Hello welcome to chapter 3

I have decided to write the rest of this story in 1st person, the majority of it will be written from Immy's point of view but I will probably write a few chapters from someone else's.

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For anyone who is wondering, Faith won't be in this series because I find her annoying and she is a Mary Sue. Gus has been fostered at this point but he will come back for a few chapters. Mo will join this story at some point.

Anyway on with the story.

I looked round the room, it was nice enough. At home my room was a dump, water from the flat above trickled down the walls and there was mould growing on the ceiling, the room always smelt damp and the room was tiny, in a past life I think my room was a cupboard. I heard a car drive up the path, I walked over to the window and stared out. Out of the car there was a boy with short dark brown hair, he was wearing a dark blue polo shirt and cream chinos. In one hand he clutched a white statue and in the other a notebook. I ran down the stairs.

"What's going on?" I asked Tee.

"It's just Gus, he moved out about a month ago. His foster parents have some important meeting in New York and there is no one to look after him so he will be staying here for about two weeks," Tee told me.

"Gus is the most annoying boy ever," a girl who I think was called Jody told me.

"Yes Gus nearly killed us all," Elektra said,

"What?!"

"Basically when Mike was on holiday, Johnny found a box of grenades, Harry took the pin out of one. Faith panicked and chucked it outside and Gina was caught in the explosion. Gina got taken to hospital, there was a bomb disposal unit who thought Faith was the social worker. Then we turned away the emergency social worker so we had the place to ourselves," Rick told me.

"Sounds great," I said,

"it was, till it became too much for Gus," Johnny told me,

"then he pulled a grenade out and threatened to throw it and he did," he continued.

"If the grenade had exploded we would all be dead," Elektra told me.

"Right..." I said.

I got bored after that so went to explore, meeting more people who lived here on the way round. I met Tyler who was pouring washing up liquid into the toilet system.

Floss, a girl about a year younger than Fortiter, who was carrying a giraffe that looked a lot like Jeff around.

Frank, a sixteen year old who had only just come back from his job at his girlfriend's cafe.

I carried on walking when I was ambushed by Gus, "my name is Gus Carmichael and you are late for my tour," he told me sternly.

It turns out there was this tradition at the Dumping Ground where the new people would be taken on a "Gus tour" on their first day, so consequently I found myself on a tour with Fortiter, Verus and Beta.

When he got to Carmen's room and pointed at the ceiling, "that's where I fell through the ceiling," he told us.

"You fell through the ceiling," Fortiter exclaimed.

"No talking on the tour," he told us.

It turns out that Tee had fallen out of a tree, Gus through the ceiling, Carmen nearly fell off a bridge on a day out and Lily, a girl who came about once a week for respite care, fell off the roof.

"She fell off the roof!"

"Yes she did, and I got sent to Burnyhell," Carmen told us,

"where he," she said, pointing at Tyler.

"Stole all my stuff and the other kids beat me up when I asked for it back."

"Woah," Beta said, slightly impressed with her new room mate.

"Then when I came here Carmen and Elektra set fire to me and Rick's stuff," Tyler said.

"He deserved it, I lost everything," Carmen told me.

"But you did get new things," Johnny reminded her.

"Details, details."

Then Gus appeared again wanting to question us, "good luck," Johnny said indicating towards Gus. "You first," he said pointing at Fortiter, who looked a little scared and went and sat down in front of the questioner.

"Name?"

"Fortiter Odissey,"

"Age?"

"8"

After the first few questions I switched off, and the nightmares that haunt me during the day began.

I don't know where I am, it's a dark alleyway somewhere. I can see the city lights, I can see the man. I don't know what is going on all I can feel is my body being forced up against a wall and...

"IMITARI!" Verus shouted.

I looked up at her, "we've all had our questioning, it's your turn," Beta added.

"They won't tell me why you are all in care, they said you would say," Gus said. I sat down, annoyed, they always leave the hardest stuff to me.

"Name?"

"Imiari Odissey,"

"Age?"

"14,"

"Birthday?"

"23rd Novermber,"

"Favourite colour,"

"I like lots of colours, Blue. Sky blue."

The blue sky... freedom

"Yellow. Bright yellow."

Sunshine, a new day, chasing away the horrors of the night.

"White."

Innocence, naivety, things I once was.

"Colours you don't like?"

"Black,"

Darkness, night, horror

"Pink"

Blaring disco lights, rose tinted goggles that hid the truth, fake love

"Red,"

Pain, blood, lust...

heart break.