Home and meeting Gabe

"Welcome to your new home," Sally anounces excitedly as Percy and I walk through the front door. Sally then points towards a door that's the bathroom "you should probably clean yourself up before Gabe gets home".

I nod at her still trying to understand why she was being so nice to me I understood that she was kind in the books but she didn't know me all she knew was that I didn't have anywhere to go. Moving into the bathroom I get the chance to have a proper look at myself and the body that will be mine and Lily's for the foreseeable future I had heterochromia probably a side effect of the curse and Lily and I now share a body neither of us owned before the other, I had one yellow eye and one red eye both eyes were slitted like a cat, my skin was slightly tanned and relatively smooth and my face was lean and angled not rounded like most girls my age it was almost masculine but at the same time not if that makes any sense, my hair was long and came down to the middle of my back it was black though the tips regardless of length were white and faded into the black after a bit, I'm not sure of my height but I was on the shorter end of the average maybe reaching 5 feet at my max-height and I am probably around 3.5 feet tall at the moment which is probably around average for my age just something tells me that my height will peak at 5 feet overall though I am quite small in all aspects almost to the pont that some creeps might describe me as a 'loli''. Oh well, I have more important matters to think about such as will I be able to help my new brother in the future or will I just get in the way I suppose the easiest way will be to wait until the government-sanctioned prison known as school starts and go to math with Mrs Dodds and see if she looks human to me or not. "Night are you done cleaning up yet?" I hear Sally call from the lounge, "yup I was just coming out," I called to her in reply as I finished washing the dirt from my face. As I come out of the bathroom I say to Sally "are you sure it's okay for me to stay here without asking your husband Sally?"

"Mom" she immediately responds to me, I cock my head in confusion at her response as I didn't understand what she was saying. "It is mom, not Sally you are now my daughter until you find your actual parents if they are still around." Sally now apparently my mom informs me with no room for argument in her voice "oh and Percy is now your brother understood?" that was a statement disguised as a question if I ever heard one there was no room in this discussion for arguments or complaints and I couldn't understand why she was doing this for me the only real reasons I could think of were out of pity or because she wanted Percy to have someone else other than her or Grover as a friend though it could just have easily been both and while I didn't mind being friends with Percy, in fact as soon as I found out where I was I hoped to be friends with him as he was someone I looked up to and respected but, I didn't like people pitying me as I was used to working on my own and felt like I dragged people down when I worked with them so I tried to act strong and people pitying me makes me feel weak and useless oh well I can find out later I hear footsteps coming up the stairs towards the main doore and they sound drunk.

"Woman when's dinner and who's the runt sitting on the couch!" an overweight male shouts as they cross the door not even bothering to ask how anyone's day was he had immediately started yelling orders and the smell, 'urgh when did he last bathe I have gone on hikes in jungles for weeks without being able to bathe and have smelled better than this guy who looks like the only reason he leaves home is to gamble at another person's house' this thought crosses my mind as the creature in the form of a man walks towards me and Lily nods in agreement to my thoughts as we both wonder if we could kill the thing in front of us and dump the body without many people caring what happened. "Who the fuck are you!" the man shouts at me and I almost punch him in the face just to get the smell away from me "my name is Nightingale sir I'm a friend of Percy's from school we share classes together and I came over to review some of last years course material with him before school starts tomorrow," I respond with a slight lie as I didn't think saying I was found and adopted by Sally would be the best idea though I would be asking Percy if we could review material so that I knew where I was at in regards to my knowledge in some subjects.

"Bah, how did that brat end up with a friend, though you are a freak so it could be possible!" does this 'man' ever stop shouting because he hasn't yet and he has been home for about a minute "welcome back Gabe Night was kind enough to come over and offer to help Percy with reviewing some of his materials from last year and dinner will be ready in 15 minutes" Sally replies to Gabe's question and backs up my statement understanding that Gabe wouldn't enjoy finding out that she was planning on adopting me soon if my parents weren't found.