This morning we are all lined up in the kitchen waiting to meet the new boy Harley, It's a little weird if you ask me but I didn't have any other choice. He finally arrived after we had been standing there for a good 20 minutes.

"Harley this is, Tee, Tee this is Harley." Mike introduced them, they shook hands and then Mike moved onto the next person. It was an extremely slow process given that there were 13 of us to get through. Tee, Carmen, Lily, Toby, Frank, Johnny, Harry, Elektra, Tyler, Rick, Jody, Gus, Me. 14 if you counted Geoff which Harry insisted that we did. Plus Tracy, Gina and Mike. When the introductions were finally finished I was asked to show Harley to his room which only angered Gus.

"This way." I mumbled leading him out of the kitchen and over to the stairs.

"So Teagen, how long have you been in care?" Harley asks as we reach the stairs.

"All my life. You?" I ask.

"Only a year. My parents were amazing, I had everything a kid could ever want until the died in a crash a year ago." he tells me.

"Oh I am so sorry."

I show Harley his room which he has to share with Toby.

"So where is your room then?" he asks which I think is a little weird but nonetheless I continue down the corridor to my own room.

"This is it."

"No fair how comes you get a room to yourself?" he questions with a little frown on his face.

"Just how it worked out." I reply bluntly.

"Maybe me and you could share instead. I bet it would be a lot more fun." He says with a wink that creeps me right out.

"Well we better get back to the others they will all be going crazy down there eating all the food and waiting anxiously to meet you properly." I lie before leading the way back down to the kitchen.

As we arrived the kitchen only had the eager few left in it which consisted of Carmen, Tee and Lily and then Harry and Gus.

"Let's do the tour of the house. You can't talk on the tour." Gus tells him.

"It's alright I already know where the best two rooms in the house are." He says nodding in my direction. I turn around ignore the weird vibes I am quiet clearly getting from this guy and find myself something to eat.

"I know Here, my room and your room and I wasn't talking about the kitchen." Harley whispers in my ear from behind causing me to jump and be freaked out at the same time.

I didn't even know this guy was he calling my room one of the two best places in the house?

Gus finally pulled him away for the tour which gave me a chance to breathe at last, I hadn't noticed but my heart rate grew quicker when I was around Harley and I wasn't sure why. In a bid to distract myself I went upstairs to my room only to find that it had once again been trashed but this time much worse.

As I started to pick up my things I noticed that the book I had picked up off the floor had been ripped right down the spine. A casualty that broke my heart but I started to inspect the rest of my books I noticed that everyone of them had some sort of damage, covers ripped off, pages ripped out, some had been scribbled on, some highlighted over, some folded, torn and ripped.

All my books were virtually unreadable anymore pages scattered over the floor. I tried to piece them back together but it was no use. I threw the book in my hand across the room and left my bedroom. Ran straight out of the house and down the garden until I reached the shed.

I sifted through the shed climbing over bikes and lawn appliances until I reached the back where a blanket was laid on the floor and one lonely book sat still in perfect condition, you see the shed had become a safe space for me somewhere I came when it was all too much no one knew where I was and I didn't know what I was going to do when spring came around everyone was in here again.

I pulled my knees up to my chest and cried and cried letting all the hurt come flowing out from the past few days. Suddenly there was a knock at the door, I made myself as small and still as possible but the knock only grew louder.

"I know you are in there I watched you come out here." I heard a small voice call.

"Go away." I shouted back.

Instead I heard the grumbles and moans of the girl trying to find her way towards me.

"I don't know how you do that. Are you ok?" Jody asked coming over and sitting next to me on the floor.

"No I am not now will you just get lost!" I said the fury escaping me.

She remained seated beside me. I looked up at her for a minute or two trying to work out what she was doing, what she wanted from me.

"What do you want?" I ask becoming frustrated at the girls presence.

"I want to know what's happened."

"It's nothing, I have just come out here for a bit if peace and quiet from you lot." I reply harshly.

"Except it is more than that, usually you are fine in your own little world with your books. So something must have happened for you to be out her all alone." She argues

"Ecept I have never been happy." I reply

"But --"

"It's called a fake smile hunny, I haven't been happy in a long time." I say before standing up and trying to walk away but she grabs my arm.

"I am just trying to help you."

"I don't need help, especially not from a little kid like you. I am not some charity case to make your boring life seem more eventful so just stay out of my way." I rant before pushing past her and going back to my room.