The next morning Lacey slept in, so missed everyone else leaving to go to school. Lacey often slept in, and now Liam understood why.

Afterschool, Liam found Lacey in her room, drawing a picture of herself using a mirror. It didn't seem to be going well.

"Urgh!"

"Hello to you to." Ah! Where did he come from!

"Sorry, this is just really frustrating. I won't keep still. They are okay pictures, but they look nothing like me!" Liam smirked.

"I'd like to see you spend an hour trying to draw your own face, and end up with only this!" Liam looked at Lacey's notebook. It was covered with line drawings of faces. Lacey was right. They were good pictures, but they looked nothing like her.

"Hah, you're right."

Lacey pretended to slap him. "How dare you!"

He dodged out of the way and smirked at Lacey flailing about. "Anyway, are you all right? You didn't come down and eat with the rest of us at breakfast."

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Like I said, I miss them loads, but at night time it just hits hard. I'm okay now. Actually I'm just frustrated at these pictures." And frustrated because I have no idea how to help Elektra. And you kissed me on the head last night and I've been mildly freaking out about it all day. But other than that I'm fine.

"'Kay cool. Wanna come play pool? Boys against girls?" Lacey looked at him and raised her eyebrow.

"You know I suck. That's a sneaky winning tactic if I ever saw one."

"Actually we just really need one more player. Come on Lacey! For Elektra!" As if I would say no to you.

"Practice makes perfect right?" We went downstairs, where Elektra and Frank had set up, and were telling each other how badly they were going to win.

"We have our next contestant! Let the battle of the dumping ground genders commence!" Elektra, Frank and Lacey looked at each other and smirked.

"Whatever." Elektra said with her sarcastic voice. "Why don't we spice things up a little?"

"You mean a bet?" Asked Frank.

"Exactly."

Lacey looked at her. I suck at pool! What is she thinking? "No way Elektra. I don't bet. And I'm not having people bet on me!"

Liam and Frank looked at each other and nodded. "It's just a game Elektra. Relax."

She shot daggers Lacey's way, but then said. "Alright. You two just know that we'll win anyway. Ladies first!" She then started off the game.

Lacey and Elektra were losing, as expected, but Lacey got in a few good shots, and it was fun dancing around when she got a good one in. Elektra got irritated at her cheering when Frank or Liam got a good shot, but that's just how she rolled. Eventually Jonny asked if he could play, and Lacet gave him her spot.

"Are you sure?"

"Jonny. I suck."

"Well yeah, but..."

"Nah, it's okay. I prefer cheering anyway." Lacey ran upstairs, grabbed her iPod and speakers, and put some music on. It was slice of Heaven by Dave Dobbyn.

"What is this rubbish?" Elektra asked in her Elektra way.

"Dave Dobbyn. He's Kiwi. He reminds me of all the good things in New Zealand. And it's irritatingly catchy!" Tee and Seren came downstairs and they and Lacey danced around the room, and cheered for everyone when they got good shots.

Tracy walked in, and stopped a moment to take it all in. Jonny, Liam, Frank and Elektra were playing pool, while Seren, Tee and Lacey were crazy dancing around the room. Lacey was wearing her signiture coloured tights. Today they were bright red, and she was wearing white cotton shorts.

Tracy smiled. Although she was sorry that anyone would have to live here, she was glad the Johnsons had moved to this care home. Seren and Tee tended to keep out of everyone's way, and it was nice for Tee to have a special friend like Carmen did. Lacey was so helpful around the house (she felt guilty so helped as much as possible) and she couldn't count how many times Lacey had guessed what was wrong with people before Tracy herself did.

Tracy just wondered how Lacey was going to cope living with herself when she turned sixteen. She hadn't been in care long, and was used to being in someone else's hands. Oh well. She thought. Things always turn out okay in the end.

Moving out wasn't at the top of Lacey's mind. She knew she would have to, but she wasn't too worried. It was a while off, and she would just get a job, and carry on with her studies, then once she had her IGCSEs, go back to school. She could always use her parent's money if need be. University funds wouldn't be a problem, as her parents had already saved up enough money for education. She would be worried about Seren, but she could just live at Elmtree until she had to move out and live with her.

At the moment, her top priorities were just enjoying herself. She still needed to think up a plan for Electra.