Emmie and Dandie Rosco are the new kids at the dumping ground. What will the others think of them? Read to find out.

Rosanleiah is pronounced Rose-an-leah

Emmilena is pronounced Em-ill-ee-na

Dandien is pronounced Dan-die-yun

Chapter one.

Emmie's P O V.

My name is Emmilena Rosco. I live with my mummy, but she is really ill with cancer.

My older sisters Rosanleiah and Sky and my older brothers Sundance and Dandien also live with us.

I am eight, Rosanleiah is fourteen, Sky-Lee is twelve, Dandien is ten and Sundance is fourteen too.

We have strange names because that is what our mummy wanted, for us to be individual.

Sunny and Rosa are picked on at school because of their names, Sky is pretty normal and fits in, Dandie just sticks to himself and I am just me.

There is nothing wrong with being myself.

Anyway, my favourite two things in the whole world, are M&Ms and going on the swings with my mum at the park.

They are quite boring and average, I know but I love them all the same.

Some people think that I'm weird, but I don't mind, not that much, it's just another part of me and if they don't like it, tough.

It's their loss, not mine.

I totally adore Disney films, especially Peter and Return to Neverland.

The new film Brave looked good too.

Partly because I have bright red hair, as does Dandie, our mum used to be ginger to but all of her hair has long since fallen out.

A lot of people say that I am the splitting image of my mummy, which is sort of true.

We both have big blue eyes and fiery red hair, pale white skin and cherry red lips.

Also, we both have giant loving smiles that make other people smile too, just because of how happy we were.

Sundance and Sky were blonde like daddy and Rosa had light brown hair, which I don't have a clue to why it's that colour.

But, all of us together make the Rosco family.

Without dad. We don't need him, because he was horrible to us all, beating up the boys and locking us girls in our rooms.

After dad nearly drowned Dandien, mummy decided that enough was enough and she called the police.

Daddy was arrested and we were taken to the hospital to be checked over, but they found a strange lump forming on mummy's breast.

Everything went wrong from there on, well almost everything.

Dandien recovered, but he won't bathe in water and seemed to be deaf, Sunny's bruises healed and me, Sky and Rosa were less scared.

But something was wrong with my mummy.

We were all scared, me especially only being six years old at the time.

But, none of us were prepared for the fact that our mummy had breast cancer and could potentially die at any moment.

Mummy had had a boyfriend called Jamie, so she was allowed to stay at home with us because he would look after her.

But the stress became too much for him and Jamie decided to leave us all on our own again.

Sadly, mummy is slowly dying with no professionals to look after her or any medicines.

But she said that the one thing she wanted most in the whole world, was for us to be with her for her whole short life.

So we stayed with her.

I and Dandie were always late for school and sometimes we couldn't bring ourselves to leave mummy at all.

The older two, Sunny and Rosa hardly ever left mum and social services, the police, school and the council had all come knocking at our door.

Sky just spent all of her tie sulking in Rosa, hers and my bedroom.

I sometimes saw her curled up I the corner, thumb in mouth praying to God, about mummy.

Mummy had no job, so we had no money and Rosa sometimes stole food from shops.

We all knew that this was wrong, but she had to do it so that we wouldn't all die.

We also couldn't pay the bills, so our hot water and gas was cut off, so we were always freezing.

Also, we no longer had any electricity, so I washed our clothes in cold water in the kitchen sink.

At least then we weren't always dirty.

Dandie didn't mind at all that we couldn't have baths anymore, so he was usually in a better mood than the rest of us.

One day, the police came to our door again.

We all hid by the back door, so they tried to kick the door down, and succeeded.

We couldn't get to mum in time, so the police found her.

My lovely, carefree mummy was now lying on her death bed, dying and we couldn't save her.

Us five crept out of the back door and into the garden, then through into the shed.

Sunny led us into the deepest, darkest corner and we all stayed silent.

We all seemed to forget Sky's massive fear for spiders, until she screamed.

This distracted the policemen.

They would find us no doubt, but that couldn't happen, it just couldn't. Not to us.

Suddenly, the shed door was kicked in, pieces of slowly decaying wood and rusty metal flying towards us.

"We know you are in here." One of the police officers said, circling the inside of the shed.

Sunny grabbed me and Dandie, whilst Rosa grabbed Sky.

We made a run for it.

We shot up from the corner and pushed past the old tools, surprising the policeman.

Then, we were out, back in our own garden, but we had forgotten something.

There was another two police officers stood outside the shed, looking at us.

One a man and the other, a woman.

It was the male that saw us first and he lunged forwards, grabbing Rosa, who immediately let go of her little sister's hand.

Sky ran for it, past the police lady and round into the house.

But instead of following her, the other officer grabbed Sundance and pulled him towards her.

The other police man emerged from inside the shed and grabbed me and Dandie.

We were captured, in their hands and no use to each other now.

But why had Sky left us and not fought for us, why had she run away like that, leaving us to fight our own battles?

I didn't know, but I was almost certain that the same thoughts were going through my sister and brother's heads.

"I thought that there were five of them." Stated the man who was holding me and Dan.

"There was, she ran off. Back into the house." The female officer replied, no tone of emotion in her voice.

They locked Sunny and Rosa in one car and me and Dandie in the other while they went to search for Sky.

They came back out ten minutes later with no Sky.

At that moment precisely, an ambulance arrived and the police directed the two paramedics to mummy.

They bought her out on a stretcher and loaded her into the ambulance.

All I could do was stare as the most important person to me in the whole world was taken away from me.

"Hello! I'm Officer Jacobs and I need to ask you some questions, if it's ok with you?" one of the male policemen asked us.

I looked at Dandien before I nodded.

"Ok, so we'll start with an easy one hey! What are your names?" Officer Jacobs asked.

"My name is Emmilena and this is my big brother Dandien." I said, barley above a whisper.

"Ok Emmilena. But why don't we let your brother answer the next one hey."

"NO!" I said quickly, while Dandie cowered in the corner.

"Oh, well Emmilena, how old are you both?" He asked me, scribbling stuff down in his notebook.

"I'm eight. Dandie's ten."

He looked shocked as I am taller than Dan.

"Ok. Next question, why were you hiding from us?"

"You were going to take mummy away from us."

"Oh. So, why didn't you take her to the hospital then?"

"She did go." I replied simply, staring back at him.

"When did she last go Emmilena?"

"One year, nine months, three weeks, four days."

"Wow! You do know that you might need to be checked up on too, Emmilena?"

"Yes, and call me Emmie only mummy can call me Emmilena."

"Well, Emmie you could be sick too."

"That's strange, because I feel fine."

"Well we'll need to take you to the hospital, just in case."

"I don't want to go with you."

"It's for your own good."

"So."

"You have to come, whether you like it or not." He said shutting the door and once again locking it.

I saw him outside, talking to the policewoman.

Then they came and walked towards us, got in the front of the car and drove.

I was scared, but it was almost as if I could sense Dandie's fear too.

We arrived at the hospital about twenty minutes later and I spotted another two officers standing with Sundance and Rosanleiah.

"Come on then." Officer Jacobs said to me.

Me and Dandie just sat there.