A New Life

Chapter I

Hello everyone!

This is my very first fanfic, so please be nice! I thought of this one day when I was in the shower and decided to make it a story. I don't own any of the characters except for the ones I made up (Rose, Serena, etc…) I will try to update as much as possible. The chapters will be a little short. But enough of my rambling…on with the show!!! Oh, and PLEASE REVIEW!!!

Summary: Rose Summers was given up at birth, although she doesn't know why… As she sets out to find who she really is…she gets a lot more than she bargained for. That's all I'm going to say for now because I don't want to ruin the story!

11:31 pm

Rose lay in her uncomfortable bed in the room she shared with thirteen other orphans. You could scarcely even call it a bed. It was more like a wooden board with a piece of cloth thrown on it.

She lay there in the dark, staring at the blank ceiling. Counting the drips of water falling through the cracks. Fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven… Rose thought to herself.

She could hear the soft breaths coming from the girls around her. Rose sighed. In the bed next to her lay her one and only friend-her best friend- Serena. She watched her as a long strand of dark brown hair covered her face, and went up and down softly as her breath blew it upward.

Rose couldn't sleep, for she knew that tomorrow Serena would be leaving to be adopted. Of course, she was happy for her, ecstatic at that, but at the same time she was devastated. Not only was her best friend leaving her, but all of these thirteen years that she has been living in this orphanage, not one family had even considered adopting her. Was something wrong with her? As these thoughts ran through her head, her eyelids grew heavy, slowly closing…

6:30am

"Rose. Rose! Rose wake up!"

Rose woke up to Serena hovering over her.

"Today's the day!" shouted Serena.

Rose sighed. She had tried to forget about this day, but now it was here. She put on a fake smile and held back tears.

She helped Serena gather her few belongings, and at 9:00, they came. They appeared to be a nice, normal American family…whatever that was. There was a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes and a woman with black hair and brown eyes. The tall man took Serena's things and said, "Come on. Let's go home." Home. Rose wished that she would have one some day.

Serena came up to Rose and embraced her in a long hug.

"Don't ever forget me", she whispered, "You need to get out of this place, Rose. Promise me that tomorrow you will leave this place, and find your parents like we planned?"

Rose paused for a moment. How was she supposed to find them? Were they even alive? She had never even left the steps of Marry Gellar Orphanage for Girls.

"I promise", she whispered back.

Serena let go of her and took the woman's hand. Rose went over to the door and watched as her best friend walked down the steps of the orphanage, and let with her new family.

Well…What did you think of the first chapter??? Please review, and be nice! NO flames please! I'll try to update ASAP.

Much love,

Taylor