I decided it would be better if I went to ask dad about me going round to Karla's after school. It was better than a text like last time. I walked past Miss Campbell and she informed me, "Miss Mason is talking to your dad. I don't know what about though."

"Thanks Miss. I just want to ask my dad something." She then gave me a smile before I headed towards the office. That's when I heard it. I heard shouting. I then heard my name being mentioned so I knew I had to listen in.

"What do you think you're playing Max?" Rachel slammed the door behind her and started having a go at Max. This was one of the secrets that Rachel had been hiding for too long.

"What sorry?" Max acted as if he didn't have a clue what Rachel was talking about but he knew. Of course he knew. He had to know.

"We both know what you said to Kim was lies! It wasn't my fault that I had to give my own baby up was it! I had my little sister to support and my money was the only money coming in!" Rachel was shouting proper now. Even if anyone had just been passing by, they would have heard that information completely by accident.

"Oh come on Rachel. Which version of events is better really? The version I just gave Kim that meant no one would ask any further questions or the truth which would hurt Pandora?" Max was shouting nowhere near as loudly as Rachel, if at all. He was just trying to get her to stop before someone overheard even though it was already too late for that.

"That still doesn't give you the right to lie about me being the mother! We both know what happened. You made me give Pandora up so you could raise her. You just wanted a child, regardless whether it involved me or not! You didn't care Max!"

"Says you? If you cared you would have given the job up and found one with more decency!"

Pandora had heard enough. With tears falling down her face, she rushed to the toilets before anyone could stop her to ask what was wrong.

I went into the nearest girl's toilets, went into one of the cubicles and shut the door behind me before falling to my knees in shock. I just couldn't believe that my own father had kept a secret about who my mother was all this time. He said that she left when I was too young to remember but now I know that it's lies. All lies. I sat with my back against the wall with my head in my hands, trying to make sure that I didn't bring any attention to myself. I knew that I wasn't supposed to hear, to know, any of what had just been said but that didn't matter now. I realised that I was going to find out sooner or later.

'Come on Pandora, where are you?' Karla thought to herself as she sat by herself as she waited for her friend. She knew that she was supposed to be seeing her dad about her coming round to Karla's tonight. Pandora is never late for lesson once she gets to school. She always made sure that she was on time.

"Miss can I please go to the toilet?" I asked Miss Haydock who told her pupil to be quick. She, hastily, got out of the room and went to the heads' office to see if Mr Tyler was there. If anyone knew where Pandora could be, it was probably going to be him or Miss Mason.

As soon as she got to outside of the headteachers' office, she saw Miss Mason walk straight past her. That was odd.

"Sir have you seen Pandora?"

"Not since this morning. Why?"

"She said she was coming to ask you something but she hasn't turned up to lesson." Karla then noticed that Mr Tyler had a look of pure horror on his face. He rocketed out of his seat and caught up with Rachel before telling her what Karla had said.

"Right. Karla go back to lesson and we'll look for her." Miss Mason reassured the worried pupil.

Rachel had checked the Cooler and all of the outside of the building that was still on school grounds so there was only one place she could be. The toilets. The headteacher made her way to the toilets and entered to find something she should have seen coming. As soon as she entered, the first thing she heard was a girl crying and she knew straight away that it was Pandora.

"Pandora? Are you alright?"

"Leave me alone! I heard everything. I heard you and dad arguing and now I don't know what to do."

"Pandora listen to me. Your father is incredibly worried about you and only hid the truth because he knew it would hurt you."

Pandora tilted her head so it was facing away from the door. She wasn't ready to speak to Miss Mason yet but she knew that she would have to eventually. Or her dad would tell her. Pandora took a deep breath, opened the door and Rachel finally saw how distraught she was.

"Do you want to come in my office and then we'll talk some more? A drink of something might help too." Pandora nodded her head and walked with Miss Mason to her office. Pandora didn't know if she was lucky or not to not come across her dad when going back to her office. It was probably a bit of both.

Miss put a hand on my back as she opened the door to her office. She got me a glass of water and sat me down on the sofa before she started explaining everything. Today was the day I was finally going to get some answers.

Author's note: Two updates in less than 12 hours! That's quite good for me really! Anyways, thanks to StellaPriceFan, CSI Encyclopedia, grangehilllover, maddiejean95 and a guest user for reviewing the last chapter! Also thanks to everyone who has been reading too! I love you all :D

Danni x