.:3 years later:.

It has been years now, they haven't been taken in by loving arms but none of them were Ruby and Sapphire were 15 years of age now and they have become very close friends by now. They technically never left each others side for any reason, they were inseparable.

"...Hey ruby?" Sapphire asked, at the moment both of them were sitting in their room on the floor in front of each other sitting Indian style, sapphire was looking down at her right hand.

"What is it, sapph?" Ruby asked, she was leaning against her bed with her arms behind her head.

"i-i umm..." Sapphire let out a soft sigh and thought for a second "...We are getting older, i'm afraid that if we dont get...adopted or taken in...will they send us away..separately..?I-i mean..i dont really want to leave you...your my only friend and if i loose you..." She trailed off, Ruby scooted closer and clasped their hands together.

"h-hey...I wont let them separate us, if they do..then i will keep in touch or try to find you with every opportunity i get..okay? Plus, you will always have the necklace to remember..." Ruby said, softness filled her voice as sapphire looked down at the red half-heart necklace that Ruby gave her on her birthday. Ruby had a matching Blue half-heart one as well strapped to her neck.

Sapphire nodded and looked up, they met gazes, and sapphire had tears that threatened to escape her visible eye, her other eye that Ruby has yet to see, doesn't ever have tears come out. Yea, ruby has really wanted to uncover that eye but she was afraid that it would bee too personal for sapphire to let her do that.

"...Hey sapph?"

"...hmm?" Sapphire said, still looking into ruby's almost crimson eyes. Their hands were still clasped together but they weren't really thinking about that.

"...I want to ask you something..i-i mean, if its not too personal for you...you don-" Sapphire shushed her.

"Its okay, just ask me, i will answer the question..because i trust you"

"..o-okay...why do you always cover your right eye?" Ruby asked, slightly tilting her head.

"oh...that...promise you won't think differently of me if i tell you?" Sapphire asked nervously and Ruby nodded, sapphire sighed and pulled her hands away from ruby's hands gently, she clasped her own hands together on her lap. " Well...i was born blind in that eye, its white. I was okay with it at first but ever since 5th grade people began to bully me and call me a...a cyclops and they would constantly hurt and bully me just because i was different..." Sapphire looked down, ruby balled one hand into a fist and growled under her breath "...so i covered that eye and everything was fine after that i guess...thats when i started to get friends and become popular at my school because people forgot about my eye...but that was until..the fire...and when i ended up here i wanted to make sure no one saw my eye and bullied me.." Sapphire slowly looked up to see Ruby's face, Ruby was visibly mad and she was looking away. "..Ruby?" Sapphire asked.

"...i dont understand...why would they even try bullying someone like you...your perfect..." Ruby whispered to herself angerly, she looked at sapphire and softened her mood. "...c-can i see?" Ruby asked, scooting even closer, now their knees were slightly touching and Ruby leaned toward her. Sapphire nodded and looked down, Ruby reached for the blue bangs that were covering her right eye and slowly moved them out of the way, revealing a crystal white eye. "..wow..." Ruby whispered.

Sapphire felt self conscious and looked away, her bangs moved in place again, she scooted away and hugged her knees" i know its..hideous..." She said with her face in her knees. Ruby scooted closer and smiled.

"Sapphire, your eyes are beautiful." Ruby said quite softly, sapphire picked her head up slightly.

"r-really?"

"yea..." Ruby gently picked up sapphires chin and moved her bangs out of the way. "...see..beautiful" Ruby smiled and sapphire blushed. They both leaned in slowly..

Ruby kissed sapphire, softly though, she put a hand on the back of sapphires neck to get closer to her and sapphire wrapped her arms around ruby's neck. They stayed like that for a few seconds, not stopping for air. Ruby smiled into the kiss as sapphire giggled as well. Ruby could feel the blue girls breath on her lips, it was an incredible feeling. She has been waiting to kiss this girl for a really long time, like a few weeks after they meet for the first time and she wanted to savor this first kiss.

She leaned in closer against sapphire, the she remembered that they were in a room with an unlocked door. She gently broke away from the kiss, leaving a blushing mess of a sapphire. She stood up and went to the door, locking it before looking back at sapphire, letting a big grin stretch her lips. She walked over to sapphire and picked her up off the floor, bridal style, and placed her softly on the bed.

Sapphire giggled and Ruby kissed her cheek, neck and now uncovered blind eye. sapphire lay back on the bed and ruby was hovering over her, smiling down at her. She leaned down and kissed sapphire passionately, and sapphires legs were wrapped around ruby's waist. Ruby ran her fingers through the blue girls soft blue hair as they embraced and kissed..

At that moment, a soft knock hit the door of the room. Ruby slowly broke away and fixed her bandanna with a growl, she was surely frustrated. Sapphire sat up in the bad and fixed her bangs over her right eye. Ruby walked up to the door,unlocked the door, and slowly opened it.

It was Rose, she had a huge smile on her face and she was holding a few papers in her hands. Ruby stepped back and let her in.

"Guess what girls?" Rose said excitedly.

"What is it?" Sapphire and ruby said in unison , they looked at each other and smiled.

"You both are being taken in!" Rose said , they gasped, "Sapphire the Johnsens are taking you in and ruby a nice family named the Harris's are adopting you! You will be going home with them in 4 days, aren't you excited that you are finally getting adopted!"

"WHAT?!" Ruby and sapphire yelled together. Rose jumped.

"Is there something wrong?"

"YES!"