Clothed in our grief

Chapter seven

This is most likely the most fancy event that you've ever been required to dress up for and attend. The best you've ever dressed for an event was when your mother and stepfather's took place eleven months ago, in November. Even then, when your mom got remarried you only wore a peach colored sundress with a floral design all over it. Plus some sandals and two gold leaf hair pins to hold back the strands of hair you had curled beforehand.

But now? The blue dress you're wearing probably cost about half as much as the rent for the place you just moved into does. You don't even want to think about the price if the silver bracelet with the blue crystals on it. You're really thankful for all of this, especially the chance to be invited to an event like this.

After a small amount of time had passed since your stepfather dropped you off here. A couple people sparked conversation with you, granted how none of them were around your age. Though this place was so huge, the chandelier above head was really cool looking, especially when the light passed through it. The entire room smelled like cinnamon, so you at least. The faint scent of alcohol from the bar in the completely opposite of the room was the only interruption of that. If this one room was so big, made you wonder how big the rest of the manor was. And Bruce Wayne was holding this event at a ballroom in his own home? It was a long drive at first, he didn't live that far out of the city. But you read somewhere online that he has a second house that he spends much more time in, and that one is much more out of the city. That this one is usually just for holding events. Well, he is a billionaire. You don't doubt that someone can own more than one house, but more than one mansion? Jeez, why does someone even need a second house? One to actually live in, and one for public figure? People in Gotham are fairly strange.

Though, you don't even know a fourth of that statement.

Being spoke to about your scholarship, being spoke to about how young you were to actually get in on a life changing offer like this. All of them were really nice, none of them were snobby with you or rude or poking fun at you because of your age. Now you don't know if this is because you hold several medals when it comes to fencing, translation? You can wield a sword. Or if it's just because they're generally nice people. Then again, appearances. Thinking into things is what's keeping you calm right now, other than being overwhelmed and shocked. So yes, you are going to mentally question every little thing you see and hear. Everything. All of it!

One thing though, that nearly made your breathing actually become easier to hear, was the reporter who came and spoke to you. Said she was interviewing the four other students who got in on this offer and scholarship, and that she was going to start with you. She said her name was Vicki, Vicki Vale. This is actually a name you've heard before, but on the news. not as a journalist reporter. So yes, being consulted by the blonde this way only sort of confused you.so of course when you politely asked about it, not wanting to make it seem like you were interviewing her instead. she explained fairly quickly that she was diving into more coverage, by doing both news reporting and journalist reporting. She spoke quickly and energetic for answers, and she smelled of fresh ink from a pen and printer paper, really. Not such a surprise considering her work. It really felt like a new experience being brought to all these new scenes, smells, things, everything was just so much different. It was sorta like the first time you ever participated in a fencing meet, less stabbing though.

Eventually, a couple more people came into the room. And with a simple, "I hope you enjoy gotham." She was gone to go interview the only other person who got in by their Wayne Foundation Scholarship in sight. A boy in a grey suit and fairly messy brown hair. He looked prestigious, and older. Possibly an eleventh grader. Which makes you wonder, are you the youngest one here that got involved in all this? You know gotham academy is basically everything from sixth grade and on up to twelfth grade. Which makes it possible for anybody between the ages of eleven to eighteen. If it turns out you're the youngest one, you're only going to feel a little more pressured by that.