DISCLAIMER: I don't own it.

All I own is Alexa and her family+ Santo and his family.

Stravaganza: City of Words

Alexa watched boxes and boxes of valuable items being moved into her new house. She sighed. In Autumn, it would be horrible. New friends, new school, new everything...especially her sister Jade. The beautiful, the smarts, the best, and the center of attention. Alexa was...smart and a skilled at painting and writing. People often thought she was pretty, but she was so shy and quiet...her sister was the chatter box of their wealthy family.

Alexa watched her sister talk to some construction workers that looked her age. They laughed and often smiled at each other. Ugh…flirting. Her sister loved flirting with boys…and then she went out with them for at least a week. Then, she threw them back into the deep blue sea of love.

She walked around their quite elegant house. Her room was painted a light pastel lavender with a border of purple tulips that matched the lavender wall perfectly. It was small and crowded with cardboard boxes of her notebooks of writings, drawings and paintings. There was clothes, books and furniture for her room but that was it.

She slowly shuffled into the kitchen to see her mother sitting at the kitchen table counting bills and money. Her dad was outside with his arm wrapped around her sister talking about buying new furniture for her room. She rolled her eyes. She felt shoved away from her family. She put on her aquamarine jacket and her light blue sneakers and ran out the door and down the stairs. Her light chestnut hair streamed behind her as tear grew in her electric green eyes. She was finally at the iron gates of her house's entry way. She let them swing behind as she wiped the tears from her eyes.

She walked around the new city. She walked by her new school, Barnsbury Comprehensive School. She looked at it in splendor because it was a handsome building with rosebushes around it. She smiled. She soon arrived at a shop with trinkets at the window. She was amazed at the detail of each one. She went inside the shop. It was nice and was filled with color. She looked at the jewelry and bookmarks laying out on shelves and leather bound books at a display table. She picked up a bookmark made of sliver with a insignia of a book upon it. It had a orange ribbon with silver beads on it. She looked at the price. $10.00 she took out her wallet and paided the sum. A woman smiled at her and gave her her receipt. She put them in her jacket pocket. She walked out of the shop happy.

She went in the direction of home when she bumped into a girl and a boy talking to each other. She fell on the ground and soon got back up.

"I'm so sorry. Are you alright?" Alexa said. Helping them up.

"It's alright. I'm Georgia and this is Nick." Georgia said dusting off her jeans.

"I'm Alexa. I'm new here in Islington." Alexa said trying not to be rude.

"Nice to meet you Alexa." Nick said shaking her hand.

"Nice to meet you to. I'm sorry for a short conversation but I have to get home now." Alexa said quietly.

"Bye." They both replied at the same time waving. She waved back and walked quickly home. She arrived at the gates. She sighed and pushed them open. Her father was still talking to Jade and her mother counting her money. She ran up stairs and sat on a plastic wrapped couch. She took out her book mark and started to examine it. It was beautiful. It wasn't rusted or dirty it was a little worn away at the edges. She smiled. She could tell it was old though because the ribbon was faded. She looked at the sliver beards. They were shaped like quills. She got up and looked through a box of notebooks. She soon found one with a empty page.

Bookmark: $10.00

Beautiful book insignia engraved with faded orange ribbon. Beads shaped like quills. Most prized possession yet. Bought at a trinket shop at the corner of 5th Ave.

She closed it and put it back in the box. She sat down looking at the book symbol. She looked closely. It wasn't engraved at all! It had thin pieces of black stained glass around the edges. She held the book mark and thought of a place with piles of books and paintings and she amongst them, reading and painting just having a good time. She suddenly fell into a deep sleep on her plastic wrapped coach without a care in the world.