Chapter 2- The Tour
"Alright! I win again!" Marbles threw down her cards and collected the poker chips that had been smuggled in. "So, now that you know us you wanna go see some of the others?" she smirked "you might just meet someone you like" she couldn't help but laughed slightly.
Fighter shrugged "Sure, but isn't the door locked?" she said glancing at the closed door and the girls gathered around her.
"Nah, there's no point in locking it when we are all awake, they have double the staff during the day so we will be free to get to the main room." Skater said with a shrug.
Marbles nodded "any and all ways of escape are guarded and blocked off. The only places we have access to is our room, the cafeteria, and the main room. Not that it stops people from trying to escape; no one has found a way out yet."
"Yeah, the last person that tired to escape ended up in isolation and is still there today" Trinket added with a nod and a smile it was 4 years ago and quite amusing.
Marbles smiled and put on her brown newsie cap before walking over to the door holding it open for everyone "This was please" she said in a sarcastic voice while bowing.
Everyone smiled and left the room heading for the main room where most of the residents passed time or spent their days. Marbles was immediately greeted by a tall guy with curly brown hair and a strong build he walked over and gave her a big hug and kiss on the cheek.
Marbles smiled "Fighter this is Mush, he's my boyfriend, he is in here for manic depression" she paused for a moment "he's been here about a year and a half"
Fighter nodded to him "Nice to meet ya" she shook his had and gave a half smile. She looked around the room, there were people playing games in one corner and small groups talking in other corners. She felt slightly isolated from the rest.
As they went through the room Marbles, Trinket, and Skater introduced Fighter to the people that were also in the I.A.
Along the way she met Jittery, a thin French girl with light brown hair and even lighter brown highlights. Jittery was dating Skittery who was a tall boy with brown hair and a slightly moody outlook on life.
Across the table from Jittery and Skittery sat Half Pint, she was a short Italian girl who's other personality was 23 year old Clarissa Engle, a cold blooded killer.
Another person at this table was Gypsy who looked like your typical gypsy would look only she had blue eyes; she just nodded to them in a cold and unfeeling manner.
Next to Gypsy sat Hades, a girl with auburn hair that fell in her eyes she seemed as if she could look right into your soul.
Seer was a quiet girl whose grey eyes seemed as if they had yellow crawling out from the middle she wore a Native American necklace that looked as if had never been taken off. She sat next to Boots and had her head on his shoulder when the came over to them.
They met Biddy sitting by the window just staring at something, she had bandages over her mouth and big blue eyes, she nodded to Fighter then shifted her attention back out the window. As the girls looked around the room they saw Dutchy staring at her with a look of admiration and want on his face.
As they walked away Fighter leaned over to Skater and whispered "She was slightly creepy but seems to be nice" Skater simply nodded to this remark and they went to meet the next person.
Irish was a girl who was short with a dark complexion, she was a pathological liar who could suck you and charm you one moment then spit nasty words at you the next. She smiled sweetly and rubbed the scar on her neck after shaking hands with Fighter.
Next to Irish sat Jack and Air. Air was sitting on Jack's lap and was playing with the string on his cowboy hat. She had waist long brown hair and hazel-green eyes. She also wore a gold locket that had the letter A engraved in it.
Satire sat in a chair near the couch that the others were sitting on; he was leaning back and with a slight grin on his face as the girls approached him. He had short black hair, silver rectangular framed glasses, and bright green eyes. He is around 6 feet and is usually smiling.
In the arm chair opposite Satire sat Taffee, she is a shy girl who has feathery hair that is deep red on top and black underneath. She has scars in places from when she took a razor to her body after being clean from her drug abdications for a week. Swifty stood behind her chair playing with her hair absent mindedly, she didn't seem to notice his actions.
As they moved on to the last group of people they met Hopeless and Tiger, Hopeless was a bouncy girl who was enthusiastic and tomboyish. She was as far from being the proper perfect girl she was supposed to be and was happy the way she was. Tiger was visiting her as he usually did.
They were then greeted by Trinket's boyfriend, Racetrack, who was in for gambling and drinking problems, and Skater's boyfriend, Blink, who was in for his constant obsessions with unreal or unusual things. Mush had been walking with them the entire time.
They were then greeted by Bittah who had blonde hair and green eyes, she kept her newsie cap pulled down over her eyes and you could see the outline of a dagger on her thigh, she had smuggled this in. She was talking with her brother Spot.
When Fighter was introduced to Spot he did one of the things that she hated most, he smiled at her and said "Nice ta meet ya, doll face."
After he did this you could see the anger rise in Fighter's eyes because she hated being called names such as sweet thing and doll face, and other such cat calls, and then the group knew that something bad was going to happen between the two.