"Hey, did ya hear? We're getting a new student today," gossiped one of Maria's classmates behind her.

"Really? Who?" she asks as she turns around in her desk.

"Don't know. But her family is supposedly rich. Like, stupid rich."

"How rich are we talking here?" asks a classmate to the Italian girl's right.

"Rich enough to buy a castle apparently."

"Damn! I wonder if she's cute," comments the classmate with a wicked grin.

"Pervert," sighed Maria ...