Kinda AU. BTW its a Working Title, I couldn't think what to call it.

Set during this current season of Waterloo Road. Rachel has an eleven year old daughter which Eddie finds out about after over hearing a phone call. He confronts her and she becomes defensive before telling him about her.

She ends up coming home from boarding school in Hertfordshire to live back with her Mum.

Melissa still comes to the school with Phillip, almost married Eddie and then ended up leaving Phil with Rachel. Rachel and Eddie do get together.

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With her first day at a new school imminent, Ella stood in front of the mirror in her bedroom trying to figure which hairband to wear. She had been up since five hoping that the sick feeling at the bottom of her stomach would go away.

Her mum had told her what to expect, which she assumed was more of a warning than a history of the place.

She grabbed her school bag and made her way downstairs.

Rachel was sat at the kitchen table finishing off her breakfast, Ella dumped her bag next to her mothers by the front door.

She went into the kitchen and wrapped her arms around her mothers neck from behind.

Rachel smiled kissing Ella's hands, Ella took a seat next to her.

"So are you excited about today?" Rachel asked.

Ella shook her head. "I feel sick."

Rachel smiled sympathetically. "Aww, sweetheart you'll be fine. I promise."

"Yeah but what if they don't like me?"

"They don't like anyone whose not like them." Philip said as he came in from the living room, dumping his breakfast bowl in the sink.

"Philip!" Rachel scolded. "Don't listen to him, everything will be fine." She said turning her attention back to her daughter. "But if you do have any problems you come and tell me or Eddie straight away."

Ella nodded, the sick feeling in her stomach rising.

"Okay you two, we'd better get moving." Rachel put her breakfast things in the dishwasher and grabbed her car keys from the kitchen counter.

Philip and Ella followed her out grabbing their school bags on the way.

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By the time lunch came Ella was ready for the day to be over. She made her way over to the canteen on her own, no one offering to show her the way.

Grabbing a lunch tray she followed a group of people and joined the end of the queue. Scanning the lunch room she spotted a few of the of the girls from her form class.

She gave them a friendly smile, but just like when Miss Haydock had made her sit next to one of them, they ignored her.

The line went down quite quickly, Ella got her lunch and found an empty table.

She sat there picking at her food, she wasn't really hungry. Then someone placed a tray on the table opposite her, she looked up and saw a friendly face.

"Phil." She smiled.

He took a seat and started to eat. "So how is your first day going?"

Ella shrugged her shoulders putting down her knife and fork. "Don't you want to sit with your friends?"

Philips eyes darted around before his eyes quickly settled on Bolton and Paul. Looking away he shook his head. "Nah, I'd rather sit with you. Besides I'll see them in class."

She was glad he had said that, no one had really spoken to her all day, apart from a few nosy people. Who just wanted to know why she moved here in the first place, which she never really told them the whole truth.

She and Philip talked about something they had watched on the TV last night, then the bell rang.

People started to leave the lunch room, Philip and Ella got up putting their things in the bin.

"So what have you got next?! Philip asked.

Ella pulled her timetable out of her bag, "Maths with Mr Lawson. Is he nice?"

Philip smiled. "Here I'll uh take you up." He didn't realize Ella didn't know Eddie's last name.

They were the first two people up there, Eddie was writing that lessons objective on the board.

"Eddie!" Ella said.

Eddie turned round and smiled pulling Ella in for a quick hug before any other students turned u. "So how are you enjoying your first day?"

The smile disappeared from her face, she shrugged her shoulders. "It's okay I suppose."

"Ummmm, Ells, what's your last lesson? I'll meet you." Philip asked quickly changing the subject.

"Music."

Philip nodded and left just as the second bell rang, that signalled to get to their lessons.

"Okay, well lets find you a seat." Eddie said with a smile, grabbing Ella an exercise and text book.

Children started to file in taking their seats, and just like before everyone seemed to avoid sitting next to her. Then the girl who ignored her in the lunch room came and sat next to her.

"Ella right?" She said.

Ella nodded her head slowly.

"I'm Abi." She said getting a pen from her pencil case. "Why were you talking to that weird kid in year eleven at lunch for?"

Ella went to say that Philip was her cousin, but changed her mind. If people hadn't yet figured out her her Mum was yet then she wanted to keep it that way for as long as possible.

She went to say something, but was saved when Eddie started the lesson.

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When the bell rang at the end of the day Ella made sure she was the last one out of the classroom and that no one was hanging around outside.

"So, Ella, how was your first day here?" Matt asked as he was packing away his things.

Ella sighed, she was getting fed up of this question. "It was okay thank you." She said politely.

Just then Philip appeared in the doorway. "Come on, hurry up." He said quickly.

Matt looked over to see who it was. "Excuse me Philip?" He said a little annoyed assuming that Philip was talking to him.

Philips face turned a slight shade of red. "I uh, wasn't talking to you sir. I was talking to her.....she's uh....my cousin."

Matt looked over at Ella. "Oh, so your Miss Mason's daughter." He said in a friendly and almost apologetic tone.

Ella's face went a brighter shade of red than Philips, she nodded her head and shoved her pencil case in her bag.

Matt picked up the register and scanned through the names. "Isabella Mason." He said confirming that was indeed her.

Just then Rachel and Eddie came down the corridor, and noticed Philip and Ella in the music room.

"There you two are." Eddie said.

"Everyone just calls me Ella." She said quickly.

Matt grabbed a pen and altered her name in his register. "Okay just Ella it is then."

"Come on you two. We've been waiting by the car for you." Rachel said.

"I was uh, just waiting for her." Philip said before following Eddie out.

"Sorry that was my fault." Matt apologized. "We were talking."

Rachel smiled, acknowledging what Matt had said. "Did you have a good first day sweetie?" Rachel grabbed her daughters school bag and blazer as the started to make their way out to the car.

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Okay that's the first chapter, I know its kinda vague but things will start to be explained and make sense as the story progresses. So any reviews/subscriber would be awesome=D