Seven

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Cassie, Tee, Carmen, Jody, Harry, Rick, Tyler and Oscar were standing in the kitchen with Alana.

"Listen Alana, it doesn't matter what Elektra says about you. She's always spreading rumours about us. Nobody listens anymore," Carmen said.

Jody, who was eating a biscuit, "Yeah, Elektra's just mean. She locked me in a toy cupboard when I first got here, so you are already doing better than me."

"we get it, you know. We understand it's hard to not have parents. Look at Harry, he doesn't have any yet he's fine," Tee added.

"Exactly and me and Rick know you can be nice when you want to be. Take that valentine's ball thing at Burnywood. You took me, willing, and you were nice all night," Tyler commented. Rick nodded in agreement while Oscar looked at his sister in a new light. He'd never seen her in a dress or going to a valentine's ball with anyone. It just wasn't Alana's style.

"Jeff likes you Alana. He likes you a lot," Harry told her. Alana smiled.

"Alright I get the picture. Elektra's mean and you lot want to get to know me. I get that. But how can I when she's here and she'll constantly tease me and then I'll lose my temper and I'll get kicked out," Alana said worriedly. She ruffled Harry's hair. "But I've got a plan to get my own back, which I doubt will get me thrown out." Oscar raised his eyebrows at his sister.

Alana smiled walked out the kitchen and up to her room. The others all just watched her go. "Anyone want to play football?" Tee asked. Everyone nodded and followed her out.

Oscar ran up to Jamie. "Are you alright?" he asked. Jamie hadn't said anything in a while and Oscar was worried that Alana had upset him somehow.

"I'm fine," Jamie replied raising his eyebrows suspiciously. The scar on his eyebrow creased slightly. Oscar smiled.

"I was just wondering. You haven't said much," Oscar told him. Jamie shrugged. "How did you get that scar?"

"Long story. Fell off a sofa when I was younger and hit my head on a coffee table," Jamie replied. He noticed a mark on Oscar's neck. "How did you get yours?"

Oscar's hand instinctively went to his neck. "dad, had a knife in his hand one day and I did something wrong and mum sent me to tell him, so I did. He spun round and accidently sliced me on my neck. It's alright though, it's a constant reminder of the fact that me and Alana are better off in care. Away from the violence of mum, and from her depression over dad."

Jamie looked at the new boy curiously. "And I thought my life had been bad. Yours is worse." Oscar encouraged him to go on. He noticed the others had started without them but he also noticed that Rick was miming at him to keep talking to Jamie. He made a mental note to ask why. "Mum died when I was three. Much like your mum was, my father got abusive towards me and my sister. Dad got jailed for assault, a little like your sister. Me and Ailsa, that's my sister, got sent into care. I was five, she was eleven. Since then I've been in several care homes in Scotland, where I'm from, and England. I just keep getting shoved round the country. My sister lives in Glasgow now though and I miss her. I want to see her but I can't." Jamie told him.

Oscar sat down on the grassy bank. "I don't know what I'd do if Alana was hundreds of miles away. The furthest apart we've been is one in London and the other in Kent. Not far at all. Your story, sounds so much like ours. It must be so common having abusive parents." Oscar glanced across the garden, his eyes focusing on each person. Tee, Harry, Jody, Carmen, Rick, Tyler and Cassie. So many stories but how many of them include abusive parents. Oscar doubted he would ever know.

Meanwhile Alana was searching through her suitcase and had finally found what she was looking for. Pink clip in hair extensions. Her plan was to sneak into Elektra's room that night and replace the blue extensions with the pink ones. Elektra would think that they had been dyed a different colour and Alana would return the blue ones and get her pink ones back. Elektra wouldn't know what had happened.