Author note: Sorry if any of reaing this are fans of my other stories but I keep getting new ideas for stories and the ones that I have all ready begun I'm getting writter's block. I will continue but final exams are this coming week so it might be some time. Wish me luck! I hope you like this new story. I own nothing! And also this story has no relation to my other stories.

*Something Beyond Friendship*

-Dawn and Darkness

It was any "ordinary" day at Central Park Zoo. Marlene was swimming in her habitat's small pond minding her own buisness wondering exactly what to expect since this zoo's everyday agenda wasn't

something most zoo inhabinat's put up with. Between the Lemur's loud, obnoxious antics and the Penguin's annoying paranoia anything could happen. Marlene jumped out of the water and dried her

herself off. She looked up to see a beautiful dawn sky. The kind where you can still see the moon or ghost moon as Marlene called it. There were lovely shades of purples, pinks, oranges, golds, reds,

and darks blues. Then sun and the moon seemed to having a dance in which the moon was guiding the sun to its place in the sky.

Marlene sighed in bliss. Dawn always calmed her nerves and she never understood why the Penguins would naver take a break from their rigorous training to look up and enjoy what they had and the

life God gave them.

Suddenly something sparkled in Marlene's perifrial vision. Curious, Marlene went to identify what was sparkling in her habitat. At the corner of her cave intrance Marlene found human's bracelet. It was

gorgous! It was handmade and, to Marlene, was a work of art. It was a dark twine bracelet withbits of sea-glass intertwined in to the braiding making a rainbow of colors with a single charm attached

to it: Marlene's favorite stone a lapis lazuli. The small beautiful blue stone was hand carved into a small rose. Upon further inspection, Marlene noticed that the bits of sea-glass were also carved: into

tiny moons and suns. And she also noticed that at the heart of the rose was a white-gray stone that reminded her of the ghost moon. She absolutly loved this bracelet and it reminded her of the dawn

sky that she had just been previously been watching. It was big enough to fit like a necklace on her so she tried it on and raced into her cave to take a look at herself in her mirror. The small bracelet

looked stunning on her. The multicolored sea-glass brought out her lovly hazel eyes and the lapis lazuli went well with her fur. The dark braided twine of the "necklace" also suited her and if the room

was dark and a light was shined just at her "necklace" the stone and glass would light-up and glow causing her eyes to shine in the dark as well. 'I bet Skipper would like this,' She thought to her

self,'Maybe he'd even go gaga over me when my fur was bleached.' She giggled when she remembered how he had acted when she was "Arlene the White Otter." She never told anyone but she

actually liked it when Skipper had been in love with her.'No he wasn't in love with her he was in love with Arlene not me,' Her ears perked down as the thought entered her head. 'But still doesn't mean

that I can't dream, can I?' Her ears perked up again and she smiled. She began to check herself out again.

She was still admiring herself when a hand suddenly grabbed her and placed into a crate. She screamed but wasn't sure if anyone had even heard her.

Soooooooo! What did you think about it? Hope you thought Marlene's "Necklace" was pretty. I know that I'ld want one. Read and Review please.