By lunch time that day, everyone was fully recovered and Ellie had gone home. Rhydian was back on the roof, finishing off what he hadn't done yesterday and Maddy was sitting on the roof watching him do it.

"Rhydian, you work too hard." Maddy said after he had nearly fallen off the roof trying to fix one of the loose tiles.

"I don't care. I'm bored and this fills up some time." Rhydian replied. Maddy looked at him and Rhydian laughed at her expression.

"Come here." Rhydian said to Maddy once he had stopped laughing, gesturing her over to him. Maddy stood up and then slowly walked over to Rhydian.

Maddy threw her arms around his neck when she got to him and he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"How am I supposed to work when someone as beautiful as you keeps annoying me?" Rhydian asked. Maddy smiled and then kissed him. The kiss was long, but soft and nice.

"Hey. Stop making out and get back to work." Dan yelled from ground level. Rhydian and Maddy pulled away from the kiss for a second, looked at Dan and then Rhydian let go of Maddy and started working again.

Maddy jumped off the roof and went inside. She came back out a few minutes later with a bottle of water that she chucked up to Rhydian.

"Nice throw." Dan mumbled to her afterwards.

"Thanks dad." Maddy said. She hugged Dan and then went back inside and went up to her room and sat on the bed.

She sat there reading one of her books for an hour before Rhydian came in.

"Finally finished then." Maddy said as she put her book down onto the floor.

"Yep. It's all done." Rhydian said, lying down next to her. Maddy moved so that she was lying down too and then they rolled over so they could see each other.

"I love you Maddy Smith." Rhydian said as he moved a loose strand of hair behind her ear.

"I love you too Rhydian Morris." Maddy replied, kissing him softly.

Maddy and Rhydian laid there staring at each other until the door was opened. Maddy had to roll over to see who it was and it was Emma and Dan.

"We're going shopping. Do you guys want anything?" Emma asked.

"No thanks mam." Maddy replied. Emma smiled and then she left the room, closing the door behind her.

Maddy and Rhydian laid there, looking at each other for a few minutes after Emma and Dan left. In the end Maddy was the one to speak.

"Do you want some ice-cream?" She asked. Rhydian smiled and got up, pulling Maddy with him.

"Yeah. That sounds good." He replied. He still had his shirt off from when he had been working on the roof. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him back. She smiled against his lips after a while and then pulled away to catch her breath.

"I love you." Maddy whispered to him. He smiled back and then gently pushed her onto the bed, making her giggle.

"I love you too." Rhydian replied, kissing her lips again and laying on top of her (from there, you could pretty much guess what happened so I won't get into detail.)

When they had finished, they laid there, wrapped in each other's arms.

"When do your parents get home?" Rhydian asked after a while of laughing at each other's bad jokes.

"I don't know. It usually takes an hour for them to do the shopping and they usually get a coffee at Bernie's on the way home." Maddy replied. Rhydian smiled and ran his hand down her side. This made her smile.

A little while after that, they got dressed and went downstairs. It had begun to rain outside, the hot weather disappearing and the cold coming.

"It's so cold." Maddy said. She and Rhydian had moved down to the loungeroom and they had put a movie on.

"Come here." Rhydian said to her. She moved over to him and snuggled into his chest.

"Better?" He asked.

"Yup. Definitely." Maddy replied, but Rhydian didn't believe her. She was slightly shivering and so he moved her and got up. He grabbed the thickest blanket he could find and then went back over to the couch. He sat down and wrapped the rug around both of their shoulders. She snuggled back into his chest and smiled, closing her eyes.

"Now I'm definitely better." Maddy replied. She grabbed one of Rhydian's hands and held it under the rug.

"Good." Rhydian said, kissing the top of her head. Maddy fell asleep a few minutes later. Rhydian smiled and relaxed into the couch.

A little after Maddy fell asleep, Emma and Dan got home from shopping.

"Hey, we bought you two hot chocolates at Bernie's." Dan said. Rhydian shushed him and told him that Maddy was asleep. Dan and Emma smiled and then Emma passed Rhydian his hot chocolate. Rhydian hesitated in getting it. He didn't know if he should just take it, but they offered it to him again and so he took it.

"This is amazing. Thanks Mrs Smith. And Mr Smith." Rhydian smiled. Maddy moved and woke up then.

"What's going on?" Maddy mumbled, half asleep.

"We bought you a hot chocolate." Emma said passing it to her daughter. Maddy smiled and took it. She turned to face Rhydian who smiled and then took a sip of his.

"Thanks mam." Maddy said. "Do you need any help unpacking?" Maddy asked standing up.

"Yes please." Emma replied. Maddy went to help her mam unpack the shopping and Rhydian stayed on the couch. He looked down at his hot chocolate. He felt awkward just sitting there so he silently moved upstairs to Maddy's room. Dan had noticed him do this and wondered out loud.

"Why does Rhydian disappear whenever he's not standing next to Maddy?" he asked no one in particular.

"I don't know." Emma replied. "Has he told you something about it Maddy?"

"No. I have asked him about it, but he always changes the subject." Maddy answered.

"Weird. He knows he's welcome doesn't he?" Emma asked.

"Yeah. He knows that. He has been really distant about things since this morning on the roof. We had been discussing his last foster parents the Vaughan's and he hasn't been acting the same since then." Maddy replied. A few seconds later she had a thought.

"Mam, do you think that he feels lonely?" Maddy asked.

"No he has us and you." Emma replied.

"No, that's not what I mean. Do you think he feels lonely in the family department?" Maddy asked.

"Could be. Just after you went inside from the roof we were talking and he said something about wanting a family. He made it funny so I thought it was a joke. He even laughed." Dan said. He now wished that he hadn't laughed at his words.

"I'll be back in a second. I just want to talk to him." Maddy said. She put down the bag she had been holding and went upstairs to her room to find Rhydian sitting on the window sill, his head resting on the glass and a tear rolling silently down his cheek.