The Adventure's Opening

(2014 edition)

Series one Episode one

Chapter one

The red Kettle family car took to driving away from the Dumping Ground for what seemed to be the last ever time. Tears of sadness rolled down Lily Kettle's face from her wet tearful devastated eyes. Lily was ever so upset right now, because she was leaving her friends behind in the home that she had known called the Dumping Ground for what she believed to be the finale ever time.

Goodbye Mike, farewell Carman and so long Dumping Ground, Lily thought to herself as she took one last good long hard look over at her old care home, as she sat in her dad's car slowly making her way away from it.

Right now this very minute, Lily Kettle is sitting in the back right seat of her dad's car taking a ride away from her home town for what she believes to be the last time. Lily and her dear loving family are moving down South in the country England to Liverpool from the North East of Newcastle, and this in order for them to run a family business in a café' by the seaside there in Liverpool. Steve Kettle who is driving his car turns around for a minute to face his fifteen year old daughter.

"Lily are you sure now that this is what you really want in life? Lily are you sure that you really want to move away with me and Shannay?" He questions her checking for one last time that she's happy with the great big Kettle family move.

Lily then nods her head in response to her dad's question. She wasn't that sure before when she was having a barbeque back with her friends earlier that day in the garden of the Dumping Ground, that she really wanted to say goodbye to them all, but now however with being with her dad in his car Lily knows that she's actually feeling quite excited by heading into this brand new beginning along with her dear loving family.

"Yeah thanks for checking on how I'm feeling right now dad, but I'm really sure about this dad, and this really means a lot to me the decision that we're all making by leaving our old lives behind, and I'm feeling really excited about the future that we're all heading into," she tells him in response to his question to her.

Lily then takes a look out of the car window that she's sitting beside, and she wonders about what her best mate Carman Howle is doing right now. The last Lily saw of Carman was that they were stood in the back garden of Ashdene Ridge house together, and Carman had told Lily that she wasn't going to either watch her go or say goodbye to her, and so the only people who waved Lily off from the care home were her care workers who were both Mike Milligan and May Li. Lily wonders whether she'll ever see her friend Carman again. It's just Lily and her dad Steve in the car, and this is because that both Shannay and her son Jonah are getting a lift down to where their new destination is in Liverpool by Shannay's sister who is Kerry Ravens. Shannay, her sister and Jonah had set off already in Shannay sister's car earlier that day, but the reason why Steve and Lily are just setting off to Liverpool now is because Lily needed to say a proper goodbye to her good old Dumping Ground friends. Is it just goodbye for now or does the question remain is it in fact farewell forever?

"I'm sorry that you needed to say goodbye to Carman!" Steve apologies to his daughter, having been realising just how hard that could only have been for her.

Lily closes her eyes; she knows now that her decision to leave Carman behind will grow easier for her over the course of time, after all every single difficult decision that she has already made so far in her life has. Steve turns on the radio in his car, and music immediately begins to get the attention of both Steve and Lily. Lily smiles, because she knows that her dad is going through the exact same feelings that she herself is going through right now. Lily knows that Steve has just had to leave a life behind within the North East of England.

"What was it like when you told the people who helped you out in order to help you get over your drinking problems, that you weren't going to be attending any more meetings?" She questions her dad while sitting behind him in the back seat of the car.

Steve takes a look back at Lily in response to her question to him, and this is just for a moment because he pretty soon returns his eyes on concentrating on the road.

"I'm just really pleased to be rid of those meetings Lil," he tells her in response to her question that she's just asked him about within a truthful tone.

Those meetings to help with his alcoholism were starting to get on Steve's nerves quite a bit. Steve has been attending alcohol meetings to help him not to take to drinking again, and this had been ever since he had been reunited with his daughter Lily again, and this had been when he had met her along with her careworker Tracy Beaker in that restaurant which was quite a few years ago now. Steve's car continues to head fast down the main road.

"Oh I, sorry Lilo I mean we need to fill up on some petrol Lil," he tells his little girl.

Steve's car then suddenly pulls up into a petrol station that is a TESCO express station in order for it to fill up on some petrol.

