I felt more settled now but I knew Elektra would remember soon enough because I remembered where she was from I was just waiting for her to work it out. Carmen and Tee were asking me lots of questions about my life before I came into care which I avoided answering. I didn't want to tell them just yet.
"Do you want to have lunch with us in the garden" Carmen asked tapping her pink converse together,
"Yeah I'll meet you out there in a second I just need to talk to Mike" I replied walking towards his office. I walked slowly through the door, listening as Gina tapped her fingers quickly on the keyboard.
"It would be nice if you knocked Summer" Gina moaned, I tapped the metal cabinets smiling sarcastically, she looked away aggrivated. I looked over to Mike who was filing papers which were in mounds on his desk.
"Mike" I said
"Yes what can I do for you?" he asked looking up
"Is Sav settling in okay? I was just wondering" I asked him. Mike stood up and placed the papers in the cabinet next to me.
"She is settling in fine you have got nothing to worry about. The more important question is how are you settling in?" he said kindly,
"Fine... just fine. I've got to go and have lunch with Carmen and Tee" I added hastily leaving the room to join them in the garden. When I entered the garden I was welcomed by the warmth of the sunlight and a gentle breeze, Sav was okay. I saw a splash of pink in the green at the end of the garden under a tree, and knew it was Carmen, and that Tee would be with her.
I sat down with them on the grass and looked at the picnic basket they had.
"What are we eating then?" I asked them Carmen began to get everything out laying it out in neat rows.
"We have cheese or chicken sandwiches and Pringles" Tee explained pointing to each of the items,
"Then we have some marble cake that Gina made, and then apple or orange juice to drink. Also fruit salad and melon pieces to be healthy" she laughed and said "what do you want?"
I had a cheese and a chicken sandwich with Pringles and apple juice. Then a piece of the marble cake, fruit salad and two pieces of melon. I had kind of worked out that they were trying to be nice to me and make me feel welcome, unlike Elektra.
When we got onto the marble cake, which was delicious, Carmen told me about how Tee had climbed up this tree and got stuck and Mike didn't even know about it. Then Tee told me the time that Carmen had got herself stuck in the wardrobe whilst playing hide and seek when she was younger, and she thought she was going to die. We all laughed and Carmen went bright red and hid her face in her hands.
"Have you got a funny story Summer" Tee asked eagerly sipping her orange juice. I thought hard and then one memory came up.
"I do, do you wanna hear it?" I asked them, they nodded
"Well my parents used to have this really big fish tank, and I was looking at the fish so I put my hands on the glass and accidently pushed the tank over... it smashed everywhere and all the fish died" we all burst out laughing. But I sort of knew the next topic we would be talking about. My parents. So I changed the subject before they asked,
"What's up with Elektra is she always aggressive?" I asked them, they both stared at me.
"OMG you don't know about Elektra?" Carmen gasped nearly choking on the marble cake.
"She was in a gang and everything" Tee said just as astonished as Carmen
"Wait I want to tell her!" Carmen said excitedly, "basically Elektra used to be in this gang called the Cobras and they got into so much trouble... her friend got sent to jail"
"Really" I pretended to sound surprised because I already knew this
"Were you in a gang?" Tee asked completely forgetting about the piece of melon she was holding. They both looked so intrigued, I wasn't going to lie I was in the past, but I didn't want to scare them.
"Yeah I was in a gang called The Shadows, my gang and Elektra's were rivals" I told them.
Suddenly Elektra erupted from behind the bushes; I stood up as she grabbed me and thrust me against the trunk of the tree.
"I knew I'd seen you somewhere before" she growled
"Took you long enough to work it out" I laughed trying to wind her up "Cobras were always like that oblivious to everything around them" .She pushed me down to the floor.
"We were always better than you. You came on our ground" she shouted walking forwards as I stood up.
"Why get so worked up about this, it was in the past you're not in the Cobras anymore, I'm not in the Shadows anymore there is nothing to fight about" I argued back at her
"There so is, I didn't remember you at first because you used have brown hair not with all the highlights in. But you, were always involved with the police. You didn't come back after you were found with a kitchen knife in your pocket when The Shadows were coming to fight us. They didn't turn up like the cowards they are" she spat. I ran at her swiping her hair and pulling it down, she yelled and elbowed me. I began to punch her and when she pushed me away I flung a kick at her head... she fell to the floor.
"Don't you DARE say we were cowards your gang couldn't fight, my dad trained me I know how to fight and I was never a coward." I stated
"Well your dad didn't do a good job did he" Elektra snapped that was it no one insulted my dad. I lunged at Elektra grasping my hands round her neck, she began to squirm. Mike and Gina came running round the corner followed by Rick who ran quicker than them. Rick grabbed me and yanked me away,
"Leave it Summer come on" he said dragging me away Mike came with me making sure I didn't run right back to Elektra. Gina and Elektra were shouting at each other and I soon heard Carmen and Tee quick footsteps.
"Mike, Elektra was winding her up she insulted Summer's dad" they pleaded I nodded and smiled a thank you to them. At least someone was sticking up for me. I looked at Rick who had let go of me now and was walking beside me. He bent down and whispered in my ear "My money was on you in the fight" I laughed as he went into the living room and Mike took me to his office.
