BFFs – Prologue

Your fate has been decided. It was decided long ago. To be, or not to be; was never your choice. But the path you take and the roads you follow are up to you. Know that friends are for school, but best friends are for life.

Prologue: The Beginnings of Friendship

3rd person POV

With Leaf

10 years ago (They are five)

"Hey Leaf pass it here!" A boy with auburn spiky hair and icy blue eyes squealed jumping up and down. He was calling for his friend to pass him the soccer ball.

"No way!" The girl with brown hair and green eyes called back dribbling the ball around him. "You always shoot, it's my turn!"

"Fine." The boy pouted as the girl took a shot.

The two young children were playing soccer in the girl's yard. The girl's parents and the boy's grandfather, who the boy was in custody of, sat inside laughing as they saw the children play.

The two of them were troublemakers. More so, the boy was and always seemed to drag the girl into it. They'd been friends forever and their worlds were about to change.

The girl's mother stood up. She opened the door and came out into the yard. She walked up to the two children and picked up the soccer ball so she had their full attention.

"Mommy!" The girl whined. "Give us back our ball!"

"Listen to mommy first sweetie." The mother chided. "Say bye-bye to Gary now, he has to go."

"Bye Gary…" The girl sulked.

"Bye Leafy!" Gary shrieked in joy and darted out the gate towards his grandfather so they could go home.

Leaf, the young girl, lunged out as he called her the nickname, but was stopped by her mother. She looked up at her mom.

"Come inside Leaf, daddy better be the one to tell you."

Taking Leaf's hand her mother lead her inside and sat down with her on the couch. Then Leaf's father walked up and sat on Leaf's other side.

"Leaf." Her father started. "You know daddy works in a big office right?" Leaf nodded and he continued. "Daddy got a promotion!"

Leaf pouted. "I don't know why you sent Gary home to tell me that."

"Sweetie, daddy's new job is in the Orange Islands!" Her mother said excitedly.

"Oh… I'll miss you daddy!" Leaf cried wrapping her arms around her father.

"Silly Leaf, you and mommy are coming too! We're moving!"

Leaf froze. Then the little girl burst into tears. She wouldn't speak to either of her parents for a long time. Her father just looked at her mother, they exchanged a look and her mother took over.

"Leaf, now you know why Gary had to go. Go pack, we leave tomorrow. I packed most things for you but you must do the rest."

Leaf walked away from her parents in a trance-like state. When she got to her room she just curled up in a ball.

When she was curled up she heard a sound on her window. She lived on the ground level of her house. She opened her window and saw Gary standing there.

"I'm sorry you have to move Leaf."

"Me too. I'm gonna miss you Gary."

"Me too Leaf." Gary was too sad to even use the silly nickname.

Gary and Leaf hugged then, until Gary broke it.

"We don't have long Leaf. I just came to say bye and to give you this." Gary shoved a little jewelry box into her hands, kissed her cheek and stepped out her window. He closed the window behind him, waved and ran off.

Leaf began to cry. She watched Gary's back recede down the path between his grandfather's lab and her house. She watched him until she couldn't see him anymore.

When he was gone she looked at the little box he'd given her. It was wrapped, obviously quickly, with Bulbasaur wrapping paper. She removed the paper and saw a little box made of delicate china with her name on it. The china was white with vines and leaves spelling her name. Removing the lid of the box she saw a bracelet. It was not an expensive one; just a metal loop chain with little green plastic leaves and metal hearts around it. There was also a plaque that said Friends.

She smiled and put on the bracelet. Gary and her would be together, not matter where they were. Leaf would be sure of it.

3rd person POV

With Misty

"MISTY! GET DOWN HERE!" The three Sensational Sisters yelled.

A little girl with red hair pulled messily into a side ponytail and green eyes raced down the stairs. She ran up to her 10-year-old (A/N: It felt weird to say that they were 10, remember Misty, May, Leaf and Dawn are five.) sisters and looked up with a super cute innocence in her eyes.

"Don't you DARE give us that look Misty Kasumi Waterflower! WE know what you did!" One sister with yellow hair yelled. (Daisy)

"You better make this up to us!" Another sister with pink hair screamed. (Lily)

"B-but…" Misty started but was interrupted as her parents walked into the room.

"What happened here?" Her mother asked looking softly at the Sensational Sisters, but harshly at Misty.

Misty's father and mother were soft and sweet to her sisters and spoiled Daisy, Lily and Violet to death. They were hard and cruel to Misty. Her sisters set her up for things she didn't do just to get her in trouble for fun!