Chapter two

Steve Kettle's car pulls up outside a café' by the seaside in Liverpool. It had been rather a long drive for both Steve and Lily since leaving the TESCO express station, and the red car had just about rang out of petrol once again now. Steve and his daughter then both depart from his car together. Rain spills down on the two Kettles' from the high heavens. Steve and Lily then take to hurrying rather hastily into their brand new café' together, in order for them to get into somewhere both dry and warm to escape themselves from the harsh cold rain outside, and there they find the café' bursting away with noisy customers. Behind the counter in the café' they find that both Shannay and her sister Kerry are busy serving out food and drinks to their brand new customers, but however Kerry has served out products to most if not all of these customers before in the past, because after all Kerry has worked in this cafe' for quite a long time now. Steve and Lily make their way over to see the two sisters together, to where they are standing together behind the counter in the cafe'. Shannay grabs Steve when she sees him, and she shares out a loving kiss with him upon the lips.

"How was your journey over here hun?" Shannay questions Steve who is her one true love.

Steve pulls Shannay into a loving hug after their shared kiss.

"Traffic was hell darling!" He informs her in response to her question.

Kerry gives Lily a warm hearted smile.

"I have something for you!" She informs her.

What Kerry has just informed her about has just made Lily rather troubled. What could Kerry possibly have for her? Kerry then proceeds to hand a key over to Lily.

"Welcome to the café'," she says to her sounding kind hearted.

Lily smiles back at Kerry.

"Thank you," she says to her sounding rather grateful.

Kerry shakes her head at Lily in response to what she has just said to her.

"No thank you," she tells her sounding incredibly grateful, because Kerry understands that Lily has just given up an awful lot of things for her.

Kerry then pulls Lily into a loving hug.

"Thank you for coming here to help me run this place," she says to her thanking her for everything she has just given up for her, and everything that she has agreed to do for her.

Lily is pleased to be here right now knowing that this is the beginning of her new life working in this café' by the seaside in the outskirts of Liverpool city, along with her family working along with her. Lily is pleased to finally put her old life about being in the care system behind her now, because she is ready to claim to herself that it is all in the past now. This is a brand new start for Lily, and she's really determined to make the very most out of it. After all both Lily and Steve are hoping for a better fresh start together in their life as father and daughter, and it really helps that situation that they are now both within a brand new city along with each other.

Chapter three

Lily Kettle makes her way into her brand new home for the very first time in her life, and she is happy to find that it is just around the corner from where she is now going to start working in her family's new cafe'. Lily is ever so happy with her new home, because it truly takes her fancy after all, and it seems perfect for Lily, her dad Steve, her dad's girlfriend Shannay, her little brother Jonah and her three legged dog Shadow to start living in together. Lily's new home really looks the part with everything it really needs inside it. Lily makes her way up the stairs along the landing into her new bedroom in her new home, and there she finds her younger brother Jonah. Jonah is much younger in age then in comparison to what his big sister Lily is. Jonah is jumping excitedly up and down on Lily's bed when she makes her way into her new bedroom and Jonah waves happily up at his big sister from where he's jumping up and down on her bed. Lily gives her little brother a loving happy smile.

"You and me we're the new future of that café'!" She informs him believing this to be true within its detail.

Lily takes a look round her new bedroom with her two eyes. Lily's left happy with the actual size of her new room in her new house. The wallpaper of the room is brown, but Lily knows that she'll soon be able to turn that into either the colour pink or the colour red. Lily crosses her room over to the window there, and she takes a look outside of it. Lily's bedroom window overlooks the public street outside, and the street actually seems to be rather busy indeed, with people keep moving up and down it from all directions surrounding it. Lily can hear loud music coming from her new neighbour's house on the right hand side next to her own house. The music seems to be pumping rather loudly, and then that gives Lily a hinting idea that a boy lives in that house, because that's the sort of music a boy would listen too.

"LILY! JONAH!" Steve Kettle rages from downstairs in their new house.

Lily knows that her dad must be calling both her and her little brother for one thing only, and that is off course for their tea, because Lily knows that if their father was to be calling them to do a job, then he wouldn't call for both her and Jonah, because Jonah is far too young to be helping round around the house, and so for that reason both Steve and Shannay land all the jobs and tasks that needed to be done in the old house all on Lily, Shannay more that Steve so it seemed to Lily, and so Lily is aware that her dad and his girlfriend will be continuing to issue her out orders for jobs that need to be done inside this new house, but however very luckily Lily doesn't mind at all doing the jobs that both her dad and Shannay need her to do, because of the reason that she loves her dad to pieces, and Lily is now becoming quite fond of Shannay too, but however unfortunately Lily doesn't always see eye to eye with Shannay on things. Lily coughs by taking to clearing her throat. It was after all quite dry.

