I'm aware I may have caused some hperventilating with the last chapter, sorry!

To InsertNameHere - I am in fact, an idiot. I knew that, I'm just stupid XD so sorry! Glad you're enjoying it :D

Ramona blinked. Liam still had her hands in his, and she couldn't read his expression. He gave her a sort of half smile which made him look like he was expecting a slap. Ramona couldn't help grinning like an absolute idiot. He was perfect, in every single bloody way. He smiled back, and she started to lean forwards to kiss him back, when a hand wrenched her back. "What the hell are you doing O'Donovan? Get fucked, you little twat!" Jack grabbed Liam and punched him in the face, hard.

"Get off him!" Ramona screamed, and Angus shoved her down, skinning her knee. Frank ran to try and separate Liam and Jack, receiving a backfiring punch in the mouth. Ramona sprinted forward and jumped on Jack's back, pulling out hanks of hair. He yelled, and shook her off, and slapped her hard across the face. Ramona reached out to hit him back, but both Liam and Frank got there first. The other two boys joined in, and Ramona felt like screaming. So she did.

Frank, Liam and Ramona walked home in silence. Frank had a split lip, Liam was sporting a black eye, and Ramona's knee was badly grazed. "What's Gina gonna say about getting in a fight?" asked Frank.

"Dunno, but I won't be good." Liam winced. "You haven't got any make-up or something, 'Mona?"

"Nope. I've been using Sapphire's stuff."

"Fan-fucking-tastic."

"You had to say that you were my boyfriend."

"I was trying to help!"

"Cole's mates go to that school. You kissing me is going to reach him. Then we're both dead." Ramona and Liam exchanged a look. They hadn't spoken about the kiss until now.

They reached Elm Tree, and Frank sighed. "We have to go in."

"Face the Gina-dragon," said Liam, smiling. "If we pretend nothing's wrong, she might not notice..." Frank frowned. "It's worth a try!" said Ramona and nodded at Frank. He smiled, and opened the door. "Don't say a word," she hissed to them. They walked up the stairs as quietly as they could. Liam started a silent celebration as he reached the top of the stairs. "Hello." Tee and Harry stood behind him, and he jumped out of his skin at their voices. "Oh, it's just you." Tee had her arms folded, and her eyes narrowed. Harry was clutching onto Jeff, looking from Ramona, to Liam, to Frank, to Tee and back to Ramona. "Why do you all look messed up?" Tee asked, impatiently.

"Fell over," said Liam dismissively. "Right guys, lets-"

"No. I want to know." Tee stared hard at each of them, and Liam shrank back a little. "Alright, alright. Bit of a fight, nothing major, I promise," said Frank.

"Gina will kill you."

"Yes we've established that, thank you Tee," said Liam, sticking his tongue out at her. "Dinner is gonna be interesting."

"Look, don't say anything?" Ramona gave her her sweetest smile. "I'm not a grass. But you're all idiots."

"Cheers Tee," said Liam, laughing.

Sapphire wasn't in her room, and Ramona was thankful for that. Picking up the wash cloth she had taken from the bathroom, she dabbed it on her knee, taking sharp breaths when it stung. When most of the dirt and blood was gone, she changed out of her uniform. The tights had a large rip in them, and Ramona prayed Gina wouldn't find them. She changed into some of Sapphire's clothes, praising her mentally for not wearing skirts as a rule. She tipped out her rucksack, and sorted out her homework books. Being on the street for a year had pretty much wrecked any understanding of Algebra, and she decided to leave that till last. Art would be a doddle, and History could be left to the weekend. Ramona scrawled in her new Art Book pictures of her "family" she had to draw.

