Chapter 1: A Strange Dream
"Have you ever had one of those dreams that seem just too real, and then you wake up feeling this emptiness inside you?"
"...it seemed like outer space, I could see lots of stars all around the metallic platform. There were some buildings and a metallic bridge but all the lights were off, so I tried wandering a little, I came closer to one of the towers, I felt so cold there, I heard someone breathing, but couldn't see anyone, ignoring my fear I searched around and suddenly all of this illusions came to my head, there were lots of people on fire, and a big explosion at the back..." – the girl made a pause as if to remember something –"...and there was this black-haired man walking among them when..."
"Time to sleep girls, don't let these stories fool you" – the young woman stated.
[Maron Aikawa]
-27 years old
-Black hair, light brown eyes, likes children
-Doctor in charge of the orphanage
"C'mon! Just a little longer Miss Aikawa" – a six year old girl pleaded.
"That's enough for today Allison, we'll continue tomorrow" – one of the 'big sisters' said.
[Sakura Kinomoto]
-16 years old
-Brown hair, green eyes, likes fairy tales
-Her mother died giving birth to her, her father died in a car accident four years later. His older brother's whereabouts are unknown
The group of four little girls then agreed to go to bed. All of them were between 5 and 7 years old, that's why they called Sakura and the other girl big sisters, as Miss Aikawa said, they were all a family. Now they were all alone in their room.
"You do know that tomorrow Allison's new parents will come to pick her up right?" – she asked as her amethyst-like eyes looked through the window.
Sakura closed the door, they had a room for themselves, the other girls slept downstairs, the whole room was decorated in pink, they had twin beds as the room wasn't big enough to have singles. The green eyed girl slept in the lower one. She arrived at the orphanage almost as the same time as her roommate and best friend.
"Yes I know" – she finally answered as she pulled off the sheets –"I'll miss her, won't you?"
"I'm kinda used to it, they come and go everyday" –she climbed the stairs and introduced herself in the cold bed –"Good night"
"Sleep tight" –was all she got as a reply.
Sakura soon fell into a deep sleep, as deep as she could in a cold room in the middle of the winter. The other girl just couldn't, the idea of loosing another one of her little sisters made her so sad that she had been crying since she noticed her best friend asleep. But her cry was unnoticed, as it was as silent as the wind. No one ever notices when this girl cries, no one ever notices when she gets mad.
She wiped away the tears with the back of one hand and looking for something under her pillow with the other. It was a pocket watch, she found it two days ago when she woke up in the middle of the night after a very strange dream, the same one she was telling to Allison and the rest. The strange part of the watch is that instead of numbers it has letters, and has only one hand.
"See you everyone!! I'll miss you, but mom and dad promised to bring me to play sometime!!" –little Allison waved everyone good-bye as her new mom let her into their car, to go to their home, where she'd be part of a normal family...
"That was a nice good-bye party" –the raven haired girl exclaimed as she stood up from the couch she and Sakura were sitting – "I had so much fun" – she smiled and her friend smiled back.
"Big sis!" –Mimi cried –"You dropped this" – the little girl handed her a necklace with a small crystal moon.
"Thank you so much Mimi, this is very precious to me, how would you like to draw for a while?"
"I'd love that!!"
"Wanna come?" –the little girls were fighting to grab her hands, they were three and she had only two.