"COMING DAD!" She cries back rather loudly.

Lily then turns to face Jonah.

"Come now we better go and see what he wants," she tells him rather within a command.

Lily is coming to love playing the part of the big sister to Jonah, because she finds that she can be both lovable towards him as well as being that mean part that every sibling needs to act out to one another upon occasions. Since Lily is much older than what her little brother is she finds that she has the higher authority in the family in comparison then what he does. Lily then offers her little brother her hand down to him to take hold off, and Jonah takes hold off his big sister's hand, Lily then helps Jonah down off her bed. Lily and Jonah then hurry out of Lily's bedroom together, closing the door behind them.

Chapter four

The Kettle family made up out of dad Steve, his girlfriend Shannay, his daughter Lily and his Jonah Kettle all sit down for dinner together in their new kitchen around their new table in their new house. The table is round. The colour of the table is dark brown. Everyone is sitting in proper chairs around the table, apart from little young Jonah off course who is sat right now in a high chair around the table. Steve takes a sip out of his bottle of beer, Shannay takes a sip from her glass of wine. It is white wine that she is drinking tonight. Shannay then gives Lily a loving smile.

"So what do you think of the café'?" She asks her eagerly awaiting her opinion on it just whatever it maybe.

Lily nods her head in approval in response to what she's just been asked by Shannay.

"I can tell that it's a busy place, and I can also tell that I'm going to have a lot of fun working there," she tells her in response to her question.

Lily then turns to face her dad Steve quickly.

"Just so long as I get paid a lot of money from working there!" She tells him reminding him off the condition to why she has agreed to work in the family's new cafe'.

Don't get her wrong however off course Lily wants to earn a bit of money from working for her dad, but doesn't every son or daughter who agrees to helping their parents out, but Lily also wants to work in the cafe' to both help and support her family out. Shannay smiles back at Lily in response to her words ignoring what she has just told Steve.

"You will have a lot of fun working there trust me when I tell you that, because your Aunty Kerry still has a lot of fun working there, and she's been working there for just over twenty years," she says to her in response to her words.

Steve then takes a look at Shannay in response to what she has just told his daughter.

"Kerry isn't Lily's Aunty yet since we're not married yet," he reminds her.

Shannay turns to face Steve in response to his reminder.

"Funny you should say that, because if you asked me then I would happily marry you," she tells him in response to his reminder half hinting him to ask her the question.

What better night is there for Steve to pop the question to Shannay then tonight when they're just entering into their new lives together. Steve then takes to winking lovingly over at Shannay as he gets up off his chair, and he kneels down before her on bending knee. Oh he's doing it! Steve then proceeds to pull a red coloured velvet box out of his jacket pocket. Steve takes to opening the box, and inside the box there's the most amazing looking golden ring that you'll ever see, it has a dark blue shiny real diamond on it. Steve then proceeds to take a look up at Shannay lovingly in the eyes.

"Will you marry me?" He questions her hoping beyond all hope that she really will say the simple yes word to him, and luckily for him she does.

Lily smiles in great delight when Shannay proceeds to say yes in response to her dad's question. Lily knows that she is now much more both prepared and ready to call Shannay her new mum. Lily loved her old mum to bits, but she had her time in their family, and Lily will never ever stop missing her mum, because after all she is the very reason to how she is both alive and here today, but Lily knows that her mum would have wanted both her and her dad to find happiness with another woman in their little family. Steve then places the ring on one of Shannay's fingers. Shannay kisses her future husband Steve lovingly on the lips. Lily now knows that she'll soon have a new mum.

