A/N: thanks to everyone who reviewed and helped me get 51 reviews *SOO HAPPY*
Chappie 9 is here!
Charlotte Merryweather is TotalNerdyFanGirl's awesome character.
Emma Riley is JAMBERLOVERFOREVER's cool character.
Zaylie is Wall With A Fez's amazing character( I know I keep saying this, but I promise it's true this time. She will be in the NEXT chapter, I'm soo sorry I keep saying that, I'm just finding it hard to squeeze her in at the right time! )
The bit which is in Gus's P.O.V. isn't like Gus at all, I find him really hard to write and I fail at writing him :( Sooo, please don't judge me by that!
Special thanks to Meggie my bestie for reviewing every chapter and George my boyfriend for doing the same! Thanks guys!
Enjoyyyyyyyyyy (Hopefully)...
Love At First Sight, Or Second...
Mina's P.O.V.
I had just finished introducing everyone to Charlotte and Emma, when Gus told them it was time for their tour. They both opened their mouths to say something, but I shook my head at them and they closed them again,
"Just go with it," I whispered in Charlotte's ear, I think Emma heard too because she nodded and got up. Charlotte followed suit and they both left the table, following Gus and his note book.
Gus's P.O.V.
Charlotte and Emma got up and followed me out of the kitchen. I was taking them on my very own tour of The Dumping Ground, something that I give to every new person who arrives here. But, for the tour to work I need everyone else who is not on the tour to go to their own rooms and wait until my tour has finished.
"I need every one to go to their own rooms, I am about to give Charlotte and Emma their tour of Elm Tree House," I announced loudly, making sure everyone could hear me. "That includes you Mike, and you, Gina, or the tour won't work!"
Everyone hurried off to their own separate rooms, except from Lily and Carmen, of course, because they share rooms. So do Mina and Emma, and Charlotte and Tee, but Charlotte and Emma are on the tour so hopefully, they wouldn't be a problem. As long as they don't write in my note book or talk to anyone while they are on the tour or walk away or not listen during the tour, everything should be okay.
So, I took them on my tour, starting with Carmen's and Lily's room since that is the closest room to the kitchen.
"This is Carmen and Lily's room, they both live at the Dumping Ground. Carmen is twelve years old and loves the colour pink. Her best friends are Lily and Tee. Carmen is in care because her mum didn't look after her properly, she once left Carmen on her own for a whole week just so that she could go on holiday with her boyfriend. Carmen's mum once turned up here saying that she had changed and offering Carmen a chance to go and live with her in Spain. Carmen took up the offer but then it turned out that Carmen's mum was lying and Carmen did not want to go and live with her anymore."
I started off telling them about Carmen; why she was here, what sort of things she likes and her friends. Then I went on to Lily.
"Lily is twelve years old too. Her favourite colour is purple. Lily loves wearing purple and being with her sisters Rosie and Poppy who are fostered at the moment. Lily is in care because her mum died when she was little and her dad started drinking. Lily's best friends are Tee and Carmen"
I finished telling Emma and Charlotte about Lily and Carmen and moved on, I went all around the house so the only two I had left to tell them about was Tee and Toby.
"This is Tee's room, Tee is also twelve years old. Her favourite colour is blue. Tee loves sowing and all kinds of different animals, once she bought a sheep called Baaronicka Bellony Bi - bibulus Sapphy - bum The First to try and distract Lily from being upset when her sisters got fostered without her. Tee's best friends are Lily and Carmen"
Everything was going well and we only had Toby's room left to go, no - one had talked, no - one had written in my note book, and they had both listened carefully to what I had been saying.
Charlotte's P.O.V.
I was getting pretty tired of this 'tour' by the time we reached Toby's room, thankfully the last one. I thought back, was Toby that good looking blonde boy who had a definite Scottish accent when he introduced himself to me? Gus finished telling us about how Toby's parents had died in a car crash and he opened the door to show us Toby's room. Toby was laying on the bed reading a comic. He was the good looking blonde boy with the Scottish accent!
"I have finished my tour, you may talk." Said Gus loudly in my ear, causing me to jump about a mile in the air in surprise. He turned and walked out of the room, leaving Emma and I alone with Toby.
"Hi, you're Emma and you're Charlotte, right?" He asked, pointing at us the wrong way around.
"No," I giggled a high - pitched laugh which wasn't mine. "I'm Emma and she's Charlotte," I said, getting mixed up,"Wait, no," I did that weird high - pitched girly giggle again that I don't know. Why was I going all funny? I got a strange feeling in my tummy each and every time I looked into Toby's deep, ever lasting eyes ... "I'm Charlotte and she's Emma," I giggled yet again and saw Emma give me a strange look.
"Okay, you're Emma and you're Charlotte, am I right this time?" He pointed at us correctly and I gave another laugh and a quick nod of my head before continuing randomly.
"Yes, you're right, you always are. That's because you are called Toby, you know everything," I rambled on about how people with the name of Toby knew loads of things and he looked a bit perplexed.
Shut up, shut up. A little voice said from inside my confused brain.
Why had I gone so strange around him?
Because you're hopelessly in love with him.
How and why was I in love with him already?
It's because he's so devilishly handsome, that's why.
