It was a normal day in the orphanage, children of all different shapes and sizes came in. Some children were found laying in small boxes on the side of buildings...alone with nothing but a small blanket to keep warm from their previous parents. Some children were housed, but sadly the ones in which they were living with have either passed away or couldn't take care of them. Children came in at almost one or two every few weeks, children were taken in by loving homes almost rarely...its sad but true. But the orphanage that they are housed in is a fair one indeed, the children loved the place. The workers there were sweet and careful with the kids. The orphanage its self was about three or four stories large, each story has well over 200 rooms. The children there aren't rowdy, 'tis they know their manners and privileges.

Today, though, the rooms and halls of the place became quiet. The children would stay in their assigned rooms and read or just sit there and wait until someone with a heart and soul would come in and take them into loving and warm arms. For today they were expecting a couple new young children to come in and they already had a room ready for the two to stay in together.

The doors of the orphanage slowly opened, a tall woman with light-peach short hair walked in with a 12 year old following slowly behind her, The woman that brought in the girl spoke silently in her ear then walked off. The young girl was beautiful, she had darker skin with even darker and cute freckles. She had light blue hair that had tiny un-noticeable streaks here and there of darker blue and some really light pink. (Like Shown in the cover of the book) her hair was long and covered her right eye. The eye that was uncovered was a stunning light blue color. She was wearing a white long sleeved shirt and skinny jeans. She had her head lowered and there was tear stains going down her face.

A woman with large pink hair stood up from her front desk and walked up to the girl, the shorter girl didn't look up but she wiped the stains off with her long sleeve. The woman slowly put three fingers on the shorter girls chin and crouched down to her level.

"Don't you worry now, you will be safe here" The woman gave her a reassuring smile but the younger girl started to cry silently once more, the woman moved her hand to the girls cheek and wiped away the tears. "shhhhh don't cry." The child nodded slowly and used her visible eye to look into the woman's eyes. " My name is Rose Quartz, but you may just call me rose. Please, follow me" Rose stood up and held out her hand for the girl to take, she grasped her hand softly, interlocking hands and they walked through the quiet halls.

"...my name is Sapphire..." Sapphire spoke quietly, almost in a whisper as they slowly walked through the empty halls trying to fins her room. Rose smiled and nodded.

"what a beautiful name, Whats your last name sweetheart?" Rose asks sweetly, looking down to Sapphire.

"...i-i don't have one.." The young girl said, looking down at her feet while still in a whisper voice.

"Then why not give your self one?"

"...I can do that?" Rose nodded and gently squeezed Sapphires hand.

"What do you like the most, the thing that makes you most happy. Maybe you can make that thing your last name, let it show who you are and let that name give meaning." Rose had the sweetest smile on her face, Sapphire started to think silently to herself.

"snow...frost...ice...cold..." Rose listened to everything the young girl quietly said to herself " i think i like ice..." Sapphire said while still looking at her feet as she continued walking through the halls. Their steps echoed through out the quiet.

"...hmm..Ice..I like it" Rose said "...sapphire Ice" She tried and grinned " What a beautiful name"

Sapphire looked up at the woman and stopped walking, rose stopped and turned to her. "Whats wrong sweetie?" Sapphire ran up to rose and hugged her, tightly. Rose gasped and slowly hugged the girl back, smiling softly to herself.

Once they found the room, it was the very last one in the hall, rose told sapphire all she needed to know about the building and she told sapphire that there will be a time when someone will come in and check up on things , clean the room and speak with the child at least once a week. The pink woman walked out of the room, Sapphire was left in deep thought while sitting on her bed. She was playing with her hands and hung her feet off the edge of the light blue bed.

Memories were skidding through her head, memories of her family, memories of what happened a few weeks ago, memories of when all of her happiness faded...

Fire...fire everywhere...there was no where to escape, sapphire cant breathe. "MOM!" desperate yell after non stop desperate yell with no answer, surrounded with fire. "MOM!" Sapphires skin burns, fire is traveling towards her, its over...its all over...She crawls into the corner of her burning room and curls up in a ball in defeat. Tears stream down her face, sirens screaming from the outside, fire getting closer and closer, the door to sapphires bedroom bursts open, she is still crying into her knees. A man runs in with a yellow suit, running through the maze of fire. Spotting sapphire, he picks her up and she clings to his chest, screaming for her life and crying for the fire has burnt the palm of her right hand. He dodges the fire and runs towards the front door...the light shows to the outside, smoke everywhere, filling their lungs, until sapphires lungs couldn't take the smoke anymore. She passed out and went limp in his arms...

Sapphire winced at the memory, a silent tear feared to form from her eye, she wiped it away and looked at her right palm. A large scar almost in the shape of a triangle has formed, she sighed and got off of the bed. Taking silent steps towards the door to exit. She put her right scarred palm on the handle and slowly opened the door, though when she did she was greeted by the woman, rose.

She looked up at rose and took a small step back and looked down at her feet. Rose let out a soft hum and smiled "Sapphire, may i come in sweetie?" Sapphire stepped to the side and let her in.

