For Miss Piggy, for writing her Highschool fic, and Sweetie. Answering Sweetie's challenge.

YOUNG GETTY LOVE

Chapter 1

"Splash"

Betty Suarez jumped graciously, carefully not to mess her new green little shoes, avoiding a little pool of water that had formed in the middle of the sidewalk on the way to school. As she did so, little strands of her dark chestnut hair waved in front of her face. She didn't care for them, smiled, closed her eyes and delighted in the breeze that hit her face. Something stopped her midair and she took a step back regaining balance.

"Ay, ay" she said, rubbing her forehead. She looked up. A tall dark man stood before her carrying a plastic box full of mangoes.

"Torpe!" he just said and placed the box in the floor.

"Good morning, Mr. Perez."

She said, kindly. He didn't respond. Betty resumed her walking while still rubbing her skin. She knew he never answered her back but she insisted in greeting him every morning.

The feeling of pain quickly passed and Betty kept walking doing little jumps with the same smile on her face. She really loved the smell of the city after the rain. On the other hand, her older sister, Hilda, hated it. She said the humid weather messed with her beautifully straightened hair. Betty touched her hair that grew slightly over her shoulders. She wished she had her sister's hair. Of course, Hilda treated her hair much carefully than Betty. But her mother didn't allowed Betty to put so much chemical on her hair, she told her every day that she always loved her young daughter's curly wavy hair. And, even though Betty hated it, she loved to please her mother in any way she could.

It was interesting how Hilda was supposed to walk her to school. And her parents thought she did. But ever since she returned with her old-time boyfriend, Santos, she has been taking the subway and has been borrowing money from Betty's allowances. So poor Betty has been left to walk on her own but she enjoyed walking and it really didn't bother her in the slightest, except for the little fact that Hilda was not particularly notorious for paying her debts in a timely manner… actually, in any manner at all.

She noticed a little butterfly flying around a daisy growing out of the cement from the sidewalk. She saw attentively how the butterfly did some beautiful summersaults and flew closely in front of her eyes as if saying hello. This was a sign that something awesome was going to happen that day, her mother used to tell her. She followed the little butterfly to a little garden nearby and saw her join other friends dressed in many bright rainbow-like colors.

"So, you have friends?" Betty said, quietly. "I envy you."

Betty pressed her face against the metal wall that divided the street from the little garden and started singing a song to the little insects that kept dancing before her.

"Buenos dias, Betty. Are you running late, today?" said a woman walking two kids hand by hand, coming out of the building.

"Oh! Is it really that late?" Betty said without any idea how long she'd spent watching the butterflies.

"I guess it is" the woman said crossing the street. "Say hello to your mother and father from me, okay? Adios, Betty!"

"Adios" mimicked one of the kids and blew a kiss to Betty.

"Oh, crap" Betty said and started running carefully not to dirty the new pair of shoes her mother had bought for her the week before. She also had a matching light green skirt. Her mother saw for her and it fit perfectly the green bow tie she proudly wore on her neck. She felt she was the happiest girl on Earth and she couldn't wait for Henry Grubstick to see her in that outfit.

Only two more blocks to arrive to the school. She would hate to give "Dragon Breath" another excuse to send her to detention room. She's the only teacher that has ever sent her to detention room.

She stopped at a stop sign and tapped the floor impatiently with her soles. It was then when she noticed a big poodle of dark waters across the street. Her mind started thinking which was the best spot to jump through it as she waited for the traffic light to turn. Green. Yellow. A noisy vehicle came speeding out of nowhere and bathed her from head to toe with foul waters.

"Damn you!" was all she could yell as she saw her pretty skirt drenched in waters.

The driver of the van didn't even stop to check on her. The vehicle disappeared in the distance. All Betty could distinguish were the words "Tino's Deli" from the back of the vehicle.

She arrived to the school all wet from tears and dirt.

As expected, Dragon Breath, regardless of the tears and the excuses, didn't let her in class. So, wet and sad, she had to go straight to detention room.

"Surprised to see you here, Betty" said a beautiful young teacher as she picked the paper Betty handled to her. "Mrs. Keagan giving you a hard time, again?"

Betty just nodded and cleaned up her tears from her face. The teacher pointed a little seat at the back of the room and asked her to sit down.

"Rough day, eh?" the woman said laughing as she noticed Betty's wet clothes and motioned to the door where another kid waiting to admit his entry to the detention room. "You know you can't come here, Walter."

"Please, miss Rita. Just have to give something to Betty" the kid said with hesitant voice. He was a skinny peculiar kid, he had curly wavy black hair and curious big eyes. You could never form a straight opinion of that person. People would just find him weird and funny or just wanted to punch him to death. He was that type of kid. Rita sighed and let him in. He came with quick steps and sat in front of Betty. "Oh God! Betty. How you ended up being here?"

"Bad luck, I guess." She said. "You know she hates me."

"I had tell her I was going to pee just to check on you. She's so furious, today. She didn't even have mercy to the new kid."

"A new kid? Who's that?" She said, barely interested. Betty produced a little towel from her backpack and started cleaning her glasses. Her new shoes were ruined and the day couldn't get any worse.

"There's a new guy. A transfer student my dad knows his uncle so I…"

"Walter. Come on. Return to your class."

"I'm on it, Miss Rita." He turned again and kissed Betty on the cheek. "I guess I'll see you later in math. I'll let you know more then."

"Okay."

"Watch where you going, you idiot" Betty heard from the door and quickly put on her glasses. A guy she's never seen before pushed Walter out.

"Come on, boys, behave yourselves" Rita giggled and picked a paper from the kid. "Oh, welcome to the school. You can sit wherever you want…" The teacher read careful something in the paper. "Giovanni Rossi".

The kid turned to Betty and a huge grin formed on his lips.

Betty's heart started beating at high speed as all she could notice was the cap he was wearing in his head that sported a stupid grinning tomato that matched the boy's obnoxious smile and had clearly printed, in bold letters: "Tino's Deli".

Will be continued…

Spanish:

Torpe! = clumsy, idiot!

Buenos dias = Good morning

Adios = Good bye