Allen Cole Reed, a young thirteen year old boy with brown hair and eyes, wearing a pair of blue jeans and a simple black T-shirt, sighed as it was announced that they would be landing in Paris soon. "almost there." He said while seeing the Eiffel Tower through the window. It was definitely amazing to see outside of the pictures.
'And to think we live here now.' Allen thought. His mom decided to sell everything they owned to have them move out of New York hoping they could leave the past behind and start over across seas.
Now, most people would view that as a hard and even a stupid thing to do, but his mom apparently had a friend living in Paris and they helped them rent out an apartment. They also offered his mom a job at their homeless shelter.
'Good thing I took french last year' Allen has always been interested in France, which led him to learn many things about the country, including something about superheroes. 'superheroes, yeah right' Allen thought as the plane landed.
Stepping off the plane and into the airport, he took a deep breath. "Finally here…" He was interrupted from his amazement when he was knocked to the ground by a passerby. Allen sighed as he got back up, "figures"
"Allen are you okay?" Allen looked up to see a woman in her late thirties with long, brown, slightly greying hair looking down at him with a worried expression. "Are you hurt?"
"I'm fine mom." Peter said with a smile. His mom, Nora Reed, had been more worried than usual after 'the accident'.
'The accident' as it was called, was the murder of his dad, Jonathan Reed. It happened back at their home in new york. There was a break in, and when his dad tried to stop the robber, he was shot.
"Just be more careful Allen, I don't want to see you hurt." She said, while Allen got up.
"I'm fine mom, relax. Anyways, is your friend coming to pick us up?" Peter asked to calm her down.
"yes, Samantha should be here any minute." Nora said with a smile.
"I'll go get our luggage, think you can wait here?" Nora asked.
"I'll wait here mom" Allen promised with a small smile as she left before he muttered under his breath.
Oh well, on the bright side at least there's no one to pick on him, but that also meant he couldn't be with his best friend, James Michael. James Michael was Allen's best friend, and also one of the most popular people at school. Allen was more of a loner, making him more of a 'loser' back home, but James didn't care. Allen was pretty sure James actually found his silence comfortable, but now James was gone.
Not wanting to be sad at a time like this, Allen reminded himself that he had a new chance to make friends at his new school.
As he thought about his future, He saw a TV playing live footage of a fight between two oddly dressed individuals and what seemed to be an abominable snowman. 'what the heck? This can't be real' Allen thought bewildered, but it was and Allen could only watch as the abominable snowman seemed to beat the two heroes, who he learned to be named ladybug and chat noir, causing them to make a 'tactical retreat'. Avalancher roared in anger and made his own escape. After that, the TV channel was changed, forcing Allen to stop watching the live feed. It was then his mom came back with their luggage. From there, they walked out to see a woman next to a car. He guessed the woman was his mom's friend, due to the smile that came across her face when she saw her.
"Samantha!" Nora exclaimed as she went to hug her friend.
"Nora." Samantha said as she hugged her back. "It's been ages, how have you been?"
Letting go, Nora smiled at her. "I've been doing great, it's so nice to see you."
"yes, If only it was under better circumstances." Samantha said, while giving a reassuring look to her old friend.
"oh well, I'll be fine." Nora said solemnly, as Samantha took notice of Allen who silently stood in the background. "Oh and you must be Allen, correct?"
"yeah, I'm Allen. It's nice to meet you" Peter greeted, albeit nervously.
"Oh I've only seen baby pictures of you." Samantha said with Allen now looking slightly embarrassed. "You really do look like him"
"so I've been told" Allen said politely, needing no further confirmation of who she was talking about.
As they spoke, Allen Reached into his bag and pulled out a book to read.
It didn't seem to take to long to get to wherever they were once they were in the car and while Allen did look at the sights, he found himself more interested in his book.
Looking up as the car came to a stop, Allen saw what he assumed to be their apartment building. Getting out, he went to get the suitcases out of the back. "okay, so our apartment will be on the second floor. Will you be fine with the suitcases, Allen?", Nora informed and asked him. "I'll be fine mom.", He replied already walking up the stairs.
When got to the apartment, Allen set his bag and the suitcases down and took a look at their apartment. It was a decent size, with two bed rooms, a kitchen, and a living/dining room. Looking into the rooms, he noticed they were both the same, small room, with a simple bed, dresser, and desk, along with a window overlooking the city.
While most people would consider the apartment rather bland, he considered it perfect. He never really liked fancy things, considering them to be quite corrupting.
Allen looked out the window in thought, 'it's not so bad' Realizing he was probably keeping his mom and Samantha waiting, Allen chose a room, and set his stuff in there, deciding to unpack later. He then left the apartment, making sure to lock the door, and made his way back to where he last saw his mom. Samantha then took them out to eat and on a tour of the city. The tour was nice in Allen's opinion, and the food was interesting. Nevertheless, both Allen and his mom went to sleep, wanting to wake early in order to unpack.
Allen was woken early the next day by his mom, who was already dressed and ready to clean. Still tired, Allen got up and got dressed, putting on a new pair of jeans and a new black T-shirt. Allen spent the next two hours unpacking his clothes, until he was interrupted by his mom. "Allen, can you go by the bakery down the road and get a loaf of bread?" "Sure thing mom" Allen grabbed his red hoodie and set off to the bakery. Checking his phone, he saw that it would take about five minutes until he got to the bakery, so he decided to put on some headphones and listen to music. As the song he was listening to ended, he walked up to the bakery and entered, taking his headphones off in the process.
Walking up to the counter, he saw a girl around his age standing there, "excuse me, can I please have a loaf of bread" "sure thing. That will be 1.99" Giving her the money, Allen took the bread and was about to leave, until the girl seemingly noticed something. "Hey I haven't seen you around here before" "I recently moved here" Allen uncomfortably replied. "Oh well in that case, let me be one of the first people to welcome you to Paris, I'm Marinette" the girl smiled, surprising Allen with her kindness. "Um...thanks, I'm Allen" And with that, Allen left the bakery, put his headphones on, and walked home.
When Allen got home, he found most of the luggage unpacked, except for one lone trash bag that was filled with stuff that they just couldn't sell. Allen put the loaf of bread in the cabinet, and started putting the items in the bag, on the counters around the apartment. By the time he was done, the only thing left in the bag was an ornate box with a weird black and white symbol on the box. The symbol seemed to be an x with arrows at the ends with arrows going into the corners. Not knowing what it was, Allen brought it to his mom.
"Oh that was a family heirloom that your father's family supposedly kept in their possession for years. He never wore it himself, but maybe you would like to have it." Thinking it over, Allen went to his room, deciding to look it over and if he didn't like it, he would put it on his desk as a slight memorial to his father.
With his mind made up, he opened the box and saw a necklace with a medallion similar in shape to the one on the box, before a bright light engulfed his room, blinding him.
So, there was the first chapter. I hope you like it, and if you have any suggestions or encouraging words, please put them in the comments.