1st chapter Removed from home without brothers and sister.

 When I got home mum was very quiet a little while later a family friend who worked as a councilor came round and asked me if i was telling the truth I why i did not come to her first and the police would not have to been involved they tried to get me to say that i was allowing boys to touch me and that and was not my dad then i could have my dad home and be a family again i felt intimidated by family friend Mrs nosey parker  I said nothing and went to bed early i went to school as normal with my brother but was called out of class and taken to head masters room were i was told that there was going to court case and my dad was arrested and not given bail my mum went to court but was told my dad was being remanded in custody until court case my mum had said she did not want me home and was being dealt with by social services i was then told i would be boarding at school until the court case and would be put into care and end of school i was given 2 black bin liners of my things that my mum had done and was shown the boarders area at school it was a Friday and most boarders went home at weekends and i would be the only one there one of the care staff at school who looked after the boarders took me ice skating on Saturday to make me feel better i have never felt so alone and feeling it was my fault at what had happened my brothers and sister would not talk to me i had no one i thought maybe i could say i made the whole thing up but deep down i was doing the right thing by Monday the boarders were back and the other girl that boarded during the week was Clair i shouted at her from the window as said i am a new boarder and she ran up the stairs so fast and we hugged each other i told her i had told about my dad touching me then came down stairs to start school at saw my best friend Rachel I told her I was boarding at school. In the evenings at school I hung around with clair and a few boys Clair and i had run away from school because we had gone to the shops without asking we only got as far as west wood we thought we had been walking for miles we were near a pub we used the toilets and the staff asked us were we were from we said a special  school called ? while we were sitting outside one of the teachers picked us up now we knew we would be punished we were told to put our pj's and slippers on and banned from wearing our normal clothes Clair got stopped from going home that weekend she was so upset so the next morning we ran away again in our pj's and slippers we did not get far this time a police car had stopped us not far from school we said we ran away cause Clair was banned for going to her parents home within a few days social workers came to see me at school to tell me they had found me a children s home to live to start with i would go a few stay one night a week until i got used to it after then i did not board again i was in st pauls children s home it was a nice place they looked after me payed me attention then another girl came to stay and when i saw her i knew her as Toni she had found her dad hanging at home and her mum could not look after her as she was a handful she had another sister who lived at home we got most of the time the biggest problem was we shared the same social worker called Soal and we would see who would have the longest time with our social worker and that had caused a lot of problems i think he was very new to the job  and we  were given separate social workers Toni would also go home sometimes something i could not do not long after being in children s home the court case had been set in Northampton for my dad as he had changed his mind and was pleading not guilty my best friend Rachel was going to have to go to court as well as me as i had told her about my dad before i spoke to school i was terrified of giving evidence in court with everyone watching me but at the last minute my dad pleaded guilty so neither Rachel or me would have to go into the court not sure how long he got but a few months later my mum was asked if she would have dad home if yes then myself and my younger brother and sister would need to go into care and my other brother who was a young younger could stay at home my mum chose my dad i think she needed my dad she could not function without him