I yawned a little turningon this little wooden floor with my blanket I opened my eyes thegently rocking of the carriage still going on the bright morninglight just peaking though the little door curtian I saw across fromme was daisy laid fast asleep on her side her hair falling lightly inher face and her dress tightly hugging her sleeping form she lookedso peaceful and beautiful I almost wanted to look at her forever ormaybe even...kiss her. Till the carriage suddenly stopped which wokedaisy up she sat up streching and yawning "Ummm good morning" shesmiles at me
"Good morning daisy"I tell her "where are we?" I ask
"Home" she smilessorting her dress a little and getting up offering her hand so Ihappily took it letting her tug me up and out the little carrige Itook my bag and she smiled widely dragging me off we past a largemetal gate and on the inside where hundreds of little one mancaravans and tents everywhere in a maze like structure
"morning daisy" a mansmiled at a big tent where he was serving up some bacon and eggs
"Morning Frankie" shesmiled as we went past
"welcome home Missdaisy" a boy smiled as he rushed past us going the other way
"Thank you Yani" shegiggled "Come on I wanna take you to my place" she smiledspeeding up so I followed her a few more strange people greeted us afew looking at me sort of strange till atlast we got to the back wallof this place and there stood a little caravan she unlocked the doorand tugged me inside it was loverly sweet little fluffy cushionseverywhere a big bed at one end and a little sofa with a millionbooks at the other a kitchen and a door to a bathroom in the middle"Now since we have been traveling so long how about I make you acup of tea?" she offers
"Ohh sure, thank youdaisy" I smile looking around at little things
"You can have a seat ifyou like?" she offers
"oh thank you" Ismile sitting on the little sofa as she came over giving me some teaand sitting beside me "so... where am I going to go?" I ask her
"Ohh well there a fewlittle spaces for small tents and things on the east side of the campor I supose you could go against the wall next to me" she suggests
"I would like to benext to you, as I'm a newbie and all" I shrug
"Course, after we haveour tea I will get talking with the boss lady get you your own tent"she smiles "Or... I mean I have a big sofa and a big bed, you couldstay with me if you wanted?" she suggested
"ohh no I uhh... no Icouldnt take up your space you've done more than enough for me daisy,keep your privicy and all, not that I mean I wouoldnt love to but,just you know" I explain even if I was making a royal mess of whatI was trying to say
"Its okay I get itBenny, young man want's his privicy" she smiles getting up to dosome things
"Ohh no daisy it's notlike that" I tell her getting up and holding her hands "won't itseem strange and all some new boy shareing your caravan, plus I don'twant to be a bother, like a said you have done more then enough forme I couldn't take you your space in here daisy" I tell her
"okay, but your goingright next door so I can give you a cuddle when I wanna" shegiggles hugging me tightly so I held her close too "Come on wewill go tlak with Miss lisa" she smiles taking my hand and draggingme off with her my god she likes to run we went around a few tentsand caravans till we got to where the guys we had been travelingwith where packing things away next to a big two level cravan itlooked very perminant with water and all sorts of other things infact all the tents and such looked perimant like they never moved Isaw a woman in a long black dress talking with the main man from thecircus show I saw she saw me and daisy and sighed shoeing the manaway and turning rubbing her temple
"Miss Delane what haveI told you about bringing people into the camp" she sighed
"but Miss Lena he hasknowhere to go" daisy replied
"Ohh god Daisy whathave I said about bringing home strays" she sighed "This place ismeant to be a safe haven for freaks not for any random homelesswondering though" she complained
"Please-" daisy began
"No, no exceptions"she sighed going to go back into her tent
"Actully, miss, I am afreak" I spoke up
"Ohh?" she asks
"I am, please I don'thave anywhere else to go, I can't perfom my freak for you I am notreally good enough at controling it, but I will work, I can sew, Ican clean clothes and cook anything I can if I have somewhere to go"I tell her
"Alright, know whereyou want to go?" she asks
"Ohh daisy offered mebeside her" I smile
"Alright" she sighedgoing into the big tent again grabbing a bundle "here" she sighedthrowing it to me "it's a small one man tent, feel free to re sewbits or colour it, make it your own as you wish, fire's stay in themiddle you can fill it with whatever you like" she explains
"Thank you, thank youso much miss-" I began
"you can call me MissLisa, Lisa lena" she explained
"Thank you miss lisa"I smile
"and daisy" she asked
"Yes Miss Lisa?"daisy asked
"I have an eye on you"she said before going back into her tent
"Come on we have tostart getting you set up before it gets dark benny" daisy giggleddragging me back towards her place
"What did she mean?"I ask
"about what?" sheasked
"About having an eye onyou?" I ask
"not much really" sheshrugs as we got back to hers she cleared a bit of her outsideferniture making a bit more space there was the back of another rowof vans across from her place and enough space to some junk downbetween her's and the wall so she put the little bundle in the middleat the end of this corridor starting to unravel it "have you put atent up before?" she asks
"No" I smile
"Okay, I will do thisyou need to go find Jacob jackson he makes the wooden bits tell himyou need a fire pole and a bed" she says
"where will I findhim?" I ask her
"Go to the food tentwhere frankie was and go down that row right to the end can't misshim" she says as she began working
"Alright" I shrugstarting to go but she grabbed my hand giving my cheek a kiss
"Be careful" she toldme
"I will be" I blushgoing off I wondered around for a good amount of time till I foundthe food man again I was just going to pass but he spoke to me
