“School, really?” Felicia whined. “Also, Felicity Harmon? Couldn’t you have come up with something better?”

“It was the first thing that came up in my head,” Selina said. “Besides the name Zhao suggested was Francesca Featherbottom and while it was hilarious, I didn’t want you to be bullied on your first day of school.”

“But I don’t want to go to school,” Felicia cried. “It’s boring and lame.”

“C’mon Kitten,” Selina said. “It’s for your future.”

“How will geography and maths help me live here?”

“It’ll help you get out of here,” Selina said.

“But I love it here,” Felicia said. “You love it here too. Why do you want me to leave if you…?”

“The alley is small,” Selina said. “Don’t you want to see the world?”

“I…” Felicia paused. Yeah, she wanted to see places like Metropolis and New York. She also wanted to see Italy (Selina sometimes made Italian food which Felicia loved) but Felicia figured she’d steal her way to Italy. “I do but…”

“You’re not going to steal your way around the world,” Selina said with hands at her side.

“How do you know I thought about that?”

“I raised you,” Selina said.

Felicia sighed. “But I don’t want to go to school,” Felicia said.

Selina placed a hand on her shoulder. “I don’t regret much from my childhood…”

“Yeah, but you didn’t go to school and you regret it,” Felicia said. “I’ve heard that sob story from every drunk person in town.”

“No.” Selina laughed. “School sucks. I’d have been bored out of my mind if I went to school, no. The thing about being raised around a group of thieves is that nobody values you but rather the things you steal. They’d stab you in the back if they found out you had something that sold for more than what they had. I never really had friends. If you’re not going to focus on your classes at least stay there for the friends you’ll make.”

Felicia let out a defeated sigh. “Ugh, fine. I’ll go to school but only because you forced me to.”

Selina smiled. “That’s great. I paid Zhao a fortune for this.”

Selina got up from her seat. “I swear, Kitten. You won’t regret any of this.”

…

“So uh, I have this party over at my place…”

“I think we should go for a drive with me. Y’know just me and you.”

“Y-you’re really cute and I-I want to…”

After the teacher introduced Felicia, the first thing she noticed was that every boy had their eyes on her.

The second thing that happened was that during lunch hours the same boys started asking her out on dates. She turned them down before they even showed up. She made friends with some of the girls at school but she made the horrible mistake of giving one of them her number because during Geography class loud beeping could be heard from her pockets.

“Felicity please put your phone on silent,” Ms. Martin said.

Her phone kept blazing with notifications and she even got a call.

“Felicity if I hear more noise coming from your phone, I am going to take it.”

The phone beeped.

Ms. Martin took her phone away from her. Luckily it was just something Zhao gave her (to appear normal he said) but it still felt kind of embarrassing being laughed at by everybody.

I swear Kitten, you won’t regret it.

Felicia laughed to herself. Well, Selina I sure am regretting it now.