Chapter five

Lily Kettle steps out of her new house into her new garden for the very first time, at the exact same time as the door of the next house along the street from her own also opens up its front door, and Lily then watches while standing stone still in her garden as a boy about her own age steps foot out of the house. Lily can't help but take a good long hard look at the boy. This boy's good looks immediately takes to capturing Lily's immediate attention. The boy then realises that Lily's looking at him as he catches her staring over him out of the corner of his eye. The young boy takes a look over at Lily taking in her beauty for the very first time in his life. This young man loves the sight of Lily's long blonde hair. A girl with long blonde hair is what this young man tends to go for, but however there is just so much more to this young lady this young man can see from just her long blonde hair. This young man much approves of Lily's brown coloured eyes, and he likes them.

"Talk to her! Go on speak to her!" A voice inside this young man's head pressures him into beginning to speak to Lily.

Razz Kevins smiles over at Lily Kettle.

"Ah, hello, have you just moved in?" He questions her speaking to her for the very first time in his life.

Lily nods her head at the boy in response to his question to her. Miss Kettle loves the sight of this young man who she doesn't know yet is called Razz Kevins smiling over at her, but however she is ready to do what any young girl would do in this situation and be rude to him. Lily folds her arms and she pulls a sharp face over at Razz.

"Yeah obviously!" She snaps back at him in response to his question to her.

The boy continues to smile over at Lily however now appearing to be a little bit taken aback by what she has just snapped out at him.

"Well in that case I'd like welcome you to Elmtree lane, and to introduce myself to you I'm Razz Kevins," he tells her.

The word Elmtree captures Lily's attention. She hadn't realised that her street was known as Elmtree until now. Lily is more than familiar with the name Elmtree, because that's the name after all of her old carehome before she moved with people she used to know in care to Ashdene Ridge house in a big transfer changing over of care homes.

"Your family owns that café', don't they?" The boy questions Lily.

Lily's surprised to discover that this strange boy already knows so much about her without her even telling him things. Lily now knows that she's got to try and impress this boy to make him continue to talk to her.

"Yeah my family does own that café', how about you stop by the café' sometime, and I can give you free discount on some off the food! When you go into the cafe' just tell the person behind the counter unless it is me off course that Lily Kettle, that's me by the way, said that you could have five percent of some of the food products," she tells the boy explaining to him.

The boy shakes his head in response to what Lily has just said to him, he knows that he too feels the need to be rude in a situation such as this.

"Ah no sorry I can't stand café's pet!" He tells her in response to her words sharply.

The boy then proceeds to disappear back into his house. Lily's left feeling disappointed that she failed in trying to impress this boy.

Chapter six

A certain Razz Kevins has just met the young lady the same age as him off his dreams in his garden. Razz hopes that meeting was just the first of many to come between both him and Lily. Razz dashes into his bedroom feeling really excited. The image of the young lady that he has just seen plays in Razz's mind. Even though he told her that he wouldn't visit her café' Razz is much more than determined to visit Lily's family's café. Razz paces his bedroom excitedly, going from one end to another repeatedly. Razz just really wants to see Lily again. Razz looks up at the clouds in the bright clear blue sky, and he's aware that the new girl who's the new keeper of his dreams is only a short distance away from him, with now living in the exact same street as him.

Lily Kettle makes her way wandering down Elmtree lane. She has still got the image of the strange young man she's just met playing around in her mind. Lily can't deny that the young lad she's just met is good looking, and that she'd like to meet him again. At the bottom of Elmtree lane Lily turns right into Archridge drive. At the very bottom of Archridge drive which isn't that big a street there are some gangsters selling drugs, on the corner. Lily decides to walk on the other side of the street where there are no drug dealers, so that she can't get herself into trouble with them. Lily however is then sighted by a drug dealer. A lad in his early twenties rounds on Lily, and he smiles a cheeky smile at her after he has raced up to her presence on the street.

"Heyho, what ave we ere then? Who the hell are you pretty lady, and since when did you just happen to move into the area?" The lad questions Lily.

Lily can smell the man's disgusting breath on her face. She smiles coldly back at the lad in response to his question's to her.

"I don't have to answer to you!" She snaps back sharply at him in response to his question simply.

The lad quickly grabs Lily firmly by her arm, and he holds on tightly to her arm, refusing to let go off it even when Lily tries to push him away from her.

"Well I can make you answer me, but I don't wantta harm a hot bird like you!" The lad hisses out at Lily.

Lily tries to struggle her arm away from the lad's arm continuously, but she finds that she can't, because he's holding onto her arm too tightly. Lily realises that she has no other choice but to tell this lad her name.

