My Rise and Fall

Beauty Queen on a silver screen. Lovely Trainer Evelina, only 24 and a skilled acrobat. Call me Cirque.

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Lina crossed her arms, she didn't want to climb the ladder upwards and go to the roof. She sighed and did so, while she climbed up behind Rowan; she took the moment to check him out. When the climbing was over and she didn't have the nice sight, she pursed her lips and crossed her arms again. She looked around, watching the clear sky. It was quiet and a nice change from all the gym and screams she usually heard at the academy. 

Before Lina got to bash on the place and how it was kinda creepy and too much of an Aladdin cliché; Rowan spoke first and Lina lowered her stuck up nose. "Your place." She had never been trusted with such information. No one had ever told her about their one place. She was nervous for the first time since she could remember. "Oh, you know. It's kinda nice." She smiled sheepishly and got closer towards Rowan. She watched him for a moment, and without hesitating. She took his hand, it wasn't like any if the homeless would care what she was doing. "I like it."

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Lina chuckled. “Well, I am trying to impress you about myself.” They continued walking along, she didn’t mind her subtle flirting. Her mind was somewhere else for a second, she didn’t realize that Rowan had stopped behind her. She turned around and also stopped walking, wondering if something went wrong from their conversation. “Oh.” She didn’t want to hear that, she didn’t want to see the pity or the grief. So she just shrugged, thinking about herself and what she could do that was spectacular. “Things happen. People die.” She realized that the walk was now awkward, and she desperately wanted to say something. 

But she didn’t and they finally stopped in front of an alley, certain that this was not the place Rowan was going to take her. “Um, are you sure?” She hoped he wasn’t out of his mind or something. “You do realize we are in an alley.” She sounded a bit more sad that she intended for her to be heard. She was picturing something amazing and maybe just a little romantic.

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“I’m sure you are.” Lina smiled jokingly, her eyes set on the road in front of her. She crossed her arms, thinking that there must be something to answer that was not too misleading. Even if she wanted them to have a chance, she also knew better and it was quite a delight having someone have an interest for her. If she let Rowan know her; he might just run for the hills. She wasn’t exactly the most pleasant person around, even if she acted like she was.

Of course, Rowan was the type to pour his heart out, maybe even do anything possible to get what he wanted. Quite the opposite of Lina, she could jump out of a wagon if the other showed more interest for her. She quickly glanced at Rowan, who had changed pace and was now looking at her. There was no avoiding eye contact now that he was walking backwards. “Me? Hmm.” She nervously bit her lower lip, not knowing what to say exactly. She wasn’t one to talk about her past. “I used to be in a circus. Multiple ones actually. After I became a rising star in the circus industry I changed to the Olympic gymnast route because they offered me more.” She sounded selfish and shallow, she beat herself up for making herself look bad in front of someone she liked. (Even if she didn’t say it out loud.) “But my mother died and I had to come back to my first circus.” She said quickly so she didn’t have to process it, thinking saying something like that would soften her selfishness with other emotions.

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Diego smirked against her lips as he wrapped his arms around her as he held her close to him.

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Taking a breath and hearing what Rowan had to say was a change for Lina, she listened to him talk about his family and it made Lina think about hers. It was never a pretty picture to think about her own family and just remembering about her life before ETA made her go back to darkness. Remembering moments; like her mother dying, her father before and after she died, her own fame and simple happiness as her own person, and then going back to her own self degrading. In that moment it seemed so easy to think about herself while Rowan was talking, she shut her memories down and actually thought about Rowan instead of herself. 

“Wow.” She whispered, trying to think of something, less selfish to say. “That must’ve been hard.” She shifted uncomfortably and noticed herself leaning closer to him as they walked, their bodies moving closer together as if there was a magnetic field pulling them together. “I didn’t think you would actually tell me something that personal.” She smiled in such a genuine way, that it ached for her not to just grab him in that moment and not have something holding her back. 

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Noticing the small details of Rowan made Lina like him more, like how he pulled out his hands out of his pockets and her wondering what he would do; expecting him to try something, except it ended in empty hopes. "I trust you." The words fell without her realizing it. They held much more meaning than she thought she wanted to express them with. She held the conversation of small chit chat, their walk even slower than normal but she didn't complain. She thought for a moment before answering his question. 

"I enjoy my job and I work hard everyday, pleasure should not be sleeping with students." She shrugged and thought of something more to add as she heard him add his own share. "But...?" She turned towards him, wanting to know what he thought. She thought that maybe she wanted to know more about Rowan, which was interesting because she never wanted to know more about anyone else, she has always been about herself and answering about her own life. “Tell me something about you, something no one knows.” It was blunt and unpredictable, yet she thought it was completely appropriate.

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Lina crossed her arms and scoffed in a joking manner. “So much logic goes into that.” She laughed, looking away and trying to disconnect herself. No empty word would push him away, and it was finally clear to her. She could know all about him by reading his file; not that she had done it, not even when she wanted to the most. It would be wrong for her to do so, and she wanted to get to know him according to their own terms. All in the world of what ifs’. 

