Teenage Dreamer

by CreamyPancakeLover

Carmen Howle isn't ordinary. She goes through lots of things in her life, and she faces it, along with the gang she's in. But a certain incident that happens when she's at a party with the DG kids changes her life forever. A rival group is after the gang, and Carmen is going through different stages of an illness of sorts...but what will her decision be? Carmen/Johnny

1. Chapter 1

You may think I'm just an ordinary girl. You may think that I have a perfectly ordinary life, with a perfectly normal family, perfectly normal friends. Well you're wrong. I'm not normal and ordinary, not a single bit.

First things first, I'm a care kid. I was dumped by my mum so she could go and live in Spain with her horrible boyfriend Lee, and his quite nice daughter Riley. But I never told anyone about Riley. I knew she wanted to stay with Lee, even if it was only because she wanted to make sure he never threatened anyone, including me. So I kept my mouth shut.

Second of all, I went from being the girliest girl ever to the most cold, cruel, tomboy girl in the Dumping Ground. But nobody understood why. Nobody except me. You see, I met people. A gang, you could call it. And they opened my eyes to so many things. I owe them a lot of what I have become. It was all down to them.

I never told anybody what I was getting into, otherwise they would stop me. I didn't want them to stop me. But as time passed, a particular person got so badly involved I was scared for his life…and mine.

But you'll find out why. Because my name is Carmen Howle. I'm fourteen years old, and this is my story.