But it wasn't just rose who walked in, behind the woman was another girl. She was half an inch taller then Sapphire and had an afro like cut. Her hair was dark brown almost black and she had a red bandanna tied around it. She had dark brown almost red eyes and dark skin, but it was lighter then sapphires. She was wearing short maroon pants and a red and white shirt. She slowly looked over to sapphire and quickly looked away.

As they walked in Rose looked at sapphire " this is Ruby, Ruby burns. You two will be sharing a room together. Don't worry, almost everyone here shares a room with someone else, it wont be too bad since there are two beds in here." Rose smiled and stepped out of sapphires field of vision of 'Ruby'.

Ruby stepped forward in front of sapphire and slowly looked up, they meet gazes and she let a small smile twitch on her lips. She held out her hand, sapphire shook her hand, still expressionless. " My name is Sapphire...Ice."

"Well, i'm going to let you two girls go at it and get to know each other. I will be in my office if you will need me, it is in hall 13. If you have any trouble just use the speaker and talk to me, alright ladies?" Rose sweetly said with her hands clasped in front of her chest. The to nodded and rose waved goodbye, slowly closing the door behind her.

Ruby and sapphire just stood in front of each other, staring at each other until Ruby broke the painful silence "..i-i umm..." She looked over to a light red bed "...Is this one my bed?" She walked over to the bed and plopped down on it.

"I guess, mine is the blue one"

"So i take it your favorite color is blue?"

Sapphire sat on her bed and smiled and looked at her scarred hand " yes, any shade of blue really. And red is yours?" Ruby nodded and looked at Sapphire, she noticed sapphire was just staring at her hand.

"is something the matter?" Ruby got up off of her bed and walked over to sapphire. She let out a slight gasp when she saw the scar, sapphire hid her hand.

"i-i know its disgusting..." Sapphire turned away, now facing the wall.

"...actually...i think its pretty cool"

"Whats so cool about a scar?"

"...well...i have a square shaped one on my left hand" Ruby said smiling, she held out her left hand and sapphire turned to face Ruby.

Sapphire held out her right hand and put it out next to ruby's, she hummed " thats cool...how did you get yours?"

Ruby looked down, sapphire felt bad for asking " y-You don't have to answer-"

"No..no its fine.." She let out a soft sigh and sat down on sapphires bed, and looked at her left hand. She thought for a second and spoke.

It was dark, Ruby was walking home from school, late this time. She slowly creeped open the front door of her slightly large home. Her father, obviously drunk, greeted her. "Why are you late?" He asked with a hint of a growl. Ruby took a step back toward the door, her father stopped her by grabbing her arm "WHY WERE YOU FUCKING LATE?" He screamed, ruby tried to pull away . "Dad your hurting me!" She couldn't get out of his grasp. "You didn't tell the cops did you? if you did Your a dead kid" Ruby furiously shook her head and finally pulled her arm away. " You LAIR, you did tell them DIDN'T YOU?!" Ruby's back hit the door "NoNoNo! I didn't! Leave me alone!". Ruby's father exited the room and went to the kitchen, a tear threatened to spill from her eye as she watched his every move. She put her left palm on the door handle, slowly beginning to open it to escape him. But her father ran up to her and pulled on her shoulder, making her face him. He was holding a pocket knife. He picked up her left hand and impaled her hand with the knife. Ruby screamed "What did i tell you about getting home late? The countless punishments i do to you and you still don't listen" He whispered. Ruby pulled back her hand, it was bleeding profusely and she clasped her hand. Her father walked away and washed off the pocket knife,putting it back in his pocket. He walked over to ruby. "If you come back late again and i find out that you ratted me out, i will make sure i don't go so easy on you." She whispered intimidatingly, ruby growled with tears still going down her cheek and dripping off of her chin. Blood was running down her hand, she ran up to her room and washed other blood off of her hand, letting out small cries as the water painfully went down in the deep cut. The water didn't help though so she ran to her closet and opened up a first aid kit and wrapped her hand in white bandages. Blood seeped through , visibly, she was very used to this, but the feel of pain would never go away. She looked at her phone that was laying on her bed and reached for it, dialing 911 quickly, she locked her doors. Sirens could be heard outside her home, her father was banging on her bedroom door, police burst through the front door, gun shots...1...2...3...no more sound. Ruby went to the corner of her room and sat there, staring at the door. A few knocks of her door took place, she walked to her door and unlocked it, slowly opening it. Two police men looked down at her, they took her to the police car. She had no more family left, one man spoke "We have to take her to the orphanage..."

Ruby finished, Sapphire sat there with a small tear in her eye. Ruby looked at her and chuckled. "awwww come on, don't cry sapph." Ruby scooted closer and sapphire sniffed, wiping the small tear out of her eye.

"I-i wasn't crying" Sapphire says and softly chuckles.

"Okay, sure" Ruby said. "Hey, is there a chance that i will be able to go outside?" Ruby tilted her head.

Sapphire looked up and nodded.

"..."

"..."

"Well were is it?" Ruby said.

"OH!oh, the place is the park. Its in the back of this place. Maybe if you ask rose she will let you go." Sapphire said kindly.

"Okay! Sounds fun. But...can you come with me? I dont want to be lonely there...plus your like the only person i know here other then that pink lady"

Sapphire chuckled and nodded "Sure."