A/N: Thank you for being so patient any regulars who are reading this. Any new readers, welcome! You guys keep asking for Maddian so here's some more ;)

"Morning mam!" Maddy bounded down the stairs.

"Morning cub. You seem very energetic this morning." Emma remarked. "Is there something you want to tell me?"

"Nope." Maddy replied quickly. "What's for breakfast?"

"Don't go changing the subject!" Emma said sternly. "If you've been up to anything I want to know about it."

Maddy was saved from having to answer by the arrival of the post. She ran to pick it up. They were, unsurprisingly all addressed to her parents. She handed them over to Emma.

"Bills, bills, more bills, a bank statement, a letter from Daniel's sister and what's this?" She was holding a brown envelope in her hand. It had hers and Daniel's name and their address written on it in an untidy scrawl. Emma took the house key off a hook by the door and forced it under the edge of the envelope to open it. She pulled out the single sheet of paper that was inside and quickly scanned it. Maddy could see the writing on it, but couldn't read it from where she was. She held out her hand for the letter. Emma shook her head and put the letter back in its envelope.

"Daniel!" She called, walking to the stairs and calling up.

"Mam, what's up?" Maddy asked, sliding off her stool.

"It's nothing Maddy, get to school now. Daniel!" Emma gently pushed Maddy away and held the letter high out of her reach.

"Everything alright down here?" Rhydian descended the stairs, putting his rucksack on as he went.

"Mam's got a secret letter!" Maddy said. Rhydian shrugged.

"Does she have to share all her mail with you?" He asked.

"No, but it's made her worried!" Maddy countered.

"Maddy, everything's fine, now will you please get to school now!" Emma shouted. Clearly Maddy was getting on her nerves.

"But what about breakfast?" Maddy asked.

"Just take some toast. It's nearly done." Emma said, trying to be calm. She turned and called up the stairs "Daniel can you come down here please?"

"Are you going to show me what's in that letter?"

"Maddy would you just let it go!" Emma shouted. The toast popped up. "Take the toast and go Maddy."

"But-"

"I said GO!" Emma thundered. "DANIEL WILL YOU GET DOWN HERE NOW!"

Rhydian grabbed a slice of toast from the toaster and put it between his teeth. He picked up the other slice of toast for Maddy, grabbed her shoulder and pushed her out of the door in front of him.

The door thudded shut. Emma was still breathing deeply from her rant. Daniel appeared at the top of the stairs, a toothbrush in his mouth.

"E-er-ing oh-ay?" he asked. Emma waved the letter at him. He took the envelope from her and pulled out the sheet of paper inside. His brow crumpled as he read it. He looked up from the letter at Emma, wide-eyed.

"I know." She said in reply to his silent question. "What do we do?"

{~}{~}{~}{~}{~}{~}{~}{~}{~}{~}

Maddy and Rhydian were sitting on the bus on their way to school. It had been two weeks since the full moon and neither of them had felt like running all that way. Maddy chomped on her dry toast. It tasted horrible but she was too hungry.

"I wonder what all that was about?" She asked Rhydian, who was sitting next to her.

Rhydian sighed. He had finished his toast a while ago and was still hungry. "Can't you just let it go, Mads?"

"No, I can't! They're hiding something from us. I know it." Maddy sulked.

"Grown-ups have all sorts of secrets. Most of them are really boring. Don't you think they had a good reason for keeping it from you?" Rhydian reasoned. Maddy tutted, spraying the back of the chair in front with crumbs. "Trust me Mads. You're overreacting. Everything's fine."

The bus rumbled into the school grounds and came to a halt. Students piled off into the playground. Rhydian was hailed by Tom from the football pitch.

"Rhydian! Come be goalie?"

"Sure!" Rhydian shouted back. "See ya later Mads." He planted a brief kiss on her cheek and ran off to join the game. Maddy rolled her eyes and went to find Shannon.

Shannon was in the dark room, developing some photos she'd taken of the previous week's football game against Abbeydale School. She didn't turn her head as the door opened.

"Hello Maddy." Shannon said, still with her back to the door. She took a photograph out of the developing fluid with a pair of tongs and pegged it up on a line to dry. "Everything ok?" She asked, taking her apron off and hanging it up. Maddy sat down on the comfy chairs in the corner.

"Everyone's being weird today." She said. Shannon came to join her.

"In what way?" She asked.

"Mam and dad got a mysterious letter this morning, they looked worried but won't say what it's about and Rhydian isn't even a little bit curious!" Maddy looked to her friend, expecting to see her eyes alight with curiosity. But she was wrong.

"Do you have to know the contents of every private letter your parents get?"

"Not you as well!" Maddy stormed as she stalked out of the dark room and down the corridor to their form room. She sat down at a desk in the second row back and put her bag on the chair beside her so no one could sit next to her. Shannon came in and sat at the desk in front of her.

"Maddy, I just think you're being a bit…"

Maddy childishly put her fingers in her ears. Shannon rolled her eyes and turned around to face the front.

Maddy didn't talk to any of her friends for the rest of the day and when school finished she was the first to leave and she tore across the fields to the woods. She'd only been running for a couple of minutes when she heard him behind her. She stopped abruptly and he ran into her, knocking them both to the ground.

"Maddy."

She rolled away from Rhydian but grabbed her ankle.

"Maddy you've been off with us all day. What's the matter? You're not still on about that letter are you?"

"It could be really important!" Maddy yelled, frustrated. "And you don't care!"

"If it's really important, they'll tell us." Rhydian reasoned.

"Yeah," Maddy replied sarcastically. "Because they've never kept anything important from us before."

"C'mon Mads." Rhydian started pulling her towards him, working his hands up her leg.

"Don't you 'c'mon Mads' to me." Maddy said huffily, but she smiled as she said it. Rhydian had reached the top of her leg by now and he pulled her on to his lap. He stroked her hair slowly.

"You've got to stop worrying." He told her. "And don't take it out on your friends."

"Hmmmmm." Maddy replied. She curled her arms around his neck and kissed him softly. "Okay." She whispered. Rhydian smiled against her lips and kissed her back, harder, pushing her mouth open and allowing a small groan to escape him.

"Alright." said Maddy, pushing him off her and jumping up. "That's enough of that."

"What?" Rhydian complained.

Maddy smiled. "Race ya!" she shouted, and ran off towards home. Rhydian gave her a couple of seconds head start before he went after her.