Chapter 4:
The following morning, all of the children were back to doing their own thing and Mike, Gina, Tracy and Elaine were in the office.
'House meeting!' Mike yelled from downstairs.
'What now?' Tee complained to Carmen and Lily.
'That's twice in one week. It's usually only once a month!' Gus declared whilst checking his notebook.
When everybody was gathered in the sitting room, Mike began;
'Ok, well, I haven't much to say here, so I'm going to hand you over to Elaine.'
'So, whose social worker are you? I mean, you can't be ALL of ours.' Gus asserted.
'That is to be discussed with those four people later. The point is, as you will all be seeing much more of me from now on, how about we do a little team bonding activity to get to know each other a little better.' Elaine proposed.
'How about ice skating?' Elektra suggested.
'Well, I'm not really sure that really has much to do with team bo-.' Elaine didn't get chance to finish the word 'bonding' because Elektra interrupted.
'Oh, it does. We will all have to help each other and support each other and if we're not very good, support from our friends will really help with our self-esteem.' Elektra went on. Really though, she just wanted to go ice skating, and thought she'd give trying to convince Elaine a go. She succeeded.
'Oh that's a wonderful idea! You look just like the kind of person who is really into team spirit!' Elaine said to Elektra.
Everybody started sniggering.
'What, you mean Elektra!' Questioned Liam, who, like Lily, had come to visit.
Elaine looked taken aback.
'Well, yes, don't you think she came up with a wonderful idea?' Elaine asked him.
'Hang on a minute, I don't think I'd be able to allow you all to go ice skating, we wouldn't want to risk any accidents now, would we?' Mike butted in, looking directly at Lily.
'What?' Lily blurted out; although she knew full well that Mike was on about the time she had fallen off the roof.
Everybody moaned and babbled until Mike eventually gave in.
'Oh, alright, you can go for an hour, Tracy and Elaine will take you. Go and get yourselves ready.' Mike was a big softie really, and they all knew it.
Everybody left the table and went to get ready.