"My name's Lily, and that's all the information that your getting about me!" She snarls out in anger at the great big hard tough lad.

The lad smiles coldly after hearing Lily's name.

"A good name for a tough cookie!" He tells her.

The lad then places his own head against Lily's head.

"Now tell me if you're new to this area!" He snaps out at her in a demanding tone.

The lad is starting to really frighten Lily now.

"Let go off my arm please, PLEASE!" Kettle tries to beg the drug dealer in a tone of mercy.

Another drug dealer rounds on the drug dealer who's busy interrogating Lily.

"Hey what are you to that girl mate? Let her go!" He commands him.

The drug dealer who has been interrogating Lily then pushes her roughly away from him.

"Go now before you get hurt!" The drug dealer yells out at Lily scaring her away from him.

Lily doesn't need to be told twice for she then takes off running as fast as she can down the street away from the lad's, and at the bottom of the street Lily realises much to her horror that her mobile phone's no longer in her jacket pocket, and neither seems to be her wallet. Lily then realises that much to her anger and shock that while the drug dealer was distracting her by asking her questions, and holding onto her arm he was also mugging her busying himself with his other free hand. Lily can't contain in her anger, and she lets it out all of a sudden by kicking out at a nearby garden wall feeling anger boiling up inside of her.

Chapter seven

Lily's dad Steve Kettle makes his way into the kitchen in his new home, and he finds both his future wife Shannay in there along with her sister Kerry. Steve turns to face Shannay.

"Have you seen Lily, she's not in the house?" He questions her sounding concerned.

Shannay shakes her head back at him looking alarmed in response to his question to her.

"No isn't she in her room?" She asks him in response to his own question also sounding concerned, believing simply that she must just be in the house without him realising.

Steve shakes his head in response to Shannay's question.

"No the only thing I found in that room was Shadow laid down on her bed," he tells her in response to her question to him.

Kerry proceeds to giving both Steve and Shannay a reassuring smile.

"I'm sure that Lily will turn up soon!" She promises them both believing herself that Lily can't have gone far, and maybe perhaps she has just gone for a little explore on her own around the village.

Suddenly the doorbell rings out loudly throughout the house. Steve smiles to the two sisters.

"Sooner than expected it seems," he tells them both happily knowing that it is Lily who is calling on their door.

Shannay then disappears out of the kitchen to answer the door. Steve remains in the kitchen along with Kerry. Suddenly when Steve hears Shannay opening the front door of his house he can hear his daughter crying bursting with tears. A few minutes later Shannay returns to the kitchen with a tearful Lily. Steve heads straight over to his fifteen year old daughter as soon as he finds her crying before him. Steve pulls Lily into a loving hug. Steve is ever so shocked to find his daughter all of a sudden crying before him like this. Lily trembles in fear in her dad's arms.

"What's the matter love? What's happened?" Steve questions her sounding concerned about her.

Lily wipes the tears away from her eyes using her soft white clean hands. The drug dealer who attacked her had horrible unclean and dirty hands like he hadn't washed them in a long time.

"I've been mugged dad! A man stole my wallet and phone!" Lily informs Steve in response to his question to her.

Steve's left horrified by Lily's information to him.

"Love I must call the police, I just simply have to, and I'll want you to explain everything to them, but don't worry you'll be alright, and the police will soon deal with whoever attacked you! Are you alright to talk to the police?" He questions her sounding alarmed.

Shannay quickly turns to face Steve.

"I'll call the police hun you see to Lily," she tells him after she sees Lily nodding her head in response to her dad's question to her.

Shannay then goes disappearing out of the kitchen to call up the police to the scene that has occurred.

Chapter eight

The drug dealer who's just mugged Lily Kettle who is called Daniel Kevins, yeah that's right Razz's brother comes returning home to his house which is actually unfortunately for everyone right next door to Lily's house. Dan comes bursting through the front door of his house. The house seems to be deserted. Daniel knows that his dad will be at work down at the police station right now, and that his little sister will be seeing to her horses inside her stable yard at the moment, but however Dan knows that his little brother never goes far, and so Daniel knows that Razz will be shut up inside his bedroom now watching TV just like every lazy teenage boy does.

"Is that you bro?" The voice of Daniel's little brother rings out throughout the house coming from upstairs.

