I stretched out and sighed deeply as I did so. That was the best sleep I've had in a long time. I took a deep breath and smelt a mouth watering scent as I did so. Bacon. I got up and walked down to the kitchen which was open plan with the sitting room. Lady was cooking. She turned to look at me, jumping slightly as she did, "Alex, you startled me. Go through there ans take a seat with the others."

I walk through the arch way into the dining area to see Tramp and 3 girls sat at the table. As I took a seat a teenage boy with dyed silver hair came in, probably 13 or 14, and shot one of the girls in the head with a spit ball. He burst out laughing as the Girl screamed in disgust. "Scamp, don't do that to your sister!" Tramp exclaimed, "and Colette, calm down it was only a spit ball."

"Dad, don't call me scamp. My name is Sean, use it please." Scamp looks at me, "Hey, who's this?"

Tramp sighed, "As I've explained to Colette, Danielle and Annette already, this is Alex. She is your cousin from your mothers side."

"I thought mom doesn't talk to aunt Alice?"

"She doesn't but Alex had a few problems controlling her behaviour, so now she's here."

He just nods in response. disbelief written all over his face. As Lady brings in the food there is a knock at the door. Tramp gets up to answer it and comes back with a boy around the same age as me. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Tramp begins, "Alex, this is Henry Mills. Henry this is Lady's niece, Alex. She'll be joining us at the garage today, hope you don't mind the company."

He holds his hand out to me and says, "Hi, my names Henry. If you need a hand with anything, for example a tour of the town, then I'm your guy."

I ignore his hand and look at Tramp, "Since when am I going to the garage with you?"

"Since you need to focus on something until you get into the school." He replies with a sense of a 'duh' tone and a bit of a head twitch towards Henry. Oh, he wants me to get to know him. I nod at him before turning to lady, "Do you have spare clothes I can use?" She nods and takes me to get a change of clothes.

At the garage I just sat on a chair watching as Tramp works on a Ford and Henry runs around handing him the necessary equipment. I look over to the door as a woman walks in and smiles at Henry. Fuck, she's hot!. "Hey, what are you doing here?" Henry says to her.

"You left your lunch on the dining table...again." She replies.

"Thanks Regina." He tells her. That's Regina? Damn.

"You leave it all the time, it's kind of become part of my daily routine to check the table." She says with a smirk. She looks at me so I put up a front. "Who's this?"

"Oh, Regina this is Alex." Tramp says, "She's Lady's niece. Hopefully she'll be joining your classes."

Regina nods, "I shall be looking forward to your presence in my classroom Alex." She smiles at me.

Play the part Swan, "Yeah, whatever. If I have it my way I'll never set foot in that school." I put my headphones over my ears and continue, "Now, if you would so kindly fuck off, I'd like to listen to my music." I cringe at myself, she has been nice but I need to be a bitch in order to stay around her. I look at Tramp and he looks mortified. I give him a confused look and he pulls me into the office.

"This is an opportunity to stay with her, offer to walk her home or something." He says. I groan but walk out to Henry and Regina. I look at her and say, "I'm sorry for being a total ass, let me walk you home."

"I can walk myself home, but thank you." She says. Think Emma.

"I insist. I need to get something for lunch anyway and I'd rather not have to stay here with smelly boys in a dirty garage."

She debates with herself before unwillingly nodding.

She begins walking and I jog to her side.

We walk in silence. After 3 minutes I have enough, "I've heard that you teach psychology, that's cool."

"Indeed I do, English also." She replies awkwardly.

"I put up a bitchy front around other people, I'm sorry for talking to you like I scrapped you off my shoe. I just...didn't choose to come here. Lady is nice, and Tramp is cool I guess, but I hardly know them. What I'm saying is sorry...again."

She smiles at me, "Alex, it's okay. I get it, really, I do. Henry was the same when he moved in with me."

"I hate being called Alex, call me Emma. Its my middle name and I prefer it. "

"Okay Em-ma" She smirks at me.

Okay Emma, your getting somewhere with her.

enjoy, Aster