No-one ever likes to be the new kid especially when you're the new kid with a secret.
In this story Liam doesn't know about Jack, Sapphire has moved out and Jody does not live at Elmtree House.
It had been a normal day at Elmtree House; there were small squabbles over anything and everything, including over the TV, over the last biscuits and over who is better, Boys or Girls? (…Well Liam or Elektra). Apart from the everyday nonsense it was a quiet day that was until there was a loud knock on the door followed by several more knocks. The children were oblivious due to the very intense game of pool between Liam and Elektra happening in the games room so Tracy went to open the door and in fell a dark haired boy. He regained his balance and lifted his head revealing his tanned complexion and green eyes.
He wore ripped jeans and a black t-shirt covered by dark leather jacket, after taking one sweep of the hallway he extended his hand to Tracy and said, "All right? Name's Jay Healey." The boy, Jay, looked about 15 while a middle-aged man looking quite dishevelled interrupted Tracy before she could speak, "Yeah, yeah there's time for introductions later, right now I need to get out of the freezing cold." He pushed Jay forward and walked in before Tracy had said a word.
By now they had acquired an audience, the kids had hid behind the wall after they heard the man shout, apart from Rick, Liam and Elektra. They didn't have many visitors so anyone who walked through the door seemed interesting.
Mike appeared from the office and said, "Aah you must be Jamie," he pointed towards to the green-eyed boy, Jamie replied, "Actually it's Jay, but yeah sure." "And you are?" Mike said before turning towards middle-aged man.
"Michael Lawson," he shook Mike's hand, "I'm Jamie's social worker," he said with an obvious tone before inviting himself into the office. "Of course, well umm, I'm Mike Milligan," Mike replied before raising his eyebrows at Tracy who just shrugged and herded the kids back into the room.
"Oh my god," Carmen squealed, "did you see his eyes; they were glistening green, aaaahhh!" Rich shifted in his seat and gave the snooker ball a death-glare.
Tyler mimicked Carmen, "Oh My God, I know and his Irish accent is just perfect!"
She rolled and her eyes and just retorted, "Tyler I am NOT American."
"Anyway onto more important things," Tracy started to announce, "Jay will probably introduce him to you but I'll just say he'll be staying in Toby's old room." With that Tracy left and the kids went back to their mindless chatter. But all went quiet when Jay walked in holding a guitar case in one hand and a music magazine in the other. Carmen was the first to get up; she walked over to him and said with a huge grin, "Hi I'm Carmen, what's your name." She knew this sounded very kiddie-like but went along with it. It took Jay a couple of minutes to realise what was happening, but replied, "Hi, uuh my name's Jay." Carmen closing the big gap between them responded, "Well…I'll just introduce you to everyone. This is Lily, she only stays here when her dad's on a rest, and next to her is Tee. The boy on the computer is Tee's brother Johnny; the two on the sofa are Rick and Tyler and next to them are Frank, Harry and Gus. The two playing pool at the back are Liam and Elektra."
For the first time since he had walked in Elektra looked up from her game of pool with Liam and did a double take. Jay set his guitar case down and made his way towards the spare seat Carmen had cleared for him, well pushed Tyler out of. He took off his jacket and threw on the floor when his phone fell out and started playing his latest playlist out loud. He darted towards the phone, picking it up and cutting the music off before it got to the chorus. "Sorry, I forgot it was there," he apologized before Elektra spoke up, "Was that The Subways?" (A/N I know cool band name, they are real by the way.) After placing his jacket on to the coat stand and making sure his phone was in his jean pocket he replied, "Yeah, they're amazing." Carmen having no idea who they were talking about just nodded her head, "Yeah, I know so cool." The kids stifled a laugh. Jay carried on, "They're even better in concert." Elektra's mouth was wide open which then turned into a frown, "You've seen them concert, I tried but didn't get tickets." The room was quiet, everyone focused on Elektra making conversation, and this was a rare moment. The two teens realised everyone was paying attention to them; Elektra finished the conversation by yelling to the ceiling, "Finally someone with real taste in music!" There were shouts of disagreement but Elektra just turned around and carried on playing pool with a dumbstruck Liam, who was still trying to compute what just happened.
A smirk emerged on Jay's face as he thought to himself, "I'm gonna like living here."
Please review! Should I continue? Any ideas about Jay's secret?