“Sure, I remember.” She muttered when she saw him stand up she thought to say something to make him stay, but she saw his offering hand and Evelina had to think for a second. Should she go because she wants to or because he asked? The question was no answered, since she heard his statement and took his hand. “Good.” She stated, though a part of her broke. Maybe she wanted him to try, just once. Once she was standing up, she stretched her back and smiled. “I’m sure they will be kept very warm.” She joked, following him to this secret place.  

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“I know I am special, but the only reason you are interested by me is because I am attractive, and also your superior.” It crushed her to say some of the words she didn’t believe in, she was selfish in trying to get Rowan to be infatuated with Evelina. She was always one to love attention, be adored by everyone and anyone she wanted. But she never let anyone see more than her shows, her shows kept herself a secret, kept her real emotions behind the scenes. 

It was the showgirl that Rowan was interested in, and if it were any other guy, Lina would be okay with that. But this boy would not stop just there. It made her wonder why? 

She heard his words and turned towards him, a smile spread across her face and a chuckle escaped her lips before she could stop them. “Sounds like totally different species.” She bit her lower lip as she lost herself in Rowan’s blue eyes. “Maybe not so different as we try to make ourselves believe.”

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Probably.. Something wrong with that?

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I actually don’t even need to deal with you, you aren’t in my department. Or are you in the agility elective?

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“I don’t need a lot of room, I don’t mind a tight fit.” He but his lip gently as he moved even closer. “Oh don’t tempt me. I wouldn’t mind giving you a good bit of pleasing, at all…..”

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“Alright then.” She muttered before he continued talking and getting his lips closer to hers. Until they kissed and Evelina pulled him closer.

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“Well, you can’t let me take anyone’s focus, I relish in it” He said as he shot her a wink. “Oh, is that right?“ He stepped closer to her. “Well, I couldn’t do that, eve. You know me,Eve I never tease what I don’t intend to please.It’s a rule of mine…”

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“I think I can make some room for you.” Evelina smirked as he got closer to her. “You better follow your own rules then.” 

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“Oh, no , I mean using your body in juuust the right way.  It’s a key component, you see. But you know as well as I do, you’ve got that covered. I dunno, I can’t be held responsible for sending them into a sexual frenzy.”

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“You should first look at yourself and then think if it’s really not your fault. If you gave me classes of seduction I would also go on a sexual frenzy.” 

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“You know me, Eve. I like to stay on-book. Oh, as do I, but if I have anything to say about it, they’ll learn there’s more to using their bodies as a means of distraction than shaking your goodies. Though, watching some of them try to be sexy is a bit funny”

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“Hmm, using other things that isn’t your body? I probably slept through that class. Please tell that to the girls that are trying to throw themselves at you that it isn’t working, they might try it on someone else and no one wants that.”

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“You see, m’friend, the concept is fairly simple. When it comes to your victims, the hands can’t catch what the eye can’t see. Just bear in mind, that the other person’s focus is just one more tool of your trade, and you manipulate it as you see fit. Now the question, is what is your method of manipulating their focus?”

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“Are these the types of questions you ask your trainees Diego? Because believe me, I know what the girls are going to say.”

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Jenna facepalmed herself before shocking her head. “I’m not saying I’m not doing it, all I mean is that I don’t want to do the complicated things before I’ve learned the basic, so I was starting to ask if you could show me something easier, like basic steps first, instead of the whole thing right away.” Said the student and realized that it was no point, because clearly she just became the worst student in Lina’s class. “But if you cannot do that, then fine, I’ll just go,” she sighed.

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“Miss Newman, you are supposed to know already the basics, it is what has been taught to you before.” Lina watched the student go, but before Jenna had completely left, Lina called out for her. “Come back and do an arch, then splits and finally just a handstand.” She crossed her arms and watched the girl do it.

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Violet huffed, yanking the knife from her waistband and chucking it back in the general direction of her bag. She’d go retrieve it later. “Well, you’re the trainer, show me what the hell I need to do.” She snapped, her hands settling into place on her hips. 

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“Okay. Lets start with the warm up, just follow what I do.” Lina started the warm up in front of Violet, noises around the gym followed and there was silence between the two of them, since this was indeed a private training session. “You know, I’ve heard a lot of you from Luke.” She disliked talking about her ex boyfriend but for the sake of making conversation, she would do so then. “Says you are going to be the best spy out there once you graduate.”

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"You know you’re supposed to like do it on the level that the students are in each subject? Like I’m far from flexible, and this is just way too hard for me to do, and when someone tells you that, you need todo some small changes so that it will be better for the student," Jenna said and rolled her eyes for a second. "I’m trying, but I’m also telling you that if I do that I will either die or not be able to walk for the next seven years."

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“Oh, wow. Okay Miss Newman, please, teach us the class. Since you seem to know what the trainer must do to the level threes’ then go ahead and let us see your flexibility training for this class.” Could Lina kill a student and get away with it? As a spy, yes, but not when she works for a spy school. “I push students to what I deem their breaking points, if you die then you aren’t even fit to be a spy. Worst case scenario you break a leg or another bone, do you think that will never happen out on the field?” She sighed and gave up on this girl. “You don’t do what I tell you then get out of my class and stop wasting my time.”