Daniel clears his throat.

"Yeah it is mate come down here bro got something for ya!" He calls back up the stairs to Razz standing at the bottom of them now.

Daniel then makes his way into the living room in his home, and there he finds much to his horror two police officers eagerly awaiting him. When Shannay gave the description of the drug dealer that Lily had given her to the police they knew him by his description straight away. Lily didn't need to explain anything to the police luckily, because they just knew what this man was capable of. Razz then hurries down the stairs into the living room in his house, and he is left shocked to find two police men stood before both him and his big brother in their living room.

"What's going on in here?" Razz shouts out in a tone of shock at both Daniel and the two officers.

Daniel rounds on his younger brother in response to his question.

"Yeah I'd like to know that myself," he tells him in response to his question.

Daniel should now that they are here for him, but however he knows that there's no guarantee that they are here today to fetch him, for all Daniel knows Razz could have done something committing a crime against the law to upset the police. A police officer however steps forward to face Daniel.

"I think you know deep down what's going on sir! Mr Kevins earlier this evening did you or did you not take a young girl called Lily, mobile phone and wallet from her?" He questions him demanding him sharply for an answer.

The police officer then withdraws both Lily's phone and wallet from his jacket pocket, and he shows them both to Daniel. Daniel's left shocked to discover that the girl he stole from took to snitching on him. The police officer then unlocks the password on Lily's phone, and he proceeds to show Dan a picture of Lily on the phone. Razz also takes a look down at the picture of the girl on the phone, and he's left horrified to learn that the new keeper of his heart the girl he's been chatting to himself today has been mugged by his own criminal big brother. Razz rounds in anger on Daniel after seeing the picture of Lily on her phone.

"What the bloody hell were you thinking?" He snaps out at him in a sharp tone.

Daniel smiles coldly back at his little brother in response to his question.

"That we could get some cash to pull some more birds that we like!" He informs him in response to his question.

Razz then without controlling himself takes to lashing out and punching his big brother full on in the face, nice one Razz.

"The only bird that I have eyes for is Lily!" He informs him in a truthful tone in anger for what he did to her.

Razz has only just met Lily once earlier that very day, and so therefore he has only just talked to her once, but however he believes that she's been the keeper of both his heart and dreams for a thousand million years. Razz knows that both he and Lily were just simply destined to be with one another. Razz takes to watching as the two police officers then slap a pair of handcuffs roughly down onto Daniel's arms.

"Mr Daniel Kevins we're arresting you for stealing from a young lady you may not say anything, but it may harm your defence if you don't say something now that you later relay on in court!" They yell out at him as they arrest him, Daniel didn't even confess himself up to them for his crime, but however they are just aware that he did go for Lily.

Razz steps forward to face the police officers.

"Hand the phone and the wallet over to me, and I'll see to it that they're both returned safely to Lily!" He promises them both.

A police officer then shakes his head at Razz in response to his promise that he has just given to them.

"No I'm afraid that my associate and I can't trust you to live up to your word, and therefore I myself will be seeing to it sir that both the wallet and the phone are returned safely to the hands Miss Lily Kettle, good day sir!" He informs him in response to his promise.

The other police officer then rests his eyes on Razz.

"Members off our team will be around later to search your house for anymore stolen goods!" He tells him in a warning tone.

The two police officers then lead Daniel roughly out of the living room in his house before Razz's two very own eyes.

Chapter nine

Razz Kevins knocks loudly on the front door of Lily Kettle's new house on Elmtree lane. Steve Kettle takes to answering the` front door of his new house. Steve takes a look at Razz with the look off suspicion in his two eyes.

"Who are you?" He demands an answer sharply from him.

Steve knows that there are some people that both he and his family can't simply trust in this new village that they've just moved up too. Razz smiles at Steve in response to his question.

"I'm a new friend of your daughter Lily!" He informs him in response to his question.

Steve folds his arms in anger in response to Razz's information.

"And I'm supposed to believe you? My daughter's only been living in this area for not even a whole day!" He snarls out at him.

Lily herself then appears by her dad's side by the front door off their house. Lily smiles in great delight when she sees her new found friend Razz standing before her in her new garden. Lily then takes a look at beside her at Steve.

"It's alright dad this lad is my friend," she tells him having overheard the conversation that has just gone on between both her dad and her new mate.

