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After actually managing to get some sleep, I was woken by the sound of yelling a couple of hours earlier than I would have preferred. Groaning, I pulled myself out of bed and glanced across at Elektra's bed - it was empty. I dismissed all the possible explanations and grabbed what seemed the only 'sensible' one - she was something to do with all the commotion. Drowsily, I pulled on my fluffy white dressing gown and shuffled into the hallway. I squinted as the light attacked my eyes, and slowly focused in on the fight before me. Elektra and a boy who appeared to be around around twelve with a brown afro were attacking each other in the middle of the hallway and from what I could tell, Elektra appeared to be winning.
Soon getting bored of the fight, I began to examine the other care kids. A boy of around thirteen with curly black hair stood rapidly scribbling down in a black notebook, I guessed he was 'reporting' the fight or something, a tanned girl of a similar age to notebook boy with black hair and a pink dressing gown was stood the closest to me, with a smaller girl with a golden ponytail dressed in bright blue beside her. Suddenly I was shoved to the side as a tall boy of fifteen with brown hair, pushed through the crowd and pulled afro boy back, gaining a sharp glare from Elektra.
"Did your mummy come to save you Tyler?" Elektra mocked, smirking at Tyler's reaction, "oh wait! Your mummy didn't want you so now Rick the prick has to come save you."
Tyler attempted to escape from Rick's grip, anger visibly flowing through his veins, "just fuck off Elektra." Rick snapped as if he was used to a daily bitch from Elektra.
The sound of running footsteps pounded into my head as Gina appeared. Elektra took one final lunge at Tyler while she could, but he dodged pushing her into a girl who appeared to be about nine with scruffy brown hair.
"Oi! Watch it!" The girl yelled, charging towards Elektra who easily pushed her back.
Gina headed in and pulled them apart, "Elektra, Jody stop it!" her booming voice slashed through the atmosphere, "so what happened?" she turned to Rick and Tyler, with a mean, no nonsense look fixed in her eye.
"She attacked me!" Tyler exclaimed, pointing at Elektra, directing Gina's devil glare to my roommate.
"He spilled water down me," Elektra retorted, gesturing to her soaked clothes, glaring at Tyler.
"It was an accident!" Tyler exclaimed, breaking free from Rick only to be caught by Gina.
"Tyler, Elektra, washing up duty for two weeks," Gina snapped, sighing and I could tell she hadn't got much sleep last night.
"What about her?" Elektra yelled, gesturing towards Jody, "she pushed me!"
"Only because you pushed her," Gina snapped, "anymore fighting and you'll be grounded for a week, yeah?" She glared at Elektra and Tyler, "breakfast's ready so come down when you're ready, yeah?"
As Gina turned around began walking back to the kitchen, Jody poked her tongue out at Elektra, enraging her even more, before sprinting off down to the kitchen, Elektra on her tail. The crowd of children headed after Gina and I tagged along.
Once we reached the kitchen, Gina noticed me and cleared her throat, "this is Hayley, she is going to be staying here now, be nice to her, yeah."
"Yeah, staying in my room," Elektra snapped, grabbing a piece from the middle of the table.
My cheeks turned a bright red as about ten pairs of eyes fixed on me. Nervously I sat down in a chair next to the smiley girl with a golden ponytail, after all she seemed nice enough.
"I'm Tee," she announced in an overly optimistic voice, which somewhat irritated me.
"Hi, I'm Carmen," the girl in pink, sat on her other said, explained and soon everyone had bombarded me with their names and way too much information for me to listen to, let alone remember.
I flashed a fake smile and nodded in the right places as they rambled on about nothing, until one sentence hit my ears with priority, "there was this boy who used to lived here called Liam O'Donovan, but now he lives with his brother, who's a police officer," Carmen's rumblings finally meant something to me.
"When did he leave?" I asked, praying that Carmen didn't drift back into the the black hole that is the topic of fashion.
Carmen seemed surprised at my choice of question, but answered it regardless, "oh about three months ago now. He said he'd keep in touch but we haven't heard from him since."
"Obviously thinks he's too good for a bunch of skanky care kids like you," Elektra said, sending her words in Frank's direction on purpose.
"Liam wouldn't do that," Frank said, defending his friend, but I felt as if he questioned it himself.
"Well he would have contacted you then," Elektra replied with a patronising tone in her voice, to which Frank had no reply, meaning the remainder of breakfast was spent in silence. During that silence I thought about Liam. Who did he think he was abandoning his friends like that?
A few painful minutes later, a balding man entered the room and broke the silence, releasing a chorus of 'Hi Mikes' from the children. I guessed he was another care worker and sighed - I couldn't wait to get out of this place.
Mike sat down near Gus and began to tuck into a bowl of cereal, as the children returned to their animated conversations.
"Mike," Elektra asked, a blatantly false sweet, innocent angel tone lingered in her voice, "can I go to town today?"
"No, definitely not!" Mike replied, "especially after what happened last time with that old lady." Mike's eyes flashed with disapproval as he fell back into his memories and Elektra glared at him with so much hate, I swear I could feel the daggers from her eyes whoosh past.
Breakfast soon finished and the kids went off to do what they fancied, most of the boys heading outside to play football, Elektra heading back to our room and the rest gathering in the lounge. Uncomfortable in this environment, I headed for the door, a walk would do me fine, knowing the area when you have the police on your tail is essential. As my hand touched the door knob, Mike appeared out of nowhere with a stern look in his eyes.
"I was just going out for walk," I explained, truthfully as well, however I knew he could sense that it wasn't the entire truth.
"Really? And you need to ask permission before you go off," Mike replied, doubt present in his words.
"So can I?" I asked, desperate to escape this hellhole.
"No, not with your record. You'll need to go with someone," Mike explained and I sighed in annoyance trudging up to my room, hoping to get some peace and quiet.
Sighing, I flopped onto my bed and I glanced over at Elektra - she was sat on her bed, listening to her MP3 player and I was suddenly reminded of her earlier conversation and a plan formed in my mind.
"Hey Elektra?" I said, waiting for her to remove her headphones, "you still wanna go to town?"