Oh Brother -book one- *under revision*

new home

"pax, this is Alfred, Alfred, this is the new member of the family. " Bruce introduced me to the old man standing by the open car door.

"pleasure to meet you, Ms. Pax. how do you do?" the old man asked.

"I'm fine, but you don't need to call me Miss Pax, I'm not that important."

"with all due respect, you are quite important. the only girl in a house full of hoodlum boys. it will be quite refreshing." Alfred said as Bruce and I entered the back seat of the car. I stay quiet the whole drive, anxiety bubbling inside of me. I felt sick and scared and excited and nervous. what if they don't like me? what if Katie's right and I won't fit in? I mean she was right about me not knowing anything about how to be upper class. what if I do something wrong? knowing me I'll probably break something expensive and irreplaceable and then Bruce will get angry. I wonder what he's like angry? what if he hits me? he so much bigger than I am he's practically a giant compared to me. oh god, this isn't good. I want to go back. I want to go back.

stop it. I mentally yell at myself. I force myself to stare out the window and count the street lamps.

"is everything ok? you're being awfully quiet compared to earlier." bruce brakes through the silence.

"I'm fine," I say, flashing him a fake smile. I turn back and glare at the window. I lost count.

"is counting how you calm yourself?" he asked.

"I lost count," I say simply. ms Jackie told him about my "issues". my anxiety and anger problems.

"you don't need to be nervous, the boys will love you. do you want a heads up about them?" he offers and I simply nod.

"Dicks the oldest. he's 17 and really kind and responsible. I adopted him when he was 8. the next is Jason. jason is 16 and a bit of hot head. he doesn't like to take orders and we but heads quite a bit but I adopted him when he was 9. Tim is next at 14. he's smart but can be shy. I meat him when he was 10. and lastly there's Damian. ha's my biological son but I only meet him two years ago for the first time. he's still getting used to us. he's 12." I nodded, taking the information in. I looked out the window to see the car pull up a rather large driveway. my green eyes widened in shock seeing the large and tall mansion. I nearly forgot the mans rich...when the car stopped I opened the door and jumped out.

"next time Ms. Pax, please allow me to get your door," Alfred asked, holding the car door for Bruce.

"why? I'm not helpless and it wasn't child locked," I questioned confused.

"I have a feeling she's going to make your job a bit easier." Bruce smiled at the old man. together the three of them walked up the front steps and into the door where 4 boys stood in a line, all had black hair and blue eyes.

"Boys id like you to met Pax, Pax this is  Dick Jason Tim and Damian." Bruce introduced the boys let to right. Dick was tall compared to me but only came up to Bruce's shoulders. He wore a dark blue long sleeve button up dress shirt tucked into some black jeans. His hair was longer than the others and hung in his eyes. Jason was the same height and build as Dick. His hair was short and wavy and had a streak of white in the front. For close he had on a  black shirt with a red short sleeve button up that he left unbuttoned along with blue jeans. Next was Tim. He came up to Jason's upper arm.  he looked like he was ready to learn or something with glasses and a sweater vest over a light blue button-down tucked in tan slacks. damian was at the end, in a green hoody and jeans. his hair was long in the middle but short on the sides and slicked back. dick looked at me kindly, Jason looked like he'd rather be somewhere else while Tim and Damian seemed to study me, only Damian was glaring. I looked at all of them but opted not to say anything. they were all taller than me, Damian by a head.