Steve then gives Razz a little smile.

"Well in that case you have my apology, come in you must be freezing to death out there," he says to him sounding warm hearted.

Steve then proceeds to show Razz rather kindly into his family home. Lily grabs her dad firmly by the arm.

"Disappear! Now!" She commands him.

Steve then quickly retreats back into the kitchen in response to his daughter's command to him. Lily then turns to face Razz smiling at him.

"I didn't expect to see you again so soon," she tells him in a truthful tone.

Lily is still a little shaken after getting mugged earlier that day. Razz gives Lily a cheeky smile in response to what she has just told him.

"Are you alright?" He questions her sounding concerned about her.

Lily shrugs her shoulders in response to Razz's question to her.

"If you count getting mugged as being alright then yeah I am," she tells him in response to his question to her.

Razz then steps closer to face Lily.

"It was my brother! It was my brother who mugged you, you have my absolute apologies!" He informs her sounding upset to have a big brother such as Daniel.

Lily's left shocked by Razz's information that he has just given to her.

"What? Are you being serious? You seem normal to me? You don't seem to me like you have a criminal big brother!" She interrogates him rather angrily.

Razz gives Lily a little sweet smile.

"I'm sorry but yeah I am being serious, but Lily believe me when I tell you that I'm nothing like what my big brother is! I'll never ever do to you what he did to you" He promises her begging her to trust him in his word to her.

Lily rounds in anger on Razz the young lad who she actually believed for a moment she had feelings for.

"I don't know how I can trust you then if you have a brother like him!" Lily snaps out in a sharp tone of anger at Razz.

What she has just told him upsets Razz greatly. Lily then pushes him roughly towards the door of her new house.

"GET OUT!" Lily thunders out at Razz in a terrifying tone.

Razz pins himself to the spot facing her.

"Lily please!" He begs her.

Razz looks back at Lily trying to plead with her with a look that he's nothing like his big brother, and that he's not going to hurt her. Lily pushes Razz roughly out of her house, and she slams the front door sharply in his face. Lily has managed to scare Razz away from her, but she immediately regrets it kind of.

Chapter ten

Steve Kettle sits down by the table in the kitchen in his new home with his future wife Shannay sitting beside him in the room. Steve is drinking a bottle of beer while Shannay is holding a nice glass of red wine in her hand. Steve gives Shannay a little smile.

"I don't believe that all off the people around here in this village are like that Daniel bloke who mugged our Lily, I've just met a lovely young lad who is a new found friend of Lily's, and he seems to be really nice, a good kid, and so I'm thinking about holding an open garden barbeque for us to introduce ourselves to all our new neighbours here in this village," he explains to her telling her.

Shannay quite agrees with her future husband's words to her, and she takes to nodding her head in agreement to his words.

"Oh what a lovely idea, STEVE!" Shannay cries out in great delight.

Steve is now determined to organise an open garden barbeque for both him and his family to introduce themselves to all their new neighbours, in their new back garden.

Ending

Lily Kettle hurries into her bedroom in her new house. Lily's really happy to find her bedroom deserted when she gets there, her little brother Jonah is no longer jumping up and down excitedly on her bed, and nor is her three legged dog Shadow laying down upon her bed. Lily sinks down on her bed, and she sinks her face deep into her pillow, and she begins to weep silently into it, breaking her heart down once again. Lily is ever so sad to have learned that Razz Kevins has a criminal for a big brother. Lily really wished that Razz would make a move on her, and that he would begin a relationship with her. The words that keep floating around inside Lily's head are, "just because Razz's brother is a criminal that doesn't make him one, Razz maybe a good man and very much unlike his brother!" Lily wishes more than anything to believe those words, but unfortunately she just doesn't know how she can. Despite everything however, despite getting mugged by that criminal and meeting Razz Lily is much more than happy to be here in her new bedroom in her new home in her new village in her new city Liverpool, and Lily's now ready to put her old life of living in care at the Dumping Ground behind her, and she's now going to move on from it! Lily will miss her best mate who is back at the Dumping Ground Carman Howle, but she's excited with the hope that she'll meet some new mate's here in Liverpool! Will Lily ever come across both Razz and his big brother again? Read onto find out if she does!

To be continued