"Hey, you the boy camein with daisy?" he asked me he was a very large man very happythough
"Yeah" I shrug
"What's your name kid?"he asked
"Benny" I smile
"well welcome to thecommon benny, Miss lisa told us about you the new boy this winter,you gonna be sticking around in the summer?" he asked
"I plan to, I cantreally tour but I am happy to work, not like I have anywhere else torush off to" I shrug "Not to be rude but I have to get somethings for my tent" I tell him
"Ohh course, jacob downthere at the end and Miss penelopy across the way does some wondefulycomforatble blankets if your looking for some" he explained
"thank you" I smilegoing off down to jacobs he had a big open tent with a lot of toolsabout he had a lot of poles and things around he was a wood worker
"Ohh? Hello there newface" He smiled getting up and greeting me with a hug I was alittle confused "we dont see amny new faced about here what can Ido for you?" he asked
"Oh I need a uhh...fire pole and a bed" I tell him
"you must be a newbiethen? Getting your tent set up?" he asked as he rummaged around histent
"yes sir" I smile
"ohh no no sir, jacobjackson common woods man, need anything wood related you visit mealright" he says handing me a big set of poles and then measureingmy hight against himself and going off again coming back with a bedperfect for my hight with some leg room
"Thank you so much, howmuch?" I ask him
"no charge, I makethese for something to do, go on get going its getting late" hetold me
"Thank you" I smilecarring it best I could slowly going back to daisy she had alreadygotten the tent postly up all on her own
"Ohh perfect, you leavethese here, I will get it all set up for you, go get us some dinnerokay" she smiles
"Okay, back soon" Ismile quickly going off again back to frankie's little kitchen
"Ohh here for yourdinner?" he asks me as he finsihed up with some other people
"Yes please, mine andone for daisy too" I tell him
"Humm you and missdaisy known each other long?" He asks as he began cooking it all up
"not really, we met inbillersbury last night of the show I wanted to see it but I didnthave enough she let me in the back to see it, I had knowhere to goshe offered I come her with her" I explain
"aww sweet" he laughs"miss daisy's always been as sweet as a pile of sugar that girl,used to take in wounded animals when she was little" He explainedas he served up the two meals and handed them both to me
"Thank you how-" Ibegan
"No charge don't worryabout it, your one of us now" He says
"thank you so much" Ismile going off back to daisy when I did I put the food on her littleoutdoor table that had now been moved to the space perfectly betweenmy tent and her van "Daisy" I call
"Ohh benny your back"she smiles popping her head out the door "come on you have to see"she smiles tugging me forward so I pushed open the cotton doorducking a little to get inside it was beautiful the big tent wasround and sweet the fire lit in the middle of the tent going up to ahole in the roof hidden from view but enough for smoke to go my bedset up close to the corner with a blanket and a couple pillows setover it a couple rugs on the floor one close by the other sideagainst the wall on one side was a little bathroom set apart by somecurtains one wall was of course her van there she had opened herwindow to let liht come in more from her van and a couple littlehanging bits from the celling one a curtain to shut and block thewindow if I wanted privicy from her
"Daisy...its beautiful"I tell her
"You mean it?" sheasks
"Of course I do, thisis amazing thank you so much" I tell her
"it's alright, I wantedto make it nice and cosy for you" she smiles I happily sat on mybed it was so comfy and warm so soft like laying on a cloud she popedout getting our dinners so she sat on the floor by the fire on theblanket eating her food and I sat beside her having mine too
"You really didnt haveto do all this for me daisy really" I tell her
"I know, I just wantedto make you feel welcome here with us" she smiles as she finsihedher food
"I cant thank youenough for all you've done for me daisy, you've given me a job, aplace to go, with food and water, and this amazing place, you'vereally spoilt me" I smile
"I'm sure you'll pay meback someday" she giggles giving my cheek a kiss I blushed hardfinishing up my food putting my plate on the floor with hers "justremember to close your curtain when your doing stuff" she warns"and we need to make a signal in case you get some pretty girl inhere" she laughs
"Ohh... I dont think weneed to worry about that" I blush
"No?" she asks
"no" I laugh "whatabout for you don't want me bursting in on you doing something withsomeone" I smile
"No a worry" shelaughs "but a sign I supose a do not enter signal for both would begood just in case" she smiles
"yeah we will work itout" I shrug
"right well I will letyou get all tucked up in bed, I will take these back" she smilespicking up the plates but I stopped her "what is it?" she asks Ifroze for a moment by her question but I held her arm and gave hercheek a little kiss
"Thank you, foreverything daisy" I tell her
"Your quiet welcome"she smiles giving my nose a little kiss and going off out once shewas gone I shut up my door buttoning it up and unpacking my littlepack with my little things putting them in nice little places I gotchanged letting my fire die down as I climbed into bed it was so niceand warm and cosy like having the biggest marshmellow in the worldhugging me I saw daisy's light come on after a couple minuets shepoked her head out the little window in a little purple nightie "Didyou want me to shut the window tonight?" she asks
"No its okay" I smilegetting comfy on my side facing her window
"Alright, well sleepwell" she smiles
"Thank you, goodnightdaisy" I tell her
"Good night benny"she smiles blowing me a little kiss making me blush hard as she wentaway shutting off her light and suddenly my tent and almosteverywhere around it was dark the only light the little glow of myfire I shut my eyes and insantly fell into a sweet sleep.
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