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Arya – 15

Tessa – 16

Riccardo – 2

Ben - 11

How We Met

Arya's POV

Okay, so I might not be the smartest person in the world but I know that getting a random scholarship to Gotham Academy is strange, especially when I didn't apply! I'm blonde, but not that blonde.

"Do it sweetie, take the chance I never got" mother said. Yea right like I am going to listen to her.

I can't just leave, what would happen to Ricardo? What would happen to me? If I leave I might just have to compromise my identity, and that can't happen, not in a million years.

I have been pondering the questions for three days now, is I leave who is going to look after Ricca, defiantly not mum, she would probably leave him all alone in our flat while she goes out to slut it up somewhere, yep, I'm going to say it, my mum is a slut. She comes home pretty much every night drunk off her head and she smells like … you don't want to know what.

Maybe I should take that scholarship.

….::::2 Days Later::::…..

I am currently walking up the massive stairs to the front entrance of Gotham Academy. I found out just this morning that some sappy billionaire, by the name of Bruce Wayne, decided he would hand out twenty scholarships to kids in 'need', do I look like I'm in need? Well, maybe, but just because I refuse to go to school does not mean I'm in need. Whatever. I walk onto the grounds and immediately everything stopped, or should I say everyone stopped and stared at me. I feel my face burn up, feeling like a tomato. I realise that they aren't staring at me; they are starring at something behind me, except this one boy who has kept his eyes on me the whole time.

Anyway, I turn around and there climbing out of my suitcase, yes, climbing out, is my brother, Ricca. Yes my little brother stow away in my luggage, how cliché.

"Ricca!" I cry, appalled at the sight before me. I run towards him, feeling embarrassed as ever, and pick him up.

As I cradle him in my arms I whisper in his ear. "What are you doing here?"

"I didn't want to lose my Arya, so I came with you" he responded. A two year olds logic is so simple and yet so sweet.

All of a sudden I hear a feminine voice to my left speak, "Awe, what a cutie".

I turn my head in the direction of the voice and see a girl about my age, maybe a year older, standing there. She had dirty blonde hair, which cascaded down, to the small of her back and piercing blue eyes with flecks of grey, like a storm brewing, she was absolutely beautiful.

"Uh, thanks? He's my brother" I respond, rather stunned that anyone would approach me after what has just occurred. She smiles widely at me and I see just a little sparkle in her eyes.

"I'm Tessa, welcome to the Academy" she says calmly.

"Wow, thanks, and I'm Arya" I say.

"My Arry!" Ricca cries. I look down desperately at him; I don't want to be embarrassed especially here and with a new potential friend.

"Hmm, never been to boarding school?" Tessa questioned.

"How did you know?" I say shocked. Is it really that obvious I think to myself?

"Mmm, I can just tell" she says looking from me to Ricca, and then she winks at me.

"I like you" I say cheerfully, my perkiness coming back. It usually disappears when I'm nervous.

"I like you too" Tessa responded.

Tessa grabs my hand and leads me to the girls dorms, all the while Ricca has climbed over me and onto my back and drifted off to sleep. I really think I am going to like it here.

….::::Tessa's POV::::….

If you could marry sleep, I would have done it ages ago, probably when I first started my night 'job'. I know that I really shouldn't stay up so late, but I can't help it, I need the money. Not for myself, but for Ben. He's so brave, I mean, not many 11 year old kids would have the patience that he does. If only he could talk. That's been my life's dream now, to make my brother talk. But I have had to change it slightly. See, when my brother hadn't been born yet, my monster of a mother, would dose herself up on drugs. Not the pill kind, but the needle type, and being the weird and mean person she was, would stick them straight into her pregnant stomach. We think that one day, she jabbed one in, and instead of pulling it out, she wiggled it around. Well my brother has had damaged vocal cords ever since, and I am determined to save up enough money to pay for surgery so that he can speak.

I roll over on to my side, and propped myself on one elbow. Then I hear a buzzing noise.

"Alright Ben, give me a minute, I need to get up". I pull myself up and fall back down again, groaning. Bloody henchmen, whenever they get a punch in, they make it count. Not that I get hit very often, actually, I have only been hit twice, both times they just got lucky. If there weren't so many of them, I would actually get away unscathed.

I slowly pull myself out of bed and chuck on my school uniform. I had managed to get Ben and myself a place at Gotham Academy. I wouldn't risk schooling and looking after Ben by me, not after my father was killed and my mother was sent to Arkham Asylum,

"Alright Ben, I'm ready, what did you want for breakfast?" I yell as I'm walking down to our run down kitchen. Ben runs down the stairs and almost crashes into me as he tries to stop.

"I would like egg on toast please" he signs.

"Oh, eggs on toast. Are you preparing for a good day then, I mean, you only have eggs on toast if you're gonna have a good day" I reply, cooking the eggs. Then it hits me, it's Newbie Day, or also known as the day when the new kids come in.

"Wait a minute, are you hinting in a way that it's newbie day?" I question. Because bens mute he doesn't really have any friends.

"Yes" he signs quickly before finishing his breakfast. He rushes upstairs and comes back down, with his bag on his back and waits at the front door. I sprint upstairs and grab my bag before I slide down the railing of the staircase and race Ben out the door, stopping only for a few seconds to lock the door.

…Later that day…...

At lunch time I walk out into the main courtyard at school and look around. A big bus pulls up out the front of the school and the door to it slides open. Here come the newbies. My eye lands on a girl with a black and red suit case, which was almost bursting as the zipper. She had blonde hair and was looking around nervously, and that's when her suitcase began to open and out came a boy, probably no older than two years old, smiling. This little kid was absolutely adorable and I couldn't help myself, I just had to meet this mysterious girl.

"I'm Tessa, welcome to the Academy" I say calmly. She looks around again, and then her eyes settle on me.

"Wow, thanks, and I'm Arya" She say.

"My Arry!" A small voice cries. I look down to see the cute little boy that climbed out of her suitcase. I could see the desperate look in her eyes, the same ones when I first came to Gotham Academy. I then realised that she has probably never been to boarding school before.

"Hmm, never been to boarding school?" I questioned. I then proceeded to give her little brother a warm smile.

"How did you know?" she says shocked.

"Mmm, I can just tell" I say looking from her to her little brother.

"I like you" she says cheerfully, a sense of perkiness starting to show in her voice.

"I like you too" I respond.

I then grab her and drag her to the girl's dormitories, not that I'm staying there, just to show her around. I feel that I can already relate to her. Her little brother has curled up on her back and went to sleep. I smile and continue on to the dorms, I think that we're going to be best of friends.

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Twala! Xo