"So," said Elle as her, Aryeona and Cindy were walking in the freezing snow "Where do you live anyway?"

"In an extremely small apartment," moaned Cindy.

"It isn't that small," said Aryeona and turned to Elle "Cindy is just mad that we didn't have enough money to live in one of the bigger apartments."

"Don't you guys have any parents?" asked Elle.

"Nope," said Cindy.

Aryeona stared at her. "What she is trying to say is that-" she began.

"We have no parents," said Cindy flatly finishing Aryeona's sentence.

"Cindy," said Aryeona warningly.

"I don't have any parents either!" said Elle happily.

Both Cindy and Aryeona stared at her and stopped walking.

"What?" asked Elle turning back.

Cindy whispered something in Aryeona's ear. Then Aryeona whispered something in Cindies' ear. Elle was starting to feel like they knew something she didn't and that they were hiding something from her
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"What?!" screamed Elle angrily.

"You really have no parents?" asked Cindy.

"Well," said Elle uncertaintly. Just like Rini, Elle was going to lose friends because she is an orfan.

"Do you?" demanded Aryeona.

Elle broke out it tears. She hated being who she was. Maybe if she knew what her past was, she wouldn't be such a freak! Maybe if she remembered who her parents are, she wouldn't be an orfan! She would have friends and not be in this mess! She wouldn't have tried to kill herself and she wouldn't be cold! She would probably be sliding down a hill on a sled with her parents.

Aryeona and Cindy rushed over to her. Aryeona lifted her head.

"Don't cry," she said with a smile "Your face will freeze."

Elle just had to push out a giggle.

"We don't care if you don't have any parents or not!" said Cindy as they were walking again.

"Yeah," said Aryeona.

Elle was a little happier.

~*~

After hours of walking in the snow, Elle couldn't feel her feet anymore. She didn't have boots like Aryeona and Cindy. She just had used tennis shoes. She wished that she were back in her dream. Where she would be warm and not care about anything. It was also very dark. It was sunset when they left the hostpital. And that was in the middle of no where.

A few minutes later, she saw smoke from far away rise in the sky. She couldn't see where it was coming from, though, because a hill was in the way. Also because she was in the woods and there were alot of trees aroud her.

Elle relized something. 'That smoke couldn't be a forest fire because it was too thin. It could only mean one thing...'

Elle ran toward the hill ignoring the peircing pain in her feet. Elle could see over her shoulder that Aryeona and Cindy were trying to keep up but since Elle was so excited, she was extremely fast.

She finally reached the top of the hill and look out to see where the smoke was rising from. Then she saw it. It made her want to scream with joy.

The hill she was running up was the hill Elle always sat on when she wanted to watch the city. And there it was. The orfanige. The smoke was rising from the fire place in the orfanige.

"Look!" screamed Elle "Look!"

"What is it?" panted Cindy reaching her side.

"You are a really fast runner," gasped Aryeona.

Elle wasn't listening to them. She was staring at the orfanige with an extremely wide smile. She looked at Aryeona and Cindy and was about to say something but, then, Cindy whispered something is Aryeona's ear. But this time Elle didn't care.

She started running down the hill, toward the orfinage.

"No Elle!" screamed Aryeona.

She and Cindy ran after Elle.

Elle had no idea why they didn't want her to go back to the orfanige. But she really didn't care. She kept on running, ignoring Aryeona and Cindy screaming at her to come back.

She finally made it. She swung open the door.

"I back!" she yelled. Her smile vanished off her face when she looked inside.