"TYLER!" Dennis shouted.

Everyone ran out of their rooms, and saw Tyler at the top of the stairs. Dennis was at the bottom, soaked with treacle.

"You're grounded for a month!" Dennis shouted again, before stalking off.

"Nice one." George grinned.

Lianne smiled but then turned away, heading back to her room.

Tyler washed his hands off, and then Katie gave him all the money, the picture and the locket. He walked into Lianne's room and put the stuff into her hands.

"What…how did you…?" Lianne asked.

"I threw that stuff over Dennis so that Katie would give me your stuff back." Tyler explained.

"Tyler…thank you." Lianne locked her stuff away in a box, and put the key in her pocket, before throwing her arms around him.

Tyler hugged her back and grinned, before going to see Dennis.

Lianne hid the key in her jewelry box, on a chain so people would think it was just a necklace (hopefully), and then she hid the box in the wardrobe.

Lianne read in her room for a while before heading downstairs. She saw George; he was moving to hit Kitty. Lianne reacted. She ran and jumped on George's back, flinging her arms around his neck and grabbing his hands with hers. "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!"

Kitty backed away as George slammed Lianne to the ground. "Fine then, I'll take it out on you instead!"

Lianne ran, and George followed her, and soon he caught her by the hair, yanking her backwards.

"Hey hey hey!" a woman ran forward, and pushed the two apart, with another man's help. Lianne knew they were the other care workers, Isobel and Joseph.

"She started it!" George said, managing to free himself from Joseph's grip. He punched Lianne in the tummy and stormed upstairs. "Watch yourself, new girl."

Isobel sighed, and she and Joseph left, muttering to each other.

Kitty appeared in front of Lianne. "You…protected me." She said.

"Yeah, I did. I'm used to doing that." Lianne said.

Everyone watching was surprised to see Kitty suddenly throw her arms around Lianne in a hug. They were about the same height and age, so Lianne didn't see anything wrong in hugging her back, but the others were shocked that Kitty had let her.

"Thank you." Kitty said, smiling.

"You're welcome." Lianne said.

"Can I show you something?" Kitty asked, holding her hand out.

"Sure." Lianne agreed, taking Kitty's hand and letting the latter lead her away.

Kitty sat with Lianne in the living room, and showed her a sewn pattern that read: LIANNE.

"I was making it for you because I felt sorry for you having to be here." Kitty said softly. "It's not done yet, but do you like it so far?" she asked.

"It's beautiful, Kitty, thank you." Lianne said, hugging her.

Everyone winced, preparing for Kitty to hurt Lianne, but Kitty just hugged her back.

When Lianne headed upstairs, Rick blocked her way into her room.

"What's the deal?" Lianne asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Deal is…I want to talk to you about Kitty." Rick said.

"Okay…what's up?"

"Well…she barely lets anybody touch her, usually only me, and now you. So…don't take advantage of her, alright?" Rick said.

"I would never hurt her, or take advantage of her." Lianne promised. "She's one of the nicest ones here." She pointed out.

Rick shrugged. "Just letting you know, I'll be really mad if you do. Anyway, we're all going to the park to play football. You coming?"

"Sure." Lianne agreed. Everyone walked to the park and started playing football.

"Hey, do you guys think I could jump from that high tree to the slope?" Lianne asked.

"No way. Not without getting hurt." Sam said, frowning.

"Well, we'll see." Lianne said, taking everyone by surprise by making a dash towards the tree.

"Don't do it!" Rick shouted, and he ran after her.

Lianne was already up, though, and when Rick started climbing she jumped. She landed on the slope with ease and began rolling down.

Rick jumped down and he and the others ran down to the slope to see Lianne lying at the bottom, giggling.

Kitty giggled too, and she lay down, rolling down the hill to join her.

"Come on then, what are you guys waiting for!" Lianne shouted up, smiling.

It was a pretty big hill, but everyone lay down and rolled down to join her at the bottom.

"That was fun!" Kitty said, helping Lianne up.

"You're fun, Lianne." Tyler said.

"Yeah, you are." Olivia agreed, grinning.

"YOU KIDS GET BACK HOME NOW!" Dennis screamed from the top of the hill.

Laughing, all the kids ran back to Burnywood. They ate spaghetti Bolognese, cold because of the wait, but cooked and quite nice actually.

When Lianne went to bed that night, she was happy. However, she was awoken at around 5:00 AM by someone touching her shoulder.

"Lianne? Wake up." Kitty said softly.

"Kitty? What's wrong?" Lianne said, sitting up groggily.

"I, uh, I had a nightmare." Kitty admitted.

"Aww." Lianne said, giving Kitty a hug. "What about?"

"About my dad." Kitty admitted, closing the bedroom door and getting into the bed beside Lianne. "He always used to hit me, and…well, nobody ever stopped him. I dreamed that he tried to throw me into a fire…that's how my mum died, he pushed her into a fire."

"Don't worry, Kitty." Lianne said, curling up with her. "Nobody will let that happen here, I know that. You're safe."

The girls talked for at least half an hour, then they fell asleep together. This time, Kitty didn't have any nightmares.