A/N:This may be based to a point on Dreamscape but I'm also giving the plot a twist from one of my favorite books when I was in High School by Norma Fox Mazer Girlhearts.So if you've read it,know that this two-shot is purely written not from actual knowledge of who Rose's Mother or Sister were but purely from heart.I'll get back with P,KFIM sometime.

Disclaimer:I own only the names Bethany (Beth) and Gabrielle (Elle) & any ones I make up of course.

New York City,a neighbourhood in the Greenwich Village...

A figure strolled amongst the quiet,rather idyllic scenery that was mostly lit up by the pools of clear,orangish-pink street lights and the softer more comforting xanthous glow of fluorescence coming from the windows of people's evenly spaced townhouses and the occasional breath of warm wind blew across the person's face.Suddenly,high pine trees that were shrouding together interrelated with the pitch black night and just as the young girl's world seemed to be casted into shadow,a porch light flicked on and with renewed confidence,she walked up closer to the courtyard.

"Who's there?"Someone called out brusquely from behind the house's screen door and a beam of light shot out onto the person who had went from the picket fence and was now walking up the stoned path."Beth?"

The fourteen-year-old girl appeared before her friend,shoulder length hair of gold catching in the illuminace and sapphire eyes filling with amusement at his perplexed face.Glad I didn't call,she thought as she moved the red strap of her duffle bag higher onto her shoulder.Or I'd miss this face.

"Hey,Desmon."She greeted him with the usual nonchalantness to her tone as she climbed the steps of his stoop and passed him without invitation."I know it's kind of late but I had to get out again.Dolorus was just about to scream up a fit on the phone about our month's rent and I about lost it."

The fifteen-year-old brownish,gray haired and teal eyed boy gave her a significant look."Bethany,I know a trailer park life in the Bronx isn't the most enjoyable life someone could have...but don't you think you're Mom is going to freak if she catchs coming over to my house at night?"

"I know,I know.But just say I can crash here until the morning when she'll stop phoning us at all hours of the night.Then,before Mom gets home,I'll get back on the subway,ride back home and it'll seem like I actually spent the night."Beth explained as they walked into the living room."But hey,if Mom doesn't get her pay check in,then I guess that means the streets."

"You're terribly sardonic."He laughed magnanimously,taking a seat on his overstuffed couch and moving some DVD cases out of the way so as to make room for her."Alright but just until the morning.I don't want to get in trouble again the time you snuck over because of the faulty plumbing."

"I've been living in that place for six years now and I still think it's a piece of junk,the only reason we haven't moved is because Mom is always wound up in the whole 'You're Father will be back someday' routine."

"Forget about that,"Desmon suggested in an attempt to get his best friend of seven year's mind off of what could be and what wasn't."I'm watching that remake of that spy movie from the 1970's;you haven't seen it,right?"

But Beth merely shrugged,as other thoughts crossed her mind other then what was on television and yet she told him in an aloof tone."Sure."

For a while they just sat there and although she tried to keep the pictures in check with vividness and the sounds coming through coherently,all that she had built up inside of her was pouring over her mind,as somnolence was interferring with her concentration.Soon,she found herself contained within the realm of dream and all the at easeness in lying about what she was actually going to do,the feelings of being fed up with settling for her mediocre lifestyle,everything was hindranced from her as her mind led the normally unsatisfied and hardheaded girl to a flashback of her life.

The shores of Miami Florida...

A young girl scrambled about the warm,glistening sand outside her beachfront home,chasing after a red crab that was scuttling up and over the varying mounds;occasionally stopping to try and take a nip of his intruder's fingers.But always,she was mindful enough to know not to get her hands too close to it's pinchers and yet she still found pleasure in toying with it,as she had always enjoyed the simplicity and uncomplicated experiences in life.To her,all of the quite highly priced objects her parents,her father mostly,bought for her were just lifeless and wasteful.Why use money to buy happiness anyways?

"Bethany."She heard the comfortingly familiar sound of her mother's voice calling her from the edge of their backyard,to where it ended with a concrete slab that dropped down and then sprawled out into the far out reaches of grainy land."Bethany,dear.Can you come here please?There's something very important that we need to discuss."

A delighted smile crossed her fair-skinned features which revealed her two front teeth missing and she ran up to her."Mama,guess what?"she squealed in a bubbly tone."I finally found that crab I was looking for,the one who's suppose to give me a silver dollar for that tooth I lost last week like Daddy said.Really,Mama.I found him."

