Author's Note: Sorry for the late update guys…. Thanks for all of the reviews! Linneagb – yeah I've always called my mum/mom mam, so… yeah. Hope you enjoy! BTW, this is set when Lima was still at the dumping ground, so Tracy is still there too.

The dumping ground

I was a wreck. The day after the accident and there was no sign of mam, Rhyd or Gemma. I couldn't think about anything but Josh, and everything I did reminded me of him. I knew that Josh was a massive part of my life, but it already felt like I had never appreciated him. I needed to talk to someone, and once again my thoughts turned to Liam.

I had never actually seen Elm Tree House before. He had told me so much, but I had never even walked past. When I got there I thought about turning back, but I knew that Liam needed to know what was going on.

I walked down the drive and rang the doorbell. At once you could hear the hurry of movement inside. All of the stories that Liam had ever told me came flooding back and I was filled with a sort of happiness. All that did was make me feel guilty. I should be feeling constantly depressed because I would never see Josh again. The door was answered by a woman with braids in her hair.

She sounded foreign and I assumed that she must be Gina. I tried not to laugh. Liam had said some really rude things about her, and I kind of wanted to know if they were true or not. In the hallway I could see a man coming towards the door. He must have been Mike.

I told Gina that I wanted to see Liam, but she didn't seem too keen on letting me in. She asked me why I needed to see him at the house. I couldn't tell her what was going on. Why should I? I hadn't even told my best friend yet, and I wasn't going to lay out all of my problems to a complete stranger.

Luckily for me Mike stepped in and said that I was allowed to see Liam. He let me into the house and I walked into the entrance hall. I loved it. It was bigger than I imagined, but it seemed so cosy. I looked at the stairs and I saw about 10 people staring at me, one was Liam.

We went into the garden where they have these seats, where no one in the house can see you. I suddenly felt bad. I knew that Liam would be devastated when he heard about Josh, and I didn't want to ruin his day. Luckily, I've never had much of a guilty conscience. You can't when you hang around Liam. I told him everything.

By the time I had finished the story, I was crying again. Liam was staring at the ground in utter disbelief. Then he started crying. I had never seen Liam cry, and I certainly wasn't ready for it. I guess I didn't realize how much Josh meant to him. We sat there in silence for a minute until a girl with Black hair came out to the garden. I guessed that this was Tracy. She looked shocked when she saw us both crying, but she sat down with us and waited until we talked.

I spent the rest of the afternoon there, and I was invited to dinner, but I said that I had to get back. That was a complete lie, but I didn't want to go through the complications of telling them that I couldn't have dairy, and them having to make something else for me, so I decided to go. I loved the dumping ground. All of the adults were so caring, and even the other residents shut up about me and Liam when they saw how sad we were. I had always been worried about actually visiting the house, because I thought it might ruin my dream about it, and make me hate the idea of ever living there. It didn't. If anything it made me want to live there even more, but I knew that it was just a dream.

When I got back home, mam, Rhyd and Gemma still weren't back. As it happened, they were away for a week, and when they got home, they did the worst thing they could have done. They pretended it hadn't happened. They said that they would move on and never tell anyone that they had ever had a 3rd child.

That bothered me. Why would they start counting me as their child now, after 10 years of trying to convince themselves that I didn't exist? And I wasn't their child anyway; I was mam and dads. I knew that it was silly worrying about it, but it got to me for a few weeks. I was right to be suspicious though.

A few years before, mam and Rhyd had told Gemma and Josh that they weren't going to have any more children and they would stay as a family of four. So far they had stuck to that promise, and I didn't see any reason why they would want more children if they were unhappy with the ones that they had. (Or one of the ones they had)

But a few months after the Josh incident, I overheard them talking to Gemma. They were having another child, so that they could forget about Josh. That explained everything. They had meant the new baby as their other child, not me. I wanted to hate myself for being so stupid, but I only had enough hate for the two of them. They had loved Josh, they would have done anything for him, but now they were getting a replacement.

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