CHAPTER 1

Prelude

The doors opened in my room in the Gerlooks County Orphanage. I peeked out from my platinum long wavy hair risking the chance to look up and finally see someone who was looking for a blonde haired green eyed 6 year old. However to my known disappointment it was only Miss Rock. The other children shied away from her but I stayed and looked up at her cold grey eyes and brittle white hair and hard old features. Miss Rock did not like me at all. I guess it was because I caused most trouble here in the orphanage.

Like my rebelness to not eating or playing with the other children, I still remembered that day 'till now so many years later. The day I met Danny. The day i would change forever.

He had black stringy hair that covered one of his eyes which were amber. He stood behind Miss Rock looking down at his feet hands behind his back. Miss Rock glared at me and passed Danny over to my side I looked at her confused.

"Heres your new friend you will play with him and keep him company or no lunch for either of you" she ordered sharply and turned away leaving us alone. The other kids went abut what ever they had been doing only moments ago. I looked at Danny briefly then walked away.

For weeks we didnt even look at each other and im sure neither of us cared. Then Christmas came and it changed. My 1st Christmas alone since my father had died in a freak car wreak, It snowed outside non-stop. All the children had been adopted already. Leaving me and Danny alone. I suppose if it hadnt been for him i would have probably killed myself long ago.

I sat on the window sill looking through the frosted glass thinking of my Dad and my brother Jonas. My TWIN brother...and my mother. I had lived with my father and had never really met my mom. My chest felt heavy and my eyes felt watery. I toyed with the only memorance of my family I had. A necklace. Made of glass and in the shape of a triangle. I was ready to start crying when someone touched my back. I turned around quickly and found myself looking at Danny. Who had turned 7 just last week. My birthday was on christmas eve. He looked up at me with pink eyes and i knew he had been wanting to cry too. Then handed me a poorly wrapped gift. In old present paper. I felt unsure as to what I should do. It had my name written sloppily on the back. Opal. He looked as if my reaction depended on his life. He pushed it closer to me and i picked it up.

I unwrapped it slowly careful not to rip the paper. Even at only six my eyes widened at what I found. A handmade beautiful bandanna. It was light blue and had very dark blue and some green colors forming an amazing pattern that looked oddly like a wolf made of trees and rivers. I held it in my hand gently and looked back at Danny. Who I guess had seen my suprized reaction and took that as an OK and had already left. I jumped off the window and ran up behind him embracing him in a hug as strong as my 6 year old strength could manage he whirled around back to me and smiled. I did the same.

" Thank you consider us...Friends!!!" I exclaimed and the realization of the fact that i had even one friend made my tears spill anyway but not sad tears. No the exact opposite of sad tears. Happy tears. And thats still not all.

3 years later: Danny and I had become even more amazing friends. Though we still lived at the orphanage Miss Rock had died of old age and out new watcher Miss Land let us do whatever we wanted. Like let me and Danny go to school. So many children had come and gone that Danny and I stopped trying to know them all. As it always hurt when they had to leave. So we stuck together. 2 things after that christmas sealed out friendship completely. The 1st was the day we first were allowed to go to school. By ourselves. I had been in such a hurry and rush I had run into the middle of the street and had met an almost instant death until Danny came out of no where and pushed me out of the way only seconds before where I had just been standing was raced over by a dozen cars. Then in return. Only the very next year had I saved Danny from drowning in the cities lake. Ever since he was deathly afraid of water and I was deathly afraid of cars and roads.

For 6 years we lived in the Gerlooks Orphanage together. Spending our Christmas's with only each other, Only having one other person to celebrate our birthdays with. Then as if by fate. 2 weeks after our most recent Christmas we were both adopted. When we thought we'd never see each other again we both cried and cried for days and days. He had been adopted by a wealthy headmaster for the most famous collage in our country. Treylanors Academy. Also a private high school. While I had been adopted by a master fencer named Taylor Sea. He was single and had never found love but had always wanted a child. For the 1 year Danny and I were separated I cried myself to sleep and took my anger out on myself. Taylor had taught me how to use every blade imaginable and how to handle them with extreme skill. I used them to hurt myself slitting my wrist and dressing in all black. As I found out later Danny had done the same thing. Except he had become a convict jacking cars and being part of a gang. He became the ultimate bad boy. While i had become the ultimate emo chic. Then when Christmas came around. Taylor had sent me to the best of the best schools for kids like me around, Treylanors Middle School. There I had been re united with my only friend the only person I cared about. The meeting had been quite unusual. I had been called to the headmasters office in order to talk about my low grades and misconduct in class. While Danny had been called there to be accused of starting a school fire. Once we found each other immediately we became like we were. We did not change much though, I still hurt myself now sometimes. He still gets caught in a gang act every now and then, but for the next 4 years we became better friends but when we entered high school he had turned to obnoxious bad boy and i had become teacher pet emo girl. Somehow we got all of our classes together and ended up in the same rehab centers. For troubled teens.

Yet every christmas we still spent the 2 weeks at one or the others house and our birthdays and every other holiday. In fact this is where my real story begins. 1 week before Christmas break, I now being 16 and Danny now being 17. And for our presents we got a hell of an adventure and a hell of a lot of trouble wrapped up in one little package........A book......