You're my whole world - Tracy beaker returns

Haunting

Everyone fell silent. Liam looked ashamed at what he said but glad he got his point across. Carmen looked shocked. Tee looked sorry for me. Frank shared the same look as Tee. Johnny looked down at the floor ,unsure of what to do. Gus looked confused. Harry just stared up at me , not knowing what was going on. Sapphire squeezed my hand to reassure me. Toby looked angry .Tracy and Gina were in pure shock. Mike looked upset.

I didn't know what to do, all I knew was I had to get out of there. I ran into my room slamming my door. I was angry at Liam for letting my secret out but then I knew he was doing it to stop me going back there and I felt upset all the memories came flooding back and burst into tears and cuddled my pillow.

I heard a knock on the door and knew instantly it was Liam. I didn’t say anything I didn’t know whether I was still angry with him “Alice , I’m sorry I just can’t let you go back there” he said through the door “ I know I shouldn’t have said that , I just don’t know what I’d do if someone hurt you again.” I decided that there was no point in arguing with him, he just wanted to protect me. I opened my door and wrapped my arms around Liam’s neck , he buried his head into my neck and kissed my neck and whispered “I’m sorry,”

“Don’t worry about it, I just don’t like remembering it , I thought I was over it”

“I know , but you’ll never be able to get over it , come on let’s go to my room” he said and took my hand and we sat down on his sheets, because he had put his mattress in the other room and couldn’t be bothered to move it back. We were talking for a bit when Tracy came in and then Liam said “It’s the only place that’s ever felt like home,” and he was right we had both met at Burnywood and become best friends, but it was a hell hole living there , we would conveniently always be moved to the same places and whenever one of us was fostered the other had the biggest tantrum , usually me but Liam always came back saying he couldn’t live without me. As we got older we soon realised that it would be better for us to be fostered as it would increase our chances of having a normal life, but we still only lasted a few months , even weeks with foster families, I guess somewhere in our subconscious we knew we just couldn’t live without one another. When we came to Elm Tree it was the first place that did feel like home, we weren’t judged , everyone was really nice and we could just spend time with each other. “I never heard that” Tracy said

“What are we going to do?” Liam asked

“Plan B”

“I haven’t got a plan B”

“Neither have I yet, but I’m not giving up till we get to plan f” Tracy said and then left the room to leave us alone. We spent the rest of the afternoon helping everybody else put their things back into their rooms. I said goodnight to everyone and went up stairs after dinner as I was really tired. Just as I was getting into bed someone knocked on my door, I let them in and in walked Tee and Carmen. “Are you alright girls?” I asked them curiously

“Yeah , we just wanted to say goodnight and we well we wanted to ask about what happened at burnywood,” I was shocked “It’s not the best bed time story”

“Sorry , we didn’t mean to intrude,” they said leaving

“Wait , it might be good for me to tell someone , you know get my feelings out” I said motioning to my bed “Ok, well when I was about 6 or 7 , there was a big group of boys at Burnywood , and I mean big well to a six year old girl anyway . They were really tall and had big muscles, they started teasing me, and then they’d do little things like pinching me , tripping me, stealing my things. Liam tried to tell the adults but they just didn’t believe us, it then got worse they would start hitting me , spitting at me and calling me things that I’ll never repeat. Liam noticed the bruises and got really angry and wanted to do something, so he decided to confront them , this just made them twice as angry. They had been drinking as well and when they’d had enough of Liam attempting to tell them off, they went and found me in my room and locked the door and they , they” I couldn’t carry on I was in tears for the third time that day , the girls hugged me and Liam came rushing in “What did you say to her?” he shouted at Tee and Carmen, “Liam it’s not their fault , they just wanted to know what happened”