I'd blown my chances of him ever liking me now though, I was acting like an insane person, he probably thought I was insane.
"Bye Toby, bye Charlotte, I'm just going downstairs, see you later maybe?" Emma disappeared out of the door and closed it swiftly behind her, but not before she gave me a sly grin that told me just how plainly obvious I was. Was I ever going to be any good around boys?
No.
Thanks a lot.
My pleasure. By the way, you really should stop having conversations in your head, you do know it's a bit weird!
"So you're Charlotte?" I think he was still a bit confused about who was who.
"Yeah..." I replied, trying not to look into his eyes as I talked. I knew my face was going a bright, tomato red and I tried to keep my face down, so hopefully Toby wouldn't notice.
"Cool, nice name,"
"Thanks," I muttered and did my weird giggle again, making my face flush and even darker, deeper red than before. Just then, I heard Gina call me down, who could not hear Gina?
"CHARLOTTE! MINA! EMMA! Could you please all come down to the office, we need to talk to you all, yeah?"
I ran down the stairs two at a time and bumped into Mina and Emma at the bottom, Mina having come from upstairs and Emma having just come out of the living room, suspiciously, Liam was the only other one in there at the time.
All three of us walked into the office, side by side, wondering about why they wanted to talk to us.
When we got into the office, Gina and Mike were already there, eying us carefully.
"Sit down," Mike said, indicating three seats on the other side of the desk. We sat down. "Gina and I have been thinking about your schools. All three of you will have to move schools to the same high school that all the other kids here go to. One, because you all go to different schools so it would be confusing and hard to take you to them, and two because your present schools are too far away for you to keep going to, is that okay?"
I was glad I was moving schools, away from my old, horrible school, away from my bitchy friends who turned away from me the moment they had found out that my dad was a druggie and was in prison. They probably believed and thought I was a druggie too, thanks to some very nasty rumors that had spread around about me.
"The school is called Mountveille High and it is a very good school. As you probably know, Mina and Charlotte are both thirteen so they will both be in year eight with Lily,( Lily is moving in with her dad tomorrow so she won't be here for much longer, but she will stay at the same school) Johnny, Daniel and Toby. Emma, you will be in year nine, obviously, with Zaylie Frank and Liam," Gina carried on for Mike.
"Wait, Gina, who are Daniel and Zaylie?" I was thinking the same thing but Emma got there before me.
"Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you, there is another three kids moving in," Mike answered hurriedly.
"Three?" I asked, counting on my fingers, "That means seventeen kids!"
"Yes, but Sapphire is moving out the day before they come and Harry is going to live with her. (Read the A/N at the end) As I said before, Lily is going to live with her dad and that means there will be fourteen kids again,"
"Oh, okay,"
"Just to clear things up about everyone's age's, Carmen, Gus and Tee are twelve and so is Cherry, one of the new girls that will be arriving at the end of next week. You, Mina, Charlotte, Johnny, Toby and one other new boy called Daniel are thirteen. Emma, Liam, Frank and the last new girl, Zaylie are all fourteen. And Elektra is fifteen, meaning Gus, Cherry and Tee are in year seven at Mountveille High, Carmen, Mina, Charlotte, Johnny, Toby and Daniel are in year eight, Emma, Liam, Frank and Zaylie are in year nine, and last but definitely not least, Elektra is in year Ten," Mike finished, leaving my head spinning with numbers, "Do you all understand?"
"Yep," I said, popping the 'p'. Mina, who had been quiet for a while then spoke up and said,
"When will we start at Mountveille High?" She asked , I had been wondering that too.
"Next Monday, they have your school reports from last year and so they know roughly what level you are at and you have been setted according to your reports,"
"Okay, can we go now?" Emma was restless to go, probably so she could go see Liam again! Mike sighed but said we could and we all rushed off to go and tell the others.
Mina's P.O.V.
"So your going to be in the year above me and the same year as Carmen?" Tee was asking me dishearteningly.
"Yeah," I answered apologetically.
"Well, technically, you could be in the same year as Tee if you get put back a year because you can't do the work and find it really hard, that's what they did to my friend, Amy, she couldn't keep up with any of the work so they had to put her back a year," Carmen argued back pessimistically.
"Oh yeah, I know Amy, and no offense or anything Mina, but I really hope you do get put back a year because then you'll be in the same year as me!"
"Oh thanks Tee! Nice to know you want me to do well in school!" I said, joking sarcasm.
"No, Mina I didn't mean it like that! I just meant that I wanted you to be in the same year as me! Tee said hurriedly, not getting that I was joking. I laughed at her face and told her I was joking, when she found that out she started laughing too, and so did Carmen.
I wasn't really looking forward to school next week, I had to go and get uniform with Emma, Charlotte and Tracy on Saterday and then ... The dreaded school! I hoped it would be better than my last school, but then again, almost anything would be better than my last school.
Almost.
A/N I know the ages are completely different to TBR but that's how old I needed them to be :L And I know the thing about Harry moving in with Sapph couldn't happen I just needed to get rid of some characters so I could bring in new ones! Also I need to know if any of you think it matters if I have lodes of kids because *SPOILER ALERT* Rick and Tyler will come in at some point and I'm not sure wether I need to get rid of more Characters or not, PLEASE TELL ME.