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On Monday morning, Katie was woken up at 7, by Carmen turning on the blow dryer to dry out her hair.

"Why the hell are you doing your hair this early?!" Katie asked, slightly annoyed.

"It takes ages." Carmen replied. Katie let out a groan, got her body wash and concealer, trying to make sure that Carmen didn't see her pick it up, and went to the bathroom. Luckily there wasn't a queue like it is most mornings, so she went straight in and had a shower. When she was done she got dry and applied the concealer. She went back to her's and Carmen's room and got changed into her school uniform.

"Hey Carmen, can I use your straighteners?" She asked, as she slipped on her school shoes, black flats with a bow on it.

"Sure, I'm nearly done." replied Carmen. Katie nodded and took a look at herself in the other mirror. She hitched up her skirt an extra inch or two, rolled the sleeves of her shirt to above her elbows, folded up the sleeves of her blazer to below her elbows, undid the top button of the shirt and pulled on the tie slightly. She only noticed that Carmen had gone downstairs when she'd turned around to see that she wasn't there. Katie shrugged and picked up the straighteners. She made sure that her hair was straight and smooth before she put them back. Finally before she went downstairs she picked up her school bag, which was a black satchel, and slung it over her shoulder. She stomped down the stairs and went to the kitchen, where everyone was having breakfast.

"Hey Katie, looking forward to school?" Rick asked sarcastically

"I just hope that I can stay awake." sighed Katie, as she took the only remaining seat next to Rick and Faith, and putting about 3 pancakes on her plate. Katie scanned the table, everyone execpt Jody, Harry and Floss were wearing the same uniform as her.

"What have we got first anyways?" asked Liam

"English, History, Study Period, Drama, and Science." said Rick. Katie checked her timetable, she had all of the same lessons with Rick and Liam at least. She scoffed the pancakes and placed her plate into the sink along with everybody else.

"Come on guys! We need to go now if we're going to get to school on time!" Mike said enthusiastically, either because he was relieved to not have to put up with everyone's shouting, or trying to do the impossible; make a group of teenagers have a positive attitude to having to go to school in the early hours of the day on a Monday. Everyone reluctantly climbed into the minibus, Katie sat next to Carmen by the window. She stared at the window, watching the trees and cars go past her. The closer they got to the school, the more people she saw walking towards the place. Some of them were in groups, talking, laughing, looking like they were actually having fun. Katie looked at them, hoping that she could have the same as those people

"Katie! We're 'ere now." said Liam

"Oops." She replied, getting her bag and getting off of the minibus. Mike drove off to drop off Jody, Harry and Floss.

"Hurry up Katie we're going to be late!" said Faith, as she grabbed Katie's wrist and pulled her along, making Katie snap out of her daydream. "By the way you're in the same form as me, Liam and Rick." She added, Katie replied with a nod as they went into the classroom.

"Why are you late this time?" The teacher sighed, as she was doing the register

"Traffic?" said Liam. "Plus we brought the new girl."

"Thanks." Katie muttered to Liam

"Oh, so you're Kathleen, take a seat at the front."

"Call me Katie." Katie added, as she went and sat in her seat.

"She's so wearing colored contacts." she heard someone murmur behind her

"No I'm not," She said, turning her head around. She let out a sigh as she turned back around, daydreaming throughout tutor period. Next thing she knew, everyone was standing behind their chairs. She followed Faith to English as she was in the same group, Rick was in the group above and Liam was in the group below.

"Hello, why don't you sit next to Amber for the time being." said the English teacher, as she pointed at the back. Katie nodded and sat in the seat

"Hey I'm Amber," said a friendly looking girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, "Your eyes are so cool are they colored contacts?" she asked astoundedly

"Nope, and by the way I'm Katie." Katie replied. "So what are we supposed to do here?" she asked

"We have to write about our dream world." she replied, before she got back to work. Katie figured that she might as well do the same. She spent the whole lesson just working on it, not building up the courage to make an attempt at socializing. After English there was History, and they were studying generations for a few lessons.

"Alright guys, for those of you that haven't met me, I'm Mr Watts, what I want you to do for the first lesson is to make a family tree, go as far back as you can." said the teacher. As he passed pieces of card to each person.

"I can't do it." said Katie

"Why not?"

"Bacause! I-I just can't." She said weakly,

"Do you need help"

"No I just don't want to do it!" She said, getting increasingly frustrated

"Why not? You do know that if you don't complete the work you get a detention." said Mr Watts. Katie stood up and ripped the piece of card right in front of him, ignoring the smirks and laughs she was getting from everyone.

"Because they're all dead." She said quietly, trying to make sure that only he heard her, before he stormed out.

Car ride home.

Since History Katie had stayed in the student base until the end of the school day. Mike had to pick her up, and Katie could see that he wasn't happy about that, as it probably added to his already busy schedule

"We've spoken to Mr Watts. Why didn't you tell us about..." Mike trailed off, Katie knew what he meant though.

"Because it didn't need to be said. I don't need to go around shouting "My family's dead, feel sorry for me!" all the time do I?" she replied. "Any news about my refugee request?" She asked

"Oh yeah there was a letter, I forgot to bring it." Mike said

"It's fine, I can read it when we get back." replied Katie. They both sat in silence for the rest of the car journey. Once the car had arrived at the care home, Katie climbed out of the car and went inside. "Ok where's the letter?" She asked"

"It's here." Mike replied, handing her an envelope. She opened the envelope, excited yet nauseous as to what the contents were. She scanned the envelope, still stood in the middle of the corridor.

"No. I can't go back, I can't." She said, her voice little above a whisper, while tears fell slowly and silently down he cheek and staining the letter.

"What's wrong babes?" asked Gina, who noticed the tear stairs on the letter

"They've rejected my application." She said, shoving the letter into Gina's hands. Katie stormed off up the stairs and into the bathroom, and started rummaging through the her toiletries, until the gleam of a razor caught her attention. She removed a blade, examining it. "I can't go back there Mom, I'm sorry." She murmured, whilst she pushed the razor blade deep into her wrists.

Thanks for reading!

Sorry for the mention of self harm/suicide, I tried to keep the references to a minimum

This isn't the last chapter, there are still more!

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