"Britney, just leave it." Staff nurse Andrews said as she walked into the ED with one of her sisters kids that she had taken over. Britney had been suspended from her school.
"But I want to do my homework!" She moaned, wanting her laptop back that Linda took away.
"I know for sure that you only want your lapto to talk to your friends through internet chat rooms." Linda said.
"No I dont! I need to do homework." Britney said.
"Do it the old fashioned way then. A pen and paper." Linda said, putting Britneys laptop in her locker.
"You're the worst." Britney said, sitting down at the table and getting her phone out.
"I only want you to do well in school." The nurse replied. "Msn won't help you."
"I told you! I wasn't going to use chat!" Britney said.
"Give me one good reason why I should believe you." Linda said to Britney. "You slapped me round the face yesterday."
"Whats that got to do with this?" Britney asked.
"I don't know if I should trust you or not." Linda shook her head.
"Look." Britney said. "Give me my laptop, and I will do my homework. I will show you at the end of the day if you don't believe me."
"One chance." Linda said, pulling out the laptop. "If I find out you were lying, then I know where I stand."
"Whats the wifi code?" Britney asked.
"You don't need internet to type up." Linda said.
"But-"
"No buts. All you need is WordPad on there, you don't need the internet to type."
"Fine." Britney said, sulking.
"Don't look at me like that." Linda said. "You are lucky I even gave you the laptop after what you did to me."
"Im sorry! Alright?" Britney shouted.
"Yeah. Okay." Linda said, rolling her eyes and leaving Britney in the staff room.
She sighed as she shut the door behind her, jumping whenLenny said right in her ear,
"You alright?"
"Yeah." Linda said. "You scared me."
"Sorry." Lenny apologised. "Whats wrong now?"
"She wants to talk to her friends on chat when she has homework to do." Linda said. "I gave her a chance to show me she won't talk to them, but I can't trust her at the minute."
"Im not surprised." Lenny said. "She should be grateful youeven gave it to her."
"I didn't give her the internet code though." Linda smirked at him.
"Does she need to do any research? She might need it if she does."
"No. Just a type up." Linda said.
"Okay." Lenny said. "I will keep checking up on her throughout the day for you."
"Thanks Lenny. I will be too." Linda said, smiling at him.
Meanwhile, in the staff room, Britney was searching high and low, looking for anysigns to tell her the six digit code to the wifi. She searched everywhere, on top of lockers, under the sofa, in books. She gave up, sat down with her elbow resting on the table with her head on her hand. Her eyes darted to the pencil pot infront of her, where she saw a pieve of paper sticking out the top.
"Gotcha." She whispered under her breath, and entered it into her laptop.
Lenny had a bit of spare time on his hands, and decided to check on Britney for Linda like he said. He looked through the window and saw Britney laughing to herself, or what appeared to be herself.
"If you are on MSN now, you will be in big trouble." Lenny warned her, raising an eyebrow.
"Im not on msn." She said.
"Yes you are. You are doing something I used to do when I lied."
"Whats that?"
"Im not going to tell you or you will know not to do it." He told her.
"Look, I was only asking a friend to look up for me something about Macbeth, okay?" Britney told him.
"Your doing that thing again." Lenny told her. "And the book is right there." He pointed to her folder on the table, where 'Macbeth' lay under it.
"I want to know when it was published!" Britney shot back.
"It always says in the front." Lenny said, picking up the book and showing her. "And anyway, how did you get the code?"
"I guessed it." She shrugged.
"No you didn't." Lenny shook his head. "You found it there, didnt you?" He looked towards the pencil pot.
"Yes." Britney sighed in defeat. "My phone ain't working. I wanted to text a friend, but it wouldnt send."
"Yeah, okay." Lenny said. "Linda won't be happy."
"Please, don't tell her." Britney pleaded.
"I have to." Lenny said. "You should have listened to her." He saw Britney roll her eyes, and he left the room.
"Oi." He said playfully across the ED to get Linda to turn around. "Linda."
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Britney found the wifi code."
"What? How?"
"She just found it." Lenny said. "She was on msn."
"Howd you know?"
"She did the thing I always do when I lie." He told her. "I asked her what she wanted, and she wanded to know when Macbeth was published. I told her it was in the front of her book."
"Why would she want to know when it was published?" Linda asked, confused.
"It was just an excuse." Lenny said.
