The next morning, the leader, Jack, she remembered, the one with the cowboy hat and bandana, showed her around. They bought their papes with little trouble, and as they walked away from the distribution center, her asked her, “Why Storm of all names you could have?” She smiled. “Mi Fratello, that means brother in Italian, gave me that name. Its ‘cause when I get mad, my eyes get stormy grey.” He nodded. “I like it. It suits your personality.” They sold papes together, him giving her an abundance of tips. As they made their way back after selling that night, a small group of boys pushed them into an alley. “Who’s this Jack, a newbie?” She glared with an evil eye. “Yeah, one who knows how to soak somebody.” She pulled out Andreas’ knuckle braces, put them on, and began soaking them, beating them black and blue. Jack joined in after he got over the shock of the new boy fighting somebody, and they eventually left, leaving the boys there, bloody and bruised pretty badly.
As they continued walking home, Jack asked, “Whose were they, the knuckle braces that you have on?” She looked down, not wanting him to see any emotion that always came to the surface when she thought of Andreas. “Mi Fratello, Andreas. He…he was seventeen, I was fifteen when a gang in our hometown of Hoboken killed him in a brutal beating. It was a year ago, I left right after he left us. These are some of the only things that I have left of him.” He nodded knowingly. “Ran away from family? Most of us did the same thing.” She nodded and started making jokes as they arrived at the lodging house, to hide the tears that threatened to expose her at any moment.
A/N I dont do the accents in this story, sorry
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Love is a Gamble(A Racetrack Higgins Love Story)
Fanfiction Alexandra is a girl on the run from her family, and arrives in Manhattan. When she meets Racetrack, sparks fly, but her disguise as a boy might be holding her back. Will this Italian beauty fall in love, or have her heart ripped out?
