Her Name Is October

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-Her Name Is October-

I had an old Billy talent CD playing in my stereo. River below was playing on repeat.

I was washing my clothes in the sink. Nodding my head to the song and it was a hot summer day.

I'm sixteen and currently living in an old apartment with only two other neighbours.

One of them is a stripper that works weekdays on a full shift her name is Jodie gala.

She's Mexican and often brings her work home. Which means I'm listen to the wall banging for about an hour. She starts crying at eight in the morning and I can hear the guy swearing. While looking for his clothes and then stomping don't the hall. Past my apartment and that's how I wake up for school every now and then. But if not I have my alarm clock. Jodie thinks a man will one day be with her forever after a one-night stand. But I know the truth and that is you can't rely on someone to be there for you. When you're on your own you have to make it on your own.

When I first met Jodie, I was fifteen and trying to squeeze my 50-dollar queen size bed in through my door and she just so happened to see me. She smiled and asked if I needed help. My first impression on Jodie was that she was a nice person but that impression soon changed.

When I found out about her options in occupations. Jodie use to work at hooters when she was eighteen and then switched to stripping because the money was literally being shoved into your thong and that's a lot better than getting your hands dirty. She quit school when she was fifteen. I think it's sad. Jodie is very beautiful and she just sleeps with men to get money out of it.

She's no different than a prostitute.

I can't blame her or judge her because we both have issues with money.

I'm a sixteen-year-old runaway orphan. I've haven't been in a relationship before and I just don't have time for dating. I ran away from the orphanage at fifteen. I had been put in the Orphanaged because I had suffered from amnesia and I had no idea who I was. I still didn't know who I was and I don't think I ever would find out.

I don't know who I really am. But I named myself, October. Because I woke up in the Gotham General hospital on October 12th and I was told that I had amnesia. So I was just a kid then and I like the name of the month. The police tried to find my parents but no one came for me and I was then put into the Gotham orphanage. My life became a living hell in the orphanage. So I ran away and then that's how I came to be.

My birthday officially was on October 12th, 7:30. When I had awoken and then on became October.

I, being sixteen juggling school and work, together is hard.

At school, everyone knows me as Katrina gala.

I got Jodie to sign all those stupid papers from school. I just told her they were for the apartment manager. I also got the apartment manager to believe that I was nineteen. My apartment manager is into guys. Yeah, he's gay. I live in a pretty weird apartment building.

Also my other neighbour is a pedophile that often comes out of his apartment to stare at me go into my apartment. When I come home from work or school. I chose not to confront him about it because... I just.. didn't want to know what he would say.

I think it's weird, because he likes kids and me. I think he figured out I wasn't nineteen.

I work part time as a cook in a Spanish restaurant. So I'm pretty good with cooking and cleaning.

I pay two hundred dollars a month just to live here. This isn't bad at all. Because from the outside of this building. It looks like it's ready to fall down on us. The wallpaper in the hallways was once white but now it's just sickly yellow and falling apart. The carpets were also bright red but now they're almost black with tons of stains. No one bothers to clean up outside, anymore.

My pay check is about $500 hundred every two weeks. This is great for me. It's enough for groceries and the electricity bill. Groceries are $110 and electricity is $170. The extra 20 is for snacks on my break at work. When I get my other $500 in a few weeks I either save up or spend it on school fees. But I've been saving up. I have this secret compartment in my closet in my room. I stash all my money in there because I've been robbed before. I've been saving because I hope to one day catch a plane away from Gotham and move to a beautiful home near the ocean.

Oh and your probably wondering why I'm washing clothes in the sink. My sixties washer broke down on me.

X-October

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Joker will be in later chapters!