Hey! Sorry it took so long to put the next chapter up. I was sort of preoccupied with moping because Madycandi isn't running her 'paper anymore. But now I'm happier than ever that I put the story on here. Not only Do I get to show the people reading it here a few small pieces of the story that I didn't feel like putting in the original(like this chapter), but I don't have to quite writing the story!

Nitty: C'mon, Diana! Just start the story!

Alright, alright. Hope you enjoy the first 'filler' chapter! And sorry that it's sort of sucky. This one was made up as I went along, but the chapters after this one will be better, I promise! So, enjoy!

Fate is Funny

"Nitty! I'm going to visit Eve, you coming?" Diana shouted. I jumped off the floor and ran right to her.

"Of course! It's not like we go anywhere else." I gave an evil smile. Actually, Diana took my a lot of places. A few days after my adoption, she took me caroling, and we went shopping a lot, since I had nothing. But I'd never been to her friend Eve's house. I knew that Eve had moved to Gaia a few weeks after Diana, and that they had been friends before then, and that she was taking care of orphans, too. But besides that, I wasn't sure. The closest I ever got to meeting her before now was answering Diana's phone once when Diana fell asleep watching TV.

Diana smiled at me as I slipped my coat and hat on. I was mostly use to her constant smile by now, but her fangs creeped me out a little when she was smiling for no apparent reason.

"Do you need something?" I asked.

"Sorry, it's just that Eve told me yesterday on the phone that she found a permanent orphan. I hope you two are friends!" She put her hands together under her chin and closed her eyes.

"Can we just go? I want to meet this mysterious 'Eve' girl your friends with."

"Okay, okay. Come on, Nitty. If your so excited, to meet my friends, then I won't make you wait." She opened the door, and slipped on a coat when a gust of wind blew in the door. Then, we were off.

"So, you're Nitty, huh?" a girl said, leaning against the door-frame of her house. This was, of course, Diana's friend, Eve. She was very pretty. She was skinny, and a bit shorter than Diana, but she had long black hair that I was sure Diana was secretly jealous of, being as Diana was saving up to have her chin-length navy blue hair changed to a long black 'do.

"Yup, this is Nitty! Isn't she adorable?" Diana said, kneeling down and squeezing me.

"Diana, stop! Your squashing me!" I yelled, pushing against her arms. It was sort of weird, living with someone as affectionate as Diana.

"Well, she seems nice." Eve said. It was obvious she was holding back a giggle.

"Why are you laughing?" I asked her after Diana let go. She just stared down at me.

"You'll find out soon enough." Diana's friend told me. "Why don't you go play behind the house, you'll have a friend later." Diana stared at her friend, until Eve whispered something in her ear.

"Oh! I see!" Diana said, her eyes going round in understanding. She turned to me and added, "I'll be right out with you, Nitty. I want to meet Eve's new friend, first." The two of them went in the house, leaving me all alone outside. I just went around to the back of the large house. Eve's house was noticeably bigger than Diana's. I noticed a half-finished snowman as a door slammed. I just shrugged it off, and went to finish the snowman.

I walked toward the back door of Eve's house. I had been out here for half an hour finishing the snowman, and I was getting hungry for a lunch.

"Back inside already?" Eve said, smiling at me. I was a bit confused, but I figured I hadn't been outside as long as I had guessed.

"Can I have a sandwich or something?" I asked. Eve stared at me for a second. She looked really surprised for some reason.

"Sure, Nitty." she said, going to her fridge and taking out some meat and cheese. She put the delicious-looking slices between two slices of bread, then handed it to me. I ate it happily. It was a nice break from all the ramen Diana and I ate for lunch. Diana liked cheap, but good food. She figured the less we spend on food, the more we have for fun stuff, like movies and games and stuff.

"Hey, Nit-Nit! Liking the sandwich?" Diana joked, coming into the kitchen "You better enjoy it, 'cause it's ramen for breakfast and lunch, and whatever else is in the fridge for dinner as soon as we get home again!"

