Chapter 7:
An hour later, Tracy, Gus, Lily (Who had called her Dad to ask if she could sleep there that evening and had already been home to collect her stuff), Carmen and Elektra were all gathered in Elektra's room, Elektra ready to tell Gus lots about her past, to help him and so that he would leave her alone.
She looked through his file, which he had bought with him to show her, then began to talk to him about everything, even including the flashbacks she had been having. She was nervous at first, and resistant to tell him anything, but after a while she got into it, and it all started to run off her tongue. No matter how hard she tried to keep certain things to herself, the sort of things she used to do when she got angry, she couldn't help letting them slip. Like Johnny, she too somehow felt comfortable talking to Gus, who listened, never interrupted and took everything in without judging. About halfway through tears began to slide down her face, as she recalled how upset she got when she used to run away, or break things when she had even the slightest argument with anyone. Tracy put her arm around her and said that she did not have to say any more, but Elektra insisted on finishing. At the end, Gus simply scribbled down a few notes, muttered something to himself, then got up and left the room without saying a word. Tracy, Lily and Carmen then left Elektra on her own for a bit, and Lily and Carmen went to get on with their homework.
Tracy went downstairs to find Gus in the office with Mike, telling him everything Elektra had said.
'Hey, what do you thing you're doing!' Tracy yelled as she burst through the door. 'People told you those things in private!' Gus and Mike just stared at her.
'Actually Tracy,' Mike began. 'I asked Gus how he was doing, and he came to speak to me because he was confused about a few things he had found, and about some of the stuff people had told him, because none of it is exactly the same as his.'
'Oh.' Tracy said, feeling a little bit guilty for shouting at Gus. She had thought he had just decided to tell Mike everything about everyone for the sake of it!
'I hear that Elektra isn't ill after all.' Mike said, wondering what Tracy's excuse for lying to him would be.
'Ummm, yeah, about that…..'
'You didn't need to lie to me Tracy; if you'd told me then I could have helped her. What were you thinking; keeping something like that from me, it's my job to know the truth about the people living here, and YOUR job to tell me if anything is wrong.'
'I know Mike, and I'm sorry, but she made me promise not to tell!' Tracy exclaimed.
'Ok, fair enough, if you were keeping a promise, but next time I want to know!' Tracy muttered a quick 'ok' to Mike and then left to see how Lily and Carmen were getting on with their homework, and Mike got up, and called up the stairs:
'HOUSE MEETING IN THE LIVING ROOM!' So everybody came down from upstairs and gathered in the living room.
