Didnt see it coming || Liam O'donovan

Chapter thirteen

•Riley's POV
We spent an hour looking through songs and settled on (Drag me Down by one direction)

(PS I know Tracy beaker returns is set in 2010/2011 and drag me down came out in 2015 just bear with it ahah)

We're now in Liam's room and are just tuning our guitars to suit the song. We look at some videos online of the past care homes that have competed in the music round and see that Tracy was right,if we sing and have different tunes playing we'll really stand out. We settle on Liam singing Harry styles and Liam Payne's parts,and I sing Niall horan and Louis tomlinson's parts. When we finally learn how to play the full song on our guitars,we decide to try singing with it for the first time. It's Liam's turn first. We start playing and he takes a breath before singing.
I've got a fire for a heart I'm not scared of the dark you've never seen it look so easy,I got a river for a soul,and baby you're a boat,baby you're my only reason

I'm in shock. His voice is heavenly WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE GUY WHOS SPECIALITY IS SCAMMING AND DOESNT REALLY GIVE A RATS FART ABOUT ANYTHING COULD SING LIKE THAT
Oh shit it's my turn

If I didn't have you there would be nothing left,the shell of a man who could never be his best,If I didn't have you I'd never see the sun,you taught me how to be someone

•Liam's POV
I have never,and I repeat never heard someone sing like that. Literally who would have thought the girl that's as overprotective of her sister as a mother is, keeps everything in,manages to keep Johnny off by archery,is a pro at scams,could sing like that. Our voices compliment each other's perfectly. We've got this in the bag.

•Riley's POV
Our first ever practice is over and it went perfectly. We managed to pick a song,learn it on our guitars,sing with it,all in two and a half hours.We repeated it a few more times and made some adjustments and completely lost track of the time so it was a surprise when Tracy came and called us down for dinner. We sat down and Sapphire asked us
"How's practice going"
"Amazing" Liam replied with a bite of his sandwich.
"Although" I begin and Liam gives me a nod.
"We could really use with someone playing the keyboard with us" I say with a look at Gus and all eyes fall on him.
"I've already said I'd rather just focus on the brainy contest" he responds
"Listen Gus me and Ri are doing most of it we just need a little tune from you and your keyboard. The songs really easy and it won't take any time away from you studying for the other competition."
"I play the piano not the keyboard" he corrects
"Same thing just smaller and sounds a bit different" I correct. We all look at him hopefully waiting for an answer and he finally nods. We all cheer and Liam gives me a high five. We really have got this in the bag. "What about you two how's it going practicing jumping in a potato sack" I ask Johnny and Toby and everyone laughs.
"How does that need any practice" Johnny sulks
"You need to learn how to jump with ur feet not even an inch apart while it's stuck in a sack along with the whole lower part of your body and you need to learn how to balance along with it." Mike answers
"It shouldn't be that hard it doesn't need practice" Toby exclaims
"It does if we wanna win that holiday" sapphire glares at them and thankfully In fear of getting murdered by sapphire they agree.
"What song have you two chosen" Mike asks Liam and I
"We're keeping that a surprise for the day of the competition" Liam states with a grin
We finish dinner and Liam and I wanna get back to practicing but Gus says his schedule says that right now he needs to study until 8pm so we just decide to practice tomorrow so Liam's hanging with Frank and I'm spending some time with Nina. Half an hour later Gina comes in and gives me a letter addressed to Nina. This is weird who would write to a two year old. I open it and it says

"Enjoy it while you can. I'm getting you back sooner or later."

And then it clicks. I run upstairs and get out the other letter that came for me the other day. They're both in the same handwriting. Her handwriting. How do they even know what carehome we're in? Screw it what can they do as if they're even allowed to step foot into this place.