Didnt see it coming || Liam O'donovan

Chapter twelve

•Riley's POV
It's now nighttime and Liam and I came back from the arcade. We made a bet that whoever loses more games has to get slimed. Like as in get actual slime poured on them. And luckily for me I won by just one game of Lord of Vermilion IV so guess who's gonna get slimed. We're in the garden cause we don't want Gina to yell at us for dirtying the carpet and I got the bucket in my hand.
"Ready?" I smirk at him
"No" he groans
3..2..1... I splash half the bucket onto him and he literally looks like a green alien. I think I literally split my rib cage open from laughing. I fall to the floor as I try to catch my breath and before I know it I feel green and sticky. The little shit poured the rest of it onto me. I turn around and see him literally on the floor dying with laughter. I glare at him and slowly walk towards him then start chasing him. He runs into the house and I'm chasing after when we bump into Tracy.
"I'm not even going to ask" she says as she heads upstairs. Liam and I look at each other and both burst out laughing. The others come into the hallway to see what all the noise is and all burst out laughing when they see us covered in slime.
"Haha very funny" Liam rolls his eyes
"Let's go cleaned up before Gina comes after our blood" I say and he nods as I head to shower in the girls bathroom and he heads to the boys bathroom.

I'm drying my hair with a towel as I walk out the bathroom and I bump into Frank
"Got all the slime out then?" He sniggers
"No i used slime as shampoo and shower gel" I roll my eyes
"How was fishing with your granddad"I ask
"Amazing we caught a ton of fish and he gave me his watch" he grins
"That's awesome Frank" I smile at him before heading into my room. I completely dry myself up and put on my dressing gown before getting in bed and opening my phone. The first thing I see is a text from Carmen and I see it's a picture of me and Liam covered in slime. Sweet. I turn my phone off and immediately fall asleep seeing as I woke up at 5:30 this morning.

Next morning and even though I slept for 12 hours last night I still feel exhausted. I head downstairs for breakfast and I didn't even bother getting dressed and sit down and start eating.
"Wow don't you look wide awake" Tracy says sarcastically
"Very" I respond dryly
"What are you planning on doing today" she asks
"Either sleeping or watching movies I have no motivation for anything else" I answer
"You could help me and Nina with our den" Harry pipes in
"Sure" I respond sarcastically getting back to my eggs.
The day goes by and I'm literally just in bed either taking naps or watching movies or reading a book.I'm taking a nap when I feel someone shaking me awake. I open my eyes and see
"Toby?! What are you doing here?" I ask totally bewildered
"Oh it's nice to see you too" he grins "Gina told me to wake you up to help her with dinner" I groan as I get out of bed and head downstairs with Toby. Apparently it just didn't work out with his foster parents so he's back here. I head into the kitchen and see Lily and Johnny helping out with the drinks and Gina tells me to get started on the salad. I'm chopping the tomatoes when suddenly Nina and Harry run in and as they run past me they accidentally push me and the knife misses the tomatoes and hits my finger instead. Ugh crap. I head upstairs to go to the bathroom to clean the cut and put a plaster on it when I bump into Liam. He spots my bloody finger and he immediately tenses up "did you-"
"No was making salad and i just accidentally cut my finger instead of a tomato" I assure him and he relaxes.
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•Liam's POV
I relax when she tells me she just accidentally cut it when helping with dinner. I'm still in shock at the fact that she tried to commit suicide. So you can imagine that after finding out someone's attempted before, seeing them bloody you immediately get worried, even if they're a complete stranger. I head into the kitchen and Gina tells me to take over from Riley's salad position. I groan as I get chopping.
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•Riley's POV
Once I put the plaster on I go back down to the kitchen and we all start eating dinner. Tracy comes in and gives Carmen a letter that came for her in the mail. We're all eating peacefully when Carmen suddenly screams "IVE WON £400 WORTH OF MAKEUP"
"How come?" Johnny asks
"I saw a leaflet that said if you pay £5 you're entered into a giveaway for £400 worth of makeup and I've won" she says proudly
Liam looks over at her letter and reads it before looking up and saying "Carmen you idiot they've scammed you"
"W-what?"
I take the letter from Liam and give it a read too before saying "this isn't even from a real brand you can tell the logos fake and they've hit a fake phone number under it which I recognize as one of those joke numbers that'll tell you to eat poo or something like that once you call it"
"Ughh I lost my £5 for nothing" Carmen moans
"Should have used your money a bit more carefully" Mike answers
"How did you two tell it's a fake?" Toby asks
"Experience" Liam winks
"What about you" Toby asks me
"Well that and the fact that some things are just obvious" I simply respond.

Days over and as I fall asleep I had a dream where I was cuddled up asleep in some clouds all warm and cozy while down below me my parents got pooped on my some parrots. Some dreams are amazing.

The next day I head down into the living room highly bored. Tracy's took Nina and Harry to the park,Lily went back home to cams last night with Tracy and hasn't come today,Carmen and tee are doing whatever,toby's busy with his comics, Gus is busy with piano practice,sapphire's been busy packing up for when she moves out,Liam and frank have gone out,so I'm just watching some telly when Gina comes in and hands me a letter and says it came in for me. That's weird I never get mail. I don't even have anyone to get mail from. I open up and see a handwritten letter saying
"You can't hide forever"
The heck? It's probably just a prank letter from Liam or frank or Toby or something. I ignore it and stuff it in my pocket and decide to practice some archery since I haven't in a while. I'm out there for god knows how long but by the time Tracy comes and tells me she needs everyone in the living room it's slightly dark. I head inside and see everyone sat down and go sit down and wait for them to tell us whatever they're gonna tell us.
"Right listen up you horrible lot. We have been entered in a Carehome of the year competition" Mike announces. "There are a couple rounds of this contest and it's in 2 weeks."
"What are the rounds?" Johnny asks
"The first one is a sack race. The second round is music round where up to 5 kids can get together and come up with a performance. The third round is the archery round. The fourth round is the brainy round where you simply have to sit down and answer some facts. And the last round is an anonymous team work round. They haven't told us what you lot have to do in this last round the only thing we know is that you all have to get together and do it as a team."
I roll my eyes really not in the mood for some game and seems like Liam is thinking what I'm thinking cause he says "what's the point? It's just a lame contest"
"A lame contest that's going to get us a holiday in Milan" Mike grins. WOAH NO WAY. Everyone gets all excited when Tracy calls over and says
"Now who's gonna be in which category"
"Well we all already know who's gonna be in archery" tee says and they all look over at me.
"Are you up for the job?" Mike asks and I nod.
"What about the sack race?" Gina asks
"We're up for it" Johnny and Toby say
"And we already have 3 musicians ready for the music round" Tracy smiles and all eyes fall on me,Gus and Liam.
"Are you guys willing to do it?" Gina asks
Me and Liam both nod but Gus says
"I'd rather just do the brainy round"
"Well that's perfectly okay. Riley,Liam are you two okay with working as a duo?" Mike questions
We both nod and Mike dismisses us. I get up to go to my room but Tracy calls "Liam! Riley! Can you both come here a moment." We head over and she says
"Listen every year all the other teams just play some boring old tune with a piano for the music round. I want you two to come up with something unique. You both play the guitar which is awesome but if one of you could also sing,that'll really make us standout" and walks off and me and Liam stare at each other. Singing? Yeah I definitely don't have the confidence for that. Liam seems to be thinking the same thing. We decide to just think of a song to play for now and we'll worry about that later.

A/N: thank you so much for over 225 reads I wasn't even expecting 5 :(💚