"I will go and take it off her." Linda said, walking to the staff room.
"Good luck." Lenny snorted, and got back to work.
"I can't believe you." Linda said, angry. "You go completely against my instructions."
"I just wanted to talk to my friends! My crappy phone won't send any texts out."
"Watch your mouth." Linda warned.
"Why can't I talk to my friends and do my homework at the same time?" She asked.
"They will be a distraction!"
"No they won't!"
"Yeah they will." Linda said, shutting britneys laptop and picking it up.
"Hey! Thats mine!" Britney said, trying to pull it back.
"No. Im looking after it." Linda tried to pry her hands off.
"Get off!" Britney shouted, and Lenny walked in behind Britney, grabbing her hand.
"Thats enough!" Lenny said, still having a grip on Britneys arm.
"She can do what she wants." Linda said, putting the laptop down on the table and walking back into the ED.
"You should be lucky to have someone like Linda looking after you." Lenny said. "Treating her like this will make her want to put you back into care."
"Maybe thats what I want!" Britney spat at him.
"What. You want none of your real family with you?" Lenny said to her. "Linda doesn't have to put up with all this from you Britney. She can put you back into care."
"Good." Britney said, opening her laptop.
"I don't think so." Lenny said, slamming it shut and putting it into his locker.
"What are you doing?" Britney asked.
"Keeping this from you. Do your homework on paper." He pointed at the paper and pen, before leaving Britney alone with no laptop.
"I don't know how you put up with her, Linda." Lenny said to her.
"Neither do I." She said.
"I took her laptop off her." Lenny said.
"Thanks." Linda said, leaning onto the counter and folding her arms on it.
No one checked on Britney for a while, until a few hours later, Lenny decided he had better go and see what she has been up to.
"Britney?" He said, sticking his head in the staff room, to find her sitting on the sofa with her laptop.
"How on earth did you get that?" He asked. "You broke into my locker?"
"Maybe." She said cockily.
"I don't believe you." He shook his head. "How did you even get into it?"
"I went to camp one year. There are loads of stethoscopes in here and I just listened."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"But you broke into my locker? Why?"
"I wanted my laptop?" She said.
"Obviously." Lenny said. "Im not even going to bother taking it from you this time. I know you will find some way to get it back." He left, slamming the door behind him, trying to get Britney to feel some what guilty.
It didn't work.
The end of both of their shifts soon approached, and Linda went to check on her niece.
"Britney?" She said, poking her head through the door. Britney wasn't there. "Britney?" Linda went over to her laptop which was open and switched on, left on the table. There was a conversation on the screen.
Jason19: Be there in 15. Got a blue estate wiv mirror missing.
Britknee: K
The last recieved message she got was 10 minutes ago.
"Lenny!" Linda called out.
"Whats up?" He asked.
"Come and look at this." Linda said. Lenny could see the worry in Lindas eyes.
"Where is she?" He asked, looking around.
"Look." She replied, showing him her laptop. He looked shocked.
"Does she know anyone named Jason?"
"Not that im aware of!"
"She could still be outside." Lenny said, running out of the ED, with Linda on his tail.
"Britney?" He called out, looking around. He said a girl walking towards a blue estate. She was a good twenty metres away though. "Britney!" Britney just looked at him, and then sat into the car. "BRITNEY!" He shouted, trying to run after the car, but it was no good. Linda came up behind him about ten seconds later.
"You seen her?"
"She just got in the car." Lenny said, running his hand through his hair.
"Maybe Noel can show us the CCTV tapes, to try and get the number plate?" Linda suggested, worried for her nieces safety. "What I don't want to do is go to the police."
"Why?"
"She has already been suspended, and if I call the police,"
"She could go back into care..." Lenny finished her sentence. "Lets go and find Noel.
A few minutes later, they were in the reception, looking at the security tapes.
"Can you see the number plate, there?" Lenny pointed his finger to the screen when Noel paused it.
"No. Its dirty. You can get fined for that, you know."
"That doesn't help." Lenny said. "Whats that?" He said pointing to the ticket on the front of the car.
"Thats a parking permit." Noel replied. "That estate round the corner. Irmead estate."
"Thanks Noel." Linda said, rushing out of the ED with Lenny.
"Ill drive." Lenny said, as they rushed to his car.
(Look, I know its pretty much just like the episode, but Im so changing the part afterwards... Just to let you all know!)
