I banged on the red door with my fist, again and again until a man in about his fifties opened it. He smiled down at me and his eyes fell on my hair, making his mouth fall into an 'O' shape as he looked the rest of me up and down too.

I glanced at my outfit. I was wearing very short denim shorts, and a black top with colorful letters spelling 'Summer For Ever' over them. I was wearing red, white and black converse and I had a silver necklace around my neck, with a single jeweled skull of the end. I had matching jeweled skull earrings…oh, did I mention my hair is colored blue, pink, light red and purple? There's not a trace of normal colors everywhere. My makeup is pretty normal for me…black mascara and eyeliner, a little dab of blue eyeshadow on my eyes and lipgloss.

"Hello." He said, letting me and my social worker, Jane, in. "You must be Dizzy. I'm Mike." He explained. "This is Gina and Tracy."

Tracy stared at my hair and Gina nudged her.

"Right, um, sorry, hi Dizzy. I'll show you your room." Tracy said.

I grinned, and rolled my eyes as I did. "It's fine. I'm used to people staring. Lead the way." I said.

As Tracy walked and I followed her I felt eyes on me. I stopped walking and glanced to my left. A girl in all pink and a boy with a notebook were staring. When they saw me they ran into the living room, whispering excitedly.

I rolled my eyes and followed Tracy upstairs.

Tracy Beaker's Fact Files

Episode 1: I'm So Dizzy

"I left her to unpack." Tracy explained. "I like her hair."

"It makes her look like a hooligan!" Gina snapped.

"She's a teenager and we can't control her hair, remember?" Mike reminded her. "Just leave her be. She might be okay."

"Well, whatever, but at the first sign of trouble we lay into her a bit, yeah?" Gina said.

"We can't beat a child!" Tracy said, alarmed.

"No, silly, I meant as in give her a bit of a stern conversation." Gina said.

"Okay." Tracy agreed.

I was listening in outside. A grin appeared on my face. I should have really thought, maybe I should stay out of trouble. But my mind doesn't work that way.

"You shouldn't be listening to those conversations." A boy in blue told me, appearing next to me and raising his eyebrows.

"I know." I agreed. "But it's about me so I suppose I…" I heard them coming and motioned to the boy next to me and we ran into the living room.

"Hey!" the girl in pink said, smiling brightly.

"Hiya." I replied. "Finished spying on me yet?" I asked.

She turned red and everyone went shifty-eyed.

"Sorry." The boy in blue mumbled.

"It's fine. You're only curious. I'm Dizzy." I said.

I learned everyone's names, and soon enough I'd made friends with Carmen and Tee. I beat Johnny and Liam at pool and afterwards I approached Tee and Carmen.

"Want to help me with a prank, to show those careworkers they can't control me?" I whispered to them.

"Yeah!" Carmen agreed.

"No way!" Tee said. "We'll get in trouble." She mumbled.

I shrugged and went off with Carmen. I whispered in her ear, telling her what to get and what we were going to do.

Carmen and I arrived at dinner time. We'd cleaned our hands and clothes so there was no trace of any of our prank. I sat next to Johnny with Carmen on the other side.

"Just watch this." I whispered to him.

He raised an eyebrow. As Mike, Gina and Tracy walked in they each stepped on their own bit of rope, making eggs, flour, salt, worms, slugs and dirt rain down on them. The mixture was a disgusting whitey-brown color and Mike, Gina and Tracy were soaked in it.

Everyone burst out laughing while Tracy tried not to smile, Mike chuckled under his breath and Gina looked furious.

"DIZZY!" she screamed, causing me to wince.

And that was the reason I was cleaning the kitchen while the rest of the kids, Tracy, Mike and Gina were in the living room. I could still hear Carmen protesting that she helped me. I smiled. That girl was so nice.

I turned on the radio as I heard Mike and Gina leave to go shopping. Give Me Everything was on. I grinned and started singing along.

I didn't hear Carmen appear beside me with a mop.

"Me not working hard? Yeah right, picture that with a Kodak, and better yet go to Times Square and take a picture of me with a Kodak. Took my life from negative to positive, I just want y'all to know that. And tonight let's enjoy life. Pitbull, Nayer, Ne-Yo." Carmen sang.

"Tonight, I will love love you tonight, give me everything tonight, for all we know, we might not get tomorrow. Let's do it tonight!" I sang. We abandoned our mops and I turned the radio up. The other kids and Tracy appeared as the other lyrics started.

"Don't care what they say, all the games they play, nothing is enough, till they handle love, I want you tonight, I want you today, I want you tonight." We sang.

Then everyone started singing. "Grab somebody sexy tell 'em hey!" "Give me everything tonight! Give me everything tonight! Give me everything tonight! Give me everything tonight!"

As the song went on and we danced around the kitchen, I realized that my first day hadn't gone so bad after all. I shot a grin towards Johnny as I danced with him, Carmen, and Rick in a little circle.