was her life it wasnt much but she loved her job and crew and of course her boss, she happily sprinted to her station and prepared to open she joked through the night and snacked occasionally, but she saw Jackson walking toward her, her heart sank and began beating rapidly something was wrong, Jackson approached the window and stated he was just fired for being late he nonchalant mannerisms made her heart ache.

did he not care?! he then asked to use her phone to call a friend about returning home, she allowed him and tears welling up in her eyes she felt abandoned once again,

see calixte had a rough life her father leaving at 2 and then her 1st boyfriend leaving along with her second abandoning her on this show then a 3rd leaving her crying in front of the entire crew as he rode off with his father back to Illinois, and here she was once more questioning everything, when her hands trembled as she saw Myra marching towards her the panic in her face she already knew, calixte was going to leave with Jackson, Myra never forced a decision on her but asked her to stay for one more spot because she had no one to replace the help she so desperately needed and knew the job would be done right with no fears or worry. she stared at her then walked off to Joseph. calixte soon turned her badge and uniforms over to Myra seeing the pain and disappointment in Myra's eyes caused her just as much pain as hearing Jackson saying he was fired.. she felt her heart breaking as they pulled from the drive of the midway and headed towards the next exit to where her new journey began..