Fifty four

Summer's POV

The last Easter holidays had been a bit of a disaster with the trip to the beach and the zoo. This holiday they planned to go on a week long holiday. I had packed my swimming costume as well as plenty of clothes in case Tyler tried to steal them. I walked downstairs and sat on the bottom step of the stairs with Rick and Kitty. We were going to Butlins in Bognor Regis for the week. Denis was having a week off abroad and so they were going with Georgia, Connor and temporary careworker Shareea. "She's in for a rough week," Rick muttered to us. We both laughed as Leo got dragged into Burnywood. He'd run away again but luckily he'd been found so the trip wasn't going to be cancelled.

"Everyone get in the van," Shareea shouted. I nodded in agreement with Rick. She was going to have it hard, the key words in her title were 'temporary careworker'. I stood up and walked out to the van along with Kitty and Rick. Everyone else was seeing how long they could get away with staying in the house. Connor and Georgia jumped in the front of the van quite quickly.

"We'll leave her to sort it out," they said knowing it would take a while. We giggled and settled down for a long car journey to Bognor Regis.

***At Butlins***

It took an hour to get everyone out the house mainly because Shareea hadn't realised the three of us were in the van already so she had searched the whole house for us. It had then taken us five hours to get to Butlins and now we were here we couldn't wait to explore. We were staying in gold apartments which meant that six of us could share an apartment. We were stood outside the three story building we were going to almost take over. "who's going with who?" Georgia asked. We all rushed into groups. I was with Rick, Kitty, Sadie and Kieran while Sam was with jasmine, Alex, Tyler and Luke which left Mia, Leo and Lucy on their own. "that works. Ok I'll share with Sam and that lot while Connor and Shareea will stay with Mia, Leo and Lucy. Summer and Rick I'm leaving you in charge of your room." I nodded and Rick saluted in mock agreement. I sat and watched as Sam, Jasmine, Alex, Tyler and Luke took their suitcases into room 101, Georgia opened the door and kept the key. After they had all gone in Mia, Leo and Lucy picked up their suitcases and walked up the outside metal staircase to their room 201. Once all three of them and Connor and Shareea were in we then picked up our suitcases and followed their footsteps up to the second floor before continuing up to room 301. I opened the door and we walked in. It was a nice room. We decided that me and Sadie would share the two singles in one of the bedrooms, Rick and Kieran would share the other two singles in the other bedroom and Kitty would have the double bed in the final room on her own.

That evening all the teens headed to teen club while Sam, jasmine, Lucy, Alex, Tyler, Luke and Sadie all went to see pingu and his bedtime hour. The remaining six of us walked warily into the teen club. All the teens in their looked at us and we just smiled weakly. "hi," said the redcoat whose name badge claimed she was called Holly. "Welcome to teen club. Are you all related?" she asked. I glanced at the others before shaking my head.

"urm.. no. We are in a care home together. We're like best friends. But we don't want people knowing we are in care," I whispered. She nodded.

"go and make friends you lot," Holly replied quietly. We walked in and Kieran, Rick and Leo all jumped onto the air hockey table and made loads of friends straight away. Mia, Kitty and I stood nearby the girls playing just dance.

"Do you want to join in?" one of them said. Me and Mia nodded while Kitty shook her head and decided to go and sit on the beanbags and read the book she had brought with her. I was dancing and noticed holly smiling at us encouragingly. There was another redcoat in the room, called Luke who was teasing all us girls who were dancing. Out the corner of my eye I noticed that a girl and boy were trying to talk to Kitty. I caught Mia's eye and nodded towards Kitty, who then nodded in agreement that I should go. I put the remote down and went over to them.

"Urm... sorry. Please excuse my sister. She's very shy around new people," I said explaining her offhandedness. I saw her look confused but she didn't argue. "I'm Summer and this is Kitty."

"hey, we are James and Jessie," the girl, Jessie said. I sat down with Kitty and we started talking.

Over the next two hours we made good friends with them and arranged to go swimming the next day. I was petrified. "kitty," I hissed as we left. "I have something to say. I can't swim or I can but the last time I properly swam was saving my family and now I'm scared to swim." I saw her eyes widen.

"you'll be fine, don't worry," she replied.

Rick's POV

It was the end of the week and we had all had a great time. Shareea had lost her temper countless times and she couldn't wait to get out of here as we had all been playing her up and running away. We'd all made new friends, the teens in James, Jessie and Elizabetta (she was Spanish). The lot of us had been swimming together, with Summer facing her fear of drowning and water. She was actually quite good once in the water. We'd also gone and played mini golf with the teen club, which I proceeded to win, go-karting, which Kitty won, beach volleyball, which Mia and Leo's team had won and rounder's, which Kieran and Summer had won. Sadie had enjoyed herself spending a day at the spa with Lucy and Georgia. Sam and Jasmine enjoyed all the shows while everyone else had enjoyed just having some freedom to do what they want within reason. Luckily nothing had been stolen, broken and everyone was still happy. We all clambered into the van to go back home. 'I wonder if it will last all the way?' I thought but as I thought it Tyler started irritating Alex who then elbowed Kitty who jumped into my arms. "Obviously not." I muttered.

A/N: What a fun holiday they had. Hope you are still enjoying