She started with the little ones. She did a doodle of Harry, a short kid with big eyes on the back of a giraffe, stretching to the top of the page. She wrote "Harry" underneath, and on looking at her giraffe, wrote "Jeff" beside it too. Carmen was a pink princess, with pretty dress and a pointed hat. She held hands with Lily, who had angel wings, and a halo. Tee and Johnny were surrounded by animals, sheep, dogs, cats, mice, and she drew Tee petting a dragon. Gus sat on a large musical scale, writing in a notebook. Toby was a superhero, fighting an evil nemesis. Ramona grinned, and moved onto the older ones. Sapphire was drawing on the "floor" of the page, and had huge headphones on that let out music notes in all different colours. Frank was throwing money into the air, and laughing. Mike and Tracy were running round the page, trying to sort everyone out, and Gina was yelling - a lot. "Me and Liam now.." Ramona muttered. She drew a girl in a ballerina dress, on pointe. She was next to Liam and he had her arm around her, kissing her on the cheek. "Honestly, you're a romantic sod Ramona," she muttered to herself, but she couldn't help grinning. "Art homework, complete!" She put the drawing in her bag, and decided to go and see how everyone else was.

"Bloody Art! Draw a picture of my family, who's that gonna be?" Ramona opened the door to see Liam and Frank with empty pieces of paper in front of them, scowling heavily. Ramona snorted, tapping her foot. "Oh dear. We seem to be in a bit of a pickle."

"I can't do art."

"Just draw everyone in the Dumping Ground, that's what I did."

"Let's see then!" She blanched. He couldn't see it, not with the doodle of the two! "No."

"Go on, don't be a bore."

"It's crap."

"Can't be worse than any of mine." Ramona cursed herself inwardly. "Okay." She made to shut the door after her, but found herself almost closing the door on Liam's foot. "Uh, what?"

"I wanna see the drawing."

"Then wait in Frank's room!"

"No."

"Jeez. Come on then," she said, and started walking to Sapphire's room. As she opened the door, Ramoma felt Liam's hand brush against hers, and flinched away, unused to it. He glanced up at her, confused. She smiled apologetically, and he smiled back.

Ramoma threw herself onto the bed, and tugged open the school bag. "It's in here somewhere..." Liam sat on Sapphire's bed, looking a bit uncomfortable. "What's the smell?"

Ramona grinned. "Saph burns joss sticks."

"Oh." She rifled through the bag and pulled out the drawing. "It's a bit daft." She moved over next to him, and handed it to him. Liam looked at it, grinning and said "Mike looks like he's having fun."

"That's his job, running around and making sure we're okay."

"In a nutshell." Liam looked up at her, unblinking. "Who's the bloke with you?" Ramona snorted.

"Don't play innocent O'Donovan, who else wears too-big hoodies and shoes like that?" He smirked.

"Well if I said me, you'd shoot me." Ramona smiled. "Why would I do that?"

"Cause you're with Cole."

"Liam." She stared straight at him. "I'm done with Cole. If you'd prefer I phoned him now and told him, I will. Or..." Ramona looked a little embarrassed. Liam took her hand, and leaned in, kissing her lightly on the cheek. He moved his lips to her ear, whispering "I don't care. Just... Promise me something."

"Anything."

"You don't love him?"

"Never." She felt his lips form a smile against her ear. "Then I don't think we have a problem, love."

She grinned, and turned her face towards his, simply staring at one another. Ramona closed her eyes, and felt Liam place his hands on her face, and lean in towards her again.

"Sapphi- oh!"

Both Liam and Ramona's eyes snapped open, and spun round to face the voice, leaping about a foot away from each other. Harry stood with Jeff, mouth wide open and hand on the door.

"That's it. I quit. Try and get one bloody kiss, and I'm interrupted. Again. Screw the human race. Maybe I'll get lucky and get reincarnated as a rock," muttered Liam. In the amount of time it took Ramona to get off the bed and make for the door, Harry had already left, and was shouting for Mike.

"Well, hell."

This is the last chapter I will update for a bit because *cries* I'm back to school! I wil update less frequently, but it will be updated! Love you all!

Shout out to Sky Smith, my first friendy on fanfiction. Awesome child.