"Oh?"The young woman's sobered visage and tone shifted to that of a more clever one as she helped Bethany up and knelt down to her level."I thought you said you weren't going to believe anymore of you're Father's stories after you found out Mr. Light came from his watch reflecting on the car's roof."her words turned commotative."Why don't we go on up to the house for some lemonade,it's going to be a very long night for us."

"The sun's starting to set,"Beth observed absently for a moment and then flashed a bit of hopefullness in her lazuline eyes back up at her mother."Can we go walk by the water why you tell me?"

Doubt filled her eyes momentarily but finally she nodded with a smile and the two started down to the water's edge.Hand-in-hand,mother and daugther began to step unhurriedly in the now soggy sand,which Beth found even more fun when it squished in between her toes and yet when she looked up to exchange the moment with her mother,she found that she was looking out westward at the crimson and orange blazen sky,blue eyes distant.

After a while she felt her holding back and so they both paused at near the center point of the shore's line,as the heated air slowly dissipated with the forthcoming of a slightly chilled breeze,a strange feeling started to commence inside the seven-year-old.It was something new to her,this out of place feeling,that made her finally notice as a crisp,cool gale blew over them and caused her to shiver.

"Cold?"Her mother inquired down playfully at her and scooped her up into her long,somewhat lank arms,pressing the child gently to her warm chest as she curled up a bit."Did you know that things such as sunsets,stars and dreams are thought of as omens to the future?"

"Really?"

Beth stared up into the woman's to see if she was kidding but what she saw only reflected reassurance to the young girl."There is really something else I need to tell you,Bethany Faith.Something serious."

And as the sun melted into a deep indigo,Gabrielle proceeded to tell.

Present Morning...

The memory of when her mother had told her her father was going away in order to find a way to bring her sister back,whom she had been told was abducted by her uncle.Whom she had always wondered the motive of his actions.After her father had left,Beth had never trusted men,no one besides Desmon.Her very perspective of life changed that day in some ways and had molded her into a rebel,developing an ability to be very immune to other people's thoughts,feelings or oppions.She knew she did not have to care most of the time,so why bother?Who'd she be fooling?

As the late dawn rays stretched their bands of radiance into the room and fell onto the fourteen-year-old,her mind began to settle itself back down to the grips of reality,the remembrance of her plan to slip out but then go running off to audition in a musical talent search for her singing downtown snapped back to mind and made her jump up with anxiousness surfacing.

In the midst of her plight,she tripped over a coffee table in front of her.Cursing a bit at her lacking of poise or ability when it came to anything physical,Bethany raised herself up and then was headed for the door when a fairly large woman with red hair intervened her passage out.

"Bethany Faith,"She told her through narrowly set eyes."If it's all the same to you,I would like you to wait before you run off to do whatever it is that you think you can do without any parental supervision whatsoever."

At this,Beth simply crossed her arms and glared frostily at her."Huh.After waiting for you to drop the whole hospitality routine,I actually am not as relieved as I'd thought I'd be,"she hoisted her bag up higher."Step aside."

Desmon's mother only raised her brows at the girl's impoliteness and moved a little to the left but when Beth had finally after half a minute of waiting to see what would she would do,moved forward and reached out to take a hold of the door knob,Mrs. Livingston caught her by the wrist.

"Before you leave,I think you should know,"The older woman said to her in a clear and set voice."That why I never agreed with you spending time with my son all because of the difference in incomes,I do feel for you."

Struck with confusion,Bethany asked her carefully."What're you saying?"

"If you take the 'ity' away from hospitality,that's where you're mom is."A male's voice said from behind and she turned to see Desmon descending the staircase behind her."I'm really sorry,Beth.Mom can drive you."

Disbelief flooded her and she snapped on his mother."What on earth do you mean by that?My Mother's coming home from work,she's safe."

"I just got off the phone with the staff,they say she was mugged while she boarded the bus and it turned violent when he hit her with a blunt object."

"No."Beth told her stubbornly and jerked her hands out of the woman's when she clasped them."No..."she whispered as back up."I...I don't..."

But she felt someone's hand on her shoulder and before she could protest to it,he pulled her toward him and embraced her."She's in a coma but don't worry,she's still breathing alright.We'll take you down there,okay?"

To Be Continued...