Chapter 5:
A/N: I don't own CHERUB. Pauline is going to be referred to as Piper from now on.
The next morning Pauline was called to her handler's office. She still hadn't met her cohabitants because it was pretty early, a Sunday and she had to go quickly. She had decided on a name. It was going to be Piper Ariel Bernard. After she and Emiko had gone through some stuff, she met her cohabitatants. It was clear that August and Evie were a couple and that they were very caring, that Christian wasn't interested and that Isabella was quite friendly but not too interested either. But Reuben was very nice. He was pretty mature and invited her to play cards with him, after they had all eaten breakfast together. They talked about how they had come to CHERUB. Reuben's parents were still alive. They were former CHERUB agents and sent him to CHERUB because of their jobs. He spoke English and Korean and was learning Mandarin. Suddenly a girl burst in and started talking to Reuben. She stopped talking when she saw Piper.
"Hi, I'm Emilia. Who are you?"
"I'm Piper, I arrived last night, I was recruited by Holly."
"Cool. Are you interested in science?"
"Not really. I like learning languages more."
"Oh, ok. Do you want to see the device I built?"
"Ok."
Emilia spent some time explaining the way it worked. It was clear that Reuben and Emilia had similar interests.
Suddenly Emilia said:"...Oh no, it's already 10:25, I've got to go!", and rushed out of the room.
A few minutes later Evie popped in:
"Wanna play football? Oscar is looking for people to play. You have 5 minutes to get ready."
Both kids wanted to play.
"Do you have football stuff Piper?", Evie added.
"Yeah.", Piper answered.
"Then get ready quickly, Oscar is waiting"
Piper quickly got dressed and followed Oscar to a football field. There were about ten kids, all between the ages of six and ten.
About a hour later Reuben and Piper came back, both exhausted. They found the other four inhabitants of their house standing in the kitchen. They were waiting for the two of them.
"What is it?", Piper asked.
"We're voting to see if we should make food or go eat in the cafeteria.", Christian answered.
Everyone voted to go, so that Piper could meet some new people.
Upon arriving the group parted. Reuben took Piper to his table. Emilia and two other girls, Lillian and Brooke, and two boys, Jonah, the chairman's son, and Henry, were there. Holly and her friends, Jasper, Luis and Megan, were at the table next to them. Piper got to know everyone. The kids at Reuben's table were really nice. They were split into two groups: Lillian, Jonah and Henry and Brooke, Emilia and Reuben. The first group was interested in social science and English Language Arts, the second in science. The kids in first one were more like Piper than the kids in the second. The kids Holly hung out with also didn't have that similar interests either. It was a Sunday, so they hung out the whole afternoon. Piper fell asleep awaiting the next day.