"She told our crushes we liked them!" The third sister with bluish, purplish hair complained. (Violet)

"I don't even know who you like!" Misty cried out desperately.

"Where is your proof ladies?" Her father asked his cold, calculating eyes trained harshly on Misty.

Daisy smirked and held up her phone. "Here Daddy-o!"

To Daisy

From Tracey

Hey Daisy, I found out from your sister you liked me. Sorry but I really don't feel the same. I hope we can still be friends.

Lily held up her phone showing a similar message.

To Lily

From Todd

Hey Lils! Ur sis told me u liked me. Sry but I've got another girl on my mind ;) hope we can still be friends!

Violet held up her phone as well.

To Violet

From Josh

Ok, I heard from ur sister u liked me. This is weird because I'm 4 years older. Sry Vi but I've got a girlfriend it wouldn't work. U'll find someone eventually ;) good luck out there.

After reading the messages Misty saw that it didn't say which sister told the boys so she knew it was probably an argument ending with each sister telling on each others' crushes. Misty was getting the blame.

Her father and mother turned to her. Misty flinched away.

"Unbelievable young lady! You have caused so much trouble!" Her mother was screaming.

"This is the last straw! You are getting disowned or shipped away! You cause to much trouble for your own good!" Her father screamed.

"Go pack!" Her sisters said nastily. "At least we won't have to see your ugly face ever again!"

Misty turned away from her cruel family and raced to her room. She packed all her stuff, which wasn't much, as her parents took most of it away after she "had caused trouble". It was maddening.

Dragging her stuff downstairs she saw a man was talking to her father at their door.

"That's the little devil." Her father spat seeing her.

The other man looked kindly at her. "We'll take her with us to the Orange Islands."

Misty's head snapped up.

"Good. Get out girl. You will live with this man and his family from now on."

The man offered Misty a hand and she took it and walked out of her parents' house.

"Hey cutie? What's your name?" The man asked.

"I'm Misty." She replied sweetly.

"How old are you?" He asked again.

"Five sir."

"The same age as my daughter. We're moving to the Orange Islands and she's quite upset. Do you think you could try and cheer her up for me?"

"Sure! Anything because you got me away from my bad daddy and mommy and sisters."

"Oh, almost forgot! You can call me Mr. Green, Daniel or dad if you'd prefer.

Misty smiled and hopped into the car of this nice Mr. Green.

3rd person POV

With May

A little girl with brunette locks and sapphire eyes was sitting on a bed at an adoption centre. The family she was with was returning her. It was a new record, 4 weeks with the family before they returned her.

The little girl was an orphan. She was orphaned at a young age because her parents and her little brother died in a car crash. She had been moving from orphanages to adoption centres to orphanages.

Nobody wanted her. The girl was convinced she was cursed.

When the family returning her left the manager of the centre turned to the girl. "Why this time May?"

"I don't know." The girl called May replied sadly.

"It's alright May, maybe they just couldn't deal with 3 kids." The manager said and pulled her into a hug.

The manager, Wendy, was like May's mother. She couldn't adopt May though because she couldn't afford it. May, because of this, was stuck in adoption centre systems.

"Wendy? Why do bad things happen to me?" May asked with her blue eyes full of tears

"It's not your fault May! You couldn't help burning a wood table, settling off the preschool fire alarm, leaving the gate open letting the cat out…" Wendy trailed off knowing if she got into some of the worse tings May had done the little girl would lose hope forever.

"Someone will take you eventually." Wendy said. "Time for bed May. See you in the morning."

May walked over to the cot she called her bed, which was amongst other cots for the other orphans. She climbed in and fell asleep.

When May awoke in the morning she heard Wendy speaking with someone or ones in the lobby. She crept to the door and snuck out. Sneaking down the hall she heard part of the conversation.

"My name is Wendy, it's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Green and Mrs. Green."

"The pleasure's mine Wendy. Now about our problem, we need some more gas. Do you have any spare?" That was a man's voice.

"I think I have some in the back room, follow me."

May was too intent on listening to the conversation to notice she was hiding right in front of the back room. Wendy, Mr. Green and Mrs. Green walked around the corner and spotted her.

"May!" Wendy scolded.

"What a cutie. She yours?" Mrs. Green gushed.

"No just an orphan here, but she's my special little orphan."

"What's your name kiddo?" Mr. Green asked.

"May Maple." She replied shyly.

"Daddy, daddy!" Two little girls came running around the corner and tackled Mr. Green.

"Misty! Leaf! Off daddy for now. He needs to carry the gas out to the car." Mrs. Green chided plucking the girls off him. They both pouted and walked over to May.

