It was Nora's first day of school. She loved her classroom it was colorful and had these two person desks and the desk lid opened up so that she could put all her pencils and erasers in there and her teacher Ms. Carmichael was so nice. But, the girl that sat next to Nora wasn't there at the beginning of the day. They learned the pledge of allegiance and sat at their desk as they all stood up one at a time and said their name, their favorite color, and a fun fact about themselves. It was at that moment that the door opened and in walked in the prettiest girl Nora had ever seen, but she was dressed so ugly. Nora knew the girl was the girl that was suppose to sit next to her. But, this little girl had the ebony black hair, and big round almond shaped eyes that were a chocolate brown with specks of purple in them and she was tiny. Yet, Nora couldn't tell what color her skin was it looked purple and blue. Nora had never seen somebody that color before. She heard the Teachers behind her start to whisper about this little girl

"Should we call Social Services? Look at her" said one of the T.A's

"And what are they going to do? Put her in another group home? I saw who she walked into school with its all those kids from that group home down the street." Muttered the afternoon teacher.

"I still think we should call" whispered the T.A

At that moment through the teacher interrupted everybody's conversation.

"Well, hello there you must be Neela?" asked Ms. Carmichael

"Yeah." Said the little girl

"Well, your seat is right next to Nora. Nora can you raise your hand please?" Ms. Carmichael asked

Nora slowly raised her hand, and slowly but surely Neela walked towards her. Nora remembered her father saying to make friends with this girl. But, she was so weird thought Nora. That morning went by quickly and soon it was morning recess. Nora went and grabbed her lunchbox that held her snack for the day in it. She watched as Neela walked outside with nothing, and she decided at that moment she'd make her father proud of her and followed Neela outside to the picnic tables.

Nora saw Neela sitting at a table all by herself.

"Hello my name is Nora" Nora said with a smile on her face "Can I sit here?"

Neela never answered just kind of nodded her head. Nora took that as a yes, and sat down right next to Neela.

"So you don't talk much do you?" Nora asked Neela, but before Neela could even answer Nora was continuing on her story "Well my daddy says I talk a lot. But, it's all good he says my mommy talked a lot but I wouldn't really know my mommy died when I was little. Do you live with your mommy and daddy?"

Neela just stared at Nora flabbergasted that this girl could talk so much. Neela was about open her mouth when she saw Nora open up her afternoon snack. It was a peanut butter sandwich with an apple and some crackers and cheese and then there were two little brownies. Neela had never seen this much food given to one person at a single time.

"Want some?" Nora said. Neela quietly nodded her head yes. Nora immediately separated everything into two equal parts.

"Here you go." Nora said giving Neela one half "So tell me who do you live with?"

"I live in a foster home" said Neela immediately shoveling the food into her mouth

"So that means you don't have a mommy either?" Nora asked curiously

Neela shrugged "I don't have a dad either"

"Oh" Nora said quietly, but immediately perked up when she saw her apple seeds "Wanna see something really really cool?"

"Sure" Neela said. She watched Nora put her hand over her apple seeds and all of a sudden they started to grow into a small apple tree. Neela was stunned. She couldn't believe that somebody could do something like that. Yet, it wasn't that Nora could do it that excited Neela; it was that somebody else other than Neela could do magic.

"I can do stuff like that too" Neela said her voice was low, but it was the first time Nora had heard excitement in her voice. Nora watched as Neela stared at her apple slice and immediately it rose in the air and started to fly around the playground.

"Wow that is awesome. I thought I was the only one" Nora said

"Same here" Neela said yet the smile that had been on her face had began to slip off her face.

"So best friends?" Nora asked rather excitedly

Neela smiled a real smile this would be her first friend she nodded and said "best friends"