(Thanks to anyone that read Who Do I Trust, Not So Bad, Someone Special or any of my other previous stories. The idea for this story came from one of my chapters from Someone Special. I hope this story turns out ok. It's still an idea in progress. I hope everyone enjoys this story as much as my last one. So here it is.)

Sister of The Shield

Chapter One

Emily Thomas was three years old, she started out living in an orphanage in Pensacola, Florida. One day she met a family with a little boy, this little boy was Roman Reigns. He was about three years older than her and his parents were looking to adopt a girl. Emily was young, but all she wanted was a family. Whenever people came in to adopt kids, most people wanted a little boy, most people just preferred having a boy over having a girl. When the people at the orphanage found out that Roman's parents wanted a girl, they brought them to the room where they were keeping the girls. When the door opened all of the girls turned their attention to the people that came into the room and most of them came running up to Roman and his parents. There were two girls that didn't go to the door. Those girls were Emily and another girl named Brittany. Brittany was about Roman's age, she was one of the prettier girls, but she didn't really get along well with others. While the other girls were laughing, playing, having fun, and trying to get adopted by Roman's parents, Brittany was saying and doing some very mean things to Emily.

"You know I'll probably be the next one adopted. I'm the prettiest girl here now that Rachel is gone. No one is going to adopt you because no one wants you. No one cares about you... that's why your mom kept your brother and got rid of you."

Emily felt like crying, but only payed attention to the picture she was coloring. Brittany took Emily's picture and crayons and threw it on the floor.

"Hey!"

Brittany then laughed and pushed Emily in the floor.

"Coloring is for babies! Don't be such a baby!"

Roman actually saw this and wanted to say something. Everyone's attention was on Emily when she started crying. Roman came over to the girls and yelled at Brittany.

"Hey! That's not very nice. Don't be so mean... Don't be a bully!"

Brittany backed up, she was a little scared of this boy that came over and started yelling at her. One of the ladies that was in the orphanage took Brittany and told her to go play somewhere else. Emily had a scratch on her knee and when Brittany threw her picture on the ground, part of it ripped. Emily was too young to really understand what was going on, but she cried anyway. Roman was six years old at the time and knew how she felt because some of the boys at his school would sometimes fight with him. He made his way over to her and started picking up the crayons and started talking to her.

"Are you ok?"

Emily kept crying and wiped her face. She had a hand on her bleeding knee.

"No."

Roman tried to make her feel better. He looked at the picture she was coloring.

"Hey, you like to color too! I think coloring is really cool. What picture is that?"

Emily picked up her picture and showed him.

"That's a tiger. A pink tiger. That's kind of cool, I've never seen a pink tiger before. I have a picture to show you too, I colored a blue dragon. My name is Roman... Roman Reigns. What's your name?"

Emily wiped away her tears and still held her knee.

"Emily Thomas."

Roman smiled at her and shook her hand.

"It's nice to meet you."

Roman's parents had wondered where Roman went and finally found him when they saw him shaking Emily's hand. Roman's mom was a nurse and she saw Emily's knee bleeding.

"Hey... her knee is bleeding. Don't you people take care of the kids here?"

She made her way over to Emily and her husband was close behind her. She heard Roman talking to Emily and saw that they held hands for a moment when they were shaking hands and noticed the smile on Roman's face. She came over and asked for her name and asked what happened.

"Hi there... what's your name? Can you tell me what happened?"

"I'm Emily Thomas... I was pushed to the floor. Brittany did it... and she ripped my picture too."

Roman's mom put a band-aid on her knee and kept talking to her.

"Oh I'm sorry."

Emily started crying again a little. Roman nodded his head.

"Yeah... this mean girl was bullying her. I saw her get pushed to the floor and her stuff too."

"It was Brittany."

Roman's mom looked at her husband for a moment then back at Emily.

"Why did she do that?"

Emily started wiping her tears from her eyes.

"She said no one would adopt me. No one likes me... my mom didn't. She said coloring is for babies."

The first thing Roman's parents saw when they saw Emily was Roman talking with her. It almost broke their heart hearing this from her. It was then that their decision was clear.

"Well... would you like it if we adopted you?"

Emily wiped away the last of her tears and looked at all of them. She held Roman's hand and gave them a small smile.

"Yes... You want to adopt me?"

"We do. How old are you Emily?"

"Three."

They looked at her, she was a lot younger than the other girls, most of the other girls were between six and twelve. Emily had bright blond hair that went to about her shoulders and hazel eyes. The people in charge came over to them.

"So you're interested in adopting Emily?"

"We are."

"Ok, if you'll just follow me, we'll go do some paper work and then she's all yours."

Roman's dad called out to her.

"Come on Emily, follow us."

Emily was a bit shy and stood still for a moment. She didn't really know what was going on, and she was a bit nervous around new people. Roman noticed this and grabbed Emily's hand.

"Come on. It's ok, you can come with us, and you won't have to see that mean girl anymore."

Emily smiled at this and took Roman's hand as they walked out of the room. Brittany was sitting in the corner and she saw Emily walk out and had a disappointed look on her face, she was the one that was supposed to be adopted, not Emily. Emily was young, but she had already started believing the things that Brittany said to her about people not caring for her and not wanting to adopt her. She didn't know what to think when this family came up to her and said that they wanted to adopt her, but she smiled at Roman, he was the first person that had ever stood up for her. This six year old boy Roman Reigns, about three years older than her stood up for her. As the year would pass by, Emily grew up to love her new family. She didn't have any memory of her birth parents, but she did have memories from the orphanage. She would in time come to see Roman's parents as her own and Roman as her brother.

(To be continued. So this is the end of the first chapter. Let me know what you think so far.)