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Erin was sat at her desk watching the rain pour down outside. School was boring her so much to the extent that she would rather watch the rain. She was actually quite intelligent. But history bored her so much.

"Erin can you come back to us please!" Erin snapped out of her thoughts. Her teacher Mr Wilson was stood in front of her. "Yeah whatever," she said, plainly turning back. "So class like I said we're going to be doing family trees today," Mr Wilson said, explaining further.

Erin groaned, before switching off, again. Family trees were the last thing she wanted to do. She hated her mum and dad and only knew her mum's parents. She didn't know her dad's or if he or her mum had any brothers or sisters and she barely knew her own sister.

Erin sighed. Her sister. Chloe. She'd been put into care when Erin was 2. She couldn't even remember what her sister looked like. All she knew was that her parents put Chloe into care when she was 7. That was 12 years ago. She'd be almost 20 now.

"Erin can you please pay attention, I'm asking you for the last time!" Erin looked up. Mr Wilson was yelling at her again. "Sorry sir," she mumbled, "but I'm not drawing a family tree." "Erin stop mucking around of course you are." He said, annoyed. Mr Wilson was one of the newest teachers; he didn't know Erin was a care kid.

Rick wasn't in this class so she had no one she was really friends with in there. "You can't make me," She said. "And what would your parents think about you not taking part in your lessons?" Mr Wilson said. Erin nearly went to whack him but she managed to stop herself.

"And why would they care about that?" Erin said, sarcastically. "Because they'd be concerned about your education as am I," Mr Wilson said, stepping towards her. Erin jumped up, "They don't care about me or they wouldn't have dumped me in a care home!" Erin shouted, grabbing her bag and running out the classroom.

Erin ran through the corridors and out the door. Running past the gates she didn't stop until she'd reached just outside of Elm Tree. In tears, she sat down outside the gate and hunched into a ball, she didn't see Tracy coming. "Erin why are you down there, are you okay?" Tracy said, panicking.

Erin looked up at Tracy, tears streaming down her face. Tracy helped the girl to her feet before taking her inside to calm down. Inside they found Mike, waiting by the door. Almost as if he knew Erin would be coming home.

"Erin what is going on the school phoned saying you'd run out of class, there better be a goon explanation for this!" Mike shouted, angrily. "Mike lay off her can't you see she's in tears!" Tracy said. "Yes I can but she needs to learn that running away isn't going to help anything." Mike answered although his face softened, "Erin what actually happened?"

Erin began to explain the whole story from start to finish. "Right well I have to phone the school and let them know you're here and I'm going to ask if your teacher Mr Wilson can be filled in on all details about you and the others."

Erin nodded, rubbing her eyes, "Thanks Mike," she said. "It's okay, just try keep your temper next time Erin?" He said. "I tired believe me I nearly hit him but didn't!" Erin moaned. Mike shook his head, laughing before walking into the office.

Erin walked upstairs to see Tracy running around, clearing space in Erin's room. "What are you doing to my stuff?" Erin asked, walking into her room. "Oh hi Erin, sorry forgot to tell you but there's a girl that's coming here that's going to be staying in your room." Tracy said, frantically moving things, "Hey careful with that, anyway I could have had abit more notice but I guess it'll be fine, who is this girl anyway?"

"She used to live here and now she's come back, same age as you and Rick," Tracy answered. "What's her name?" Erin asked. "You'll find out later, I don't want you telling anyone it's meant to be a surprise." "Okay I'm going to watch tv see ya," Erin said, leaving the room.

Tracy was worried about what would happen between this girl and Erin. Would they clash over Rick? Tracy knew the girl had been extremely close to Rick before she left but what would happen now?

Rick, Sam and Frank ran through the door panting. "Mike have you seen Erin, she's gone, Mike help!" Sam screamed, running in. Erin stepped out, "Guys its fine, I'm here, I'll explain later okay?" she said, walking back into the lounge.

Rick walked into the lounge and sat down next to his girlfriend. "Tell me what happened," He said, looking straight into her eyes. Erin sighed; she knew when she was beaten. "Fine." Erin explained the whole story yet again.

"Oh Erin, I'm sorry that teacher should've watched his mouth," Rick said, pecking her on the lips. "It wasn't his fault Rick, he didn't know I just got so angry, I just needed to get out of there before I hit something or someone." Erin said, sighing. "Well, I'm proud of you Erin," he said, "you managed to keep your temper, even though running out might not have been the best option, you didn't lash out."

"Oh I forgot to say, new girls coming today," Erin said. "Who?" Rick asked. "I don't know," Erin said, shrugging, "same age as us though and she's sharing my room. 'Knock knock!' "Looks like that's her now," Erin said, taking Rick's hand and jumping up to meet her new roommate.

Rick and Erin walked out. Everyone was standing there as Mike opened the door. An average sized, brown haired and brown eyed girl walked in. Not everyone recognized her straight away but Rick did. "Kitty," he said, almost choking on his words.