While Wendy, Mr. Green and Mrs. Green were getting the gas out to the car, May, Leaf and Misty became good friends.

They had a lot in common. They were all five, they all liked Mr. and Mrs. Green and they decided that they would be friends forever.

When the adults came back they saw the 3 girls laughing and giggling. Wendy sighed. "It's been awhile since May's had real friends. It's too bad you have to leave."

"Daniel! Marianna!" Misty cried racing over to the adults "Can May come with us? Please?"

Mr. and Mrs. Green exchanged a look and then looked at Wendy.

"How long will it take to fill out the adoption papers?" Mrs. Green asked.

Wendy smiled. "I'll do them, you folks just grab her and go. I'd do anything to see May happy and she really is happy with your girls."

"Only Leaf is ours, Misty wasn't wanted by her family so we took her in on the way here. They do really act like 3 sisters don't they?"

"Definitely." Wendy said smiling and walked over to May.

"Hey May! Go pack your things you're being adopted!"

"Really? Bye who?" May cheered excited.

"Us." Mr. Green said grabbing all three girls playfully.

Awhile later May was a set to go and bundled up in the car with Misty and the Greens. Wendy waved as they drove away.

May finally got her family.

3rd person POV

With Dawn

A little girl with navy blue hair and blue eyes cowered in front of the boy. He was her 17-year-old brother. He was drunk, again. He was yelling at her on the side of the road, again. He was blaming her that he was being stupid and dragging her to every slut-of-a-girlfriend's house he went to.

He brother was doing drugs, underage drinking, sleeping with a different girl each night and scarring his little 5-year-old sister with cuss words and terrible sights.

"DAWN! YOU WREN! YOU MADE US MISS THE BUS AGAIN!"

The girl, Dawn cowered away from her brother. He didn't use to be like this. He used to be kind and helpful when they lived with their mom. When she died he earned money by selling and doing drugs and sleeping with sluts.

Dawn was always quiet about it, especially since it gave her food on her plate. She was skinny, and picked on at school but she shook it off. She didn't even know what her brother was yelling at her about now.

She didn't care. She sat on the curb curled in a ball with tears on her face. It was horrifying. Her brother eventually stopped yelling to light and smoke weed.

The stench made her feel sick and drowsy. She tried to shake it off but it followed her. She was always tired and sick feeling because of her brother. He never let her get a good enough sleep because they had to keep moving.

Finally the bus arrived and her brother quit smoking and grabbed for Dawn to pull her onto the bus. Dawn ducked away from her brother, grabbed her duffel with all her clothes and belongings and ran.

She ran down the street trying to get away from her brother. He was yelling after her. When she got a good distance away, she heard him yell.

"FINE! SEE IF I CARE! RUN DAWN! FEED YOURSELF! GOODBYE!"

Dawn felt a tear roll down her cheek as she saw her brother board the bus. She wiped it away quickly, and sunk into a ball at the curb. A car drove by, but stopped seeing her on the side of the road. It pulled over and a man, woman and 3 little girls jumped out and ran up to her.

The first girl with red hair asked, "Are you lost?"

Dawn shook her head.

"Do you have a family?" The woman asked.

Dawn shook her head again.

"Daddy! Can she come with us?" Another girl with brown hair and green eyes asked excited.

"If it's ok with mommy." The man replied.

"Of course." The woman had a broad smile on her face. It made Dawn smile too. "What's your name sweetie?"

"Dawn. Dawn Berlitz." She piped.

"I'm Mrs. Green, that's my husband Mr. Green. I'm sure the girls will introduce themselves." The woman said smiling.

The other girl with brown hair and blue eyes came up to Dawn and took her bag of stuff. She opened the trunk of the car and chucked it into the back. She turned to Dawn and smiled. "I'm May."

The redhead was next to introduce herself. "I'm Misty."

Then the last girl, "I'm Leaf, welcome to the family!"

Dawn smiled and hopped into the back of the car with the other girls. They all began to tell stories. Misty and May told Dawn how they met the Greens' and why they were with them. Then Dawn told her story.

The girls all became friends almost immediately! They were laughing and playing and having so much fun! Just like 5-year-old girls should. Not like the dark (except Leaf) pasts they'd experienced.

Pulling each other into a group hug the girls smiled and spoke as one, "Best Friends Forever!"

Me: And thus marks the end of BFFs prologue!

Misty: PM her or review your thoughts!

Me: I thought the pasts of Misty, May and Dawn were so depressing…

Dawn: Leaf's seems so good compared to ours *pouting*

Leaf: My parents seem like idiots for taking in 3 random girls O.o

May: NO FLAMES!

Me: Everyone, disclaimer!

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