Author's Note: I have three assignments all due in three consecutive days and I haven't start any of them! I'm in deep trouble. You guys should be glad I value this story more (not really) than my grade.

By the way, in the last chapter, when Alex was looking at the photo, it was in black and white.

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Chapter Seven

It rained. It rained more. Now it was quite wet. Too wet. At least this was what Temperance thought. She was in no mood to do an obstacle course, she was still hungry and the only good side was that she was full of energy. She wouldn't be sleeping much tonight.

She was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling, when she remembered something. She ran her hands under the pillow and pulled out a piece of paper. She unfolded it carefully and held it up.

It was a picture taken two years ago and it was in black and white. It had three people with their backs to the camera, overlooking a sunset. She looked at the person on the right, who was her, then to the person in the middle, her father, then lastly to the other person. This person she knew very well. He was older than her but a dear friend.

Temperance was distracted when Alex walked in the door. He was drenched in water and looked tired. He crashed onto his bed and rolled over to face her.

Temperance had to admit, he was quite good looking. She shook the thought from her mind, smiled and then tucked the photo away again.

'I am so bored,' Spence said. He sat down on Temperance's bed and she sat up. Alex hauled himself up and sat next to Temperance.

'Did you see that obstacle course? That will be hell to go through. Why don't they murder us now?' Temperance asked.

'That would be illegal. Well, I think making us go through it in the rain is illegal as well,' Spence answered.

'It stopped raining,' said Alex quietly. He dragged himself up and opened the curtain on the windows to show them. Alex sat back down again just as Mr Mills came through the door.

'Could Mathew and Glen please come with me? It's important,' Mr Mills said. He said it quietly and had a strange look on his face. Matt and Glen got up and followed him out, looking anxious.

Temperance turned to watch them go, making her hair move away from the cut on her head. It looked bad. It was swollen but the blood had dried.

'Does that hurt much?' Spence asked quietly.

Temperance looked confused for a moment, then, 'Oh, that, it doesn't really hurt unless I touch it.' She smiled to show that show was telling the truth.

'Why wouldn't you let me tell Wolf what really happened?' asked Alex. Temperance thought about her answer.

'What's the point? He would just get nasty and it wasn't like we didn't get him back.'

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A while later, Alex, Spence and Temperance were still sitting on the bed. They had talked about their families.

Alex freely admitted he had no family left living and that Jack had been taken out of the country. He was surprisingly happy after saying it, as if getting a huge load off his shoulders.

Spence lived with his parents, baby sister and older sister. He had a large Labrador named 'Honey'. They all lived in a large house in London. Spence was home schooled when he wasn't at Military School.

Temperance changed house every Friday until her parents finally divorced. She was sent here because her mother didn't want her with her father, but she was an unsuitable parent. Temperance had no brothers or sisters but she had a cat named 'Pricilla' and a horse called 'Cher'.

Alex was not surprised to hear that Temperance didn't like her mother much. After what he had seen, he couldn't blame her.

'She was the one who wanted the press to know about my birth and the rest of my life. I had no say in it until I was ten. Dad was right in not letting me meet the press; you should see what they do to them. I've seen my parents be stalked – they can take photos from underwater; you get no privacy-'

Temperance stopped when she saw Mathew and Glen walk back in the door. They didn't say anything, but they had sad looks on their faces. They walked to their beds and pulled out their bags, packing things away.

'What's wrong?' asked Temperance, getting up and going over to them.

'Something...happened back home...we have to go...goodbye.' That was the only thing that came out of Glen's mouth. He turned and walked out. Mathew shrugged and walked after him.

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Author's Note: There it is! More coming quite soon! Review????