-1Disclaimer: They aren't mine don't sue… blah blah blah.

A/N: Well seeing as how my other story ZEUS AND LETO, was such a big splash (being sarcastic), I decided to write this little number. Had the idea in my head for a long time.

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I don't think they had ever seen anything like me. In fact I'm sure of it. Girls my age wore dresses and went to boarding schools, like proper little girls should. I drank I smoked, I swore like a sailor, I dressed like a boy, and could burp better than any one who had ever challenged me. I played a good hand of poker, and mainstreamed as a pickpocket. But shit happens, and things change, but I am getting ahead of myself, let me get back to my story.

They had never seen anything like me. I barged in the Lodging House door on Duane street like I owned the place. My trademark smirk laid across my lips, hair lose underneath my threadbare hat. My shirt was half un-tucked, and my slacks sagged. Did I give a shit? No.

"How much is a bunk?" I asked the old man behind the desk, ignoring the sudden silence that had come over the lodging house, and the stares I was receiving from the other boys.

"6 cents" The man said with a sweet smile.

"Got chance for a 20?" I asked, pulling a 20 dollar bill out of my back pocket. I didn't even have to be looking at the other boys, I could just imagine their jaws dropping as it hit the counter. I threw it around like it was chump change, when in all reality, I had just had a good score that afternoon. The old man looked down at the bill, like the Virgin Mary was on the counter before him.

"Um… let me check" He said, pulling an old metal box from under his desk.

One of the boys that was watching me couldn't help himself. He ran up and grabbed the bill, and started holding it up towards the light. I leaned against the counter and flashed his a smirk.

"Its real" I said, an air of cockiness in my voice.

The boy shifted his wire rimmed glasses a little on his face, and then finally nodded, and laid the bill back down on the counter

"I'm Specs." He said, extending a hand for me to shake.

"My real name is Sarka, but everyone just calls me Sparky."

"Sparky?" Specs asked, trying not to laugh, while some other boys behind him weren't as cautious.

"What can Ise say, I'm always startin shit." I answered with a small smirk.

Specs smiled to and then walked back to join the rest of the boys.

"Ise sorry miss, but I don't think I have enough change." The old man said, his head popping up from the metal bin at long last.

"Ah don't sweat it, you can keep the change, I don't think I'll be leavin' heres for awhile." I said, my smirk widening a little.

The old man smiled back. "Well Ise Klopman, welcome to Manhattan, let me show youse to your bunk."

"Klopy are you serious?" One of the boys stood up and said

"What was that Race?" Klopman asked, even though i was pretty sure Klopman heard him the first time. Klopman reminded me of my grandfather, back when I had a family, he was defiantly not a man to cross.

"Klopy, she's….she's a goyl" The boy said, chewing nervously on his cigar.

I love guys like this honestly I do. Makes my day fun. Now, I had been ready to walk up the stairs to get to my bunk, not really caring what he had to say, but at that comment I couldn't help my self, I turned around with a mock look of horror on my face, while clutching my chest.

"Ise…..Ise a girl?" I stammered. I then pulled out my shirt a little and looked down into it

"Well… Ise be damned." I said, my signature smirk spread across my lips again.

The rest of the boys around the lobby laughed to, but Race was dead set on this whole, I was a goyl, is shouldn't be staying there trip.

"Goyls cant sell papes." He said flatly.

"Where are your manners boy!" I snapped back at him

"Stand up when you talk to me."

"Oh sorry…." I said a small smirk again gracing my lips.

That was the string I needed to hit. The boy turned bright red and threw the deck of cards he had been unconsciously shuffling the whole time down on the nearest table and stomped off upstairs.

"You mind showin' me dat bunk now Mr. Klopman?" I said, as if it never happened at all.

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