"Geez, Diana. What're you trying to do? Starve the kid?" Eve asked, leaning against a table.

"No, she gets plenty to eat. We just eat cheap, and spend largely." I nodded to Diana's comment, my mouth full of sandwich.

"Mom! Somebody finished my snowman, for some reason." an oddly familiar voice said. I nearly dropped my lunch(meaning the sandwich) when I saw who it was.

Standing in the doorway, with a face exactly the same as mine, was my old friend, Weepy. Apparently, she hadn't noticed me, because she kept staring at Eve with a confused expression. I could tell Diana was nearly cracking up over it.

"Weepy, I think you should look around the room. There's a visitor for you." Eve said, also looking as if she wanted to laugh.

Weepy looked around, then her eyes locked on me. "Nitty!" she gasped, running to me. I just opened my arms, ready to embrace my friend.

"Wow, Weepy! Imagine that! You got adopted by Diana's best friend!"

"Well, fate works in mysterious ways!" Diana said, smiling to herself. It was almost as if she planned it.

"Did you know about this, Diana?" I asked, a confused look on my face.

"Since I'm smiling, I suppose you'd think that, but no, I didn't. I just found out this morning when Eve called me. But we didn't know you were friends."

"Are you kidding? We're not just friends!" Weepy said, excitedly.

"We're best friends!" I finished. Diana just continued watching us. I could tell seeing me so excited made her happy.

"Hey Nitty, wanna play a little joke?" Weepy whispered evily.

"When do I not want to?" The both of us ran outside. We had played this joke before on Ms. Cooper, but never on someone who hadn't even known us a month. This was going to be fun.

"Diana!" I called from outside. Weepy giggled. We were standing on either side of the snowman. Diana walked out calmly and stared at us. She had her hands the pockets of her coat.

"What're you two doing?" she asked semi-suspiciously. Eve was standing behind her, obviously curious about what was happening.

Both of us smiled evily. "Which one of us is Nitty, and which is Weepy?" Weepy said, calmly. It helped a lot that our voices were so similar.

"You two are really evil, you know that?" Eve said. Diana just stared at us, sturying us for the smallest giveaway of which of us was which.

"I know." She finally said. She walked straight to me and picked me up. "I'm taking my midget home. See ya later."

"One put me down! And I'm not a midget!" I yelled. Eve and Diana laughed, obviously an inside joke of theirs, as Diana put me on the ground. "And second of all, how'd you know it was me?"

"Simple." Diana said, closing her eyes. "Your clothes may look the same, but they're not. Remember, Nitty, how I fixed your clothes instead of buying them? Well, if you look closely, you can see some human-error in the stitches. For instance, I messed up on the collar of your coat, since I never sewed anything puffy like that before."

"So, if you had waited till restock, we would have been exactly the same?" I asked kicking the ground.

"I told you, fate works in mysterious ways." Diana smiled, walking away. "See you guys later! Come on, Nitty." She added, without turning around. I ran after her. Fate worked in another mysterious way. This one for the good. I thought, Fate put us together. But not even fate can separate us. I promise that. After that thought, I switched them over to the cookies I was going to eat when we got home. I was especially thanking fate for putting me with someone with such good cookie-baking skills.

Now, I want to clear something up. When I first wrote the first chapter, I wanted to make Ronnie Nitty's best friend, but I found the story would flow better if Ronnie was sort of mean to Nitty and her friends, and was a bit jealous of Nitty because she was the one that I ended up keeping(that'll come in later). I changed it, so our newer readers wouldn't have known that if I didn't say so, but since I know we have a few readers who read it before the edit, so I wanted to clear up any confusion. We'll be back to the chapters that were originally longer tomorrow. Bye!

Nitty: See ya, everyone! Hopefully, Diana won't wait a week before posting the next one like she did after finishing this chapter!