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With a sigh, Tanaya fixed her school tie. Of course Steve had to choose a private school, now I definitely won't fit in. turns out that being under the care of Tony Stark guaranteed her a spot in the Felix Academy. God this is going to suck. Her negative thoughts continued as she pulled on the cardigan provided, feeling like a pretentious idiot the whole time. She then walked off to the kitchen, butterflies having seizures in her stomach.

Inside, Clint was cooking bacon, eggs and hash browns while Natasha stood next to him, drinking black coffee and waiting patiently. They both looked up as Tanaya sat down on a bar stool, Clint barely hiding a smirk at the uniform.

"You look fine Tanaya, have some breakfast." Natasha soothed before pushing a plate towards her, which she dug into right away. They sat in tense silence as the minutes went by, Tanaya waiting for the time to be 8am so that her hell could start.

Eventually, she and Natasha were ready to go and where heading out the door when Tony sashayed into the room and said goodbye to her. After that, they both headed down to Tony's garage and took the least conspicuous car that he owned, an Alfa Romeo. Of course.

As they drove there, Tanaya couldn't stop nervously fiddling as her trepidation grew the closer they got to the school. Natasha noticed, but didn't really know what to say to make it better. Although she was not interested in what others thought, it was obvious that Tanaya got nervous easily and still wanted to be accepted by people. It was silent as they pulled up and part of Tanaya wanted to beg to stay inside the car. Instead, she took a deep breath, quickly said goodbye to Natasha and left the car before she could look too stupid.

Steve must have mentioned the gloves Tanaya thought as the principal took her through various rules and how the days would run, but didn't comment on them at all. She sat and nodded at various intervals, but didn't say anything unless specifically asked. It seemed as though Mr Dale preferred it like that too. Once he finished explaining the rules, another teacher named Mrs Finnigan whipped her away to her first class and soon she was sitting down in English class. It wasn't too bad, as Tanaya just sat quietly in the corner, writing notes and ignoring the stares that some people were giving her. Luckily, word hadn't gotten out that she lived at Stark Tower yet so people were only mildly curious.

Recess came and Tanaya sat alone. No one asked her to sit with them, and she didn't want to assume anything but it didn't bother her too much. Her old school was exactly like this, so at least she wasn't new to being alone. She didn't touch the food that she had brought with her, she could eat when she got home. The bell rang and Tanaya went off to the next lesson, maths.

As she was waiting outside the classroom, she saw a girl with curly brown hair walk up to stand next to her. There was a beat of awkward silence before the girl spoke in a cheerful voice,

"Hey! You're new, huh? My name's Shay!" Tanaya was stunned a bit by the bright smile aimed at her before recovering and introducing herself. "Yes, I'm new. I'm Sam." At hearing her speak, Shay's face lit up even more.

"You're Australian! That's so cool!" Tanaya did not agree with her on that, but just smiled as the girl went on. "We seem to be in the same maths class, hey? Awesome, I could use someone to talk to. All my friends are in other classes." When the teacher and other students arrived, Tanaya allowed Shay to drag her into a seat at the far side of the room which no one seemed to pay much attention to.

They both spent the lesson discovering what they had in common and laughing about their shared ineptitude with maths. After the double period ended, Shay invited Tanaya to sit with her at lunch.

"Thanks for the offer, but I learnt long ago that I don't do too well in groups. I'm happy to sit on my own, so don't worry about it." And she meant it, but as Shay reluctantly left, she realised that it felt nice to have the offer.

The rest of the day was more bearable, people left her alone (except for Shay, who would wave wildly whenever they saw each other) and by the time the last bell went, Tanaya couldn't wait to get home and collapse.

She walked out the front to where she was to be picked up and looked for the car that Nat dropped her off in. Tanaya frowned when she couldn't see it. People around her were talking excitedly whilst looking off at something, so she decided to kill time and see what the fuss was about.

"What is he doing here?"

"Look at the car!"

Following the mutterings, Tanaya saw what they were looking at. At the same time that the object of everyone's attention saw her.

Tony waved subtly at her, and she pushed her way through the people to get to him. Everyone staring at her was a distinctly uncomfortable feeling, and she hurried to get into the convertible that he had brought. Of course.

Tony quickly hopped in too, and sped off. "So, Naya, how was your first day?" Tanaya didn't question the nickname, she rather liked it. "It was fine, kept to myself mostly. Not too different from my old school." But in my old school, people didn't know me as being under the care of a billionaire. She thought to herself.