Three

A/N: Jamie shares a room with Tyler for your information.

Alana was sat with her brother in the living room. She'd only just come down and had so far met no-one else except Tee and her brother's new friend Rick. Alana had met Rick before when they had lived in Burnywood together. During her stay there she had terrorised Kitty and some of the other girls and got into so many fights, she and Rick had both lost count. Rick disliked Alana after she had teased Kitty but she had never hurt him and had apologised to Tyler before she left so he was prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt. Just then a Hispanic girl came in closely followed by a tall girl with blonde hair, a small boy with a giraffe, a boy with ginger hair and a scar, a boy with jet black hair and a notebook, another girl with blue hair extensions in, a short girl with very long hair, a boy with cerebral palsy and finally a boy that looked suspiciously like Tee who was arguing with another boy.

"Hi, I'm Carmen," the Hispanic girl said. "This is Lily, Harry, Jamie, Gus, Elektra, Jody, Frank, Johnny and Tyler." She said indicating each person as she spoke.

"I need to know your names," Gus said holding his book open with a pen ready.

"I'm Oscar James Winters," Oscar said smiling at the boy.

Alana just glared at him. "Why? I don't know who you are. You are freaky." Alana said. Everyone took a sharp intake of breath.

"Because I have to know. If I don't it will ruin my routine and then I can't do anything else," Gus said starting to get a little worked up.

"He has Asperger's syndrome. Please just tell him," Lily pleaded. Alana looked at her.

"You don't even live here. Why should I listen to you?" Alana demanded before storming out.

Oscar took a deep breath. "Sorry Lily. I apologise for my sisters behaviour. Her full name is Alana Sophiena Winters. She doesn't usually react like that."

Rick and Tyler both snorted. "Actually she does," Rick said angrily. "She's mean and stroppy at least that's all I remember of her from when I was with her in Burnywood." Tyler was nodding his head. Carmen and the others all backed off from Oscar, leaving him on his own with just Tyler, Rick and Tee by him. "Give the guy a break. His sister is demented not him."

Oscar glared at him. "She's not demented and it's not her fault."

"Why is she like it then?"Gus asked ready to take notes. Oscar sat back down on the sofa and got ready to explain.

You have to realise we've been in care for five years now. Alana was seven and I was ten when we got sent in to care. We never had a good upbringing. Dad was part of the Army so we were brought up in a really strict, severe manner. We weren't allowed to play, if we did something wrong we got shouted at, dad used to beat us if we were really bad like the army did to him. Dad was alright when I was younger until I turned about six. Then he started acting more severe from then. Alana was three at the time so all she remembers is dad beating us up and mum letting it happen. When she was almost six dad died in Afghanistan. Mum got depressed and violent, mainly against Alana, who was missing dad and got more angry more often. Mum eventually gave up completely and called social services and told them she didn't want us and we got taken away. Alana being under ten got sent to Rainbow care while I went to Stella House, which was for ten and older. While there she go bullied and in the end she couldn't stand it, she snapped and seriously hurt a girl. She then got moved through another nine care homes, where she bullied the kids and ended up hurting them or the careworkers just didn't want her. Her eleventh one was Burnywood. Where I assume she must of met Rick and Tyler from the way Rick and Alana are ignoring each other. When she was there she got worse apparently and ended up beating up a small boy her age from Burnywood in a forest and left him there unconscious. She ended up being moved to Stella House and then we both got moved here but that was my fault.

When Oscar had started explaining about Alana at Burnywood and the boy she beat up, Tyler started fidgeting and feeling awkward. He was that child that Alana had beaten up. Carmen noticed this.

"Oh my God Tyler. You're that kid. She can't stay here not with Tyler around. Do you not think she would finish what she started," Carmen exclaimed. Everyone glanced at Tyler, then at Carmen, then Oscar and then glanced up at the ceiling towards where they knew Alana was sitting. They raised their eyebrows up at Oscar.

"I don't think she will," Oscar said. Tee sat down heavily next to him.

"she's sharing a room with me," Tee said worriedly.