**A/N: In the prolouge, you get to see how Ai's mother treated her, right before she is taken to whammy's.
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A man. An old man. Talking to the mean lady. The mean lady is my mother. But she's always just been the mean lady. She Shouts, cusses, and hits me, Most of the time she forgets my name.
"Take her away! I don't want to even look at her!" My mom screams.
I'm hiding behind the sofa. I'm supposed to be in bed, that way mom can go out places.
"We will be taking her. Your little girl will have a fine home at our orphanage." The old man replies.
He sounds like a nice old man. He doesn't yell like my mom. I hear my mother storm off into the kitchen.
"Good! Take her! Get that, that thing out of my sight!" she shouts. I look over and see the man crouched down. He looks at me and smiles.
"You can come out now miss Hisoka." He whispers. I cringe at that name.
Last name…I hate having the name my mother has.
I stand up. The man does the same.
He takes my hand and leads me out of the house. I look back at it. The mean lady that was once my mother will now live there alone.
The man leads me over to a fancy black car. Inside was another man. This man isn't an old man, but he looks funny. He is not wearing any shoes, and he has dark rings under his eyes.
"It's alright now," the funny man says. "At Whammy's you will be taken good care of." I let go of the old man's hand and get in next to the funny man. The old man shuts the door and gets in the driver side.
"We're ready to go, Watari." The funny man states.
The old man, Watari, starts the car, and we drive away. I look out the window as we leave the mean lady's house forever. I look at the funny man and he smiles. I can't help but smile too. The funny man smells like sweet things.
" At Whammy's all the children are giving fake names. Usually the fake name they choose starts with the same first letter of their real name. What name would you like?"
Fake name… An alias… A new name that I get to pick.
I think.
"Ai…" I reply, smiling.
Ai…love…
"Alright. From now on," the man smiles at me, "Your name is Ai. Ai, how old are you?"
"Four. And my birthday is on Valentine's Day." I reply, smiling even bigger. The man nods.
"You're intelligent for your age Ai, you will fit right in."
"Ryuzaki. We are here." Watari says, stopping the car.
I look out the window.
We were in front of a really big place, with a big yard, and a playground. There were kids of all ages playing.
Watari opens the door, and I hop out.
Another old man walks up and smiles down at me.
"Hello. I'm roger." He says, taking my hand. I smile up at him.
"I'm Ai." I state. Roger nods.
"Well, Ai. There aren't any available rooms. But I'm sure if you talk to one of the other children, one of them will be willing to share a room with you."
"O.K" I let go of his hand and walk slowly over to the swings. No one was playing on the swings.
I sit on a swing and stare at the ground.
"Hey. You're the new girl." A voice says. I look up. Two boys were walking up to me. I nod.
They're my age…
The blonde smiles. "I'm Mello." A fake name. I nod.
"I'm Ai." I whisper. I look at the other boy, who was concentrating hard on his video game. Mello looks at me, then at him.
"Oh. That's Matt. He's not being rude, he's just-"
"On the last level." Matt mutters, not looking up from his hand-held game. I smile.
Mello looks at me again.
"I heard Roger saying you need some-one to share a room with. You look nice, so wanna share one with me?"
I blink, then smile.
"Sure."
Mello smiles even more.
"O.K! Let's go tell Roger!" He takes my hand and pulls me off the swing. I smile to myself.
Mello. My first friend. Maybe Matt, too. Mello, Matt, Ai. F is for friends….
And A is for Ai….
